Jan. 24, 2025

AI and Joshua 3

AI and Joshua 3

We review a sermon on Joshua 3 and consider predictions AI made about the sermon

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We review a sermon on Joshua 3 and consider predictions AI made about the sermon

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Good morning everyone.

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It is Friday, January the twenty fourth, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently ten twelve am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. So question, all right,

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Yesterday we talked about hard questions, right, we talked about

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difficult questions.

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This one is a pretty simple question. All right.

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If you were getting ready to listen to a sermon

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on Joshua chapter three. Let's say that this coming Sunday,

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you're going to church and you've been told your pastor

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is going to be preaching on Joshua chapter three. Or

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you sat down, you opened up the sermon's two point

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oh app and you're like, oh, here's a sermon on

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Joshua chapter three. If you were to take a piece

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of paper and a pencil and write down five possible

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ways in which the pastor is going to missupply, mishandle

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misinterpret Joshua chapter three, what five things would you write down?

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What would be five ways you.

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Think a pastor may misinterpret, misapply, mishandle Joshua Chapter three.

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What would they be go?

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Right? Now?

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If I was like at church and I had a

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live audience, I probably would literally just say okay, no,

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write them down. Then we would go around and see

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everyone's predictions. Then I would then talk about a particular

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sermon or if I could, I would I would play

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it for everyone and see if if their predictions were accurate. Well,

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I want you to make your predictions, Joshua, chap to three.

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How do you think of pastor may misapply, misinterpret, mishandle

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Joshua Chapter three. I mean it's a pretty simple, straightforward

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chapter by all means open your Bible and look if

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you don't know what's there, right, if you want, I'll

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just I've got a Bible open right here. I'll just

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give you the kind of little section headings right preparing

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to cross the Jordan the art passes before Israel passage

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over Jordan.

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That seems pretty I mean, how can you mess that up? Right?

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I mean, how can you mess this up? It's pretty simple,

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it's pretty straightforward. Using the artificial intelligence for the Bible

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memory app it tells me this. Joshua Chapter three, Verse

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one introduces a pivotal moment in the history of Israel,

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as they prepare to cross the Jordan River into the

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Promised Land. This verse sets the stage for God's miraculous

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intervention and the exercise of faith by the israel Lites.

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So let me let's look for some clues there. Joshua

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three to one introduces a pivotal moment in the history

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of Come on, say it with me, class Israel as

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they who is that they? Israel prepares to cross the

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Jordan River that's an actual physical river into the Promised land,

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actual physical land that was promised by God to Israel.

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Ok.

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This verse sets the states for God's miraculous intervention and

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the exercise of faith by the israel Lights.

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I think I think you can see what I'm stressing.

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So which is going to give you kind of a

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clue of where I think pastors are going to mess up?

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But there you have it.

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I mean, I think I think it's pretty simple. It's

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pretty straightforward.

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Correct. Now, the argument would be, well, what is applicable?

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What is it applicable?

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But before you ask the question of what is applicable,

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what you would want to do is just study the

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text and find out what happened in its historical context.

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What actually occurred before you start trying to apply it.

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But what do you do?

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So if you were to make your predictions about five

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ways you think a pastor will mishandle, misapply, misinterpret Joshua

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chapter three, I've already kind of give you a little

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bit of hint right there.

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What I think.

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I'm stressing that this text is not about us. So

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you can already tell that. I know, based on everything

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we've been talking about for a long time in our

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sermon reviews, pastors constantly take passages.

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Not about us and make it about us.

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Well, just a few minutes ago, I was looking at

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the sermon's two point Oh app I saw a new

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sermon added and the name of the new sermon are

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you ready facing your biggest challenges? Facing your biggest challenges? Now,

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if it was just a sermon on facing your biggest challenges,

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that would be one thing.

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But when I.

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Noticed that the text for the sermon entitled facing your

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Biggest Challenges was Joshua chapter three.

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I was like, oh boy, here we go.

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We haven't even started the sermon and you and I

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have already been included. Joshua chapter three is not about

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you facing your biggest challenges.

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It has literally.

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Nothing to do with you. So already I know it's

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about them. It's about they, but them they becomes about you, me, us.

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We know it's I.

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Don't understand why this is such a problem in Christianity.

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So because we've been talking about artificial intelligence, this is

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what I did. I went to artificial intelligence. I'm gonna

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scroll all the way up here because it's a long.

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Conversation, and I simply asked Ai to do the follow up.

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Are you ready?

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I asked, Ai, predict.

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All the ways a pastor may mishandle, misinterpret and misupply

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Joshua chapter three in a sermon. AI responded, here are

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potential ways pastors might mishandle, misinterpret or misupply Joshua Chapter three,

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And sermons AI gives me, are you ready for this? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

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fifteen different predictions on how a pastor may mishandle, misinterpret

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and misapply Joshua Chapter three, And it did in five

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seconds and five seconds, like, hey, here are fifteen things

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you should be looking out for now. If you really

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think about this, this could really be a problem for pastors.

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I don't think pastors are yet prepared for the fact

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that the people sitting in the pew have these tools.

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But just think about how this could work. Are you ready?

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I don't know if you know what your pastor's preaching

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on Sunday, I don't know if you know. You may

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want to make a phone call, just find hey, what's

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the text for the sermon on Sunday? You can go

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ahead and ask AI, do my pastor is going to

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be preaching on this text? What are all the possible

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ways he may mishandle misinterpret and misapply. Then you can

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go to church on Sunday and sit there and go, well,

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how many many how many of the predictions did AI

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get right?

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And how many did they get wrong? Now, I'm not

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saying you should do that.

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You could do that, and pastors need to be prepared

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that the people now can show up already with a

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predictive model on what you're going to do wrong. And

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so far, every time I've asked AI to predict how

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a pastor may mishandle misapply or misinterpret a passage, and

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almost I think I don't think I've yet had a

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case where it was wrong. In some cases, it was

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so dead on right that it was somewhat shocking that

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Ais like, oh, a person, a human being is going

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to be preaching, Well, we know what they're going to do.

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It can predict, So we're gonna I'm gonna go through

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these now, I don't have time to Like Ai writes

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a small book here, Basically, it gives me fifteen different

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ways a pastor may mishandled, misapply, misinterpret Joshua chapter three,

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and it also explains each one in some detail. So

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this is like a small book AI put together in

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about five seconds.

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Let me just go through.

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I want you to write these down, because what we're

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going to do is we're gonna look at AI's prediction

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and then we're gonna listen to the sermon. Now, now

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I did not give Ai the title of the sermon.

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I want to make it very clear. I didn't even

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tell them the title of the sermon. Point now, after

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this I do give I went ahead and gave Ai

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the title of the sermon, and then it kind of

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modified its predictions a little bit because immediately when Ai

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saw the title of the sermon, it was like, well,

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it's obviously what this sermon is going to do wrong.

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It's obvious what it's going to do wrong. And I

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feel the same way. Now, Ai could be wrong. I

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could be wrong.

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That's why we're gonna listen to the sermon and figure

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it out. But here are the fifteen things Ai is

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predicting that a pastor may do and mishandling, misapplying, and

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misinterpreting Joshua chapter three, Are you ready? Number one, pastors,

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So there's a possibility now Ai uses the term pastor's plural.

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Pastors might mishandle, misinterpret or misapply sermons on Joshua chapter three,

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and the following ways. Number one, over spiritualizing the crossing

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of the Jordan River.

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They're gonna over spiritualize it.

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They're gonna make it to some big spirit treading the

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crossing of the Jordan River as purely spiritual metaphor, such

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as crossing into your personal promise land, okay, without recognizing

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the historical and covenantal context of the event. So, hey,

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crossing the river of Jordan, this applies to us. This

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is a spiritual picture for us.

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It has nothing to do with us.

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They cross over the Jordan because God had made a

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specific covenant with Israel.

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It's not about you.

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Okay, I'm gonna get mad just even trying to talk

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about this.

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AI's like, don't over spiritualize it.

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So we're gonna be listening to see are they gonna

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over spiritualize the crossing? Number two ignoring the Covenant context,

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failing to emphasize that this event fulfills God's promises to Abraham,

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Isaac and Jacob and instead potentially and instead presenting it

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as an isolated story about faith or leadership.

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That's mishandling.

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Misapplying, misinterpreting the text. Number three misapplying following the art,

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treating the Israelites instruction to follow the arc of the

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Covenant as a direct analogy to following the Holy Spirit

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or following your pastor that's not what the text is about.

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Number four misusing the miraculous event, equitting the miraculous stopping

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of the Jordan's water with promises of modern day miracles

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such as guaranteed physical healing or overcoming insurmountable obstacles.

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Now did you hear that?

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Misusing the miraculous the event, This miraculous event somehow teaches

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us how we can overcome our insurmountable obstacles.

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What is the name of this sermon?

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Facing your biggest challenges. You can already see where AI is.

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Ai at this point did not even know the name

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of the sermon. But Ai is getting really close to

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already kind of figuring out where this sermon is going,

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at least based on the title. AI could be wrong

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and I could be wrong. Number five over emphasizing over

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emphasis on leader principles, using Joshua's leadership as the primary focus,

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turning the passage into how to be a good leader

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sermon without recognizing God as the main actor. Number six

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misinterpreting consecrate yourselves, treating the call to consecration as a

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demand for moral perfection or self sanctification through personal effort,

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without the emphasis of God's role in sanctification or the

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unique context of the text. Number seven missupplying the dry

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ground using the phrase the israel Lites crossed on dry

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ground as a metaphor for life's obstacles being completely removed if.

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One has enough faith.

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So I mean AI obviously knows how we typically mishandle

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this passage, ignoring the role of the priest, overlooking the

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significance of the priests carrying the arc and stepping into

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the water first as mediators between.

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God and Israel.

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Number nine allegorizing the Jordan River, treating the Jordan River

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as a symbol of death and the promised land is Heaven,

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thereby turning the text into an allegory disconnected from its

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historical and philological significance. Number ten forcing a personal application,

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insisting that every listener identify their Jordan River or next

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step step of faith, without acknowledging that this was a

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specific event for Israel under specific circumstances. Number eleven failing

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to address God's sovereignty, focusing entirely on Israel's faith and

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obedience while neglecting to emphasized God's power and sovereignty and

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stopping the waters and leading his people. Number twelve confusing

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promise and fulfillment, treating the crossing of the Jordan as

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symbolic of promises made to New Testament believers without clarifying

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that these were specific promises to Israel and a specific context.

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the passage as an individual faith journey, ignoring the corporate

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experience of Israel as God's covenant people. Number fourteen, using

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the text as a springboard, reading the text briefly and

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topics like New Year's resolutions are success in ministry. Number

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fifteen misrepresenting God's presence, suggesting that God is only present

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when there is visible evidence of miracles, like the stopping

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of the Jordan River. So those are the fifteen ways

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in which Ai predicts pastors mishandle misinterpret and misapply Joshua

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chapter three. Let me go through those one more time.

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I'm just going to just read the title of each one.

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Over spiritualizing the crossing of the Jordan number two, ignoring

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the covenant context. Number three, misapplying the following of the arc.

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Number four, misusing the miraculous event. Number five over emphasizing

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leadership principles. Number six, misinterpreting consecrate yourself. Number seven, misapplying

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the dry ground. Number eight, ignoring the role of the priest.

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Number nine, allegorizing the Jordan River. Number ten, forcing personal application.

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Number eleven, falling to address God's sovereignty. Number twelve confusing

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promise and fulfillment. Number thirteen, neglecting the corporate nature of

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the event. Number fourteen, using the tech simply as a

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springboard at number fifteen, misrepresenting God's presence. Those are the

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fifteen ways AI predicts a pastor will possibly mishandle, misinterpret,

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and misapply Joshua Chapter three.

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Now that took us fifteen minutes.

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I had to go through that as fast as I could,

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but that's the only thing I could do.

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I want you to at least hear the predictions. Now,

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are you ready? Now we go to this sermon.

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Now, just remember I have not heard the sermon. AI

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was not given this sermon at this point. AI was

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not even given.

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The title of the sermon. It was just given.

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Hey, what are some ways pastors may mishandle, misinterpret, misapply

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Joshua Chapter three gave me fifteen specific predictive ways in

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which it thinks pastors can mishandle the text. We have

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the sermon in front of us. The sermon's title seems

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to give it away. But we're going to jump in.

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Are we gonna find out? Right now?

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You guys ready, Yeah, let's do this. Let's pray and

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seek the Lord together.

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Father, we.

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Come into this ruin tonight, Lord God, asking you to

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move in this place, or God, Lord, do you know

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everything that we're wrestling with with every struggle, every temptation,

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every hardship. Lord God, there is nothing hidden from your eyes.

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and have your way.

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In this place. Lord God, as we.

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talk about being penned and Israel being penned for all

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the things in which.

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You had planned for them.

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Lord God, we are your church and you have things

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pen for us and places for us to go.

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Before we ask it all to your glory, King Jesus.

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Notice in the prayer, Hey, we're looking at Joshua, but

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immediately he starts talking about us us us. We are

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here with our problems, our struggles, our temptations.

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Wee wee us us, wee weei us us. Me me aye.

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That's all we can ever do with the text. It seems.

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I don't get it, okay, but all right, so we're

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gonna start with already in the prayer adding us, I mean, look,

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it's in pot.

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M Okay, let's see what happens.

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I know, I'm already going into it with just just

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this feeling that it's.

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Going to go bad. And I know I shouldn't, right,

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I know I shouldn't.

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So let's see what now the sermon's actually going to begin.

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How long does it take before we get inserted into

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a text?

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There's nothing to do with us, But let's let's find out.

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Are you ready? Here we go.

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So I'm an Android user.

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I don't know if anyone else in the room is

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an Android user. Anybody else Android?

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Okay, Well, we're gonna stop listening to the sermon because

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we don't listen to sermons from heretics. And if you're

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an Android user, we know you're unspiritual, you're unregenerate, you

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are apostate, you are a pagan, you are a satanic,

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you're demon possessed, you are.

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Wrong and every way pop.

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never be right, just on the basis that you're an

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Okay, all right, all right.

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I'm well there's a little bit of seriousness there, just

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just a little.

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Bit just Okay, there's a lot of serious Okay.

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Okay, all right now trying to trying to add a

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little humor. It's okay, no one's being injured.

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Android users are not real people, so if they're injured

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by the joke, we don't care, right, okay, because only

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US Apple users, we are superior and every way, okay.

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All right, all right, all right, here we go.

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All right, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Christian knew

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I liked you for a reason. Man, no anyway, but like,

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so my wife is an iPhone user, and like she's

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going to be getting me an iPhone because she's the

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one that's in control of all that stuff ladies, you know, goes,

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and so she's gonna be getting me an iPhone when

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my phone comes back up.

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So I don't, I can't.

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I don't think you can pin anybody with an Android,

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can you?

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Someone's got to show me.

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I'll do that then later because I don't think.

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I don't think I could do that, But I knew

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you could pin people.

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like what does it mean to pin someone?

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Are saying, hey, where I am?

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I want you to be there? Right, So like, here's

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where I am. You're trying to find me. Let me

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pin myself so you know where I am at right,

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and so so you can get to where I am.

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not everywhere present, not that he's not in every moment,

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not that he's not working on you in every second

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of every day, not that he doesn't have you know

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what I mean. But there are moments and there are

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places that He wants to go, and in order for

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you to get there, you gotta trust him.

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is going. There's times God pens us because there's some

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place he wants us to go. Wait, what is in it?

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Where does that have to do with Joshua three? It

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has literally nothing to do with Joshua chapter three, because

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Joshua chapter three is not about us. Oh, for crying

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out loud, I just don't get it. I don't understand

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this is it's an epidemic.

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It's a pandemic. It's a cancer in preaching. So how

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long did it take for us to get inserted into

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a sermon about Joshua? Chapter three? Immediately?

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Immediately, man, So he sends you a pen. He goes,

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I'm here. Are you going to meet me there?

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God sends you a pen saying I'm here. I want

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you to come here? Do you want to come where

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I am? Is that?

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How does God send you a pen? He pins you?

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And then you you go to be to where God?

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Does God come to you? Or do you have to

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go to God?

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Does God say I'm here?

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And then you've got to get to where God is?

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Is that how it works? Oh?

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Oh, we're already stumbling upon issues, but I keep interrupting.

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I gotta let this play out a little bit longer.

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But sometimes in ormy God the place is where he

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pins us. There's things we got to give up, and

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we don't deal well with that.

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Because we all right.

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Sometimes to get to God, there's things we have to

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give up. So is God like, hey, you can't get

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to me unless you give something up. I thought the

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way we got to God was through faith in Jesus Christ.

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I am, I'm brought nigh to God. I've made a

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child of God. I'm adapted into the family of God

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by faith alone, apart from works.

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Are you saying that that what you can be saved?

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So you're with God?

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God pens you, because God moves to a different location,

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like I want you to come here, and then you've

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got to give something up to get to God. Because

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God's not going to come to you to bring you

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to him. You've got to get to God by you

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giving something up. So it's all basic. This is a

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very law based, works based system, is the way it

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seems to appears.

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I've got about a million.

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Pilological member of the hard questions I said we have

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to ask. I've got some theological questions in regards to

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this sermon has.

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Literally nothing to do with this text. But that's okay.

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I'd like to hold on to our stuff and our

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things and our emotions. For some of you, God might

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be pinning you to forgive somebody.

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God may be penning you to forgive someone. Does God

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have to pen you to forgive someone? Are we just

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not told in scripture? That we must forgive as we

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have been forgiven? Do you need to be penned? Does

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God just oh? Oh, pen pen pen? And now what

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do you feel? Isn't a feeling?

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I think I need to forgive someone?

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Do you need to be penned to forgive someone? Are

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you just know the scripture tells you to forgive?

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I don't even understand this illustration.

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This illustration raises more theological problems, and it seems that

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this is quickly going into the direction that God communicates

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with us somehow outside of the Bible, with some kind

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of internal voice or some kind of emotion or feeling,

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which then destroys really the concept of sol the scripture

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in any meaningful way. And it basically is very charismatic.

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but that's the direction I'm getting. And again, this is

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all about.

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Us us us us us us us us has not

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to do.

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With the people in Joshuach chapter three. But I'm assuming

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we're gonna get to Joshua chapter three, and I have

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a feeling that everything Ai predicted is about to come true.

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I'm hoping I'm wrong, and I'm hoping AI was wrong, Amen, right, and.

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You're like not them, And God's going in.

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to go, there's gonna be in some things that you

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have to let go of.

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where I want you to go, you have to give

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up things. God wants you to go somewhere, but you

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can't get there unless you do something. So what happens

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if I don't get to where God is at? Does

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it mean I don't go to heaven?

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Hey?

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God, God wants me to go here, but I can't

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get there unless I give something up.

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So it's all based upon me.

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I mean, there's so many issues here. There are so

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many theological issues here.

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And that might be.

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Mean forgiving this person who may not deserve to be forgiven,

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but nor for you to be free, you gotta let

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it go. So Israel, right, we know the story. God

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pins literally pins Egypt. Are sorry, pens Israel in Abraham. Remember,

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God goes to Abraham says, I'm gonna make you a

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mighty nation, right, Abraham.

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As good as dead.

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His wife Sarah's like ninety one hundred. You know, she's

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old Ryan and she's gonna have a child, and like

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he's the promised child.

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Listen, I'm pinning you to go to this place that

480
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.599
I'm gonna prepare for you, and prepare for your people.

481
00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.119
You're gonna be a mighty nation. All the nations were.

482
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.680
Blessed through you.

483
00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.079
Like all the promises that Abraham told. All the promises

484
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:54.599
that God told Abraham is happening.

485
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:55.279
In Joshua's day.

486
00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:58.480
Right, those things are coming to fruition, and they ultimately

487
00:26:58.519 --> 00:26:59.519
are fulfilled in Jesus.

488
00:26:59.599 --> 00:26:59.880
Amen.

489
00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:06.480
So God pins Israel way back then, and Israel's got

490
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.880
to go through a journey to get to where they are.

491
00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:15.319
And if you remember, there are some people, so Moses,

492
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:16.880
who are you guys with me?

493
00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:17.240
So far?

494
00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:18.000
All right?

495
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:22.079
So Moses, who represents the law, never enters the promised land.

496
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:25.079
Right, all right?

497
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:29.759
So God penned Israel and Abraham. All right, I'm not

498
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.599
gonna get to nitpicky here. All right, We'll go with

499
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.200
this concept, Dad, and go through a journey.

500
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:39.920
Okay, all right? You see, He's gonna try to.

501
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.279
Make this a parallel to us, and which is this

502
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:46.519
is where this whole thing falls apart, right, Moses represents

503
00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:54.039
the law. Moses represents the law. Okay, we're gonna use

504
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:58.279
a little typology here. Okay, I'll go I'll play along. Okay,

505
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.759
obviously Moses is can to the law, so I'll go

506
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.839
along with it. All right, Moses doesn't go into the

507
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:06.640
promised Land. So are you going to say, then the

508
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.920
law doesn't go into the promised lands, and they get

509
00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:10.559
into the promise Land, they're not to operate on.

510
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.559
The basis of law. Is that like?

511
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.000
How once you start doing the analogy or typology, you see,

512
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.839
where do there's that's it always opens the door?

513
00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.279
And where do you stop it? Where?

514
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.200
Where are the guidelines? Where are the rules? Because you

515
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.039
can just go crazy with it. Well, let's just let him.

516
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:31.519
Let's let him go where he wants to go, and

517
00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:32.960
then we'll try to address it. I'm not going to

518
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.799
try to break apart every little thing. You can have

519
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.319
your own questions and your predictions about how pastors may

520
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.559
mishandle Joshua. Chapter three. Are your predictions coming? Were they

521
00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:45.079
pretty close or no?

522
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.240
Paul said this, by the law, no flesh will be justified.

523
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.960
So by the law, no flesh.

524
00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:56.160
None of us can make it into the promised land

525
00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.519
in which God has for us.

526
00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:58.920
Right, Moses, who.

527
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:02.880
Represents that law, he himself does not enter the promised land,

528
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:08.119
right Cana, He doesn't enter it. Right, But God, Joshua Yesua,

529
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:15.400
which is Jus's name in Hebrew, leads God's people into

530
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:16.240
the promised Land.

531
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.759
Interesting, is.

532
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:22.920
Okay?

533
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.880
So he's spiritualizing all of this, allegorizing all of this.

534
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:31.079
All right, someone in the congregation is greatly impressed by this.

535
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:34.720
They're like hmmm hmm, so they think this is really

536
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:39.880
good stuff. Okay, all right, this is typical allegorizing typeology.

537
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.440
All right, we'll let it play out now.

538
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:46.160
When he said we don't get into our promised land

539
00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:47.519
by the law, what does he mean?

540
00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:49.200
Because wait a minute, he already said.

541
00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:52.960
This is where I get confused, because earlier in the sermon,

542
00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:55.599
did he not say God wants you to go somewhere,

543
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:57.680
but you can't get there until you give something up?

544
00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:02.960
Was that not law? But now he's say no, no, no, no, no, we.

545
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:05.000
Don't get into our And what does he mean our

546
00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:09.559
promise land? Is he making promise land? So is he's

547
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:12.519
taking promise land not making it a picture of heaven?

548
00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.039
Because that would make sense. Right if you want to say, well,

549
00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:18.079
we don't get into heaven by the law, we get

550
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:20.400
into heaven by Christ. But now is he taking the

551
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.400
promise land, not making it a picture of heaven. But

552
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.240
it's just our promise land, like we all have our

553
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.279
own individual promise land that we don't get in by law.

554
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.839
But earlier he said we can't get to where God

555
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.160
is or to where God wants us to go until

556
00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.119
we give something up.

557
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.960
Well, if I am told to have to give.

558
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:41.079
Something up and there's something I must do by philological definition,

559
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:46.680
that is law. So already I'm getting very convoluted and

560
00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:51.839
confused messaging here. But let's let him, you know, clean

561
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.119
this up so we have a good understanding.

562
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.359
Isn't it awesome that the Gospel can be found in

563
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:00.640
the Old test something like that?

564
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:09.960
So isn't it awesome that we can read whatever we

565
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:12.839
want to in any text that we find.

566
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:18.839
I mean, you can read anything into any text.

567
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:21.440
You can say, well, this represents this, and this represents this,

568
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:25.799
and you, if you're the one guiding what this represents

569
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:28.880
and this represents, you can make it represent whatever you. Oh,

570
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:32.039
I found the gospel because you just said this represents

571
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.759
this and this represents this, and this represents this. Say

572
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:39.319
it's the gospel, because you're imposing what these things represent. Now,

573
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:42.799
do you have New Testament scripture that says this represents

574
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:45.960
this and this represents this. If you do, then okay.

575
00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:49.519
If not, you're just making it work. I can go

576
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.839
to anything and say, well, this represents this, this represents this.

577
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:56.559
Isn't that amazing? Yeah, it's amazing because.

578
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.640
I of course it's amazing, because I just told you

579
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:00.759
what it represented.

580
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:06.400
I'm the one controlling the picture. Now. The issue is

581
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.039
does the text give you that picture? Are you?

582
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:12.119
Are you turning the text into a picture that it

583
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:13.599
was never designed to do.

584
00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:14.920
That's the question.

585
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:22.759
If you remember, the people of Israel are grumbling, complaining, right,

586
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.039
they don't trust there's They're sent out to say, hey,

587
00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:29.519
go see if we can overtake this land, if God's giving.

588
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:29.680
It to us.

589
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:32.480
Two people come back, Joshua and Caleb, remember, and Joshua

590
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:33.119
and Claib.

591
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:34.519
Are like, God is giving it into our hands.

592
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:35.359
The rest of them are like.

593
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:37.599
I don't know, man, there's some big people up in there,

594
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.000
Like I don't think we can take them.

595
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:40.319
You know what I'm saying, Which.

596
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:49.920
Sorry, Philistine's nine feet tall. Bro, Like, I like, I'm

597
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.799
five to six. I couldn't even imagine going up with

598
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:56.200
my shoes on them five six. I'm like five a half, right,

599
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.480
Like I claim five six because my shoes are usually

600
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:01.920
on but like five five, like I couldn't even imagine that. So,

601
00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:05.160
like the fear that's going on in Israel, maybe there's

602
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.359
some real fear there. But like God just parted the

603
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:11.799
Red Sea and you walked across on dry land. He

604
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.119
drowned the whole Egyptian army, Like do you not think

605
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:16.160
that he can take care.

606
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.319
Of those stupid Philistines.

607
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.279
There are places that God wants you to go, and

608
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:26.359
in order for you get there, there are gonna be people.

609
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:27.279
There are gonna be things.

610
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:29.920
There are gonna be giants that God wants you to

611
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:32.079
go up against because He's already given you the victory.

612
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.519
Oh, here we go. So now we're gonna take this story.

613
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:38.720
There's places God wants you to go, but there's gonna

614
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:40.960
be giants in the land. There's gonna be but God's

615
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.319
already given you the victory. God's already given me the

616
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.599
victory of the giants. And the things in my life

617
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.160
that I'm going to face God already gave me the

618
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:51.400
victory over being abused as a child.

619
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.920
What God already gave you victory?

620
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.880
Hey, in your life to get where you want to go,

621
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.839
you're gonna have to face maybe sexual assault, sexual abuse,

622
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:02.720
maybe being molested, being beaten, maybe cancer, maybe being mugged,

623
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:04.200
maybe your child being murdered.

624
00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.720
But hey, it's all good. God's given you the victory,

625
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:15.239
given me the victory. Meaning what see?

626
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.800
Those are the These are the kinds of questions I

627
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:20.400
said yesterday that Christians have to ask when.

628
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:20.719
We hear these.

629
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:25.039
This is all motivational. That's right. God wants me to

630
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.880
go here, and there may be challenges, But are hell

631
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.760
the victory? So what does that mean? All the challenges

632
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:33.320
are gonna go away. You're gonna overcome every challenge. You're

633
00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:37.000
gonna overcome cancer, You're gonna overcome this, You're gonna overcome What.

634
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:37.960
Does that even mean?

635
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:41.960
Oh?

636
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.639
It sounds good. And everyone in the.

637
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.599
Pew will be like, hey, man, that was so encouraging pastor,

638
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.000
and they will leave feeling better and so they will

639
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:49.679
love church.

640
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:50.760
That's great.

641
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:52.880
I don't know what that happens when you you know,

642
00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:55.239
when life hits you. You know when you when all

643
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.199
of a sudden you wake up and you realize, wait

644
00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.920
a minute, life just punched me in the face.

645
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:01.760
Let me go back to that sermon.

646
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:06.199
Okay, So God has a promised land for me, and

647
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.199
I can get into that promise line even though there's

648
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:10.360
going to be challenges and there's gonna be giants, because

649
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:10.880
I have.

650
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:13.639
The victory now.

651
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:15.880
Of course, Joshua three has nothing to do with any

652
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:18.159
of that, and it's not teaching that at all. And

653
00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:21.920
AI predicted that that's exactly what could possibly happen. And

654
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:26.280
Sermons on Joshua chapter three, the predictions AI gave are

655
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:30.480
coming to pass almost just as it described.

656
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:38.400
Amen, but those people doubted that God was going to

657
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.280
give them the land, so they have to wander in

658
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:48.679
the wilderness for forty years. But those people have died.

659
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.480
Moses has just died, and Joshua's got the whole Israeli

660
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:56.119
Israelie people with him, and God is and God says

661
00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:58.159
to Joshua, just like I was with Moses, I'm going

662
00:35:58.199 --> 00:35:59.000
to be with you, bro.

663
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.000
Right, And Joshua's like, let's go.

664
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.239
So here we go, you guys ready, Joshua chapter three,

665
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.039
Let's do it then Joshua or then Joshua rose early

666
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:14.519
in the morning, and he had all the sons of

667
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:16.800
Israel set out from Shidham and came.

668
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:17.239
To the Jordan.

669
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:21.039
We're gonna pass over that word, and they they lodged

670
00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:24.599
there before they crossed. At the end of three days,

671
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:27.599
the officers went through the midst of the camp, and

672
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.199
they commanded the people, saying, when you see the ark

673
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.280
of the covenant of the Lord your God, with the

674
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.039
lybical theories carrying it, then you shall set out from

675
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.119
your place and go after it. However, there shall be

676
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:43.000
between you and it a distance of about two thousand

677
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.599
cubits by measure, that's like three fourths of a mile,

678
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:49.199
so pretty good distance. Do not come near it that

679
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:51.679
you may know that the way, may know the way

680
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.039
by which you shall go, for you have not passed

681
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.280
this way before. Then Joshua said to the people, consecrate yourselves.

682
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:03.360
That were consecration means sanctify, set yourself apart, like what

683
00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:06.239
God's getting ready to do. You got to be set

684
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:08.159
apart for the journey in which He has for you.

685
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:10.079
Right, So that's what he's saying.

686
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:11.320
Is that you got to consecrate your stuff.

687
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.280
There can be no other journey before your eyes.

688
00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:14.440
There could be no other.

689
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:15.760
Thing in which this is it.

690
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:16.840
This is it.

691
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:20.599
Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

692
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:28.320
Do you ever think that possibly the reason why? Look

693
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.519
a lot of you in this room maybe see God

694
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:34.320
move a lot, But some of this room haven't seen

695
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.480
God move in a long time. Is it possible you

696
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.840
haven't seen God move because you haven't consecrated yourselves onto him.

697
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:52.639
Oh, my goodness, gracious, Hey, you haven't seen God move

698
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.400
because you haven't consecrated yourself. Hey, maybe you haven't seen

699
00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.159
God move in that cancer situation because you haven't consecrat yourself.

700
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:00.239
Maybe you haven't seen God move in that situation because

701
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.800
you have a consecration self. Maybe it's your fault, that's

702
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:11.599
the reason God hasn't moved. Remember what Ai said, misinterpreting

703
00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:15.159
consecrate yourself, treating the call to consecrate as a demand

704
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:28.199
for moral perfection or self sanctification through personal effort. So

705
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.519
God only moves, Or maybe the reason God is not

706
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:34.440
moving is because you haven't synctified yourself.

707
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:36.360
Taking that from Joshua three.

708
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:42.519
Has literally nothing to do with you, has nothing to

709
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:49.159
do with you. It has nothing to do with you,

710
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.880
It has nothing to do with it. I'm knocking everything

711
00:38:52.920 --> 00:39:05.840
off the table. It's descriptive, it's not prescriptive. And just

712
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.440
note how, hey, the law doesn't go into the land.

713
00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:12.760
Jesus takes us into the promised land apart from the law.

714
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:14.960
Remember how he said that it's not wonderful.

715
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:15.840
But now all of a.

716
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.639
Sudden, God's not going to move unless you consecrate yourself.

717
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.400
Hmm.

718
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.440
If I have to consecrate myself, that's law.

719
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:26.719
So this sounds like I've got to obey the law

720
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.760
if you really go with the way this, Now the

721
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:29.639
sermon is working.

722
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.119
I've got to consecrate myself.

723
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.840
I've got to make myself clean before God will move

724
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:38.119
or before I get into the Promised Land. You now

725
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.760
just took the gospel picture, you gave destroyed the gospel picture,

726
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:48.480
and you've replaced it with law. And you've just told

727
00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:50.519
everything one in the congregation that maybe the reason God

728
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:52.119
is not moving in their life is because they haven't

729
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.840
consecrated themselves. But I guess the other people who God

730
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:58.280
is moving in their life, I guess they're consecrated enough.

731
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.480
Now exactly how much consecration do you.

732
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.199
Need to get God to move? Do you need fifty percent,

733
00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:06.320
seventy percent? Because no one in that congregation is one

734
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.039
hundred percent. And if no one's one hundred percent consecrated,

735
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:11.159
that means they're in a perpetual state of sin. So

736
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:13.199
God will move if someone is in a perpetual state

737
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:16.400
of sin simply because they have a certain level of consecration.

738
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:19.000
Oh, man, the whole thing.

739
00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:29.760
And you haven't prepared yourself to walk into the places

740
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:34.000
in which he's calling you. Because this one thing I

741
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.480
know about God is that he wants you to know

742
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:41.800
him more than you want to God wants you to

743
00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.519
know him more than you want to know him. Look,

744
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:50.960
God is never, He's always calling to you. We're the

745
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:52.599
one that's always, like, I don't have time for that.

746
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.199
And Joshua spoke to the priest, saying, take up the

747
00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:59.559
arc of the Covenant and cross over ahead of the people.

748
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.000
So they took up the ark of the Covenant and

749
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.280
went ahead of the people. Now the Lord said to Joshua,

750
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:07.320
this day will begin to exalt you. This day I

751
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:09.519
will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,

752
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:11.960
that they may know that just as I have been

753
00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:13.079
with Moses, I will.

754
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:14.440
Be with you.

755
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:16.880
You shall moreover command the priests who are carrying the

756
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:19.719
ark of the Covenant, saying, when you come to the

757
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.000
edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand

758
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.719
still in the Jordan. Then, Joshua said to the sons

759
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:27.559
of Israel, come here and hear the word of the

760
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.440
words of the Lord your God. Joshua said, by this

761
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.559
you shall know that the Living God is among you,

762
00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:38.559
and that he will surely dispossess from before you the Cannonite,

763
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:43.519
the Hittite, the Hiveite, the Purzait, the Gergashite, the Amorit,

764
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:48.519
and the Jebusite, and the Mosquito bites, I'm shooking. It's

765
00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:52.199
a lot of heights in that passage. Behold the arka

766
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.360
of the Covenant. Behold the ark of the Covenant of

767
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:56.440
the Lord of all the Earth is crossing over ahead

768
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:59.960
of you into the Jordan. Now, then take for your

769
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.719
cells twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man

770
00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:06.320
from each tribe. It shall come about when the souls

771
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.400
of the feet of the priests who carry the ark

772
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.679
of the Lord, the Lord of all the Earth, rests

773
00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:13.840
in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the

774
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.320
Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are

775
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:21.079
flowing down from above will stand in one heap. So

776
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:23.480
when the people set out from their tents to cross

777
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:26.960
the Jordan, with the priests carrying the Ark of the

778
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.039
Covenant before the people, and when those who carried the

779
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.320
ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the

780
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:35.480
priests carrying the ark were just dipped in the edge

781
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:38.239
of the water. For the Jordan overflows all its banks,

782
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.440
all the days of harvest, the waters which were flowing

783
00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:43.920
down from above stood and rose up in one heap

784
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:47.800
a great distance away at Adam, the city that is

785
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.360
beside Yeah, sorry, they skip that word. And those which

786
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.880
were flowing down toward the sea of the Araba, the

787
00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:59.920
salt sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed

788
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:03.760
opposite Jericho said it, and the priests who carried the

789
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:05.679
ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on

790
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.400
dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all

791
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:11.960
Israel crossed on dry ground until all the nation had

792
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:13.159
finished crossing the Jordan.

793
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:20.039
I think that's it, okay. I think it's interesting that.

794
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.559
God doesn't stop the river from flowing until the priest's

795
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:32.920
feet hit the water, right, because look, we like to

796
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:36.079
think we we're like good with doing what God wants

797
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.840
us to do, as long as he just starts doing

798
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:41.039
it before we do anything.

799
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.880
Oh for crying out loud, ladies and gentlemen. Now this

800
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.079
is where I just start losing it. Okay, all right,

801
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:50.800
So first of all, he goes to them and then

802
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:53.280
immediately comes back to us because he's just simply using

803
00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:53.840
the picture.

804
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:56.480
He's just using the text to insert us, insert us,

805
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:58.719
insert us in sort us. The text has nothing to

806
00:43:58.719 --> 00:43:59.199
do with us.

807
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:01.880
But okay, if you're even going to use this picture,

808
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.599
then let's use this picture. Remember AI predicted that the

809
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.840
sermon would go this direction. Everything AI has said has

810
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:11.480
been perfectly to the letter.

811
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:14.960
Exactly what's went wrong? It's crazy AI knows.

812
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.320
How pastors are going to mishandle the text before we

813
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:18.599
even listen to the sermon.

814
00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:22.119
That's that's insane. Like why I haven't listened to sermons anymore?

815
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:23.079
Just go to AI.

816
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:23.920
He can tell me this.

817
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.840
Hey, well, that church is preaching on this, this text,

818
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:28.119
This is all the ways they're going to.

819
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.960
Do it wrong. Okay, so let me let's just make

820
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:31.440
this clear.

821
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.119
Right In fact, let me pull up what Ai said

822
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:40.159
about this whole principle here, all right, Ai said, they're

823
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:43.199
going to overlook the significance of the priest carrying the

824
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.320
arc and stepping into the water first as mediators between

825
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.280
God and Israel. Now he immediately makes it about us,

826
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:51.719
right now, this is about.

827
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.280
The priest stepped in first.

828
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:57.840
He turns it about us being willing to step into

829
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:01.480
whatever we want God to do it first, it's not

830
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:05.719
about us. If you want to draw a spiritual picture, listen,

831
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:10.199
I cannot. I cannot stress this enough. This would be

832
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:11.840
you would miss the opportunity.

833
00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:12.920
This is what Ai says.

834
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:17.480
Pastors missed the opportunity to connect this priestly role to

835
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:22.599
the ultimate mediator, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the one

836
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:27.599
who steps into the water. Jesus Christ is our mediator

837
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:31.360
between God and man. He's the one who brings us

838
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:35.639
into the Remember he acknowledged this picture, at least briefly

839
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:37.840
at the beginning. If you want to make it a picture,

840
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.840
Jesus is the one who steps into the water for

841
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:42.920
us and separates the waters.

842
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.039
Now you could say wait, wait now again.

843
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:47.159
If you want to go typology, you could just go

844
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:49.360
crazy here but if you're going to if you're going

845
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.280
to even try to offer typology, it's about the pra

846
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.519
stepping into the water, not the people. The people step

847
00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:58.440
didn't step into the water first. The pra stepped into

848
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:06.480
the water first, the priest, not the people. The priest

849
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:11.280
stepped into the water first. Then the waters parted the

850
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:15.119
priest did. Well, if you're going to draw typology, who's

851
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:18.400
our priest? Either you could go with a Catholic idea

852
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:21.559
that we have priests who are kind of our mediator. Right,

853
00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.360
we go to the priest for confession, and all right

854
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:25.920
if you want to go to a Catholic system, But

855
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:27.840
if you're going to remove it from a Catholic system,

856
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.480
we have a priest. His name is Jesus Christ. He

857
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:33.440
stepped into the water for us.

858
00:46:33.360 --> 00:46:35.800
He parted the water, and now we can go through.

859
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.840
He kept the law for us.

860
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:44.400
He was a propitiation and satisfied the wrath of God.

861
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.480
So now the wrath of God has parted so that

862
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:49.239
we can enter into heaven. It's through Christ, it's through

863
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:56.119
his priestly work. If you want to draw typology, you.

864
00:46:56.119 --> 00:46:56.519
Know what I mean.

865
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:58.880
Like God, you just start doing what you do and

866
00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:01.239
then once I see you doing it that, then I'll act.

867
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:05.079
And God is going, no, we're acting in tandem. When

868
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.440
you step in the water, that's showing that your faith

869
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:09.320
is willing and ready to go into the land in

870
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.239
which I've given to you. Amen, or or conquer the

871
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.000
situation in which you're going. When what you're in or

872
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:22.239
doing like you have to take the step amen, And

873
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:22.760
people in.

874
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.199
The congregation are amening that.

875
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:26.159
What are you amenning?

876
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:32.679
It's a complete destruction of the entire text. It's the

877
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:38.679
priest who stepped in. It wasn't the people. And I look,

878
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:41.960
when I was young, I made the same mistake. I

879
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.519
preached it the same stinking way, because that's how I

880
00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:51.599
was taught to preach the text. Over spiritualizing, allegorizing, all

881
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:56.599
of the nonsense that's happening here. It's not about you

882
00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.199
stepping in, it's about the priest. Well, if you're gonna

883
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:02.360
use typology, you either have to connect that to religious leaders,

884
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:06.000
pastors priest, or you have to say well, in the

885
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.960
New Testament, Christ is literally identified as our priest, our

886
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:10.679
high priest.

887
00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:11.280
Hmm.

888
00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:15.119
Therefore, then it only makes sense to say that's Christ

889
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:17.920
stepping into the water. He parts the waters. So that's

890
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:20.920
the way he gives us access to God. It is

891
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.119
through Christ we have access to Heaven. It's through Christ

892
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:26.639
we have access to the Father. It is through Christ.

893
00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:28.559
He is the way the truth of life. No one

894
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:31.320
comes to the Father except through him. Nobody gets through

895
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:34.119
the water except through Christ. Christ stepped into the water

896
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:38.920
through for us. If you're gonna use typology, at least

897
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.000
go that direction at least makes more sense.

898
00:48:41.079 --> 00:48:43.239
But no, no, no, no, it turns into you gotta go

899
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:44.079
step into the water.

900
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:44.440
No.

901
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.239
If I go step into the water, I'm going to drown.

902
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:59.840
I was a new Christian. This is only happened to

903
00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:00.480
me one time.

904
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:03.159
And this is gonna be like crazy sounding and insane

905
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:05.639
and like all that stuff. But like I had this

906
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.119
inclination in my soul, so I was I was going

907
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:12.159
to a college. And I'll never forget this because it's

908
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:18.280
never happened again. It's never happened again. But there was

909
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:21.679
this person who was blind sitting on this bench far

910
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.239
off and I saw them sitting at this bench, and

911
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.079
I just felt in my soul that God wanted me

912
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:29.239
to go pray for their sight.

913
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:31.639
Now that's crazy.

914
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:38.000
Well, this is on this is on the sermon's two point. Oh, app.

915
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:44.039
I'm getting I'm getting charismatic vibes all over this. I'm

916
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:47.719
getting charismatic vibes all over this. I really am, I'm really,

917
00:49:48.039 --> 00:49:49.000
I really am here.

918
00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:52.119
Okay, let's see. Maybe I'm wrong here. Let's see.

919
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:55.559
So he gets a so God is guiding, directing with

920
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:56.880
some internal feeling.

921
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.760
Okay, so this is not scripture alone. All right, let's

922
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:00.519
see what happens.

923
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:02.079
I don't know what this has to do with Joshua

924
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:05.199
chapter three, has literally nothing to do with Joshua chapter three.

925
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.119
But let's see here, all right, let's see here.

926
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:12.039
Leading up to that, though I had prayed o her

927
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:14.039
vehicles and they had started, I'd done like other like

928
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.599
God was showing me that he would that he would prevail. Right,

929
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:20.079
he had been shown you ever done that before? Listen,

930
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:21.960
that happened to me recently. But we're in the car

931
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.079
and my car won't start, and my son sitting next

932
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:26.920
to me, and I was just like, I was like,

933
00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:29.000
we're gonna pray all and he's like okay, and so

934
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:31.119
I'm like, dear Lord, please let my car start, and

935
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:32.719
then boom, sorry right up.

936
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.920
My son Liuly was like yo, And I was like,

937
00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:38.039
I all right, yeah, my God's anyway.

938
00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:43.039
I'm so like, all right, so you can pray over

939
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:56.559
your car to start. Man, Well, if you can pray

940
00:50:56.639 --> 00:51:01.400
over cars to start and they will, maybe you could

941
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:04.840
get in that car, drive to Nashville and raised the

942
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:07.679
girl who got shot and killed in her school, who's

943
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.519
dead from you could raise her to life. Maybe you

944
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:13.760
could stop buy some children's hospitals and she'll hill some

945
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.559
children who are I don't know, dying of terminal diseases.

946
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:19.639
I mean, if God's gonna if you can pray and

947
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:33.400
start a car, what has this got to do with

948
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:34.599
Joshua Chapter three?

949
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:36.800
I do not know, Ladies and gentlemen.

950
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:40.559
In fact, Ai Ai gets everything right about this predictable

951
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.440
it appears about this sermon other than AI didn't go

952
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:44.280
far enough.

953
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:46.719
It appears all right, let's hear the rest of the story.

954
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:52.039
So but like, but but you know, praying for someone's

955
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.960
sight is different than praying for my car to starts.

956
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.000
You amen, So like, I'm I'm so I did what

957
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:01.880
you probably we've done this before. So I did the

958
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:04.320
thing where I'm like, okay, God, if they're still there

959
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:09.280
when I walk around and come back, I'll pray for them,

960
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:09.679
you know.

961
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:13.639
So I walked around and came back and they're still there.

962
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:16.400
So I was like, God, I really will know it's

963
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:19.760
you if I walk around the second time and they're

964
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:20.440
still there.

965
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:23.480
So I walked up the steps.

966
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.039
And around and I took like a really long time,

967
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:25.800
and I came back around.

968
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There's still sitting there.

969
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:34.360
So I was like, Lord, if it's really you, let

970
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:41.440
me do it one more time. I did that until

971
00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:48.199
they weren't there anymore, and I've never been asked again.

972
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.360
Okay, Now the story did take a unique turn. I

973
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:56.880
thought he was going to go pray for the person

974
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:59.440
they were going to see, so this takes a unique turn.

975
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.559
But now you see he's never been asked again. So

976
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:05.119
God was like, Hey, I want to heal this blind man,

977
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.320
but I want you to go pray to do it.

978
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.199
But because you didn't do it, I'm never going to

979
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:12.360
ask you to do it again. And why wouldn't God

980
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:13.159
just heal the blind man?

981
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:13.760
But okay, I.

982
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:16.000
Get I guess. I guess that guy's just out of luck.

983
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:19.280
Said there's some man walking around blind because this pastor

984
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:23.199
wouldn't just heed the supposed call coming from God.

985
00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:27.360
To you, Okay, the whole thing just oh, this is

986
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.880
so this is so charismatic. It's not even fun.

987
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:33.320
Don't tell me it's not charis it's this is stinking charismatic.

988
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:34.679
That's what it is. Okay.

989
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.519
I thought I thought it wouldn't supposed to be charismatic

990
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:39.960
stuff on the sermon's two point. Oh, app I thought

991
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:44.599
that's what part of the statement of faith. I'm going

992
00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:50.639
to look here. I really thought that it wasn't supposed

993
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:54.360
to be there. I'm gonna just look here, I'm gonna

994
00:53:54.360 --> 00:54:06.199
look here. Give me a second. Here, I'm looking all right,

995
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:09.639
So to become a broadcaster here, where's the where's the

996
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:10.599
statement of faith?

997
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:10.920
Right?

998
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:17.480
So become a broadcaster? Here we go, articles of faith?

999
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:21.840
All right, here's the articles of faith? A right, uh,

1000
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:22.639
here we go.

1001
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:26.639
All right.

1002
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:29.239
Yeah, sermon audio is not open to the dissemination of

1003
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:33.239
such distinctive charismatic and Pentecostal views as extra spiritual revelation.

1004
00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:36.159
It's extra spiritual revelation. If God's telling you to go

1005
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:43.119
do something tongues, healing women, pastors, preachers, elders, that seems

1006
00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:48.280
like this is right in line. I I don't know,

1007
00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:51.920
all right, but let's see what he's so. He didn't

1008
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:53.960
heal the man, but he's never been asked again because

1009
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:55.719
and he guess where he's gonna go because he didn't

1010
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:56.920
step into the water first.

1011
00:54:56.960 --> 00:55:01.079
But guess what Joshash chapter three is. It's not about

1012
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:02.199
us stepping in the water.

1013
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:05.960
Okay.

1014
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:08.599
Now, I'm not saying that God won't ever ask me again,

1015
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:12.800
but I am saying in that moment, I was disobedient

1016
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:20.239
because faith takes you and I making a step before

1017
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:21.360
God does.

1018
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:25.239
God's going on, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.

1019
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:27.360
I'm giving you the promised land.

1020
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:30.280
I mean, he tells, He literally tells Israel, I'm giving

1021
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:33.880
it to you, right, but you have to take possession

1022
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.840
of it. I'm gonna I'm gonna fight everybody that's there.

1023
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.159
I'm gonna I'm gonna destroy the people there before you.

1024
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:41.440
I'm gonna move them out so you can come in,

1025
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:44.679
like I'm giving you this land. But Priest, you gotta

1026
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:47.519
step in the water otherwise it ain't going nowhere.

1027
00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:54.079
At least there, he did say, Priest. At least there

1028
00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:56.960
he did say, Priest, he identifies the right people there.

1029
00:55:57.199 --> 00:56:00.239
In his application, he makes it about everybody. I guess

1030
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:04.920
you could argue, well, in Christ the royal priesthood of

1031
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:07.480
all believers, I guess you could go that direction if

1032
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:09.639
you want to try to extend the typology.

1033
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:20.400
But okay, I don't know what it is that you listen.

1034
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:23.800
Your unbelief, My unbelief can keep us from the things

1035
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:25.000
in which God has for us.

1036
00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:29.199
It's just true, you.

1037
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.960
And I when we walk in unbelief is keeping us

1038
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:33.840
from the thing in which God has for us.

1039
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:37.800
So there are things that God wants to do in you.

1040
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:38.960
There are things that God wants.

1041
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:43.800
To do with you and through you, but our unbelief

1042
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:45.079
is keeping us from that.

1043
00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:50.320
God wants to do things.

1044
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:53.760
But God can't get those things done because of our unbelief.

1045
00:56:56.679 --> 00:57:02.480
All right, that's a whole concept that we could expand, obviously,

1046
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:06.519
But the main thing you're seeing is there's nothing, literally,

1047
00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:08.519
none of this. This sermon has not a thing to

1048
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:11.239
do with Joshua chapter three. It has nothing to do

1049
00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:14.599
with Joshua chapter three. Joshua chapter three is simply.

1050
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:15.880
Being used as Plato.

1051
00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:19.159
It's just being molded and making it about whatever he

1052
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:20.920
wants to make it about, which is us.

1053
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:26.480
Let me prove it to you.

1054
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.960
Remember when Jesus is going into a city in town

1055
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:34.599
and says he wasn't able to do certain miracles because

1056
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.000
of their unbelief. It wasn't that God couldn't do it.

1057
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.679
It wasn't that he was unwilling to do it.

1058
00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:42.960
It was that they didn't want him to do it.

1059
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:53.559
And how many of that is us? Listen, your fit,

1060
00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:55.519
you have to operate and look for.

1061
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:56.159
Some of you in this room.

1062
00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:58.559
This is like a message you've heard a thousand, bajillion

1063
00:57:58.760 --> 00:57:59.480
gajillion times.

1064
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:00.960
Maybe you've heard maybe you've heard it here.

1065
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:04.000
Maybe I don't know right, you've heard it a lot, maybe,

1066
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:05.920
But you know what, there's a lot of things in

1067
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:06.599
the Bible.

1068
00:58:06.400 --> 00:58:07.960
You hear over and over and over and over again.

1069
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:18.880
Amen, I don't think we ever moved past this, because

1070
00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:21.159
every moment in my life is a moment for me

1071
00:58:21.199 --> 00:58:23.760
to have faith or of unbelief, to believe or not

1072
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:28.679
to believe. And there is something in your life right

1073
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:31.840
now that God is asking you to believe that you're going.

1074
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:34.480
I don't know if I can. I don't know if

1075
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:38.199
I can trust you there. Lord, I trusted you here.

1076
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:39.280
I trusted you here.

1077
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:41.960
But I don't know if I can trust you there.

1078
00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:46.719
Because you know what's going on through my mind. When

1079
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:48.320
he wanted me to pray for that blind.

1080
00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.239
Girl, it was like, what if it doesn't work?

1081
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:52.360
Right?

1082
00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:55.800
Because then you're like, look if someone's car doesn't start,

1083
00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:59.199
So what if I pray for someone's eyes to see

1084
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:06.559
and it doesn't happen, I look like an idiot, and

1085
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:07.760
I don't know if I'm okay with it.

1086
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:11.760
Look like an idiot, Lord.

1087
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:15.599
And God's like, bro, sometimes, look you look like an idiot. Anyway,

1088
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:18.480
you might as well look like an idiot for me.

1089
00:59:22.119 --> 00:59:23.320
Maybe you can relate.

1090
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:30.800
What's amazing about these two people that exist for a

1091
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:33.239
little while, because remember was thirty eight years, forty years

1092
00:59:33.599 --> 00:59:36.559
for it, before those people died off and God able

1093
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:37.719
to get God was able.

1094
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:39.079
To get them into the Promised Land. They were going

1095
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:40.039
right amen.

1096
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:44.360
So for thirty eight years, for thirty eight years, two

1097
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:45.599
people existed.

1098
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:47.760
The unfaithful and the faithful.

1099
00:59:51.320 --> 01:00:01.159
Right the unfaithful constantly, we're going God.

1100
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:00.760
We are hungry.

1101
01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:04.880
God gives them bread mana from heaven, manna right by

1102
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:09.360
the way, just a little caveat here. They don't once

1103
01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:10.760
they enter the Promised Land.

1104
01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:11.960
Bread stops.

1105
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:14.400
Why because they can eat the food of the field.

1106
01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:19.239
And God's like, you're welcome, right, no more bread from heaven,

1107
01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:22.360
susan answer land, God's like, eat it man, lambflow and

1108
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:23.039
milk and honey.

1109
01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:25.039
Eat it up right.

1110
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:29.000
So God's providing for them in the wilderness for thirty

1111
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:32.400
eight to forty years, right, bread coming down from heaven.

1112
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:35.079
Then they get sick of the bread. Remember, They're like, oh,

1113
01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:41.000
this stupid bread, which is crazy eating itself. Listen, if

1114
01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:42.760
I walked up in the morning, God was like, Hey,

1115
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:44.800
I'm gonna provide bread for your family. When you go outside,

1116
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:46.000
there's gonna be something on the ground.

1117
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:50.280
Pick up and eat it. Right. I'm grateful for that every.

1118
01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:52.639
Day, you know what I'm saying, Especially when I'm starving

1119
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:55.559
to death. I say that maybe I wouldn't be you

1120
01:00:55.639 --> 01:01:02.000
know what I'm saying, because I probably wouldn't be anyway.

1121
01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:04.719
Let me I can relate to them maybe in fair

1122
01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:06.679
way of saying that. But like then they're like, hey,

1123
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:09.400
give me some qua, give us meat. We want some meat.

1124
01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:12.519
God sends some question. Birds are flying? Birds are falling

1125
01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:15.960
from the sky. Now listen, if birds are falling from

1126
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:19.519
the sky around me, I'm not eating the bird, right

1127
01:01:19.559 --> 01:01:21.159
because I'm.

1128
01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:22.559
Sorry, I'm spitting this way. I'm sorry, my mother.

1129
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:26.079
I thought, I thought, is what happened to this bird?

1130
01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:29.960
That it just fell from the sky, because that's not normal.

1131
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:34.679
Birds are supposed to fly, right, But they're eating the

1132
01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:40.440
quail and they're living, which is good. There's two people

1133
01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:44.000
that exist in this in this passage, all right through

1134
01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.960
those thirty eight years, the believing in the unbelieving to

1135
01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:52.199
the unbelieving, complete constant grumbling and complaining.

1136
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:53.599
Listen, there are.

1137
01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:55.360
Things that God is doing in your life, but because

1138
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:56.960
of your unbelief, you can't sit.

1139
01:01:58.719 --> 01:01:59.960
Your eyes aren't open to.

1140
01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:02.119
You're not seeing all the things that God.

1141
01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:04.360
Is doing before you. You don't even.

1142
01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:06.800
Know how good you have it, right, But because of

1143
01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:09.800
your unbelief, it's hindering your vision of God.

1144
01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:13.199
It's hindering your it's hindering.

1145
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:14.719
Everything that God's wanting to give to you, everything that

1146
01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:17.280
God has given to you, right, and you get caught

1147
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:19.360
up in the grumbling and complaining why.

1148
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:20.239
Because of unbelief?

1149
01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:24.199
Now he does set up this.

1150
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:32.840
Distinction, this contrast that for thirty eight years. So for

1151
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:36.199
thirty thirty eight years, that's the number he keeps throwing out.

1152
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:37.679
Thirty eight years.

1153
01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:40.559
There was.

1154
01:02:42.599 --> 01:03:01.400
Those, there there was unbelievers and believers. Belief is required

1155
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:14.239
for God to work. That seems to be the idea.

1156
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.119
Now we will have to take this apart.

1157
01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:18.679
Now the main thing we wanted to do is everything

1158
01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:22.239
AI said that the sermon would do wrong. It basically

1159
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:24.880
has done. Every single one of those are pretty much.

1160
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.039
All of them to some level. Now I did.

1161
01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:30.760
What I did do is after AI gave me all

1162
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:32.320
those fifteen predictions.

1163
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:34.440
Right, this is what I said.

1164
01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:37.920
I said the name of the sermon, and this is

1165
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:39.440
what I said to Ai. The name of the sermon

1166
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:42.760
in question is facing your Biggest Challenges? Does that information

1167
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.880
impact your prediction or change any of them? The sermon

1168
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.519
title Facing your Biggest Challenges does impact the predictions slightly,

1169
01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:52.880
as it suggests a specific emphasis on using Joshua three

1170
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:57.960
as a motivational or practical guide for overcoming difficulties in life.

1171
01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:01.000
This focus could lead to particular time types of mishandling

1172
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:06.000
or misapplication, including the following adjusted additional points Number one.

1173
01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:10.360
Over emphasis on personal application, the sermon is likely to

1174
01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:12.599
focus on identifying the Jordan River as a metaphor for

1175
01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:17.320
each listener's biggest challenges, health, issues, career obstacles, relational conflicts.

1176
01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:21.000
This risk reducing the text to an overly individualistic application

1177
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:24.559
while neglecting the corporate and covenantal significance of the crossing

1178
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:27.960
for Israel as God's people number two, treating the Jordan

1179
01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:31.400
Crossing as some formula for success. Number three, promoting the

1180
01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:35.280
idea of guaranteed victory. Number four, neglecting the context of

1181
01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:40.079
God's redemptive plan. Number five, the risk of overemphasizing human

1182
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:43.920
agency number six, turning this text and to a self

1183
01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:47.760
help manual. Number seven ignoring the role of divine sovereignty.

1184
01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:53.599
Number eight flatter flattening the typology the sermon might attempt

1185
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.679
to connect the Jordan River directly to modern Christian challenges

1186
01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.639
without exploring typology of the art, the crossing of God,

1187
01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:02.800
the crossing, or God's presence. For example, the art could

1188
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:05.159
be flattened into a generic symbol of God helping you

1189
01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:08.599
in hard times, rather than representing maybe his holy presence

1190
01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:11.320
or his covenant. So it's just basically going to destroy

1191
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:16.480
that misusing consecrate yourselves Number ten, glossing over God's purpose.

1192
01:05:18.920 --> 01:05:23.039
So basically AI was like, Hey, the title goes in

1193
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:25.599
this direction and Basically, the sermon has done every single

1194
01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:27.679
thing AI said it was going to do. And this

1195
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.119
is what I love is. I didn't tell AI what

1196
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:33.360
the mishandling was or misapplication was. I asked it to

1197
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:36.480
tell me how this text could be mishandled and misapplied.

1198
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:39.559
AI itself believes that the way the text is being

1199
01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:45.679
handled is misapplied, misinterpreted, and mishandled without even knowing what

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01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:47.559
it was going to do. So, in other words, AI sees,

1201
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:49.920
if you do that stuff to the text, it's wrong.

1202
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:53.880
AI is already just starting with the idea that that

1203
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:56.800
is wrong to handle the text that way, not by

1204
01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:59.800
me guiding it to to think it's wrong. It's declaring

1205
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:04.679
it wrong without me saying anything, because AI knows that's

1206
01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:07.920
not how you handle the text of scripture. How come

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AI knows this but pastors don't. So there's Joshua chapter three. Now,

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we may need to return back to this to some

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point and do some work on this, but you know,

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well we're already over an hour, so we won't do

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it now, but maybe we'll come back to this. You know,

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how does unbelief stop God? And if God is the

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one who gives faith, Oh, there's so many theological issues

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01:06:36.360 --> 01:06:40.039
to get into play here. But yeah, it's just it's

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kind of bizarre. It's very it's hard not to hear

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the charismatic part in it. It basically is God could

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do miracles, you just have to believe.

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Almost God wants to do the miracles.

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The reason God doesn't is because we don't believe. So

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it means we're really in charge, not God. I mean,

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this raises all kinds of theological issues. I just kind

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of shocked that it's.

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Very charismatic, very charismatic.

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I mean, I mean, there's but way if it's not charismatic,

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it's charismatic light, it's charismatic influenced. It just seems odd

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on a site where you have to sign a statement

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saying you're not going to promote charismatic ideas. I don't know,

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01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:29.679
that's my own feelings.

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I was a little surprised.

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That's usually the one thing I don't I don't expect

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to hear because I know you have to sign a

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statement saying you're not going to promote that idea, So

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I always expect that what I'm going to hear sermons

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that are as far from charismatic theology as you can

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possibly get.

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But it's what's.

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Weird is what's now. What used to be charismatic is

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now now no longer really viewed as charismatic. It's just

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viewed as normal because charismatic theology had such has been

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so influential that even non people will say, well, I'm

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not a charismatic, but you've got charismatic ideas and ideology

1242
01:08:07.559 --> 01:08:10.719
and concepts all over your theology. You just may not

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be going full blown speaking in tongues, or you may

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01:08:14.039 --> 01:08:17.279
not be going full blown charismatic, but it's still there.

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So I don't know. I think charismatic is far more

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01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:24.039
than just speaking in tongues. I mean, but there we go.

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That was Joshua three. Now, if you listen to that sermon,

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you know what you would walk away with not understanding

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Joshua chapter three. But you know what, that's how Joshua

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three is always handled because it's about us. It's about us,

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01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:39.199
it's about us, it's about us, it's about us. We

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01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:43.279
make a descriptive, passage prescriptive, and we insert ourselves into

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01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:44.800
a text has nothing to do with us, and we

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01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:49.039
forget that Joshua chapter three is about what God promised. Israel,

1255
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:53.000
and he's doing exactly He's fulfilling his promise to Israel.

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01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:01.680
But it turns into almost it's like, hey, hey, if

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we have faith, God will do this for us and

1258
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do this for them. Just remember Israel's supposed supposedly great

1259
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.720
faith here to get them across the Jordan. They demonstrate

1260
01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:14.159
unbelief in, the lack of faith and weak faith.

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Constantly, even into the Promised Land.

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So I mean, what we could get into a whole

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discussion about, like the whole thing. Just all right, we

1264
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didn't finish the sermon. I have no desire to finish

1265
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:25.880
the sermon. If you want to, you can. I mean

1266
01:09:26.039 --> 01:09:31.199
listen to it on my own as I'm uploading, but yeah,

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and if I hear something else, we'll talk about it.

1268
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But the goal was just to see could Ai predict

1269
01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:40.199
the problems in a sermon, and once again AI did flawlessly.

1270
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That's troubling. All right, thanks for listening. I give up.

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God bless