AI vs Kenotic Heresy Pt 2

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone. It is Thursday, February thirteenth, twenty twenty five. It is currently ten fifty five am Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I was looking this morning, and I think most of you skipped chapel service. Where were all of you? Where? What were you guys doing this morning? Was I the only one at chapel service? I think I was the only one there. And let me just say, me and artificial Intelligence were We were having a conversation during chapel service this morning. Now, if for those of you who are new, you have no idea what I'm talking about. I constantly am talking about the webcast and what is being aired on the Sermon's two point oh app or the sermon audio platform. I'm always keeping up with the live webcast or the newest sermons being added. That's why we do. I'm always talking about it. And we spent all of last year, you know, doing the Sermons two point oh app Sermon Challenge, So I'm always talking about it. And one of the things, most of the things I like to follow on the sermons two point oh app because they limit how many things you can follow, which I'll you know, it still bothers me greatly, but okay, they limited, So I try to follow make sure that all the things I'm following are Bible colleges, seminaries, Christian colleges, because I like hearing

1:35 what's going on in chapel service, what these colleges, what these seminaries, what these Bible institutes are talking about, because they're training the next generation of Christians. So I like trying to see where Christianity may be headed. And it's just I find those things are interesting. So over the last week or so, I've been making a joke that each morning I'm waking up and I'm looking to see which chapel service is being on the sermon's two point oh app Is that Bob Jones, is it Pensacola, is it Ambassador by a Baptist College, all the different ones. And so this morning I started looking at Ambassador Baptist College was just going live with their chapel service, so I tuned in. I didn't see any of you, So I like to make it a joke. I'm using it as a joke because some people take things extremely too literally.

2:26 But as a joke, I like to say. I was attending chapel service, and I don't know where the rest of you were, but during this chapel service, the sermon was on Matthew chapter six, about worry and anxiety, and as I was listening, I began to challenge in my mind question the way Matthew six, when it talks about worrying anxiety, how it's typically preached. What's the typical hermeneutical approach to Matthew six about worry and anxiety. Now, Matthew six is apart the Sermon on the Mount. I've already stated about a million times that I think the Sermon on the Mount is one of the most misinterpreted, mishandled sections of scripture. People handle it. It's just crazy how it's so mishandled, And we've talked about that. I think it needs to be interpreted through a proper historical law and gospel distinction. So I was like, I wonder if we approach Matthew six and this section about worry and anxiety from a law gospel distinction, how would that radically change the way we'd interpret the passage, and lo and behold, me and Ai started having a conversation, and yeah, we turned the typical interpretation, the typical way it's interpreted upside down, and at some point we will discuss it. What AI asked me is, hey, can you get me the transcript because I want to see this. It's funny, Ai is

3:57 the way it's been doing things lately, it kind of need to kind of take off on its own in some ways. It's kind of been interesting over the last few days. It's been doing things a little differently than it has normally done it. I think that's cool on life, like watching how it kind of develops in real time. Again, twenty twenty five is all about artificial intelligence, so this fits in perfectly what we've been discussing. So at some point I'm gonna get the transcript, give it to artificial intelligence, and then we're going to look at it and challenge that way of interpreting it. And then at some point I'll turn on the microphone and we'll try to come up with maybe a new way to interpret Matthew Chapter six, in the area in which it speaks about anxiety and worry.

4:41 I think that should be fun interesting, and we will get there. But for right now, we've got another problem. We've got this problem of kinotic heresy or kanoticism, this idea of kenosis. Right, We've got this problem. And I over the last few days, I've heard what two sermons that mentioned the hypostatic union by name, another one that gave us kind of a devotional on Matthew four and the temptation of Jesus. But I felt that it kind of started walking towards this knotic heresy, this kannoticism, and I'm like, what is happening? And these other sermons that have mentioned the hypostatic union, they mention it, but then they almost immediately deny the actual teaching of the hypostatic union by walking into this knotic heresy. Now, none of these individuals would say that they're preaching the knotic heresy, that they agree with the knotic heresy. They would say that they don't, but functionally they are walking into this knotic heresy, which I think we have to make sure that everyone is aware of it so that you can identify it when it's happening in your church or in sermons you're listening to. You have to be able to identify it. And one of the most important things you can do is make sure you know the definition of Chalcidon.

6:05 You need to know what happened at the Calcedonian at the Council of Chalcedon, at the Calcedonian creed or the Calcedonian definition. You need to know that. You need to know that in history. Okay, that's four point fifty one AD, the Council of Chalcedon. You need to know what they said that gives us the definition of the hypostatic union, which will help protect you from this canotic heresy. So we are going to go back and kind of do a quick review of what we've discussed. I feel that there's a reason why, and I'm just gonna briefly mention this.

6:45 I feel there is a reason why so many philological errors occur, and I'm going to throw this. I'm going to say it's a hypothesis right now, and I'm going to try to flesh this out maybe over the next coming days. All Right, I believe the issue within Christianity at large can basically be summarized as this. Christians are painfully aware that their Bible is filled with commandment after commandment after commandment. Do this, don't do this, flee this, stay away from this, don't do that, don't do this. Commandment, commandment, commandment, law, law, law, la la la law, don't do this. This is wrong, This is wrong. This is condemned. This is condemned. This is condemned. And you look at all of these commandments, you look at all of this, you know you're what you're being told to do. And Christians have to start formulating some way in which we then can be convinced that we can do it, because most of Christianity puts forth the argument basically that you can do it, you can obey, you can be holy, you can do it.

7:52 And so Christians convince themselves first that they can do it, that they're being obedient, that they're being holy. But they need some kind of philological answer to well, how can I do this? And it always falls into some category about you receiving power, are you submitting? Are you doing this? Are you getting this? Or you getting that? And then we convince ourselves, oh, we're doing it, we're obeying, we're doing it, we're doing it. Now. Sometimes they'll be a little bit thrown in at the end. I mean, well, but I mean, we don't do it perfectly, but we can do it. We're a new creature, all things to pass away, all things have become new, and they typically preach that as being a practical truth, not a positional reality.

8:33 But then they'll say, well, even though you're a new creature, even though old things that pass away, all things are new. Well, I mean, and they'll they'll just briefly mention, I mean, you don't do it perfectly, but the implication almost as if you're almost perfect you want And so this leads to all kinds of theological problems. You've got to create this idea that we have power, we can do something that we actually can't. Then this leads Christians to pretending that they're doing something that everyone knows that they're not, or they have to redefine sin as it's just some external action, ignoring the internal reality of it. And this just leads to theological problem after theological problem, and that's how you end up with a knotic heresy. The kanotic heresy is an attempt to try to explain to you, hey, how you can be successful in the Christian life. So it basically leads to this premise. Jesus, Yes he was God, but he was a man, and as a man, he lived his life as a man, but he did so relying and needing the power of the Holy Spirit. And by relying on the Holy Spirit and by relying on Scripture, he was able to achieve all of this obedience and achieve all of this godliness. And it serves now as a formula for you and I. If we'll just be like Jesus, rely on the Holy Spirit and quote scripture, we basically can be almost as holy as he was.

10:03 That's almost the way the idea is put forth. Well, that's walking right into the canotic heresy. And there's so many problems with that. First, you're almost not we're almost ignoring his deity. And not only that, even if you just look at his humanity, it's categorically different than my humanity because he did not have a sinful nature. So you're the whole concept falls apart. And again, we talked about this, so I'm gonna really flesh this problem out, but I think this is really where we get So how did we get here, Well, we listened to a devotional, We listened to these sermons. I well, we all listened to the devotional together. I'm on Matthew four. We took that apart. And then again I kept hearing these discussions about the hypostatic union, or at least being mentioned. And then I heard this sermon entitled God's Philological Continental Divide.

10:58 Now that's a cool title. God's still logical Continental Divide. And basically they put forth this idea that how do you live the Christian life? See we're right back to that concept. How can you live the Christian life? How can you live a life of victory not defeat? How can you live a life where you get answered prayers and everything is great and there's happiness and there's joy, and there's peace, and there's victory and everything is wonderful. How do you get that? And they put forth the argument that the Christian life, if you're going to really end up on the hills of victory, then you have to live the Christian life with this mathematical formula zero one hundred zero you one hundred percent God. And if we can figure out how to arrive where it's zero us in one hundred percent God, then the end result is dun dunda dah, then you basically don't sin anymore, and I guess you basically are almost perfect. Well, I mean they always will backtrack a little bit, but that's basically the implication. And this leads right into basically what they put forth as canotic keresy. So I'm going to explain just briefly what conotic kerosy is again, right, Knoticism from the Greek canosis meaning emptying, is a Christological heresy that teaches Jesus emptied himself of some or all of his divine attributes, such as omnipotence, omniscience, or self sufficiency

12:34 when he became human. This view misinterprets Philippians two six through seven, which may refer to depending on some translations, as Jesus emptying himself, and they falsely claim that he functioned only as a spirit empowered man rather than as the eternal son of God in the flesh. And that's where the problem begins. Look at Jesus, it was a spirit empowered man. We just follow that plan, we can be like him. But the problem is this completely ignores the fact no, Jesus was the eternal son of God in the flesh. And so this canonicism will lead to the false belief that believers can operate as Jesus did if they will simply depend on God in the same way. Now, the origins of canotic chrose goes back to German liberal theology in the nineteenth century. Right. It was developed as an alternative to classical Christology, attempting to make Jesus divine and human nature more comprehensible within rationalistic philosophy. So it almost it wanted to try to understand the divine nature and the human nature, and it so separated them to try to be somewhat to make sense and I guess in a rationalistic philosophical way. But ultimately, y you destroy historical orthodox crystal crystological understanding. Now this would be condemned,

14:07 This entire view that arose in the nineteenth century would be condemned by Orthodox theologians because it contradicts the Council of Chalcedon in four point fifty one AD, which affirmed that Christ is fully God and fully man, without confusion, without change, without division, and without separation. That's the key. Now, in our last episode, we went through all of this and we talked about it all in greater detail. Please go back and listen. Now, so we went through all of this, we talked about Well, then what I did is I basically started asking artificial intelligence, having a conversation with artificial intelligence about kannoticism, and we went through a lot of the things that it had to say. And then I basically gave AI the sermon that we started reviewing in the last episode. I just basically gave it the transcript and it basically said, Yeah, this sermon is problematic and it's walking right into this canotic heresy. So we will go into this. There's a lot more here that I'm skipping, and so yeah, I'm gonna go all the way down here. Okay, here we go. Now this is where I have AI. I went through all of the conversation I had with AI, which fits our theme

15:39 this year of artificial intelligence in the future of the Church. But I finally, this is what AI said after reviewing the sermon transcript. The preacher's claims are problematic. The core issue is that he equates jesus reliance on the Father with how believers should rely on God, implying that we can live the Christian life just as Jesus did if we depend on the Spirit in the exact same way. This idea is deeply flawed for several reasons, AI says. Number one, it undermines the hypostatic union. So AI immediately identified this is this is walking right into knotic heresy and walking right in to a undermining of the hypostatic union.

16:34 So we're going to go back to this sermon. We've listened to the first part. Now I think we backed it up a little bit. He will mention the hypostatic union, and then we'll just point out some things and we're going to see where he takes this, because this is the part of the sermon where I think it walks and I'm not saying this person would believe it would it would promote or even say they believe in the knotic heresy. They would probably deny the knotic heresy logically, but you sometimes can deny a heresy philologically, but functionally you walk right into the very error that you deny philologically. Sometimes theologically it's very theoretical, but when we get to practice, we can sometimes do the opposite, and we all can be guilty of this, all right, So we're going to go back. I hope that that got you all on the same page, and we're going to talk about this a lot and hopefully this will all make sense, so you're ready. Whenever I always hate part two is when I'm doing part of a sermon review because you got to kind of just figure out, how do you jump back in? Well, you have to do a lot of reviewing, and I hate that. But here we go. Are you ready, let's jump in?

17:46 Well his stray. Okay, notice our verse again, striving according. To His working, which worketh in me mightily. Now this brings us to clue number three. You know, we don't have one of ourselves without Jesus. We don't have any spiritual strength where bankrupt. I said this the other night when I was preaching. I'll repeat it somehow. When I was growing up, I got the idea that I knew I was weak as a Christian. I know it wasn't very strong Christian, but. I got the idea that the Christian life was weak. Little me getting stronger and stronger. Man. By the time I'm fifty, man, I'm going to be a giant. Spiritual And all of you that are a little older know what happened is I turned fifty and all of a sudden, I realized, you know, I still got a bunch of issues.

18:37 I'm not what I thought it would be. And I learned something, friends, and I don't want you to miss this. The Christian life is not weak little meat getting stronger and stronger and stronger. The Christian life is weak little meat, who will always be weak. Tapping into Him who is stronger, who will always be strong. You will need Jesus the much the second before you die. Then you'll need it as much then as you do right now, and as you. Did when you're a teenager. We need him all the time. And look, there's something inside all of us. You may be very drawn to this kind of preaching because it's putting forth the idea. Look.

19:17 I found out the secret look for fifty years. You know, it took me. By the time I turned the age of fifty, I thought, you know, it would have figured out the Christian life that I was going to become stronger. I was going to And then I realized I was never going to become stronger. I just have to tap into Him who is strong. And now if I can tap into Him who is strong, then the implication is dun dun da dah, that strength becomes my strength, and I can do it now. The reason we so long for this is because we all know. Look, if Christians are even remotely honest with themselves, if you go through the Bible, you see this command and this command and don't do this and do this, and don't do this, and do this, don't do this, and don't do this, avoid this, do this, don't don't do do you like? Okay? Okay, do all things without complaining or grumbling. Okay, don't don't look at a woman with lust. Okay, don't have anger in my heart. Okay. Forgive, love my enemy, love my neighbor, love God, don't don't cove it, don't do this, don't lie, don't deceive, don't do this, don't do that. Don't And at some point you're like, okay, how do I figure this out? And you live your life? If you be ye holy as He is holy? Okay, how am I ever going to pull this off? Okay? Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect? Oh man, how do I get to perfection? Because to be perfect and to be holy as God as holy means absolute perfection and thought and word, indeed, in desire and action. No way,

20:49 so you spend if you care. If you really care, then you know how far you fall short unless you are convincing yourself well, I don't commit that sin or that's it. And many Christians become very self righteous and condemning and judgmental because they've convinced themselves that they don't commit certain sins and the other sins. They don't let it bother them that much. But if you really look at your life and light of the perfection of God, you should be over absolutely destroyed every day. So then you need an answer, Well, how do I get there? Well, he saying, Hey, it's not about you becoming stronger. You tap into the one who is strong and once you tap into him, now you found the answer. Well what does that answer look like? If I tap into him then what what?

21:40 Then? What do I become perfect? Do I become fifty percent better? Now? Let's see where he takes it. All the time, every second, every moment. It's a constant need to say, Jesus, I can't do this without you, because I can't do anything without you. Friends, All I want us to see is that we're completely devoted of spiritual strength. So could we put it this way, the Christian life is zero one hundred. It's zero percent my will, one hundred percent his will. It's zero percent dependence on my strength because I don't have spiritual strength. I got physical strength, but I don't have spiritual strength in and of myself, So it's one hundred percent dependence on his strength because he got more than I'll ever need.

22:23 Shuckkeet Prett. Sure, I think I'm tracking. With you theologically, but practically, how do you live that kind of life? That's a really good question. Fortunately, all throughout the Bible, there are a lot of illustrations that help us, but the one I'd like to use tonight is something that a human being did that wasn't hard, It wasn't difficult, It was impossible. And that is walking on water. Is walking on water hard? And is walking on water difficult? And the answer is, well. No, it's impossible. You could train for twenty years and not you will be able to walk on water. Have you ever noticed there's no walking on water contests in the Olympics.

23:04 Have you ever noticed that you? Have you ever noticed that are great athletes they can skate on ice, but they cannot walk one Yeah, I hate to say this, but Tom Brady cannot walk on water. He can deplay football. You know what I'm talking. About it, Patrick Mahomes, I hate to tell you this, he cannot walk on water. He knows how to throw interceptions in the first quarter of a Super Bowl, but he does not he can't walk on water. You get the idea. I shouldn't say that. There's some Kansas City fan who I just offended. Okay, but anyway, Yes, the point is in the matter who every great. Athlete has a bad game. None of them can walk on water. Now, since walking on waters not hard, it's not difficult, it's impossible. No human being has ever done it, right, I mean, after all, it's impossible, so we just determine it's impossible. So nobody's ever walked walked on water?

23:52 Right? Wrong? So who's walked on water? Two people? Can you tell me Jesus And well, you say, precher Jesus doesn't count he was God. Well that's true. I don't want to preach you a message right now in the hyposthetic Union, though I think it'd be fun to do it, because I think Jesus had to depending on God just like Peter did. But let's just leave that one alone since that has a little theological uh with loops hoops we'd have to go through. But did you hear that the hyposthetic union. He mentions that, but he thinks that Jesus had to depend on God just like Peter did. Now you see, this is the if you know kanodic keresy, this is literally I kept saying this Yesterday's He's just pulled into the neighborhood of knotic heresy. He just pulled over and he's getting out of the car because what is the implication of this.

24:47 Jesus had to depend on God just like Peter did, and Jesus was able to walk on water. Peter was able to walk on water. So if we can depend on God just like Jesus did that, I guess we can walk on water. Right. Oh see, the key is all we have to do is learn how to depend on God just like Jesus depended on God. And then the implication is we can achieve the same thing. Now, let's see if he gets if he goes there explicitly or if this is just going to be imply But as soon as I hear this, I'm like, oh boy, here we go here, we go, We're going We're going straight into the Kanatic heresy. We're going straight there. We're driving there, all right, So let's see where this goes.

25:31 Let's talk about Peter. Peter walked on water. I call Peter. Please, don't be offended. I know there's some junior Highers in here, and I don't want to offend you. I call Peter the perpetual junior Higher. That's what they call him. When I get to heaven. This is a question I'm gonna ask Peter over and over. Peter, what were you thinking? That's gonna be my question. And I'm pretty sure I already know his answer. His answer is I Wasn't you. Know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I just get a kick out of Peter. But we'll go on. So we know that Peter. One night, he and the disciples were in their boat, and scholars believe it was a five mile journey, and the Bible says they were in the midst of the sea Matthew fourteen, which means.

26:15 They were how far from shore? And the answer has about two and a half miles. And as they were in there, the Bible says the wind was contrary, so they were probably rowing against the wind, and there's a storm, obviously, and when there's a storm, how much light are you getting from the moon and stars? And the answer is, well, oh, that's getting pretty covered up. And if they had oil lamps, how many oil lamps you think we're going on that boat? Probably not a whole lot. They were probably in almost total darkness. Now there were seasoned fishermen, they'd been in this kind of condition before. But through in the middle of the Sea of Galilee. They're two and a half miles from shore, and the Bible says in the fourth watch of the night. Some scholars say it's between three and six. My opinion is it had to be closer to six.

26:57 Because they could see Jesus. Otherwise they couldn't have seen him. Had to be that great awning that occurs on a stormy morning, and I kind of imagine this steam coming off the heaving sea, if you know what I'm talking about, in the morning, at fog coming off, and they see Jesus walking on the water, and the Bible said, they said they cried. Out for fear. They said it is a spirit, and they cried out for fear the Greek word for spirit is the Greek word phantos. You kind of know what English word we got from. That one, don't you. Yeah, they were saying it's an apparition, it's a ghost walking on the water, and the Bible says they cried out for fear. Now, as I've done an intensive word study and cried out for fear, here's what it means.

27:38 They screamed like junior high girls. That's what it means. Okay, But anyway, yeah, they started screaming, you know, and I'll tell you what Jesus said. He said, fear not, be not afraid. Here's what he said. It's me I. You know, as I study fear not throughout the Bible, I found that almost always the answer as. God is basically I'm here. I'm here. That's a really good answer. It'd be it's it's the great truth. So so anyway, so Peter then makes his famous statement. He says, Lord, if it be thou bid me come into the on the water. Now, that's what they call in the Greek or first class condition. Now what that means is the if statement was assumed to be true.

28:19 What Peter was not saying is, well. Lord, it might be you, it might not be you, boy, If it's not you, I wonder who it is. No, that's not what he was saying, Lord, I know it's you. Bid me come into the on the water. Jesus said one word. We all know what it is. What was it? Come some imperative and mood which means it was a command. No longer was staying in the boat in option you know why? Jesus ask some good information, some good discussion there about the Greek and how it's structured, and how is Peter saying if it's you? Did he mean like could it be? Could it not be? Or I know it's you? Then tell you know, tell me to come to you? All right? All of okay, all of that is some really good information, some good stuff. We could take that apart, break that down, verify, check see how that would impact our interpretation that that's all good stuff, right, very good stuff. All right. Now, the key is what's getting ready to happen with this story.

29:14 What's going to happen here? Right, because he's already kind of set this up by basically saying Jesus relied on God just like Peter did. All right, and so's that gets us into the neighborhood of knotic heresy. Let's see if this is it going to know? Where is this going? That's the question, because this is all about how you and I are to live the Christian life, and so supposedly in this story. Of course this story is being we can already tell from a hermoneutical perspective. He's approaching this story as being somewhat prescriptive versus descriptive. I've talked about that constantly, the problems with handling texts that way. All right, So this is how somehow being prescriptive. Let's see how far this goes and what we get from a practical standpoint.

30:01 This it said, Come, I want you to think about this for a moment. I'm not trying to trick you. When Peter got out of the boat, did he use physical strength? And the answer is, well, of course he had to move muscles. He had the kindest Jesus didn't throw him out of the boat. He had to move muscles to step out of the boat. Now, question, when he got out of the boat, was he trusting physical strength to enable him to walk on water? And the answer is. Not at all. That's the Christian life. The Christian life is obeying Jesus getting out of the boat using physical strength, but trusting Jesus to enable you to do what you could never do unless He enabled you to do it, because spiritual strength is not innate of us.

30:54 So we use our physical strength to get out of the metaphorical boat. And once we get out of the medical metaphorical boat, we then just trust him to enable us to do what we cannot do. So if I will just physically get out of the boat and trust Christ or trust God, then he will enable me. Right. And I'm just keeping it between Christ, God the Father. And obviously I'm not questioning the deity of Christ. Christ is God, but I'm saying I'm gonna go with God the Father versus God the Son. Okay, there, so we get so whether whoever we trust, we get out of the boat. We trust in Christ, we trust in God, we trust in the Trinity. Okay, we get out of the boat. Now we get enabled. Now what do we get enabled to do? To do what we can't do?

31:41 So you see, if I get out, if I can use my physical strength to get out of the metaphorical boat, and I trust in God, trust in Christ, trust in the Trinity, trust in, trust in them, trust in one God, three distinct persons. Then all of a sudden, I'm enabled. Now What am I enabled to do? Now? Am I enabled to be holy? As God is holy? So I'm enabled to be perfect? And all I've got to do is get out of the boat and trust Him and then I'm enabled to do it perfectly? Or am I enabled to do it fifty percent? Am I enabled to do it? Forty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent? What am I actually enabled to do? Now?

32:21 If you're basically saying I'm enabled to do whatever Christ did well, then you're gonna tell me I'm unable to do it perfectly. And if I'm enable to do it perfectly, then the not only the expectation, the it's not only possible, it's not only probable, it's what should happen. It's what's expected. Is all Christians should be then perfect because we are enabled to do what we can't do, which basically is walking on water. We don't have any spiritual struck unless we're strong in the Lord and in the power of His money, not ours his. So the Christian life is a moment by moment dependence on Jesus to enable us to do what we can never do unless He enabled us to do it.

33:07 Now, think about the next night day. Can you imagine the disciples the next day they go home to their families. Oh, you're not gonna believe what happened last night. We were in a boat and it floated all night long. I don't think anybody would have been impressed by that. Can you mention, Peter, You're not gonna believe what happened last night. Jesus told me to come and I got out of the boat and walked on the water. You know, friends, with what that was divine intervention. All of us know that Peter could not have done that in and of himself. You said, preached your nice little story. I believe the Bible's true, But you didn't finish it because Peter just takes a few steps, seize the wind, boisterous freaks out and down he goes.

33:51 I'm afraid if I get out of the boat, I'm gonna get the same thing happened to me, and I'm gonna sing. Can I say this, If you obey Jesus and get out of the boat, it's. Not a matter of if you will sink. It's a matter of when. Well, you say, praacher, thanks for being honest. I think I'll stay in the boat. Well, don't stop there. So what did Peter do when he started to sink his prayer? Life improved? And now please note the whole hermoneutical structure here. He's taking a story that's descriptive and now making it prescriptive and applying all of the elements to us. We get out of the boat. This us us us us us, and this is where things begin to fall apart. Let's just see how far this goes.

34:42 You know what Peter did, He did something we all need to do. He learned how to play flair prayers. Notice what he did not pray, Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this blah blah blah blah blah. Nope, didn't do that. He cut right to the chase. Lord say, now this is going to shock you. Do you know what Jesus did? This is going to really shock you. He saved him. Have you ever heard the phrase accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Yeah, we've heard that. Can I say it kind of change it without changing it? Have you ever accepted Jesus Christ as your personal emd Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal fireman? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal lifeguard? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal rescue worker? He said, Preatia, what are you talking about? All of those are saviors in a physical sense, you.

35:38 And my friend. When you and I got saved. Jesus saving work didn't stop. It started. The first thing he did was save you from the penalty of sin. But the rest of your Christian life he wants to save you. And I from the power of sin. And you know what that is, divine intervention. See saying personal savior means he's your personal rescuer. And all I'm. Simply saying, when you get saved, you trusted Jesus to rescue. You and do what you could not do. And as you live the Christian life, what are you doing. You're trusting Jesus to be your personal rescuer from sins.

36:18 Power one is a moment in time, a trust in Jesus to save you in a moment in time. The rest is a moment by moment rest to your Christian. Life, step by step dependence on Jesus to live the Christian life. Do you know what that means? Friends? Every day you and I wake up, here's ought to be our attitude do today? Because it's not about us. It's about obeying him, getting out of the boat, and trusting him to enable us to do whatever his will is. I'm looking at some young people tonight God's will. May you may look at God's will and thinking I couldn't do that. So he enables us to do whatever his will is. Now, see this, this is so different than we are being saved by an imputed righteousness. This is we're being saved and then enabled to do it. So, if I am enabled to do God's will, is it not God's will that I am holy as He is holy? I mean he commands it. So is that not his will? Okay? Well, then if he enables me to do that, then all Christians are enabled by the omnipotent power of God to be holy as God is holy. Therefore there should be no more sin within Christianity, no more sin in your life, no more sin in my life. And perfection should be absolutely expected. And if you're not perfect, you should be disciplined and excommunicated because you are enabled by the power of God to be perfect because it's his will right. See,

37:52 Christianity loves this enabling idea, enabling idea, and forget me and said by an imputed righteousness? Who cares about being saved by an imputed righteousness? When I'm being saved by an enabling grace and it sounds like an infused grace. It sounds like I'm returning to Roman Catholicism, that I'm being infused with power, that I can literally keep the law perfectly because that's God's will right? Or does he only enable me to do only certain things? Now, before we go back to the sermon, I'm just gonna go a little bit what Ai had to say here, Ai says, the preacher seems to assume that jesus dependence on the Father was exactly like ours. However, Jesus, as the god Man, never ceased to be divine while he humbled himself. He did not become a mere human who needed external empowerment in the same way we do. If we claim that jesus dependence on the Father means he had no divine power or that his divine nature was inactive, we're veering into canotic heresy. The idea that Jesus emptied himself of divinity, rather thaning his divine glory. The sermon makes a dangerous jump.

39:05 Jesus relied on the Father. We must rely on the Father. We can have the same success if we do. This logic implies that if we just depend on God enough, we can live the Christian life without failure, sin, or struggle. But scripture does not support this. Even faithful believer still wrestle with sin. Paul's own example contradicts this teaching. Though fully dependent on God, he still struggled with weakness, temptation, and hardships, and he still referred to himself as the chief of sinners. The AI goes on to say the preacher uses Peter walking on water as a metaphor for how we live the Christian life. The problem is that Peter sank, showing human frailty, not demonstrating an ideal model for spiritual success. The comparison ignores the fact that Jesus commanded Peter to walk on water in a specific moment.

39:57 This does not mean all believers should expect this sin experience. The sermon also misapplies Colaussians one twenty nine, assuming that Paul's striving was a model of total self abandonment, when in reality, Paul speaks about his labor being empowered by God, not a passive or mystical experience. The idea that believers can tap into divine power to live victoriously can lead to frustration and guilt with people inevitably when people inevitably struggle. If we are meant to rely on God in the same way Jesus did, why do believers fail while Jesus did not. This view fails to account for the fact that Jesus was sinless and that he was not just an example but a unique divine savior. Conclusion, this is what AI says. This is a distorted view of Jesus and the Christian life. Rather than affirming the hyposthetic union, this sermon subtly undermines it. The preacher's emphasis on zero to one hundred reliant one hundred percent reliance on God is well intended, but it is a flawed framework. Believers should depend on God, but not as if we are trying to mimic Christ's divine human experience. Instead, our dependence on God is the dependence of fallen, redeemed creatures, not that of the eternal son of God, God incarnate. It says this teaching is not only problematic, but it is unbiblical.

41:23 It distorts both Christology and sanctification, leading people towards either false confidence or despair when they fail to measure up right. So Ai then asked me, do you want a precise theological response to refute this sermon using scripture? So AI did not like discernment. Ai was like, discermon is problematic because it's giving us this implication that, hey, all we got to do is do what Paul basically Peter did, or what Jesus did. Now we'll see if he's never explicit, but that's the that's what's being implied. What's being implied is Jesus relied on God the same way Peter did, and if we rely on God that way, then we get similar results. And that God is there to enable us to do whatever he wills. Well, if he's there to enable me to do whatever he wills, then I should be sinless because you can't tell me he wills me to sin. And if he's the one enabling me to do whatever he wills, then whenever I fail, you can't come at me. Why do you church discipline someone Well, whoa, whoa, whoah, back off, get out of my face. I sin because God didn't enable me not to sind. Well, no, it doesn't work that way. God enables you, but you have to use the enablement. So then God can't overcome my will not to want the enablement. Then the whole thing falls apart.

42:57 You know, many times a young man say, I think God's calling me to preach, but I can't do it. You know what, My answer always is join the club. Like who has called to preach? Ever thought we could? We all thought God about it. We had to come to a realization what we could not do. If we got out of the boat and began to obey Jesus, he'd enable us to do what we can never do unless he's supernaturally intervened. Are you seeing what the Christian life his friend? It's zero one hundred. Every one of us in this room has to get out of the boat moments. All the time you ever been in a cash register in the Holy Spirit says invite him out, or give him a track, or speak a word of witness.

43:38 Okay, now we have God speaking outside of scripture, God speaking directly. Let me say this for the millionth time. If God is talking directly to people for crying out loud, could he just fix all the doctrinal disputes that have torn Christianity apart for two thousand years. Could instead of telling me do this or go here, or give this person a track, he's just talking to me directly about these things to do. Could he say, here's the correct doctrine of baptism. Here's the correct doctrine on the Lord's Supper. Here's the correct doctrine on church government. Here is the correct doctrine on salvation. Here's the correct doctrine about Israel.

44:23 Here's the correct doctrine about eschatology. Here's the correct doctrine about ecclesiology. Here's a correct doctrine about soteriology. If God is speaking for crying out loud, fix the philological problems. It's always constantly this morning listening to the chapel service that I was joking about the beginning, the same thing God spoke to this part told him he had God talked to him about how much gas he had in his fuel tank. God, I literally talked to him about how much gas he had. If spoke to him and whenever whenever you say God said to me or God speaks to you. If you then say what God said, you put that in quotation marks, meaning then that that is an erran and fallible word of God. Because you have an exact quote from God, you better put it in your Bible. That undermines the Bible completely. If God is speaking directly to people outside of scripture, then just give me a God inspired commentary on scripture. I don't need God to tell me give this person a track, or do this, or this is how much cash you have in your gas tank? Or go here and don't go here, do this, do that? Just tell me what the scriptures mean for crying out loud, because after two thousand years we don't know what they mean because nobody agrees on anything.

45:52 Let me encourage you. I'm all for giving out tracks. Let me encourage you to learn how to give the gospel in thirty seconds. Really not hard men are sinners going to hell? You trust Jesus. He died in the cross, shed his blood rose again. You trust him. He'll see and sometimes just a simple. Word of witness, say for sure, I couldn't do that. Well, if Jesus enabled you, you could. But you will never be enabled until you get out of the boat. See the setup. See if I don't do something, I can't do something. It's my fault because I never got out of the boat. Oh, oh, you sinned. Well, if you'd just gotten out of the boat, he would have enabled you. Not to send. Hey, I tried to do this.

46:35 I tried to preach a sermon. It was a disaster. Well, if you would have just gotten out of the boat, he would have enabled you. I tried to witness, but I couldn't do it. Well, if you had just gotten out of the boat. Hey, Hey, is this not the same similar concept of Hey, God wants to heal you. But if you would have just had faith, he would have held you. If he would have if you would just have faith, he'll heal you of this. Oh, he'll fix this, He'll do this. It's always somehow now our fault. God wants to enable there's God. I want to enable you. I want to empower you. I want to do this, but I just can't unless you get out of the boat. I just can't do it because I'm omnipotent God. But I'm incapable unless you get out of the boat. Even though it's a passage that's descriptive. Now it's becoming prescriptive.

47:23 I've got to get out of the metaphorical boat. How do I get out of the metaphorical boat? I don't know. I don't know what that even means. In other words, just like this, Jesus doesn't zap us. No, he's telling us make a decision of faith. Obey me. Use your physical strength. But when you get out of the boat, don't trust your physical strength. Trust me to enable you to do the impossible. You know what it really is. If I could just put in a few words, trust and obey, Hey, that'd be a great song. Somebody ought to write a song someday called trust and obey. Yeah, that'd be a great song. Trust and obey.

48:04 For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. You know, it really is true. The Christian life is that. So here's what we do. We do obey. I'm not against obedience, and God isn't either. We don't we don't, we don't obey. We are in a prepared I don't understand. I don't understand Christianity. I don't understand. Okay, be ye holy as He is holy.

48:47 You have never obeyed that, you never will obey that in a practical way. See the whole point of the Bible is it gives us the standard and the law, which demonstrates not only that we're guilty of violating it, that we cannot, we are incapable of doing it. Then how does God save us not by making us able to do it? By taking the obedience of Christ who did it, imputing that obedience to me, so that I am saved by an imputed righteousness, not an infused righteousness. And I am saved even though I still cannot do it and will never be able to do it. And I will live my Christian life twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, and perpetual disobedience, because I can take one command, be holy as God is holy. I never do it. I never will Love God with all my heart, mind, body, and soul. I will never do it.

49:46 Love my neighbor as myself. I'll never do it. Do all things without complaining and grumbling. Well, I can go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on, and guess what I'm going to find. I am constantly I'm constantly violating some standard, whether externally, whether internally, whether in my words, whether in my actions, or whether in my thoughts, or whether in my desires. I am in a perpetual state of sin. We do not obey. We disobey continually to some level you can point to if you want to make a list of moral and venial sins and say, well, I'm not doing the moral ones. Well congratulations, you're you're committing the venial. But I mean, as a good Catholic, we're not too worried about the venial, are we. We don't obey. That's the whole problem, man, And I don't get it. There's there's I know, we want to believe that we do. I know, we want to. Look, we either we have a couple of options. We just got to forget this. Holy as God is holy doesn't really mean that be perfect, your heavenly Father is perfect, doesn't really mean that all of these commands we have God, We've got to water them down and say, well, you know, we got to somehow convince ourselves that we can or we have to let the standard be the standard, and then admit we can't and go, hm, So what's the solution.

51:20 The solution is not being enabled to do it. The solution is trusting in the one who did it, and his doing it is imputed to my account. So I can stand before God as one who does it, even though practically I do not, And that reality is almost anathema to Christians. So then we create this idea well as Jesus depended on God, just like Peter did. If we can reach, if we can get out of the boat and depend on God that way, then we basically can be as successful as Jesus.

52:03 But self depending on obedience is always destined for fit, So trust and obey. I remember when I was. Sixteen years old, I was sitting in Chapel. This is back when our Christian school there in the suburbs of Chicago was huge, and I was sitting in Chapel probably at least as many students are in your school, in the high school, something like that. I was sitting there. My uncle was preaching. It was a paraplegic, was in a terrible accident in his twenties, lived the life in a wheelchair, and he was preaching, and right in middle of Chapel one hundred and fiftye hundred and sixty kids there. He looks down. He says, Jimmy, that's what they all called me back then.

52:46 He said, Jimmy, why don't you stand and read. Such such a passive description. Now, as I mentioned the other night, there are three kinds of people in life. There are extroverts, they're really weird, but anyway, there's Ambi everts. Those are people kind of in between, and there's introverts. If I asked tonight, how many of your extroverts, here's what won't happened, you know what. I'm talking about. If I say how many are Ambi averts, that's most people, eighty percent somewhere on this you know in between there they'd raise their hands, just calmly. Yeah, that's me somewhere in between. If I said how many of your introverts? No way, they're not even raising their heads. You know I'm talking about. It's like anonymity is their middle name. Hiding under the chair. Yeah, I don't even want to know. I'm here. Okay. That was me at sixty very much so.

53:29 So when my uncle says to me, you need to stay in and read its passed the scripture. I mean, I was the worst thing that I remember thinking, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. You know out is I have blonde hair. You know what that means. Your face turns into the thermometer. You know what I'm talking about. I could feel the heat going straight up. I couldn't feel it going up. I felt like I was gotting tears. In my ass. Oh it's great, I'm gonna cry. It's terrible. I mean, I find the passage of Scripture. I stand in my feet in front of all these people. I opened my mouth, and you know how it is when you're scared. The first note, the first one, that note that comes out of your voice, you know, is like. An octave higher than it should be. You know I'm talking about It's like horrific.

54:10 I remember choking out those verses, sitting down, closing my Bible and slouching down my seat. I shouldn't have, but I will tell you friends, it was some of the worst things ever happened. Now, if I was God and all of us are glad that none of us are, I would have seen me and say, I better. Not call that guy. He can't do it. He can't do it. God has a sense of humor. He al, really does he calls people to preach who can't do it, and all that next year, that's all I could think of. I mean, God was calling me to preach, and I knew it and. I was not, and I hate God, Get out of my life, rebel. I really did want to do the Lord's will. But after all, I can't preach. I can't even read scripture, so I can't do this. I'll never forget the night the Marquette Manibatist Church sixtieth excuse me, seventy fifth Street and Fairview baron Donald's Grove south sided down his grove. I remember that I was sitting over on this side. My dad was preaching. He was a good preacher. But I don't remember a thing that night.

55:09 I was wrestling with God. I remember finally that's services over and the invitation was given. I remember coming down grabbing my dad's hand. My dad had kind eyes. He's been having a quarter of century. It's hard for me to believe, but anyway, I remember looking up my dad's face, saying, Dad, I think God's calling me to preach. I will never forget what my dad said. Now he said, Jimmy and your mother. And I've known it for a long time. We've been praying for you. You know, I've never asked him. How did he know? Then he went to heaven, you know. And now I can't ask, but I'm pretty sure I know. I think he got alone with gods. Well, I uh, now I'm called to preach. You say, preacher, was the burden lifted? It was joy filling your heart? No, it was pretty miserable. How would you like to publicly yield to do something you can't do?

56:01 I remember going out on the lobby and thinking, what have you done? What have you done? Now everybody thinks, okay, well here we go. If if I die in the attempt, we're gonna We're going for it, you know, we're going for this preach. Though, I was thinking, well, at least, you know, I'm just just finished. My junior year. I got the senior in high school, freshman year, a Bible College, sophomore, junior. Okay, I got five years, five years before I have to preach. Maybe something will happen. I'll get hit by light. You know, I'm talking about the inner chemistry will change something. You know. I'm thinking, what so maybe someone but you know what, I thought I had five years, but my dad didn't leave it. He believed, bless God, your called to preach, do it, and he did. People calling him all the time from Chicago. He was well known in the area at the time, and people call him now, Pastor van Gilden, I'm gonna be out of town Sunday morning. Could you send a staff, membro, you know what my dad started doing. Yeah, my son Jim sixteen, just call the bridge. I'll send them all. I think word got around Chicago. Don't call Pastor Van Gelden to that kid's in college. Okay, but anyway, okay, Well.

56:57 This long illustration, I think you know where we're going. God ultimately enabled him to do what he couldn't do. So the whole concept is all we got to do is so I guess that we can summarize the sermon this way. God's still a logical continental divide. Is this. You either are in the boat, they're out of the boat. If you're in the boat, well, Daniel, Christian life is a mess. If you'll get out of the boat, then God will magically enable you to do what you cannot do. And what you're basically doing is you're doing what Jesus did. And again, he did not go in any great detail here. I want to make sure you understand, there's no way this is sometimes this is what we will call a functional knotic heresy, not a philological, you know, explicit one.

57:46 It's the implication was so quick, it was so like most people would not even catch it. Jesus relied on the Holy Spirit and relied on God the same way Peter did. And the implication is we as Peter relied on God, and look what he was able to do, we can rely on God the same way Jesus did and the same way Peter did, and we can accomplish whatever. There's no real there's no real explanation how this works other than I just got to get out of the boat. I just got to get out of the boat. I just got to get out of the boat. And that's He's not even explained how we do that. And and I guess I'll guess I'll let this illustration go because because I guess we're gonna get the I don't even know what I do with this, Like I would leave church and I'd be like, okay, zero to one hundred.

58:35 All I got to do is get out of the boat. If I get out of the boat, boom, I'm going to be enabled. So every failure in my Christian life is because I didn't get out of the boat. So what do I get out of the boat every day? Or do I only get out? And not only that, you see what we're doing. That's not even the point of the sermon that it was a what is the oh man? What is even and the point of the text. It's not this prescriptive thing teaching me how to get out of the boat. We're taking the entire text and turning it prescriptive. And that's the problem. Well, let's at least see how at some point he's gonna get out of the boat. So has he already gotten out of the boat, Well, when does he get out of the boat.

59:18 Let's say, if we get the definitive moment. I remember my first assignment. I scared to death sixteen years old. My dad sent me over to church in Oak Park, Illinois, which is one of the older suburbs of Chicago. I can't remember if I got my dad's blew at Muickles Saber or if I got in the Plymouth thuster. I kind of hope it was a Plymouth Thuster because I thought that was a goolest car. But anyway, and I got in the car and I remember driving over to this church. My dad didn't go with me. He gave me a hand drawn map. Yeah, kids, you can't do this with a hand drawn map, you know. Gave me a hand drawn map, just sent me over there, and I pulled it in the parking lot.

1:00:02 An old church, stained glass windows. But I'm telling you, when I walked in that church, the building was younger than the people inside. You know I'm talking about. I thought I'd take. It a wrong turn and stepped into an old folks home. No offense. I'm sitting on the front road and thinking, what do you preach the old people? You know, cheating on your income tax? You know, what do you do? Robbing medicare? What do you preach the whole? I don't know what they preach the old And I. Will tell you I was sitting up there. I only got one message. So they're stuck. This is what we're gonna have to do. I mean, I'm telling you, no offense, but I mean the music was slow. It was an upleap like brother self.

1:00:43 It was slow. I mean, I'm telling you it kind of felt like a funeral. In fact, looking at some of the people, I thought it might not be long. You know I'm talking about so I am now again, when you're sixteen, you don't think things that you know what I'm saying. You're a little in reverend sometimes the way you kind of think things. And and so finally they introduced me. I come with the pulpit, you know, scared half to death. Look out there, that old congregation. I just took my sorry outline. I plowed through it twenty five minutes, just plowed right through it. When I was done, I thought that was terrible. I remember thinking to myself, it's kind of like that movie Chefy you've seen. I wanted to run, I wanted to get out, but I knew. Isn't this illustration almost contradicting the entire sermon? Did he not get out of the boat? He got out of the boat. Why wasn't an amazing sermon? Why wasn't it great?

1:01:34 Was it? Why wasn't it one of the greatest examples of an exegetical study of whatever the text was that's ever occurred in human history. I mean, God would have enabled him, right, he got out of the boat right, So is this going to be that his perception was wrong and everyone's going to tell him how amazing it was, because I mean he got out of the boat right. Well, I couldn't number a preacher's kid. I know protocol. I have got to now go to the back door, have everybody come by and lighten me. You know what I'm talking about. And that's exactly what they did. I mean, hear people they meant, well, I'll seamen have it one day, so I gotta be careful. But uh, you know, they come by and they tap my little hand and they say, oh a sonny boy, sonny boy, it was a wonderful, wonderful method. I'm thinking, I don't even think you had your hearing aid turned on at all.

1:02:24 I'm thinking this one that was terrible. I was so embarrassed. I was so I knew what good preaching was. I was in a good church like you. I knew what good preaching was, and I knew what had happened that morning was not good preaching. I was. Why wasn't it good preaching? You got out of the boat. Were you not relying on God? Well? I like, so what the entire sermon has been we got to live our lives zero to one hundred. All we gotta do is rely on God. And how do we rely on God? By getting out of the boat. We get out of the boat. Then we're enabled to do whatever God wills you to do. God called you to preach, you're preaching. Why did he not enable you?

1:03:10 It was immured. I remember the youngest person in the auditorium was in their forties. I thought he was old, you know. But anyway, and he comes up to me. He was the treasure that pulls on an envelope, hands into me. So the brother van Gelden, here's your honorary honorarian. You mean I got paid for that? I'd get I wouldn't give plug Nichol for that message. But I'm a preacher's kid. I know protocol. I gotta take it. You know what I'm talking about. So I went out to the car. I remember opening it up, looking at it. It was an amazing mom of money. You say, how much fifty dollars? Well, you see, preacher, that's not all of the money. Pre Jimmy Carter money. You know what I'm talking about. Yes, before inflation, you guys, ever heard of inflation? Okay, I am telling you it was money for some of you young kids. You could fill your gas tank up ten times on fifty bucks. Yeah, twenty nine cents again. Okay, yes, I remember that, okay back in the day, and I remember driving home and thinking, God, I didn't like that.

1:04:08 I thought I was supposed to like it. That was my beginning. Well, you know how it is, went off the Bible. College began to preach hither and yon. I had some victories and maybe youth group and those kinds of things, but really no victory yet in a full church auditorium. Year past I finished my That was during my senior year, so finished my freshman year of college. Came back home toward the end of the summer. My dad gets up and says, to the Marquette Manor Baptist Church, Hey, on such a Sunday in August, before my son Jim goes back to. College, He's going to preach on a Sunday night. I want everybody to be there. My dad could promote like nobody's business. And at that time I'd grown enough. I was kind of getting excited about it. But I remember the day came. My dad announced that Sunday morning tonight, Jim's going to preach one everybody here. I remember we went home and we ate, and I said to my brothers and sisters, I got the basement. I know you and here in Florida have no clue what the basement is. But anyway, I said, I got the basement.

1:05:07 And they all let me have the basement. And I went down to the basement, and I'm going to tell you I spent about three or four hours in a prayer meeding. Don't know be impressed because it was not sophisticated. I'm telling you, for three or four hours to said. God, I can't do this. God. The last time I bored all those people, but I'll never see them. Do I get to heaven. This is the hometown crowd. God, I can't do this. I played with God. There were two things I knew in that pyrameding. Number One, I couldn't do it. Number Two, if God did not divinely intervene, we were in trouble. I remember pleading with God. It was not again a sophisticated prayraermeding. You say, preacher, why didn't you work on your message? Well, that message was even worse off than the first one. It was on life support three or four hours, could not have resuscitated it. I needed I needed intervention, and I knew it, and I remember pleading with God.

1:06:00 I'll never forget. About five o'clock, somebody yells down the wooden stairs of that. Basement, jimmy time to go to church. I remember slowly walking up those stairs from my bible and my message. I've never been executed, but I think I know what it feels like to go to your execution. I thought, what have you got yourself? Didn't you? We got in the car, drove over. I think it was a Plymouth Thusterer. Did I tell you that was a cool car? But anyway, I got in that Plymouth Thuster. We drove over to church. I got out of the car, went into the church building, ended up going up on the platform. By that time, my church had grown. The little chapel that seated three hundred and double it was now like about five hundred.

1:06:41 The church was packed. I mean there wasn't a seat left. Everybody came to see the preacher's kid go down in flansator right now we're. Gonna it was packed. I'm on the platform, scared to death. Saying, God, you're gonna do something. God, I haven't got anything here. I don't have anything. God. I'd studied the. Passage best I knew. I didn't have homiletics. I didn't know how to pair of message. I'm just pleading with y'all. My dad's completely unconcerned. Now, I'm pretty sure he'd already settled it up with the Lord. Knew what was going to happen, but I didn't. Finally, my dad gets up introduces me. You have thought he was introducing the next you know, the next whatever, and just the way he was. I got up to that platform pulpit. I remember, I came up there, scared half to death. I put my Bible here, my outline here.

1:07:27 Dad never moved. He had hand marks, so you knew exactly what brother, your hands just put him right there, hand marks right there on the pulpit, and I figure, that's what you do, that's where the. Hand marks are. And so I put the hand marks there and I began to read the text. Now, all I can tell you is this somewhere in the first sixty seconds. I can't explain it other than this, All of a sudden, I knew I am not in this pulpit alone, and can I say something. I was free here. I am nineteen years old. Eighteen actually, I remember I moved. Over to this side. There are two hundred and fifty people on this side. I looked out there, man, were their sinners out there? Kind of like the night.

1:08:12 But anyway, and yeah, and I started preaching over here, went over on this side. Man, it was worse on the other side, you know I'm talking about. I started preaching, and I remember while I was preaching, I'd say things. I'm thinking, boy, that was really good. Where we gotta write that down? Where'd that come from? It was things like that. I preached for forty five minutes. Could I loved every minute of it, every minute them. But I'll never forget this. You have to understand half that church had known me since I was six years old. I gave the invitation. I'll never forget that invitation. I had people coming down the aisle, some of I know most of my life. Someone were tears in their eyes, some with tears pilling down their cheeks. The altar was packed, and I wish I could tell you that that day I learned something that I've never had to relearn but that would not be the truth.

1:08:57 But I will tell you what God was trying. To tea zero one hundred because I knew two things I can't. I need to find intervention. I wish I could say from that point to this, I've lived that life, but I haven't. God has had to reteach it many times. So okay, So finally God intervenes because he finally acknowledged that he couldn't so he didn't know hermeneutics, didn't know anything like that. So all we have to do. We don't really need to go to Bible College, we don't need any of that. We just need to say God, I can't preach this, don't need to work on our sermon anymore because the sermon is already a mess. And then didn't just trust God get out of the boat, and then boom, he literally takes over and says, well, we don't even know. Oh, I don't even know where that came from. And that's how it works, and that's the Christian life. Just get out of the boat and then boom. You can do anything you can either. You can even preach a sermon when you don't even have a sermon ready to go. You don't even need to know hermonuticts. You don't need to know any of that.

1:10:02 And God's literally just gonna take over and put the words in your mouth. I mean, this is so like And what's so frustrating is the entire story about Jesus walking on the ocean and Peter coming out, on coming out and walking to him, or walking a little ways and then sinking. The whole point of the sermon is this. Then they that were in the ship came and worship it, worshiped him, saying of truth, thou art the son of God. The point of the message is not Peter. It was on Jesus, not Peter. Okay, and that's Matthew fourteen if you want to look at it, verse thirty three. But all right, I don't know what to say that puts forth the idea that the Christian life is zero one hundred.

1:10:51 All you got to do is get out of the boat and do so. But there was a little, just a little bit of the canotic idea right there. I mean, look, Ai, definitely this is what Ai said. Ai says the sermon this, Ai says, final conclusion, a deeply flawed sermon. The preacher's Christology is flawed, his view of sanctification is misleading, and his application of Peter of walking on water is forced. Jesus dependence on the Father is not the same as ours. Jesus never lacked power. He voluntarily submitted in his humanity. Jesus was not just a spirit filled man, He was God.

1:11:33 We depend on the spirit because we are sinners. Jesus had no sin nature. Sanctification is not zero one hundred. It's the spirit empowered obedience. The Christian life requires striving and effort through God's power. Peter walking on the water was not a blueprint blueprint for Christian living. It was a unique moment, not a model for daily life. This sermon's view is a common distortion in certain circles that overemphasize his personal victory and the idea that we can tap into suit natural power like Jesus did. But Jesus was not like us. In his essence, we are falling creatures in need of grace. And then Ai says, would you like me to format this for easy sharing, or would you like me to expand any particular area? But Ai did not like the sermon. Ai did not it just but it did say it's common. So what we just heard is common. I just don't know what you do with that. If you were to walk out of that church that night, what would you do? You go, you get in the car, sit. So let's just imagine we'll end with this. So you just heard that sermon, you go, you walk out the door, you sit in the car, and you're sitting in the parking lot and you're just sitting there thinking about your Christian life. What do you take away from that? Do you take away? Lord, he couldn't and you enabled him to do so. Lord, I can't be Holy enable me to be so. Lord, I can't love my neighbor as myself enabled me to

1:13:04 do so. Lord, I can't love my enemies enable me to do so. Do you walk away just saying, God, enable me to do so? And then maybe six weeks later, you're sitting in that same parking lot at that same church. After six weeks of asking God to enable you to do all of these things, do you then find yourself going, God, why did you not enable me to do these things? Or have you convinced yourself that you have been enabled and that you're doing what you know deep down you're not doing. What does that lead you to? I want to believe that I can be enabled to do these things.

1:13:44 The point is Jesus could Peter couldn't He said, well, he walked on water. The point of the entire exercise was to demonstrate man's frailty, man's failure, man's inability, but Christ's ability. By putting my faith in Christ, he does not enable me to do what he can do. He imputes what he did to my account. That's a radical different form of Christianity. I am not saved so that I am enabled. I am saved so that I am giving credit for what Christ has done, so that I am positionally perfect and righteous and holy. But practically I'm still the person who'll get out of the boat and will sink. I will be a person that my life will be filled with worry, anxiety, doubt, fear, anger, confusion, bitterness, unforgiveness, sin, lust, hatred, coveteousness.

1:14:48 All of those things are going to arise in my life over and over and over again. I'm never gonna be holy as God is holy, positionally looking in Christ, I walk on water. Positionally practically, I think, but I am saved because of what Christ did that's imputed to my account. See, that's a completely different form of Christianity. You're talking to different. Now. You may like his model, and that's okay. You may believe in the zero one hundred idea. By all means, go with that.

1:15:29 Go with that. Go I'm not telling you not to go live that way. Believe that. I'll just ask you just be very open and honest with yourself and see how you are not holy as God is holy in thought, were deed, and just acknowledge it. And at some point you're gonna have to go. So either either I'm not getting out of the boat here, or maybe this entire concept is wrong. You can determine that. I'm not here to tell you one way or the other. I love sermons, even if I disagree with them, because this is for me to consider all of this. But it was just so crazy how he mentioned the hyposthetic union and then just immediately what did he focus on? Not on the deity. We saw this and the devotional and we saw this here.

1:16:14 He ignored the deity of Christ immediately. Like Christ relied on God the same way Peter did, It's not the same way. It's not the same thing. Peter is a human sinful. Christ is the eternal son of God, sinless. It's not the same. Drawing that correlation is functional canotic heresy. Thank you for listening, God bless