Aug. 3, 2024

Ezekiel 36:25-26

Ezekiel 36:25-26

A review of a sermon on Ezekiel 36:25-26

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A review of a sermon on Ezekiel 36:25-26

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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.

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Good afternoon everyone. It is Friday, August the second, twenty

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twenty four. It is currently fiveh eight pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas well as

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many of you know, twenty twenty four has become the

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year of the Sermon's two point zh app sermon Challenge,

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where you're supposed to be grabbing the sermon's two point

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oh app every single day and picking a random sermon

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unless I give you a specific topic or verse or

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something specific to look for, and even then it's supposed

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to be random, just it would be a sermon based

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on that verse or that topic. But again you're not

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looking for a particular speaker or a particular kind of church.

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So you're supposed to be choosing random sermons. You're supposed

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to be listening to one a day, writing the title down,

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and writing a summary of what the sermon was about.

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So by the end of the year, your notebook will

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have one sermon for every day of twenty twenty four.

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That was the challenge that was the goal. We are

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in August. I don't know how you're doing. I don't

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know if it's been beneficial. I don't know if it's

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been frustrating. But it is August, and so I'm continuing

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to try to do my best to know participate in

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the challenge and to meet the goal as well. I'm

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doing my very best to do that as well, because again,

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I want us to use the app. I want us

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to get as much from it as possible. Now, if

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I'm being like honest with you, a lot of the

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listening has been very almost detrimental to my spiritual wellbeing.

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I hate to say that, but a lot of the

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sermons and the things said have just absolutely at times

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made me so discouraged and so frustrated and so irritated.

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And I hate that because I wanted it to be

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a much more positive experience. I hope it's been different

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for you. I hope it's been positive. I know I've

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received some emails from some people going, wow, this is bad.

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In fact, speaking of the Sermon's two point oh app

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sermon challenge today, have you looked at the Sermon's two

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point oh app today? Have you looked at it? Have

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you looked at it. I let me see if it

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shows up on I was looking at the website. So

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let me pull up the app itself and see if

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it shows up on the app. All right, if you

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look at the app? Okay, yeah, the featured sermon today.

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Did you see the featured sermon today? Did you look

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at the featured sermon? Deceive by Pharma Kiah or big Pharma?

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All right, Deceive by Pharma Kiah or big Pharma. This

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is based on Revelations Chapter eighteen, verses twenty three through

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twenty four. It's had eight one hundred and forty eight downloads,

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eight hundred and forty eight downloads. Now, I look when

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I saw it to see by pharmakieb. This is going

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to be against big Pharma, against the pharmaceutical industry. As

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soon as I saw it, I was like, oh boy,

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oh boy, oh boy, Do I even want to click

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on this? So I chose not to. I received an

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email today with someone who sent it to me, and

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I responded like, hey, I thought about clicking on it,

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but no way, but no way. I decided not to.

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So then they emailed me back and he said, don't

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do it, don't do it, don't do it or something

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along those lines. I'm paraphrasing the email, so for the

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person who sent me the email, if I don't state

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it correctly, I apologize, but basically telling me don't just

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don't do it, don't even think about it, step away,

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because I guess it's supposedly really really now. The comment

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under it seems to think at least someone thought it

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was really really really really really good because someone posted

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pastor thank you for sharing all of this with the world.

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These things are right down the middle truth. My husband

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and I thank you for your passion for God and

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this truth. This sermon is something everyone on earth needs

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to hear. God, continue to bless you. We'll keep listening

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and praying for your ministry. So I'm like, Big pharmacuea

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about big pharmacy, about the pharmaceutical industry. I'm assuming that's

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where it's going. There again, there's no description, but I'm like, oh, so,

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I don't know if you want to listen. I wanted

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to grab it today and do a review. I did,

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but then I'm like, you know what, this could get

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into a lot of issues about medications, about certain maybe vaccines.

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I'm assuming it's going to go that direction, and I

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you know, for e for each claim made, then I

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would have to go do extensive research because so many

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times when I hear Christians talk about vaccines or the

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pharmaceutical industry, so many times it's factually in error. It's

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straight up misinformation, disinformation lies. I'm not saying that's the

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case with this sermon. I'm saying that so many so

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when you are trying to review it in real time,

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you almost would have to go, Okay, wait claim number one.

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You would have to write down every claim made. So

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if you listen to it, this is what I would

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challenge you to do. If anyone listens to deceive by

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Pharmakia Big Pharma, Here's what I would challenge you to do.

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As you listen, make a list of every single claim

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made in the sermon. Just write it down. Don't make

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a judgment about it. Just write it down. Then do

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research and see how many of the claims you can

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confirm is true and how many you can demonstrate to

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be false. Now, I'm not saying they make any claims,

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but if they do, I am not making any make

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sure no one misunderstands. I'm not making any judgments about it.

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I'm just saying, listen, if claims are being made, write

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down every single claim. Then go study and research from

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numerous sources to see how many of the claims can

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be confirmed and how many of the claims can be

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proven to be fraudulent. And if the majority are fraudulent,

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even if some of them are fraudulent, well, then you

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can decide how you should respond. Here's what I would

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say if you find something to be fraudulent, if you

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find something to be an error, do not post a

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public comment. First, email them, share your factual information, see

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how they respond. Do not post a public comment if

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it's negative. Sermon audio typically will not post it if

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it's negative, so it's not going to do you much

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good anyway. It's better, though, also to try to contact

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the person directly and then see if they will respond

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to it. What I have found in my Christian life

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is every single time I've contacted a ministry where they

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just lie, literally have fraudulent information and a sermon, I

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have never had one apologize, never had one retract it.

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I have never had one remove it, even though it's

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filled with fraudulent information. So I would argue you probably

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won't be very if there is fraudulent information in it.

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Now if you are, if you're a medical professional, then

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you may have much more qualification than I would. Right,

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even though I worked in the medical world, I don't

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think I have the qualification to necessarily get into all

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the arguments about big pharma. And there we have it.

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Now.

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A lot of people have very I getive feelings about

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big pharmaceutical companies, and I understand that. Also, know you

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think of how many people take medication on a weekly

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or monthly basis in the United States of America. Now

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you could argue they don't need that medication. That's what

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some people claim, and then you could argue how many

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issues are controlled by it. But that's right there on

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the sermon's two point. Oh app I don't want to

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spend all the time talking about it, but I do.

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If it's there. It's the featured sermon. So if you

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happen to see it, you may want to listen to it.

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Someone has and they're telling me not to listen to it,

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probably because they realize by the time it's over not

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I won't need big Pharma. I will need the local

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liquor store, or I'll need some illegal drugs. Okay, I'm joking.

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I'm joking. I'm sure it may not be that bad.

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Maybe it will be. But so I was going to

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do that because it's the sermon's two point oh app

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sermon challenge, and I haven't been listening to enough sermons recently,

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so I need to get back on track. I have one, though,

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we are going to review, because it's been here loaded

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in my software. I've loaded it, removed it, loaded it

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removed it. It's been back and forth now for days.

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This one is on Ezekiel chapter thirty six. Ezekiel chapter

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thirty six. If you listen to my sermons from last Sunday,

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you know that I spent a considerable amount of time

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in Ezekiel thirty six. If you've ever listened to me

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talk about Ezequel thirty six, you have heard my frustration.

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You have heard my irritation and how church after church

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after church takes Ezekiel thirty six and makes it about us,

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when Ezekiel thirty six is about the nation Israel, and

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anyone who can't see that that we need to go

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back to school for reading comprehension tests, because I and look,

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if we can't figure out that Ezekiel thirty six is

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about Israel, then, ladies and gentlemen, I give up. That

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means the Bible cannot be interpreted, it cannot be understood correctly,

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and I'm finished. I just I just don't even know

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what to do. And that's what sometimes drives me to

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the point of despair with Christianity and hermoneuticts, because sometimes

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the Texas like, if we can't understand this, then there's

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no point that we can understand anything, because it seems

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so obvious. So I have strong opinions about Ezekiel thirty six,

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with much frustration with how most churches handle it. So

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I don't even know what day it was again Sermon's

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two point Sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge looking

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for a random sermon, and I found one entitled I Will.

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Now.

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Immediately when I saw I will, I thought, oh, I

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wonder if this is going to be like, you know,

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maybe about Satan or about pride or narcissism. I will,

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I will, I will, or is it about what God

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will do?

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Then I said I will, and then I'm like, oh,

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Ezequel thirty six, this is about what God will do

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for Okay, I wonder who it's going to be about

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Israel or Us. I didn't listen to it. We're gonna

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find out together, all right, So are you ready? Are

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you ready?

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Here we go.

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I have my Bible.

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I have a.

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Pencil right there. I can't that's the sort of the

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Lord newspaper.

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I wanted to do some things with this, but I'm

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gonna set that down for now. Bible. So here's just

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if you're looking for a sermon to listen to. For

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the sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge, go listen

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to Decei by Pharmakiah Big Pharma. Write down every claim

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made in the sermon. Then do some fact checking and

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see if you can determine what is true and what

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is false. Hopefully what you find is everything stated is

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one hundred percent accurate. If it's not, well, then you

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can go there. And maybe that's not the direction it's

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going to go. It's the direction I feel like it's going.

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It's okay. I think it's going to get into a

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big discussion about the Greek word pharma kia and I'm

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assuming they're taking it from Revelation chapter eighteen. So ooh,

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we could do we could do a word study there. Okay,

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but I see I'm gonna get all distracted. We need

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to go to Ezekiel thirty six. Are you ready, let's

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listen to this sermon. I did not label this part one.

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We all know I probably should have because the sermon

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that we are reviewing is fifty two minutes and twenty

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seven seconds long. Now, the only problem is that usually

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turns into four or five six hours of review. I

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don't necessarily want it to do that, so I did

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not put a part one. But if depending on how

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this goes, this may have to be part one.

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Oh.

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I hate doing this on a Friday afternoon. I hate because, yeah,

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I know I'm making a mistake here for my own

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mental health. But here we are. Let's just see where

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it goes. Maybe we can bring this to a conclusion

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and we don't need to review all of it. Who knows.

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idea because I don't listen to these things before I

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review them, because it's supposed to be like we're listening

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to the sermon together in real time. So are you

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ready to sit down on a Friday afternoon going to

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a Friday evening to listen to a sermon. Well, I

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hope you are, because that's what we're doing here. We go.

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Good morning, Church. It's an exciting thing to get up

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on Sunday morning and know that you're coming to the

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House of Lord to worship our Savior with our brothers

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and sisters in Christ. It's the highlight of my week

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to be able to come into the House of the

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Lord and worship with each and every one of you

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Wednesday night, the highlight of the middle of the week

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from me. And I hope that you all understand what

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I'm saying and understand how precious the Church is and

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how precious the Body of Christ truly is. And it's

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not a have to, it's a we get to come

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together and worship Him. A couple of weeks ago, I

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had the honor to preach, and I talked about a

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conversation Jesus had with a man named Nicodemus and what

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it meant to be born again. And I'm going to

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continue along that line this morning. We're not gonna look

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at Nicodemus any longer. But I was thinking back over

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the school year this past year and We've been studying

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biblical doctrine for two years in class, and we finished

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at the end of the year looking at the doctrine

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of soteriology. Isn't that impressive? That really big word there.

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I don't like when pastors like, you know, ooh, that's

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a big word. I don't like it. If you're going

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to use the word, then don't act like it's a

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big word. Act like it's a word everyone should know.

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But pastors always like if they use a bit so teeriology, lesiology, eschatology,

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then like ooh, that's one of those big words. And

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then they then they have to kind of like explain

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it away, like you don't really need to know the word,

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then why did you say the word in the first place,

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word is somehow pretentious and arrogant, that you're using a

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philological term, well then don't use the term. It's like, well,

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you know how these these theologians where they're where their

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you know, five dollars words or whatever term they use,

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to utilize because it's the technical theological term, and you

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and your job is to equip the people, so they're

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no longer tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine.

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know the terminology. So if they hear the word or

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say the word, they know whats soteriology is or eclesiology, eschatology, pneumatology,

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and well you can go through all the different ologies, right,

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okay and that, But but some people think you're being

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pretentious and saying the words. So it's almost like pastors like, well,

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if I say these words, then I come across cross

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as being pretentious, and the people in the pew will

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think I'm just trying to be arrogant, So then we

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almost have to play it down. But you know what,

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I don't really care. Don't care what the people think.

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They need to know the terminology so when they see

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the words, they know what the words are. If they

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think you're being pretentious, they think you're being pretentious, I don't.

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Pastors always seem like what those theologians, what those scholars,

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and they always want to put themselves like, I'm not

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a theologian, I'm just a Bible preacher. Well if you're

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if you study God and you seek the knowledge of God.

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Then you're a theologian, and every person in the pew

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is a theologian because because they should be studying God

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and pursuing the knowledge of God, and everyone has a soteriology,

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a system of doctrine about salvation, they should know that.

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So I understand, terms can be utilized in a way

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where you come across pretentious and arrogant. But at the

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same time, there's nothing wrong with pursuing technical terminology as

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it relates to specific theological areas. All right, So I

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now I so I guess there's a balance, is what

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I'm saying. Pastors seem afraid that they're going to be

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you know, they gotta kind of they gotta like, I

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gotta talk in the language of the common man. Well,

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the common man who comes to church needs to be

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challenged to move up from their common understanding to a

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higher understanding and learn the terms and learn. That's why

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I get sick when I'm told, well, you can't really

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teach that in church. That's really that's that's too difficult

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for the people to grasp. Like, who are you to

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tell me that the people can't grasp it. I've always

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had that you need to preach at a seventh grade level. No,

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I don't. I'll preach at whichever level I want to preach.

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My job is to take these complicated issues and do

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whatever is necessary to help the people rise up in

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their knowledge so they have a greater understanding. It's not

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to dumb it down. It's to get the people to

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come up it. Don't dumb it down. Give them a

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lotter so that they can cline to get to it,

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if that's what you need to do. So, I don't know,

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I just don't like what you know, one of those

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big words. No, it's so Teiology is a pretty just

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not really that big a word, and it's pretty common

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and it's been utilized forever. So I mean, I understand

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that there's some terms that there's no way that people

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are going to know. I understand that. So I don't know. Well,

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we can't have all kinds of discussions here, but let's continue.

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Let me simplify this down for you real quick, because

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it's the doctrine of salvation, the doctrine of salvation. And

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I asked a question to the students, and I said,

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how many of you think that Christianity and being a

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Christian is all about do's and don'ts. Every one of

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them in one class raise their hand, all.

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Right, ladies and gentlemen. That is horrifying, and that makes

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me want to just quit and give up. But I've

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stated this so many times that if you ask young

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people in school, is create how many think Christianity is

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about a bunch of dues and don'ts. That's what they're

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going to say, because I've said it so many times.

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Whether you like to admit this or not, your church,

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my church, churches everywhere, whether we like it or not,

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we have taken the law and created a law based

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system that we call gospel. And we try to disguise

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this law based system as gospel. We'll use some gospel language,

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but it's all about do's and don'ts, do's and don'ts,

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do's and don'ts. Do you have to do this, don't

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do this, do this, don't do this. Now, you've got

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to do this to prove your safe and you got

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don't do this to prove it. And if you don't

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do this, or if you do this, then you prove

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you were never save. You've got to do this, do this,

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don't do this, do do do do It's all about

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the things you do. It's about law, law, law, law, law, law.

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between law and gospel for so long. You take young

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people in church, how many believe Christianity is about dues

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and don'ts? Go to your church, find the young people

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like you just walk around, whether are away, hey, whether

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they're away from their parents, Hey, come here, come here,

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come here, come here now, I you know, And and

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when they come there, it's like, hey, just keep it

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on the download. You're right, I got I got a

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theological question. Do you think Christianity is about dues? And

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don'ts now? Their parents are not around, there's no way,

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Of course, that's all it is. You can't do this,

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you do this. If you do this, you're gonna you're

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gonna burn in hell. You can't do this, you can't

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do this, you can't do that. I can't do this,

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I can't do this. I can't go here, I can't

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go that. I can't I can't It's all law. And

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you're like, well, thank you, I'm glad to know this

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church is doing a good job and making sure you

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understand what Christianity really is. And I've stated it so

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many times, I'm made the exact same mistake and the

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way I taught and raised my own kids dos and don'ts,

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do's and don'ts, do's and don'ts. And if you do

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this and you don't do this, you prove you're not

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saying lordship clearly was a major lordship Salvation was a

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major influence in my early Christian life. So I'm glad

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he now. I'm assuming he's going to compact this idea

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of dos and don't so let's see if he does

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and how he handles this.

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I was like, Wow, I said, we haven't strayed far

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from the Pharisees. We haven't strayed far from legalism. We

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haven't strayed far from the law and trying to keep

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the law and works righteousness. There's grace.

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Wow, that's powerful. So many churches, it's phariseical, it's like

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the Sadducees. It's legalism, it's law keeping. Christianity is just

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reduced to a moral system where you can yell and

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scream about who's right and who's wrong and do this

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and don't do that, don't listen to this, don't watch that,

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don't go here, don't look like that, don't dress this way,

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don't don't, don't, don't.

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Law law law law, law, law, la la la law. Oh,

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but we believe that you saved by grace alone, to

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faith alone, because of Christ alone.

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Law lah la la la la la la. Oh.

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Yes, yes, we believe in grace. I'm telling you, our

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gospel is nothing more than law masquerading as gospel. It's

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just gospel in disguise. It's law identifying as gospel. If

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you want to use that controversial language, people always get

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you to go back to my earlier broadcast. Okay, it's law,

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just people pretending that it's gospel. But there's nothing gospel

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about it.

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And looking at the doctrine of salvation, there are many

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doctrines that fall under that doctrine, the doctrine of grace, faith, repentance, regeneration, sonship,

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our union with Christ, being in Christ, justification, sanctification, perseverance

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of the saints, and the assurance of our salvation. And

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the thing about this is there's nothing that any single

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one of us in this room, in this church, in

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this world, in the creation can do to earn salvation.

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And as I stated before, that's what separates us from

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every other religion in the world. Every other religion in

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the world is works based. Man has to do good

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works in order to appease God, to make God proud

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of him. His good works must outweigh his bad works.

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And I will argue that Christianity is just his workspace.

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But here's what we do. We play a little game. See,

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we don't do the works to please God. We don't

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do the works to earn our salvation, but we do

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the works because we're saved, and by doing these works,

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we prove we're saved. So therefore we have to do

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these works in order to prove we're saved. And if

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we don't do the works, then we're not saved. Well,

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then you're telling me I have to do the works

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to be saved. No, no, no, no, I'm saying you'll do

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the works if you're saved. So you're saying that when

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I'm saved, I'm infused with some righteousness so that i'll

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do good works exactly. Well, that's Roman Catholicism. So am

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I saved by an imputed righteousness which you cannot see

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and there's no way to judge it because it's imputed.

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Or am I saved because I prove my salvation by

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what I do? And if I proving my salvation by

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what I do, that would seem to be that I'm

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proving that I have received an infused righteousness, which is

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Roman Catholicism, which is a workspace system.

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That's not the case with my gracious God. That's not

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the case with my precious Jesus. That's not the case

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with my helper and teacher, the Holy Spirit. I try

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unity that does everything for me. When we were his enemies,

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He died for us. Works does not fall in there.

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Lodibacum preached a sermon, and I'm the Lord puts me

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in a place where I get in certain passages of scriptures,

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and I just I can't escape them, and I'm forced

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to meditate on them and think about them and preach

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it to myself and body. Bacam I asked the question

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in one of his messages. He said, what can dead

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men do? What can dead men do? And I think

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if you can answer that question, you're gonna understand how

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great a salvation we have because and you he made alive,

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who were dead in trespasses and sins. Somebody tell me

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what can a dead man do? Nothing? He can do

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absolutely nothing. And when you understand these subtopics of the

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doctrine of salvation, these subdoctrines grace God's riches at Christ's expense,

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unmerited favor. You can't work for it. It's something that

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God gives to you freely. And when you understand faith,

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faith is believing and trusting who God is. But now

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let me clarify this for you. By grace through faith,

461
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it's God's favor that opens the door to exercise faith repentance.

462
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Do you not know that it is the goodness of

463
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God that leads you to repentance regeneration in which we're

464
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looking at. Tell me, what can any of you in

465
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this room do to change your nature? What can any

466
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of you do in this room to change your heart

467
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.319
and your desires and your emotions? What can you do

468
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because of a fallen nature and you're dead? What can

469
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you do to regenerate yourself? Dead men can do nothing?

470
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Can they justification? It is God who justifies the ungodly,

471
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not you, not me. I can't justify anybody. I can't

472
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:38.839
declare anyone righteous Holy God sanctification. Well, when He graciously

473
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.240
gives us his spirit, we're sanctified. We're set apart for

474
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a holy purpose. We're set apart for the will of

475
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God to take place in our lives to conform us

476
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to christ likeness. What do you do there? Did you

477
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do that? And perseverance and assurance will?

478
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Look sounds like he's putting forth the idea of a

479
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monegistic sanctification. If it's a monegistic sanctification, that means God's

480
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.440
doing all the work in sanctification. Therefore, your lack of

481
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:13.920
sanctification would be God's fault and not your fault, unless

482
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you would be because God is the one doing the sanctifying.

483
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And if God is doing the one sanctifying, then why

484
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he is no one perfect?

485
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Right?

486
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So now now I'm gonna kind of go. And he

487
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seemed to be going through a moneargistic way. Look, I

488
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.680
know the concept of his monegistic sanctification. I know the

489
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concept of synergistic sanctification. I just know if you say

490
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God is the one sanctifying, then the lack of sanctification

491
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:40.799
is on God. And if God's doing the sanctification, though,

492
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why isn't the ones. He's doing sanctification in or perfect

493
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:46.160
And when you say, well, then God doesn't want him

494
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:48.640
to be perfect, well then how can they Then if

495
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God doesn't want them to be perfect, then how can

496
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they're imperfection then be blamed on anything other than God? Well,

497
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God doesn't get the blame a minute. God's the one

498
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doing the sanctification. He doesn't sanctify me in a specific area.

499
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Therefore I'm not perfect, and therefore I sin in that

500
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specific area. But it's on me and it's not on God. Well,

501
00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:12.960
if it's on me, then it's my responsibility and it's

502
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.839
not on God, then that's not a monargistic scentification. That's

503
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a synergistic sanctification. So we could get in a whole

504
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discussion here. Now there's a lot here. I'm one hundred

505
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percent in agreement with. My concern is we're going to

506
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Ezequel thirty six, and clearly the way this is going

507
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.599
to go, He's going to make Ezequel thirty six all

508
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:36.000
about us, and that's where I'm going to start losing

509
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.960
my ever living mind. I'm hoping that's not the case.

510
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Look at that a little later. You have nothing to

511
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:54.759
boast about church, But Jesus. You have nothing to boast

512
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about but Him. So to come together in this place

513
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.960
and worship him corporately together and understand that he paid

514
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.200
it all, and that he did it all, and that

515
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he did all of the work so that we could

516
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enjoy him forever as he changes us and conforms us

517
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.240
to the likeness of Christ. Well, like I said several

518
00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:23.480
weeks ago, there's four things that I teach, and I'm

519
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:29.559
repeatively teaching them. One is the gospel Christ died for

520
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:35.799
our sin, was buried and resurrected. The heart, the heart

521
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.200
the seat bed of desire and emotions, mentioned over a

522
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thousand times in the scripture. And only God can change

523
00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:45.119
the nature of a man, the heart of a man,

524
00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:48.640
The will of God. I teach the will of God.

525
00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:53.480
And now we've had this conversation I feel like a

526
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.240
thousand times on this podcast, and no one has yet

527
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.000
being able to map it out for me. All Right,

528
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:02.680
So you have these different concepts within Christianity. I don't

529
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:04.319
want to get too far into this, but I at least

530
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.519
have to mention it. There's at least one stream of

531
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.839
Christianity who seems to basically teach something like this. Okay, So,

532
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before salvation you have a wicked heart, a deceitful heart.

533
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.920
It's it's it's depraved, it's sinful, it's ungodly. Then you

534
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.279
get saved done dunda dah, you get a new heart.

535
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:25.240
The old heart is gone, the new heart is there. Okay, Well,

536
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:26.640
now if I have a new heart and the old

537
00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:32.720
heart is gone, then why do I still sin? Well

538
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:35.039
then say, well, well you have a new heart, but

539
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:39.079
the heart is different. But the flesh, the flesh isn't

540
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:41.400
all right, So then it's the flesh. Now what does

541
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the flesh consist of my physical flesh? Or are you

542
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:46.319
saying my flesh is my nature? So do you have

543
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Do you say that I have an old nature? But

544
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.160
a new heart? Is heart and nature separate? So when so? When?

545
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:52.359
So?

546
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Is this the way it works? Before salvation you have

547
00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.839
a wicked heart and a wicked nature. After salvation you

548
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.799
have a new heart a wicked nature. So God only

549
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:07.440
changes the heart, but he doesn't change the nature. Now,

550
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.720
some go so far to say no, when you become

551
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.079
a Christian, you get a new heart and you get

552
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.000
a new nature. Well, then if I have a new

553
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.839
heart and a new nature, Well, now, why can't then

554
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I be perfect. Why I mean, you would think it

555
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.720
would be not only possible, it would be probable. It

556
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would be expected if you have a new heart and

557
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a new nature. Because some will say, we see when

558
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you become a Christian, practically speaking, you're a new creature

559
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in Christ. Old things have passed away, all things have

560
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become new, which means your heart and your nature. Well,

561
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then you should expect perfection. Now many of them will

562
00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:43.640
almost preach it. Well, yes, now you can say no

563
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:45.720
to sin, Now you can say yes to God. Well

564
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then why is no one perfect? So no one can

565
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really explain this. So do I have a new heart

566
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but an old nature? Do I have a new heart

567
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and a new nature? And if I have a new

568
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heart and a new nature, then why do we sin?

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And if God is doing the one that's changing, we

570
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wouldn't know. He wouldn't be changing us. See this is

571
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another contradictory thing. If you have a new heart and

572
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if you have a new nature, then what is there

573
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for God to change? Your heart has been changed, your

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nature has been changed in salvation, and so that would

575
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be an instantaneous word. You have a new heart, you

576
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.159
have a new nature, Then what is there for God

577
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:27.239
to change. There's nothing for him to change. You have

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already changed. It's weird. Christians will say anyone who is

579
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in Christ is a new creature. All things have passed away,

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all things have become new, and at the same time

581
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saying God is making us new and changing us. What

582
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is there to change if we're already a new creature

583
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.079
in the old is already gone? So is that positional

584
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new or is that practical new? And Christians just they

585
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.119
say these things and it's just a It's a never

586
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.760
ending source of circular reasoning and logical contradictions, and they

587
00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:56.880
can never map it out, and when you try to

588
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.599
push them on it, it just gets more confusing by

589
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.800
the set. Well, yes, you have a new heart, you

590
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.000
have a new nature, but you can still sin. Well,

591
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.079
what's sinning my new heart or my new nature? It

592
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.440
doesn't sound like it's very new if it can continues

593
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.639
to sin. Well, can I be perfect? Well no, you

594
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.840
can't be perfect. What's keeping me from perfection? If I

595
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:21.320
have a new heart and a new nature. Well, God

596
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.559
is changing you. Well, if God is changing me, then

597
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:25.719
why wouldn't God just change me to perfect? And then

598
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.440
I would never sin again? Well? And if he's changing me,

599
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:31.360
what is he changing if I have a new heart

600
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.519
in a new nature? Like you just ask these questions

601
00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:36.159
and sometimes you just like never mind, because you watch

602
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.280
the Christians just go in circles. They just talk circles,

603
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.440
and everybody in the fuel just be like, Amen, Amen,

604
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:44.840
this is good preaching. And I'm sitting there going this

605
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:49.800
is the most contradictory illogical thing circular reasoning. Fifteen different

606
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.599
logical fallacies. I don't know if there's not actually fifteen

607
00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.280
logical fallacies typically the way they're listed out, but in

608
00:35:55.280 --> 00:36:02.039
other words hyperbolically using hyperbole and hyperbolic. Yeah, there's a

609
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:05.760
thousand logical inconsistencies. When they start trying to map it out,

610
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:08.199
and anyone sitting there with a pencil and trying to

611
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:10.280
draw out a chart, you're like, wait a minute, So wait,

612
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.679
I got a new nature, but I don't have a

613
00:36:11.679 --> 00:36:13.159
new heart. I have a new heart, but I don't

614
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:14.400
have a new nature. No, I have a new heart

615
00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:23.239
and have a new nature. Okay, which is it.

616
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To be conformed to the image of Christ? Because every

617
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day you get up, you should be praying Lord, this day,

618
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:27.840
make me more like Jesus, teach me and show me

619
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who you are. Teach me to love Lord like Jesus.

620
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Now again, if Jesus is the one teaching us, then

621
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why are there thousands of denominations and nobody can agree

622
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on anything. If Jesus is the one teaching you via

623
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:48.039
the Holy Spirit, then why are there Nobody can agree

624
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:50.440
on baptism. No one can agree on the Lord's Supper.

625
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.920
No one can agree on salvation. No one can agree

626
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.119
in repentance. No one can agree on the structure of

627
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the church. No one can agree on how to interpret

628
00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:04.000
anyone verse. Obviously not teaching us, because there would be

629
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.519
one doctrine, there would be one church, there would be

630
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.440
one truth, there would be one baptism, and there would

631
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:13.800
be the end of all of this never ending disagreements.

632
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But it's the idea. This is I remember, I always tell

633
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you there's the Christianity we sell. So you come to Christ.

634
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.000
Boom boom boo boom, He will change you, he will

635
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:27.280
teach you. Well, then, if Christ is the one changing

636
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:29.599
and Christ is the one teaching, then we should be

637
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.320
perfect in our behavior and we should be perfect in

638
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.119
our theology. But no one has either.

639
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That. I can love those who hate me and then

640
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:56.480
there's this last one. It's the great commandment to love

641
00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:58.800
the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind,

642
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and strength. And the second is like it, to love

643
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your neighbor as yourself. In this all the law and

644
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the profits speak so this morning, and let me make

645
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it very clear.

646
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.800
The great commandment love God with all your heart, mind,

647
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body and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. You

648
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:28.280
never obey it. You are in a perpetual state of

649
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:32.320
disobedience to that law. You are in a perpetual state

650
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.960
of being condemned by that law. And that law should

651
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:39.239
show you every single day that you cannot obey it.

652
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:42.679
The law is meant the law. It was never designed

653
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for you to be able to keep. Because it was

654
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impossible for you to keep. It condemns you. It drives

655
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you to Christ. And when it says love the Lord

656
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:50.679
that got with all your heart, my body and soul,

657
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.079
love your neighbor as yourself, only one person has ever

658
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:55.559
done that. That is Jesus Christ. By putting my faith

659
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.239
in him, his obedience to that law is imputed to

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my account. So now I stand before God as someone

661
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:04.159
who obeys that law, because Christ did it for me.

662
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:10.559
I will never never do it. Neither will you. And

663
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:13.000
if you think that you love God with all your heart,

664
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your body, and soul, and you love your neighbors yourself,

665
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:19.679
you are deceived, and you've become a self righteous pharisee,

666
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.639
thinking that you're more righteous. You may have cleaned up

667
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.159
the outside of the tomb, you may have cleaned up

668
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.639
the outside of the cup, but deep down inside, you

669
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.400
know you don't love God with everything in you. You

670
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.760
know you don't love your neighbor as yourself. And you

671
00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.960
know your sin, and you know it no matter how

672
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:38.880
much you deny it, and no matter how much you

673
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:41.840
pretend it's not there. You may have seventeen layers of

674
00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:45.519
fig leaves covering up your nakedness, but trust me, it

675
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:49.320
is there. Everyone knows it's there, and you can pretend

676
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:53.320
all day, But your sin is there because we cannot

677
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:58.000
keep God's law. We cannot, we cannot, we do not,

678
00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:02.280
we will not. That's we are say by an imputed righteousness.

679
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And our hope is that there will come a day where,

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then and glorification, our sin nature is finely removed, and

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then we will be like him.

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I'm gonna head back to Ezekiel. Chapter thirty six. You're

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gonna work your Bibles this morning, so go ahead and

684
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get those out. You're gonna exercise your hand muscles, your

685
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arm muscles, flipping pages. And we're gonna start in Ezekiel

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thirty six. And I hope that you will understand a

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little bit because I can't go into much detail for

688
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time reasons. And our salvation has nothing to do with us.

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And looking, no, boy, it's got every red flag. Our

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salvation has nothing to do with us. Why are we

691
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turning to his Ezequi will thirty six again? Why, oh boy.

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He's gonna make this about us, ladies and gentlemen. He's

693
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gonna make this about us. He's gonna make this about us.

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All right, I'm telling you, I am so weary of this.

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At Ezekiel chapter thirty six, we will pick up, and

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we will. I'm actually gonna read verses twenty five through

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twenty seven. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you,

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and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from

699
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:40.039
all of your filthiness and from all your idols. I

700
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.960
will give you a new heart and put a new

701
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:46.400
spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone

702
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:49.320
out of your flesh. And give you a heart of flesh.

703
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:51.760
I will put my spirit within you and cause you

704
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:55.639
to walk in my statutes, and you will keep my

705
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judgments and do them. Oh verse twenty five, I will

706
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God will sprinkle clean wind.

707
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.000
Please note he didn't read verse twenty eight, which says,

708
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then you shall go dwell in the land that I

709
00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:14.440
gave to your fathers, which clearly shows you this is

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00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.639
about Israel. Number so number one. He didn't read the

711
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:20.000
next verse, which tells you who this is referring to.

712
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:23.039
Then I will spring clean water on you who is

713
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:25.679
the you, and you, who is the you, She'll be clean.

714
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:28.239
I will claim you from all filthiness who's the you?

715
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:31.360
And from all your idols. I will give you a

716
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:33.639
new heart and put a new spirit within you. I

717
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:35.920
will take the heart of stone out of your flesh

718
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:38.119
and give you my spirit and give you a heart

719
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:40.400
of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and

720
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.559
cause you to walk in my statues. And you will

721
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:47.559
keep my judgments. Not that you will may, or you

722
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:51.400
will try, or you will desire. You will do this,

723
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.519
ladies and gentlemen, that is not us, That is Israel.

724
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:58.280
How do I know? Just go to chapter thirty six,

725
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:01.119
verse one, And you, son of Man, and prophesy to

726
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:04.559
the mountains of Israel, and say, oh, mountains of Israel,

727
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.280
hear the word of the Lord. Thus, thus says the

728
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.400
Lord God, because the enemy has said of you, Aha,

729
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.239
the ancient heights have become our possession. Therefore prophesy and say,

730
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:17.000
thus says the Lord God, because they made you desolate

731
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:19.960
and swallowed you up on every side. This is referring

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00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.440
to Israel. Israel. Israel is mentioned time after time from

733
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.440
chapter thirty six. Just read the entire chapter and identify

734
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.719
how many times Israel is either mentioned or where things

735
00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.400
are said that it can only refer to Israel. Just

736
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:39.559
verse twenty eight, right after those verses, he just read,

737
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:42.880
then you shall dwell in the land that I gave

738
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:46.480
to your fathers. When is this going to happen right

739
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.159
before they dwell in the land. This is a reference

740
00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:58.519
to Israel being transformed, being renewed, being revived, being regenerated

741
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:02.039
before they then take possession of the land which God

742
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:04.920
had promised them. This is not the Church, this is

743
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:09.800
not you. This is Israel at a specific time in history.

744
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:12.880
If you don't read it that way, then I give up.

745
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:16.000
If you I know I'm gonna get some arrogant reformed

746
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:19.679
person and trust me. I hold to reform soteriology, so

747
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.119
you can you can talk all the big game you want.

748
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.320
If the minutes you destroy the meaning of these words,

749
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.559
then then theology and hermonutics mean absolutely nothing. When it

750
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.000
says you're gonna go into the land that's actual land.

751
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.440
If it's not actual, you're telling me Israel doesn't mean Israel,

752
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:41.440
and land doesn't mean land. Then I'll tell you Resurrection

753
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:45.800
doesn't mean resurrection, creation doesn't mean creation, day doesn't mean

754
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:49.239
day God, Virgin doesn't mean virgin. We'll just throw out

755
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.119
every meaning of every word and say the Bible doesn't

756
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:58.239
mean anything. All right, Well, let's see he's a back

757
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:02.840
back up to twenty five. Maybe he's gonna mention Israel here.

758
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:03.719
Maybe he's going.

759
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To water on you. You could go to numbers nineteen

760
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.920
and look at that chapter of the ceremonial purification and

761
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.239
the ashes of the heifers and the water that was

762
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.960
used to purify. But if you go to Hebrews chapter nine,

763
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.679
and you look in Hebrews chapter nine, you will see

764
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:27.800
that that was just a picture and a type of

765
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:31.760
the coming Messiah. The Lord Jesus who would shed his

766
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holy blood to cleanse us. So I will, says God,

767
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:46.360
I will clean you. I will cleanse you from all

768
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:50.159
your filthiness and from all of your idols. What is

769
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.000
the greatest idol that we worship in this life? Ourselves?

770
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:58.920
Our selfish desires, the things that we want.

771
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.719
So God's gonna remove all of our idolatry? Is all

772
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:10.639
your idolatry gone? You go to church with people or

773
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:14.679
are everyone you know in your church is an idolatry?

774
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.639
Idolatry is still prevalent in every church. So is he

775
00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:20.679
gonna make it go away? Or is he in the

776
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.840
process of making it go away? Is he just going

777
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:25.079
to do it? Or is he doing it? And if

778
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:26.880
he's doing it, why is it taking so long? Why

779
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.480
can't God just make that idolatry goes away? This sounds

780
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:33.480
like a very emphatic statement. I'm going I Am going

781
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:35.800
to sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean,

782
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.880
and I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and

783
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:41.760
from all your idols. Is that their internal sin? Or

784
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:44.480
is that their external sin? Is he gonna just remove

785
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:50.719
it all? Is this God just going to remove their

786
00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:53.639
their positional guilt or their practical sin.

787
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.760
The things that we feel like we need to entertain

788
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:05.760
us or keep us from getting bored in the life

789
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.519
that we live. And I want to tell you something,

790
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.000
and I've told the youth, is I can honestly stand

791
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:16.119
here and tell you I am never bored. I am

792
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:27.840
never bored. Ever am I bored? Why? Because I know

793
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.639
the God of all creation and I am known by him.

794
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:35.559
Oh wow, So he is never bored because he's more

795
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:39.360
spiritual than you. If you're bored, you're not as spiritual

796
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:41.519
as him. Now, let me make this very clear. I

797
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:44.719
say the same thing. I am never bored. I hate

798
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:47.119
the word bored, but I have never used it as

799
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:51.320
an example of my spirituality. I'm never bored because I

800
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:54.599
know God. Now I say I'm never bored because there's

801
00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:57.679
fifty seven billion things I want to do in this life.

802
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:03.880
From books, comic books, wi music, sports, movies, TV shows,

803
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:06.440
you just name it. There's a million things I would

804
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:10.119
like to do, meaning that I'm not bored because you

805
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:13.039
could argue I have a million idols in my life.

806
00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:16.719
But I guess for him, ladies and gentlemen, he is

807
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.000
never bored because he knows God. So I guess does

808
00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:23.280
that mean he doesn't do anything for entertainment? He doesn't

809
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:27.559
need any entertainment. He doesn't need anything because he has

810
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:32.159
been washed and now he all his idols have been removed. Well,

811
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:37.320
what's the problem with the rest of everyone? Did the

812
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:39.880
sprinkling of the water not work on everyone else?

813
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.079
I can pray to him anytime I want to. I

814
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:50.559
can think thoughts of him anytime I want to thults

815
00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:53.159
that push my mind to the very limit of its ability.

816
00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:57.519
I can meditate on his word. And I'm going to

817
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.719
tell you something, Church, if you don't memorize scripture, you

818
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.840
need to go into the practice of doing that, because

819
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:05.639
it's a sweet thing to sit down and just recite scripture.

820
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:10.239
I never get bored. I can sit for hours and

821
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:12.800
think of God and read his word and pray to him.

822
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.199
It's not boring to me. It's actually probably the most

823
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:20.679
favorite thing I have in this life to do. I

824
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:24.599
don't need the world's entertainment to keep me from getting

825
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.719
bored because I don't get bored. I will cleanse you

826
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:33.719
from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

827
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.360
All right, So he doesn't get bored. He doesn't need

828
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:41.199
the world's entertainment. He doesn't need anything because he has God.

829
00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:44.440
So is he now the standard, Ladies and gentlemen, If

830
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:46.639
you get bored, and if you like the world's entertainment,

831
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:49.360
you still have idols. So you have not been sprinkled,

832
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:53.320
you have not been made clean. Therefore you're not saved.

833
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:55.719
Is that the implication?

834
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:08.440
I will give you a new heart and put a

835
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:16.239
new spirit within you. He changes us internally when we

836
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.760
recognize the love of God through Christ and we place

837
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.719
our faith and trust in what He's done. He gives

838
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:24.159
us a new nature.

839
00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:29.440
Herry, ladies and gentlemen, that you and the text now

840
00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:35.199
becomes we. Ain't that interesting? Christians always complain about pronouns, right, No,

841
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:39.519
your pronoun are he and him? Yeah, your pronoun is

842
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:42.719
not she or her? We who care about pronouns. But

843
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:46.159
when we read the Bible, you becomes we? How did

844
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:47.039
you become we?

845
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:49.000
Now?

846
00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:51.440
Just note he just said we get a new nature

847
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.320
and we get a new heart. So wait a minute.

848
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:56.039
So if I have a new heart and a new nature,

849
00:50:56.119 --> 00:50:58.480
then I have no old nature. I have no old heart.

850
00:50:58.760 --> 00:51:03.400
Then why do I say? But I find it interesting

851
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:07.920
that Christians are so up on pronouns, pronouns, pronouns, pronouns, pronouns, pronouns, pronouns.

852
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:09.960
But we go to the Bible, and where the pronoun

853
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.199
is you. Now it becomes we, it becomes them, it's them.

854
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:21.880
Now it becomes us, it's them, and it becomes me. See,

855
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:25.199
Israel just got kicked out of Ezekiel thirty six. He's

856
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.960
just preached a sermon where he literally told Israel, get out.

857
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.920
We don't want you here, we don't need you here,

858
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:35.840
because this is about us. We're claiming these promises, even

859
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:39.079
though it specifically was for Israel.

860
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:46.320
The desire for the things of the world start to disappear,

861
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:49.639
and we have a new desire to please and live

862
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:50.440
for God.

863
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:55.800
Wait a minute, why would they start to disappear? If

864
00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:58.400
you immediately get a new heart, and you immediately get

865
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.159
a new nature, then you would immediately have new desires.

866
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.519
The old desires would be completely gone, because the old

867
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:06.519
desires are something of the old nature of the old heart.

868
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:09.000
Don't tell me. On one hand, I get the new thing,

869
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:11.360
but the old thing still is there, but it just

870
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:16.920
slowly starts to get less. That's utterly illogical. If I

871
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:19.840
get a new heart and I get a new nature.

872
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:24.159
Then I'm literally different from the inside out. I've got

873
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.920
a new hard drive. I've got a new hardware. I'm

874
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:31.599
completely reprogrammed. Therefore, all of my thoughts will be that

875
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.440
of God. All of my desires will be of God. Therefore,

876
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:36.920
I'll have no desire for the world, no desire for

877
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:39.760
the flesh. The world's temptations will no longer have any

878
00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:43.320
impact on me, because the world's temptations would not have

879
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.360
anything in me to appeal to, because I have a

880
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:49.000
new heart and a new nature, So any temptation would

881
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:51.679
be like it would just bounce off of me. Well, sorry,

882
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.440
there's nothing inside me that desires it. I only desire

883
00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:57.159
to memorize Scripture. I only desire to read my Bible.

884
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.320
I only desire God. I don't desire anything but God.

885
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:03.199
I don't want anything. I don't need relationships, I don't

886
00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:13.599
need anything. I just need God because I'm a new man. Yeah,

887
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:17.280
oh man, this stuff drives me mad.

888
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:23.159
And He does it all. He creates the new desire.

889
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:24.800
He does it all.

890
00:53:27.719 --> 00:53:30.840
If God does it all and he creates the new desire, well,

891
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.000
then if you don't have new desire, then is it

892
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.639
God's fault? And why would he have to create a

893
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:38.400
new desire. If he gave you a new heart and

894
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:41.079
a new nature, you would not already have new desires,

895
00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:41.719
So why does he?

896
00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:41.920
So?

897
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.920
I guess God gives you a new heart, a new nature,

898
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.719
and he creates new desires. But somehow we still sin,

899
00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:48.400
and somehow we can't be perfect.

900
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:58.199
All he does is tell me to trust him, because

901
00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:01.320
if I truly trust him and truly, I'm gonna do

902
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:02.119
what he says.

903
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:08.320
Because, oh so, if I truly trust him, I will

904
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:10.960
do what he says, meaning then I will obey the

905
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:15.519
law perfectly. So if you truly trust God, you will

906
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:17.239
love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

907
00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:21.280
You will love your neighbor as yourself. You will be

908
00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:23.360
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, and you will

909
00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:26.599
be holy as He is holy. Therefore you will be perfect. So,

910
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:29.639
ladies and gentlemen, if you trust God, you will be perfect.

911
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:35.079
Oh bit, But Christianity is not about dos and don'ts. No, no, no,

912
00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:37.679
no no. Christianity is not about dos and don'ts. But

913
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:40.159
if you really trust him, all you're going to do

914
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:42.760
is the dus and you're never gonna do the don'ts

915
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:47.519
because you're basically perfect. But it's not about works. It's

916
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:51.039
not about works, because it is.

917
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:57.199
The joy of my life. I will take the heart

918
00:54:57.239 --> 00:54:59.119
of stone out of your flesh and give you a

919
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:02.960
heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you

920
00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.599
and calls you to walk in my statutes, and you

921
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:10.280
will keep my judgments and do them. The desire to

922
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:18.000
obey him he does that.

923
00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:23.039
That verse does not say a stinking thing about desire.

924
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:27.800
It says you will do. Does it say you will desire?

925
00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:31.679
It says you will. So don't turn this into well,

926
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:35.559
you will desire, but sometimes you won't. No, this is

927
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:40.199
you will do this. You will the end perfectly. You

928
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:44.159
will do it. Don't water it down. Now you've already

929
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.159
kicked Israel out of it. If you're gonna make it

930
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:50.559
about us, then everyone who this happens to you obey

931
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:53.400
everything and you are perfect. Oh and then you're gonna

932
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:56.000
go into the land a sworn to your father's I

933
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don't know how that has anything to do with you,

934
00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:59.119
but I'm sure we'll make it work.

935
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It's not something you have. You don't have a desire

936
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.480
to obey him. You see this right here in this

937
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:09.360
New Covenant. That's what He creates in you is a

938
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:16.280
new heart that desires Him. You didn't do that. This

939
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:20.360
is a supernatural work of God. To be regenerated, to

940
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.440
be recreated, to be a new creation. It is the

941
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greatest miracle you will ever witness on the face of

942
00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:29.960
the planet. In and of yourself. You don't need anything

943
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.800
else when He takes that heart out and gives you

944
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:35.480
a new heart.

945
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:38.480
And the whole world.

946
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:40.800
Looks different to you because you're seeing it through the

947
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:44.039
love of God, through Christ and the Word of God,

948
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.239
and the spirit of God is working in you and

949
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.480
through you and molding you and making you like Jesus.

950
00:56:50.760 --> 00:56:58.840
You don't need anything else but Him.

951
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:03.039
It's amazing. Christians don't need anything else. But look at

952
00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:05.760
every Christian. You know, they have pretty much everything else

953
00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:08.639
the world has. They care about this. And they want

954
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:10.920
homes and they want property, and they want to retirement,

955
00:57:11.119 --> 00:57:13.360
and they want entertainment, and they want a nice house,

956
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:15.599
and they want a wife, and they want kids, and

957
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:18.320
they want relationships and they want friends, and they want

958
00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:20.880
to entertainment, and they want a fellowship mill, and they

959
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.239
want good food and they want this, and they want

960
00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:26.000
the holidays, and they want gifts and they want and

961
00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:28.480
they want, and they want and they want and they

962
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:31.119
want and they want, and they gossip and they slander,

963
00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:33.880
and they back by and they lie, and they fight

964
00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:37.480
and they argue and marriages fall apart, and they're, oh, wait,

965
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:40.079
why why is any of this happening? They don't want

966
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:42.719
anything but God, they don't need anything but God, because

967
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:49.119
basically they're supposed to be perfect. See this is where

968
00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:51.119
I just sometimes I reach the point going, look, you

969
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.000
know what, I can't I can't participate. It's like playing

970
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:59.280
a fantasy game. Somebody, this is fantasy world. This is

971
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:02.719
not what If Christianity was like this, then nobody would

972
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:05.320
need anything and everybody would be basically living in a

973
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.119
monastery and all they did was think and pray and

974
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:10.719
talk to God and wouldn't care about anything else because

975
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:13.280
they would have a desire for nothing else other than God.

976
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:27.159
So what a great promise we have here. And so

977
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:34.079
let's move over, and I'm going to read this. Let's

978
00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:35.480
move over to the Great Commandment.

979
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:41.079
And all right, that's it. That's how he covered his equal.

980
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:51.519
He literally kicked Israel out. He literally kicked Israel out.

981
00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:54.480
He did not even bother to read the very next verse.

982
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Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave

983
00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:01.239
to your fathers. Be my people, and I will be

984
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.079
your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleanliness.

985
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:07.440
I will call for the grain and multiply it, and

986
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:10.679
bring no famine upon you. I will multiply the fruit

987
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:13.800
of your trees and the increase of your fields. Ladies

988
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:18.760
and gentlemen. That has literally nothing to do with you.

989
00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:25.199
This is a promise. This is a covenant made with

990
00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:28.639
the House of Israel and the House of Judah. We

991
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:34.119
are grafted in to a certain extent. But this part

992
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:38.000
is specifically for Israel. Specifically, what will prepare them to

993
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:41.559
go and take possession of the land which God had

994
00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:45.679
promised them. If you make that about us, you can't

995
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:47.320
just take part of that and make it about us.

996
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:49.960
Everything else would have to be about us. The land,

997
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:53.159
the grain, no more famine, all of that would have

998
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:55.159
You would have to take every bit of this and

999
00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:57.239
make it about us. So here's what I want you

1000
00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.679
to do. I want you your assignment today is very simple.

1001
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:06.639
You to read Ezekiel thirty six. There are thirty eight verses.

1002
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:09.360
There's thirty eight verses, and I want you to take

1003
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:11.559
out of those thirty eight verses, find out how many

1004
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:14.800
times Israel is mentioned if it says you or them,

1005
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:18.239
who is it referring to? It's gonna be Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel.

1006
01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:22.400
And look and make a list of every specific promise

1007
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:26.159
given in Ezekiel thirty six, and ask yourself, is that you?

1008
01:00:26.599 --> 01:00:40.159
It's not you unless you're delusional. I'm to the point

1009
01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:43.159
I'm just I give up. I just give up. You

1010
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:47.480
go to a chapter where it's Israel Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel.

1011
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:50.079
Then you leave out the verses before it, you leave

1012
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.400
out the verses after it. You take four verses and

1013
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.159
say that's you, and then just ignore Israel and then

1014
01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:57.480
move on. And everybody's in the church. It's like, now,

1015
01:00:57.480 --> 01:00:59.039
I'm not saying that that's what they were doing, but

1016
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:03.079
typically sure people like, Amen, praise God, such a great sermon,

1017
01:01:03.159 --> 01:01:07.119
pastor Amen, We're so happy you're our pastor teaching us

1018
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.159
the word of God, even though you literally just got

1019
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:24.719
a passage literally ripped apart. Positionally, I am perfect, Positionally,

1020
01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:30.880
I'm a new creature. Positionally, all of that is true

1021
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.800
because I am saved by an imputed righteousness. Positionally I'm perfect,

1022
01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:39.360
I'm obedient. Practically, i am not changed. I still have

1023
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:41.840
an old nature. I'm still a sinner, and I will

1024
01:01:41.840 --> 01:01:46.119
still sin. I do have the guarantee that there will

1025
01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:50.880
come a day that then I will be transformed, and

1026
01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:53.199
I will no longer have a sinful nature, and I

1027
01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:58.039
will become like he is. No sinful nature, no more pain,

1028
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:03.960
no more suffering, no more corrupt body, no more death. Positionally,

1029
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:10.840
I'm perfect. Practically I'm a sinner glorification. Then the positional

1030
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:15.039
reality will become the practical reality. In the meantime, I'm

1031
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:19.440
still a sinner. And Ezekuel thirty six is about Israel,

1032
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:24.920
as the chapter clearly outlines. And if we can't understand

1033
01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:28.239
Ezekiel thirty six by the words that are used, then

1034
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:33.280
ladies and gentlemen, forget hermoneutics, forget Bible study, forget Bible interpretation.

1035
01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:36.880
It's a meaningless exercise and futility. There is no way

1036
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:40.239
to understand it. Just give up, put your Bible away,

1037
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:47.440
and be done with it. There we go. Now, I'm

1038
01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:51.639
exhausted because it's four hundred and fifty seven degrees in

1039
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:56.880
this studio. I am literally not even a joke covered

1040
01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:00.599
in sweat, not pleasant. I feel like I've run fifteen

1041
01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:05.480
miles because I'm so frustrated by this. But I've just

1042
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:08.679
grown to the point of utter weariness of it. Like

1043
01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:10.920
I've grown to the point that I just I can't

1044
01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:13.800
even tolerate it anymore. Like it went from a little

1045
01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:16.480
bit of frustration, a little bit of irritation, to now

1046
01:03:16.519 --> 01:03:19.039
you can just hear. Like I'm at a breaking point.

1047
01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:22.440
I'm so sick of it because if I can't understand

1048
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.440
Ezequel thirty six, and I can't understand anything. Literally, I

1049
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.320
can't understand Day, I can't understand virgin I can't understand Christ,

1050
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:32.880
I can't understand the Trinity. I can't understand the deity

1051
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:35.400
of Christ. I can't understand the hypothetic union. I can't

1052
01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:39.239
understand any theological issue because we can't even believe what

1053
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:47.519
the words say. All right, I'm gonna stop who but

1054
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:50.719
you've got your assignment. Read Ezequel thirty six. Identify every

1055
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.320
time Israel's mentioned, and then write down every single promise,

1056
01:03:54.800 --> 01:03:59.000
every single promise, and then look at those promises, and

1057
01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:01.800
then you tell me is that for you or is

1058
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:04.280
that from the nation of Israel? When at the right

1059
01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:09.159
appropriate time, God will regather, he will renew, he will cleanse,

1060
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:11.719
and they will be his people, and He will be

1061
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.280
their God, and He will dwell in the midst of them,

1062
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:19.320
and every covenant promise made will be fulfilled. To Israel,

1063
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:25.159
thank you for listening, have a great evening. I'm going

1064
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to pass out now.

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God bless