Psalm 83 Pt 7

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All right, Psalm eighty three.
Let's see how far we can get today,

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next two hours dedicated to Saw eighty
three. Let's see if we can

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accomplish anything. All right, So
let's do this Saw eighty three simply put,

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simply put, what is Saw eighty
three as a psalm of lament,

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as a sum of lament, and
they are lamenting what is happening at that

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time. Make sure you stress that
or put that in your notes. They

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are lamenting what is happening at that
time. The reason I have to stress

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that is because so many other sermons
turn this into a somehow a prophetic psalm

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prophesying something that has yet to happen
even for us, or that it was

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prophesying something that was going to happen
for them. Some try to connect it

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to second Chronicles twenty, which we
saw. That makes absolutely just falls completely

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apart. So we want to distress
it is a lament lamenting the situation at

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that time, and we have kind
of somewhat of an idea of what time,

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because it is a psalm of Ace
f Right, and we know that

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he was like the worship leader during
the time of David and a little into

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the time of Solomon. So it's
somewhere along that timeline, okay, that

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gives us at least some concept,
and we know, simply put, what

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are they lamenting? That there are
is a confederacy of nations that are coming

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to do what to Israel, wipe
them off the face of the earth.

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So he offers the lament. The
main part of the lament is found in

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which verse. It's found in one
right. That's really the essential part of

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the element, right, the essential
part of the lament. What is specific

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are they lamenting? Where's God?
Right? That's simply a way to put

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it. God, where are you? We need you to speak, we

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need you to act, We need
you to intervene, do something right.

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So there's the lament, because a
lament is expressing. Typically, when we

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think of a lament, I like
to refer to a lament as kind of

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a spiritual scream. It's a spiritual
cry, right, you're letting out the

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emotion. So the lament, the
part that captures the emotion, is really

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right there where they see where the
lament says, do not keep silent,

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Oh God, do not hold your
peace, and do not be still,

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Oh God. At least in the
New King James after oh God. Both

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cases there's an ex exclamation point because
they're trying to emphasize the emotion of it.

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Right, So there's the emotion they
clearly it's clearly articulated, and then

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why is there that emotion? The
rest of the psalm tries to articulate the

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reasons why. We won't go through
the outline and everything again, so we

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get the basic element. So in
that sense, it's pretty simple. It's

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pretty straightforward. All we have to
say is this is a song of lament.

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We can learn a little bit about
the lament, we can understand the

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historical part of it. Maybe we
could gain a couple of more lessons,

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and so technically we could already be
done. The only reason I'm spending so

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much time on it is for a
couple of reasons. Number one is because

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even the original sermon series that sparked
all of this is now like at part

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twenty six or something, I don't
even understand. I mean, that thing

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is lost. I mean, I
don't even know how to describe it.

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It's talked about everything King James,
only is I don't even know what it's

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going. I don't even know what's
happening. But their basic their basic point

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supposedly was that there's a coming Middle
East war, And while they never have

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ever even demonstrated that, I don't
get it. Others want to go to

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the past, want to go to
the future. I don't get I don't

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understand what it is about Saw eighty
three that's creating all of that problem,

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because to me, sal maighty three
is so straightforward. So because people are

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doing such weird things with it,
then I feel the necessity to, well,

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then let's really dig in. A
second thing I'm trying to accomplish here

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is because I have a tendency to
go to the text of scripture and go,

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wait a minute, that's not for
us. Wait a minute, that's

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not for us. Wait a minute, that's not for us. People then

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get very frustrated with the fact that
I do that. So I'm trying now

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to go through saw Maty three and
try to find some element that maybe for

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us, or at least we're gonna
we're trying, we're trying to at least

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go with that concept. I think
the concept's going to fall apart at some

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point, but we're doing our very
best, and the way we're doing this

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or the way I'm trying to do
this, and hopefully you remember this is

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I've really really focused on what happens
in verses two through basically five, right,

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what happens in verses two through five
that I have repeated so many times

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now that well, probably people are
tired of me repeating it. What happens

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in verses two through five that I
think is so critical to having something that's

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applicable to us. Okay, well, those are some of the main lessons

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I've given from the whole song.
Remember two through five. It gives the

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attributes of the enemies, right,
Okay, remember that was the whole thing

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we spent two hours on last week. Right. I told you that you

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have to have that down. I
said, I was going to repeat it

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over and over and over and over
and over and over until everyone had it

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down, right, Because the attributes
of the enemy. I am taking the

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attributes of those enemies and see if
those attributes have any connection or correlation with

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enemies that we would face as Christians. Does everybody remember this? Okay?

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All right? So what were those
attributes? We've covered them now probably three

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times, maybe even four times,
in the study so far of psaw Manty

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three I told everyone to write them
down, know them. What's the first

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one, the tumult, right,
it's right there, and verse two right,

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free, behold your enemy. Remember
we went through them and order.

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Okay, for behold your enemies.
Make a tumult, which means loud,

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confuse, noise, And we kind
of gave this idea that it suggests a

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sense of disorder, agitation, unrest. Right, they bring about a sense

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of chaos. Or they got that
one down. Okay, what was the

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second one? They hate God?
They hate God. Everybody see that they

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hate God. Next, lift up
their head, which gave the idea of

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pride, arrogance, and defiance.
Right next, they have taken crafty council.

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Right, they've taken crafty council.
So the first part we had to

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just want the idea that they took
counsel together. We see that in verse

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five they have consulted together with one
consent, they form a confederacy, meaning

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that they are working together. The
enemies form and work together. They have

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that they We could think of it
this way, and that particular in the

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historical setting, whether those nations had
disagreements or dislikes or a lack of trust,

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they all come together for one definitive
purpose, which is ultimately to wipe

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Israel off the face of the earth. Right, So then we can look

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and see how our enemies may come
together in some way, shape or form

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or have a common goal. Next, they take crafty counsel, which suggests

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cunning and deceitful strategies that they come
up with, deceitful strategies and plans to

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harm God's people in this particular case, the nation of Israel. All right,

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was there any more? Okay?
Right? And and so and because

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we definitely talked about that phrase verse
three, and consulted together against your hidden

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one. Remember there was like three
different ways of translating this sheltered ones,

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hidden ones, or treasured ones.
So we gave the idea the attribute that

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God's enemies hate and want to go
against anything that God would treasure or value

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or have chosen. All right,
So those are some of the basic attributes.

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We've covered them. So and I
stress that know those attributes, know

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those attributes. Now. Once we
got those attributes all down, well,

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then of course we know what happens
in Saw eighty three. After those attributes

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are given, the enemies are described. Then the enemies are listed starting in

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verse six. Right, we have
the tents of Etom and the Ishmaelites moab

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Hag writes keyboll ammon Amelek Felicitia with
the inhabits of tire Assyria also joined with

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them. They have helped the children
of Lot. We went through and identified

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all of those historical enemies, right, I'm not going to go back through

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all of that again. We identified
everyone, gave some basic information. There's

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not a lot you could I mean, from a historical perspective. We know

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exactly then who it is coming against
them, We know exactly why this would

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lead to a lament, and by
looking at their attributes, you could see

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why the people would be very,
very very emotional and concerned. We got

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all of that. So then what
I decided to do was like, okay,

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well, since everyone says I never
take these texts and apply them to

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us, how can we apply them
to us? Well, the only way

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to apply this to us is say, okay, let's take these attributes and

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let's see if these attributes have anything
in common with the enemies with whom we

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face as believers. All right,
so we started working on that. Who

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was the first one we looked at, We looked at Satan, right,

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the primary adversary of Christians, described
as the prince of this world and the

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Bible. He seeks to deceive,
tempt, accuse believers in order to lead

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them away from God. All right. Satan is portrayed in the Bible is

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powerful, prideful, crafty, being
one who harbors intense hatred towards God and

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seeks to undermine his plans. He
has described as were as warring against God's

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chosen people and desires to eliminate them. These characteristics are evident from various passages

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in the Bible. We went through
them. Now, I don't I'm not

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going to go through all of this
again. But we can we agree on

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this? Would we agree that Satan
hates God? Okay? Would we say

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that Satan is full of pride?
Yes? And I've got we can look

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at Isaiah fourteen and Ezekiel twenty eight
to prove both of those. I don't

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think I need to prove that.
Can we agree that Satan seems to be

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considered crafty, are subtle, and
has strategies? Right? Yes? Okay?

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And we could get that from Genesis
three? Can we not? All?

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Right? Right? He wars against
God's people. We can see that

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a little bit in Revelation chapter twelve, and he desires to eliminate God's people.

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And we can get into a whole
discussion about John ten ten whether it

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refers to Satan or not. But
the thief comes only to still kill and

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destroy. Some that may say that
refers to false teachers, but the false

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teachers would be then operating in accordance
with Satan in that particular case. So

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we can at least say in general, I'm not to get all into the

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hermoneutics of that passage, but we
can say that Satan meets all of those

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attributes to the almost to the letter, can we agree, all right?

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So that would put us as Christians
in the same position as these people were,

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but in somewhat of a different way. They're looking at a physical threat

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that they can see. We face
a threat in whom we cannot see,

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all right. And remember from all
of that, I have tried to emphasize

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and saw maybe three some very important
points. So before we continue on,

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looking at a lot of enemies,
and I have a long list of enemies,

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all right, and it's going to
become You may think, well,

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you're you know, you're kind of
going too far on this, but I'm

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trying to make a point here,
So but let me go back and at

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least remind you of some of the
basic points I've tried to take from this

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psalm, because I've tried to emphasize
these over and over and over. Saw

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maighty three describes the life of people
who believe in a God whom they cannot

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see, living in the midst of
circumstances that they can see, and those

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very circumstances call into question the existence
of that God whom they cannot see.

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Everybody got that Saw many three describes
the people who lives in the midst of

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circumstances that they can see. Can
they see these circumstances developing in Saw eighty

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three? Yes, And these very
circumstances call into question God whom they cannot

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see Saw eighty three. From just
a practical standpoint, we can all relate

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to Psaw eighty three because that describes
your life. In my life, do

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we not live in circumstances that we
can see? Yes, those circumstances do

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they at least even slightly call into
question the existence of the God whom you

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cannot see? Any reasonable person would
say yes. Now, I know in

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church you're supposed to say, well
no, absolutely not. Nothing would call

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into question the existence of God.
Okay, come on, just every day

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thinking about life calls into question the
existence of God, all right, Because

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if God is all powerful, all
knowing, and present everywhere at all times,

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what's he doing? I mean everyone
can acknowledge that, right, because

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if you listen to the way Christians
talk, just talk to your Christian friends

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or people who go to church.
They constantly God does this. They always

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constantly talk about God's involvement. God
led me to this, God did this,

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God did this, God did this, God did this like God is

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supposedly active twenty four to seven and
everyone's life. But then you can say,

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well, then if God was doing
this and then this and this and

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this and this one, why didn't
he step in here to I don't know,

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save the kid who died from cancer
yesterday? Why didn't he step in

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yesterday when the kid was being molested? Why didn't step in yesterday when the

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woman was being raped? Like,
but at the same time, God's doing

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this and this and this and this
and this and that, Like if you

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listen to Christians, God is basically
doing something twenty four to seven, and

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he's involved in the in the smallest
details of our life. Well, he

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did this, and he protected me
this, and he gave me this,

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and he did this, and he
did that, and he did this and

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he did that. And you're like, well, why is it that he

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only does good things for you?
Because there are a lot of people he

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didn't show up to yesterday. That's
gonna call in the question. We have

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to acknowledge that what I love about
the Bible is that the people in the

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Bible aren't afraid to express what I
just express. If I express it,

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everybody rolls their eyes and gets defensive. The people in the Bible had no

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problem expressing it, like you can
roll your eyes at me. I wish

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you would have went and rolled your
eyes at job because he would have been

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like, I don't know who you
are, but you can just get out

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of my face because I don't know
where God is, ok, because all

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my family just died. Correct,
all right? So I think that I

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love the fact that the Bible is
not afraid and are It's not the sawmeist

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here expressing Hey, God, where
are you at? And I think that's

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a very fair thing to say.
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that's real. So that's the first
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that enough, Like if you don't
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everyone should be able to take away
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did we not? As Christians we
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cannot see, and so many times
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a life surrounded by enemies we can
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As Christians we live a life surrounded
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many times we forget the enemies which
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most important thing. Whether it's circumstances
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is in an imputed righteousness which we
cannot see. Right, let me stress

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that again. As Christians, we
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see. Can everyone say amen to
that? You can see people who say

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things about you, do things to
you. You can see that, right,

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You can see horrible things happening around
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forget the enemies which we cannot see. So what we have to realize is

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whether it's circumstances or whether it's enemies. Our only hope is in imputed righteousness,

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which we I'm gonna state it again, which we cannot see now.

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The minute I say that, ninety
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living mind. You cannot see imputed
righteousness, all right? Does imputed righteousness

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manifest itself? No? If you
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Does everybody understand that? Okay?
I know that goes against every church in

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Abeline, but I don't care.
You cannot see imputed righteous you say no,

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imputed righteousness will lead to a change. It's imputed. It doesn't do

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anything except me declares you to be
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you can't see it. Right.
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If it makes you something that you're
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That's what infused. That's Catholicism.
The American Church is Catholic. Okay,

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they've Luther lost. The Reformation was
a failure. It was a waste of

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absolute time, all right. All
Luther accomplished was giving everyone the right to

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be the pope. You think one
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a correct understanding of justification. But
all the churches who claim to have the

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right understanding of justification turn around and
act like that imputed righteousness is manifested in

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the lives of the people. It
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I cannot stress that enough. Right, So saw maybe three gives us this

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great. We got enemies we can
see, but we often forget the enemies

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we cannot see. We have circumstances
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question of God whom we cannot see. And the whole Christian life is based

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off people who have been declared righteous. But nobody can see that righteousness,

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which is which why puts Christianity in
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and a contradiction, does it not? Because anybody can walk up and go,

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where's your God? Well, I
can't see him? Can you see

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him? No? All right,
but look at those circumstances. Well,

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I know the circumstances look really rough, but we still believe in a God

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and whom we cannot see. Well, how about those enemies and those well

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we see those enemies, but we're
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Well, that's ridiculous. You should
be focusing on the enemy you can

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see. Wait a minute, you
tell me you're righteous, Well, I'm

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righteous by an imputed righteousness. What
does that mean? You cannot see it?

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That? That makes Christian sound almost
what come on, let's just be

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honest. It makes us sound like
we're insane, all right. That sounds

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like a mental disorder. That doesn't
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that contradicts everything, right, because
everybody got that. So those are some

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major points that come from it.
So let's go through these enemies. And

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some of these enemies are enemies that
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All right, And what's the first
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gonna go back and repeat it.
Satan? Can we see him? No?

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We cannot. Is he an enemy? Yes? Does he meet all

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of that criteria of those attributes?
Yes? All right? Now the question

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is, well, then what do
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into that. That's gonna be the
big issue here, is right, how

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do we handle these enemies? We'll
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a little clue, but all right, what's the next group of enemies demons.

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Do they meet the same criteria?
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we can go here a little bit
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the Devil, is depicted in the
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rebel to get who who rebelled against
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to as demons. Satan works with
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influence humanity, and oppose God's plans. Demons are portrayed as levolent spiritual beings

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who actively participate in tempting people,
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and destruction. Does not sound exactly
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three, An't that crazy? I
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of demons, and it almost sounds
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to me should be that's that's part. Not only that, though, because

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Satan and the demons do what work
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do in Saw eighty three. They
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right. I could go through a
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go through and I we could go
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give a couple of things here.
One Peter five eight. We all know

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that one, right, be alert
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prows around is a rowing line,
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working with him, Okay, Right, and then and then again Ephesian six

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twelve. We know this. Our
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but against the rulers, and against
the authorities, and against the powers of

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this dark world and the spiritual forces
and heavenly realms. Right, we know

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that he's he's there working, and
he's going against it and all of those

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things. So we covered all of
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of it again. We got that. So we have two very specific enemies.

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And what is significant about these two
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and we cannot see them. We
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right, and so what do we
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Tangible enemies. That's why the Bible
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not what cardinal, not fleshley That's
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be Cardinal or Fleshley weapons. Can
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No, Cardinal and Fleshley weapons can
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did a podcast yesterday about it,
but I didn't get to it. There

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was a political leader invited to speak
at a church in North Carolina. The

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video is somewhat disturbing. He's standing
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There's a cross right here behind him, there's all the people in the church,

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and he begins to talk about that
we have enemies and those enemies need

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to be killed, that some people
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sitting there going what in the name
of bubblegum is happening? The clip has

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gone viral, there's all kinds of
articles about it. Well, what's more

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disturbing The people in the church do
want. Now He's talking about the enemies,

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which you can see, and his
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killed. Now, I don't know
why in the world that's behind the pulpit,

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but so many times Christians want to
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what Cardinal Fleshley and we want to
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politicians, woke ideology, the LGBTQ
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all of these things, and we
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can We're not to fight enemies we
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ones that we cannot see. And
I know that goes against everything. Look,

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how do look as much as we
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we cannot see, as much as
we say that we live our lives very

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much where and what we can see. Now we talk about God doing this,

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and God doing this, and God
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But as soon as we're put forth
some hard questions about God, whether we

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crumble because we don't have any definitive
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live in a world which we can
see, and we sometimes forget the world

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which we cannot see. And that
is all of our enemies are really in

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this case, are spiritual. What
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with last week? Sin itself?
Sin itself. The underlying cause of our

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separation between humans and God is sin, and it leads to spiritual bondage and

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entice his believers to get against to
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growth and intimacy with God. Now
we look at some of the attributes of

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sin. Do sin bring about disorder
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All right? Does sin hate God? Absolutely? Is sin subtle and

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deceitful and crafty? Yes? Does
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Yes? I mean absolutely all right? Everything there? Okay, we

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talked. We talked about all of
that, right, we talk about if

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you look at look at here,
I think it's Hebrews three thirteen, y'all

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look it up really quick and just
tell me what you find. I believe

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it's he Brews three thirteen. If
I have this wrong, well, I

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think it's three thirteen. There we
go. Hey, unless you be hardened

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it unless something happens to me by
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it is crafty. All right.
So I think everything that we would

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say about sin, I think we
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Can we agree to that? Now
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of all, we can't see,
okay, when we think of sin,

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we think of sin in really two
ways. Right, Well, we should

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when we think of sin. What
are the two ways in which we should

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think of sin? Think about it? I know it's kind of maybe a

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kind of a vague question, but
I'll throw it out there. If you

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don't have an answer, that's okay. We have to think sin in regards

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to actions, and that's where most
people focus on it, right, Most

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people focus on sin as an action. Right, So then in that sense,

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sin manifests itself in actions, and
we have a tendency to focus on

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sin as an action. All right, but let's remember this is very,

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very important. This is like elementary
and Christianity. But I reviewed a sermon

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clip just the other day where,
once again demonstrating this is a very famous

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pastor. I don't think he meant
it this way, but he clearly is

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confused about sin. I think he
may have misspoke. I'm going to give

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him credit for just misspeaking, because
there's no way his theology would believe this.

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But he once again kind of described
sin more as action more of what

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we do. Let me make it
very clear. Sin is an action,

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but the action does not make you
a sinner. In fact, he literally

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said, we sin, which makes
us a sinner. Make it very clear,

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Sinning does not make you a sinner. Everyone got that down. Sinning

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does not make you a sinner.
Everyone have that down. Everyone should say

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amen. Okay, sin does not
make us a sinner. We sin because

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we are a sinner. When did
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moment of conception? Right, we
are conceived in sin. So we always

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think of sin as a sinful action. Why don't we always think of sin

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as a sinful action because we see
it? Oh? Wait, are we

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not following a theme here in Psaw
eighty three? Right? We see it.

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So we focus on the external action. But the external action is only

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the result of that which we The
sinful action is the result of that which

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we cannot see. It is your
nature. So when we think of sin,

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we have to think of sin as
an action, but we have to

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think of sin as a and nature. We have a sinful nature, meaning

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by nature, our nature. What
we'll go to saw mayty three. Those

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attributes, Okay, those attributes describe
your nature. Your nature is one of

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chaos. Right, doesn't your nature
go against maybe even sound reason logic?

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Your your nature goes to I mean, so many times, what do we

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constantly say? Why would people do
that. No, don't we constantly say

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that when you hear someone so and
so and so, why would they do

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that? Why would I just don't
understand people today, why why we do

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What are you talking about? The
sin nature has been there since Adam and

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Eve fell. I don't know why. I just don't know what's wrong with

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the world today. What do you
mean you don't know what's wrong with the

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world today. It's the same thing
that's been there since then. People like

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the world today has just lost their
mile. Oh, I don't know.

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I guess when a man decides to
turn his daughters over to an entire city

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of men to use them sexually,
I guess that's what was back in the

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good old days, right, Oh, I don't know. When when the

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men of the city do that too, and the end of judges, you

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know, sexually assault a woman and
then they chop her body up and send

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her parts to the different the twelve
trucks. I guess as we're back in

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the good old days. I guess
it was back in the good old days

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when you used your slave to produce
a child, back in the good old

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days. Now that the problem has
always been present, right, why,

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yeah, I mean, I mean
on and on and on and on,

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and I mean like the Bible is
filled with it, is it not?

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History is filled with it. Genocide, murder, rape, slavery. You

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just go on and on and why, Well, I can understand why the

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world is confused, right, they
can't explain why. So they think,

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well, education will fix it.
If we can get people out of poverty,

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that will fix it. Well,
everything that we try to do fix

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it doesn't fixes it. Because as
Christians we know the reason why. The

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reason why is because of what we
cannot see, and what we cannot see

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is the thing that produces all of
that chaos and produces all of that,

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which is our sin nature. So
our sin nature that we cannot see,

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produces that which we can see,
which then causes us to focus on what

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we can see well, ignoring what
we cannot see. And so what do

410
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then Christians tend to do. We
create a theological system that becomes nothing more

411
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than moralism. Do this and do
that because we try to combat what what

412
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we can't know. That's the problem
with Christianity. We don't find our nature.

413
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We go after what we can see, we go after the what the

414
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actions, We go after our actions. Christianity is a is just simply moralism

415
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.240
is all it's become. It's a
moral system. And so what do we

416
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.759
tell people to do? Don't drink, don't do this, don't do this,

417
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:09.880
don't listen to this, don't watch
this, don't read this, don't

418
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don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,

419
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.239
don't. And if we don't do
all of that, then somehow magically

420
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we become good. Christianity teaches that
righteousness is achieved by what what is I

421
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mean? This is just a basic
philological lesson we have to I talked about

422
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.320
this yesterday in the podcast we Christianity
teaches that we become righteous by doing what?

423
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By doing righteous things? Does everyone
understand the problem with that? Go

424
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to Galatians? I believe it.
I did this verse yesterday in a podcast.

425
00:34:46.159 --> 00:35:05.039
I believe it's Galatians too that I
covered Galatians two Glicious two twenty one

426
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:12.480
to twenty one. I did an
entire forty five minutes discussion on this about

427
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frustrating the grace of God? How
do we frustrate the grace of God?

428
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Right? Look at the new King. James doesn't use the word frustrate the

429
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.639
king James does. Look at Galatians
two twenty one, Paul says, I

430
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do not frustrate the grace of God. I do not set aside. I

431
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do not nullify the grace of God. And then he goes on to offer

432
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a very important statement. If righteousness
could be obtained by the law and Christ

433
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died in vain, what does that
imply? What does that verse seem to

434
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:52.920
imply? Righteousness is not obtained by
the law. You do not become righteous

435
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.000
by lawkeeping? Why can you not? Why do you not become righteous by

436
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:04.679
lawkeeping? Well? Okay, well
let's start first with this. The law

437
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:13.320
cannot produce righteousness because you were already
unrighteous. But in your nature you're already

438
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.960
unrighteous in your nature. So guess
what all the law keeping does that change

439
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:24.599
your nature? No, all the
lawkeeping does not change your nature. That

440
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:30.039
was one of the first things I
learned as a Lutheran. Right. That

441
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.440
was one of the in fact that
shocked me when I first learned it as

442
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:37.039
a Lutheran. It's like if I
kept all the tank commandments, what would

443
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I be? One of the questions
I asked when my Lutheran pastor was going

444
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through the Catechism with me. If
I was to keep all the law,

445
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what would that make me? Well? And what do you think? Most

446
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.639
people would answer righteous? And he's
like, you would still be a sinner.

447
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.920
I'm like, well, whoa,
whoa, whoa, dude, you

448
00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:00.960
haven't been to a Baptist church,
okay, right, But then like,

449
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:06.000
no, you're still a sinner.
You would just be a moral center,

450
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:12.519
But you would still be a sinner
because why because my nature is already corrupted,

451
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.639
and only that I would still be
guilty because I'm guilty in atom,

452
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:17.480
which everyone seems to forget. Even
if I was to keep all the law,

453
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:21.360
It's still be guilty because I'm guilty
an atom. Everyone seems to completely

454
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:25.639
just abandon that. So Christianity,
our problem is we have these enemies,

455
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:31.320
and we think, okay, we're
so confused in all of this. Right,

456
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:36.000
so what we have a tendency to
do. Sin is ultimately an enemy

457
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:40.880
we cannot see. But because sin
manifests itself, we become preoccupied with what

458
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:47.119
we can see, ignoring what we
cannot see. And what's the issue.

459
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.199
The issue is what we cannot see, because what we cannot see is the

460
00:37:54.280 --> 00:38:00.639
problem, And how do we combat
the sinful nature. Oh, let's start

461
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:02.920
with this. What are the ways
in which we cannot combat the sinful nature?

462
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:14.119
We cannot combat the sinful nature with
simply moralism? And that's all Christianity

463
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:17.239
wants. Right, what's the big
push right now? In the Republican Party?

464
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.280
They want the Ten Commandments everywhere,
right, they want them in the

465
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public school. Oklahoma's gonna do it. I think I can't remember the other

466
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:30.360
state. They gotta post the Ten
Commandments. Well, you can post the

467
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:37.480
Ten Commandments all day? What is
that gonna fix? I doubt it.

468
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.840
If I was a teenager, I
would go find the Ten Commandments and say,

469
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:42.960
oh, well, guess what I'm
gonna do every single thing on this

470
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:45.519
list twice. Okay, you're gonna
post the Ten Commandments. Watch me,

471
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:50.800
I'm gonna break them all right,
Any good, good, rebellious teenagers should

472
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.519
do that, right, Okay,
come on, right, you don't shouldn't

473
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.719
follow them, break them all right, because that's everything in our nature.

474
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:00.920
But we think that we can fix
the problem by attacking the external element.

475
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The issue is the internal issue.
We cannot see it. So we got

476
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:13.760
three and guess what do these three
enemies work together? Yes, they do.

477
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:19.480
Can we see Satan? No?
Can we see a demons? No?

478
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:24.960
Can we see sin? We can
see the manifestation of sin. But

479
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.239
the issue of the manifestation of sin
is that's not what makes someone a sinner,

480
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.880
what make the sinful? Actions are
only manifesting the reality of what we

481
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.719
cannot see, which is our nature. And so we become preoccupied in fighting

482
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.800
what we can see when we have
to realize the problem is what we cannot

483
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:53.920
see. So everybody got that,
yes, right, And I know that

484
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:59.719
leads to a From a Christian perspective, it's very difficult, right. We'

485
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.840
forget a Christian perspective because Christians don't
care about any of this. But from

486
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:08.880
a logical perspective, I do understand
it leads to a very uncomfortable reality,

487
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:15.679
right, because the uncomfortable reality is
this, I can stop doing this action.

488
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.119
I can stop doing this action.
I can stop doing this action.

489
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.239
From a human perspective, that makes
all the humans happy. Right, And

490
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.679
then they'll pat you on the back, saying, what a good man he

491
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.760
is, what a good woman he
is. I've never met someone so godly

492
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.719
in my entire life. Right.
You always get that kind of talk,

493
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:44.840
right, But guess what the reality
is before God? What are they still

494
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:52.519
a sinner? Because righteousness is not
obtained by the law. How are we

495
00:40:52.599 --> 00:41:06.000
made righteous then by imputed righteous which
we can't see. That's a weird dynamic.

496
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:09.159
Once again, Christianity seems like a
contradiction. Right, Hey, do

497
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:16.599
good, but hey, no matter
how good you do, you're never gonna

498
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:22.920
be good. And that a weird
lesson. Hey, pull your kids in

499
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.360
and go ahead. Kids. I
need you to keep these rules. I

500
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:29.320
need you to do everything on this
list, but just know this, no

501
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.159
matter how good you do, you're
never gonna be good. You're always gonna

502
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:36.199
be a sinner. You're always gonna
be bad. Well, then what does

503
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:39.159
that tend to motivate? Oh,
come on, we can be honest.

504
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:45.320
That would motivate that. What's the
point? Right, that's a difficult answer.

505
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.480
That's a difficult question. He said, Well, well we should try.

506
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.800
Well, we can try, but
in it difficult to try knowing that

507
00:41:52.840 --> 00:42:01.000
no matter how hard you try,
you're still felt that from a pilological that's

508
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.559
from a thiological prayer. Now I
know, from a human perspective, but

509
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.840
you can be good. You can
be sometimes though even that good is what

510
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:14.599
that good is about as fraudulent as
fraudulent can be, right, because the

511
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:20.159
external action may please everyone, but
that doesn't have anything to do with what's

512
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:27.440
going on where inside. That's a
that's a weird battle to find ourselves in.

513
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:31.000
We have three enemies which we ultimately
cannot see that lead us to all

514
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:35.519
and you can see why Christians get
so whacked out and confused and how to

515
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.760
handle all of this do we not? You can see why our strategies are

516
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:45.800
so like, it's just crazy.
Right, there's those Those are three enemies.

517
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:50.760
Now let's go to the fourth.
What do you think a fourth enemy

518
00:42:50.800 --> 00:43:01.280
should be? Let's bring in false
teachers? False teacher. Now this one

519
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:08.679
becomes a little interesting, right because
the first three, yeah, we can

520
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:14.800
see a false teacher, right.
The first three we really cannot see.

521
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:20.239
We can see the manifestation of,
but we can't allow the manifestation to distract

522
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.440
us from the real issue, which
is what we cannot see. Now the

523
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:30.679
fourth one is much more tangible.
But the fourth one's gonna have its own

524
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:37.519
issues. So let's just first ask
ourselves. Do false teachers meet the do

525
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.480
they follow or are they? Can
they be described using the attributes and saw

526
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:45.840
eighty three. Well, I have
this down. False teachers. False teachers

527
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.719
bring chaos and confusion, leading people
away from God's truth. I can say

528
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.199
that they bring chaos, right do
they not? They bring a tumult?

529
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:59.280
Right? What when false teachers enter
into a situation, They're gonna bring tumult,

530
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.800
They're gonna bring They're gonna bring confusion. Can we agree to that all?

531
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:08.280
Right? Next, they harbor hatred
towards God and his truth, seeking

532
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:14.280
to distort and undermine it. A
false teacher ultimately, now the hair is

533
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.800
the most difficult thing about a false
teacher. A false teacher would never say

534
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:24.400
that they do what hate God,
But ultimately they hate God because they are

535
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:30.159
teaching that which is false and goes
against God. So in one sense we

536
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.960
may not their hatred towards God is
hard. This is where it becomes very

537
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:39.599
complicated. Every false teacher will claim
they love God. In fact, they

538
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:47.159
will claim that they love God more
than other people, but at the same

539
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:52.079
time they hate God. So there's
kind of that what you see and what

540
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.960
you don't see. Third, are
they crafty and deceptive? Yeah? I

541
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.920
mean the whole thing about false teachers
is they use cunning and deceitful tactics to

542
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:07.599
mislead and manipulate others. Right do
they attack that which God has chosen,

543
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.320
that has sheltered ones, has treasured
ones? While they target believers, seeking

544
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:15.119
to disrupt their faith and leading them
astray? Right do they seek to destroy

545
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:22.119
something? False teachers do what they
ultimately conspired to destroy the foundations of true

546
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:30.880
faith and spread falsehood? Can we
agree there? I think they made these

547
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.840
attributes and probably ways in which,
all right, let's just look at some

548
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.599
script We'll look get more scriptures for
these, just because I think it's important

549
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:45.039
to understand this. I think this
one man false teachers become a major philosophical

550
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:52.599
dilemma. But okay, Second Corinthians, chapter eleven, Second Corinthians chapter eleven.

551
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:04.119
All right, everybody there, First
Corinthians chapter eleven, or I'm sorry,

552
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.119
Second Corinthians chapter eleven. I apologize. Second Corinthians chapter eleven. I

553
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.480
should have known as soon as I
said. First Corinthians, that's about the

554
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:15.320
Lord Supper. So Second Corinthias chapter
eleven. Everybody ready, starting verse thirteen,

555
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:23.800
what do we read for? Such
are false apostles deceitful workers. There's

556
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:32.920
the cunning craftiness, right, transforming
themselves into and to the apostles of Christ,

557
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.559
the new King, James says,
and no wonder for seeing themselves transforms

558
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:44.159
themselves into an angel of light.
All right, So this is very important.

559
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.719
Now we have false teachers. What
do these false teachers do? They're

560
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:52.639
cunning and crafty, and they're going
to be manipulative because they transform themselves into

561
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:58.199
why they claim to be wide And
then this obviously has a historical correlation.

562
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:02.599
Well, at that time they're claiming
to be what apostles? Now, why

563
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:08.840
is that difficult at that time?
Because who had clear authority at that time?

564
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:13.639
We call that apostolic authority? Right, which is always a big dispute

565
00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:16.000
in church history. Right, whenever
we talk about apostolic authority, what's the

566
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:24.920
big question in church history? It's
called Apostolic succession? Does that authority move

567
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:30.079
forward? Right? Catholic Church claims
that it moved forward and they now possess

568
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.880
that Apostolic authority. That's why they
can define dogma and declare right and wrong.

569
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.639
Right, as Protestants, we don't
believe in Apostolic succession. But do

570
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:45.679
we or don't we? That's a
big question. Do Protestants believe in Apostolic

571
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:52.880
succession. What do you think do
you think the Christians? You know,

572
00:47:52.920 --> 00:48:02.360
do you think they believe in apostolic
succession or reject it? Every Protestant who

573
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:10.599
says they don't believe in Apostolic succession
is a liar because they all believe they

574
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:20.599
they have it. They all believe
they have it, right do they not?

575
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:23.960
Every Christian? What do they do? Do They tell you what is

576
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:28.639
right and what is wrong? Yeah, they will tell you this is what

577
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.159
the right answer is, this is
what they're wrong. As if they have

578
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:36.519
the apostolic authority to declare dogma,
define what is right, define what is

579
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:42.000
wrong, and they can judge what. Oh, come on, we know

580
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:46.760
how it works in the church.
Who's in charge in the church, Okay,

581
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.840
not the pastor? And the pastor
is a loser, okay, pastors

582
00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:54.159
are Loser's right. The people in
the pew make all the determination. Right,

583
00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:59.519
They sit there and they determine if
the pastor is preaching that which is

584
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:05.440
right are wrong. They declare if
it's right or wrong, And then they

585
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:08.159
would declare if the pastor is a
good teacher, bad teacher, true teacher,

586
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:13.800
false teacher, And they can make
all that determination on the basis of

587
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:21.159
what what they think. And in
fact, in many cases, does it

588
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.960
even require does it require any formal
training? Do they have to go to

589
00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:29.639
Bible college, Do they have to
go to seminary? No? Do they

590
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:37.000
even have to do any intensive study? No? Yet they can declare what

591
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.480
what is true? What is false? Right, So, in a roundabout

592
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:44.719
way, the same thing has been
going at that point, it would have

593
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:47.039
been really dangerous, right, because
the apostles are kind of the kind of

594
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.599
the they're they're very the building blocks
of the early church. Right, And

595
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:57.159
so if the apostle said something,
what was the perceived concept is that you

596
00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.119
either were in agreement or you surrendered
to their authority. Are basically you were

597
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:05.360
considered what outside of Christianity kind of
way to the Catholic Church, and the

598
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:08.639
church followed that same concept. That's
why we have the seven Ecumenical councils.

599
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:16.519
Right, we declare what is right, and if you disagree, you were

600
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:22.000
what anathema? Okay, you were, you were outside of it. So

601
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.079
the false teachers come along and claim
to be that. Now this is very

602
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.960
difficult, right, This is where
things get really complicated for us as an

603
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:37.599
enemy. We can see the enemy
can we not a false teacher? Can

604
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:45.480
we see them? Yes? The
problem with seeing them is what they they

605
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:52.079
all? They transform themselves into what
what does the text just say the apostles

606
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:57.920
of Christ, just like Satan,
appears as an angel of light, meaning

607
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:02.840
then we can see. But in
since we cannot see because we have to

608
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:08.719
see what we cannot see, because
what we see outwardly is they say all

609
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:13.280
the right things, do all the
right things, look the right way.

610
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:22.199
What's the whole thing? Jesus warns
about false prophets doing what wolves coming in?

611
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:27.360
Sheep's good and they're gonna come as
a sheep, but they're a wolf.

612
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You have to be able to go, oh, oh look look everyone,

613
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:35.360
Hey, we've got a petting zoo
out back. Let's go pet the

614
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:38.480
sheep. And you're right. You
get ready to pet the sheep and say,

615
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:43.000
oh, we're gonna call this fluffy, and then the sheep does what

616
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:49.480
rip off your arm? Because it's
actually a wolf. So this becomes complicated.

617
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Can we see the false teacher?
Yes, but in a sense we

618
00:51:54.280 --> 00:52:00.800
cannot see, so we have to
be able to judge. We cannot see

619
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irregardless of what we can't. Oh, this sounds very similar to everything in

620
00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:10.800
saw many three? Does it not? I Can I judge the existence of

621
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:15.599
God based off what I can see? No? I have to believe in

622
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.159
God, irregardless of what I see
goes. So, when it comes to

623
00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:22.320
a false teacher, can I judge
a false teacher based on what I see?

624
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:29.239
Not necessarily? So now I've got
to base it on what I necessarily

625
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:34.039
cannot see. Well that becomes a
little confusing, right, And now what

626
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:38.719
if I got I'm basing that judgment
on what? Oh, come on,

627
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:43.559
give me the church answer. You're
gonna base that judgment on the false teacher

628
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.880
on what? Okay, well let's
give me the church answer. Oh,

629
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:51.880
come on, you're Protestants. Oh
you're gonna say on the Bible. I

630
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:53.960
knew that. I knew that was
gonna be. And that makes absolutely no

631
00:52:54.079 --> 00:53:02.880
sense. Why because the false teachers
using the same Bible you are, and

632
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.880
they're going to tell you that their
interpretation is more correct than your interpretation.

633
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:12.880
So what makes your interpretation the standard
and which to judge the teacher and declare

634
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:21.719
the teacher to be false? And
they got an answer? Yeah, I

635
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:23.440
see. Now yeah, now we
got a problem. Right. So,

636
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:29.000
now so when it comes to it. Satan is a scary enemy, but

637
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:32.360
we can't really see him, right, Demons are a scary enemy, but

638
00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:37.000
we really cannot see them, and
so we kind of struggle on how to

639
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:39.519
engage that. Right, So what
do we typically do in the church when

640
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:44.639
it comes to Satan and demons?
What do we typically do? Now,

641
00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:46.639
if you're into, if you're into, like a major charismatic, you may

642
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.079
actually be looking at demons behind every
rock. But mostly Christians take on take

643
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:58.760
demons and Satan, and we kind
of focus on really external enemies, saying

644
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:04.159
Satan is using rock music or Satan
is using we tend to connect Satan to

645
00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:07.199
something visible and then we go fight
the visible, claiming that we're actually engaged

646
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.880
in spiritual warfare, when in reality, all we're doing is fighting something visible,

647
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:15.800
but we attach Satan to it.
Right, Hey, parents, you

648
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:20.159
gotta go into your kid's route.
You gotta look at the music because Satan

649
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:23.440
is using that music to destroy your
kid. So go burn some records.

650
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:29.280
Hey, I mean that was all
over the West Texas in the eighties,

651
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.079
right, Okay, that was a
big thing. But so we attach Satan

652
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:40.239
to what to what we can see, meaning in many cases we're actually missing

653
00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:46.440
what Satan right. So, in
other words, in many cases, we're

654
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:50.679
not fighting a spiritual warfare. We
convince we're fighting a spiritual warfare, but

655
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:52.800
we're really fighting things that we can
see. There's a problem. When it

656
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.800
comes to demons, we do the
same thing. Yes, When it comes

657
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:00.679
to sin, do we do the
same thing? Yes, yes, we

658
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:05.280
focus on the external, not the
invisible. How do we fight invisible enemies

659
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:08.760
in whom we cannot see? That's
the big question. But when it comes

660
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:15.000
to false teachers, we have a
major dilemma on our hands because now,

661
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:17.639
when it comes to false teachers,
we can see false teachers, but the

662
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:22.639
false teachers pretend to be something they
are not, Meaning, are we sure

663
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:28.559
that we can judge what they are
even though we can't see what they are

664
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:32.719
because of what they pretend to be. That becomes convoluted. And I don't

665
00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:37.360
know what the answer is because I
just asked, how do we judge the

666
00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:45.400
false teacher? And the standard Christian
answer is we take the word of God

667
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:50.840
and we compare what they say to
it. But the false teacher is using

668
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:57.119
the word of God, and we'll
tell you what that what he says is

669
00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:00.280
the right and what you say is
wrong. Well, then how do we

670
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:07.119
fight that in all cases and all
enemies? What are we developing here with

671
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:10.320
these enemies? Okay, we'll just
end with this in Psalm eighty three,

672
00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:17.199
they're facing enemies that they can see. The facing of the enemies they can

673
00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:23.559
see is calling into question the existence
of God whom they cannot see. As

674
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:32.079
Christians, we have enemies whom we
cannot see, but we tend to focus

675
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:37.480
on the way those enemies manifest themselves
and the ways in which we can see,

676
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:43.320
So we become distracted and fighting what
we can see. Well, in

677
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:47.000
the meantime, the enemy whom we
cannot see is not even being bothered or

678
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:52.239
touched, so we become completely distracted
and doing the wrong thing. When it

679
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:57.639
comes to false teachers, what do
we have a tendency to do? We

680
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:00.800
try to fight what we can see, but in many cases, I don't

681
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:05.400
even know how we even handle the
false teacher situation. I don't even know.

682
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.000
I don't even have a clue.
I don't even know what we do.

683
00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.519
I don't even know what I don't
even know if they're I don't even

684
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:15.199
know. Because it becomes it becomes
just a subjective mess right, it really

685
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:21.400
becomes this and and Christians, really
false teachers are if we really want a

686
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.480
true definition of a false teacher?
And within Christianity, how would we define

687
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:30.519
a false teacher if we're being like
brutally honest, How would we define false

688
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:35.599
teachers if we're brutally honest, Like, if we're brutally honest, how would

689
00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:43.440
Christianity define false teachers if we're brutally
honest? A false teacher is anyone who

690
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:54.920
disagrees with me. I mean,
that's that's really the definition of a false

691
00:57:54.960 --> 00:58:00.840
teacher with a Christianity. I don't
know what the two definition is. I

692
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.840
don't know if there is a true
definition. We would like to say,

693
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.679
in theory, how would we like
to define a false teacher? Like in

694
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:15.599
theory, like if we were creating
the perfect definition, anyone who teaches against

695
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:20.000
God's word, right, anyone who
teaches a doctrine against God's word that sounds

696
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.320
so great, right and theory that
sounds good. Sitting in a seminary classroom,

697
00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.159
you're like, ay man, I'm
gonna go out there and I'm gonna

698
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.639
battle all these false teachers who go
against the scriptures. But then you go

699
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:34.840
battle them, and they're gonna be
like, well, what are you talking

700
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:37.880
about. I went to seminary just
like you went to seminary, and I

701
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:39.679
believe this is the truth. You're
like, but no, I believe this

702
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:45.639
is the truth. Or this becomes
really complicated. In Protestantism, one could

703
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:57.239
argue anyone that goes against and creedle
statement. In other words, you would

704
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:02.440
need a creedle statement like the apostle. Nice scene, are the affinaceous creed

705
00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:07.840
right? And then anyone who went
against those creeds could be declared a false

706
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:10.719
teacher because you would have something clearly
defined right. If you just say the

707
00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:25.320
Bible, what's the problem with that? I mean the preacher? Well yeah,

708
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:29.119
that becomes a problem. Well I
gimma, who can say that every

709
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:35.119
preachers taught something wrong according to which
standard? Okay, okay, well that's

710
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.480
but I'm just saying it would be
you making the determination that what they said

711
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:42.079
was wrong. Because every teacher,
who every preatruerth who taught something is wrong

712
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:46.599
think that what they taught was right. So then when you say that they

713
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:50.199
taught something was wrong, they would
be like, no, you believe something

714
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:52.000
was wrong. Because if you listen
to me, you would believe something that

715
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:59.800
was right that becomes really convoluted.
So I the false teachers are very complicated

716
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.719
in it, are they not?
The other ones are much easier. We

717
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.440
know Satan, right, Okay,
we know demons, and we know our

718
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:13.039
sinful nature. False teachers, I
don't know what to do with these enemies.

719
01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.159
I don't even know. So we'll
talk more about the false teachers.

720
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:20.920
Well, we're ultimately where we're headed
is when we finally get to where the

721
01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:28.280
Psalmists ask God to intervene. He's
going to ask God to intervene by doing

722
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.400
in the present what he has done
in the past. We're going to try

723
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:36.679
to look at the commonality of all
of the all the issues in the past.

724
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:38.920
We're going to see how God intervened
there and see does that have any

725
01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:44.360
relevance for us today. And that's
where it's gonna get complicated, because the

726
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:47.159
way God handled those enemies, I
don't know if we can apply that to

727
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:54.039
our enemies. So then just the
whole analogy fall completely apart. Now I

728
01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:59.639
will stand firm on this. So
far, every enemy I've listed do they

729
01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:05.039
meet, they do they follow the
same attributes and characteristics as the enemies and

730
01:01:05.039 --> 01:01:08.679
Psalm eighty three, I think so
far I have proven that to the letter

731
01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:13.400
right. It's not even been difficult
to prove it. It's simple right,

732
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.159
so that we can find something to
it, meaning that we can at least

733
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:21.599
take away from Psalm eighty three that
just as they had physical enemies, we

734
01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:27.199
have spiritual enemies that have the same
characteristics and attributes, meaning that we have

735
01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:30.360
to figure out how to combat and
deal with our enemies. Because I don't

736
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:34.400
think Psalm eighty three is going to
give us the answer, but I could

737
01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:36.280
be wrong. All right, let's
pray. Look, God, we come

738
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:40.199
before you this morning. These are
complicated matters. Lord. The one thing

739
01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:45.039
we can all acknowledge is not only
do we have enemies, ultimately we have

740
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:49.639
something in us that is the greatest
enemy, which is our own sinful nature.

741
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.239
Lord, help us be more aware
of that truth and continue to struggle

742
01:01:54.280 --> 01:02:00.079
on how to handle and deal with
all the enemies which we face. We

743
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:02.360
asked us in Jesus name, and
God's people said