Oct. 10, 2024

Biblical Ignorance

Biblical Ignorance

A discussion about Hosea 4:6

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A discussion about Hosea 4:6

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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

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It is Thursday, October tenth, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently eleven fifty eight am Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Can you believe it's October?

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Before we know it, we're going to be saying goodbye

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to twenty twenty four, hello to twenty twenty five. And

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to be honest with you, before twenty twenty four started,

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I wasn't even really sure I would still be broadcasting

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by this point. There was a lot of things that

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were kind of up that was that was very much

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up in the air. I don't think anything really has

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been resolved, so I'm still just kind of waiting to

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see how things are going to play out. But I

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know this, I'm still here broadcasting. I still have a microphone,

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I still have an Internet connection, I still have the

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ability to broadcast on the Sermon Audio platform, to be

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able to upload broadcast podcast episodes to all the podcasting apps.

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So we're still here, and all we can do is

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make the most of well the opportunity that is still

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currently available to us. And how things are going to

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move in the future, we don't know. We'll just all

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you really do, how you really can do is just

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wait and see. I guess. I mean there is really

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a biblical you know principle here, right, I can't worry

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about tomorrow. I'll just make the most of today. Right,

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Yesterday's gone, Tomorrow's not here. You got today, make the

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most of it. So that's what I'm going to attempt

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to do. And if you have been with us throughout

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twenty twenty four, you know that twenty twenty four has

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been the year of the Sermons two point zero apps

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sermon challenge. I don't know how many the sermons you

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have in your notebook. You were supposed to download the

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sermons two point oh app each day, listen to a random,

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as random as possible sermon on the sermons two point

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oh app and then just write out kind of a

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brief summary of what the sermon was about. And by

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the end of the year, you were supposed to have

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one sermon for every day of the year. And hopefully

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by the time you get to the end of twenty

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twenty four, you'll be like Wow, I listened to that

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many sermons. I learned this. I learned this, I was

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challenged about this, I was frustrated by this. It led

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to this study. It led to this study, and you

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can and hopefully by the end of the year, you

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can say I have grown in my knowledge of the Bible,

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of theology of church history, that I know more than

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when I started twenty twenty four. I mean, hopefully you

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know more. If you've listened to a sermon for every

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day of the year, I mean, that's pretty that's pretty amazing.

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Hopefully you have grown your knowledge. Hopefully well, you are

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less ignorant than you were before the year started. I

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mean that is a hopefully an important goal. And hopefully

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that happened. Now, what happened with all of that knowledge,

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I don't know. We know that there's also a danger

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with all of that knowledge. Right, Knowledge can puff up,

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Knowledge can make us arrogant, Knowledge can make us proud.

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Knowledge can make us very condemning and judging and judgmental.

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So knowledge, there's definitely a danger with knowledge. But we

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also would acknowledge there is danger with ignorance.

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Right.

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Sometimes I will say something along this, a biblical ignorance

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is the soil and which deception is planted. Right, Biblical

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ignorance is the soil. It is the ground, It is

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the dirt and which deception is planted. You are. The

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more ignorant you are of scripture, the more you can

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be deceived by people misusing it. You can be deceived

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what people say in regards to it. So I've talked

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about biblical ignorance for a very long time, and well,

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here's what we're going to do. I oh, yesterday I

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did this. I'm gonna do the same thing today in

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the spirit of our sermons two point oh sermon app,

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you know, sermon challenge. What I have done is today

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I just grabbed the sermon's two point oh app. The

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very first sermon I saw was the dangers of Biblical ignorance.

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And I'm like, okay, let me listen to just a

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minute of this. All right. I know the text is

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from the Book of Hosea. All right, We're gonna do

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what we did yesterday. We're going to start it. The

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goal is to just get the basic thesis of the sermon.

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If I completely disagree with the thesis, then we may not

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review anymore. Yesterday we only reviewed about I don't know,

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five maybe ten minutes of that, and then I felt

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like I felt like what they were doing with the

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text made no sense. So then we just went and

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studied the text. So I did the same thing I

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did yesterday, right, because I've learned my lesson right. One

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of the things I've learned with these sermon reviews is

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so many times you start reviewing these sermons and just

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about midway through, You're like, I don't even know what

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to do here. They have so abandoned the text that

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it's not even funny. So now what I'm doing is

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listening to just get the basic text, do my own

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work on the text so I at least have it available.

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That's where if the sermon we are reviewing basically abandons

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the text or creates a narrative or a hypothesis about

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the text that I don't think even works, then we can,

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in a sense, step back and then I can work

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through my note. So it's something this is. I find

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this somewhat. Maybe you don't find it interesting. I find

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it interesting for a couple of reasons. I have no

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idea where this is going to go, right, I don't know,

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I don't know what they're going to do with this

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passage in Jose. I don't know what they're going to

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do with this subject dangers of Biblical ignorance. I have

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no way of knowing what they're going to do with it.

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So it's fun to hear how they're going to go.

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And then a second thing that's fun about it is

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now I, at least, since I know the verse, I

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have all of my work on the verse ready to go.

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So now I have at least a safety net to

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fall back on, because there's been a lot of times

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we've just reviewed and it's just been like, what is happening?

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What is happening? So I think this is at least

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knowing the text, doing my work on the text gives

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me a little bit more something to fall back on,

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and then we can just drop out of the sermon

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if it just goes completely off the rails. So but

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I just like this. You know, it's basically my time,

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my study time, right, so we're gonna just jump in.

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I don't know where this is going to go, but again,

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I found this on I think this was an under

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the feed tab on the sermon's two point oh app

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I did a refresh and the very first sermon that

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popped up was the Dangers of Biblical Ignorance. So now

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you can find it. You can find it on the

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sermon's two point Oh app as always go find it,

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download it, listen to it, you know, without my analysis,

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my review, my critique, my agreement or disagreement, and just

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download it anyway, so they get the download numbers, they

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get the streaming numbers, because you know, we always want

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to help in this case. But the Dangers of Biblical

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ignorance again, I just saw it just a little while ago,

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and I don't know where this is going to go.

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I don't know.

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I know this.

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We've been trying to fight biblical ignorance all year, if

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you think about it, that's what we've been doing all year.

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Listen to sermons, listen to sermons, study study, study, study,

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study study. So I guess the one thing we failed

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to do, and I do kind of kick myself for this,

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is we didn't do I didn't do enough work with

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the Bible quiz. I think that that was another way

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to fight biblical ignorance. So I'm kind of mad at myself.

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So maybe we'll see maybe twenty twenty five, we really

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really I really double down on that and really get

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disciplined on that. I think that could be a good thing.

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I mean, we've got the end, we got the structure there,

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we've got the artwork, we've got the series ready to go.

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So maybe I can really do more with that. Maybe

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I can't. Who knows. Twenty twenty five is just going

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to be just as up in the air as twenty

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twenty four. So in the meantime, we're here today, So

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let's see what we can do, and let's see what

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they have to say about the dangers of biblical ignorance.

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I typically say the danger of biblical ignorance is that

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biblical ignorance is the soil and which deception can be planted.

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That's typically the direction I go. Let's see which direction

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they go, and let's do so right.

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Now, Lord Hoseiah, chapter number four. We're gonna read one

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verse and then we'll spend some time in this verse.

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We'll consider some other versus as well, but our text

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will be chapter four of Hoseiah, verse number six, verse

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number six, where the Bible says, my people are destroyed

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for a lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge.

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I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no

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priest to me. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of

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thy God, I will also forget thy children. The prophecy

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of Hoseah is primarily concerning what we once knew as

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the Northern Kingdom, the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

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Okay, so Hoseah four to six is the passage. I

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love that. Immediately he says, the prophecy is primarily directed

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towards the Northern Kingdom of Israel. That's great. So he's

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giving us textual and historical context. All right, so I'm

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excited here. It's already starting off really good. That's awesome.

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I would ask this question. It says my people are

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destroyed for a lack of knowledge. I'm going to ask

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some questions. My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.

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If you were to walk around your church and ask

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people about their knowledge of the Word of God, about

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their knowledge of scripture? Would they rate themselves as knowledgeable

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or not knowledgeable? Would they would they rate themselves as

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very knowledgeable, somewhat knowledgeable, or completely ignorant? What would how

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would they view themselves? That would be first, and then

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if they viewed themselves as knowledgeable. Do you think at

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that point they really could demonstrate their knowledge. I in

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my estimation, and this is just my own opinion from

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what I have seen in all the years of being

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in churches, is that most Christians perceive themselves to be

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far more knowledgeable than I think they actually are. They

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think they know the scriptures, they think they can understand it.

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You just watch Christians act on social media. They throw

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out a scripture, throw out a scripture as if they

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just know it. In many cases, they're misinterpreting, misapplying, ripping

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out of context. They don't know, they don't have a

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clue what they are talking about. And what's so frustrating

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is to try to have a conversation with them and

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say wha wait, wait, wait wait, they will just like

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argue with you. I think Christians tend to have a

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very high view of how much knowledge they have, and

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I don't think Christians are very quick to say, you

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know what, I don't think I know this as well

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as I think I do. That's my own perception. I

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have no statistical, you know, proof of that, but I

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just all of my years in churches, everyone seems to

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think they know they think they know, and they argue

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all the time about everything. They will they tell everyone

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they're wrong and immediately if they hear someone else's philological position. Well,

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if they would just read their bibles. I see non

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reform people do this about reform. If those Calvinists would

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just read their Bibles. I mean, what is wrong with them?

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Have they never read their Bibles? And then Calvinists will

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say this about non reform people, Well, if they would

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just read their Bibles. So everyone thinks that they know,

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and that everyone else who disagrees with their theological position

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they do so just because they've never read their Bible

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or they're ignorant. And I think it can't work that

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your theological system just happens to be filled with all

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the people who read, and the other theological system is

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all filled with the people who don't read and who

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are ignorant. I think that demonstrates a bigger issue is

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that people with biblical knowledge still disagree on literally everything. Okay,

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I think that's the issue, but I wonder I think

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there's just something about maybe it's Americans, right. I have

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read some studies that they've taken children from other countries

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and so they'll they'll they'll have them taking a test

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and American kids taking a test. Inevitably, you'll they'll ask

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the kids from the other countries, how did you do

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on the test? Oh, I don't think I did very good.

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I think I failed. Where Americans will be like, I

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passed it, I did great, I aced it, And inevitably

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the American students would get far lower grades than the

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students from other countries and other cultures. The other cultures

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almost see it as you don't brag, you remain humble,

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where American kids is like I did it, and it's like,

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but the other kids would outperform the American students. Now

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again that's just you know, one study. I don't know

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all the details of the study, but I think in

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some ways, at least American Christians they always see they

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seem to always operate from the perspective that they know

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they know more and everyone else is wrong. So well

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does Hoseiah four to six, How do we understand a

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passage about my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge?

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Because I think, then are you ready for this? This

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may sound like I'm being trying to just be clever.

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I'm not. I think this is really, I think this

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is the real problem. My people are destroyed for a

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lack of knowledge, and the knowledge they lack is the

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knowledge that they lack knowledge. I think the issue is

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that many people are destroyed by a lack of knowledge,

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and the knowledge they lack is they lack the knowledge

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that they lack knowledge. They don't really know what they

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don't know. They all perceive themselves to be more knowledgeable

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than they are. I've said in Sunday school classrooms where

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everyone's going around like, no, it's this, it's this. I'm

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just looking at all these but like, what are you

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guys even talking about. I remember a church in Ablien

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when I first moved back to Texas and someone mentioned

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the baptism John the Baptist baptizing Jesus and and they

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were making all of these assertions about wine. I'm like, well, wait,

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there's a there's a Jewish precedent, like okay, And so

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I was starting trying to go through the history of it,

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and everybody was looking at me like what are you

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talking about? Like this is like I don't know basic,

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baptizing people with their no historical precedent of within Judaism,

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of some kind of washing, some kind of like so

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then you you kind of go into some of the

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history and then they and but they were all so

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dogmatic as if they were right, and like, there's just

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basic information here, guys, you're missing and and but I've

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been in all kinds of settings, and Christians will argue

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and argue, and so many times, after a while you'll

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be like, oh, well, wait, okay, so you're making this argument,

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all right, so let's just back up. So tell me, okay,

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what is the book That verse you're arguing is found

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in this book? What was the historical setting for that book?

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you realize they don't even have the basic context to

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be able to make an argument. So I think in

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many cases are people destroyed for a lack of knowledge,

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and the knowledge they lack is that they lack knowledge.

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Therefore they're operating from the perspective of knowledge, even though

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really in reality they're ignorant, but they think they're knowledgeable.

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Now I'm not saying that's what Joseah four six is

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talking about. So I don't know if it's applicable Now

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we could talk about biblical ignorance as well, but let's

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just see where he goes with this.

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The Southern kingdom was Judah, the Northern kingdom maintained the

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name Israel, and Hoseiah is a prophecy about the northern

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Kingdom Israel and her captivity to the Assyrians. The Assyrians

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invaded and dispersed the Northern Kingdom. And then the prophecy

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of Hosea. Joseah marries a woman named Golmer. She's not

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a good woman. And this woman Golmer marrying Joseiah pictured

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God's relationship with that northern kingdom Israel. And if you

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know anything about the story of Joseah and Golmer, Gamer,

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as the Bible says, went a wharring against Hoseah.

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She left.

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Joseah went into a life of immorality, and so did

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the nation of Israel, the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The

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Northern Kingdom of Israel walked away from God, said no

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to God, and went a whoring after other gods. The

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Bible says, Now, praise the Lord. Gomer comes back. Joseah

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buys her off of the auction block, brings her back home,

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and they're right with one another again. And that's where

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what's going to happen to Israel. One of these days

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Israel will come back to God. Right now, that's not

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where she's at, but she will praise the Lord one

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of these days.

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All right, offering context, love it, offering history, love it.

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And of course, if you know anything about eschatology, he's

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coming at this from a very dispensational perspective that God

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is not done with the nation of Israel. God has

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not replaced Israel with the Church. He's going that God

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has not done with Israel, and that he too will

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bring her back into the land. And we could go

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through a lot of that. We've been talking about that

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in our series on Eschatology, which we desperately need to finish.

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But all right, so we kind of get an idea

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of his theological perspective where he's coming from, his system

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of eschatology. All right, this is everything's going really really well.

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All right, So maybe maybe this is one of those

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we can this is just gonna be great. Maybe I don't,

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maybe I'm not even gonna have to say anything. Maybe

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this is just gonna be great. Let's see where this

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is going to go.

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The question however, is what what was the motivating factor?

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What was the main reason why that Northern kingdom walked

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away from God, said no to God, went into warring

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after other gods? What was the main reason behind that? Well,

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this verse gives us that reason, in fact, the reason

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why anyone will walk away from God or the things

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of God. It's going to have an association to some

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degree with this very thought right here.

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Oh now this is interesting. All right, this is interesting.

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Do people walk away quote unquote from God? Do people fall? Well,

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he just said walk away with God. Let's see, let's

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see where he takes this, because I think he obviously

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we see where this is going. The reason Israel walked

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away from God is because of ignorance? Did they walk

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away from God because of ignorance? Do people walk away

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from God as a result of ignorance? This would seem

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the way that infix all spiritual problems. It's just knowledge,

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and if you haven't but knowledge itself can be a problem, right,

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And I think we've seen very knowledgeable people. I don't know. Okay,

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let's see where this goes. Let's see where this goes.

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He says, My people verse number six, Chapter four are

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destroyed for a lack of knowledge. I want to preach

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this evening on this thought, the dangers of biblical ignorance,

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the dangers. It's very dangerous, the dangers of biblical ignorance.

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And I think it's it's it's fascinating, it's ironic, paradoxical,

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even I'm just don't have some big words.

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I want you all be impressed.

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That gon to think of another one, But it is

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fascinating that we live in a day where we have such.

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Easy access to knowledge, such access to biblical knowledge.

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is true. It is crazy today how much access we

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have to knowledge. It is insane. But we can get

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into a whole discussion there, so I'm going to get

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back to that. But he made a very dogmatic assertion.

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Israel walked away from God, dealing in some part with

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Hoseah four to six, which says, my people are destroyed

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for a lack of knowledge. So I just immediately went

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to Ai. I just immediately went to Ai and said,

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did Israel walk away from God due to ignorance? Ai

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responded with an emphatic No, Israel did not walk away

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from God due to a lack of due to ignorance

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and the sense of lacking knowledge nor or not being informed. Instead,

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their departure from God was a wilful rejection of his

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law and covenant. The key point in Hoseah four to

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six is that they had access to the knowledge of God,

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his law, commandments, and ways, yet they chose to ignore

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or reject it wilful rejection. The verse says, my people

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destroyed for the lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge.

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This indicates that the knowledge was available, but it was

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consciously rejected. It wasn't a case of Israel not knowing

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God's will, but rather ignoring it or choosing not to

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follow it neglected by the priests and leaders. Israel's religious leaders, specifically,

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the priests, played a major role in this rejection. Their

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failure to teach the people and uphold God's law contributed

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to the nation's spiritual decline. The leaders were responsible for

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instructing the people, but they neglected their duties and in

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some cases actively encouraged idolatry and blending of pagan practices

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with the worship of the True God. Throughout Hoseiah. The

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relationship between God and Israel is often depicted as a

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marriage covenant, with Israel betrayed as an unfaithful spouse. Israel's

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turning away from God is framed as spiritual adultery, where

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they wilfully choose to pursue other gods and idols despite

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knowing God's commandments. Israel's history shows that they were repeatedly

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warned by prophets like Hoseiah about their behavior. They were

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reminded of God's covenant, his law, and the consequences of disobedience.

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Despite these warnings, Israel persisted in their idolatry and immoral practices.

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Their decision to walk away from God was not due

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to a lack of knowledge, but was a deliberate turning away.

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So why, I will say, the reason people walk away

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is not due to a lack of knowledge. They walk

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away because of a sinful nature. Because we all have

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a sinful nature. Why do we walk away? Because the

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call coming from us inside the house is walk away,

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don't follow do what you want, get what you want,

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put you before God, get you what you need. Like

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that's that's the problems coming inside the house. So immediately

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we may have a disagreement. Now maybe he's going to go.

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Maybe that's where he's getting ready to go, because now, okay,

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we're gonna circle back. He's just stopped with saying, Hey,

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we live in a world where we have access to

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all of this knowledge. Now, all right, did Israel have

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access to all of this knowledge? Well, it seems that

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they did. They had the law, they had the profits,

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they had priests. Now, the priests may not have been

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doing their jobs, but they still had profits coming to

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them preaching right and over and over. What did they

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do to those profits? They rejected the profits. So it

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wasn't a lack of knowledge. It was a reject rejection

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of knowledge. So maybe in Hoseah four to six when

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it says my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge,

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because thou hast rejected knowledge, maybe the issue is not ignorance,

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as if just they don't know. Oh, it's just it's

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about rejection. Maybe I don't know. Look, let's see where

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he takes this.

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I was teaching Brother Eric's class this morning, and and

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I wanted to right in the middle of it, I

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had a thought. I never thought about it before. I

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had a thought. I said y'all give you a minute.

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I pulled out my phone. I'm talking less than twenty seconds.

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I found the verse I was wanting to find on

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Right in the middle of class.

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I didn't even have to know where the verse was,

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what chapter, what I just I just typed in a

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couple of words, and right there it was on my phone.

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I mean, there was a time in this world where

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if there was a Bible in a community, there was

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probably just one, and it was probably at the church house,

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and the people would gather to come hear a man

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preach out of that book in that church house because

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none of them could afford it, and many of them

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couldn't even read.

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By and large most of us can read, and we

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have access to the truth of God. And if you

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can read a couple of buttons and it can read

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it to you. We have such access to truth and

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the word of God. Yet we're living in today where

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there's such a lack of knowledge.

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Okay, now I completely agree with this assessment that we

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have more knowledge. We have more knowledge available to us

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and the palm of our hands, or if you're using

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an iPad, you know, maybe it requires and both hands

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to hold it however big your iPad is or tablet is.

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The point is, we have access to more knowledge than

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any Christians in the entire history of Christianity. We have

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more knowledge available to us than the history of humankind.

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We have access to everything.

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What did I just do? What did I just do?

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Well, in the middle of this, I just grabbed AI

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and said, hey, what about Hoseah four to six? And

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it challenged this interpretation. I mean I use AI constantly.

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You guys know that I use it frequently all the time.

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I'm constantly quoting or referencing from what AI said. Now,

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I was pulling from all kinds of different sources and resources,

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So a lot of times I don't know which source

466
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they may be quoting. Sometimes I can find out depending

467
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on which thing I'm using. Well, I could go through

468
00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.759
different apps that I have which will give me sometimes

469
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.920
links to the actual source. Okay, but the point is

470
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we have access to all of this now. We have

471
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access to more knowledge than anyone in the entire history

472
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of humankind. Yet I think, just in general, are we

473
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not more ignorant than we've ever been? I mean, think

474
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of all the crazy conspiratorial thinking and lies and misinformation

475
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:52.599
that gets thrown around and you can't even argue with people.

476
00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:55.519
Everyone seems to think that they are right. So is

477
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it ignorance or is it rejection? Is the issue because

478
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.559
sometimes you think of ignorance as well, you're you know,

479
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.880
you're what was my my science teacher in high school

480
00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:08.319
used to say, I think I think she said, I

481
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.599
think this is she had this hanging up on the wall.

482
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.880
Ignorance can be fixed, Stupidity is forever, or something along

483
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:19.039
those lines, right, something along those lines, now, don't I

484
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:21.680
think ignorance is typically like, well, they just don't know

485
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:25.079
because they don't know, right, they haven't been taught so,

486
00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.400
or they haven't studied, or they haven't read correct. But

487
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:35.599
is it so do we understand ignorance from that perspective?

488
00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:38.319
Or is the case is they're ignorant because they've rejected.

489
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Here's all the knowledge here on your phone is all

490
00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.559
of this knowledge. You're going around saying all these ridiculous things,

491
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and you won't utilize the very tool you have in

492
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:50.359
your hands to fix your ignorance. And I think the

493
00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.279
issue is is because you won't acknowledge that you're ignorance.

494
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:58.279
Your ignorance is of your own ignorance, your ignorance, and

495
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:02.640
you're ignorant and lack of knowledge, and the knowledge you

496
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:05.480
lack is how ignorant you are. So if you don't

497
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:09.799
acknowledge how ignorant you are, then you can't you can't

498
00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.799
fix it. Right, Maybe that's the direction I'm going now,

499
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:17.880
Maybe going in this direction because I was influenced by

500
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.480
a recent study that was released about why people who

501
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:24.720
think they're wrong won't admit that they're wrong, and it

502
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:28.000
kind of goes with this idea of ignorance. So let's see.

503
00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:30.119
But I agree with him. We are in a world

504
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:34.200
we have all of this information, but people seem to

505
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.480
be more ignorant. Why what is causing that? What I

506
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.440
think Hoseiah may be going more with the idea of rejection.

507
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:46.640
So it is ignorance, but it's rejection of knowledge. It's

508
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:50.799
not the availability of knowledge. Let's see.

509
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.160
To the word of God, and that's what was happening,

510
00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:00.240
not because of technology, but other reasons of So that's

511
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:04.400
what was happening in Hoseah's day. God's people were destroyed

512
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because they didn't know God's word. So to not let's

513
00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:11.119
examine this verse a little closer.

514
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:15.759
See Were the people destroyed because they didn't know it?

515
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.240
Or were they destroyed because they rejected it? See, there's

516
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.359
a difference. If you don't know it, you can't reject

517
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.640
what you don't know, you're just ignorant. But if you

518
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.039
are told it and then you rejected it, your ignorance

519
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.759
is because of rejection. I'm trying to draw this distinction.

520
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:35.640
Maybe I'm trying to draw a distinction where there should

521
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:37.680
be no distinction, but I think it's an important distinction.

522
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.920
If you don't know, then then you view them more

523
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.680
as a victim, right, especially in Hoseah's day, Well they

524
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.799
didn't know, well, how were they going to know? So

525
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.079
did they not know because there was no way for

526
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.799
them to know? Or was the lack of knowing was

527
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.759
because of rejection? Now you could argue in our world

528
00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:01.240
any ignorance today upon anyone. I mean I used to

529
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.920
be much more. I used to be harder on the

530
00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:07.319
church and say, well, the church is felling people and

531
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.799
that's why people are ignorant. I no longer go with

532
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:13.119
that idea. People are sitting in the pure ignorant. It's

533
00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.839
their own stinking fault. Stop blaming the church. You don't

534
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:18.920
know because you don't want to know, because you've got

535
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.279
access to everything that's ever been said in the history

536
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.759
of Christianity. Stop telling me, well, no one taught me,

537
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.240
it's your fault, all right, you can learn it, all right,

538
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:31.240
there's no reason you got access to everything. You can

539
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:36.920
read textbooks, hermoneutic workbooks. I mean, you can learn Hebrew, Greek.

540
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:39.039
I mean, give me a break. You can know more

541
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:44.160
than anybody. So I'm not as harsh on the church anymore.

542
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:49.119
I'm more frustrated with the individuals who demonstrate ignorance. But again,

543
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.599
I think while they demonstrate ignorance, they act like they know.

544
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:57.359
So I think the issue is the ignorance is more

545
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:01.440
rejection of knowledge. And I think the problem is people

546
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:05.400
are ignorant of the fact that they're ignorant. I think

547
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:09.279
that is the issue. Right Maybe, all right, let's see

548
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:10.519
where he's going to go with all of this.

549
00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.599
Let's consider this thought the dangers. I wonder, have you

550
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.400
ever considered this? It could be people in here tonight

551
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:25.119
who you are not concerned with your knowledge of the

552
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.000
Word of God growing in the in that area of

553
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:32.799
learning the Word of God. Now you enjoy church, you

554
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.759
like church, You'll come in church, but when it comes

555
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:39.000
to preaching or in the teaching of the suny school class,

556
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:41.960
that there's somewhat of a disconnect.

557
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:43.279
You're hearing what's saying.

558
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:46.039
You know that that that the Bible is being taught,

559
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:49.119
but you're not allowing it to really enter into the

560
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.359
recesses of your heart. You're not taking it away with you.

561
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.720
And then when you do get home, you don't spend

562
00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:58.599
time in God's word. Could it be that this morning

563
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.559
when you picked up your Bible, you picked it up

564
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.279
the same place that you laid it down Wednesday night.

565
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:10.880
That's the case.

566
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:13.519
Now, now you may have another Bible that you use.

567
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:15.599
I had many about y'all. Wo knows, this is a

568
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:18.200
different Bible than I used this morning. Y'all may not

569
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.200
have noted the bad noticed.

570
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.880
Now I do understand this, right because I've I've preached

571
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:28.279
the same type of thing. You know, people go to church,

572
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.400
they talk a big game about the Bible is the

573
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word of God. You don't muket, you don't, you don't

574
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.720
disagree with it. It's the word of God. And yet

575
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:39.480
they never read it and they never study it. Right,

576
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:41.079
I mean, I've talked about and this is one of

577
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the reasons. I spent a good portion of my adult

578
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:48.160
life teaching Bible study methods. Here's here's the devotional method.

579
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Here's the chapter summary method. Here's the chapter analysis method.

580
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:54.000
Here's a biographical method, a topical method, of thematic method.

581
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Teaching the methods, and you can't get anyone to use

582
00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.119
the methods. Nobody will use the methods.

583
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They will not do it.

584
00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:03.319
They go home and they do what they want to do.

585
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They will not study it. How difficult has it been

586
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to get people to actually participate in the Sermon's two

587
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:13.119
point oh sermon sermon challenge? One sermon for every day

588
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:17.239
of the year. A lot of people just now. Some

589
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.079
people may have actual reasons why they could not participate.

590
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.559
I understand, but a lot of people could pull off

591
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:26.440
one sermon per day. But they do they want to participate? No,

592
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do they want to write anything down?

593
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:28.360
No?

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I mean, I've seen. One of my biggest frustrations being

595
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a pastor was like, okay, all right, all right, this year,

596
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we're going to do this.

597
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All right, we're.

598
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Gonna here's the devotional guide. I'm going to get everyone

599
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:40.920
this devotional guide and we're gonna work on it. Well,

600
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:43.320
then after a couple of months, you realize nobody's using

601
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.400
the devotional guide, no one's using the curriculum.

602
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:46.280
No one.

603
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So then you're just like, forget it, you know what.

604
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And so I finally got to the point even as

605
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.639
that's it, I'm not buying it. No, no more devotionals

606
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:57.639
at the front of the church, no more, no more anything.

607
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.280
I'm not giving you guys in it. Nobody wants to

608
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:00.760
use it.

609
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:00.960
Now.

610
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:03.639
There was always some that will, and those who will

611
00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:05.679
will be like, hey, tell me where we got that,

612
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.119
because I want to get it for myself, But most

613
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:10.079
of the time, the majority of people like, I don't care.

614
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:12.280
I don't care, I don't want the devotional I don't

615
00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:14.239
want this, I don't want that, and you're just kind

616
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.840
of like why, why, what is the deal? So I

617
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:21.880
have definitely experienced my own frustration with Christians not really

618
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:26.360
wanting to do much of anything. Now I can understand, now,

619
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:28.519
let's make let's be now, we've got to be honest

620
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:34.639
and transparent. I can understand going through seasons, right because

621
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.840
we're human beings and we are impacted by emotions and

622
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.480
all kinds of stuff going on inside of our bodies.

623
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So sometimes we can be like, oh man, I'm really

624
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.599
I want to read, I want to study, I want

625
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.840
to listen to sermons, and then let's just be honest.

626
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:50.400
There's times where like, well, you know, I want to

627
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.440
watch this, and oh I want to watch this, or

628
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.199
I want to read this, or I want to do this,

629
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.000
or I want to do this. We can fluctuate dramatically,

630
00:35:58.199 --> 00:35:58.679
all right.

631
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.519
So we all know that. We all know that.

632
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:02.320
I think the key is we have to just be

633
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:04.679
honest with ourselves that a lot of people in the

634
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.519
church don't really want to put forth. I mean, look,

635
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.800
let's just be honest. A lot of people in the church,

636
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:14.519
they didn't really in their minds to be a Christian

637
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:18.960
is not about spending multiple hours of weeks with a notebook,

638
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:24.440
a pencil, a Bible and some reference tools. They don't

639
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:27.719
perceive it that way. I mean they became a Christian

640
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.360
because they didn't want to go to Hell, which you

641
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.239
can understand, right when you threaten people with the burning

642
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:35.199
forever for eternity, you're like, well, then I believe in

643
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.000
Jesus because I don't want to go to Hell. That

644
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.519
doesn't mean I signed up now to basically be in

645
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.320
university for the rest of my life with taking notes

646
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:47.039
and studying Hebrew and Greek and trying to understand hermonutical

647
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.480
principles and trying to they may not look at it

648
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.159
from that perspective. Now, of course, when I was more

649
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:57.159
lordship than to be like, well, these people aren't saying

650
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:58.599
because if they say they would love the Word of

651
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.400
God and they would desire it more than gold and silver,

652
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.039
more than the honey and the honeycomb, they would love it,

653
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.000
they would desire it, they would memorize it. Well, at

654
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.320
some point you just realized, well, then, obviously no one

655
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:11.440
to say because the majority, I mean, look, every study

656
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:13.079
on the face of the earth says the majority of

657
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:16.760
Christians do not engage the Bible in any meaningful way

658
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:19.800
on a regular and consistent basis. The majority does, They

659
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.280
just don't. And typically the people who really study and

660
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:26.320
study are a lot of times men who are considering

661
00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:29.679
the ministry are going into the ministry. Well, that makes sense, right.

662
00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:32.559
I typically have seen women.

663
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:33.079
Be more.

664
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.599
Studious and more dedicated to study than I've seen men.

665
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.920
I've seen most men who are not going into ministry

666
00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:45.960
no desire for ministry. I don't usually see them that

667
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:49.400
hungry for the Word of God. I just don't. And

668
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:53.199
whenever you get if you put Christians in like some

669
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:55.880
kind of a quote unquote fellowship, you typically see the

670
00:37:55.920 --> 00:38:01.400
men and they're talking about their new truck, football, hunting, whatever.

671
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.480
In many cases it's the women who would be more

672
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.400
willing to engage in an actual theological discussion. Now there's

673
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.480
always the exception, but it's almost always the men who

674
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:14.079
are considering or thinking about possible ministry. Then of course

675
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.599
they then they want to study and talk. Okay, well

676
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.440
that's what about the men who don't want to be ministers?

677
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.000
Now I'm not saying that there's never I'm not saying

678
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.280
that there's never an exception. I'm just saying in general,

679
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:35.719
So I this ignorance thing, I just don't know. I

680
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:37.559
think there's a lot of it in the church, and

681
00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:39.840
I don't know if we have a good explanation to

682
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:42.920
why where does it arise from?

683
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:43.599
What? What?

684
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.159
What should be the minimal? Maybe this what should be

685
00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:50.559
the minimal expectation of Christians and knowledge? Like what what

686
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.679
should we expect? Is there a minimal expectation of how

687
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.119
much time someone reads, how much time someone studies, how

688
00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.320
much Look if they go to church Sunday. Just think

689
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.000
if a person goes to church Sunday school, Sunday morning,

690
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Sunday night, Wednesday night. Right, So Sunday school, Sunday morning,

691
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:11.760
Sunday night, Wednesday night, they go, and they're there, and

692
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:15.199
their church gives them basically four good hours of teaching

693
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:18.639
a week, right, three on Sunday and one on Wednesday,

694
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:25.039
four solid hours. Then what's the expectation of how much

695
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.000
they study outside of the outside of church? And if

696
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.440
the church, if the church, if they're actually learning and

697
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:36.360
studying more outside the church, then what's the purpose of

698
00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:38.199
the church. You see where then this all kind of

699
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.280
goes to, well, let's see where he goes and we'll

700
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:44.679
just we'll just kind of follow and see where this

701
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:45.280
leads us.

702
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:48.800
Aren't you glad I noticed it.

703
00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:55.480
You may have other Bibles you use, but are you

704
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someone who has a disconnect a disinterest what the Word

705
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.559
of God says? How about you, Mama, Daddy, grandpa, grandma.

706
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.239
I'm not talking to preachers and theologians and teachers, and

707
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.400
now we're talking about everybody. Now by no means would

708
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:19.559
we expect Grandpa, grandma, Mam and daddy. You come home

709
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.079
from a hard day's work. You're trying to keep the house.

710
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.199
We're not expecting by no means, no one would expect

711
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.119
her suggest that you should spend as much time in

712
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.840
God's word as the preacher or the deacons or the

713
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:33.840
Sunday school teachers.

714
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:39.119
Okay, Now this is interesting because a lot of times

715
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:42.480
in churches they don't make this distinction. So if you're

716
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.639
not a pastor, you're not a deacon, you're not a

717
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:48.719
Sunday school teacher, then no one expects you to study

718
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:54.119
as much. All right, So there's a there's different levels.

719
00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:58.639
So when the Bible says, desire the word of God, right,

720
00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:01.800
desire the word of God more than gold and silver,

721
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.400
more than honey and the honeycomb, as new born babes,

722
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.119
desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may

723
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.880
grow thereby. That man does not live by bread alone,

724
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:13.519
but by every word that proceeded that out of the

725
00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:17.400
mouth of God, all of these scriptures that speak of

726
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.719
the importance of the scriptures, that it is our milk,

727
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:23.480
it is our meat, it is it is our sword,

728
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:27.599
like all of the things the Bible supposedly is. Are

729
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:32.519
we saying, then hey, if you're not, if you're not

730
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:35.599
a pastor, if you're not in anyone in these particular

731
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:40.960
offices or ministries, then that no one expects you to study.

732
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:45.039
So then what's the minimal thinking? How much like? Because

733
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.960
now this is where it gets weird, right, this is

734
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:52.239
where it gets weird because within the non Catholic world,

735
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:57.519
the concept is the person in the pew is supposed

736
00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:00.039
to be listening to what the preacher is preaching and

737
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.400
be able to determine if what is being preached is

738
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:05.599
true or false so that they will not be deceived,

739
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.320
and that they're supposed to in some way be offering

740
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.519
judgment to the sermon. Well, if they're not studying the

741
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:14.800
Bible as much as the preacher, how can then they

742
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:16.199
judge the preacher?

743
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:17.559
Like? This is bizarre.

744
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:21.119
Hey, nobody expects you to study as much as the preacher.

745
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.519
But you then have the right to disagree with the

746
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:26.920
pastor or say the pastor is wrong, I'm going to

747
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:29.280
go to another church. Now, wait a minute, if you're

748
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.559
going to stand in any judgment to the one preaching,

749
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.480
wouldn't you therefore then have to have equal or greater

750
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:39.559
knowledge in order to make the judgment about what is

751
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:42.960
being preached. As whether true or false, and that the

752
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:46.199
whole concept within the non Catholic world is that it's

753
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:48.679
the people sitting in the pew that has to determine

754
00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:50.880
if what is preached is true or false. Well, then

755
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:54.039
that would require you to have equal or greater knowledge

756
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:57.519
than the one preaching. How can you judge someone with

757
00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:04.000
greater knowledge than you? Like, that makes no sense. So

758
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:08.360
what how much my people are destroyed for a lack

759
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:11.920
of knowledge? Well, you're saying that these people don't require

760
00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:21.199
as much knowledge as the people teaching. How does that work?

761
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:28.440
They're in different categories. But do you have a desire,

762
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.679
a hunger, a thirst for the word of God?

763
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:36.079
And what it says if you don't spend time in

764
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:37.000
God's word.

765
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.599
It's not because you don't have time, it's because you

766
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:47.119
did not make time. You know, every Sunday, well most

767
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.280
many people on Sundays at least this with with our

768
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.039
phone company or our phone or whatever. It'll tell you

769
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:59.119
how much you use that phone this past week. There's

770
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:00.880
a few weeks. I'm like, that's not so bad.

771
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:03.079
By the ways. I'm like, man, that wasn't a good week.

772
00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:05.360
That was not a good week. Use it too much?

773
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:15.400
How much of that time on your phone was entertainment, gossip,

774
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:20.159
whatever it might be. And if you laid that phone

775
00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:23.159
down a little bit more, you could pick up God's

776
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:24.000
word a little more.

777
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:27.639
Now I'm saying that not to fuss at you.

778
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:29.880
I'm saying that the introduce to the thought there's a

779
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.239
danger in not knowing your Bible. There's a danger in

780
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.760
not knowing what the Bible says, number one danger number one.

781
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:44.280
When people are ignorant of scripture, the people will be destroyed.

782
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:48.920
That's what the verse says. God says, my people are

783
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:55.800
destroyed for lack of knowledge. And it's not knowledge that

784
00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:01.079
they did not have access to. The rejected the knowledge

785
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:05.440
that they had before them. Look at verse of afore

786
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:12.079
same chapter. Yet let no man strive nor reprove another

787
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:19.159
for thy people, or as they that strive with the priest.

788
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.559
What he's said here is this priest, this particular priest

789
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:26.960
in the verse, is a priest that is teaching and

790
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:32.400
giving the word of God. But the people, the people

791
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:34.800
of Israel, the Northern Kingdom, they're like a bunch of

792
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:38.000
people who want to argue with the priest while he

793
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:43.320
teaches the word of God. They're hearing it. They're receiving it,

794
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.920
but they don't want it, and they'll strive. I don't

795
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:47.639
think that's what it means. I don't think that's what

796
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.119
it says when the priest is actually preaching it right

797
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:53.519
and the people want to fight about it.

798
00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:58.440
Now, I completely agree here. I think this is about

799
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:03.320
rejection of knowledge. Again, ignorance tends to be like, well,

800
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:05.880
they just don't know. They don't know because they don't

801
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.119
want to know. This is about they reject it outright.

802
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.840
I think that's that's more. I think that's more of

803
00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:15.239
the direction. This is, this is this is going right.

804
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:18.559
So yeah, let's let's listen to a little bit more here.

805
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:20.840
I've got all my notes ready to go on this.

806
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:24.599
But I think I think we're having some interesting discussions here.

807
00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:27.119
Hopefully you find it somewhat beneficial. Let's just see where

808
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:27.440
he goes.

809
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:35.239
You'd be surprised how much that happens. Baddnist church is

810
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:41.159
all over this land. I remember first church I passed.

811
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:43.679
And I was preaching.

812
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.639
I think it might have been a prophetic message of

813
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:50.519
some sort, not a prophecy I received, but prophecies from

814
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.559
the Word of God. And I've got to talking about

815
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.800
the nation of Israel and how they're going to get

816
00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:59.920
saved one of these days. And I remember for the

817
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:03.679
service was a couple visiting, and man, they were just

818
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:05.800
as sweet and kind and nice.

819
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:08.400
And when I got done.

820
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:10.599
Preaching that message, I'm standing at the back door. It was,

821
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:13.559
you know, it was just two rows, one ale. I'm

822
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.199
standing at the back door, you know, as everybody exits,

823
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.960
and I'm shaking everybody's hand and they are walking out

824
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:21.880
the door. And on the way out of the door,

825
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.079
that man wasn't so nice anymore. He was one of

826
00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.000
the most anti Semitic people I've ever met in my life.

827
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:31.960
He hated the fact that I.

828
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:36.320
Said anything positive about the Jews and let me hold it.

829
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.719
On the way out of the door, and as quick

830
00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:41.599
as I could, I just said, well, you're wrong, brother.

831
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:44.440
I couldn't get anything out. He was such a hurry again,

832
00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:47.880
why you're wrong, brother, And he kept on going. He

833
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:51.280
did not like what I showed him from the Word

834
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.880
of God. He heard it, didn't like it, didn't accept it.

835
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.760
Now, I see this creates this this here. I know

836
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:03.159
we're kind of leaving the overall topic, but I mean

837
00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:08.280
he's introducing this. This does create a major issue within

838
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.239
the non Catholic world that nobody ever wants to discuss,

839
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:16.840
right because on one hand, we so emphasize the individual

840
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.519
and their Bible. The individual and their Bible. You sometimes

841
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:24.280
it will refer to this as the priesthood of the believer. Right,

842
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.199
the individual believer in a sense serves as a priest. Right,

843
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.239
they are a priest. So you and the word of God,

844
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:32.480
and now what are you supposed to do. You're supposed

845
00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.440
to study the Word of God, know the word of God.

846
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:38.039
You're supposed to be looking out for false prophets. You're

847
00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:41.199
supposed to check to see if what is preached is

848
00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:46.280
true or false. So it really throughout the Protestant Reformation,

849
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:48.679
even though it was supposed to go that the Bible

850
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:52.840
is the authority, the authority really gets passed to the individual. Now,

851
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:54.960
the individual is supposed to read the Word of God,

852
00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.519
study the Word of God, determine what is true, and

853
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.360
then judge what is preached is being true, true or false. Well,

854
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:04.920
when you create a system like that, well, the individual,

855
00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:08.280
now what are they going to do? Their job is

856
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:11.000
supposed to be able to say what's right and wrong.

857
00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:13.880
It's going to lead to arguments it's going to lead

858
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:17.039
to disagreements. But see, this is the problem. You can't

859
00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:19.440
then say, well, you have the right to judge what

860
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.480
is preached as being true or false, but somehow we

861
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:26.039
don't expect you to read and study as much as

862
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:29.519
the pastor. Wait, if you're judging the pastor, you've got

863
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:32.119
to know as much as the pastor. You can't be

864
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.280
judging from the position of ignorance. You're literally saying, hey,

865
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.239
you don't need to know as much as he does.

866
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:39.679
But then you have the right to judge whether and

867
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.280
now you have the right, you have the responsibility to

868
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.079
determine if what he's preaching is true or false. Well,

869
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:47.280
then you can't then say that they can be ignor

870
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:50.199
they can have a certain level of ignorance. They would

871
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:53.039
have to have a certain level of expertise whether to

872
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:56.599
know what's being preached it's true or false. So how

873
00:49:56.679 --> 00:50:00.559
do you work that in a meani? How does that work? Hey,

874
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:03.039
you're supposed to be judging what I'm preaching is true

875
00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:05.199
or false. However, you don't need to read and study

876
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.360
as much as I do. But yet you can judge

877
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:11.960
with what I'm saying is whether true or false? How

878
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:16.760
does that work? That makes no sense to me, and

879
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:19.480
that you and trust me. I know I have preached

880
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:23.199
long enough to get Look, I can do a podcast episode.

881
00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:27.199
Immediately you are wrong, you were wrong. Immediately someone's emailing me.

882
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:28.559
You don't know what you're talking about.

883
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:31.559
You're ignorant, you're a fool. And you're like, okay, well

884
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:33.199
thank you. And so sometimes you want to say, so

885
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.400
what Bible calls you go to? What seminary do you?

886
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:36.679
Did you?

887
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:40.039
And that comes across as being arrogant. That comes across

888
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.760
and you in being dismissive, and you should not be

889
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.000
dismissive of people. So I don't think I've ever said

890
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:48.159
anything like that. Sometimes you want to, but the issue

891
00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:52.199
is they just immediately assume they know more, they're the expert.

892
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.159
And you're like, okay, well then go do your own podcast,

893
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:01.159
go open your own church. Well no, no, Well if

894
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:03.639
you know more than every pastor and every church, and

895
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.840
look at some comments under Christian websites, those the many

896
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:10.280
cases the people are not pastors, never been to Bible college,

897
00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:12.360
are telling all the pastors and all the Bible teachers

898
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.159
that they're all wrong, you're all wrong.

899
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:15.719
I'm the right one.

900
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:20.199
So like you create a system that encourages that almost

901
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.239
demands that. Well, then do you come back and say, well,

902
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:25.480
you know, you know you don't need to read and

903
00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:31.440
study as much as these people. If you're the one

904
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:34.800
judging of which you are supposed to right, you're supposed

905
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:40.159
to well, then I don't know how you manage that system.

906
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:47.119
The Bible sist people are destroyed because of that very reason.

907
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:49.239
They had the truth in front of them and did

908
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.000
not want it. Look at Verse over ten, for they

909
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.519
shall eat and not have enough. They shall commit whoredom

910
00:51:56.400 --> 00:52:00.239
and shout out increase because they have left off to

911
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:04.039
take heed to the Lord. They don't want to hear

912
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.320
what he has to say and obey what he has

913
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:09.199
to say. How many people in here have a Bible?

914
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:11.800
I guarantee everybody in here you either have a Bible

915
00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:14.880
or access to a Bible. Now, do you take heed

916
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:18.199
to what God says to you from the Word of God?

917
00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:22.360
If you do not, that is dangerous. God says, my

918
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.840
people are destroyed because of that very reason. Is that

919
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.199
we're living today where it seems like Christians more and

920
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.159
more don't know how to be Christian, how to live

921
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:34.960
as a Christian ought to live from the instructions in

922
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:39.079
God's Word. What we need in these days we need

923
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:43.039
more Brians. He said, what are you talking about? In

924
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:49.280
Acts seventeen, verse eleven, Paul was comparing the Berean Christians

925
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:54.519
to the Thessalonian Christians, and Paul said these the Bible

926
00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:59.039
says these the Brians were more noble than those in Thessalonaika,

927
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:03.760
and that they receive the word of God, the Word

928
00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:08.280
with all readiness of mind, and search the scriptures daily.

929
00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:13.199
Whether those things were so? They wanted to know, is

930
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:14.360
that preacher saying what.

931
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:15.679
The Bible is say.

932
00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:19.639
Well, if you're going to connect it to the Bahreans,

933
00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:22.320
then you can't tell the people who are busy at

934
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:26.000
home that it's okay that they don't read and study

935
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.880
as much. They're supposed to be searching the scriptures daily

936
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:32.400
to such a level that they can determine if what

937
00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:36.920
is preached is true or false. Meaning if they're judging

938
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:40.559
the preaching, then they would be required to have equal

939
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:45.039
or greater knowledge of the than the preacher, because they're

940
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:47.960
literally judging the preaching. I don't know how you get,

941
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.880
on one hand, say well hey hey hey, no, no,

942
00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:53.559
I mean you're busy, you've got a family. Well, then

943
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.039
you can't tell them that Hey be like the Bahreans

944
00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:58.679
and study and search the scriptures daily to determine if

945
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:04.719
what's being preached is true or false. If you're going

946
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.320
to be judging what's preached is true or false, that

947
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.159
I don't know how we negate or say that you

948
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:12.679
don't have to read or study as much as the preacher.

949
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:14.719
That literally makes no sense to me.

950
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:21.559
They want to know what the Bible said. We need

951
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:23.000
Bereans in these days.

952
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:28.559
Now, though Paul said the Bahrean believers were more noble

953
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:31.800
than the Thessaloni believers. Listen what the Bible says from

954
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:36.119
Paul to the Thesalonaikans. In verse that's the looniest. Chapter two,

955
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:39.440
verse thirteen, Paul tells that church in Thesalonaik. He says,

956
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:42.960
for this cause, also thank we God without ceasing, because

957
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.039
when ye receive the word of God which you heard

958
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:49.599
of us, you received it not as the words of men,

959
00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:53.480
but as it is in truth, the word of God,

960
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.559
which effectually worketh also in you that belief.

961
00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:59.239
He said, when you heard.

962
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:00.840
The word of God, you didn't receive it as the

963
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.960
words of men. You received it as the words of God.

964
00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:07.119
So whether you're reading the Bible or listening to preaching,

965
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.199
if it's coming from the book, you ought.

966
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:12.440
To receive it as the word of God.

967
00:55:13.559 --> 00:55:15.039
And if I get up here and I give you

968
00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:17.920
my opinions and my thoughts about things, that's one thing.

969
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:20.960
But if me or any other preacher or teacher is

970
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:23.360
telling you this, look, this is what the Bible is saying.

971
00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:28.280
You are obligated to receive what the book says, make

972
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:29.920
application live it out.

973
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:36.320
If not, it's dangerous. It's dangerous. You know.

974
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.480
The last month and a half or so, we've had

975
00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:41.840
a number of car accidents at the full way stop,

976
00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:45.360
and right here at this stop. Just a few weeks ago,

977
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:51.800
we had one up here, all because someone ignored the instructions.

978
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:56.559
There's this big red sign that says stop.

979
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:00.719
Now. That person driving, I don't know who it was.

980
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:04.599
That person driving might not have been aware of that

981
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:05.679
stop sign being there.

982
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:10.079
They may have had no idea that that stop sign

983
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:12.400
was there, and they just assumed they're supposed to just

984
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:16.199
keep on driving, and they did it, and it caused

985
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:23.719
a terrible accident. And that's how some people are with

986
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.920
the word of God. God's given you your instructions. Here's

987
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.159
what you do, but you turn a blind eye and

988
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:38.360
it causes some terrible situations. The people are destroyed for

989
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:42.239
a lack of knowledge. So that's number one. That's danger

990
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:46.800
Number one, the people will be destroyed. Number two, the

991
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.920
preachers will be disqualified. Look in the middle of verse

992
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.480
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee

993
00:56:56.360 --> 00:57:00.719
that thou shalt be no priest to me. He's rejected

994
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:04.760
the priesthood in that area. I'm not going to set

995
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:11.039
the priesthood in that area because they rejected knowledge. I'm

996
00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:13.000
not trying to be mean or ugly, but I'm afraid

997
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:16.519
there's a lot of people standing behind pulpits today that

998
00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:19.559
God has not putting his stamp of approval because they're

999
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:24.199
not concerned with what the Bible says. In fact, Saw Timothy,

1000
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:30.280
chapter two, verse fifteen says, study to show thy self

1001
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:36.679
approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

1002
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:40.639
rightly dividing the word truth. If a preacher will not

1003
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:43.960
study and dig into the Word of God and its truths,

1004
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:48.800
and prepare messages for his people, prepare messages for his

1005
00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:52.639
own heart, If a man of God does not studied

1006
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.360
the word of God to find out what the Bible says,

1007
00:57:56.880 --> 00:58:00.280
and the Bible says, he's not showing himself a proved

1008
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:05.679
under God. In a few weeks, we're gonna have the

1009
00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:09.280
young preachers in the church preach. I'm excited about it.

1010
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:12.440
They might be a little nervous and afraid, but I'm

1011
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:14.480
excited for their nerves. It's gonna be good for them.

1012
00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:19.519
But if you want God's step of approval, you gotta

1013
00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:23.599
study this. If you want to be one of these

1014
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:25.800
that you don't put any time in, you don't put

1015
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:28.400
any effort in, you don't put any study in, and

1016
00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:30.880
at the last second you throw a little something together.

1017
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:34.519
I'm just gonna let y'all know. They're gonna know it,

1018
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:40.280
and God's gonna know it. They're gonna know. Everybody's gonna know.

1019
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:41.679
God's gonna know it. Everybody's gonna know.

1020
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:46.679
If you just tossed it together, you've probably sat and

1021
00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:50.840
listened to a person preached to realize he just did

1022
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:51.719
that a few minutes ago.

1023
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:52.800
He just threw that together.

1024
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:58.400
This is he did not spend time in this. It's

1025
00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:00.880
one thing for the people to know it it's nothing

1026
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:07.159
for God to know it. Study to show thyself approved

1027
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:10.199
under God. You want God's stamp of approval. Get in

1028
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:13.880
the word of God. If a man will not study,

1029
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:14.920
he's a workman.

1030
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.599
That needs to be a shade.

1031
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:25.159
You know, if you go to the doctor, or if

1032
00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:31.239
you needed a lawyer, or an electrician or even a

1033
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:36.039
truck driver, you needed somebody in those fields, You're gonna

1034
00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:40.960
want somebody that has some training. You're gonna want somebody

1035
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:42.039
who's done some studying.

1036
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:48.880
Would you not. You wouldn't want to go visit a

1037
00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:53.280
doctor and he hadn't been trained to do what you

1038
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:53.920
want him to do.

1039
00:59:55.280 --> 01:00:00.400
That's risky, isn't it. It'd be real risky to me

1040
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:06.039
put me behind attractor trailer. You wouldn't want that. It'd

1041
01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:08.199
be risky to put me behind a go cart. That's

1042
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:12.000
last time attractor trailer. This right I don't know what's

1043
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:12.960
wrong with this right foot.

1044
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:17.760
It is so heavy. I mean, it's all I can

1045
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:19.360
do to pick it up. It's just so heavy.

1046
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:23.800
Okay, I let it play. I was letting it play

1047
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:25.119
out a little bit more to see if he was

1048
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:26.079
going to get back into this.

1049
01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:26.440
He's not.

1050
01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:33.599
I So I guess what we'll do. Is this when

1051
01:00:33.639 --> 01:00:36.840
it comes to the ignorance here, I think the ignorance

1052
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:40.440
here is due to a rejection. It's an ignorance based

1053
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:42.519
off of rejection. Here is the truth.

1054
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:42.880
Right.

1055
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:46.199
So I'm holding a book here right here, This is

1056
01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:48.440
reading the Bible better. Right, Here's a book on how

1057
01:00:48.519 --> 01:00:49.519
to read the Bible better.

1058
01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:49.719
Right.

1059
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:52.840
So if I say for I'll just give you an example,

1060
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:54.960
all right, so reading the Bible better, I'll just use this.

1061
01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:58.480
I have taught now I don't know, forever, the twelve

1062
01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:01.000
methods of Bible study on through them, over and over

1063
01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:02.840
and over and over and over and over, right right.

1064
01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:05.719
I have taught people how to study the Bible with

1065
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:08.800
specific methods. Right here are the steps.

1066
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:09.920
Here's what you do.

1067
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.639
I've even helped maybe modify the steps, and I've always

1068
01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:16.199
changing them and trying to make them better and make

1069
01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:19.800
them clear. That's that's teaching people how to do it.

1070
01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:23.559
Many people have either heard those messages, but guess what,

1071
01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.880
they've never done anything with it. They've rejected it. Many

1072
01:01:26.920 --> 01:01:29.360
people who've heard those messages couldn't even give you the

1073
01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:32.079
basic steps to some of those methods because they've already

1074
01:01:32.119 --> 01:01:35.000
forgotten them. Because they never did anything with them, all right,

1075
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.760
So their ignorance of the Bible study method is not

1076
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:41.679
because they haven't been taught. It's because they rejected the

1077
01:01:41.800 --> 01:01:44.920
knowledge once given to them. Or like I could hand

1078
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.840
someone a book on how to read the Bible better,

1079
01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:49.159
they could have the book. If they don't do anything

1080
01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:51.760
with it, then it's not they're ignorant because they don't know.

1081
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:55.199
They're ignorance because they have rejected. I think the focus

1082
01:01:55.280 --> 01:01:57.960
in Hoseiah is my people are destroyed for a lack

1083
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:02.599
of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge. It is an

1084
01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:06.440
outright rejection of it. It's not that they don't know

1085
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:10.320
even about it. They've rejected it. It's almost like they've

1086
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:14.159
been taught it. They know about it, but they are

1087
01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:18.559
rejecting it. So I'm trying to draw that distinction. This

1088
01:02:18.719 --> 01:02:20.800
is more about our rejection. So then the issue is

1089
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:23.480
what is the rejection? And remember has started with the

1090
01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:26.559
people walk away from God because of the lack of knowledge. No,

1091
01:02:26.719 --> 01:02:30.840
they walked away with God and they have rejected it.

1092
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:33.840
They didn't walk away because they didn't know it. They

1093
01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:36.519
walked away because something else. They knew of it. They

1094
01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:38.800
knew about it. They were taught it, but they rejected it.

1095
01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:42.800
So where did does rejection come from? The real issue

1096
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:45.639
is what causes the rejection. Well, the rejection as a

1097
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:48.800
result of this sinful nature. And so we reject God's

1098
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:52.079
word because we are sinners and by our nature, by nature,

1099
01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:55.239
our nature, by nature, rejects the word of God and

1100
01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:58.559
rebels against it. So then that I think that's more

1101
01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:01.800
of the thing. But I think a lot of our

1102
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:05.039
lack of knowledge is that we lack knowledge about our

1103
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:07.800
lack of knowledge. So let me just end with this.

1104
01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:15.519
This is an article that was published on October ninth

1105
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:21.199
at oneh one pm Central Time. Here's the headline, The

1106
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:26.519
science behind why people think they're right when they are

1107
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:32.519
so wrong. The science behind why people think they are

1108
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:37.360
right when they are so wrong. A Nooster study illustrates

1109
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:43.039
the saying you don't know what you don't know. There

1110
01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:46.000
may be a psychological reason why some people aren't just

1111
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:50.039
wrong in an argument, they're confidently wrong. According to a

1112
01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:53.800
study published Wednesday and a medical journal, it comes down

1113
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:56.519
to believe. It comes down to this. It comes down

1114
01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:58.960
to believing you have all the information you need to

1115
01:03:59.079 --> 01:04:04.760
form an opinion, even when you don't. Our brains are

1116
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:08.239
over confident that they can arrive at a reasonable conclusion

1117
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:12.039
with very little information set a professor of English at

1118
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.599
Ohio State University who co wrote the study, Fletcher, along

1119
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:19.519
with two psychology researchers, set out to measure how people

1120
01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.760
make judgments about situations or people based on their confidence

1121
01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:24.920
and the information they have, Even if it's not the

1122
01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:29.679
whole story, people leap to judgments very quickly. The researchers

1123
01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:32.559
recruited nearly oney three hundred people with an average age

1124
01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:35.639
of about forty. Everyone read a fictitious story about a

1125
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:38.039
school that was running out of water because its local

1126
01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.719
aquifier was drying up. About five hundred people read a

1127
01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:43.880
version of the story that it was in favor of

1128
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:47.639
the school merging with another school, presenting three arguments supporting

1129
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.599
the move and one neutral point. Another five hundred people

1130
01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:53.119
read a story with three arguments in favor of staying separate,

1131
01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:57.599
plus the same neutral point. The final three hundred people

1132
01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:01.960
the control group, read about story that included all seven

1133
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:06.880
arguments three pro merge, three pro separate, and one neutral

1134
01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:10.920
after reading. After reading, the researchers asked participants about their

1135
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.719
opinions on what the school should do, and how confident

1136
01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:15.920
they were that they had all the information they needed

1137
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:18.639
to make that judgment. The survey revealed a majority of

1138
01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:23.039
people were much more likely to agree with okay. The

1139
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:26.360
surveys revealed a majority of people were much more likely

1140
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.239
to agree with the argument either in favor of merging

1141
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:32.559
or staying separate, that had read they had read, and

1142
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:36.119
that they were often confident they had enough information to

1143
01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:39.559
have that opinion. People in the groups who had read

1144
01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:42.840
only one portion of point of view were also more

1145
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.280
likely to say they were more confident in their opinion

1146
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:48.519
than in those control groups who had read both arguments,

1147
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:51.719
so they only had one side of the argument, but

1148
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:53.679
they were still very confident that this is the right

1149
01:05:53.719 --> 01:05:55.400
way to go, and didn't go, well, wait a minute,

1150
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.480
wait a minute, what's the other perspective? I need the

1151
01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:02.559
other perspective right, And the people who had both were

1152
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.559
less confident. So the more knowledge you have, the less

1153
01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:10.280
confident you are. The more confident you are. In many

1154
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.400
cases it's because of a lack of knowledge, but you

1155
01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:14.719
will think you're right and you can't be proven wrong.

1156
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:16.599
And the thing is with so many people is they

1157
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:19.039
don't really want to know, so they're ignorant about what

1158
01:06:19.159 --> 01:06:21.320
they know, and they don't want to know what they

1159
01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:27.360
don't know. So it's a psychological issue. Now Here in

1160
01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:32.480
Hoseiah four, I think they know, but they don't, but

1161
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:35.719
they reject the knowledge. So they're ignorant in the sense

1162
01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:39.519
of here's the knowledge. I don't want it, I reject it,

1163
01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:42.360
I don't care. So in a sense, their ignorance is

1164
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:45.239
simply from a rejection. It's not the ignorance the way

1165
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:47.960
we would think of it. Let me go back to

1166
01:06:48.039 --> 01:06:52.159
my notes. Israel did not walk away from God due

1167
01:06:52.199 --> 01:06:54.559
to ignorance and the sense of lacking knowledge or not

1168
01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:57.920
being informed. Instead, their departure from God was a wilful

1169
01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:00.519
rejection of his law and covenant. The key point in

1170
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:02.800
Hoseiah four to six is that they had access to

1171
01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:06.000
the knowledge of God, his law, commandments, and ways, yet

1172
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:10.079
they chose to ignore or reject it. The people did,

1173
01:07:10.519 --> 01:07:14.280
the priest did. Everyone did. So. Then the issue is

1174
01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:19.920
where does rejection of God's word come from. His argument,

1175
01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:23.239
or at least his basic opening thesis, was they walked

1176
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:27.039
away because they didn't know. No, they walked away because

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they rejected and the knowledge available. They didn't want that knowledge.

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So their ignorance is more of a rejection. So then

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the issue is what made them do that? What made

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Israel constantly reject God's word? They rejected the words of

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the priest, they rejected the words of the prophets, they

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rejected the words of the law, They rejected God for

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an earthly king. It was rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection,

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And no matter how much knowledge they were given, they

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still continue to reject it. Even if there was a

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temporary like, oh, we're gonna do right, it only lasted temporarily. Why,

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Because the issue is our issue is not how much

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knowledge we can get. It's that we have a sinful nature. Now,

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all the knowledge should reveal the fact that we have

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a sinful nature. Therefore we need Christ. So I'm going

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to look at it from a slightly different perspective. Now

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you can go listen to the rest of that sermon.

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There's not a lot of it left, And I don't

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know how much more he's going to say. Really, I mean,

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he kind of gave us that. I'm assuming he'll circle

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back around to, Hey, the reason you walk away from

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God is because of ignorance. And I'm going to say, no,

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I don't think we walk away because of ignorance. I

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think we walk away, But I do think we stumbled

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into a problem that has to be addressed. How do

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we in a non Catholic system have people who supposedly

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can judge the preaching of God's word in fact told

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that this's their response to do so. At the same time,

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say that I don't have the responsibility to know as

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much as the preacher. I don't know how you can

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judge the preacher if you don't know as much as

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the preacher. All Right, we'll stop there. Everyone have a

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great day. God bless