Oct. 11, 2024

1 John: Know Pt 1

1 John: Know Pt 1

A look at the use of the word know in 1 John

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A look at the use of the word know in 1 John

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Friday, October the eleventh, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently eleven thirty am Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas.

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Well.

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It was around four thirty am, about four thirty am

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this morning when I was here in the studio and

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I decided to listen to a sermon. I thought, you know, hey,

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it's a good use of my time, right. I mean,

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I have been challenging everyone to listen to at least

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one random sermon every single day for our Sermon's two

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point oh app sermon Challenge, Right, I've been telling everyone

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to do that. So I my iPad I just looked

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for the very first sermon I could find, and I

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found a sermon in titled five Critical Things you need

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to Know. Five critical things you need to know. And

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I'm like, okay, I'm ready. I need to know these

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five things because they're critical, all right, what are the

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five things? Well, I never really got to the five things,

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but I did get to the word no, and then

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that turned into Well, see, that was four thirty am.

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It's now eleven thirty. That's a lot of hours that

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I've been spending time thinking about the word no, and

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then it led to one thing, to another thing, to

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another thing to now I've got probably ten pages of

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notes and oh and did you see the title if

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you're looking on Depending on where you're looking, if you

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see the title, you'll notice that it says first John

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No Part one. That means no, I'm about to begin

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another I guess series. I don't know how many parts

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this will be, but ah, I did not want to

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do that. But here we are.

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Now.

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I'm going to approach this today kind of like I've

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done the last few days. I'm finding this somewhat fun

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somewhat challenging because typically when it comes to reviewing any

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part of a sermon, what I do is I go

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in blind right, I don't know anything. I just see

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the sermon, I download it, I hit play for just

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like two seconds three seconds to see if it's loud enough.

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If not, then I go and artificially increase the volume

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so that it will work fine for broadcasting. And then

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I go into the review. I go live on the

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air and say, we're going to review this sermon. I

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have no idea, I don't know the text, I don't

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look at any information. I go in completely blind. Now

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that's fun, right, well, at least sometimes it's fun. I

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think it's fun probably for the listener because you hear

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me start losing my mind or start like what is

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happening because none of us knows where it is going.

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But over the last few days kind of changed it

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up a little bit. Right, I'm hitting play on a sermon,

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getting the basic idea, getting all the way to the

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basic thesis of the sermon. Then I'm going and doing

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a little extra work, right, I'm looking things up. I'm

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kind of putting together notes so that as we are

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listening to the review. Then now I don't make it

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all the way through the sermon, I get the basic thesis,

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and then I stop. But then what happens when it

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comes to me reviewing Here's here's here's kind of basically

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how I approach it. We start listening, we get to

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where I got when I was listening to the basic thesis. Okay,

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I'm like, okay, there's their basic thesis. Now let them

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explain it. And then as soon as I kind of

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get their basic explanation, their basic thesis, they're kind of

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where they're really going with it, and especially if they

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kind of just start deviating or anything, we just kind

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of drop out of the of this audio we're reviewing,

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and then I just go into full blown kind of

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teaching mode, saying, Okay, here is what they said, here

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is my perspective. Right. We did that with the Proverbs thing,

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with the idea that the slothful person is like, hey,

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there's a lion in the street, and we the sermon

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kind of just went against their entire their entire thesis.

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So we kind of challenged that and created our own.

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Then with the Amos chapter is, Yeah, Amos chapter four.

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Oh was it not Amos? It was it Hosea chapter four.

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Hang on, I'm not remembering exactly. Hang on, it was Hoseiah. Yeah,

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Hosea chapter four, Yeah, verse six, Hoseiah chapter four, verse six.

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I don't know why my brain was forgetting it, Probably

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because I'm so focused on what I'm getting ready to do.

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And so we listened to their hypotheses and I'm kind

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of like, well, I don't think this is about ignorance.

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I think this is about rejection, and so we worked

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on that. Right, So that's kind of the way we're going.

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I'm listening to the beginning of it at first getting

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the basic idea, going to do my work on it.

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Then I come back, hit play, get back to at

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least that point in the sermon, and then go a

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little further. And then once I kind of realize they're

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not really going to do much with their thesis, they're

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not going to do any actual explaining it. They're just

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they kind of start deviating from it, then we just like,

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that's it, forget the audio. Now let's go to the teaching.

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I'm finding that a little bit, a little bit more

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satisfying because at least because so many times when we

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do these reviews, what happens is the pastor kind of

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gives their thesis, and I feel like they abandon their thesis.

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They don't really do much to prove it, to justify it,

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to explain it, and many cases they're off on something else.

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They're like, you know, we're going to talk about this

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stillological issue, and the next thing they do, they're ranting

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and raving about the evils of rock and roll or

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something like what does that have to do with the sermon,

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and so that makes it that can be very frustrating

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and reviewing. But if I will listen to a little

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bit first, Okay, I don't know where they're going to go,

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but now then I can go do my own study.

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Then I'm ready. I'm just ready to go. And the

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minute they start deviating or just they go, it goes

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off the rails. I can say, well, okay, we're done

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with that. Now let's do some teaching. So that's kind

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of how I've been doing it over the last few days.

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I find it interesting because it challenges me to do

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a lot of work and be ready to go. So

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that's what we're going to do today. So at about

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four point thirty this morning, I started listening to a

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sermon again called five critical Things you need to Know,

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And I mean I just wanted to know what the

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five things are? What are the five I never got

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anywhere near the five things because well, you're getting ready

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to find out. So here's what I have done. I

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have fess I've kind of skipped the introductory part because

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the introductory part, I guess this is some kind of

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like a revival, some kind of conference, but they have

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guest speakers in, and so the guest speaker here does

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a lot of how great this church is, how great

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the singing is, how great the atmosphere is, how great

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the pastor is, how wonderful all the people are, how

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it just it kind of you're like, okay, we get

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the point. You're telling everyone how wonderful they are. So

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there's no point in kind of going through that again.

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I could probably make some kind of you know, observation

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or or some thoughts, but okay, that's that's pretty standard

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conference kind of speaking. If you're brought into a church,

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you want to you want to do everything you can

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to you know, endear yourself to the people and and

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and say good things about the one hopefully you'll be

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invited back. I'm not saying that everyone has that motivation,

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but you get the basic idea. So that's kind of

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what they've done. So I fast forwarded this until he's

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about to get ready to go into his sermon. His

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I don't know if we ever actually get to the

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thesis here. I don't think. I don't know if there's

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a clear thesis statement given. But what we will do

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is at least let him get to where I want

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us to go. And then well, then we're gonna be

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off on our own things. So we're just kind of

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utilizing this to go where I want to go, because

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I get as soon as he mentions the word no, right,

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that's the key word. And then he mentions the epistle,

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the letter from which he's looking at the word no,

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And then immediately my brain was, Okay, I know where

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this sermon has to go. Because if you're going to

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use the word no, especially the Greek word that's being

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used there, there's only one direction you can go. There's

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only one. Oh, but no, it doesn't appear that they

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go that direction. So well, we're gonna we're gonna get

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to at least where I stopped it. I'll let you

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know where I stopped it, and then we'll go a

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little past that just to see maybe I'm wrong. Maybe

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they do understand. Well the word no here, especially the

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Greek word, can only lead you to one direction, So

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maybe we will see. But here we go again. The

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name of this sermon is five critical Things you need

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to Know. Of course you can find it on the

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sermon audio platform. And again, this kind of goes with

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what we've been doing all year, you know, trying to

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get you to listen to random sermons. So I've kind

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of explained my approach here, so that means I already

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have all of my notes ready to go. I'm not

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going into this completely blind like I typically would with

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a review, but we've seen how some of those go

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so bad. So all we're gonna do is listen, and

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whenever we feel like they deviate maybe from their thesis

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or we kind of get the thesis, but we will

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immediately back out, and then we'll get into some very

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important things. This deals with, not only the Greek word

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for no, there's actually two Greek words for no and

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that are used in this particular book that he's going

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to be siting here, you'll see. But we could get

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into a major hermeneutical argument about how this book should

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be actually interpreted. We could get into a major discussion

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about how this book has been handled throughout church history.

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There's a lot of directions we can go, but hopefully

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you're ready, Hopefully you've been enjoyed this new kind of

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different approach versus how we've done it in the past.

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We can do a little mixture sometimes, but I hope

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this goes well. So are you ready. Here we go.

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We're jumping in to kind of right in the middle.

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He's doing his introduction and again he's like a guest

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speaker at this church, some kind of conference, and he's

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basically telling them how wonderful and great they all are.

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And now he's about to get into his sermon. And

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there's going to be a problem almost at the beginning here,

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because he's going to tell you how he got his sermon,

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and how he got his sermon has major implications that

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I don't think people sit in the pew actually understand,

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but it bothers me. Probably won't bother you, but it

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bothers me. Let's see if we can get to that part.

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Here we go.

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We're not going to do that, Tony, but I'm will

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tell you. I told Brother Joey, we always look for

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it's one of those fired up sermons when we're gonna

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preach away. You know, when you go into a church

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to preach, you you want to leave them with something. Well,

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I thought, man, I'm gonna pick out one of these

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dynamics he asked me to preach, and I'm gonna come

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here and I'm gonna preach a dynamic.

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How many of you know, anything you preach out of

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here is dynamic.

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God showed me today. That's not what I was gonna do.

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He gave me something fresh, never preached before, but I

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want to preach it here tonight.

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Okay, you already know where my problem is. He's claiming

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God gave him the sermon. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I

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hope you understand the significance of that. If you go

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to church on Sunday and you sit in the pew

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and the pastor stands before you and says, God gave

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me this sermon, at that point you cannot criticize it.

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You cannot disagree with it because it came from God.

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Therefore it is infallible. You cannot criticize it. If it

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came from God, there is no criticism to be offered

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to it. There's no criticism to be offered of it.

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There can only be agreement with it. That is such.

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I know pastors say that all the time God gave

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me this. God, if God gave it to you, it

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can't look and not only that, Just think about this. Logically,

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if there's a person on the south side of I'll

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Texas saying, God gave me this sermon, and there's a

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pastor on the north side of Abeley, God gave me

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this sermon. And those sermons completely contradict each other, not

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only in their hermeneutical approach and their theological conclusion someone's lying.

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God didn't give them the sermon who's lying because they

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can't contradict. But pastor after pastor after pastor after pastor

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all across the United States, God gave me this sermon. Well,

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God can't be giving everyone sermons if they all disagree.

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God gave me the understanding. God can't be giving you

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the understanding if everyone's understanding. It's different, it's nonsensical, it's

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I'm so tired of hearing that. And not only that,

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it just basically protects the pastor. Hey, hey, God gave

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me the sermon. You take it up with him. I mean,

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then you cannot be challenged, you cannot be questioned, you

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cannot be criticized. I'm gonna start that. I can stop

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all emails to me when people get mad at me.

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God gave me that podcast episode. Back off, God gave

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me that interpretation. Back off, God told me. That's what

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it means. Back off, you can't ever question me. It's

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like when Christians argue that God is the one who

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leads us into all truth. Well, if he's leading us

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into all truth, and anything you believe is true because

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God led you there, therefore you can ever be challenged. No,

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there's the promise that the Holy Spirit will lead us

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into all truth. Was directed and given to the apostles

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and to those who wrote the New Testament. Right, that's

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what it was about, not for us, because if it

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was the case, after two thousand years, we should have

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all reached truth. But nobody has reached truth because nobody

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knows what the truth is because nobody can agree on

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what is true. So I'm not a fan that God

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gave me the sermon thing not I disregarded. It drives

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me crazy. And we're just going to see because he's

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getting ready to mention a word, and he's getting ready

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to mention a specific book and the Bible. And guess

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what the specific book in the Bible. If I was

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to trace all the different interpretations offered of that one

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book in the Bible throughout church history, which at some

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point we'll probably do series. I'm gonna go through the

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entire history. It's insane, the differences they're just they're they're

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radically different. So God can't be giving everyone radically different interpretations.

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So you see where you see why that's a problem.

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All right, Now, let's see if we can get to

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the basic thesis here, or at least he's gonna introduce everything.

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As Brother Joey said, we're gonna have a baptism in

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a little while. We got seven Dad have been born

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again over at Saint Jame's just resate, and I'm gonna

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tell you what.

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We're excited.

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We're excited that God's still saving sinners.

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We're excited that God still building churches.

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He's still adding to the church daily such as.

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Should be saved. Amen.

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I want you to take your Bible tonight, and I

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want you to turn with me to the first Epistle

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of John, the first Epistle.

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Of John.

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Now, the minute I hear I'm listening to a sermon

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and they say open your bibles to the first Epistle

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of John or first John, I'm just gonna be honest

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with you. There's a part of me that just like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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not First John, not first because I almost know that

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by the time the sermon is over, I'm ah, I'm

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already gonna be I'm gonna have my phone open and

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looking for a way to order some alcohol because I'm

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going to be driven to the point of drinking. Okay,

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a little bit of hyperbole, but the way First John

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is handled by most churches drives me to the point

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of utter insanity. Now, if you look for our series

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Bible study exercise, if you'll look for that, you will

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see that we did a lengthy study in First John,

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and I did a lot of challenging the way First

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John is typically handled in most churches. They oh, I

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don't get the way they handle it. It makes no sense.

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it completely ignores the historical context of First John. Well,

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First John is actually really trying to do We'll get

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into all of that, but what we're going to do

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is see what he's going to do with First John. So,

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First John, he wants everyone to open up their Bibles

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to the first Epistle of John, the first Epistle of John. Right,

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So you may want to have a notebook. You may

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want to have a Bible open. Let's see where this

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is going to go. But it's all going to come

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down to one word. One word no no, no oh,

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the Greek word there for no oh. It's okay, okay,

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I won't give anything away. Here we go.

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Now, if somebody went to the Gospel of John, you

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all ready ready in the wrong place. Can I just

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say this tonight? This might sound elementary, but it's real

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and it's needful because a lot of our people are elementary.

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Somebody say, amen, something to take you someplace. See the

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reason tonight that folks can't find their place in the Bible,

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it's because they ain't got familiar with the Bible. And

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by the way, I'm not talking about these new born

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Christians we're getting ready to baptize in.

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I'm done by folks been saved for a year, two years,

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five years, ten years, twenty years, and they still don't.

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Know the books of their Bible. Hello. Now, we kind

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of talked about this with the Hoseah. I don't know

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why I said amos earlier, but Hosea chapter four. Okay,

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I was going to make a joke about why maybe

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I'm referring to amos, but that's you know, that would

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go back to classic radio drama. But okay, all right,

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I won't go there. All right. The point is is,

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why is it that you could have Christians who've been

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saved five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years and

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not know where the books of the Bible are. What

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would be the issue now I've been I've struggled with

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this a good portion of my Christian life. When I

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was young, my argument would have been because the churches

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are an absolute joke. Churches are all about fun, food,

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fellowship and activities, and nobody really actually cares to study

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the Bible in any meaningful way. As a result, the

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people are ignorant of scripture, that don't know where which

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book goes where, they can't put things in chronological order.

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That was my typical approach when I was young. So

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then I was like, Okay, when my church will not

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be like that, We're going to be completely the alternative

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to that, We're going to be completely different. So that

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was my focus. Now my attitude is radically different. I

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no longer blame the church. I blame every individual who

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claims to be a Christian and doesn't know where the

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books of the Bible are, don't know the proper chronological order,

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doesn't understand I'm biblically illiterate. It's no one's fault but

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your own. Because it's twenty twenty four. You have access

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to literally the entire no knowledge of Christianity at your fingertips,

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in the palm of your hand. You have access to everything,

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all the writings of the church fathers, commentary after commentary

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after commentary, millions upon millions of sermons. You've got access

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to all the teaching you could ever begin to understand.

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You've got access to Bibles, You've got access to reference tools,

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you got access to everything. If you don't know is

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because you don't want to know. And the question would be, well,

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why don't we want to know? So I used to

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blame the church. Now I'm done blaming the church. It's

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it's the individuals. It's the individuals, And I would I

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think we could argue, though, well, we can get into

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a whole discussionaire I won't. I won't. I won't continue

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that down this path. But all right, he's aware that

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a lot of people don't know, and a lot of

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pastors are aware that the people don't know. So how

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do you get the people to know? Obviously, going to

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church is not fixing it. I mean I've seen that

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my entire Christian life. We have an epidemical biblical literacy,

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and American Christianity we have an epid I've seen article

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after article, study after study. The Christians just don't know.

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these churches? Because the church, the churches have tried everything

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in their power. Oh, you need small groups to fix it.

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Oh we need this, Oh we need this that We've

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come up with every and none of the solutions have worked.

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So then what's what's the solution? Then?

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You ought to familiarize yourself with the Word of God.

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Amen. This is the living Word of God. This book

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right here, you can't go wrong every minute you spend

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in and I promise you it'll help you.

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So let's look tonight in the first Epistle of John,

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I'm gonna do two things tonight. I got a message

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I'm gonna preach on further down. But what I want

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to begin with tonight is just laying some groundwork and

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showing you some things in the Bible that the apostle

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John wrote about. And by the way, not only what

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he wrote about, but he tells us, gives us heads

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up why he wrote the things that he wrote. So

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if you've got first John, go to chapter one tonight.

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Look at chapter one and verse number four.

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He tells you why he's writing.

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And these things right, we unto you that your joy

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may be full. Anybody got full of joy tonight? I'm

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not talking about you just got joy? You got full joy?

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See full of joy? Is that joy? Unspeakable and full

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of glory?

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Right now?

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I want you to look on down if you will,

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verse number one.

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He continues.

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He says, my little children, these things right, I unto you.

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That you sin.

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Not.

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You know what he's saying. Right there, he said, I

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want to keep you from sin. And the reason I

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want to keep you from sin has caused your sinner.

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He said, I write these things unto you that you sin. No,

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in verse twenty six, he says, these things I have

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written under you concerning them that seduce you. That word

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seduces the same word for deceive. He said, I'm writing

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these things so that you're not deceived, because there's some

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folks that would deceive you. There's some folks that would

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trick you. How many of you know tonight, there's people

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out here that will trick you. But the apostle John said,

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I'm writing to you so that you be not deceived.

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these things have I written unto you concerning them that

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seduce you. He says, seduces. The same word for deceis eve.

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Let's look it up.

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It's this Greek word. It's this Greek word. Okay, yeah,

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it doesn't appear that is correct.

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Strong's g.

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Plan, no plan, no plan not oh is translated twenty

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four times deceive. All right, So that's good. All we're

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doing is verifying. All we're doing is verifying. I hate

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to say it. Look, ladies and gentlemen, I hate to

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say this, but you have to do that. If you

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ever listen to a sermon, I don't care who it is, me, anybody.

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speaker says, this Greek word means this. You have to

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look it up. That's one of the things that I

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did all for years in preaching is making sure that

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when I said a Greek or Hebrew word meant something,

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I had everyone look it up with me. And real time,

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I tell everyone, take out their phones, tablets, open up

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the blue letter Bible app look in the antilinear. Do

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we all see what the Greek word is? Do we all?

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We all see it together? And the reason was is

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after years and years and years and years of listening

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to preaching, I cannot tell you how many times that

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would be told the Greek word means this, the Hebrew

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word means this, and you look it up. You're like,

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that is just absolutely categorically fraudulent, false being spoken from

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the pulpit about a Greek word. So I hate to

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say it. Whenever I hear I don't believe until I check.

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I hate to say that. I hate to say that,

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but you have to do that sometimes. I Oh, I

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hate to do that. So I'm very grateful that here

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00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:39.960
we've got the word. The English word is seduce, but

467
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:43.279
the Greek word can mean deceive, all right, So that's good.

468
00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:48.000
It cannot It's also translated er to go astray, to seduce,

469
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.039
to wander, to be cut, to be out of the way,

470
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:54.440
I apologize to be out of the way, or all

471
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.680
the different ways this can be translated. We can look

472
00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.160
at the outline of biblical usage to cause, to stray,

473
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.279
to lead astray, to say, all right, so all good,

474
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.119
we're on the same page. Everything is good. All right,

475
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.519
we still haven't gotten to the word no. Right, So

476
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:09.079
let's see where this is all gonna come at.

477
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:13.240
Now, I'm going to ask you to go over to

478
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:23.039
chapter five, look at verse thirteen. He's going to continue

479
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:30.039
here giving you insight as to ways right verse thirteen,

480
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.960
These things have I written under you that believe on

481
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:42.200
the name of the Son of God, that ye may know.

482
00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:45.480
I wonder if I.

483
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.079
Can get some group help saying those four words tonight,

484
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:58.359
that ye may know that you have eternal life. I

485
00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:03.440
wonder if there's somebody here tonight that's got eternal life.

486
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:08.839
I thank God, God, eternal life in Jesus Christ, tonight.

487
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:11.400
Amen.

488
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:15.599
And he said, it'll be good if you know that

489
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.839
you God eternal life.

490
00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.000
Not maybe so not, I hope so not.

491
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.400
Some possibility might have life. But know that you have

492
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.759
eternal life.

493
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:30.880
I'm glad I.

494
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:35.480
Know tonight that I have eternal life. In Jesus Christ,

495
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.880
he used the word no.

496
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:44.400
Can I tell you?

497
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.640
In the First Epistle of John, he used that word

498
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:53.039
no over twenty five times.

499
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:58.839
Okay, now at four thirty in the morning, as soon

500
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:03.039
as he said in the first in First John, he

501
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.599
used the word no twenty five times. I immediately sat

502
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:13.599
up and was like, WHOA. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Now

503
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:19.279
that is interesting. So my first challenge for you now,

504
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.680
I have them all listed right here in my notes.

505
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:24.880
I have them all listed. First John two three, First

506
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.960
John twoy four, First John two five, First John two thirteen,

507
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:31.039
First John two fourteen, First John two eighteen, First John

508
00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.160
two twenty. I have them all listed, and I have

509
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.400
the scriptures written out for each one. I want you

510
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.920
to make it your assignment to go through the epistle

511
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.000
of First John and fine, I know you can look look,

512
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:47.880
I know, I know you can look them up and

513
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.839
find them quickly. Don't do that. Go just open your

514
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:56.240
Bible to First John and skim and find every use

515
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.680
of the word no, and write down the reference. I

516
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.559
would tell you to write down, write out the whole

517
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.599
verse which is what I did. I know a lot

518
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.000
of people won't do that. But the reason you do

519
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:12.599
that is by your skimming, you're finding you're writing. Therefore

520
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:15.160
you will remember it typically will work that way. So

521
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.359
I would challenge you to look. Go take your Bible,

522
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.319
First John, go through finding each reference First John, first

523
00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:24.880
John two three. By this we know, all right, First

524
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.599
John two four, the one who says I have come

525
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:31.079
to know First John two five. But whoever keeps his word,

526
00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:35.599
let him in him. The love of God has truly

527
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:40.119
been perfected. By this we know. By this we know

528
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.960
are you're getting the idea? Okay, So but go and

529
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.000
write them out. It'll take a little bit of work.

530
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.759
I know it'll be tedious, but I'm telling you it

531
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.279
will help you get this down, all right. So, but

532
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.400
immediately it caught and my attention now my mind. I'll

533
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:57.880
just let you know. As soon as I heard no,

534
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:03.680
I was like, no, okay, I already know where this

535
00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:07.000
word no should take us, Like I think this should

536
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.279
I think the word no and the fact that it's

537
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:13.319
used twenty five times is really the hermoneutical key to

538
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.119
understanding what First John is really about. And if you

539
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.759
take the history, you take the use of the word no.

540
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:24.359
Twenty five times. I think we this challenge is the

541
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:26.680
way we understand the book. Well, we'll go there in

542
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:28.559
just a minute. We'll dig into this a little bit.

543
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.720
I'm gonna let him go a little further. But this

544
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:34.839
was the point where I'm like, oh, oh, I now

545
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.359
my brain was telling me, okay, twenty five times, this

546
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:39.400
is great, this is great.

547
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:39.799
I know.

548
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:43.200
Okay, yeah, I'm a little plan on words. I know

549
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.039
where he's going to go with the word no, because

550
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.079
the word no when first John, should only lead you

551
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:53.720
to one very important discussion. If you're gonna talk about

552
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:55.839
first John, and you're gonna talk about the word no,

553
00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:01.960
then you have to talk about come on, tell me

554
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:04.240
what do we have to if you if you're gonna

555
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.519
look at first John, you're gonna emphasize the word no.

556
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.880
Then there's only one thing that word no can lead

557
00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:15.759
you to. Right. It starts with a G. Right, it's

558
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.920
kind of okay, all right, never never write well, well, well, well,

559
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:21.759
I'll tell you some of you some of you know,

560
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.240
some of you know, get it, no, some of you know,

561
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.160
because this group is all about knowing. Come on, I'm

562
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.279
giving it away. Come on, this. I mean, I'm giving

563
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:32.559
you it's like open book here.

564
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:32.920
All right.

565
00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.519
Okay, well we'll see if you know in a minute.

566
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.160
All right, but let's see where he's gonna go with

567
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.160
the idea of knowing and know in First John.

568
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.799
It's right here in your Bible. Some of you didn't

569
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:50.839
know that because you don't read your bib. But if

570
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:54.119
you read your Bible, you'll know that. He uses this

571
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.920
word no over twenty five.

572
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.599
Time. I'd say, he wants you to know something, wouldn't you.

573
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:09.440
That word no means to be aware.

574
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:14.840
Now he said, I think he said twenty five. Then

575
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.360
he said over twenty five. I have a believe thirty.

576
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:19.880
I think I have thirty written down, so I think

577
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.519
it would be accurate to say thirty times, or we

578
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.639
could say almost thirty times. Maybe my numbering is off.

579
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:28.360
It's numbers. I'm horrible with numbers. Okay, you can find

580
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.440
out for yourself, all right, you can find out for yourself,

581
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.960
but all right, to know? All right, come on, come on,

582
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:36.840
he's got to go there, right. I mean, if you're

583
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.920
going to talk about knowing in First John, it can

584
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:40.639
only go to one place, right.

585
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:51.800
It means to have knowledge, to be sure to understand,

586
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:57.719
to comprehend, to have absolute.

587
00:34:58.519 --> 00:34:59.199
Assurance.

588
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:04.840
I'm glad I got absolute assurance tonight.

589
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:07.960
Because one Tuesday.

590
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:13.920
Morning, July the fourth, nineteen seventy seven, down in Bitsburg,

591
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:19.320
South Carolina, I nailed an old fashioned order, and I

592
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:23.599
invited Jesus to come into my heart, and he came

593
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:27.519
in and he gave me eternal life.

594
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.480
Okay, he's equating knowing with assurance, and he says the

595
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.079
reason he has assurance is because of what happened in

596
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:41.280
nineteen seventy seven. Let me make this philologically very clear

597
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:45.960
to you. You do not get assurance from what happened

598
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:51.000
in nineteen seventy seven, nineteen eighty one, nineteen ninety three,

599
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:55.960
two thousand, twenty ten, twenty twenty. You get assurance for

600
00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:59.960
what happened two thousand years ago, when the eternal Sun

601
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:04.639
of God hung upon a cross and died for your sins,

602
00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.400
and his passive and act of obedience is imputed to

603
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.840
you by faith. Your assurance comes in what Christ did,

604
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.440
not what you supposedly did when you knelt at an altar,

605
00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.239
or knelt by your bed, or said a prayer with

606
00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:21.760
your mom or broke down at church camp or wherever

607
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:25.119
it has supposedly occurred. You do not find assurance and

608
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:30.400
a decision you made, you find assurance and what Jesus did.

609
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:35.599
Assurance is found in Christ, not in us. Because you

610
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.159
can make a decision and then some preacher will come

611
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:40.400
along the wall. Are you sure you really made a decision?

612
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:47.920
Was your decision sincere was your decision followed by abcdefghijk, elman, O, pqrstuv,

613
00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.599
w x Y, and Z yes. Are you doing all

614
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.159
of these things? Well, then your decision wasn't really legitimate.

615
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.679
Someone's going to come in and destroy your assurance based

616
00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:01.519
off a decision. Nobody can destroy my assurance because guess

617
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:05.280
what my assurance is in the finished work of Jesus Christ,

618
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:11.199
his obedience, his perfection, his holiness, his blood, his death,

619
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:15.000
his burial, his resurrection, him sitting at the right hand

620
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:19.400
of the Father, who is my advocate. He is my propitiation.

621
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.320
I mean, I could go on and on and on

622
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.679
and on and on. You get the idea. So I

623
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.119
do not like assurance being tied to what He did

624
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:32.079
in nineteen seventy seven when he knelt and he decided. No,

625
00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:40.880
my assurance is what Christ did, not my decision all right.

626
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:44.440
I know that's a different theological approach, but the only

627
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:47.000
thing that Look, here's what I know, no matter what

628
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:49.320
I do, no matter what I think, no matter what

629
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:53.079
I say, no matter what I feel, that those things

630
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.000
are transitory. They are changing. They're not immutable. They're very immutable,

631
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.840
they're constantly in But you know, what is absolutely assured

632
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:07.079
is the finished work of Jesus Christ. It was perfect,

633
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:10.679
it was it satisfied the wrath of God. It was perfect.

634
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:14.199
All I have to do is believe in it. And

635
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:16.639
I believe even my faith is not of myself, that

636
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.679
God as to grant me the faith. That's all who different. Now,

637
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.599
I know that's you get into theological distinctions there, but okay,

638
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.840
it's the point is assurance has to be found in

639
00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:31.559
something that is absolutely perfectly sure. And that is not

640
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:35.199
a decision. But I mean, how many decisions have you

641
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.880
made and then we've kind of not stayed true to

642
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:39.960
that decision. I mean, come on, have you ever made

643
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:40.519
a decision?

644
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:41.079
All right?

645
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:44.800
Yeah, no, No, it's in the finished work of Jesus Christ.

646
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.519
All right, That's that's where I'm going to point to.

647
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:50.519
But okay, we still got this word. No, we're not

648
00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:51.880
going to get very far, but let's see if we

649
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:52.920
can get a little further here.

650
00:38:57.159 --> 00:39:02.599
I'm glad I have absolute assurance. I just want to

651
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:07.199
take a ponder for is that a word? Ponder, a pause,

652
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:13.559
a pondered. Maybe take a few seconds and just ramble

653
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:19.039
about this and ask you the question, do you have

654
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:24.159
absolute assurance? You say that you have eternal.

655
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:25.519
Life?

656
00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:31.800
Now, just giving you some preliminary things. Everybody's still with me,

657
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:35.039
say was in the world, brother Joey, you got a

658
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:40.320
dead head up here tonight? Hello, I'm giving you some preliminaries.

659
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.760
Now we don't take you somewhere to the message that

660
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.199
God put on my heart today.

661
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:53.719
All right, that's the second time. God is the one

662
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:58.000
who gave him the message God. So this is God's

663
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.000
message again. We've already talked about my problem with that

664
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:06.000
entire concept, so many problems with it. Okay, but right

665
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.840
here we go. We got first, John, we got now no,

666
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.239
I am already I love the fact that he mentioned

667
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:15.480
no was mentioned over twenty five times. I love that,

668
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:20.239
absolutely love it. I love the idea of talking about assurance. Okay, great,

669
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:25.559
all right, so let's see where this goes again. Now

670
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.000
to me, the fact that he's mentioned no this time.

671
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:30.679
There's only one direction you can go. There's only one direct.

672
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.480
But he's not gone there yet. But I'm going to

673
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:34.440
give him a little bit a chance to go a

674
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.039
little further and then I'm gonna circle back around and

675
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.239
at least get us started and what will be a

676
00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:43.039
lengthy discussion about First John, and maybe we'll utilize some

677
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.440
of this sermon throughout all of our I don't know

678
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.599
how many parts this is going to go. I never

679
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:50.199
intended this to be a series. But if you're gonna

680
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.960
tell me no is used over twenty five times in

681
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:56.320
First John, you know what that screams. We've got to

682
00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:59.679
do something with this, right, Okay, So let's see what

683
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.559
is he going to explain why. I think he's just

684
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.320
going to explain no is used because of assurance. But

685
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:08.840
I think that that, oh, I don't know. Let's just see.

686
00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:09.920
I don't want to speak for.

687
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:17.679
Him because in chapter three, go back there.

688
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:21.599
I want to.

689
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:28.360
Preach tonight on five critical things you need to know,

690
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:38.199
and it's all found in chapter three. I want you

691
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:41.320
to look, if you will, in chapter three, in verse

692
00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:50.760
number two, for the first point, he says, beloved now

693
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.880
are we the sons of God? And it doth not

694
00:41:54.400 --> 00:42:00.960
yet appear what we shall be. Say these next four

695
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:07.519
words with me, But we know that when he shall appear,

696
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:14.000
we shall be like him, for we shall see him

697
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:22.880
as he is. He said, it's critical that you know

698
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:31.000
that Jesus is coming back again. Y'all didn't sound like

699
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:32.039
y'all believe.

700
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:34.320
That I said.

701
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:39.119
He said that Jesus is going to appear.

702
00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:42.760
Now, let me say this.

703
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:49.719
It'd be good if that thing that you've been thinking

704
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:56.639
about doing, and you might even be getting ready to

705
00:42:56.719 --> 00:43:03.480
do that, you don't do it. Let Jesus catch you

706
00:43:03.559 --> 00:43:06.079
with your hand in the cookie jars.

707
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:10.039
Okay, Now we could have a long discussion here.

708
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:10.239
Now.

709
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.320
See, obviously at this point we realize what he's not

710
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.280
going to do. Right, we're catching on really quick. What

711
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:18.039
is he not going to do? He's not going to

712
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:22.679
go into the actual Greek word for no. What it

713
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:26.119
could be correlated to, how does know fit with the history?

714
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:28.440
Like he's not going to go anywhere, He's just going

715
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:31.079
to go to It looks like five verses in first

716
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:34.320
John three, it appears that possibly I don't know if

717
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:36.480
it's going to use the word no, but five things

718
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:38.239
critical things we need to know. In the first one,

719
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:40.719
we need to know that Jesus is coming back. But

720
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:47.639
his entire emphasis is something like this, Hey, make sure

721
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:51.079
you're behaving because you don't want Jesus to come back

722
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:56.199
and catch you doing bad things. Now, this is kind

723
00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:58.840
of bizarre, right because if you think about it, just

724
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:02.320
for a practical StarPoint, does Jesus have to come back

725
00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:05.599
to catch me doing bad things? If we believe God

726
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:10.199
is omniscient, then he knows what I'm doing. He knows

727
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:13.840
what I'm desiring, he knows what I'm thinking. So Jesus

728
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.920
come back and quote unquote catch me doing it is

729
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:19.519
not going to be any different. He he already knows.

730
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:22.559
This is the idea that hey, be Hey, this is

731
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.480
I'm I'm not a fan of this theological approach. This

732
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:28.239
is like, hey, you guys, be good, so you don't

733
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.719
want Jesus to open the door and catch you doing it.

734
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:41.000
I don't I don't know if that is the right. Hey,

735
00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:43.400
don't let Jesus catch you. I'm not a fan of

736
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.480
this way of I don't know if that even really works.

737
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:49.400
Does it really work? I mean again, we can talk

738
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:53.480
about like the sinful nature, the sinful nature is like,

739
00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.679
oh wait, I could get caught, so I shouldn't do

740
00:44:55.760 --> 00:44:58.320
that now. Maybe maybe sometimes that helps. I don't know.

741
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.719
I just think this is kind of a very I

742
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:03.199
don't know the word for it. I don't want to

743
00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:06.000
be super critical. It just seems very like it's like

744
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:09.280
you're talking to a kid. Now, Hey, hey, don't let

745
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:14.239
mommy and Daddy catch you doing that. Right, this is like, hey,

746
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.960
don't let Jesus catch you doing it. But even if

747
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:22.079
I'm not doing it, does that make me better? Now?

748
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.199
From a practical standpoint, it may may mean better, But

749
00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:30.360
from a theological standpoint, I'm just as guilty right whether

750
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.800
I ever do it or not, because I've thought it,

751
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:38.280
desired it, want it so. And But so let's let

752
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:40.119
this play out just a little bit and then we'll

753
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:41.800
circle back around. I know we're going to go a

754
00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:44.559
little long, but that's okay. That's okay. We're going to

755
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:46.480
get back to where I think the word no should

756
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:48.679
really take us. This is this you're gonna see here.

757
00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:50.639
He's just going to get further and further and further

758
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:52.760
away from where I think, like, if you're going to

759
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:56.559
talk about no being used, well, I think thirty times

760
00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:59.920
in the epistle. I think we got to address that, right,

761
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.320
and don't we have to address that? I think so.

762
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:14.519
By amen, Hello, you don't wanting to come and catch

763
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:18.480
you doing the wrong thing. You won't hear and when

764
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:22.039
he comes for you to be watching and ready for

765
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:26.679
him to come. You want to be doing things that

766
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:28.880
becometh a Christian.

767
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:29.400
Amen.

768
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:33.679
You don't want to be caught doing the wrong thing.

769
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.800
You don't want to be called at the wrong place.

770
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:44.159
You don't want to be called listening to the wrong stuff.

771
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:49.119
You don't want to be caught listening to the So hey,

772
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:52.039
don't be listening to the wrong music, because when Jesus

773
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:54.960
comes back, he's gonna cat He's gonna catch you listening.

774
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:59.119
How how dare you listening to secular music? Unbelievable? What

775
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:03.760
are you doing? This really kind of reduces this to uh,

776
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.559
I don't know. You you come up with your own

777
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:16.199
description of it. I'm not you know, you do realize

778
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.239
you could be listening to the right things and have

779
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:22.599
a million wrong things going on inside of you. You

780
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:25.440
do realize that, right, I mean Jesus like, oh, you're

781
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.239
listening to the right music. Okay, You're all good to go.

782
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:33.079
I mean, I don't know in everything fully exposed to

783
00:47:33.159 --> 00:47:36.159
Jesus anyway, I like, I just this seems to have

784
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.960
a very limited understanding of this. It seems well, let's

785
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:42.320
continue here. So you know, so you don't want to listen.

786
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:44.840
So basically, you don't want to be listening. You don't

787
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:46.559
want to be in the wrong place. You don't want

788
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:50.880
to be listening to the wrong things. Because we've got standards, right,

789
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.000
we got stand we don't support anything that would be

790
00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:56.159
I don't know, ungodly right.

791
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.000
You don't mean oh hey, and out with the wrong crowd.

792
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:09.679
Befriending the wrong ones on TikTok and Facebook. Somebody helped me.

793
00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:14.039
I see. You don't want to be friends with bad people,

794
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:16.400
even though Jesus was a friend of sinners. So don't

795
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:20.440
befriend people on TikTok and don't befriend people on Facebook,

796
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.599
because you've got standards. You're not gonna support, You're not

797
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:26.800
gonna listen, You're not gonna be friends with people who

798
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:30.079
do bad things, right, I mean, because we've got standards

799
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.199
as Christians.

800
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:40.480
You wanna be sure when Jesus comes that he finds

801
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:48.440
you doing the things of God, that ye may know

802
00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:57.480
when he appears, we sh we shall be like him,

803
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:01.199
for we shall see him and the world. How in

804
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:06.000
the world are we gonna be just like Jesus, because

805
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:10.239
the Bible tells us that when he comes, we're all

806
00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:14.039
gonna be changed. In the moment, in the twinkling of

807
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:18.440
an eye, had the last trump, Thank God, this corruptible

808
00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:22.400
is gonna put on in corruption, and this mortal is

809
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:27.440
gonna put on immortality. And thank God, then shall be

810
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:33.320
said thy saying our death is swallowing up in nactory. Amen,

811
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:37.360
I thank God. One day after a while, I'm gonna

812
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:43.239
shed this old flash, Amen, and I'm gonna put on

813
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:49.679
a new body, fasting life under his glorious body, and

814
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:51.800
I shall see.

815
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:53.119
Him and his glory.

816
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:55.239
Amen. Thank God.

817
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:56.719
Jesus is coming.

818
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:57.920
And y'all know it.

819
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:05.159
You heard. I know that Jesus is coming again. I

820
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:08.599
know there's a lot of folk they don't believe it,

821
00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:17.400
Pastor Joey, there's a whole lot of preachers they won't preach.

822
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:28.320
It seemed like the world's getting worse and worse, and

823
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:37.119
so is the religious serena where men of God have

824
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:42.679
quit preaching. Brother Joey there's two things that preachers don't

825
00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:46.239
preach on much, no more. They don't preach about Hell,

826
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:51.159
and they don't want to preach about the Second Coming.

827
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.480
You remember back in the days, that's all you heard.

828
00:50:55.239 --> 00:50:58.840
You couldn't go to a revival meeting without hearing somebody

829
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:03.199
gonna preach either about Hell or about Jesus coming.

830
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:06.800
Last Sunday night, I preach.

831
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:11.880
On Hell in that church, hallelujah, and somebody God saved.

832
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:12.480
Amen.

833
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:20.719
Let me tell you, folks don't believe it. Preachers don't

834
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:25.000
preach it, but it ain't changed the fact that Jesus

835
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:26.480
is coming again.

836
00:51:26.639 --> 00:51:27.119
Amen.

837
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:35.320
Thank God, he's coming. This world's in chaos, but he's coming.

838
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:35.840
Amen.

839
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:43.960
This generation has gone tie hell and back, but he's coming. Amen.

840
00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:47.679
And I want to tell you when he comes, thank God,

841
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:50.760
he's gonna set some things strayed.

842
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:51.320
Amen.

843
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.760
He's gonna fix some things that need to get fixed.

844
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:04.480
I'm voting for Donald Trump. But Donald Trump can't fix America.

845
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:16.840
Hey, we got standards, but I'm voting for Donald Trump. Now,

846
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:18.440
ladies and gentlemen, I'm not gonna sit here and go

847
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:21.639
through everything Donald Trump has said, everything that he has done.

848
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.119
I'm not going to go through it all. The list

849
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:28.159
is lengthy and long. This is what confounds and confuses

850
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:32.119
the world over and over and over again. We're about godliness,

851
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:35.639
We're about standards. We're about not befriending the wrong people,

852
00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:38.719
We're not about listening to the wrong things. But then

853
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:44.320
we will proudly proclaim behind the pulpit while holding a

854
00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:50.480
Bible or support for Donald Trump. I think he goes

855
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:53.480
on to say one more thing about Donald Trump. What

856
00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:56.280
I want to demonstrate is he's not in any way,

857
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:58.119
shape or for I'm going to actually deal with the

858
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:01.719
no here what first John is actually about. We're not

859
00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:04.880
gonna actually get into anything, and so we're gonna circle

860
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:06.519
to it really quick here in just a minute. But

861
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:08.599
I think he's gonna say it again. I think he's

862
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:11.159
gonna be very proud about the fact that he's voting

863
00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:13.599
for Donald Trump. What this has to do with First John,

864
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.000
what this has to do with knowing? Okay? Are the

865
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.639
word no okay? But he wants us to know that

866
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:20.960
he's voting for Donald Trump.

867
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:23.480
He can't.

868
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:33.440
Joe Biden, cain't Finxy, Kamala Harris King, Finxy. Somebody all

869
00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:40.119
say amen, right there. I hope I'm not too controversial

870
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:44.639
for your television whatever up there.

871
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:49.320
But raw, raw rang, I'm preaching. I'm preaching.

872
00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:51.760
And I get to say tonight that I'm gonna go

873
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:53.559
ahead and vote for Donald Trump.

874
00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:55.480
And I say, take a run, and fell on that.

875
00:53:55.800 --> 00:54:00.480
Hallelujah, he's to vote.

876
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.599
He runs. You can hear him running because he's voting

877
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:08.239
for Donald Trump. Hallelujah. That's what he gets saying he's

878
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.039
voting for Donald Trump. That's what gets him excited. Now,

879
00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:14.719
ladies and gentlemen, I don't you do whatever you want

880
00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:18.400
with that. But the whole thing is, I'm grateful for

881
00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:21.599
the sermon because it gave me the idea about no no,

882
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:23.840
and it gave me a chance for us to really

883
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.239
dig into First John. So I know that took us

884
00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:29.079
fifty four minutes to get there, but that's okay. You

885
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:31.920
get the basic idea right now. You can go listen

886
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:34.480
to the other five things. You can go, you can do,

887
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:36.159
you do the rest, and maybe we'll come back to

888
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:38.920
some of it. But ladies and gentlemen, let's do a

889
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:42.039
little bit of work, all right. So the first use

890
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:44.599
of the word no in First John is found in

891
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:49.559
First John, chapter two, verse three, First John, chapter two,

892
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:53.880
verse three, And we read and hereby we do we

893
00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:58.719
do know that we know him if we keep his commandments.

894
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:02.360
Hereby we do know that we know him if we

895
00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:05.280
keep his commandments. Now, let's go back, let's go to

896
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:09.719
the anti linear and and hereby we do know and

897
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.679
that we know all right, So if both of them

898
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.360
are the same Greek word, we do know that that

899
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:18.320
phrase we do know comes from one Greek word we

900
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:21.360
know comes from the same Greek word. And that Greek

901
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.440
word is this. Are you ready? Are you ready?

902
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:31.280
Strong's G one ninety seven genosko.

903
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:42.239
Genosco, genosco, genosco, genosco, genosco? Is that is that right there?

904
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.880
Did did the light bulb come on? Gnosco? And you're like, oh,

905
00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:50.599
I know what, I know? What's happening here? Gnoscore? Are

906
00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:55.000
you okay? Maybe maybe not? Gnosco? Well, ganosco has the

907
00:55:55.039 --> 00:56:02.519
same basic root as this word. You ready, genosco? Or nosis?

908
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:04.679
Nosis?

909
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:12.239
Nosis, ganosco, nosis, ganosco gnosis? What is nosis? What does

910
00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:14.440
that got to do with genosco? How are these two

911
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:17.239
linked together? Well? Are you ready for a little bit

912
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.679
of information that I think is very very important? There

913
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:27.960
is a connection between the Greek word ganosco and Nostaism.

914
00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:33.400
There is a connection. There is a connection between the

915
00:56:33.400 --> 00:56:37.719
Greek word genosco and gnosticism, but it is important to

916
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.920
distinguish between the common linguistic use of ganosco and the

917
00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:45.800
philological or philosophical system of gnosticism. The Greek word genosco

918
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:49.639
it simply means to know or to come to know,

919
00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:52.840
and it is used frequently in the New Testament, including

920
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:58.400
First John, to describe knowledge and a relational, experiential, or

921
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:02.679
intellectual sense. It can just be no in a relational way,

922
00:57:03.079 --> 00:57:06.480
know an experiential way, or know in an intellectual way.

923
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:10.199
Write that down. Kenosco can simply mean to know in

924
00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:13.599
a relational way, to know in an experiential way, or

925
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.519
to know in an intellectual sense. It can have different meanings,

926
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:21.079
so you could say you know him in a relational

927
00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:24.760
way or in a experiential way, if this or this,

928
00:57:25.159 --> 00:57:27.639
and just keep that in mind, because this becomes a

929
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:32.320
never ending argument about oh, this is about proving someone's salvation.

930
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.000
We could get into this all right, But it is

931
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.760
a common Greek It is a common verb in Greek,

932
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:41.760
not inherently tied to any particular philosophical or theological system.

933
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:44.679
For example, it is used in many contexts to refer

934
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:48.280
to knowing God, people, or facts. For John seventeen three,

935
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:52.239
this is eternal life. That you may know Gnosco the

936
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:54.679
only true God in Jesus Christ, whom you have sinn

937
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.320
first John two to three. By this week Gnosco that

938
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.039
we have come to know him if we his commandments

939
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:03.800
right now, this could be the idea, just so that

940
00:58:03.880 --> 00:58:06.079
you know, I know Him in kind of in a

941
00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:10.440
fellowship way, in a relationship, a relational way. Doesn't necessarily

942
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.400
mean if I keep his commandments, that's the proof that

943
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:17.159
I am saying, Because if obedience is the proof of salvation,

944
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:20.360
then wouldn't you need perfect obedience to prove Then you say, well, no,

945
00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.159
it doesn't have to be perfect obedience, but you're perpetually

946
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:25.360
in disobedience because we never keep the law, all right,

947
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:28.559
then that just becomes no assurance and only just a

948
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:31.440
matter of crazy. But if we can understand it in

949
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:34.920
maybe a fellowship way, then maybe it makes a little

950
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.400
bit more sense. But okay, we'll get to that, all right.

951
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.639
And these biblical context Ganosko refers to knowing God knowing

952
00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:46.480
the truth or knowing facts through experience, relationship, or understanding.

953
00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:51.920
It is not inherently tied to any special or secret

954
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:57.039
form of knowledge. Gnosko is not tied to any special

955
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:03.519
or secret form of knowledge. Now, how does gnosticism and nosis,

956
00:59:03.639 --> 00:59:05.000
how does this comes along?

957
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:05.159
Well?

958
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:09.000
The term gnosticism is derived from the Greek now nosis,

959
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:13.559
meaning knowledge. Gnosticism refers to a diverse set of religious

960
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:17.480
and philosophical movements in the early centuries of Christianity that

961
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:23.760
emphasizes esoteric hidden knowledge nosis as the key to salvation.

962
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:30.559
So John uses no no, no, no, no, no, okay

963
00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:35.199
thirty times, this idea to know something thirty times. And

964
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:41.119
it's being written in the context of gnosticism, where gnosticism

965
00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:45.119
refers to a diverse set of religious and philosophical movements

966
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:50.440
in the early centuries of Christianity that emphasize an esoteric

967
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:56.880
hidden knowledge nosis as the key to salvation. So first

968
00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:04.760
John Listen to Me was written as a polemic against gnosticism. Gnosticism.

969
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:08.840
You have to have this esoteric secret gnosis in order

970
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:11.480
to be saved. And John is going to take the

971
01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:15.000
idea of knowledge no no, no, no and use it

972
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:19.159
thirty times. This is your hermeneutical key and how to

973
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:21.800
handle first John. Obviously, this sermon is not going to

974
01:00:21.800 --> 01:00:24.159
get into any of this in any way, shape or form.

975
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:30.239
Gnosticism taught that this special knowledge was accessible only to

976
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:33.280
a select few, and that it allowed them to transcend

977
01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:37.039
the corrupt material world and reconnect with the divine. And

978
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:41.679
gnosticism knowing was not simply about factual or relational knowledge,

979
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:47.119
but an elite, mystical understanding of spiritual realities that were

980
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:51.800
hidden from the masses. So in gnosticism, this is secret

981
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.519
knowledge and most people don't have it. Only a select

982
01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:00.000
few are given this nosis. Now what's the connection between Genosky,

983
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:04.760
so genosco and Gnosticism. Well, the word ganosco to know,

984
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:09.440
and gnosticism rooted and nosis share the same Greek root.

985
01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:12.559
The connection between them is more about how the Gnostics

986
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:17.239
appropriated the concept of knowledge, rather than an intrinsic connection

987
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:21.400
between the words themselves. So what happens is Gnostics took

988
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:26.519
the concept of knowledge and they appropriated it. They took it,

989
01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:30.159
they took it for themselves, and they used it in

990
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.599
a different way. Now this is all happening in the

991
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:37.039
context of early Christianity. So now you're going to have. Well,

992
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:41.519
these people speak of knowing or to know this way, Well,

993
01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:44.960
if John comes along, First John and then thirty times

994
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.239
uses the words the word no, there's something going on here, right,

995
01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:53.440
I think very important the Gnostic. So they have the

996
01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:56.719
same Greek roots, but not the Gnostic emphasis was on

997
01:01:56.800 --> 01:02:01.800
secret knowledge, and gnosticism nosis refers, Okay, hang on, my

998
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.800
notes are doing weird thing here. In gnosticism, nosis refers

999
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:11.599
to a special hidden knowledge that supports that supposedly unlocks

1000
01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:16.639
spiritual realities, and is necessary for salvation. Gnostics viewed this

1001
01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:20.840
knowledge as superior to faith or ethical living, and reserved

1002
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:24.679
it for an elite, enlightened few. The contrast with the

1003
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:28.679
New Testament's more common and open use of ginosco, which

1004
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:33.480
emphasizes relational, moral, and experiential knowledge of God accessible to

1005
01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:36.880
all believers. So basically, what you have in First John

1006
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:41.880
taking place is an argument against the Gnostic understanding of

1007
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:45.519
knowing for a different understanding of knowing. You have a

1008
01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:50.960
contrast between two concepts of no or two concepts of knowing.

1009
01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:55.119
All right, so let me go through this again. In gnosticism,

1010
01:02:55.400 --> 01:03:00.960
gnosis refers to a special hidden knowledge that's posly unlocked

1011
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.760
spiritual realities and as necessary for salvation. Gnostics viewed this

1012
01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:10.079
knowledge as superior to faith. Right, it's not about faith,

1013
01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:13.280
it's about knowing. You don't need to worry about ethical living.

1014
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:15.920
You just need to worry about knowing, and it reserved

1015
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:20.039
for an elite enlightened few. This contrast with the New

1016
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:26.239
Testament's more common open use of ganosco, which emphasizes relational, moral,

1017
01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:32.440
and experiential knowledge of God accessible to all believers. John's

1018
01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:37.079
use of genosco as a response to narcissism and letters

1019
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.400
like First John. The repeated use of the word genosco

1020
01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:46.360
to know, can be understood as John's polemic against Gnostic ideas.

1021
01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:50.960
John emphasized that true knowledge of God is relational. It

1022
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:54.800
is not hidden or esoteric, but experienced through faith, obedience,

1023
01:03:54.800 --> 01:03:58.199
and love, accessible to all believers. All who believe in

1024
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:01.880
Christ know God, not just an elite few, and is

1025
01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:04.679
tied to moral living. Knowing God is evidenced by keeping

1026
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:07.639
his commandments and loving others, in contrast to the Gnostic

1027
01:04:07.719 --> 01:04:11.719
view that separate knowledge that separated knowledge from ethical conduct.

1028
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:16.000
The Greek verb genosko to know is a common term

1029
01:04:16.039 --> 01:04:18.519
in the New Testament and does not inherently carry the

1030
01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:22.239
same connotations as gnosticism, even though they share the same

1031
01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:25.760
Greek root. The connection between the two is primarily in

1032
01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:29.320
how Gnosticism appropriated the concept of knowledge and turned it

1033
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:33.639
into a specialized, esoteric form of knowledge that was central

1034
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:36.639
to its teachings and contrasts. John and other New Testament

1035
01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:41.559
writers use genosco to describe a relational, experiential, and widely

1036
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:46.360
accessible knowledge of God, often countering the Gnostic idea that

1037
01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:52.079
only a spiritual elite could attain true knowledge. So what

1038
01:04:52.119 --> 01:04:55.119
does this set up? I had to go through that quickly.

1039
01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.400
At sixty four minutes we have heard a sermon. Take

1040
01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:01.519
us to the First John and look at a number

1041
01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:06.280
of scriptures. It emphasized the word no is used over

1042
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:08.760
twenty five times. I think it's about thirty times. You

1043
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:12.159
can check and see if my math is correct. It

1044
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:16.599
does nothing to really explain why John is using no.

1045
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:19.880
It doesn't explain why no would be used. In the

1046
01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:24.320
historical context of First John. Gnosticism has not even been mentioned.

1047
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:28.280
And then it turned into hey, guys, Jesus is coming back.

1048
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:32.039
You need to know this, so behave correctly, act right,

1049
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:37.320
and I'm voting for Donald Trump. That's kind of what

1050
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:41.119
it turned into, all right, Now you can look at

1051
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.000
how they're handling it. Now, Look, many of you prefer

1052
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:47.119
that kind of preaching. You like that. Just give me

1053
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:51.000
five things from about five critical things I need to

1054
01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:53.760
know in First John chapter three. And I don't really

1055
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:59.079
care about gnosticism and gnosis and the other Greek word

1056
01:05:59.119 --> 01:06:03.480
here or did I have it gonosco? Okay, I don't

1057
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:05.800
care about any of that. I don't care about polemic

1058
01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:08.599
against gnosticism. I don't care about any of that. But

1059
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.039
here's the thing. You may not care, and you may

1060
01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:14.760
like this more simplistic, surface level preaching. The only thing

1061
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.760
is you're not understanding the actual purpose of the book.

1062
01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:25.119
To understand First John, we have to understand why he's

1063
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.119
using the word no over and over and over and

1064
01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:31.400
over again, because it's a contract. He is giving a

1065
01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:37.679
polemic against knowing no versus their understanding of no or knowing.

1066
01:06:37.960 --> 01:06:43.159
And it's completely different ideologies and different systems. One is

1067
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:50.000
a denial of everything Christianity teaches. We've got to understand that.

1068
01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:52.639
And then when you go through First John, almost everything

1069
01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:57.079
in there that most evangelicals and fundamentalists just turn into

1070
01:06:57.079 --> 01:07:00.480
a test to prove whether we're saved or not saved,

1071
01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:03.559
which I think is a misunderstanding of the book. And

1072
01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:09.239
they completely miss this. Actually, it's an argument against Gnostic ideals.

1073
01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:13.760
It's like, hey, don't it talks about those who will

1074
01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:19.440
seduce you. That's the Gnostics. The Gnostics were seducing and deceiving.

1075
01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:24.320
The anti Christ at this time were the Gnostic leaders.

1076
01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:28.599
They were anti Christ. They were were the antithesis to

1077
01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:33.719
a Christian understanding of God, of flesh, of the world,

1078
01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:40.039
and of knowing. First John is a test against Gnostic ideas.

1079
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.000
And if you don't get that, you missed the entire purpose.

1080
01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:45.039
And how do you know?

1081
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:45.920
You know?

1082
01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:49.480
You know because the first time you see no, you

1083
01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:51.119
know it's this Greek.

1084
01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:58.360
Word Strong's g one ninety seven ganoskoosko ganosco.

1085
01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:02.639
As soon as you hear ganosko, you're like knosco gnosis. Okay,

1086
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:08.079
same Greek root boom. First John is about gnosticism. It's

1087
01:08:08.119 --> 01:08:13.599
an argument against Gnostic ideas. And the no of the

1088
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:21.560
know of First John is relational, intellectual, experiential, moral. The

1089
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:28.119
Gnostic idea of no was esoteric, it was secret. It

1090
01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:30.920
was only for a select few, had nothing to do

1091
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:34.840
with moral living, had nothing to do with faith. It

1092
01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:43.880
was the opposite of faith. So what we will do

1093
01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:47.680
is we're going to do a complete understanding of gnosticism,

1094
01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:49.920
and we're going to try to understand how Narsissism and

1095
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:51.920
First John worked together. And we're going to do so

1096
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:53.800
in a way that we haven't done before, hopefully in

1097
01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:55.880
a little deeper way that we're going to look at

1098
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:58.319
all the different interpretations of First John and we're going

1099
01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:02.439
to challenge many of those interpretings. Now, will we do

1100
01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:05.680
anything else with this sermon? I don't know. I don't know.

1101
01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:08.640
How do you go from Hey, Jesus is coming back.

1102
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:10.840
Be a good person, don't hang out with bad people,

1103
01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:14.000
don't be friends with bad people, don't listen to bad things.

1104
01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:17.520
Just be a good person. But I'm voting for Donald Trump. Okay,

1105
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:22.520
I don't know how in the world. I I don't

1106
01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:26.239
even know how that like what? And then he starts running.

1107
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:28.600
He gets so excited to tell everyone he's voting with

1108
01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:32.279
Donald Trump. He runs and howllelujah. I mean, like not

1109
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:35.960
howllelujah that Jesus is my savior. But hawllelujah, I'm voting

1110
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:40.119
for Donald Trump. That's ladies, I'm you talk about the

1111
01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:45.119
political hijacking of the American church. That's it right there. Well,

1112
01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:47.800
what if Jesus comes back and sees if you're voting

1113
01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:50.479
for someone? Who? Oh? Do we go through all the

1114
01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:53.079
things Donald Trump has done? Do we? But see if

1115
01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:55.439
I say anything that he's done, then Trump supported her?

1116
01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:59.560
Like fake news? Trump is sinless? Okay, well all right,

1117
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:04.439
so yeah, but you see where how that? Then? Guess what?

1118
01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:06.880
What did that accomplish? You just took away from the

1119
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:10.000
entire sermon. Now, you could have made the same point

1120
01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:16.319
by just saying, hey, it's election season. Electing someone is

1121
01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:19.159
not what we need. We need Christ to come back.

1122
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:21.960
But until Christ comes back, well, what are we called

1123
01:10:21.960 --> 01:10:23.439
to do as the church? Are we called to get

1124
01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:26.079
someone elected? No, we're called to live out our Christian faith?

1125
01:10:26.239 --> 01:10:32.720
Or maybe how about this? Explain how does hang on? Listen?

1126
01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:37.279
And I will challenge you on this, thy good? Where

1127
01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:40.680
was the passage that he uses first John three? I

1128
01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:47.399
did not write it down First John chapter three? Where

1129
01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:56.880
did he have it? Kind? Where did he? What verse

1130
01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:02.159
was he looking at? Oh? I had I was I

1131
01:11:02.199 --> 01:11:04.079
had it, Mark, Well, there's not that many verses in

1132
01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:05.560
chapter three, I should be able to find it. He

1133
01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:08.119
give me one second, here, give me one second. Here

1134
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:18.800
U okay, oh, here we go. First John, chapter three,

1135
01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:23.039
verse two, But a beloved Now are we? Now? Are

1136
01:11:23.079 --> 01:11:25.079
we the sons of God? And it doth not yet

1137
01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:27.760
appear what we shall be? But we know that when

1138
01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:31.119
he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we

1139
01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:34.760
shall see him as he is as First John three

1140
01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:38.239
to two. What does that knowing that has to do

1141
01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:42.000
with gnosticism? That's the real issue. What does First John

1142
01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:45.039
three too? Does that have anything to say about gnosticism?

1143
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.439
Is it in any way, shape or form? Is it

1144
01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:52.680
referring to anything about gnosticism? But look, what's the issue here? Now?

1145
01:11:53.079 --> 01:11:54.840
You I don't know if there is or isn't that

1146
01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:57.439
That's really the question we should have, right because it's

1147
01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:00.359
using the now which Greek word? Remember there's two Greeks

1148
01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:03.880
that are translated no in First John. Now we're focused

1149
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:05.560
on on the one because it has the same Greek

1150
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.840
root as it has the same route as gnosis, which

1151
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:11.119
then connects it to gnosticism. Okay, you get the idea

1152
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:13.520
why I went that direction? Now, the other one may

1153
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:17.000
not have such a direct correlation too gnosticism, but it

1154
01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:19.520
is still it's going to be emphasizing a different aspect

1155
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:22.159
of no, which may be very different than the Gnostic

1156
01:12:22.199 --> 01:12:25.159
idea of no. But we're not gonna get this is

1157
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:27.239
not going to get into any of this. It's gonna

1158
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:34.840
just all right, so next time, what we will do

1159
01:12:36.039 --> 01:12:43.239
next time, what we will do is to see where

1160
01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:44.680
do I want to go next time? So I've got

1161
01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:47.279
we could go through all the uses of first of

1162
01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:49.359
no in First John, but you're going to be looking

1163
01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:51.439
those up, so I'm not going to do that. We've

1164
01:12:51.479 --> 01:12:55.520
looked at the correlation or the connection between the Greek

1165
01:12:55.560 --> 01:12:58.960
word genosco and gnosticism. We've done that. We went through

1166
01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:01.880
that relatively quick. We'll probably repeat a lot of that.

1167
01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:04.000
But then we're gonna look at the We're gonna do

1168
01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:09.159
a summary of gnosticism and its origins, all right, and

1169
01:13:09.199 --> 01:13:11.159
then and then that will give us once the more

1170
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:15.239
you know about gnosticism, the more you can understand First John.

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And maybe we always want to bring it to our context,

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but we always need to understand it in its original context.

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All right, I'm going to stop there that went much

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longer than I wanted. Hopefully some of that will be beneficial.

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I know we had to go through that quickly. About

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the two Greek words or the two yeah, the two

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Greek words with the same route and ginosko and gnosis.

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You get the idea. We went through a little bit.

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We will, we will, we will. We will go through

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that again and the next one, and then we'll advance

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it a little bit and we will We'll just see.

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I don't know if we'll get back to the sermon

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if you listen to the rest of the sermon again,

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five critical things you need to know. Please, if you

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listen to it, let me know, like, oh, point number

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two or point number three, you he does mention gnosticism

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because where we stopped is about where I stopped, right,

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I stopped with the Donald Trump thing, so you get me.

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And because I kept listening because I was hoping, where

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what is he going to do with this? And it

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appears that he wasn't going to do anything that I

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thought he would do. But maybe at some point he's

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going to mention gnosticism, maybe right, So we will see

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and if he does, then we can use that part.

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All right. Thanks for listening. Sorry it went so long,

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but you know I want to make sure you get

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your money's worth. Everyone, have a great day. God bless