Psalm 83 Pt 8

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All right, this morning we continue
SAW eighty three. It's been multiple weeks

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now, multiple weeks since SAW eighty
three. It's one of those things.

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I've made it this far in we
have to see it all the way to

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the conclusion. Of course, I'm
trying to do something, trying in some

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ways to make a point, but
it's really just based off my frustration with

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all the you know, the sermons. Remember this all started because of our

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sermons two point oh app challenge that
we're doing this year for people supposed to

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find random sermons on the sermons two
point oh app right down the name of

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the sermon, right down, a
summary of what you listen to, so

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by the end of the year,
you have one sermon per day for the

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entire year. And so I,
since that's the challenge, I'm participating in

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the challenge. I downloaded some random
sermons and found one called the Coming Middle

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East War. Okay, that should
be interesting because that fits our study on

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eschatology. Go, well, next
thing, you know, the Coming Middle

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East War was about SAW eighty three, and now that's series has gone on

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to be twenty six parts and they're
yet to really talk about the Coming Middle

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East War and really, they haven't
even really talked about SAW eighty three.

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The whole thing is utterly maddening.
But based off that and then other sermons

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taking SAW eighty three, connecting it
to Second Chronicles twenty, I just became

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more and more frustrated. So I
think we've done in all of the hours

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we've spent, we've done a really
good job at breaking SSAAL eighty three down.

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We've outlined it, we've looked at
it, we know what it is,

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we've identified we've identified major lessons.
I think we've done a really good

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job with SAW eighty three. Am
I estimation. You may disagree, but

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I think we've done a really good
job. But then I decided to add

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a little extra to what we're doing. So here, let's try to just

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put everything back to some level of
some kind of context so that you can

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at least take some basic things away. I'm not gonna review everything with some

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basic things. Simply put, Saw
eighty three is a lament where the Summus

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laments their situation that was present at
their time. Please make sure you have

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that down. They're lamenting a situation
that they're facing at that time. It's

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a psalm of Asaf, So we
have somewhat an idea of the time because

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he's the worship leader between the reigns
of David and possibly into the reign of

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Solomon. So somewhere during that time, the people of Israel facing a very

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difficult situation. And that difficult situation
is they have a confederacy of nations that

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are coming against them to wipe them
off the face of the earth. But

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their real issue in the lament is
they yes, they talk about the enemy,

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but they're lamenting the fact that who
seems to have abandoned them God.

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They don't know where God is.
That is their lamit, that's the lament,

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and that the main part of the
lament is found in Psalm eighty three,

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one verse, verse one. It's
right there. Everybody read that.

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That's the key element of the lament. God, where are you? They

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begin? The rest of the Psalm
is describing how serious the situation is,

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okay, and there's a confederacy of
nations that seeks to destroy them. I

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have given you some basic lessons from
Psalm eighty three. I'm gonna scroll all

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the way back up here in my
notes and go through these again. I

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repeated them in the first hour.
I repeated them last week multiple times,

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so let me go through these again. SSAW eighty three describes the life of

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people who believe in a God whom
they cannot see while living in the midst

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of circumstances that they can see,
and those very circumstances call into question the

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existence of God whom they cannot see. All right, that is true of

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p SSAW eighty three, But it's
also true of what of anyone who believes

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in God. We believe in a
God in whom we cannot see while living

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in the midst of circumstances that we
can see, and those circumstances call into

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question the existence of the God whom
we cannot see. Everyone should everyone should

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be able to relate to that right, everyone should be able to relate to

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Saw maybe three saying God, where
are you? Right every day? God?

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Where are you? God? Where
are you? God? Where are

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you? That is very because those
circumstances screamin I know. What's so weird

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in Christianity? Is nobody in Christianity
wants to ever admit that because Christians constantly

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talk about God did this, and
God did this, and God intervenes here,

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and God did, and God told
me this, and God led me

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here, and God took care of
me hearing. And we constantly talk about

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all the things God is supposedly doing. But anyone who looks at that would

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go, well, wait a minute. If God is constantly involved in doing

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this and this and this and this
and this and this and this, what's

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the obvious question? Well? Then
where was he yesterday when a child died

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of cancer? Where was he yesterday
when a woman was being raped? Where

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was he yesterday when a child was
being molested? Where was he yesterday when

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someone was shot and killed? Where
we see yesterday when someone was this or

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happened or this? Does that not
raise that question? Any reasonable person should

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be able to have that question.
It's okay to ask that question and struggle

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with it, because if you're not
asking that question and struggle with it,

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then you've just turned Christianity into a
fairy tale and you're just living a fantasy

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world. We have to face reality. The reality is circumstances make us ask

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why where is God? And if
if you never ask where is God?

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I don't know, You've got you
got something wrong with you? All right?

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You're living okay? Yeah? Or
maybe well, I even if you've

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never gone to anything bad, just
look at the world around you. Just

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look at the world around you.
You should be like, uh, hey

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got a I don't know if you're
busy today, but I can point some

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I can I can pull out a
map and tell you where you may need

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to go visit really really quick.
Right, there's some people dying in Gaza.

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There are some people dying in Ukraine. Okay, those are just two

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at the top of my head.
Right, So there's that's a reality.

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But there's another reality. Saw mayby
three brings to our attention. As Christians.

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We live a life surrounded by enemies. We can see so many times

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though we forget the enemies which we
cannot see. But this is the important

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truth that we talked about last week. Whether it's circumstances or whether it's enemies,

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our only hope as Christians is in
an imputed righteousness which we cannot see.

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I need everyone to write that down. We cannot see imputed righteousness.

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I know every church and Abilene would
disagree with me, but that's because they've

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abandoned historical Reformation Christianity. You cannot
see imputed righteousness. Why can you not

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see imputed righteousness. It does not
change you. Imputed righteousness declares you to

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be what you're not. Imputed righteousness
declares you to be what you're not.

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I am declared to be righteous,
not because I am, but because God

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has declared to me to be righteous
by faith in Christ. And then his

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righteousness is imputed. That's the actual
philological term that churches use the term.

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But then they immediately disregard it,
right, they immediately disregard it because I

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will say, imputed righteousness, it
will change you, No, it will

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not. Now if it changes you, that's infused righteousness, which goes right

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back to Roman Catholicism. Which if
we're going to go back to Roman Catholicism,

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let's shut this place down and let's
go to you know, Sacred Heart

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or Our Family or any of the
or is it Saint Francis in the north

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side of the town, the three
Catholic churches in Albelein, All right,

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let's just go there and be done
with it, right, Or let's contact

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the diocese in San Angelo and say, hey, we've got a church building

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here in Ovallo. We would like
to turn it into a Catholic church,

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all right, and then maybe they'll
allow me to be a priest because they

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will allow some people who are who
are pastors who become Catholic to become priest

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married, and then I'll get paid, and then we'll all be good.

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We'll have a Catholic church and we'll
be good. Right, Okay, okay,

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everybody will be like HAB's only I'm
not going to be a Catholic while

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they go around talking like they are
actually Catholics, which just drives me crazy.

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Right, So, so I want
to but I want to stress that

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we have enemies which we can see, which makes us forget the enemies which

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we cannot see. Whether it's the
enemies you can whether it's the enemies you

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can't see, your only hope.
And I know this sounds like a defeated

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form of christian I get that accusation
all the time. Your only hope is

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imputed righteous I know what you're thinking. No, my hope is in God

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getting rid of my enemies. But
let me tell you God's not getting rid

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of your enemies. Okay, all
right, Because if that's the case,

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so your only hope is imputed righteousness, which you cannot see, all right?

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Do I wish I could see that
imputed righteousness. Yeah, because then

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I can basically be basically perfect,
but I would have to be perfect because

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His righteousness is perfect righteousness, so
then mine would have to be perfect righteousness.

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So and that's weird. Like,
well, and just make sure we

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stressed this in the first hour,
and I stressed it yesterday on the podcast.

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So this goes a little beyond Psal
ninety three, but it fits here.

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I want to make sure everyone gets
this down. Everybody understand this.

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We want to make sure everybody has
this down. You do not become righteous

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by doing right. Now, don't
tell any Christian friends you have that you

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learned that in church, because they're
gonna say your church is messed up.

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But the problem is, I just
literally quoted Galatians to twenty one, which

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says righteousness does not come from the
law. You do not become righteous by

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lawkeeping right. If you kept the
ten Commandments perfectly, you know what,

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you would still be unrighteous. You
may be a moral sinner, but you're

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still a sinner because even if you
kept them externally, you don't keep them

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internally. That was the most shocking
truth I learned from my Lutheran pastor when

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I first became a Lutheran because he
basically asked me that question, if you

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were to keep the Ten Commandments,
what would you be? And I was

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like, well, I'd be righteous, I would be good, I would

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be And he's like, you Baptist
are so dumb, and I'm like,

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how dare you? And he's like, you, Baptist are more Catholic than

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Catholics. And I'm like, no, I'm not a Catholic. Yes you

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are, because if you understood this
now, at the time, I didn't

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understand it, and it took me
a long time to ever come to because

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my lordship salvation would kick in.
You gotta do something, You got to

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prove something. Wait, you can't
prove imputed righteousness. And righteousness does not

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come from the law. Where does
righteousness come from faith? That's why.

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What was Luther's big deal that just
will live by faith? What did he

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mean by live by faith? That
our life is lived by faith? Because

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the righteousness of God comes by faith, not in doing. Oh man,

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you tell Christians that they'll lose their
mind now, but all of this fits

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saw maybe three right, because guess
what we believe it We believe in a

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God in the midst of that we
cannot see in the midst of circumstances that

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we can see. Those circumstances call
into question the existence of the God whom

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we cannot see. We walk around
facing enemies whom we can see. Well,

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we have a tendency to forget the
enemies which we cannot see, and

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we spend our time then being distracted
fighting the enemies which we can see,

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missing the point. Yet, as
Christians, we have an imputed righteousness which

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we cannot see, and we get
so preoccupied with trying to do things which

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we can see. Psaw eighty three
has all of that right there. The

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whole psalm is about this. Right, they're asking where is God? And

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then what does the rest of the
palm describe? All the things they can

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see? And so all the things
they can see has called into question the

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God whom they cannot see. Does
everyone see that? Okay? That to

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me everything at all those points I
think are worthy of this. You may

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not think so, but I think
they're very important points. Now we started,

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so this is what I decided.
Well, since Some three is one

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of those psalms that I think the
most part of it doesn't apply to us.

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Can can I do anything in the
sum to make it applicable to us.

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So this is what we did.
We looked at the characteristics of all

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the enemies in which they can see, and those characteristics are chaos or tumult.

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They God. They're arrogant and prideful, crafty, cunning, deceitful,

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that consult together, conspire together,
work together. They hate everything God loves

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or God would choose, and they
want to wipe off, basically wipe off

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the face of the earth anything connected
to God. That's a paraphram. And

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what was my argument is those attributes
of those enemies are the exact attributes of

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the enemies whom we face. So
we've been looking at the enemies whom we

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face. We've looked at enemy number
one one, which was Satan. I'm

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not gonna go back through it.
Satan clearly meets all of those attributes to

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the letter, right, Demons,
Demons meet all of those attributes to the

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letter. Not only that, Satan
demons conspire and work together, so they

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fit the even that concept all right. Third was Sin. Now Sin,

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we talked about this in the first
hour. Sin has really two elements,

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the external which we can see.
But let's make it very clear. Right,

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I cannot stress this enough. You
sinning does not make you a sinner.

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We get so preoccupied on the external
aspects of sin, right, But

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we only sin because of what we
are. So as Christians, we spend

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a lot of our time focusing on
the external parts of sin. We have

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to realize the issue is internal.
It's what we cannot see. Can you

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see your sinful nature? No,
you see the manifestation of it. So

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we get preoccupied on the manifestation,
which then turns Christianity into a system of

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morality, and it becomes moralism.
Moralism, no, we have In fact,

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if you think about it, what's
the only way to fight our sin?

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What's the only way to fight sin? If you really think about this,

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you have to fight sin, which
ultimately you cannot see, which is

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your sinful nature, not by focusing
on what you can see. But you

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can only fight sin by grabbing onto
that which you cannot see, which is

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imputed righteousness. That's really the only
you're gonna say, But wait, we've

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got to fight against sin. Well, you can fight and fight and fight

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and fight and fight. What's a
guaranteed fact you're still gonna sin? I

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know that goes against everything Christianity teaches. But I'm telling you all you can

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do is run to the imputed righteousness
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like a weak, powerless Christianity,
while all the people who talk about power

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in Christianity, you know what they
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three enemies. Well, at the
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of the last hour, we reached
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really complicated. And I don't have
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right, everybody ready, I got
pages of notes on all of these enemies.

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Okay, are you ready enemy number
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they know enemy number four is false
teachers. And this I have no

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clue what to tell you. This
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to do with this one. Okay, but I think we can. All

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the Bible talks about false teachers constantly, does it not? Yes? So

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are we not to be aware?
In fact? Go to I think is

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it Matthew chapter seven? Everybody?
Look at Matthew seven. Look at Matthew

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seven. That's the famous judge not
unless you be judged passage right, I

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think that should judge. I think
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Is it? Am I correct?
I'm just going from pure memory here,

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So tell me if I'm wrong.
Okay, Okay, yes, I'm

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right. Matthew seven to one starts
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Okay, all right, now go
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fourteen fifteen sixteen says something along about
beware of false prophets. Fifteen Look at

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that man, look at me,
all right, y'are not in pressed?

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I don't care. Okay, all
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of false profits. Why do we
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come into a sheep's clothing inwardly ravening
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our whole concept that saw eighty three, right, because now we have teachers

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whom we can see, well,
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Oh that makes it really complicated,
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very careful because nobody wants to run
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this cute little sheep. I'm gonna
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it and then you pull back,
no arm, that's a bad thing.

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Well, false teacher. False teaching
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arm. It rips you apart.
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for false teachers. But this is
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we cannot necessarily trust what we can
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able to see what we cannot see. Now, this is where I'm gonna

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tick off every Christian in the world. But that's okay. Now, Typically

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the church answer is how do we
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answer everyone, the Bible. That's
great. That sounds so good. Right?

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Does that sound good? Oh,
it sounds so good. What's the

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problem with that? The Bible too, So when I say they're the false

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teacher, they will say, now
I'm the right teacher, you're the false

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believer or false whatever. And so
this becomes difficult. And now this is

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a problem within Protestantism. This is
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here's the thing. You sitting in
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authority and the ability to say what
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and what is not required for you
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Do you have to go to Bible
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to Bible as too? Do you
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even have to go to church.
And you can say wrong, wrong,

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wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong? Well, what makes you

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right? And you say, well, the Bible? But they will say

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the teacher will say everyone who's ever
accused me of being wrong? I will

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say, no, I'm interpreting scripture
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they are, and then they will
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I'll leave the church. Then they
talk and talk smack and talk trash and

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tell every their people about you,
and talk trash and talk trash because they

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can't shut up talking about you.
And rarely do they come to you and

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ever actually prove that you're wrong,
because any person who's ever come at me

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has never sent down and showed me
their study or even tried to have a

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reasonable conversation. They just tell me
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then they can't stop talking about me. Well, it must be great to

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be so smart, which you know
I've reached. The point is Bible call

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it? I was in I was, and I mean this from it,

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and this may sound very derogatory,
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this point in my life, I
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I should not have wasted my time
going to Bible College because I could have

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pursued a military career and right now
my retirement would be double or triple what

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it is now. I wouldn't have
to even worry about my house payment and

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I would have to wear it.
But I spent all that time going to

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Bible College and seminary for what.
So everyone can tell me that I'm wrong.

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It was so useless education. I've
bought all of my degrees there are

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wasted time. Literally, I mean
that they're a waste of time. They

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don't mean anything. They've never meant
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I loved the process because I love
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it was meaningless. So how do
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day I can be I mean,
I remember the pierces know my joke,

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right, If someone walks in and
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ever heard. You are so great. We love your teaching. What's going

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to happen. There'll be some of
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So now if someone praises me,
I'm like, yeah, whatever, whatever,

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excuse me. I'm the true teacher
until they determine. I'm not dc

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where this leaves Christianity. That's why
there's never there's no That's why there It's

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just it's a meaningless fight. It's
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what the answer is against false teachers. I don't know what the answers.

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But let's look at some basic things
about false teachers. I know that's gonna

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sound all really negative, it's going
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I just think any pastor, at
some point you just kind of realize your

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education really doesn't mean anything. All
your study doesn't mean I've read the Bible

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page to page, I don't even
know forty fifty sixty times by now doesn't

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mean anything. Right, we all
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mean, that's just the way it
is within product, that's just the way

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it is. But let's look at
some basic scriptures. Let's go through these

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quickly. Go to Second Corinthians eleven. We ended the last hour with this

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Second Corinthians, chapter eleven thirteen through
fifteen. Because this one's only going to

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make this more complicated than it needs
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is. I don't know what to
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Second Corinthias, Chapter eleven, verse
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verse thirteen. For such are false
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Now I said this in the last
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everyone at this time in the Bible. Second Corinthians, eleven thirteen. This

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is pretty serious because I have false
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ry because the apostles were what at
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the building blocks of the early Church. Yes, and they had what kind

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of authority? Apostolic authority? Right? I remember? Throughout church history the

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argument has been apostolic succession? Did
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I claim, and this is my
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apostolic succession, even though most Protestants
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Where and within Protestantism, where did
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Now we claim we don't believe in
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an apostle because they can declare what
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is right, what is wrong?
Not only that they can judge other people

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and whether they are possibly even a
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person you know who claims to be
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They sound like they have apostolic authority, do they not? Okay, that's

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a problem, problem, is it
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the false teachers make themselves out to
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In fact, they make themselves to
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who are they following? Read the
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transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself

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transforms himself into the Angel of light. Satan will not appear in the hideous

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form that everyone thinks that he will. He will appear as an angel of

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light because his key element is deceit. False teachers will show up. Every

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false teacher will claim to be what
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show up and go I'm a false
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Christ. I'm going to lead you
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they believe in Christ, and they're
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does this and Mud and in fact, false teachers are one of the most

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difficult enemies to deal with. The
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are things that ultimately we cannot see. We may see some manifestation, but

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we cannot see. False teachers are
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see, but we can't actually see
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are not. So how do you
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have to go against what is being
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situation. Is it not? All
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Go to first John chapter four,
First John Chapter four. Everybody ready,

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First John chapter four, Verse one, Beloved, do not believe every spirit,

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but tests the spirits whether they are
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have gone into the world. By
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Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ
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And every spirit that does not confess
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flesh is not of God. And
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which you have heard was coming and
now already is now already in the world

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now. And First John, what
is awesome is he's giving them something specific

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to look for right now. First
John is a polemic against what. First

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John is a polemic against what?
Do say it? Gnosticism? It's a

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polemic I know. Look, nobody, no church and appling will agree with

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that. But it can easily be
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I know. Everyone will say it's
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polemic against gnosticism. How do I
know it's a polemic against gnosticism? Look

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right there in First John four,
many false prophets have come into the world.

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How do you know the difference between
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is the test that you confess that
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Gnostics don't believe Jesus Christ came in
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evil, so he could not have
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them a specific test to fight gnosticism. Right now, that's awesome. Everybody

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should be like, that's good.
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this concept because they created what creeds
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were a false teacher. That sounds
good. Now. Within Protestantism, the

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cry came, no creeds, but
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The only problem is everyone claims the
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in which creed determines who's a false
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on the creeds. Everyone should be
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But you get to the nicing creed. Does everyone agree on the nice and

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creed? Everyone got the Trinity hymnal. Grab the Trinity hymnal. Look at

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the niceing creed in the back.
Second, the apostles creed is the most

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important creed in Christiandom. Nice and
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Nice and creed comes around three twent
Council of Nicia. Right, everybody find

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the creed, tell me where you
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creed starts pretty simple, pretty straightforward, does it not? Right? Yes?

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Very important, all simple. Look
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the end. I think it's like
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we'll have a statement about baptism.
One baptism for the remission of sins?

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Do everybody see that, ladies and
gentlemen. Not everyone agrees on that,

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do they? Because everyone will fight
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in that statement? Four? Yeah, because there's two different ways of defining

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that. You get baptized in order
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you get baptized because you have the
remission of sins. If I get a

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speeding ticket for speeding, I don't
get it, So I can I get

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it because I did? All right, you get the idea. So there's

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that debate over that, so right
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if the Creed is the statement we're
going to determine false teachers or true

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teachers, we're in trouble because now
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So we're finished. In order to
obtain many other Pentecostals, some others believe

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the same concept. Where Catholics obviously
would believe Lutherans would believe, Greek Orthodox

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would believe, like a large portion
of christiandom would say no, you get

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baptized in order to obtain the remission
of sins. Well, we would say,

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no, you get baptized because you
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An you're demonstrating you've receive them mission
of sense. So then it's a debate,

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debate, debate, debate. So
you see, even having a creedal

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statement becomes very difficult, does it
not? Because because not? What makes

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the credal statement difficult? Well,
first, who has the authority to write

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one? And on what authority?
Then does the creedal statement hold? What

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we will say the credal statement,
This is what we always say, the

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credal statement or catechisms or confessions of
faith are only authoritative as long as they

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agree with the Bible. That sounds
so good, But what's the problem,

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Because it's not whether they agree with
the Bible, it's whether they agree with

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your interpretation of the Bible. Meaning
what becomes then the authority? You what

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did I say about apostolic succession?
It's to the individual. Now, I

407
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.720
know if you tell people that,
oh, they'll lose their minds on you.

408
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But I'm telling you it's the it's
the truth. So this makes dealing

409
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:59.799
with a false nature very complicated.
Right now? On first, John that

410
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I'm a specific test. Hey,
a prophet comes in. Hey, I

411
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got a question. Do you believe
that Christ came in the flesh? No,

412
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:14.000
you got to go all right.
I love that. That's simple that.

413
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.680
The only problem is it becomes much
more complicated than that. So how

414
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do you deal with false teachers?
Well, let's let's look at some more.

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All right, go to Titus chapter
one. Oh, we got to

416
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move quickly. We're gonna at least
try to get through false teachers. We're

417
00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:31.640
not gonna like any of the answers
we get here. But okay, look

418
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:37.799
at Titus chapter one. I'm going
right past Titus. There it is chapter

419
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one. All right, all right, Titus chapter one. I'm gonna read

420
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:51.400
this from the New King James.
Titus chapter one, verse ten. For

421
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there are many what unruly mine says
insubordinate. Oh man, I've been a

422
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.519
pastor for a long time. There's
been a lot of insubordination as a pastor

423
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:08.239
I've had to deal with. But
you know what doesn't really matter. It

424
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:14.599
doesn't really matter, right, Okay, both idle talkers and deceive, especially

425
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:23.119
those of the circumcision whose mouths must
be stopped, who subvert whole households teaching

426
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:30.199
things which they ought not for the
sake of dishonest gain. And that sounds

427
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:37.320
good, right, dishonest gain.
They're in it for the money. Now,

428
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.199
guess what is that? An easy
way to judge whether someone was a

429
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:46.079
false teacher? I started receiving I
don't know what day it was. Someone

430
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:50.159
went to our pod page. Now
in every podcast, I give out my

431
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.199
email address, right. I used
to give out my home address. I

432
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.519
used to give out my phone number. I used to give out everything because

433
00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:58.159
I was like, bring it on, right, I remember I got death

434
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:01.199
threats and all crazy f calls,
right, because you know, Christians,

435
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.679
there's nothing like says you're a Christian
then calling telling calling someone at two in

436
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.840
the morning threatening to kill them.
There's nothing that says Christianity better than that.

437
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.760
Okay, right, but all right, so uh, instead of emailing

438
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.960
me, they went to our pod
page and started submitting reviews. Right,

439
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.159
but the reviews are obviously not very
nice. So the pod page contacted me

440
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:23.760
like, hey, we don't post
the you know, negative reviews because that

441
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:28.880
could hurt, you know, someone's
podcasts and hurt their things. So you

442
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.599
know, do you want to see
these things? And I was like,

443
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:36.679
what in the world is going on
right, because some of the things it

444
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.239
was just negative, negative, negative. But guess what. I was told

445
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.559
that I just do my podcast the
way I do my podcast so that the

446
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:57.559
money will keep rolling in anywhere.
And for someone to say that, like

447
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.000
if anyone knows me, obviously,
I have never preached or taught in a

448
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:09.320
way that's going to guarantee my financial
success. I got kicked off Christian Radio

449
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:14.960
because I wouldn't play along the game, right. I have never We've had

450
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:20.400
people leave this church in large numbers
because I won't go along and play the

451
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.360
game. I have never to say
that I'm in it for But that's just

452
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.159
the way it works, right.
Someone can just declare me to be a

453
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.840
false teacher, accuse me of being
in it for dishonest gain, where every

454
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.760
piece of evidence would say other.
You can accuse me of a lot of

455
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:40.519
things, don't accuse me of being
in this for the money. In fact,

456
00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.039
the very first time, the very
first meeting I ever had was what

457
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:49.920
six months after being a pastor.
I think we had a meeting right back

458
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:53.519
there, tables and as soon as
all the accusations started coming at me,

459
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:58.199
first I had a folder to demonstrate
that they were lying because they say,

460
00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:00.440
you never called me. I called
you in this day, I called you,

461
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.559
and this day I called because all
the accusations that I didn't care and

462
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:06.800
I didn't look, even though I'd
just gone to their house and had a

463
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.480
dip meal with them. Even doing
all of that, That's why my attitude

464
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:13.679
changed dramatically about all of that,
because you can do all this stuff for

465
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.440
people and they still accuse you.
I'll never forget. I said, from

466
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:19.719
this point on, I'm not taking
a dime from you people, because there

467
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:23.280
was a little hint that we pay
you, and I'm like, nope,

468
00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:28.360
you're not going to do that garbage. This is not going to be like

469
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.320
you pay me, so now you
own me. No no, no,

470
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:34.360
no, no no no no.
You don't know me very well. And

471
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.639
especially at that time, because you
know I lived on base housing. I

472
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.400
didn't need any money, so I
could even be even more bold. I'm

473
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.480
like, I'm not taking a dime. And from that point, I'm like,

474
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.880
come on, did what you want, and I would not back down,

475
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:50.400
right because I wasn't in it for
dishonest game. But what I want

476
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:52.719
you to see is you know how
quickly someone can make an accusation of that

477
00:37:52.800 --> 00:38:01.320
for someone. I received an email
two days ago from a Pathway to Victory,

478
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:07.119
Dallas, Texas pastor Robert Jeffers,
the pastor of First Baptist Church in

479
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.719
Dallast, Texas. And everyone knows
that they're what they call their campus cost

480
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.519
in the billions to build. Well, I got an email from that ministry.

481
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:21.880
Guess what they're looking for. They
need seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

482
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:25.000
Now, I wanted to email back, like, I need one hundred

483
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.199
thousand to pay off my house?
Do you think they would care? No,

484
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:36.719
they need seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to do what to Their radio

485
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.679
program is a thirty minute Monday through
Friday program that's nothing more than has edited

486
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:49.440
sermons. I do more. I
produce more content in a week than they

487
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.039
do in a year. So like, I mean, that's a little bit

488
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.320
of hyperbole, but you get the
point, right, Okay that I mean

489
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because that would be thirty minutes a
day, five days a week, okay,

490
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.599
but I usually do multiple hours per
day, so yeah, I definitely

491
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.079
knock out more than they do.
So the point is is I want seven

492
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.360
hundred and fifty thousand dollars? Now? Could I use that email and go

493
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:15.920
he's a false teacher? So I
don't. I don't think I can.

494
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:21.639
I think it's ridiculous they need seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, right,

495
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.159
I think that's ridiculous. Like,
Hey, if you need help buying a

496
00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:28.039
lot laptop and you're getting a microphone, I can help you out for you

497
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.360
to take you about six hundred dollars
for a laptop, one hundred dollars for

498
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.679
the microphone, and then you can
broadcast on the internet for about I don't

499
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:37.719
know, depending on which platform you
use, between fifty to sixty dollars.

500
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:39.519
And if you want to create an
online radio station, I can probably help

501
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:43.159
you do that for about one hundred
dollars a month. So yeah, I

502
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.440
don't think you need seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for your mail. You

503
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.880
need seven hundred fifty thousand dollars probably
to make the building payment for your huge

504
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.480
campus that you built in downtown Dallas. That's probably what you need money for,

505
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.880
you don't need it for your sneaking
radio program. Okay, effect,

506
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.400
if it's costing you that much to
be on the radio, just go to

507
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.119
a full blown podcast and you'll be
good to go. Okay, So,

508
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:06.360
I mean, the whole thing's ridiculous. I can call that into question.

509
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.760
But you see when they even tried
to judge a false teacher based off money.

510
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:15.400
Do you see how subjective that can
be? If I go online and

511
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:20.840
I ask for money, then immediately
am I a false teacher. I don't

512
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.800
think it's that simple, That's all
I'm trying to say. But they go

513
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.920
after the false teachers for what here, look at everything Titus one ten through

514
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:36.000
eleven. They go after them for
a number of things. Right. One

515
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.880
of the things they go after a
Titus one ten through eleven, they subvert

516
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:46.039
whole households teaching things which they ought
not. Okay, well, again,

517
00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:52.840
that's subjective, right. You say
you're teaching something you shouldn't teach, and

518
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.199
they would say, I'm teaching something
that you just don't like to hear.

519
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:01.840
Yeah, I'm saying to say,
they're doing it for the sake of dishonest

520
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:07.559
gain. It's hard for you to
judge. You can't judge that, right,

521
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:09.719
Maybe I'm maybe I'm only here teaching
because I need my house payment.

522
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:14.800
You could make that accusation against me, could you? Not? Right?

523
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:20.599
Good? Absolutely, you can make
that accusation. How could I? I

524
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:25.480
can't defend that because that goes to
what motive? That goes to motive.

525
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.280
Oh, we're back to the stuff
we can't see again. I can see

526
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:37.519
in the teacher, but I can't
really see the teacher. Oh that does

527
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:39.400
that make it uncomfortable? Now?
Does that make it uncomfortable? It makes

528
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.559
almost impossible to what to fight or
to judge? Right, Look at Secondpeter

529
00:41:45.679 --> 00:42:00.880
Chapter two. Second Peter Chapter two. What happens in this one? We're

530
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.039
going to run out of time?
That's okay. Secrepeter Chapter two. Tell

531
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:07.199
me what you find there? Look
at verse one. I think it's one

532
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:17.639
to three. There we go,
Secrepeater Chapter two. Everybody there saymen Secredpeter

533
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:22.880
two to one. All right,
But there were also false prophets among the

534
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:29.119
people, even as there will be
false teachers among you who will secretly Please

535
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:31.599
note the word secretly, now if
they're doing it in secret? Meaning what

536
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.760
if I'm doing something in secret?
Cannot be seen. We're going you see

537
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:43.960
them. I'm so driving this point
home, like to the point that you

538
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.039
should be tired of hearing you by
now right. You cannot see it.

539
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:53.840
They're bringing in destructive heresies, according
to some translations, even denying the Lord

540
00:42:54.079 --> 00:43:00.760
who bought them, and bringing on
themselves swift destruction. And many will follow

541
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:07.719
their destructive ways because of whom the
way of truth will be blasphemed by consteousness.

542
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.159
They will exploit you with deceptive words
for a long time. Their judgment

543
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:17.519
has not been idle, and their
destruction does not slumber. Now. The

544
00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.199
bottom line is, first of all, this carries out some of the things

545
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.760
that we've talked about as the characteristics
of the enemies in Psaw eighty three.

546
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:31.039
Does it not destruction, chaos,
deception, craftiness. They're coming, but

547
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:35.599
they're coming in and they're going to
bring destruction. Now. The thing is

548
00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:44.320
they do it what way secretly,
meaning what you see is not what you

549
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:50.079
see. That is maddening. That
is maddening. I don't I don't have

550
00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:53.480
a good answer yet. Let's let's
go on go to two Timothy, chapter

551
00:43:53.480 --> 00:44:00.800
four, really quick. We're gonna
go through these quickly. Timothy, chapter

552
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:10.480
four, verses three through four.
Second Timothy, Chapter four, verses three

553
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:13.199
through four. What do you find? What do you find? You tell

554
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:14.719
me what you find? I said, I'm me reading it to you,

555
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:21.360
tell me what you find. Okay, there's gonna come a time that people

556
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:23.760
in the church will not want sound
doctrine. But what are they gonna do.

557
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:34.679
They're gonna find the teachers that fit
their desires. That it's just their

558
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.760
ears. Anything else that says about
these teachers and Second Timothy four, three

559
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.400
through four, anything else, people
are gonna turn their ears away from the

560
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:47.320
truth. Now this becomes very difficult, right. What makes this difficult?

561
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:52.320
Now, because you're gonna see the
teacher? Oh, we see, we

562
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:59.360
see the teacher. What else are
we gonna see? According to this verse,

563
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.079
it's implied, it may not be
explicit. We're gonna see the teacher.

564
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:07.239
What else are we gonna see?
We're gonna see all the people following

565
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:15.559
them? MENI then you cannot judge
a ministry as being true simply on the

566
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:21.280
basis of the number of people who
are following it or present. Now that

567
00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:27.679
Christians typically say amen, at this
point, they'll say it amen, But

568
00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:30.599
then watch them drive by a church
that only has a few people, and

569
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:36.599
almost instantaneously, what will they say? God's not doing anything there. God

570
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:44.320
is done with that place. Same
thing basically people would have said about Jeremiah

571
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:51.480
Isaiah. But at the same time, just because you drive by a place

572
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.559
and there's no one there, you
can't immediately say God is there and they're

573
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.360
doing things the right way. So
that means it's hard to judge. Paste

574
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:07.360
off yu. See oh does that
not drive you crazy? Wait? Because

575
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.800
we gotta deal with these enemies,
right, all right? Oh, let's

576
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:19.239
go. Let's go on one more. Go to Romans chapter sixteen, Romans

577
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:24.280
sixteen. Go quick, Romans sixteen
seventeen through eighteen. Romans sixteen seventeen through

578
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:42.519
eighteen. Everybody there, Roman sixteen
seventeen through eighteen. What happens here?

579
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:52.360
All right, there's gonna the false
teachers cause what division, chaos, difficulty,

580
00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:58.039
they break, they they cause dissword, they caught. They they're gonna

581
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:02.800
cause division and fight and arguing because
they're going to just disagree with everything.

582
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:08.719
So it's going to be a divisive
situation. False teachers are going to do

583
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.119
that. Now, See, I
could be accused of being a false teacher

584
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.360
because I go against most of what
Christians say. So therefore I can be

585
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:22.440
accused of being what divisive? See
you see how this can work. At

586
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.199
the same time, the false teacher
can use this as a way to protect

587
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.280
himself. Right Bobby starts arguing,
you're being divisive, You're being like a

588
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:36.239
false teacher. I could use that
to defend myself, making this all what

589
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:39.440
utterly and completely subjective. I just
wrote down a couple of things. Here's

590
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:43.079
some of the tactics of false teachers. Want I won't go through all the

591
00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:45.599
scriptures to support all of these,
Maybe I'll do it in a podcast.

592
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:53.679
They twist scriptures, They use smooth
persuasive speech, They use flattery and approval

593
00:47:53.719 --> 00:48:00.119
seeking to win people over. They
use exploitation and greed. They use secrecy

594
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:08.159
and deception. These are what false
teachers do. All right, now,

595
00:48:09.159 --> 00:48:13.719
are you ready? Here we go. We try to come in with a

596
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:15.719
summary so that we can walk away
with something. Here. Everybody ready,

597
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:21.440
okay? So in Psaw eighty three, the psaumis is lamenting God because they

598
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.679
are facing a set of confederacy of
nations that want to destroy them. He

599
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:30.519
describes those enemies using very specific attributes, does he not. We've looked at

600
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:38.119
those attributes. Those attributes are the
exact same attributes that we all encounter with

601
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:43.400
our enemies. We have looked at
four enemies so far. Enemy number one,

602
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:50.719
Satan, Enemy number two Demons,
Enemy number three Sin. Okay,

603
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:54.239
and Sin, we see not only
sin as sin and action, but a

604
00:48:54.280 --> 00:49:00.800
sinful nature. Next, false teachers. Now you've got those four, You've

605
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:07.280
got those four enemies, they all
meet, They all followed those attributes almost

606
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:08.599
to the letter. I think we
can all agree on that. Now,

607
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:12.840
here's what I want you to consider, and I don't. This is not

608
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:15.199
going to be very helpful, but
it's something we have to admit here,

609
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:22.559
right, are you ready? What
is an absolute truth about these four enemies?

610
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:30.280
What is an absolute truth about all
four of those enemies? What is

611
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:37.559
an absolute truth about them? Like? No one can deny this, It's

612
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:44.599
an absolute truth. Okay, I'm
not denying that, but that goes back.

613
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.360
We already know that they all four
follow the same attributes. Right,

614
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:52.519
We already know they maintained the same
attributes, right right, they all those

615
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:57.920
four, they all four okay,
Well, well you can't you can see

616
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:00.400
false teachers, Okay, are you
ready for this, I'm just gonna give

617
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:06.840
it to you, right because this
is very This is very kind of how

618
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.519
saw maybe three plays to us.
This is where it's going to get complicated.

619
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Here's what we do know. Those
four enemies God is never going to

620
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:24.480
get rid of as long as we
are on this earth. These enemies will

621
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not be done away with until the
end. Is that not an absolute truth?

622
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:38.800
When will Satan be dealt with?
The end? When will demons be

623
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.719
dealt with? And the end?
When we'll sin will ultimately be dealt with?

624
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:46.760
And the end? When will false
teachers fall ultimately be dealt with in

625
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:55.800
the end? All right, So
that means what that as long as we

626
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:01.159
live, as long as we live, these enemies are not going away.

627
00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:07.039
Now, this, this is going
to be very difficult because much of Christianity

628
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.239
talk constantly talks as if God is
involved. He's doing this, he's engaged

629
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:13.840
here, he's doing I mean,
you listen to your average Christians talk.

630
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.000
Just listen. It's like, well, God let me hear, or God

631
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:19.880
showed me this, or God took
care of us here, or God did

632
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.119
this and God did that, and
God did this and God did that,

633
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:24.000
and sometimes you're like, well,
if God is doing all of those things,

634
00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:28.559
well, then can he just get
rid of the enemies? Right?

635
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:30.800
Right? And it's and it's so
weird, right, it's so weird how

636
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:38.119
people will talk. Right, But
those enemies are not going away now in

637
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:43.360
the same way. Now, this
is going to be interesting. They're asking

638
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:49.159
for God to intervene in Psalm eighty
three, right, they're asking God to

639
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:54.840
to He specifically asked God to intervene
in the present and the same way he

640
00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:00.400
intervened in the past. But here's
the thing. And all the way that

641
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.039
he asked God to intervene in the
past was God intervening in the past to

642
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:15.239
destroy what physical enemies whom they could
see. Now that he's asking God to

643
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:20.840
intervene to destroy the physical enemies whom
they can see, right, because he's

644
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:22.719
asking to get rid of those enemies. Now, here's what we know about

645
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:27.400
this. Look at those enemies in
Psalm eighty three. Look at those enemies

646
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.239
they're listed starting I think verse five. We have the Edomites, we have

647
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:39.880
the Ishmaelites, right, Felistia tire
right, all nations can we agree to

648
00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:45.920
that? Here's what I know.
Even if God intervened and destroyed all of

649
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:52.719
those nations. What has proven to
be true from that point on that if

650
00:52:52.719 --> 00:53:00.199
that happens around the time of David
and Solomon, does Israel's physical enemies go

651
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:08.000
away? They do not. They're
not even gone today. Now you see

652
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:13.559
where this is going to make us
uncomfortable. Asking God's intervention to get rid

653
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:16.960
of an enemy whom you can see
is in no guarantee that even if he

654
00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:27.119
got rid of that enemy, that
another one won't show up the next day.

655
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:31.639
So if we're gonna if that is
true, even with our physical enemies,

656
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:35.719
then when we look at our spiritual
enemies, what are we can be

657
00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:43.239
absolutely guaranteed of God is not going
to get rid of them. God is

658
00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:45.760
not going to get rid of them. God is not going to get like

659
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:50.119
that is hard for you to acknowledge. God is not going to get rid

660
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:54.000
of them false teachers. In fact, if our eschatology is right, false

661
00:53:54.000 --> 00:54:04.800
teachers will only increase, deception,
will only increase, Satan will only manifact

662
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:09.639
become more if you get to the
Book of Revelation, even become more powerful

663
00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:14.679
in a sense, or at least
I will say more visible. His actions

664
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:16.280
will be more present. Won't become
more powerful, but you will, He'll

665
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:20.039
be presented in a more powerful way, and maybe that's the right way to

666
00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:24.559
say it. There'll be more satanic
visible activity, more visible demonic activity,

667
00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:34.239
and sin will continue to what abound. So meaning then what is our hope?

668
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:37.559
All right? So let's go through
these again. We as people,

669
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:44.679
we live in a world believing in
a God whom we cannot see, while

670
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:50.599
surrounded by circumstances which we can see, which calls into question to God whom

671
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:53.039
we cannot see. At the same
time, we live in a world surrounded

672
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:59.079
by enemies which we can see,
and at times we forget the enemies whom

673
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:05.079
we cannot see, and as a
result, we get so preoccupied fighting the

674
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:08.119
enemy we can see. So therefore
we become distracted and end up in many

675
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:14.239
cases doing the wrong thing. Well, guess what, As Christians, we

676
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:19.320
have to realize that these enemies,
whether we can see them, whether we

677
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:24.440
cannot see them, they will continue
to be present, and the God whom

678
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:30.679
we cannot see is not going to
get rid of them, which will cause

679
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:39.039
you to question the existence of that
God whom you cannot see. Our only

680
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:45.519
hope that look, So we what
can we dogmatically assert what is not our

681
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:52.400
hope getting rid of the enemies?
We have no hope in getting rid of

682
00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.199
these enemies. Do we have any
hope that these enemies are going to be

683
00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:00.119
defeated in our lifetime? No,
no hope in that. I know that

684
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:06.360
goes against everything you hear in church. There is no hope and getting rid

685
00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:13.199
of these enemies. They are never
going away. So then what is your

686
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:22.320
only hope? Your only hope is
in the God, whom you cannot see,

687
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:32.119
providing a righteousness which you cannot see, which guarantees your position, which

688
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:43.599
you cannot see, will preserve you
to an eternity that you yet cannot see,

689
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.719
so that when you finally get there
and can see it, then all

690
00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:53.000
of those enemies which you can and
cannot see, will ultimately be done away

691
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:59.119
with. Now, I know that
goes against everything any church will teach.

692
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:02.360
But that I'm telling you, I
can dogmatically assert those enemies are not going

693
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:10.320
away, and I'm telling it ticks
me off. Get rid of Satan,

694
00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:15.199
get rid of demons. Hey,
even if you don't want to get rid

695
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.840
of Satan and demons, here's enough. Just get rid of my sinful nature

696
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:24.159
for crying out loud and after two
thousand years at church history and Christians are

697
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:28.960
always like, well, God,
every sermon I listen to, the same

698
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:34.519
trash is prayed between before everything.
God, show us tonight, open our

699
00:57:34.519 --> 00:57:39.079
eyes. Let everything I say be
in accordance to your word. Like God

700
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:45.480
is obviously not doing any of that. If he was, we would all

701
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:50.800
believe the same thing. Nothing.
So God is not doing any of that.

702
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:58.119
So because we want God to do
that which we which we can see,

703
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:02.239
I mean I want that. You
can you can think I'm an ungodly

704
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:05.800
person, and you're, well,
you're right, But at least I can

705
00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:09.239
admit that I'm so ungodly that I
get mad that God won't take care of

706
00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:13.840
the things that I can see,
so or and take care of the things

707
00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:16.719
which I cannot see, so that
I can be better off in a way

708
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:21.920
which I can see. But what
I have to do is I no,

709
00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:23.639
no, no, no, no, I've got this all wrong. The

710
00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:29.360
God, whom I cannot see,
is providing for me in a way in

711
00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:36.639
which I cannot see, guaranteeing an
eternity which I cannot yet see. And

712
00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:40.599
how does he do that? By
faith? He does what imputes his righteousness

713
00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:45.119
to me? So what is my
positional standing before God today? I'm perfect,

714
00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:51.320
holy, righteous, san state taken
care of as far as my position

715
00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:54.159
is concerned. In Christ, can
Satan do anything to it? No,

716
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:59.320
nothing, right, nothing, he
cannot. In Christ, I am more

717
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:01.159
than a conqueror, and my position
not in Practically, I don't know why

718
00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:05.760
we quote that as a practical promise. Now can anything separate me from the

719
00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:07.920
love of God? Now? And
all the people who want to talk trash

720
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:13.440
about me and make accusations, I
mean I make judgments. Doesn't matter because

721
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:17.320
who can lay a charge? Who
can accuse these the elect of anything?

722
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:23.280
It's God who justifies. Satan can
accuse me all day. For every accusation

723
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:30.840
someone gives me, I'll give them
Christ's phone number. Their accusations may be

724
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:39.559
valid, but in Christ he invalidates
their accusation because he says, I'm sorry.

725
00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:45.119
He's perfect, He's holy, he's
righteous. So that is what I

726
00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:49.840
can't see. That. I have
to hold on to what I cannot see,

727
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:53.639
because everything that I can see is
messed up. And even what I

728
00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:59.880
cannot see, I can't stand against
those enemies. I can't stand against my

729
01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:04.559
sinful nature. I can't stand against
a spiritual being by the name of Satan.

730
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.719
I can't stand against an army of
demons. How am I going to

731
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:15.719
even have a hope against false teacher? Right? So my only hope is

732
01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:22.639
that what none of that stuff can
do, what can'tact, can't separate me

733
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:30.880
from the love of God. In
Christ, nothing can touch me positionally.

734
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:38.159
So in Christ I am more than
a conqueror. In Christ, no weapon

735
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:45.519
formed against me shall prosper in Christ. Please know you see the difference here?

736
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:47.800
Wait, what a Christians do?
We take all of these scriptures and

737
01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:52.760
try to apply them to what we
can't see. No God works in a

738
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:57.360
way in which we cannot see.
I know everybody wants to go to the

739
01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.239
Old Testament goal, but God intervened
in ways in which they can see,

740
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:07.639
and it didn't matter. Every intervention
was what Now, come on, let's

741
01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:10.960
be honest. Every intervention ultimately was
futile. At the time it may have

742
01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:16.079
felt great, but I mean,
they defeat the Egyptians and this enemy,

743
01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:20.480
God defeat that the enemy that had
another enemy, defeat that enemy, another

744
01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:23.320
enemy, and ultimately what was the
biggest enemy in which God did never even

745
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:29.840
try to defeat their own sinful nature, meaning God has no desire to get

746
01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:34.159
rid of our sinful nature. I
don't understand. Do you understand that God

747
01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:37.400
says be holy? But what he
won't get rid of the very thing that

748
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:44.159
stops me from being holy? That
is insanity. But I have to trust

749
01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:46.639
in a guy whom I cannot see
when everything around me says makes no sense.

750
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:51.000
You know what makes no sense is
that have a sinful nature. But

751
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:55.239
in a sense, God's dealt with
the sinful nature, but not in the

752
01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:59.320
way we want. How do you
want God to deal with your sinful nature

753
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:05.039
practically so that I can be holy? I mean, come on, if

754
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.000
you're married, don't you wish God
would deal with the sinful nature of your

755
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:14.000
spouse? Absolutely? Right? I
mean, wouldn't it be great? You're

756
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.440
gonna be like, man, well, I got I got the perfect spouse

757
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.119
now now of course, then once
the perfect spouse would look at you and

758
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:25.239
go, what's your problem? I'm
perfect and you're not. So ultimately,

759
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:29.639
we need God to do it.
But he's not fixing us. Oh I

760
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:36.800
oh? Did I just say that? He's not fixing us? But He's

761
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:42.880
fixed the ultimate problem because he fixed
that which we cannot see in a sense

762
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:49.280
by ignoring what we can see by
imputing to me what I cannot see,

763
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:54.280
to guarantee me an eternity which I
cannot see. But once I see it,

764
01:02:54.920 --> 01:03:02.199
all those things that I can and
cannot see are going to be gone.

765
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:07.559
All right, pray, Lord God, we come before you this afternoon.

766
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:10.559
Lord, thank you so very much
for giving us an opportunity to look

767
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:15.119
into these things, and study these
things, and struggle with these things.

768
01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:19.280
Lord. I know that these questions
are these concepts, and these ideas go

769
01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:27.840
against everything that is taught everywhere.
Lord, I if forgive me if I'm

770
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:30.679
wrong, Lord, but I pray
that we will continue to meditate and think

771
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:36.039
on these things and struggle with them, so that if there's ways in which

772
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:38.000
we were wrong, we will see
it and correct it. But Lord,

773
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:44.400
we live in a world which we
just constantly are confused by what we see.

774
01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:46.400
But all we can do is trust
in You, whom we cannot see,

775
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.679
and Lord, to be very honest, I can't speak for anyone else.

776
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:54.880
Sometimes I don't understand what I see. Forgive me for my doubt,

777
01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:00.760
Forgive me for my questions. Forgive
me sometimes for my bitterness, Because Lord,

778
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:03.800
it is very difficult living in a
world which all the things we see

779
01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:10.400
calls into question your very existence.
Help us with that very reality. And

780
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:13.960
we asked this in Jesus name because
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