Who Should We Be Watching?

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

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making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Tuesday, July the second,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently
two forty five pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live
from the Theology Central studio located right here

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in Abilene, Texas. Now,
it was January the fourteenth, January the

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fourteenth, nineteen eighty four. January
the fourteenth, nineteen eighty four. Right,

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do you remember that some of you
weren't alive? That's okay. January

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fourteenth, nineteen eighty four. I
was sitting in my bedroom, Buffalo Gap,

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Texas. I was sitting in front
of all of my stereo equipment,

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and I was listening to the top
forty pop radio station. Now, nineteen

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eighty four. You gotta know who
was the king of pop at that time,

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right, Michael Jackson was ruling the
world in nineteen eighty four. Okay,

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So Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson nineteen
eighty four, Okay, all right.

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And so all of a sudden,
the DJ said, hey, we

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have a new song and Michael Jackson
is on it. And I was like,

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WHOA a new song? Wait?
When did Michael put out a new

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song? Now the song is not
by Michael Jackson, but Michael Jackson is

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on the track, and I'm like, okay. Now, there was no

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one in the room to talk to, but I basically was like okay.

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No one interrupted, this is going
to be life changing. January fourteenth,

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nineteen eighty four. I cannot tell
you the exact time, but I'll never

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forget when the song started because the
lyrics went something like this, Who's watching?

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Tell me? Who's watching? Who's
watching me? I'm just an average

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man with the average life. I
work from nine to five. Hey,

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I won't say the next word.
I pay the price. All I want

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to do. All I want is
to be left alone and my average home.

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But why do I always feel like
I'm in the twilight zone? I

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always feel like somebody's watching me,
and I have no privacy. I always

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feel I always feel like somebody's watching
me. Tell me? Is it just

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a dream? When I come home
at night, I bolt the door real

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tight. People call me on the
phone. I'm trying to avoid but I

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can. But can the people on
TV see me? Or am I just

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being paranoid? When I'm in the
shower and I'm afraid to wash my hair

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because I might open my eyes and
find someone standing there. People say I'm

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crazy, just a little touch,
but maybe showers remind me of Psycho just

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too much. That's why always feel
like somebody's watching me. Oh come on,

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I know some of you. You
don't remember it. You're you're way

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too young. I mean you should. You may not remember it, I

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mean you should know it. I
mean you don't have to be born at

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a time to know. I mean, we know who Beethoven is, we

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know who Mozart is, we know
who the Beatles are. You don't have

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to be born and know a song
because you have access to every song that's

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ever been made on any streaming service. So you should know it. But

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okay, but even if you don't. All I cared about now At first

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I tuned in because Michael Jackson's on. He does the backing, he does

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the background vocals, so I just
oh, there's Michael. Oh, there's

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Michael. Oh there's Michael. Oh
there's Michael. That's all I cared about

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it first. But then I was
like, I like this song. I

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like, okay, this is kind
of clever. Okay, this is kind

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of funny, somebody's watching me.
Am I paranoid? Am I just a

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little touched? Maybe showers remind me
of Psycho? Just too much? Okay,

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I remember, I'm like and then
next thing you know, you know,

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everybody's walking around singing song. And
then of course you run to MTV.

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You want to see the video.
You gotta see the video. I

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loved that song. So watching me
by Rockwell, if you don't know the

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original artist rockwell, okay, that's
who it was by. Of course everyone

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just knows Michael Jackson was on the
song. But that's the song. Now,

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why am I talking about January the
fourteenth, nineteen eighty four and me

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listening to a song you probably don't
care about music or you probably think is

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horrible and ungodly. I understand you
don't talk to Christians about music, but

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I had to use that opening illustration
because that's all I can think about because

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just a little while ago, I
was listening to a webcast. Now,

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remember we're all supposed to be listening
and watching the live webcast on the Sermon's

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two point o app. That's the
challenge, right, that's the challenge for

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the next two weeks, is you're
supposed to be watching the live webcast.

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I know there's plenty of them going
on right now that we're supposed to be

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watching, but that's what you're supposed
to be doing, just choosing random ones.

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So I chose a random one.
And at first it was really I

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was maddening. I was just sitting
here in my chair just rocking back and

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forth because it was just silence.
That the way the camera angle was,

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it just showed this huge Bible and
then someone we kind of walk up there,

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take a drink of water, walk
away, nothing, nothing, nothing,

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nothing. Finally the service began,
and you know, all I can

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say it was very formal, ver
very formal, Okay, very just very

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not a lot of how can we
say? It was very understated, very

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somber, some may say, very
reverent. Right. They sang Psalm forty

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six, They did a scripture reading. The scripture was First Corinthians, chapter

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sixteen. They read the entire chapter. Then they prayed. And this is

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probably no exaggeration the pastor his prayer, and I don't think I'm trying to

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be fair here. It felt like
it was twenty minutes long. It was

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like a twenty minute long prayer and
it felt like a sermon, Like I

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was thinking, as I'm listening to
this prayer, should I have my head

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bout or should I be taking notes? Because I mean, he talked about

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election and predestination and effectual calling and
regeneration, and it just went on and

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on and on and on. I
think he covered every major I think he

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covered everything from Genesis to Revelation.
It was the longest prayer and the history

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of recorded prayers. Okay, so
it's like okay, good, good,

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right, good, all right.
Then finally the sermon began on First Corinthian

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sixteen, and it became it became
obvious really really quick that even though he

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read the whole chapter, he wasn't
going to actually expound or exegete the chapter.

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He was going to focus primarily on
one verse. And I'm like,

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okay, okay. And in fact, as soon as soon as anytime I

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hear a sermon and the pastor says
turned first Corinthian sixteen, it's almost inevitably

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they're either going to talk about money
giving, right, because that's the first

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part of First Corinthian sixteen if you
look at it, First Corinthian sixteen,

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Verse one. Now concerning the collection
for the saints. I have given an

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order to the churches of Gala.
Even so do ye again. It tells

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you how the collection of the saints, how the giving should be done in

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the church. All right, So
it's either going to be that, and

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if it's not that, it's inevitable
it's going to be. First Corinthians,

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Chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, where
we read this word watch somebody's watching me,

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okay, watch now. At that
point I wasn't really thinking about the

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Rockwell song, all right. But
he read watch ye stand fast and the

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faith quit you quit, you like
men, be strong, Let all your

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things be done with charity. But
he focused primarily on verse thirteen, watch

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ye stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men, be strong,

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all right, or as it reads
in this translation, watch stand fast in

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the faith, be brave, be
strong, Let all that you do be

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done with love. I think he
was reading from the King James. He

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was reading from the King James.
But so there's two translations, so I

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didn't really give much thought about it. The watch there didn't really jump out

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at me at that point, so
then he kind of basically before he really

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started expounding or executing. First Corinthia
sixteen thirteen. He went back through kind

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of an overview of First Corinthians,
which is I thought was really good.

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Right. He went through kind of
the overview, but then he got to

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First Corinthian sixteenth sixteen thirteen, and
in some ways it felt like he kind

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of forgot everything that came before,
because immediately he said, watchy. Now

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here's the question and One Corinthians sixteen
thirteen. This is the if we were

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in a harmoneutics class, this is
what I would do. I would walk

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in and all right. Class today
is First Corinthians, chapter sixteen, verse

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thirteen. Day. I hope you
do well. Good. Portion of your

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semester grade is going to be determined
on how well you can interpret this verse.

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But we're not going to even have
you work on the entire verse.

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We're gonna just have you work on
the first two words, watch ye.

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That's all we're gonna focus on.
Watch ye. And here's the question,

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what should you be watching? For? What should you be watching? So

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immediately when I started thinking this out, as I'm listening, writing out my

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own hypotheses, I'm like, you
know, who should I be watching?

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Somebody's Oh wait, okay, oh
the Rockwell song January the fourteenth, nineteen

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eighty four. Then immediately, because
I relate everything to music. Okay,

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so then I started thinking about the
song. But really I want you to

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think about and that's the question.
That's the interpretive hermenudic class question of the

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day. All right, whoever gets
this right, you'll be val victorian.

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Whoever gets this wrong, you get
kicked out a seminary. Okay, are

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you ready? You've got to get
this right. Who are you to be

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watching for? Who are you to
be watching for? A First Corinthian sixteen

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thirteen. Now in the webcast,
he turned it into watch for Satan.

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Satan is out to get you,
watch for his schemes, watch for his

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devices. And I think most I
think if you preach that in most churches,

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they'd be like, amen, we
need to be watching for Satan.

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But I'm going to challenge that,
and I'm going to argue that in the

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context of First Corinthians sixteen thirteen,
that's not telling you to watch for Satan.

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So you can either go, Now, what some people may say,

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watch for Satan. You may agree
that of the things I'm about to tell

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us we need to watch for,
or you may say watch for both but

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I just think in the context here, I don't know if Satan is really

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the focus here, all right,
And so I just started doing a little

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bit of research. The first thing
I wanted to know is, well,

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is Satan mentioned in First Corinthians.
Well, I know the only place,

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and I could be wrong. I
believe he's mentioned in First Corinthians chapter five,

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verse five. But when First Corinthians
five to five, Paul is not

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telling them to watch out for Satan
or Satan is out to get you,

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no, actual look what they're telling
them to do in First Corinthians chapter five.

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This is pretty fascinating. And First
Corinthians chapter five, we know we

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have some sexual sin going on in
the church, right it is actually this

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is First Corinthians chapter five, verse
five of First Corinthia chapter five, verse

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one. In the New King James, it is actually reported that there is

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sexual and morality among you and such
sexually and morality has not even named among

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the gentiles. Hey, there's you've
got some sexual sin going on in your

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church. Even the gentiles don't even
talk about this. You guys are taking

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it to a whole new level.
Now, Please note this is happening inside

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the church, inside the church.
Inside the church, I know, we

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always like to think the church is
the bastion of family values and the church

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is the fortress of sexual morality.
The church is just as messed up as

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everything else, because we are,
say, by an imputed righteousness, meaning

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we are declared to be righteous,
but in practice we're still sinners. Okay,

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well, we can get a whole
discussion there. But there's some something

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going on. So what is going
on in the church That a man has

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his father's wife. So there's a
son having relations with his father's wife.

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Okay, something's going on here.
This is an issue, all right.

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So and you were puffed up and
have not rather mourned that he who have

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done this deed might be taken away
from among you. The people in the

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church are kind of like, well, you know, so what, We're

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not gonna do anything about it.
We're just gonna We're just not gonna do

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anything about it. So what does
Paul tell them to do? Here we

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go for indeed, as this is
verse three. For indeed, as absent

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in the body, but present and
the spirit, have I already judged,

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as though I were present him who
has done this deed. And the name

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of our Lord Jesus Christ. When
you are gathered together along with my spirit,

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with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ, deliver such a one to

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Satan for the destruction of the flesh. This is church discipline. Hey,

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this is going on. You guys
don't seem to care. So I'm gonna

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tell you what to do. When
you come together, you turn this person

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over to Satan for the destruction of
the flesh. This is not be on

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the lookout for Satan. Satan is
out to get you. This is not

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even. This is not even.
Satan is the cause of this. There's

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no blame of Satan. There is
no warning about Satan. This is like,

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no, give the man to Satan
so Satan can destroy his flesh.

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Right. I mean, that's why
church discipline is the most frightening, horrifying,

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scary concepts like I should scare people
to It's why you used to.

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It should be like the last last, last, last, last, last,

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last, last, last last last
last beg please please No, I've

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got to avoid church discipline at all
costs because you're basically taking a person saying,

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here you go, Satan, kill
them, destroy their flesh. Now

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you're doing so in order that the
person then will be broken and repent of

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the particular sin. But it's a
frightening concept. But so right there,

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I know, and First Corinthians Satan
is not seen as the cause or the

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concern or the enemy. Really,
it's not really focused on that much.

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So in light of One Corinthians sixteen
thirteen, who should we be watching for?

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Should we be watching satan? I
don't think First Corinthian sixteen tells me

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watch for Satan. So let's let's
back up and let's do a little work

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here. So I while I was
listening to this webcast, I started doing

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some work, right I think.
And now you can correct me if you

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think I have anything wrong here,
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church, and the only reason I
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approach here is I did spend four
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of First Corinthians, and I've taught
every single verse of the book. I

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spent four years in the Book of
First Corinthians. So I think I'm I

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think I'm pretty good taking who knows
how many seminary and Bible college classes on

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it. So I feel like I
have a basic grasp of it. I

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could be wrong on my approach to
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I feel pretty confident with what I'm
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Now, remember this is the way
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preaching the First Corinthians for four years, every single service Sunday school, Sunday

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morning, Sunday night, when in
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week to teach First Corinthians, I
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is a letter written to a church
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city was influencing the church more than
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said that over and over, and
people got I mean just every I mean

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I could walk into my church now
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going to finish it. They may
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that, all right. And in
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and challenges that were causing division and
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problems included division based on loyalty to
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lawsuits among believers, misuse of spiritual
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Lord's Supper, and some serious questions
about marriage. And while we can get

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into a whole discussion about that food
sacrifice to idols and other and questions and

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doubts about the resurrection, all of
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I put an outline. I could
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can just go through quickly through probably
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divisions and factions in the church First
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along those lines, divisions and factions
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in morality, as we've seen in
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say versus one, verse eleven,
twelve something along those lines. There were

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lawsuits among believers that were suing one
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Corinthians six, one to ten,
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Somewhere along those lines. Then there
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and I think that kind of covers
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I know I put the Love chapter
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is instrumental in trying to fix their
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caring about other people more than flaunting
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get into the whole discussion there and
proper conduct during the Lord's Supper. Okay,

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I think that's that First Corinthians eleven. I mean they had some serious

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people were dying and getting sick with
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It's one of those things that I
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the way most churches serve the Lord's
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anybody here takes this seriously, because
if you really believe people were getting sick

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and dying, I would think there
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how you approach the Lord's table.
I think there would be like you would

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fence the table. You would not
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would have closed communion. Nobody unless
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even be near the table. Okay, I mean we could have long discussion

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there, right, I mean,
if people are going to die, you

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hand it out. Hey, we're
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mean you may die, but hey, thanks for visiting our church. Now,

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drink the Lord's here's the cup and
the bread. If you die,

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don't blame us, I mean,
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resurrection. And you have this in
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chapter. So you have all of
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about giving. Now you could argue
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those are the main problems. Divisions, sexual morality, lawsuits, misuse of

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spiritual gifts, and proper conduct at
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of issues pertaining the marriage, food
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the questions about the resurrection. And
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Those were the issues. Those were
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this from a different this is not
me. In order to understand the exhortation

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in First Corinthians sixteen thirteen, we
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is helpful to consider the overarching themes
and messages conveyed throughout the letter. How

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can we interpret the exhortation in light
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How can we interpret it? So
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who are we to be watching for? He went into Satan, Satan,

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Satan. Now I'm not gonna say
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I felt like that it really started
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here going, I just don't get
the Satan part. Where is he getting

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Satan from? How did Satan show
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what the what he is exhorting them. If I can speak correctly what he's

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exhorting them to do, I mean, I can spit it out. Just

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be patient with me. He's exhorting
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that would be related to everything that's
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see, some people say it's Satan
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problem. Satan is the problem,
and I look Satan. We talked about

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Satan last Sunday. Okay, we
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a lot of the issues and subjects, and we can get into a big

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talk about Satan. But I think
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you're being told to watch out for
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ever blamed for most of it throughout
the epistle, Paul addresses various issues within

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the Corinthian Church, such as division
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Corinthians to be on guard or to
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vigilance and the face of those challenges
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Well, I think the issues in
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a lot more notes here, but
let's I'm going to say that the hypothesis

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that the exhortation in First Corinthian sixteen
thirteen is about Satan, I'm going to

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say that that exhortation does not stand. I don't think it is supported by

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the textual evidence of the chapter.
In fact, even in the message I

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was listening to, he had to
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to First Corinthians. I know,
you stay in the original context first and

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foremost. If you're going to go
do cross referencing, the cross reference has

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to have some link and be related
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typically right, typically, I think. So, So here's what I'm going

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to say. I'm going to put
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Watchie is that he is telling them
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Yeah, you, we have to
watch ourselves. The church loves to

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watch the world, and we've got
to be. Oh, everyone, we

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need to be on the lookout for
the world. Watch what the world is

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doing. Watch what's going on in
the culture. We got to fight the

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culture. We got to be on
the lookout. We got to be on

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guard to that. You better be
on guard. Not to the people outside

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the church. You better be on
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You you the problem. I'm the
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And it's me that has to be
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better than the person sitting next to
me. I know me better than you

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listening to me, because I know
what's going on inside of me. Oh.

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I can put on a good facade, but I know I need to

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be watching me. The way one
source breaks this down, beyond your guard,

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stand firm and the faith. Be
creageous, be strong, beyond guard,

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be alert. Paul urges the Corinthians
to be watchful and alert, to

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be aware of potential dangerous temptations and
spiritual attacks. The admonition highlights the importance

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of vigilance and discern it in the
Christian walk. Now, the only problem

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I have with that source it completely
ignores the context. No, he's saying,

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hey and light of Look, he's
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He's writing the people. You guys
have failed failed, failed, fail

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fail fail. Like if I was
grading for the church at corinth I'd be

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like, guys, look, I'm
not even gonna bother giving you an F

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because I'd have to apologize to all
the f's ever given to anybody else.

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You guys are so your score is
so low there's no way to score it.

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You're the biggest your churches. Your
church makes the s of course look

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godly, and they're a pagan city. You make the pagans look more godly

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than the godly. Okay, Like
it would be like, you guys are

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a mess. You need to be
watching you. You've got all of this

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failure. You've got to stop.
You gotta worry about you. You've got

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to watch yourself. Now, I'm
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I didn't even think about doing this, But remember I'm reacting to all of

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this in very real time, very
real time, I'm gonna go first Corinthians

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sixteen thirteen. First thing I'm gonna
do is look at how this is translated

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in like every English translation. Be
on your guard, be on your guard,

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beyond guard, be watchful, be
on the alert. What are you

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guarding? What are you watching?
What are you in the alert for?

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You're an alert and watch yourself.
The church has been a total mess.

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Guys. You gotta watch yourself.
You gotta see how all of these issues

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I've addressed, whether it's sexual and
morality, whether it's people dying at the

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Lord's table, I mean, maybe
you should care a little bit about people

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dropping dead. Maybe maybe you needed
to be watching your own pride and arrogance

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when it comes to spiritual gifts.
Maybe you need to stop suing one another,

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Like all these things, you need
to be watching you. You need

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to be on guard for you.
You need to be on the alert of

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you. The church constantly. You
listen to Christian radio, listen to Christian

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podcast. Oh the world this,
Oh they did this on Netflix, they

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did this in this show, And
we got to be watching this, and

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we gotta be guarding this, and
we gotta be banning this, and we

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gotta be censoring this, and we
gotta be on the look out for this,

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and we gotta be on the lookout
for that. Oh, social media

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is destroying us. This everything is
something else. How about we just look

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at the problem that we have.
We're the problem. I'm the problem.

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Hello, it's me, I'm the
problem. Okay. Now, in quoting

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Taylor Swist, Okay, you get
the idea. We're the issue. We

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got to be watching us. Now, if I go to the actual Greek

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here, I'm going to go to
the uh. I'm going to go to

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the intilinear watchee as it is in
the King James. Watchee. Is this

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Greek word? Here's watchee. Oh, this one should be fun to say.

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Here's this Greek word. Strong's g
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greg Garreo. Okay, it is
issues twenty three times, it's twenty

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one times. Watch one time,
wake, be vigilant one time. Strong's

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definition to keep awake, watch,
be vigilant, wake, to watch is

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the outline of biblical usage to give
strict attention, to to be cautious,

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to take key. Let's through remission
and some destructive calamity would could possibly overtake

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you. You got to be paying
attention. Why do you have to be

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paying attention? Because we have a
sinful nature. Look what I know.

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We always want to worry about everything
outside of us. The greatest danger lives

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inside of you. The greatest threat
is inside of you. What pastors should

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do They should hand out mirrors.
There should be a mirror, and every

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pew there should be a mirror.
And then the pastor every Sunday should come

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up and go, ladies and gentlemen, I have on good authority identified what

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is the greatest threat to your spiritual
life? And everybody like what, pick

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up the mirror, look at the
mirror. You, not the person sitting

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next to you, not the men. Stop blaming the women. Women,

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Stop blaming the men. Everyone.
It's you kids. Stop blaming your parents

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parents, Stop blaming your kids.
Stop blaming your circumstances. It's you worthy

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issue. Watch ye yourself. If
somebody's watching you, and it should be

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you watching you. You have to
be, in a sense, your own

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best accountability partner. You know why
you can be your own best accountability partner

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because you know when you're playing games, Come on, you know when you're

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like, oh, I so want
to stop doing this, but I'm going

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to do it soon. Oh,
come on, we all know. I

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don't think this is about saying.
I think it's about us. Now,

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there's the watch, be alert,
be guard, beyond guard, pay attention.

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You you you you you you you
you you you you you you you

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you. That's what we have to
be on the lookout for. Now.

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It says watche stand fast, stand
fast. This translation has it watch says

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stand fast, stand fast. The
this translation has or I'm gonna go to

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the Greek here stand fast. Is
this Greek word strongs gnine stayko, stayko

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steakko. Now this is kind of
the way. Now, he did a

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good job in the webcast pointing this
out. Now he he put it.

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He focused on Satan. But what
I did appreciate is he kind of said

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that there's a progressive order here.
And I do like that. First,

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you're on a lookout, you're on
the alert, you're on guard. Right,

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you're on guard, you're standing post, right, standing post. When

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when I was in the United States
Military, I was put on a team

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called the Dirty Dozen. Right,
we were given a test and guess what

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our reward was for acing? And
you had to ace the test. Guess

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what the reward was for acing the
test? You got put on guard duty

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overnight. Yay, yay, I'm
so glad I passed that. If I

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would have known what the test was
gonna give me, I would to flunk

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the thing fifty times over. But
okay, I got so. There you

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are two in the morning, guarding
a door to the dormitor. Everyone else

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00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:18.240
in there is asleep, and you're
there guarding a door. Just oh,

407
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.559
I mean, all you're doing is
just standing there. You're just watching the

408
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.079
door. And if anyone comes to
the door, you have to assure that

409
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.000
they have proper identification, a proper
authority to enter the room. If they

410
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.039
don't, you have to turn them
away. No matter who they are,

411
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.200
they don't have proper identification, you
turn them away if they yell, scream

412
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.880
threat and you but you are to
stand guard. You are to be alert.

413
00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:41.640
Now, if someone came to the
door and saw you and you're in

414
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:48.000
there sleeping, you're in trouble.
I'll never forget Desert Storm. I get

415
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:51.960
sent well, I didn't know where
I was going. The plane breaks down

416
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.640
over New York City. Then we
get taken off the plane because a terrorist

417
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:56.799
threat a terrorist threat. The whole
thing's crazy. We end up back on

418
00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.759
the plane. We don't know where
we're going. Next thing, you know,

419
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.240
they're like, hey, we're about
to approach our landing and I look

420
00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.279
out the window. I'm like,
wait a minute, there's no sand,

421
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:10.279
there's no desert or not or nowhere
near a rock or nowhere near Kuwait where

422
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.440
are we? And it's like we
land in Germany. I'm like, ooh,

423
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.559
this is pretty cool, right.
So we end up in Germany at

424
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.160
a place called Swabrooke, and now
we are there to set up a turnkey

425
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.680
facility. That means everything is ready
in the building. All we got to

426
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:25.240
go in turn the key, pull
everything out, and we're now ready to

427
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.759
go to set up a medical facility
so those who are wounded or seriously injured

428
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.240
and the front lines can be then
airlifted to us and then we can provide

429
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.079
you know, surgery or whatever else
is needed. Okay, so we get

430
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.039
it all ready, We're good to
go. But here's the thing. The

431
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.359
hospital was downtown Swabrook and the military
base was I don't know, ten fifteen,

432
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.160
twenty miles from where it is,
so we had to take city buses

433
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:55.759
they said city buses to pick us
up and drive us to the hospital.

434
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.839
Right, So we have a shift
at the hospital. We get on the

435
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:05.480
bus and we drive back to the
military installation, the Air force base.

436
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.839
The bus pulls up and the bus
driver's just sitting there. It's I don't

437
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.519
know, it's like midnight, one
in the morning. I don't even know

438
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.759
what time it is. And we're
just sitting there, sitting there, sitting

439
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.519
there, sitting there, sitting there, sitting there, sitting there, and

440
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:21.880
the bus driver is picking up his
radio and he's calling other people and he's

441
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:24.720
laughing, and he's saying something in
German, and we're like, what is

442
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.960
going on. All of a sudden, one of the sergeants look out,

443
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:34.599
and we're like, you've got to
be kidding me. We're in the middle

444
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:42.039
of a war, heightened heightened security
alerts for all military installations of the possibility

445
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:46.079
of terrorist attacks. And guess what
the guards were doing. They were sound

446
00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:53.759
asleep the military installation. Anybody could
have just driven right on to the militaries.

447
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.039
They were gone, they were out. And now here's the civilian bus

448
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.480
driver laughing at the situation. So
he gets the sergeant gets out. He

449
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:06.599
walks up to them, walks all
the way into the guard check they're just

450
00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:09.440
completely asleep, and he goes bang
and then they jump up and he's like,

451
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.480
you're dead and your career is over. Now. I don't know what

452
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:16.720
happened to him, but obviously they
were in serious, serious trouble because they

453
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:22.119
were asleep at the guard at the
gate. They were asleep at their post.

454
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.519
They in a sense, had abandoned
their posts. Well, we are

455
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:31.599
sometimes asleep to the danger of us. We got to be looking for us.

456
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:35.839
We got to be in a sense, we need to take a test

457
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.240
to see how good we are at
watching us. How good at you are

458
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:42.160
watching here? Are you an alert? Are you guarding yourself? Well?

459
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:44.680
So, in a sense, we
have to be on the lookout. So

460
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.640
you think about we're guarding. So
let's take the first part. Watche we're

461
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:52.759
looking, we're watching. Oh,
I see the threat, I see the

462
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.000
problem. Now what we're watching is
us, And I see the issue inside

463
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.680
of me. I see a desire, a feeling, a thinking. I

464
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:01.559
see I see issues inside of me. So I gotta watch. I gotta

465
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.279
watch. And what do I do
after I watch? What do I do

466
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.559
after I watch? And I and
I and I see what do I do?

467
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:19.599
I do this strongs g stayko I
stay o steako, stayko I watch

468
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.559
and then I stayko i stako.
Okay, what does that mean? It

469
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:30.519
means to It is to be stationary. It is to preserve. It is

470
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:36.039
to stand fast the outline of biblical
usage to stand firm, to persevere,

471
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.840
or to preserve, to persist,
to keep one standing. I'm to be

472
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:44.480
stationary, I'm to be I am
to stay right there, not move.

473
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.000
But what am I standing like?
So what what a lot of people think

474
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:51.559
you'll do? Oh? This means
I'm going to stand against it. Now.

475
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.840
Look, look, I think it's
fascinating the way the text is read

476
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.000
or the way the text is written. Watch stand fast in the faith.

477
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:07.920
Stand fast in the faith. I
find that fascinating. Now one source put

478
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:09.920
it this way, if I can
go back to my nose, stand firm

479
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:14.880
in the faith. The call to
stand firm and the Faith emphasizes the need

480
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:17.960
for unwavering commitment to the core tenets
of Christianity. Believers are encouraged to hold

481
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.159
faster their beliefs, to remain steadfast
in the truth of the Gospel despite challenges

482
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.000
or opposition. What I think is
when you are watching and you're looking for

483
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.960
yourself, you see your depravity,
your weakness, You see your doubt,

484
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:35.280
you see your fear, your confusion, your anxiety, you see all of

485
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.039
the dirt right like you know,
you're watching and you know what's in the

486
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.880
behind the closet door. You know
what's there, and you see stuff that

487
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.880
makes you think, what is wrong
with me? Why am I so depraved?

488
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:49.880
Why am I such a sinner?
Why do I want to do this?

489
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.679
Why do I desire this? Why
do I not care about anybody else?

490
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.039
Why do I only care about So? You know what, You've got

491
00:35:55.039 --> 00:36:00.360
to stand firm in your faith in
Jesus Christ, standing firm in the faith

492
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:06.079
of his imputed righteousness. You're standing
firm in the faith of his work and

493
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.400
his obedience. You watch and you
see, and you stand firm in the

494
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:15.079
faith of Christ. Everything thinks it's
like stand firm against these things. I

495
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:17.199
think it's staying firm in your faith. Now I do agree, it's standing

496
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:22.199
firm in the basic tenets of Christianity. But most important, you're standing firm

497
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.039
in your faith that we live by
faith, that just lives by faith.

498
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.760
And what does that mean? I
live my life based off my faith in

499
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.840
the finished work of Jesus Christ and
his imputed righteousness. Because when I'm watching

500
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.119
and I'm on guard and now I'm
on alert, i am gonna see the

501
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.360
constant issues inside of me. And
I may want to throw my hands up

502
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.639
in despair and say that's it.
I give up. I'm a complete dumpster

503
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:53.280
fire. I'm trash, I am
I'm a loser. I'm pathetic, I

504
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:58.960
am weak, I am depraved,
I am disgusting, I am vile.

505
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:00.760
I don't even does serve to breathe. And you know what, there's a

506
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:05.079
probably from a theilological standpoint, when
you compare yourself to the holiness of God.

507
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:07.519
Oh of that is true. But
I'm gonna stand firm in my faith.

508
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.599
I'm not going to crumble because of
my depravity. I'm gonna stand firm

509
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.320
and faith, knowing my only hope
is not on me trying to be a

510
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.199
better person. But it's about me. Guess what, standing firm in my

511
00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:27.679
faith? But then what's next?
Watch stand fast in the faith, be

512
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:31.679
brave, quiet quite you like men, I think is the way the King

513
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.440
James puts it. Be be courageous, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna

514
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.880
go to the Greek here. I'm
gonna go to the Greek here. Okay,

515
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.440
they're wanting, uh, they want
a donation here. I don't want

516
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:46.639
to give you a donation. What
I need is to get back to the

517
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:50.679
text or here we go. All
right, So watch you stand fast and

518
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.639
faith, Quit you quiet, Quit
you like man. I keep saying it

519
00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:58.119
the wrong way. I apologize because
I've got multiple translations. Here, quit

520
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.559
you like men? Is this is
a the of a Greek word strong's g

521
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.639
four O seven, andrids am I
anddrids of I ondrids of I. All

522
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.840
right, this is used one time, all right, Quit you like men?

523
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.239
Choose one time? All right.
It means to uh to act manly,

524
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:23.320
quit like men, to be a
man, be manly, to make

525
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:28.880
a man of or make brave,
to show oneself a man, be brave.

526
00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.320
I think the idea. I like
the idea the way it's translated to

527
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:38.400
the new King James, be brave, bravery. You need to be brave.

528
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:43.840
You need to be courageous. Now
why well, you're you're looking out

529
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:45.440
and you're like, oh man,
oh man, oh man, I'm a

530
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.960
sinner. I got this problem.
There you're you're watching yourself and then guess

531
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.480
what. You stand firm in your
faith and guess what you need. You

532
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:57.400
need to be brave and courageous in
light of your depravity and you and that

533
00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.280
bravery comes from the fact that you
stand in the puted righteousness of Christ,

534
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.079
which gives you the strength to say, you know what, I should probably

535
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:08.679
walk away and embarrassment because I'm a
hypocrite, but I'm gonna stand firm and

536
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:14.320
I'm gonna be courageous because I stand
firm in the faith of what Christ did

537
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:22.360
for me. My notes, I
put it this way, Paul's encourages the

538
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:27.880
Corinthians to exhibit courage and the face
of adversity and face of your own failure

539
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.000
and face of you. I think
what he's seeing to do, be strong

540
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:35.760
or be brave here, be brave
in the face of your own failure,

541
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.840
in your own look. Guess what
you after Paul lays out all of your

542
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.840
failures. You know what I would
think about doing. I would think about,

543
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.000
like, you know what, maybe
just call it a day. This

544
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.960
church thing, this Christianity thing,
is really not working out for me because

545
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.199
I keep sinning and I keep failing. No, no, no, no,

546
00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:57.039
no, Stand firm in your faith
and then be be brave to stand

547
00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:59.000
there. You know why, it's
going to be hard to be brave,

548
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:04.079
because everyone's going to be like hypocrite, sinner, loser, never do what

549
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.239
you're supposed to do. You fall
short continually. You're a loser. You're

550
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.719
pathetic. Accusation after accusation, you
know what, And sometimes all you can

551
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:16.360
say is, you're absolutely right.
I have no business calling myself a Christian,

552
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.320
but you know what, I'm a
Christian not because of what I do,

553
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.559
but because of what Christ did.
It takes a little bit of bravery

554
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:29.960
to continue to stand there when everything
around you everyone should say, just give

555
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:36.119
it up. You're not even being
remotely You're everyone in the Church of Court

556
00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:37.000
should just kind of walk away.
Go. You know what, well,

557
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:42.320
let's just close this church down and
call it a day because we are losers.

558
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.079
No, stand firm and your faith
and be brave, and the face

559
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:51.239
of that failure and the face of
your weakness, and the face of your

560
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:59.440
shame and the face of your sin, be courageous. It's boldness, it's

561
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:07.960
fearlessness because of because you're standing firm
in your faith. So watch what do

562
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.079
you want what are we watching?
Who are we watching? We're watching ourselves.

563
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.400
We stand fast in the faith.
Why do we have to stand fast

564
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.320
in the faith? Because I don't
know, Watch yourself and report that back

565
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.440
to me. You're gonna you're gonna
see some really disturbing things. You're gonna

566
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.519
need to stand fast in your faith. And guess what, You're gonna have

567
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.599
to be brave because as you're standing
fast in your faith, you're going to

568
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:28.880
be confronted with your own failure,
in your own hypocrisy. And if you

569
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:30.280
and look, I don't know how
old your kids are now, just wait

570
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.199
till they get a little bit older. They'll point out all of your hypocrisy

571
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:37.079
or the propriority, telling your their
Sunday school teacher about how messed up you

572
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:42.400
Mom and dad are all right right? Be brave? Next, be strong,

573
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.280
Be strong. The King James has
it as watch ye stand fast in

574
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.639
the faith? Quit you like man, be strong? That idea, be

575
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.320
brave. Now be strong. The
command is to be strong, and justcourse,

576
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:58.400
the idea of drawing that you're drawing
strength. But I think the idea

577
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.760
where do we standing strong in?
I think we're standing strong in the context.

578
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.159
Everyone will kind of go other directions. So I'm gonna not rely on

579
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:08.079
any other resources here. I think
we are being strong in our faith.

580
00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:13.800
We're being strong in our position in
God. Look, I'm not gonna be

581
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.440
strong in my ability to do better. Look, I mean think about it

582
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:21.599
from a political from a logical standpoint, Why would Paul even give them this

583
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:25.639
exhortation. They've demonstrated in sixteen chapters
they can't do anything right, So now

584
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:28.760
they're going to go ahead and do
things right. No, I think what

585
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:30.679
he's saying, Hey, guys,
based off all your weakness and failure,

586
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:35.400
you need to watch yourself and then
you need to stand firm in your faith

587
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:40.480
and then be brave in your faith
and be strong in your faith. Be

588
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:45.239
strong in the fact that I am
in Christ, and in Christ, not

589
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:50.840
practically but positionally, I'm a new
creature. The old is gone. Everything

590
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:54.639
is new. I am perfect and
holy. Be strong in that. If

591
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:58.440
you're going to be strong in your
efforts, are going to be strong in

592
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:00.559
your attempts to do the right thing, You're gonna just realize you're not that

593
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:06.079
strong. Look, as long as
you have a sinful nature, whatever strength

594
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:12.639
you pretend to have, it's only
it's only it's only a pretend strength,

595
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:17.599
because internally you are a depraved sinner
and it's there, whether you can maskt

596
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:24.280
or not. So watch, stand
fast in the faith, be brave,

597
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:31.760
be strong, and let all that
you do be done with love. Everything

598
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.920
you do, do it with love. You know why you should be able

599
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.239
to do everything you do with love, because the only reason that you can

600
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.320
stand firm in your faith is because
not because you love God, but because

601
00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:44.239
He first loves you. He sent
his son to die for you, and

602
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.400
in Christ he is giving you.
He is accredited to your account perfect a

603
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:52.039
righteousness. So you can stand firm
in that, and then you can be

604
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.760
brave, and you can be strong
because of what you are in Christ,

605
00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:00.039
not because of what you are in
practice. You watch to see how the

606
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.960
stuff you are you're strong, and
you you stand firm in your faith,

607
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:07.800
then you are brave and you're strong. And then we should do everything out

608
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:15.000
of love because of the love we
have received. That I think is a

609
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better approach to First Corinthian sixteen thirteen. And I don't think it's about me

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watching Satan. I think it's about
me watching me. I didn't even get

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to all my notes. In fact, ignored ninety percent of my notes.

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All right, there we go.
I don't think I I think the only

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thing I may have messed up is
quit. You like man? Quiet?

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Quit you like man? Right?
Yeah, I think that's the only thing

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I may have messed up. Right. If I messed that up, I

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apologize, all right. I think
everything else I got halfway decent. Probably

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messed up some of those Greek words
pretty good. See, you know what,

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I'm watching myself and gives what I'm
seeing. I'm seeing my mess ups,

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I'm seeing my failures. Now this
is in podcasting, but in my

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normal life. Guess what. And
when I watched myself, I said,

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oh, kN I messed up here, and I messed up here, and

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oh I had this bad thought and
wooh I had this and do this and

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I had lust, and I had
this and I had creed, and I

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had this, and I had this, and I had hatred, had bitterness

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and this and this and this and
this and this and this and this and

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this and this and this and this. Oh man, I'm a man.

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I'm going to stand firm in my
faith. My faith is in the finished

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work of Jesus Christ, and He's
imputed his perfect righteousness to me. Now

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in the light of that truth,
I am going to be brave. I'm

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going to be brave and even though
people may accuse me and falsely accuse,

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not even falsely accused me, correctly
accuse me and say all kinds of horrible

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things about me, it may be
all true, but I'm going to be

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brave in the face of that because
of what I am in Christ Jesus,

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and I'm going to be strong in
that positional standing. And I'm going to

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try to then respond and do everything
I do out of love. And I

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think that interpretation day is true to
the text, and I don't have to

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go import something in there. Now. You could argue, well, how

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does that fit with Satan if you
want to bring Satan into it. I

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just think the context there tells us
exactly what's going on personally. I think

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it does. But you can give
me your thoughts. Now. That is

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all based off the live webcast that
was ending as I went live. That's

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what I was like. Now he
said some other things there that were just

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in this crazy stuff, like you're
not showing reverence to God if you're like,

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I don't know, leading singing or
preaching and you put your hand in

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your pocket. That and if you
get ready to tell people it's time to

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pray and you're smiling, that is
somehow not showing reverence to God. That

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was the most insane thing. The
thing I'm going to find the audio clip

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from is he referred to ordinances as
a means of grace, which is insane

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because that's sacramental language, not the
language of a church that believes in ordinances

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versus sacrament. So we're going to
definitely do some work on that. All

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right, there we go. That's
my adventure and live webcasting on the two

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point oh app today. I don't
know how your day is going. Now

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go listen to some random live webcasts
on the Sermon's two point oh app.

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That's remember for the next two weeks. That's your challenge. Just whatever's on

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the live webcast. It look,
you don't get to choose whatever is there.

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That's what you get. Now.
If there's multiple ones, just try

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to pick a random one. Don't
try to look and see you oh oh

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I know this church. No no, no no, just try to just

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close your eyes and pick one.
Like Wednesday night, they'll probably be a

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five six hundred. Just choose a
random one, all right, take good

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notes, summarize it. He focused
on first Crientia sixteen thirteen, telling us

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basically to watch for Satan. I'm
saying first Criuentia sixteen thirteen is about us

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watching us. Somebody's watching me,
probably should be me. Thanks for listening,

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everyone, Have a great day.
God bless