Oct. 28, 2024

Christians and Light

Christians and Light

We continue our look at the, Six Secrets of the Christian Life

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We continue our look at the, Six Secrets of the Christian Life

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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 Monday, October the twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.

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It is currently nine thirty seven am Central Time, and

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I am coming to you live from the Theology Central

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studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I probably

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shouldn't have used the word good because I was avoiding

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the use of that word basically in this entire series. Now,

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of course, if you're just listening right now, you don't

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know what series this is a part of, especially if

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you're listening live, Well, let me remind you of kind

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of what series I am referring to. It all started

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because a very very very well known pastor fell into sin.

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And then we started watching all the Christians respond to

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this pastor, the new that this pastor falling into sin,

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and all of the things that they were saying. And

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I decided, well, instead of just you know, mentioning the

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pastor's name and saying, well, I heard this, and I

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heard this, and I think this, and he probably did this,

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and I don't think this, and I think that, and

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speculate and possibly bear false witness and just add gossip

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and slander and accusation, and then I could stand I

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think the God that I'm not like him, and we

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could just do all of the typical thing that has

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happened with the situation. Instead of doing that, I'm like, well,

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someone fell into sin. Okay, well let's talk about a

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very unpleasant reality. Let's talk about something that no one

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wants to acknowledge, and that is Christianity at large seems

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to have a very difficult time with the reality of sin.

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They hate to really acknowledge it, and they don't know

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how to deal with it. And when someone falls what

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they simply want I want to do is delete them,

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remove them, move on from them them, and just say, well,

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they failed, they probably weren't even a Christian. Let's move on.

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I didn't like them anyway, right that That's basically the

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way it works. And everybody just kind of moves on,

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washes their hands of the person, and everyone just moves

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on down the road. And while the person who fell

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into sin just lays in the middle of the road, beaten, bloodied, broken,

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and everyone just kind of steps around them, over them,

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and moves on with their Christian life and we're always like, okay,

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well on to the next thing. And I know that's

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probably not an accurate representation of what happens, but it's

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pretty close. So instead of doing some of those things,

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I decided, well, let's talk about this the reality. The

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reality is, and I know no one wants to admit this.

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You sin every single day. I sin every single day.

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You're in a perpetual state of sin. I'm in a

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perpetual state of sin. So how do we understand sin?

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Because here is the reality. Here are the facts that

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we establish. God calls you to perfection internally and externally.

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He says, be ye holy as he is holy. He says,

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be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. You

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are never perfect, You are never holy. You are in

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a perpetual state of sin. You sin in thought word. Indeed,

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you sin by what you do and by what you

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don't do. You sin over and over and over again.

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You're in a perpetual state of sin. Now, Christians don't

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like to sell it that way, right, we don't like

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to admit that. We're like, no, when I become a Christian,

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I basically stop sinning. No, you don't. We like to

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tell everyone when you become a Christian, you're a new creature.

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Old things have passed away, all things have become new.

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Even though that's not true in a practical sense, that's

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true in a positional sense. In fact, it seems that

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when it comes to sin, many Christians have seemed to

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forgotten I don't know the whole idea of imputed righteousness,

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because we really want to believe it some form of

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an infused righteousness. So we've been we you know, that

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that's the reality. So I wanted to really, you know,

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double down on that reality and talk about it and

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discuss it. And we've we've discussed so many things in

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this series related to this, so we've looked at it

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from so many different perspectives. There's been so many kind

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of related issues to it. But in the midst of

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all of this, I stumbled upon a book that supposedly

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gives us the secrets of the Christian Life, Six Secrets

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of the Christian Life, six secrets that you and I need.

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And what we did was, We're like, well, maybe this

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book has the secrets to help us understand the Christian

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life and understand this reality of sin, and so that

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we can possibly overcome sin or or we can at

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least figure something out. And so we started looking at

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these six secrets. I remember, as we started looking at

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these six secrets, we found ourselves in a very kind

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of weird location. Does everyone remember remember how it all started.

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This is Patrol one. Come in headquarters, headquarters. This is

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Patrol one. Please come in Patrol one. This is headquarters.

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Go ahead. Yes, I'm at the first Baptist Church and

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we have made a horrible discovery. We have found three

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hundred dead bodies. What should we do? What is the solution? Remember?

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I created this whole little kind of scene to just

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to try to really emphasize that inside every church there's

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in a sense all these dead bodies, because well we're

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all sinners, and because in this book, the Six Secrets

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of the Christian Life, it starts off with a really

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weird premise. Right, basically, this is the way, this is

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what we've kind of dead. According to the Six Secrets

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of the Christian Life, the Christian body is dead. It's

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dead spiritually. The body is dead. Right, the body is dead. However,

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everything inside of you, your nature, your heart has been

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completely transformed and completely changed. So the body is supposedly

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dead according to this perspective, but inside everything is transformed,

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everything is changed. Now, to be fair, this is not

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this is not really that, and it's not really that uncommon.

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Most Christians believe that, oh, you have a new heart,

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you have a new spirit. Everything's been changed, everything's been transformed.

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That's why they basically believe we should stop sinning, even

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though they can't admit the fact that we constantly sin.

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It's really weird how Christians handle this. So it's not

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that uncommon for Christians to teach that we've been completely

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transformed on the inside. But if we and completely transformed

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on the inside, then where does sin come from? Well,

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then that's why Christians usually run around yelling and screaming

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about everything like Netflix, you know, video games, because it's

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always something outside of us is the fault, instead of acknowledging, no,

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we still have sin inside of us. But okay, I digress.

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The Sixth Secrets put forth this idea that the body

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is dead, but inside everything has been completely changed and transformed,

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and nowhere where's the problem. According to them, the problem

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is that the body can't respond to the new nature.

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So we got a new nature, saying, let's live for God.

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Let's serve God. But the body just kind of sits there,

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and it's like, can't do anything. The body can't respond

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to it. The body, the body can't respond to the

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new nature. It just it just sits there. Well, then

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how do we get the body to act in accordance

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with the new nature. Well, according to them, we need

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a resurrection of the body. If the body is resurrected,

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then and everything will be an agreement, everything will be

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in accordance with one another, and everything should be well,

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I mean, at that point you almost have to agree

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that everything would be perfect. Right if you're if your

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body has been completely you know, resurrected, and your nature

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is completely transformed, then your body in nature would be

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in perfect agreement. Well, then you would have to acknowledge

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you can be absolutely perfect. Now, the book never acknowledged

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that we could be perfect, because well, every solution Christians

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come up with the only thing it would it would

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always mean that we would be perfect. But they never

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then they always have some way to get you know,

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some way to get around it. But so this is

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this is the weird part. So the body needs a resurrection,

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but the resurrection they're talking about is not a resurrection

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that happens in say, glorification, where we get a new body. Now,

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the body that we currently have needs a resurrection, and

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it needs to happen now while we're here on earth.

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And if we can get that resurrection, then our body

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and nature in agreement. So then therefore you know, well,

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I mean, of course logically we should just stop sending that.

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They don't say that, but I mean that's the only

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logical conclusion one could arrive at. So how do you

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get the body to be resurrected? How do we get

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this resurrection to occur? This is where it gets weird,

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and I mean, the whole thing is weird. But so

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what we need is to use a mirror. So basically

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we hold up the Bible to our I guess our face.

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We read it and we study it, and I guess

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this somehow brings about a and then this is weird.

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They go from a resurrection and they kind of backtrack,

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and so then you keep looking into the Bible and

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then it kind of slowly I guess, kind of I

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guess what you do is you kind of then what

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you when you look in the mirror, what you see

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is you see what you are on the inside, and

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then this allows part of your body to then start

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being resurrected. But then they don't really call it resurrection.

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They kind of call it being changed. But the change

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is somehow aggressive, it's not it's like a resurrection is

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not a progressive thing, but then they kind of turn

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it into a progressive thing. So when I look into

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the Bible, what I'm supposed to see is how good

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I am on the inside. And when I see how

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good I am on the inside, that'll get my body

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to wake up and go, oh, I want to be

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good like I am on the inside. I know that's

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very much an oversimplification of it, but it's really a

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basically that ridiculous when you when you start breaking it down.

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And so we were like, what in the world is

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going on? Then we were told basically get a knife

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because then we have to try to figure out so wait,

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and is it my heart? Is it my body? Is

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it my soul? Is it my spirit? And we got

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into all that weird discussion and how to break it down,

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and it got all confusing and confounding. Right then we

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then we basically were told, hey, be what you are,

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Just be what you are, like you're you're perfect on

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the inside, just be that and that that. That didn't

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really help either, So we kind of worked through all

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of that. I know, this kind of a somewhat of

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a lengthy review, but it's just been a I mean,

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that's why I stopped using the word good. I mean,

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it just became so discouraging and depressing and confusing, and

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everything was just so discombobulated. What in the world is

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all of this? So then I started trying to take

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some you know, I tried to take a step away

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from some all some from some of this, and the

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next thing, you know, then we got into the floating

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axe head and now we're in Isaiah. We got the

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Isaiah forty three controversy. Now we're working on Isaiah forty

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to fifty five because I had to step away from

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some of this because it just it's just so there

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were no answers, right because no matter what people say,

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they look, people can come up with all of their solutions.

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They can throw out half of the they can throw

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everyone out of the Kingdom of God, they can say

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whatever they want. Here again, facts are I don't care

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what theory you come up with. Here is the facts.

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God demands perfection. You're not perfect. Therefore you are in

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a perpetual state of sin. For whatever sin you think

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you've conquered for however you measure it and say, well,

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I'm sinning less. I don't know how you measure that.

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You're sinning less? How do you measure that? Because you're

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in a perpetual state of sin? Be holy as he

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is holy, You're never holy, you're twenty four to seven,

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and sin be perfect as you're having like Father is perfect.

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You're never You are in a perpetual state of sin.

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So how do you measure well, I'm sinning less. If

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you're guilty of one point of the law, you're guilty

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of all of it. So this really comes down to

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just how do you even deal with this subject? So

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there's a part of me that says, look, I told

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everyone about the book. I told everyone out you know

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where they could look on Amazon get the book. It's

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only like three or four dollars. I told everyone to

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read it. I didn't really hear much from anyone about it.

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I didn't really get very many emails. So I'm like,

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you know, maybe I should just move on. Maybe we

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just focus on Isaiah forty through fifty five and just

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say we did what we could here, but I have

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something to bring this to some kind of a conclusion, right,

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I mean, don't you think so? I've got the book

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open and we are at chapter four, the next secret

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of the six Secrets of the Christian Life. I think

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this is secret number four, and this will time. Well,

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we need a light. We need a light, not like

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a you know, a cigarette light or an actual light.

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none of this has really worked. I mean, none of

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this even makes any sense. But okay, so we're gonna

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get into this. How much of this I look, I'm

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just gonna kind of jump around in the book. I

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just want you to at least know what the next

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secret is. Then we only have two left. Maybe we

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will look, I'm gonna try to bring this to some

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kind of conclusion and then maybe maybe then we'll step

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everything that we've learned. I don't know, it's just been wild,

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what else to do here? Right? I feel kind of

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trapped because it just just kind of like it's not

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so much that the series fell apart, the subject just

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falls apart because at some point you're just like, you

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just listen to Christian's talk and it's just like, how

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long do y'all play this game? How long are y'all

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going to be so deluded and so just deceived and

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thinking that you're better than you really are and pretending

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all this stuff that's just not true from a practical standpoint.

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How long are you guys just gonna mess around and

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forget the idea of imputed righteousness and really return to

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a Catholic idea? How long? And it's like, at some

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point you just can't even have the discussion with Christians,

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of the Christian Life? Chapter four. The chapter is entitled

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living in the Light. Oh boy, So maybe the goal

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is you, hey, just live in the light. Now. Remember

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their whole concept is, wait, my body is dead, everything

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on the inside's perfect. I just got to get my

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body to wake up. You think that that was their

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basic thesis. So there are other the all the other

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chapters you think would set up how we get the

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body to wake up. But they've not done a very

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good job in telling me how to get the body

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to wake up. And wake up is not even a

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good idea. It needs a full blown resurrection. And again,

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if the body can be resurrected in this life and

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the nature is already completely trans then there would be

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basically no sin. But they haven't even acknowledged that. So

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here we go, all right, as we have seen, this

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is how this chapter begins. As we have seen, the

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Word of God is a brilliant source of spiritual light.

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brilliant source of spiritual light. Now here's where I would argue.

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It's a spiritual light. But you know what it reveals. See,

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it doesn't reveal how perfect you are on the inside.

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It doesn't reveal how good you are on the outside.

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It's a spiritual light that reveals on the inside and

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on the outside you are a sinner. You will be

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a sinner, and you will continue to sin, and you

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will continue to fall short until glorification. It will reveal

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to you that you are in a perpetual state of sin.

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But let's see what they say. They go on to say,

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the splendor of our Lord, the Savior, Jesus Christ shines

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brightly on its pages. Okay, well, Jesus may shine brightly

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on its pages. But the more he shines brightly, then

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the more it reveals to me how I am a sinner. Okay.

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I'm just going to continue to emphasize that the more

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you read the Bible, the more you realize how far

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you are, how far you fall short. The more you read,

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the more you're exposed to scripture, the more it should

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bring you to the point of totally just disillusionment, discouragement, despondency, depression, defeat,

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You're broken. The more you read the Bible, the more

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you realize, I don't do this, I don't do this,

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I don't do this, I don't do this because the

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Bible is filled with law. Every scripture that says do this,

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don't do this, do this is law, and it reveals

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to you you are a sinner. It condemns you. And

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then the scriptures that says what God has done on

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your behalf, that's gospel. And then you realize your only

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hope is what Christ has done for you, not in

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what you can do. Because whatever you do will always

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be corrupted by sin. But I do believe that the

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Bible is this light. I just believe it works in

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a way differently than the way other people may put forth.

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It goes on to say, but on those same pages

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there glows a captivating image of our new inner self

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that is created in the likeness of God's Son. Now see,

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they put forth a completely different They have a completely

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different philosophy, a completely different hypothesis. What they believe is

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the more you read the Bible, the more you find

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out how perfect you are on the inside. I completely

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reject this outright. The more I read the Bible, I

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don't realize how great I am on the inside. The

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more I read the Bible, the more I realize how

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messed up I am on the inside. Look, if I'm

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so perfect on the inside, then then you what you're

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telling me is all my desires, all my wants, all

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my motivations are perfect. They are right. That is just

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not true. What you discover, if you're even remotely honest

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with yourself, is in your heart. Inside of you, you

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are a selfish, narcissistic, self seeking jerk who only wants

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things your way. You're prideful, you're arrogant, you put other people,

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you put yourself before other people. You hold on to grudges,

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you're unforgiving, you have bitterness, you're coveteous, you're jealous on

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and you're so much going on inside all of us.

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you read the Bible, the more you find out how

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perfect you are on the inside. That's just that is,

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that's like some fantasy land. Let me read this to

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you again. On those same pages the Bible, there glows

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a captivating image of our new inner self that is

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created in the likeness of God's son. Both Paul and

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James teach us that we should live lives that are

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profoundly affected by what we see in God's mirror. Now again,

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when they say we look into God's mirror, we are

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supposed to see our perfection, were supposed to see we

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have a new heart. Again, a complete taking Ezequiel thirty

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six out of its proper context. We've already talked about

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this a million times, but I completely disagree. See, and

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this is the weird thing. This creates, this weird dilemma

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that you could have two people sitting in a church,

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the Bible is read, the Bible is tied. Person says, oh,

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I see how amazing I am on the inside. I

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see that I have been transformed, I have been renewed

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on the inside. I am perfect on the inside. I

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have been created as in the likeness of Jesus Christ.

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I see how good I am on the inside. And

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person be sits there and they're like, I don't see

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the goodness inside of me. I see the sin inside

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of me? Do you see the weird? Like? How do

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both of those can't be true? So who's right? Does

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the Bible reveal how messed up we are in the inside? Ers?

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Is the Bible show us how perfect we are in

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the inside? I'm going with it. Look, if we're that

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perfect on the inside, then you go to your explanation

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of why we can't be so perfect on the outside

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is simply because my body is dead. Just makes no sense.

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What can rolls what my body does? Is it not

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inside of me? Right? I mean? I see this is

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where the brain comes into play. How much this gets

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This is where it gets all convoluted? Is it the brain?

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if everything on the inside is perfect, then all of

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our wants and desires and thoughts and motivations should be pure.

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thoughts and your inner desires, and your inner motivations are pure,

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at that point, I just don't even know if we're

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with we're in the same religion anymore. All right, So

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that's just paragraph one, And I don't even know what

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do we even do with paragraph one. It's it's creating

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a completely different Basically, you have two forms of Christianity.

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Christianity one says that you're perfect on the inside, and

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when you read the Bible you see your perfection. Christianity

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number two, you're not perfect on the inside. You're still

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a sinner. You still have a sinful nature, you still

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have a sinful heart. You are a sinner, And the

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more you read the Bible, the more that sinful nature

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is revealed. Those are not Do we even say that

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those are the same religion. Now, both sides would say

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that the Bible supports their view. Then this comes back

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to all the hermoneutical issues we've been having. Next paragraph,

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it follows, therefore, that God calls us to live and

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the light of the truth that Scripture reveals to us,

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and what they mean by that is, okay, Hey, now

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you need to live in light of how perfect you

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are on the inside. See how perfect you are in

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the inside. Just live in light of that. I wish

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I could. I wish I could just read the Bible

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and go like, man, I got a new heart, I

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got a new spirit, I got a new mind, perfect

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on the inside. Okay, now I'm just gonna live in

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light of that. It's okay. They continue that is, we

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are to live in the consciousness of what He is

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and of what we are and will be by His grace. Again,

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what do we do? Their theory is, you just read

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the Bible, you see how perfect you are, and you

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just start living in light of that. You just start

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living in agreement with it. Well wait a minute, I

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can't just live in agreement with it unless my body

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is resurrected. See, this is the whole weird thing about

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this book. The whole hypothesis of the book is I'm

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perfect on the inside, but my body is dead. I've

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got to get a resurrection. But they yet to tell

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me how I get my body resurrected. But now it's

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just basically, hey, just live in accordance with what you are.

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You're perfect on the inside, and go be perfect. Okay,

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two thousand years of church history, you think someone would

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have figured out I'm perfect on the inside, so I'm

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going to be perfect on the outside, it says, But

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this will mean living with our hearts open to God's word, or,

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as the apostle John writes, we must walk in the light.

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The words of John on this point are absolutely fundamental

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to Christian living. He writes, if we say we have

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fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and

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do not practice the truth. But if we walk in

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the light as He is in the light, we have

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fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ,

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his son cleanses us from all sin. First John one,

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First John, Chapter one, verses six through seven. Now, somehow

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they take from this verse obviously the walking in the

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light means walking in accordance with what you are on

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the inside. Their entire presupposition is that you're perfect on

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the inside. Now they classify what they've just said as

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an extremely crucial truth for the Christian life, that this

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is an extremely crucial truth, And I guess it is

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walk in the light. The light means God's word, and

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God's word reveals how perfect you are in the inside,

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and so now you just live in accordance with the

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perfection inside of you. Now they kind it's going to

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sound like they pivot a little bit here. You follow.

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You tell me if you think they pivot here. If

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this seems to flow in English, they now switch to

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now kind of a discussion about a specific word here.

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In English, the word fellowship is one of those squishy

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words that means different things to different people. Frequently, fellowship

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is associated with occasions where two or more people have

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a good time together as they chat or they engage

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in some common activity. And that's how churches use it.

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have fellowship. This is that thing that Christians do that

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drive me, drives me almost to the point of insanity.

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We love to spiritualize anything. So if you have if

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you have people who live across the street from you

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and they get together, they have a bunch of people over,

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they have food, they have fun. They don't call it

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fellowship because you know, they're not Christians. But if Christians

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get together and we just shove some food down our

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throat and talk about the weather. We're like, we had

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a good, sweet time of fellowship. You got together, hung

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out and fed your face. But it's fellowship because see,

463
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:46.079
we make it sound so spiritual. Fellowship. You got together

464
00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:50.519
and talked and ate food. Atheists do that, Agnostics do that,

465
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:55.160
Mormons do that, Jehovah's witnesses do that. Anybody can do that. Oh,

466
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.920
but it's fellowship because it makes it sound like that.

467
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You know, we're not just getting together to you know,

468
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.480
please our flesh. We're doing something spiritual. It's such as Oh,

469
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.720
it's such it drives me crazy. Just see, we're gonna

470
00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.599
get together and have some food and have fun. Now,

471
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I guess if you want to try to where we're

472
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:15.400
gonna call it fellowship, Well, if you're gonna call it fellowship,

473
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.160
then everyone can call it fellowship. But that's typically how

474
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it choosed, right. They go on to say, it says,

475
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.440
this kind of pleasure and laughter often associated with the

476
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experience of fellowship with others. All right, getting together, doing

477
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:36.359
these things, it's associated with fellowship. I think the Church

478
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:40.519
has done that more than anybody else. Less frequently, fellowship

479
00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.319
is viewed as cooperating with one another at work or

480
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.640
as sharing some unpleasant task. In fact, more than not,

481
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.599
more often than not, Christians perceive fellowship and somewhat of

482
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.359
a superficial sense. Oh you think now, say I would

483
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:56.960
agree with this part of the book. Christians do view

484
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:02.640
fellowship in the most superficial, just mindless, meaningless way. But hey,

485
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.000
if you don't want to be a part of their

486
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.160
little reindeer games, you're something wrong with you spiritually. You

487
00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:10.200
should want to be having fellowship so I can hang

488
00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:12.200
out with people who talk about things that I have

489
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.359
nothing in common with. Zero. I don't care about that

490
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.359
they bought a new gun. I don't care that they

491
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.880
shot Bambi. I don't care that they have a new truck.

492
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.400
I don't care about ninety I. I'm not interested in

493
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.559
any of those things. And guess what, they're not interested

494
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:28.920
in the things that I'm interested in. Now, what always

495
00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:32.359
confused me as a Christian was we get together for

496
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.279
so called fellowship and nobody's talking about the sermon, no

497
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.359
one's talking about theology, no one's talking about the Bible,

498
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:41.119
and it's like, so I just got to get together

499
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.880
to talk about all the things they like. Okay, wonder

500
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:51.599
it's such a superficial thing. It's just so superficial, right

501
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:56.640
or hear there their political takes. Yeah, got to hear

502
00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.119
how they think that they've found the solution to all

503
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:01.559
the problems in the world. It usually it just turns

504
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.519
into just and look at it. I know you're going

505
00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:05.200
to say you sound like a jerk. Well maybe I

506
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.599
am being a jerk. The point is that's not fellowship,

507
00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:16.519
that's just getting together. It's we've made it so superficial. However,

508
00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:20.839
the Greek word translated fellowship in first John one six

509
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.079
through seven. Now, the book is going to give me

510
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:26.839
the Greek word, but I'm just going to look for

511
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:32.400
it myself because I always like to verify everything. Going

512
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to the Blue Letter Bible app. I'm going to click

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on New Testament on John one, verse six. If we

514
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say that we have fellowship with him going to the

515
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anti linear fellowship, it's this Greek word. You know, this

516
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Greek word. You've heard it preached a million times in

517
00:30:51.960 --> 00:31:03.000
church strong g coin onea quoinnea. You've heard that stated

518
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:05.720
so many times. Cooinnanea. You've heard it mentioned over and

519
00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:08.599
over and over and over. Right, koiynania. Now that's what

520
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:10.839
are they going to do with the Greek word. Well,

521
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.119
this is what they say about the Greek word. However,

522
00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.759
the Greek word translated fellowship cornanea has the simple basic

523
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.440
meaning of sharing. Needless to say, many things can be

524
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:24.920
shared by human beings with one another and even with

525
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God and the Bible. When this word is used, the

526
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context determines what is shared. And first John one six

527
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through seven, the sharing is a sharing of the light.

528
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In fact, John has just stated that God is light

529
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and in him is no darkness at all. Therefore, it

530
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:45.640
follows that if we walk in darkness, we cannot be

531
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having fellowship with God, even if we say we have.

532
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.160
The reason is simple, God will not share this darkness

533
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.880
with us, all right, So we're going to see where

534
00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:58.880
they're going to take this. Now, this is where it

535
00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:02.759
leads some people to kind of a lordship view. Hey,

536
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:04.920
if you if you're in basically, if you're in darkness,

537
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.319
or if you're in sin, you basically you're not saved

538
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:11.759
or you never were saved. And I'm oversimplifying it. Let's

539
00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.359
see where they're going to go. But just so that

540
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.240
you know that the idea of corn and ea is something.

541
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It's a sharing, it's I think it's something we have

542
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.119
in common. Now, what people want to do is say, well,

543
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:26.359
we're having a common mill together, so it's fellowship. I

544
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:30.039
think that's so superficial to me. My understanding would be,

545
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.480
when Christians come together, what do we have in common? Well,

546
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.319
I can't speak for you. Most Christians I know I

547
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:41.680
have very little in common with very little if you,

548
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.759
if you take the things I like, my hobbies, my interests,

549
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.680
I have very little in common with not probably ninety five,

550
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:50.240
ninety six, ninety seven percent of Christians I've ever met.

551
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:52.519
I have very little in common with. But what are

552
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.680
we supposed to have in common? Right? You hear that

553
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:05.559
the Bible are faith in Christ, a desire for biblical knowledge, theology,

554
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:12.039
church history, doctrine, exegesus. Right, it should be that. But

555
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.079
what I've always found is no, no, no, when you

556
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.400
come together with Christians, that we don't discuss this. Now,

557
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:19.960
what I have always found I if you're in a

558
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church and you've got men who feel called the ministry,

559
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.599
you can go find them and they're going to be

560
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.799
talking about the sermon. They're going to be talking about

561
00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:28.799
what they've read, They're going to be talking about what

562
00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:31.480
they've studied. So yeah, But if you don't have if

563
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:33.400
you just go to the average person in the church

564
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.519
when they get time to fellowship, they're not They don't

565
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.480
really want to be talking about doctrine, theology, church history.

566
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.279
They just start talking about all this other stuff. Well,

567
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.880
that's great. It's wonderful that they want to share their hobbies,

568
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:48.400
about their job, about their grandkids, about the weather, their

569
00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:52.359
views on you know, geopolitics, whatever the case may be.

570
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.079
That's wonderful. But the thing is is, well, I have

571
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.640
zero in common with homele I usually disagree with their

572
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:03.000
political stances, and I usually don't have anything in common. Now,

573
00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:05.880
sometimes there'll be someone who will, you know, maybe watch

574
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.360
sports like I watch sports, So okay, we may have

575
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:11.199
that in common. There may be some things. But I'm

576
00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:14.840
just saying, for me, the thing about the church is

577
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:16.760
not that we have all the other stuff in common.

578
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:18.760
We don't have all the other stuff in common, and

579
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:23.000
it's irrelevant because we have our faith in Christ in common.

580
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:27.039
That's what we share. So that's where I think fellowship

581
00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:29.599
is supposed to occur. But let's see what they're going

582
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.400
to do with this, all right, of course we are

583
00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:37.000
talking about experience here. Naturally, the child of God shares

584
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:41.159
at all times the possession of God's life, eternal life,

585
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:44.000
just as a child shares the genes of his human parents.

586
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.400
But children who are out of touch with their parents

587
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:52.519
and live elsewhere are not sharing anything with their parents experientially,

588
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:54.079
all right, So now they're getting ready to do it. Now,

589
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:55.719
this is where it's going to get weird. Okay, so

590
00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:58.599
just follow this. You got to follow that. I told

591
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.880
you this could get really hard to follow. Just stay

592
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.800
with me. According to their theory, when we read the Bible,

593
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:08.679
we see how perfect we are on the inside, because

594
00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:10.880
we're perfect on the inside, and then we're just supposed

595
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:14.039
to live in accordance with how perfect we are. Now

596
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:17.119
they're gonna kind of start drawing a little bit of distinction, right, Okay,

597
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.880
So on one hand, positionally they don't use the word positionally.

598
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:26.960
We are always in possession of God's life. We always

599
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:33.239
have it. Everything is great experientially or practically. There's times

600
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:36.440
we're not well. We're not living in accordance with this.

601
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.079
There's a disconnect and a sense between our position and

602
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.360
our practice. Now this I would agree with. Now, what

603
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.920
I'm confused by is why is there Why is there

604
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:53.559
a disagreement between our position and our practice? If you're saying, practically,

605
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:56.440
everything on the inside of me is perfect, that's where

606
00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.239
it's going to get confusing. I don't know if they're

607
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.320
going to address this, but let's see where they take this.

608
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:05.280
In the same way, a Christian who walks in darkness

609
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.719
is living in a place where his heavenly Father does

610
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.760
not live. What he experiences there he experiences apart from

611
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.360
God sharing in the sense John means must occur in

612
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:19.719
the light. So they're saying, okay, when we walk in darkness,

613
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:27.360
now we're somewhat separated from God experientially or practically, not positionally. Positionally,

614
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.039
we're still perfect with God because well of imputed righteousness.

615
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:35.079
So I would agree with this. What I'm confused about is, well,

616
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.840
wait a minute, you've already made the claim that I'm

617
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:43.840
completely perfect on the inside practically. In fact, you didn't

618
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.320
even bother to deal with imputed righteousness. You just went to,

619
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:50.159
inside of me is perfectly righteous. Well, if inside of

620
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:53.119
me is perfectly righteous, why is there any disagreement with

621
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:56.599
my practice? Well, then they've tried to argue because the

622
00:36:56.639 --> 00:36:58.760
body is dead and it needs to be resurrected, but

623
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:00.800
they haven't told us how to resurmera the body. So

624
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.119
it's just like it's a lot of words that really

625
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:09.920
go nowhere. So let's see what they do here. Fellowship,

626
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:12.880
the Apostle assures us, takes place if we walk in

627
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.519
the light as He is in the light. The light, therefore,

628
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:19.360
is the fundamental common denominator of all fellowship with God.

629
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:24.440
Whatever else may may experience, whatever else we may experientially

630
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:26.880
share with him, we always share it in the light,

631
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.800
because that is where he is. However, one may ask

632
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:33.920
this question, even when we are in the light, how

633
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:37.920
can God have fellowship with such sit with such sinful

634
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:43.079
beings as we are? Now? Wait a minute, okay, so

635
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.400
now they're arguing, even if we are in the light,

636
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:51.920
we're still sinful. Wait okay. I love the fact that

637
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:54.800
they're drawing a distinction somehow. Now they don't necessarily use

638
00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:57.519
the words, but between our position and our experience are

639
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:01.719
our practice? Okay, they are drawing that distinction. Great, they

640
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:05.559
are acknowledging this idea that we have. In a sense,

641
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.679
everything's perfect with us positionally, but practically things can be

642
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:10.400
messed up. How we can in a sense be out

643
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:14.079
of fellowship with God, all right, But now it's saying

644
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.639
that even if we're walking in the light, we're still sinful.

645
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:23.280
Wait a minute, how are we still sinful? Because their

646
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:29.079
entire argument has been we're completely transformed on the inside.

647
00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:33.760
So they go on with this, as born again Christians,

648
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.559
we know we are justified before God's judgment bar but

649
00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:40.079
we also know that a lot of real sin remains

650
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.199
in us. Wait a minute, how does real sin remain

651
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:48.199
in us? If we've been completely transformed on the inside.

652
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:52.000
See this is where Oh, this is the stuff that

653
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.480
drives me crazy about Christianity. Christianity wants to run around

654
00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:58.480
and go, hey, you've been completely transformed. You're a new creature.

655
00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:02.079
Whole things are passed away, whole thing that become new. However, however,

656
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:05.239
wait a minute, wait a minute, there's still sin. If

657
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:09.360
I've come completely transformed, the old is completely gone and

658
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:13.119
everything is new, where does sin reside? If you say

659
00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.840
that on the inside, I've been completely transformed, and I

660
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.159
have a new heart and a new spirit and a

661
00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:27.960
new mind, then where does sin reside? They go on

662
00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:31.079
to say, there is a lot of sin, real sin

663
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:35.519
that remains in us. Even in our most spiritual state.

664
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:39.400
So now they're kind of backtracking. Hey, even if you're

665
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.119
perfectly walking in the light, even if you're in your

666
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.519
in the most spiritual state you can be, there's still sin.

667
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:51.159
Where is the sin? In fact, drawing closer to God

668
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.800
makes us more conscious of our own feelings. Now I

669
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:57.480
completely agree. But remember their argument is no, no, no.

670
00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:00.280
The more I read the Bible, the more I see

671
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.239
how perfect I am on the inside. Now they're saying,

672
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:05.440
the closer I get to God, the more I will

673
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.079
realize how much I fail. How can they be like,

674
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:14.400
this is the most discombobulated, inconsistent mess I've ever read

675
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.679
in my life. This is just all over the place.

676
00:40:18.679 --> 00:40:24.440
I can't even keep track of it. How can Then

677
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:26.559
they go on to say, how then can a perfectly

678
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:30.599
holy God have fellowship with us? Well, how is that possible?

679
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:33.320
How can a perfect God have fellowship with me if,

680
00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:36.599
even in my most spiritual state, I'm still a sinner

681
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:42.320
Because ladies and gentlemen, everything is based off imputed righteousness,

682
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.599
the whole point of the Reformation. But this is what

683
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:53.320
they say. The answer appears in John's words and first

684
00:40:53.480 --> 00:41:04.679
John one to seven. First John one seven one John

685
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:08.719
one seven. But if we walk in the light as

686
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:11.440
he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,

687
00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:16.320
and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanseth us

688
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.920
from all sin. So they're gonna say, here is the solution.

689
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.159
Are you ready? John Wright said, if we walk in

690
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:25.400
the light as he is in the light, we have

691
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:28.400
fellowship with one another. But this is not all, the

692
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.960
Apostle adds, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son

693
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.199
cleanseth us from all sin. In other words, our fellowship

694
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:38.440
with one another is made possible on an ongoing basis

695
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.400
by the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ. Here,

696
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:44.880
of course, one another does not refer to our fellowship

697
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:48.320
with other Christians. This is not what John is discussing. Instead,

698
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:51.320
he is talking about our fellowship with God and His

699
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:55.159
with us. Now, that is an interesting point, but the

700
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.880
point is what they We can get into the argument

701
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.800
here and how should we read this, But just let's

702
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:03.320
not get caught up in that. The point is, how

703
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.039
do we have fellowship with God? How do we maintain

704
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.280
fellowship with God? How is it possible? Because of the

705
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:13.320
blood of Jesus Christ. We are constantly being cleansed. We

706
00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:16.599
are being forgiven by the blood of Christ. That's how

707
00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:20.639
we maintain fellowship. So is fellowship maintained by what I do?

708
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.440
Or is it maintained by what Christ did for me? Well,

709
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.440
what you're saying is that even if I'm spiritual, I'm

710
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:31.039
still sinful, so therefore I need something else. But that

711
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:34.519
seems to contradict their argument that we're actually perfect on

712
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.719
the inside. Let's see if they offer any if they

713
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.599
fix this. They go on to say, in other words,

714
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:43.199
our fellowship with one another is made possible on an

715
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.000
ongoing basis by the cleansing power of the Blood of

716
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:48.760
Jesus Christ. Here, of course, one another does not refer

717
00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:51.840
to our fellowship with other Christians. This is not what

718
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:54.599
John is discussing. Instead, he is talking about our fellowship

719
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:57.639
with God and His with us. And it's important to

720
00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.559
note that John does not say that the blood of

721
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:03.280
Jesus Christ has cleansed us from all sin, but that

722
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:08.119
it does cleanse us present tense cleanses. Thus, this cleansing

723
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.840
action is something that takes place while we walk in

724
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:14.360
the light. A simple but profound truth follows from this.

725
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.079
It is true that the blood of God's son provides

726
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:22.559
the basis on which every believer is eternally saved. But

727
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:26.960
as John's words show, it also provides the basis on

728
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.320
which God and we may have fellowship with one another.

729
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:33.079
And this is true even when we are walking in

730
00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:36.880
the light. To put it another way, not a moment

731
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.280
of fellowship with God ever occurs without the cleansing action

732
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:43.239
also occurring. If we think there is any moment when

733
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.599
we do not need cleansing, we deceive ourselves because there

734
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:49.280
is no moment in which we can claim that we

735
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.840
have no sin. So they acknowledge that there is no

736
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.280
moment when we can say we have no sin. So

737
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:57.880
we're perpetually in a state of sin. So then what's

738
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.960
our hope. Well, the blood of Christ is constantly cleansing

739
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:06.320
us from that sin, cleansing us positionally or cleansing and

740
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:09.639
cleansing us practically. Well, if it was cleansing us practically,

741
00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:12.199
then there at some point we would stop sinning. Right.

742
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:14.760
But the fact that we continue to sin and we're

743
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:19.119
perpetually innocent, perpetually in sin, and there's no moment that

744
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.159
we're not sinning, well, then the cleansing is obviously a

745
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:28.079
positional cleansing. Right, But they have claimed that we're perfect

746
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:33.199
on the inside. Therefore, by the power of the death

747
00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:36.599
of Christ, every Christian can have fellowship with an infinitely

748
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.639
holy God. And the light of this truth, the blood

749
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:47.199
of Jesus Christ, his son, wonderfully makes this possible. All right, Well,

750
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:52.960
I okay, great, I'm a sinner. My hope, my fellowship,

751
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:55.199
my relationship with God is based off the blood of

752
00:44:55.239 --> 00:44:58.800
Jesus Christ. Or we could argue and his imputed righteousness.

753
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.079
You need both. You need the a blood decleanse Us,

754
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:03.679
and you need the imputed righteousness to declare me to

755
00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:07.599
be holy, imperfect before God because of the righteousness of Christ.

756
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:12.800
But none of this helps us with what they supposed

757
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:16.519
we're trying to fix that we're still that, we still sin.

758
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.159
According to them, we've been made perfect on the inside.

759
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.119
We just need a resurrection. This does not help me

760
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:26.519
with a resurrection. This does not fix anything. They go

761
00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:28.760
on to say. This leads to another question, what does

762
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:31.679
it mean to walk in the light? Well? A close

763
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.119
inspection of the immediate context shows that John is stressing

764
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:38.000
the importance of honesty and facing reality. That is a

765
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:42.400
crucial consideration. The apostle warns that if we claim fellowship

766
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:45.199
with God while walking in darkness, we are lying. Moreover,

767
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:48.039
if we are so foolish as to sincerely claim to

768
00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:51.239
have no sin, then we're deceiving ourselves. On the other hand,

769
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.400
if we confess our sins, that is, if we acknowledge

770
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:57.719
them honestly to God, we obtain his forgiveness. But suppose

771
00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:01.519
that instead of confessing some particular sins, we actually deny

772
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:05.199
that we committed the sin. What then, and that case

773
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:08.199
we are contradicting his word that has shown us our sin,

774
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:11.400
and effect we are calling him a liar. Thus, John's

775
00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:17.679
discussion revolves around spiritual integrity. So they're really making an argument,

776
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:19.199
how do we walk in the light. We walk in

777
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.360
the light by acknowledging that we constantly sin. Well, I'm

778
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:26.760
in agreement with that. I just don't understand how this

779
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:30.599
fits the overall our argument, because their overall argument is

780
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:33.280
that we're perfect on the inside. Our problem is that

781
00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.719
our body is dead. We just need to resurrect our body.

782
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:38.360
This is saying no. This seems to be saying your

783
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:40.280
body's never going to be resurrected. You're going to be

784
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.119
in a perpetual status in and what's your hope the

785
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.239
blood of Jesus Christ? And how do you walk in

786
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:48.320
the light by acknowledging that you're in a perpetual status?

787
00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:54.639
In it is noteworthy that the Apostle does not call

788
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:57.199
on us to walk according to the light. Instead, we

789
00:46:57.239 --> 00:46:59.559
are to walk in the light. If we stop and

790
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.159
think about that, we could never really walk according to

791
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:05.199
the light, since, as John insists, God is light and

792
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:08.679
in him is no darkness at all. Clearly we could not.

793
00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:12.840
We would Clearly we would have to be completely sinless

794
00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.440
to walk according to that kind of light. But we

795
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.000
are not completely sinless. Yes, we can walk, Yet we

796
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.800
can walk in the light. Basically, Therefore, to walk in

797
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:26.400
to walk in it is to walk exposed to anything

798
00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:30.360
and everything that the light makes visible. And other words,

799
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.840
to walk in the light is to live open to

800
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:35.840
the light and to all that it can reveal to us.

801
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:40.199
Now this seems I look, I agree with this. We're

802
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:42.760
not walking according to the light, we're walking in it.

803
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.880
What does it mean to walk in it? We walk

804
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:48.079
in it allowing it to demonstrate what we actually are,

805
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.800
and what we are is not perfect on the inside,

806
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.679
as this book is claimed in previous chapters. No, to

807
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:56.079
walk in the light is to be to be open

808
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:59.599
to the light that reveals our end perfection. So the

809
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:03.920
walk in the light is you walking acknowledging how utterly

810
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:12.280
messed up you are. To be sure, a newly save

811
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.840
believer can be seen as clearly in the light as

812
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:18.760
can a mature believer. Or hang, I'm sorry to be sure,

813
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:22.039
a newly say believer cannot see as clearly in the

814
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:25.719
light as can a mature believer. His newly opened eyes

815
00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:28.599
must become accustomed to the light. This is to say

816
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:31.320
he needs teaching. But openness to the light is a

817
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.440
quality that can be possessed by those new in the

818
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:36.760
faith as well by those who have been Christians for

819
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.840
a long time. Any Christian can walk in the light,

820
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.480
but without openness to God, no fellowship with Him can occur.

821
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:46.360
So the way they're understanding this is what's the secret here.

822
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:49.920
Walk in the light, not walk according to it, walk

823
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:51.960
in it. What does it mean to walk in it?

824
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.880
Is that you walk in it and you are open

825
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:55.880
to whatever it shows you. And what is it going

826
00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:57.920
to show you? What's going to show you? Your sin?

827
00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:00.960
Because work, there's never a moment in our life with

828
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:04.800
that we're not sinning. All right, I'm completely agreement agreement

829
00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:13.440
with this and just contradicts everything else the book Us said.

830
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:17.440
So we have seen three fundamental things that the light

831
00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:21.320
of God's word reveals. Okay, let me read this again.

832
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:24.360
We have seen three fundamental things that the light of

833
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:27.000
God's word reveals. Number one, the glory of our Lord

834
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:30.960
Jesus Christ, the face of our spiritual birth, and the

835
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.679
presence of sin in our lives. All three of these

836
00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:38.079
realities are intertwined and significantly affect Christian living. So they're

837
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.599
saying to walk in the light. What we have seen

838
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:44.880
is that are when the light of God's word has

839
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.960
revealed these the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So

840
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:51.599
we've seen the glory of God. Okay, great, I agree.

841
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:54.719
Now this is where I get confused. The face of

842
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:57.840
our spiritual birth. Now what they seem to imply there

843
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:01.400
is Hey, God's words shows that we're basically perfect on

844
00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:06.840
the inside, which I just completely disagree with. Number three,

845
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.280
the presence of sin in our lives. I completely agree there.

846
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:18.639
Sin is in our lives. We constantly see that. Now

847
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:22.599
they go on here, I'm going to skip here and

848
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:24.760
see if they can get to some kind of summary.

849
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:26.920
All right, I'm going to go to the conclusion here.

850
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.800
The Christian needs to maintain at all times a full

851
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:33.920
openness to the truth of God's Word. I completely agree there.

852
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:36.320
We need to be opened to the truth of God's

853
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:40.360
Word at all times. I'm in agreement. When this is done,

854
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.639
confession of sin will take place whenever the Word reveals

855
00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:46.920
the need for it. All right, I completely agree. The

856
00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:50.119
more I read the Bible, the more I will see

857
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:52.840
of my sin, and therefore I will need to confess

858
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.519
and acknowledge to God that I accept that what he

859
00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:57.599
says is sin, and I see that sin in me.

860
00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:02.239
We're in a complete agreement there. As our walk in

861
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:04.679
the light continues, we can see more and more of

862
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.119
the glory of our Lord, and we can understand better

863
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:09.920
and better what it means to have His life within us.

864
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:15.639
I don't know what that's that's to me just nonsensical. Hey,

865
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:18.400
the more I the more I walk in the light,

866
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:22.159
then the more I'm going to see the glory of God,

867
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:23.840
and then I'm going to know what it means to

868
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:25.519
have His life within me. What does it mean to

869
00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:28.679
have His life within me? What does that mean? Well,

870
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.159
most Christians mean that means I can basically stop sinning,

871
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:33.760
but I can't stop sinning. Why can't I stop sinning?

872
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:41.599
Like that's that's the question that nobody will answer. Of course,

873
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:44.480
all real perception of God's truth depends on the teaching

874
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:46.199
ministry of the Holy Spirit. Okay, well, I would have

875
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:49.119
some issues with this. His work, as always is indispensable

876
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.320
to Christian transformation, but He does not do this work

877
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.400
in the dark, and the dark God may chasten and

878
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.440
correct us, but the work of transformation takes place only

879
00:51:57.440 --> 00:51:59.719
as we walk in the light, fully exposing to anything

880
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:03.239
God wishes to show us. Thus, the fourth secret of

881
00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:05.840
the Christian life may be expressed like this. It is

882
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:11.519
living with our hearts open to God's truth. So the

883
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:17.519
fourth secret is live your life with your heart open

884
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:30.519
to God's truth. That's supposedly the fourth secret. I did

885
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:36.360
that help you at all. It's so contradictory to everything.

886
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.400
Their entire hypotheses is, Hey, hey, you've been completely transformed

887
00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:43.159
on the inside. You're perfect on the inside. Your body

888
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:45.000
just won't respond to it. So what we got to

889
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:46.800
do is we got to get it the body resurrected.

890
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:49.519
Then the body being resurrected will be a perfect agreement

891
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.840
with the inside, and then basically you can be perfect. Well,

892
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:54.800
they never acknowledge that we can be perfect. Now they

893
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:57.840
come along and basically, well, see, the more we read

894
00:52:57.880 --> 00:52:59.559
the Bible, the more we'll see how perfect we are

895
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:01.719
in the inndide. Now they're saying, no, the more we

896
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:04.400
get closer to God, the more we'll realize how we're

897
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.320
not perfect on the inside. But we can then trust

898
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:09.519
on the blood of Jesus Christ and confess our sins

899
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:14.519
and they'll be forgiveness. Why do we continue to sin?

900
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:20.519
Why are we in a perpetual state of sin? Why

901
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:24.840
they've yet to answer that question. They've not given us

902
00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:30.840
a solution. They've not done anything. It's the common thing

903
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.360
that you hear in sermon after sermon after sermon. This

904
00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:38.679
weird double speak. Right, Hey, you're a new creature. Old

905
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:42.679
things have passed away, all things have become new. Well wait, wait, wait,

906
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:44.480
you still got to fight the flesh. You still got

907
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:47.119
to put off the old man. What am I putting off?

908
00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:49.280
What am I fighting? If I'm a new creature, old

909
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:51.119
things are passed away, all things have become new. There's

910
00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:54.000
nothing to fight there's nothing to mortify, there's nothing to

911
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:59.159
put off, there's nothing to put on. You've been you

912
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:01.880
have a brand new heart. Well you've got to fight

913
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:03.480
the sin in your heart. What what if I got

914
00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:05.800
a new heart? What sin am I fighting? You have

915
00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.480
a new mind? Well if I have a new mind,

916
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.719
And why do I have to constantly be renewing my mind?

917
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:19.719
It's this weird like double speak. Hey, you've been completely

918
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:22.199
changed on the inside. Well, I mean you still have

919
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:24.679
sin on the inside. How can I have sin on

920
00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:37.440
the inside if I've been completely changed on the inside.

921
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:41.159
I don't know what to say. It's like, this is

922
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:43.679
why whenever I listen to sermons on this stuff, this

923
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:45.599
is why I just basically by the time the sermon

924
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:47.679
is over, I'm just like, bah bah bah blah blah,

925
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.000
I'm losing my mind. I'm ready to go to the

926
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.719
liquor store because I'm like, this is just it's just

927
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:57.559
a lot of words that and everybody and when people

928
00:54:57.639 --> 00:54:59.559
hear it, it's what's the weirdest the it's the reaction

929
00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:02.880
of all the other Christians. Oh oh this spoke to

930
00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:06.519
my heart. Oh this was so amazing. Oh And I'm like,

931
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what explain it to me. And then when they start

932
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explaining that, I'm like, you're just talking in circles. You

933
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don't even hear your own contradiction. Here's the reality. We

934
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started with, this reality, we will end with this reality.

935
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God demands perfection. He demands it. He demands that you

936
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be holy as He is holy. He demands you be

937
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:32.519
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. You can not

938
00:55:33.039 --> 00:55:37.159
do that. You never will be that. So therefore you're

939
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.920
in a perpetual state of sin. If God's standard is holiness,

940
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you're never going to be perfectly holy. You're in a

941
00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:45.400
perpetual stat of sin. Yeah, I mean, and if you

942
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violate one point of the law, you're guilty of all

943
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of it. You're in a perpetual state of being guilty

944
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.440
of all of God's law. You cannot keep the law

945
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of God. It demands perfection. You cannot keep it. Now.

946
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I know Christians will say, no, we can. Well, if

947
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:00.960
we can, then we can be perfect. Well, no, you

948
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:03.039
can't be perfect. Then that means you can't keep it.

949
00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:04.719
And if you can't keep it, that means you're in

950
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a perpetual state of sin. Because if you're guilty of

951
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:08.519
one point of the law, You're guilty of all of it.

952
00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:13.840
That's the reality. You say, Well, I'm a new creature.

953
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You're a new creature positionally, not practically, because if you're

954
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:22.039
a new creature practically, you would be perfect. So therefore

955
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:24.559
we're in a perpetual state of sin. Now, our hope

956
00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:27.599
is that we're saved by an imputed righteousness. But when

957
00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:29.920
it comes to looking at the Christian life, it's just

958
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your sinning. I'm sinning. You may not be committing my

959
00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:35.440
sin today. I may not be committing your sin today,

960
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but I guarantee your sinning, and I'm sinning. So how

961
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:43.199
do Christians process this? Well, we try to come up

962
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:45.559
with all these weird solutions that are just a lot

963
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:55.199
of double speak. Their whole argument in this book is

964
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you're perfect on the inside, but your body is dead

965
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and your body can't respond to it. You just get

966
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your body to resurrect. And if you get a resurrected body,

967
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then they don't acknowledge this, but well then you would

968
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:08.320
be obviously perfect. Well, they can't tell us how to

969
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:10.599
get the resurrected body. Even this doesn't tell us how

970
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:13.320
to get the resurrected body. This just tells me hey,

971
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live your life with hearts open to God's truth. There

972
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you go. And what they've implied here is when you

973
00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:24.960
live your life open to God's truth, to his word,

974
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what you're going to see is that you sin sin, sin, sin, sin.

975
00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:30.800
But they didn't explain why we sin, sin, sin sin.

976
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If we're supposedly perfect on the inside, and Christians love

977
00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:44.039
to say we're free from sin, Well, if I'm free

978
00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:45.960
from sin, i can be perfect. Well, no, you can't

979
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:51.800
be perfect. Whatever's keeping me from perfection, I'm not free from. Okay.

980
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:55.559
If something's keeping me from being perfect, that thing I'm

981
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not free from. It has power. It's controlling me. Now,

982
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.840
I was fifty eight minutes of possibly just my numbing confusion,

983
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my numbings talking in circles. But in this particular case,

984
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.599
I'm not gonna take the blame for it. Is that

985
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:24.199
mind numbing confusion, that my numbing, never ending circles and

986
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:29.760
circular reasoning and circular logic is the hallmark of Christianity.

987
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:37.480
And what does this create. It creates a situation where, oh, no,

988
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someone fell in sin. What do we do? Get rid

989
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:44.039
of them? Delete them, throw them out. They're not now

990
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.159
able to do anything and let's all move on pretending

991
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:52.559
how good we are instead of going, man, you messed up.

992
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:57.440
You messed up bad, all right, dude, But I'm right

993
00:58:57.480 --> 00:58:59.199
there with you. I messed up in a different way. Now,

994
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:00.519
we got to see what we got to do here?

995
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:04.400
How do we move forward in this Every situation is different?

996
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.480
How do we move forward in this situation? How can

997
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:10.320
there be reconciliation? How can there be you know, being?

998
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:15.119
How can things be made right? How can you be

999
00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:19.039
you know restored? How can you be fixed? How can

1000
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:22.400
you be repaired? How can you be useful? Moving forward?

1001
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We just want to start writing a list of well,

1002
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now you can't do the following fifteen things that we

1003
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just make up on our own. We try to borrow

1004
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:34.639
scripture from it, which never makes any sense. Well, David

1005
00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:37.480
couldn't do David couldn't do what what could David not do?

1006
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:43.159
He literally, after his horrible sin, wrote scripture. He literally

1007
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:47.960
wrote scripture so he wasn't allowed to build the temple.

1008
00:59:48.039 --> 00:59:50.519
Wait a minute, he was told he was not going

1009
00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:52.400
to build a temple because God was going to give

1010
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:55.880
him something better, which was the Davidic covenant. And then

1011
00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:59.920
look who built the temple? A serial adulterer, a serial politic,

1012
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:04.280
a miss and an idolator named Solomon. So back off

1013
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.679
with all of that. Oh who also wrote inspired scripture.

1014
01:00:13.559 --> 01:00:15.559
We like to come in and say, well, you can't

1015
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:19.280
I understand that in certain situations for a period of time. Yeah,

1016
01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:21.519
you may not be able to do something. I understand that.

1017
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:25.079
But you're telling me there's no hope of restoration, even

1018
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:27.719
when the Bible says restore those who've been overtaken in

1019
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.239
a fault, there's no hope for restoration. There's no hope

1020
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.000
for anything. Yeah, and all the people saying that person

1021
01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:36.480
is done, that person is all the people who are

1022
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.960
who are declaring their judgment on someone whoever they may

1023
01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:44.159
be pastor or not. It doesn't matter. When you point

1024
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:48.679
your finger to judge anyone and say you can't do this,

1025
01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:50.119
and they can't do this, and they can't do this

1026
01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:53.119
and this, and whatever judgment you may you mented, you

1027
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.360
just need to go look in a mirror because you're

1028
01:00:56.400 --> 01:01:01.960
a sinner. You're in a perpetual state of sin. When

1029
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:06.760
Christians judge Christians, or when Christians judge the world, we

1030
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:10.119
are sinners. Were in a perpetual state of sin. Who

1031
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:13.119
cannot keep the law of God, who somehow think we're

1032
01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:19.239
good enough to judge everyone else from a purely philological perspective,

1033
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:23.079
that's ridiculous. I'm gonna judge you even though I'm a

1034
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:25.519
perpetual state of sin. God tells me to be holy.

1035
01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:27.800
I'm not holy. God tells me to be perfect. I'm

1036
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:29.679
not perfect. And if I'm guilty one point of the law,

1037
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:31.840
I guilty of all the law. But guess what, I'm

1038
01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:33.920
gonna come and say you're wrong, and you're I'm gonna

1039
01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:35.599
judge you, and I'm gonna judge you, and I'm gonna

1040
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:37.400
judge you, and I'm gonna judge you, and I'm gonna

1041
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.199
judge you, and I'm gonna judge you. Sometimes our judging

1042
01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:43.400
of people and wanting people held accountable, are people being

1043
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.400
destroyed is simply because we don't like them, or we

1044
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:48.400
ticked off, or we have our own agenda, we don't

1045
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:51.000
like their theology, or whatever the case may be. Now,

1046
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:55.639
I'm not saying we excuse sin, not saying we excuse sin.

1047
01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:58.360
I'm just saying, when you're pointing out someone else's sin,

1048
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:11.079
you better not forget you are a sinner, and so

1049
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:17.840
am I. That's why I constantly say, this podcast is

1050
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.639
hosted by a sinner with a microphone. That's all I

1051
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:29.519
am is a sinner. I'm a narcissistic, self seeking jerk.

1052
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.960
I'm a sinner who falls short twenty four hours a day,

1053
01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:37.519
seven days a week. Who I have a Bible a microphone,

1054
01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:39.519
and I'm just trying to figure out the Christian life.

1055
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:47.519
And you may sit there feeling morally superior, but you're

1056
01:02:47.559 --> 01:02:51.000
a sinner as well. That has nothing to do with

1057
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:53.800
me wanting to justify any sin I've ever committed or

1058
01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:58.199
will commit. That's just me acknowledging a thiological reality. Be

1059
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:02.280
holy as He is holy, will never be that meaning.

1060
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:05.119
I'm in a perpetual state of sin. Be holy as

1061
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:07.400
He is holy. I will never do that. Perpetual state

1062
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.400
of sin. Love God with all your heart, mind, body,

1063
01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:11.920
and soul. I will never do that. Perpetual state of sin.

1064
01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:14.599
Love your neighbor as yourself. Probably I never will do

1065
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:17.159
that in any meaningful way. So I'm a perpetual state

1066
01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:20.800
of sin. Do all things without complaining and grumbling. I

1067
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:23.239
can go love your enemy, turn the other cheek over.

1068
01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:25.800
And the more I walk in the light of God's word,

1069
01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:35.239
the more sinful. I realize that I am. We should

1070
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:40.360
live with our hearts open to God's truth. I just

1071
01:03:40.440 --> 01:03:42.639
think when we live ourself, when we walk in the

1072
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:45.599
light and we're open to God's truth, we will simply

1073
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:51.039
see how far we fall short. Then should drive us

1074
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:54.679
to the cross and say not anything I can do.

1075
01:03:55.239 --> 01:03:57.440
It's what Christ did for me, and I cling to

1076
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:02.360
the cross, his death, his blood, and his perfect righteousness

1077
01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:08.079
being imputed to my account. That's my only hope. Not

1078
01:04:08.280 --> 01:04:12.119
excusing the practical sin, but the practical sin is going

1079
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:14.679
to be there in some way, shape or form, no

1080
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:18.119
matter what you do, no matter how victorious you think,

1081
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:28.800
you're going to be. All right, there's secret number four.

1082
01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:38.719
These secrets aren't really helping much, are they, because yeah,

1083
01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:40.760
I think you know what. I think. The secret is.

1084
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:44.960
There aren't any secrets to the Christian life. It's sinners

1085
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:48.840
trying to live out the Christian life, and our only

1086
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:52.639
hope is the imputed righteousness of Christ. But all right,

1087
01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:55.800
thanks for listening. I'll stop there. Don't know what else

1088
01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:59.480
to do. I knew that this was my fear when

1089
01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:01.639
I did this, This is why I've been avoiding it.

1090
01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:03.840
I knew when I went through this chapter, I was

1091
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.840
just gonna end up like, well, what what do I say?

1092
01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:11.199
What do I do? I don't have anything for you

1093
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:17.400
because it's just a bunch of circular reasoning. So all right,

1094
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thanks for listening everyone, have a great day. God bless