Genesis 26: Satan vs AI

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone. It is Monday, January thirteenth, twenty twenty five. It is currently ten thirty four am Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, what we are about. To do should be extremely interesting. I'm somewhat excited to see how this plays out, because what we are going to do is we really have artificial intelligence making a prediction about how a sermon is going to go, how a sermon is going to handle the text, how the sermon is going to put forth its ideas. And AI is making this prediction without analyzing the sermon. All I did was give AI the title of a sermon and the text, and then AI just went crazy and it was like, you need to watch out for this, and you need to watch out for this, and you need to look out for this because this could go this way and this could be this and just made all these predictions and I was like, whoa this is. I've never really had AI go here's the title of a sermon, here's the text. What do you think it's going to do incorrectly, what do you think it's going to do?

1:30 And an AI's like, whoa that title? That text. Basically, AI was like, that. Sermon has the potential of being an absolute mess. So I'm interested to see how correct AI's prediction is or how incorrect it is. Now I'm not expecting it to be. And well, I take it back. I'm kind of conflicted here. On one hand, I would think AI is going. To get this way way wrong. Right, there's a part, but there's another part of me that when I look at the title of this sermon and I look at the text, I'm thinking it's going to be a complete train wreck as well.

2:11 But let me tell you how we got there. So I had some things to do around the house, and I was going here, doing this and doing that. So I was carrying my iPad with me. And I was just like, you know, while I'm doing these things, I'll just go to the sermon's two point oh app and just start listening to some random sermons. Right. So I was just looking and I found one sermon entitled ye must and based on John chapter three, Ye must be Born Again? And the pastor was making this point that Nicodemus was. This from a human perspective, this righteous man, this man that was, would have been appeared to have been godly, trying to keep the law, trying to do all of these right things. He would have been moral, he would have been an upstanding person in his community.

2:56 He would have been considered. A good man. Yet, ye, he must be born again. He needed to be born again. And so I was. Listening to that, and then I stopped, and I'm like, well, wait a minute, this is interesting, right, because within the non Catholic Protestant world, we kind of have a logical fallacy, a contradictory message that often gets preached. When we're in John three, we're like, you can be a righteous man, you can be a man that is moral, you can. Be a good man. Yet he must be born again, because all of your goodness, all of your righteousness, that will not save you. You need Jesus. But on the other hand, we turn around and say, hey, if you're truly saved, how do you know you're saved by this outward righteousness, by this outward morality.

3:42 Well, wait a minute. Outward righteousness and outward morality is obviously not a proof of salvation. If someone can be outwardly moral and outwardly righteous and yet not saved, that means you can be outwardly moral and outwardly righteous without salvation. So therefore outward morality and righteousness cannot prove one salvation. It's a complete contradiction, it's circular reasoning. There's all kinds of problems with it. So I was going to grab that sermon, download it, and just kind of use it to really get into this major theological issue that is so prevalent and Protestant Reformed fundamentalist church. On one hand, you can be righteous and not. Be saved, yet your righteousness supposedly proves you're saved.

4:25 Well, righteousness that, no, it doesn't prove you're saved. If I unrighteous, If a person who's lost can be morally righteous outwardly well, then moral outward morality. Does not prove salvation. Oh there's so much we could get into that. So that's where I was going to go. I was I'm like, okay, let me save this one, and I'm gonna and I'm gonna do something. So I started typing out some notes and I'm like, Okay, I think I'm ready to go so I was gonna come up here, sit down, and say, ye must be born again. Okay, here's what this pastor says about Nicodemus. Now let's consider this and a lot of how Protestants typical teach them, and fundamentalists and evangelicals, et cetera, et cetera, and we can. See the contradiction.

5:05 We can point out the circular reasoning, and then we can look forward that, you know, the real proof of salvation is not my righteousness, but the righteousness of Christ. I thought it would be an interesting conversation, and then something happened. I was sitting here and I was just, you know, continuing to just refresh the sermon's two point oh app the new sermons, and all of a sudden I saw a sermon entitled how does Satan Stop up Your well? How does Satan stop up your well? And I'm like, woit minute, I don't have a well? Right, Okay, I mean now I used to now when I live.

5:47 I grew up in Buffalo. Gap, Texas. I grew up in Buffalo Gap, Texas, all right, and you know it was what population two hundred and sixty people, two hundred and seventy people at the time, all right. And right across from right across from my house, there's a street right now. If you go back into history. There was a there was a time in Texas history that Buffalo Gap was trying to become the kind of the county seat, right, kind of become the focus of the county, right, And there was an argument trying to have the railroad more in Buffalo Gap than in Abilene. And there was conflict between Abilene and Buffalo Gap and who was going to kind of become the county seat of Taylor County and where was the railroad going to basically be And there was all these issues. And on the street right in front of my house at some point, and there supposedly there was like a shootout right there in the street where I lived historically, and there's historical markers around Buffalo Gap about some of the things that happened there. And right across the street from my house is this house that and it had just been left there.

6:55 I mean, it looked like it was built in the eighteen hundreds. Man, it was nobody was around it. It was abandon but it had this like eighteen hundreds fill and there was a lot of things a buffalo gap at that time. Now now the town looks a little bit different and a lot of the older structures have been torn down, which is kind of sad. But we would sit there and you know, when. You would walk outside and see the house, it made you feel like you were, you know, back in the eighteen hundreds, or you were in a you know, a Western and you were you know, you could, you could, your imagination could go well. So we would, we would play all around that house. It was, it was empty, it was abandoned, but it could give us this feel like you know, we were in the eighteen hundreds. And right if you looked at the house from if you walked out my front door and looked at the house, I think it was to the left of the house, right on the left hand side. You would go over there and guess what there was There was a well this way and you could you could There was steps to go down into the well.

7:53 There was a bucket you could. Drop in there, and there was I don't know if it was like what where the well water was coming from, but you could pull the bucket out and get well. And so we would, you know, we would play all around that like you know, like we've been out riding our horse in the eighteen hundreds being you know, attacked by bandits or Native American tribes, whatever the case may be, and then we're pulling up the bucket to get water. And so it was just it was great for my imagination. I loved it. I loved it. So that's my only kind of like dealing with an actual well, that's where that's where it was. I never thought about Satan's showing up to stop up this well. I never. I never thought how Satan's gonna stop up this well? What does it mean that Satan stops up though? Well, so the title caught my attention, how does Satan stop up your well? But though what really got my attention was the text was Genesis twenty six. I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute, Genesis twenty six. I got Genesis twenty six in front of me, Genesis twenty six.

8:54 There are thirty five verses in Genesis twenty six. If we go with some just base headings for Genesis twenty six, God's covenant with Isaac, Isaac's deception. Isaac prospers disputes overwells. God appears to Isaac a Covenant with a bimeleg Now what I don't see anywhere in Genesis twenty six. I don't see Satan. So I'm like, wait a minute, how do we have a sermon called how does Satan Stop Up Your Well? Based on Genesis twenty six? When Satan doesn't even appear. In Genesis twenty six? What is going on?

9:37 So I'm like, okay, this is interesting. So then I took the title, I took the scripture, and I basically I gave to Ai, Hey, I just stumbled upon this sermon entitled how does Satan Stop up Your Well? The text is Genesis twenty six, right, and this is what AI said. The title how does Satan Stop up Your Well? And the choice of Genesis twenty six suggests that the sermon will likely use Isaac's experience with the wells as a metaphor for spiritual life. Here are some possible hermeneutical and textual errors, as well as a prediction for how the text might be handled. So immediately AI was like, Hey, this is gonna turn. It's going to turn the well into some kind of a metaphor for the spiritual life.

10:33 Then I guess Satan can stop up your spiritual life, like. What is going on here? Right? So here's what AI gives me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna read everything it says. I will refer back to this because what we're gonna do is we're gonna review the audio. But I don't want you to. Think that I'm like feeding AI information as the sermon is going on. Now, I've already given AI the information. What I gave it was the title and the and the text. AI gave everything that I have right here in front of me. So I'm going to kind of at least go through this briefly so you know that AI did this before the sermon, Like, I did not give it the transcript. I just gave it the title and the text. This is crazy, okay, And it gave me all kinds of things. So here's what it gave me.

11:23 AI gave me possible hermonutical errors. Number one, over spiritualization. So we're gonna so you you may want to write these down. AI is predicting that there's a probability there's a possibility that the sermon we are about to review is going to over spiritualize things. Number Two, that the sermon that we are about to hear is going to really ignore the historical context. It may mention the historical context, but it's gonna basically ignore it and favor this is what AI says, and favor of an allegorical interpretation. Number three, AI predicts that isigesus versus exegesis will occur. AI is predicting that they're going to read ideas into the text.

12:12 The preacher may impose the idea of Satan into the text, even though the passage does not mention Satan. Or spiritual warfare. So the AI is predicting that the sermon we were about to review is going to use is of Jesus. Number four, AI is predicting that it's going to be a moralistic application. Number five AI is predicting that it's going to be a misuse of typology. Now AI is giving all these predictions, all right, So then I said, so then AI predicted how the sermon will go. Here's AI's prediction. Number one, it will focus on the wells as symbols, not actual physical wells, but it's going to turn the physical wells into sim Number two is gonna emphasize on Satan as the enemy. Satan is gonna become the enemy here, not whoever the enemy may be. Number three, there's gonna be an encouragement for me to redig.

13:13 My well. I don't know even know what that means. Ai is predicting that the pastor is going to encourage us to redig our wells. I don't know what that means. Number four, it's gonna have possible some prosperity theology in it. Whoa, that's a big prediction. Number five, it's gonna neglect the theme of the covenants. All right, So then AI gives me suggestions for a better approach. We'll get into all of that later. So that's what Ai did. Ai broke this all. Down for me even before we've even listened to it. That is crazy to me. So I can just give Ai a title and the text, and AI will be like, well, here's where I think it's going.

13:59 That's that's fascinating. That's crazy. That's Ai predicting, that's Ai almost thinking. I know, I'm maybe I'm I'm giving it too much credit. But when you just give something basic information and it can provide all of this, that is something fascinating. I told you at twenty twenty five is a year of AI. We're gonna we're gonna be talking about it over and over and over. So here we go, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna listen to this sermon. How does Satan Stop up Your Well? It's on the sermon's two point Oh app it was added today, Go find it, download it. But we're gonna take it apart. But what it's gonna really work. I'm calling this Satan versus AI because the pastor puts Satan into the text. AI is going to be like AI seems to be implying, how did how did you get Satan into the text?

14:51 So Satan versus Ai? Right, that's the way I'm going, right, And it's kind of a cold title should get people's attention. Yeah, I mean sometimes when you do a podcast, you have to try to create titles that will at least hopefully get your attention, just like this sermon did, How does Satan Stop up Your Well? Immediately got my attention. So I mean that's what titles are there for. So are you ready? Here we go. I don't know where this is going to go. What do you what do you predict? What do you predict? Let's let's put let's put our bets in right now, taking bets right now? Right? Are you predicting AI will be very accurate and its prediction. About this sermon? Or do you believe AI is about to be very very very wrong in its prediction. Come on, let's put your bets in. Now, put your bets in.

15:37 What are you betting for? Are you going AI is going to be right in its prediction or AI is going to be very wrong in its prediction. What do you think? And if AI is right in its prediction, then that means AI you know what that means. That means AI, pulling from all of the information available to it, knows that sermons tend to tend to me handle text over and over and over again. That's how I'm going to interpret this because AI is like, hey, that title, that text, you know it's going to be a problem. So I don't know how well can AI predict how a sermon will go or not go? I don't know. I don't know. This is interesting to me.

16:19 Let's find out. I'm interested. Here we go, I've got all my notes ready, let's listen. Go with me to By the way, let me give you a little infomercial. Please, I'm doing the Book of Genesis. I just started. You heard me online if you listen Wednesday night, and I just started. This week will be a good week to be here at the Genitis chapter number one. But because I try to really be prepared, I've read the Book of Genesis, because I was preparing for this series at fifteen times.

17:02 Just read it. I did. And here's what happened to me. I love the Holy Ghost. As I was reading Holy ghosts part me in Genesis chapter twenty six. That's where I want you go. Okay, first, nothing but respect that he read the Book of Genesis fifteen times. Nothing but respect, don't mean that in a sarcastic way. However, what we need to do. What I hate to do this, but what we're going to have to ask ourselves. Does reading the Book of Genesis fifteen times? Does it guarantee that we will handle the text correctly?

17:45 Now, and in my mind. I want to believe the more you read, the more you see, and the more you can avoid is of Jesus and metaphors and allegory and some of the major issues that that AI is predicting this sermon is. Going to do. If AI is right, then What that. Means is reading the text fifteen times does not fix these problems. Second, now I am concerned here because we have I love the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost parked me in Genesis twenty six. So is the Holy Ghost about to be blamed for the content of this sermon?

18:30 Because if he says the Holy Ghost is the one that showed him how he's about to interpret Genesis twenty six, well then we are not able to criticize it because it's the interpretation of the Holy Ghost, which then would make his interpretation infallible. Oh how I so loathe the way Christians play this game. I'm not saying he's about to play the game, but sermon after sermon, the. Holy Ghost showed me this. The Holy Ghost laid the Holy Ghost opened my e and the Holy Spirit and you're like, well, you just claimed that your interpretation is infallible. The guy over there across the street, he said the Holy Ghost led him do a completely different interpretation. So either the Holy Ghost is just messing with everyone and playing little games like I'm gonna give them a Well, we were not going to ever say that, because well, that would be we would be assigning deceit and sin to the Holy Spirit.

19:30 So maybe when you come up with an interpretation a set of blaming God, you blame your own interpretive skills. All right, but here we go, here we go, Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. So do we do we call this the Holy Spirit versus A. I. Let's see how much he includes the Holy Spirit in this. Maybe when I post this, I'm gonna have to call this the Holy Spirit versus AI. That would be very controversial title. But if he's going to blame the Holy Spirit for what we're about to get, then then AI.

20:17 Is obviously sounds like going to possibly disagree. Well, to see where this goes. And part me there and I got fought, And first part would be real great. Some of you might be a little tough on the last part. But it's a thought that I want to give you. I've been reading the Bible. I love the Bible. It's the inspired word of God. I'm not backing up from that. It's in Eric. Amen. And by the way, I'm not gonna change preaching from the King James Bible. You know, I'm not gonna get no fuss about it. You know, all these knuckleheads are online, fussing about it all the time. Now, Maya, I'm just gonna preach out what I preached on him, and they can whatever they.

21:04 Want to do. Go ahead, Uh, just a choice, Sick. If you're there, say amen, let's I'll use all the chapter tonight, but for the sake of time, let's leus dive in at verse twelve and I will read down probably to verse twenty two, about ten verses. And there's one verse that popped out at me that I'm gonna preach on tonight. Then Isaac sewed in that land and received in the same year one hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him. By the way, if you're a child of God, God wants to bless your life. And the man works great and went forward, by the way, that's the only way we need to do, is go forward and grew until he became very great.

21:57 All Right, you're already kind of getting a hermeneutical of approach. Right, you're already hearing the hermoneutical approach. Then Isaac sewed in that land and received in the same year one hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him. God wants to bless you. God wants to does God want to, but he can't. There's a lot of issues here, and I are not already blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. Oh, we could have all kinds of conversations about that, and the man waxed great and went forward. That's the only way we're supposed to go. He's just taking phrases and just immediately making them about us.

22:37 You see what he's doing. He's reading a phrase immediately making it about us. Phrase us. We're in Genesis twenty six. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not here. We're not in this text. This is about Isaac. But okay, he's already he's taken two phrases blessed forward. And made them about us. Now that you can kind of get, that's kind of giving you a hermeneutical preview. I think let's see if this continues. For he had possessed possession, had possession of fox, and possession. Of herds, and great store of servants. And listen to this. I'll cover this later. And the Philistines envied him.

23:20 That's a sermon itself. And I won't do that to die. For all the wells which his father, father's servant had digged in the days of Abraham his father. Catch this, This is the important verse. The Philistines had stopped them. And here's how they've done it and filled them with earth. What they've done all the. Wells of Abraham that were so important, The Philistines filled them up with dirt because they hated God's people. Somebody helped me preach. Now, question, did the Philistines.

24:04 Stop up the wells because they hate God's people? All? Right? So did? I'm gonna ask Ai? Did the Philistines hang on? Where is the verse here? Did the Philistines hang on? I gotta find it? Did the fill Listines stop up the wells because they hated God's people? Let's see what Ai has to say here.

24:51 Let's see what Ai has to say here? All right? Okay Ai immediately rejects it. Ai says, no, the Philistines and Genesis twenty six did not stop the wells because they hated God's people and a philological or spiritual sense. Their actions were more likely motivated by envy, territorial disputes, and economic rivalry, rather than a direct hatred for Isaac as a representative of God's covenant people. So mean, he just made a dogmatic assertion. The Philistines did this because they hate God's people. Immediately, AI is like, no, silly.

25:33 Oh oh see, okay, so what is it now? This is what I love about AI. Does AI just stop there? It's already answered the question. No, AI doesn't stop there. Guess what it provides me the textual evidence. Oh wait, AI. Is going to actually use the text of scripture to try to justify its answer. Man, I wish Christians would do this. Okay, here we go, all right the textual evidence. Genesis twenty six twelve through twenty two envy over Isaac's prosperity. Genesis twenty six twelve through fourteen explains that Isaac became very wealthy, which caused the Philistines to envy him. His prosperity flocks, herds, and servants would have created competition for resources like water and grazing land. The Philistines' actions were likely aimed at limiting Isaac's ability to thrive in the region.

26:35 Nothing about God's people. This is just fleshly type of you know, economic concerns, resource concerns, and a fleshly selfish approach. Territorial and political disputes. Wells in the ancient Near East were critical for survival, especially in an arid region. By stopping up wells, the Philistines were likely trying to assert control over the land and resources, signaling that Isaac was unwelcome. This was more about protecting their perceived territory than philological opposition Number two no mention of hatred for God or his people. The text does not indicate that the Philistines stopped up the wells because they hated God or his covenant people. Instead, the motivation seems to be very practical and rooted in self interest. The philistines envy verse fourteen and the subsequent quarrels overwhelms Verses nineteen to twenty one are described in relational and economical terms, not in spiritual or philological terms the text. This man just made a statement that the text itself does.

27:42 Not support broader or biblical context. Later in biblical history, the Philistines become prominent enemies of Israel in the time of Samson, Saul, and David. However, in Genesis twenty six, the Philistines are not yet framed the theological adversaries of. God's covenant people. The conflict here is local and specific to Isaac's growing wealth and influence. The emphasis of Genesis twenty six is on God's covenant faithful to faithfulness to Isaac despite the opposition he faces. The Philistines' actions highlight the challenges Isaac encounters as he inherits the land promised to Abraham. God's continued blessing of Isaac providing new wells and peace with the Philistines, and verse twenty two to thirty one underscores his faithfulness to his promise. So immediately, remember what Ai predicted that this sermon would over spiritualize things. Well, he just over spiritual He just turned this whole thing into they are doing it because they hate God's people. Nothing in the text proves it, the context disproves it. He's over spiritualizing it. AI's prediction has already been perfect, and Ai already just demonstrated literally basically. I mean, you can almost refer to it as a factual error. This is not even a I mean, this is just a factual error.

29:11 And a Bimelech said on Isaac, go from us, for thou art much mightier than wet, and Isaac depart events and pissed his tin in the valley of Garrar, and dwelt there and listen to what Isaac done. And Isaac digged again the whales of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philipsines had stopped them or that word again after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley and found their well spring. The water and the herdmen of are did strive with Isaac's herban saved the water is ours. And he called the name.

30:10 Of the well essek, because they strove of him. And they digged another well. I'm going somewhere. This's gonna be good men whoo. And they digged another well and strove for that also, and he called the name of it sitting now, and he removed from thence and digged another well, and for that they strove not. And he called the name get this, called the name of it ray hoo both. And he said, for now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. That's awesome preaching. I'm gonna try to get in this quick. Our father right now touches preaching. Lord, I feel like preaching, but I need the unction of the Holy Ghost this year. Lord, I'm commit by you and myself to you. I want to preach where than I ever had.

31:05 Did, not for me, but for you. And I want to give my people something tonight because it's so important Lord, what I'm teaching them tonight. And I'll praise your otti in Jesus' name for his sake. Now you looked at the text. I may saw that in the text twice that the Philistines stopped the. Way up and they'd done it by throwing dirt in it. Now listen to this. If you read most of this chapter, Brother Jeff, some of you deacons, if you read most of this chapter, this chapter is talking about water, and I talking about Wales. That's the whole subject. But here's what that happened.

31:46 Isaac had had set up his life in Philistine territory in Garrar. Now listen to me. And by the way, this area was was hot and arid and rocky and dry. Is a terrible environment. I want you to know something ain't nothing like when you're real hot and human and when you really. Are real thirsty to get a good drink of whale water.

32:28 Some of you kids ain't never drink in your life, and it's the best thing since sliced bread. Amen. I remember, let me tell you this little story. I remember when I was a boy, and uh bright, I don't know if they still have it there. I think they covered it up, messed it up. But up there, Saint Marriage were, or you know up in there, they used to be a whale up there when we camped up there. Uh I remember one day my dad rubbed me all over middle Allen Creek about three or four miles. He just had me doing stuff back and forth, and I was thirsting to death. I thought I was done gonna die. And I'll never forget getting into that well.

33:12 I'm telling you what. I started sucking at well water, and. It was good. I found some by the way, I found some rest. Back there in these days where these wells were, it was a. Place of rest. It's also a place of relaxation. I'll tell you what they did at these wells. They put little boots over top of them where you could come at the whale. There's a booth over there you can get out of the sun drink for what somebody helped me preach. I'm gonna get real happy here in a manner as a place of relaxation and refreshment and reviving. It just really helps you. But I want to get this to you. These wells of Isa and these wells of Abraham is a picture.

33:54 Let me give it to you of the church. Wow, the wells are a picture of the church. Okay, do you want me to ask artificial intelligence? Okay? Are the wells? Are the wells in Genesis. Twenty six a picture of the church? All right, here we go, here we go. Oh wow, this is crazy.

34:43 Ai is emphatic. I love how Ai is emphatic. No, No, AI is like No, the wells in Genesis twenty six are not a picture of the church. Well preachers or teachers may sometimes use the wells as metaphor for spiritual truths or the church. Such an interpretation is not grounded in the text itself or in the broader biblical narrative. Here's why the interpretation is problematic and how the wells should be understood. Number one, the wells in their historical Now, please note see how quickly Ai is able to just take this all apart me He made a claim about the Philistines. Immediately, AI was no, and it gave me all the textual biblical justification for that.

35:30 No. Here it's no. The wells are not a picture of the Church, and immediately what is it. It's going to break it down. Number One, the wells in their historical context wells in Genesis twenty six are literal. They're not symbolic. They're essential for survival in the ancient Near East, providing water for drinking, agriculture, and livestock. In the narrative, the wells represent God's provision and Isaac's claim to the land as a part of the covenant promised to Abraham Genesis twelve seven Genesis twenty six three through four. By reopening the wells doug by Abraham, Isaac demonstrates his continued connection to the Covenant and his rightful place in the land. The disputes over. The well reflect practical and territorial conflict, not philological ones.

36:14 The philistine's action. Stopping up the wells are about asserting control over resources, not about opposing God or his. People in any spiritual sense. Number two. Problems with interpreting the wells as a picture of the Church. One there's no biblical warrant. There is no indication in Genesis twenty six or anywhere else in scripture that the wells symbolize the Church. The connection would be speculative and unsupported by the text. Number two forcing allegory. Turning the wells into a symbol of the church risk engaging in allegory that imposes meaning on the text rather than drawing. Meaning from it. This is reading into the text, not pulling from to the text. This is isid Jesus. And remember what AI predicted.

37:02 AI predicted that this sermon would be I would use is of Jesus and would not be exit Jesus. And literally everything AI has predicted about this sermon is coming true right in front of you, all right. Turning the wells into a symbol of the church risk engaging an allegory that imposes meaning on the text rather than drawing meaning from it. This approach can obscure the actual message of the passage, which is about God's covenant faithfulness to Isaac. Number three misapplication. If the wells are interpreted as the Church, it can lead to misguided applications, such as seeing the Philistines as a representation of Satan or enemies of the Church. This shifts the focus away from the historical theological themes of the passage. Now you know, you look what Ai is predicting.

37:50 If you make the wells the church, you'll then make the philistine Satan. What is the title of the church? How do Satan stop up your well? I can't believe Ai has got this figured out, even without even having access to the sermon. All right, and Ai goes on, could I could spend thirty more minutes going. On with what Ai does here? Ai has predicted everything this sermon is going to do. It's even making. A prediction about what's to happen. Let's see if it's going to be true. AI is predicting that if you make the wells the church. I think if I said if you make the church the wells or the wells the shirt, you. Get the idea. If you say the wells or a picture of the church, then what you're going to do is turn the Philistines into basically a picture of Satan. And all of that Ai predicts, and none of it is biblical.

38:39 It's textually incorrect. It's is said Jesus. But yet here are the people they're gonna be saying. Amen, they're gonna be applotting, they're gonna get all excited, and we're gonna have an emotional experience. And guess what is going to happen? I keep saying it again and again and again and again. Sermons are the death to understanding the Bible. The sermon is the worst thing ever created in the history of mankind that people actually want to understand the text. And when I say the sermon, the sermon as it has become. It's this, it's it's it's a speech, it's a it's a form of entertainment. It's it's it's not about the text.

39:23 The whole sermon structure needs to be exploded and burned to the ground, and we need. To start over, because what is this. I I appreciate their zell I appreciate their passion, I appreciate their their desire, But this is well, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong. Let let's let's see where it goes. Oh, some may help me here of the sembling of ourselves together, because we're living in a dry How ma me believe that human, ungodly rocky world? This won't general. We're living this world doesn't have anything for us Christians.

40:08 For the love of bubblegum, Can we stop using the word woke? Okay? It's like this buzzword woke, this woke generation, woke, woke, woke, woke. It's like older people, this woke generation. My goodness, what can we stop using that word. It's like we get a word and it's like. Oh, the boogeyman is woke? Woke? Is the boogeyman? You? Nobody wants to be woke. What we want to be is asleep. We don't want to be woke. We don't want to be awake. We want to be asleep. Do we stop with that? It's always older people doing it. Woke, woke, woke, woke. It's it sounds like a like a Fox News on a loop on a loop. Can we stop it?

40:54 Okay? If you have an issue with a specific ideology, instead of referring to it as woke, how about just say, here's what the ideology teaches, and here's my opposition to said ideology. What doesn't everyone want to be awake? It's try, it's it's a mess, and I am glad that God established a church. Well, you can come and find some rest. Oh boy, so he's turned into he's just this is allegorizing the entire thing, the dry human land. That's the world and we live and the church is where you come to get rest. I am just a question, how, how in your life has the church been a source of a rest and a source of refreshment. What has the church really been in your I'm just seriously, come on, look now. What I hear of stories over and over and over is I was in this church and church split and then there was this fight and there was argument about this, and then there was this, and then we got this pastor and then we got a new pastor, and then there was this, and then there was that, and there was this and then this, and then there was gossip and then there was slander and there was backslapping, and then there was this scandal and there was this controversy, and.

42:12 There was this, this, this, and then I have to do this and then. We had this activity, and then we had this activity and we have to go here, we go there, and then the stress and then there's get and then there was all this. I always hear all the negative stories, and. Is the church the place where we get our rest? And refreshment? Or is Christ where we find our rest and refreshment? Is Christ the source of rest and refreshment? Or the Church? Biblically speaking, let's ask AI biblically Biblically, is the Church the source.

43:05 Of rest? Hand on the source of If I can typewrite of rest and uh refreshment, I'm just gonna use different words refreshment and and peace? Or is Christ? Is it a mistake to point to the Church as the source of these things?

43:53 See what AI has to say. I'm sorry, it took forever to type that out. Okay, this is what AI says. Biblically, Christ alone, AI stresses the word alone, It puts it in bold type. Is the ultimate source of rest, refreshment, and peace, not the Church. The Church plays a vital role in pointing believers to Christ and fostering a community where these blessings are experienced. Attributing those qualities to the Church as the source is a philological error. Here's why. Number one, Christ is the source of rest and peace. Jesus explicitly invites people to find rest in Him. Come to me, all who labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest peace. Christ is described as the source of true peace. Peace I leave with you my peace I give to you Ephesians two fourteen.

44:51 He himself is our peace living water. Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty. Not the Church. All of that comes from Christ. Dangers of pointing to the Church as the source Ai, says Idolatry, elevating the Church is the source of rest and peace, displacing the institution above Christ Number two misplaced focus. Pointing to the Church as the source of peace can shift the focus away from Christ's efficiency. Three Spiritual harm. Believers who are hurt disappointed by the Church might feel spiritually abandoned if they are taught to rely on the Church rather than Christ. Now, if you are a if you believe in the sacraments, now let's make sure we're If you are sacramental right, well, then the Church is the source of these things because you believe it. Then the sacraments are a means of grace, and the Church is the only one who can distribute the sacraments. That's very Roman Catholic. He just made the church. The church is where we come to get our refreshment. The church is where we come to find our rest, No Christ Christ.

46:11 Where you could come and find some relaxation, where you could come somebody help me preach. Hey, get some get some. Refreshment, where you could come and get some revival. Hey, this world died, This world's gone. But I'm glad to pull this rock. I build my church, and the gates of hell shall I prevail against it? Amen? Two, says everybody. Clapp got ready to hear some clapping and all the amen ing. Oh, unbelievable.

46:52 The philological I mean, Catholics would love this. Catholics would love this sermon. Right, the church you need the church, the Church, the Church, the church. The right. You got to have the church, all right, this has the heart. Pandas after the water, brooks so pants my soul what your God? The old God? My soul thirst for God, for the living God. Right, my soul thirst for God, not the Church. My soul thirst after God, not the Church. God is the source. God is the source of rest. God is the source of revival. God is the source of peace. God is the source of the living water. It's him, not the church.

47:43 I'll tell you what church is. It's an oasis in the wilderness. And first of all, it's a well of the Word of God. I want you to know something. Somebody think a preacher, you preach it me, I don't even know some of you real will you know? What happens is the Holy Ghost comes into your pastor and leads him more and what to preach. I know you were thinking, I told to your wife last night. I actually didn't you know what. This place is. Hey, By the way, I still be even. Preaching linipool line precept, ple preacher, give somebody something from. The Word of God. I didn't. I didn't bring y'all out here on the snowy day just to give you some sermonette. The christinet's a smoke cigarette.

48:30 Well, if the Holy Spirit gave you this sermon, then the Holy Spirit, obviously, I don't know. We've got problems. We have problems right here. We have major problems. We got major problems. We got mayor. And you're preaching line by line, precept upon precept, are you, Because what you're doing is you're allegorizing a text, you're spiritualizing it. You're you're you're saying. Things that are just factually in error and theologically this thing is a mess and HEYI predicted all of this would happen even before we started listening. Came out here to prayce forget to sea red poil.

49:13 I don't mean that, Yes I did, but it's okay. Not only that's a well of the Word of God, that's a well of worship. I want you to know something. This is oat this morning. Some people shouting, some morning people. From raising your hand, some of you raise your hand today of worship, plotle bit. You know what this place ought to be here, I ought to be a place of worship. I tell you what's turned out to me. In some church it's just an entertainment center. All they do is have I Rock Jesus and all this junk. Hey, by the way, I'm not against new music loss. I'm not against I ain't fighting against that. But I am fighting. Against this rock Jesus and some of this stupidity that's going on. By the way, we need to come in worship and get good, wholesome music, good preacher and price God.

50:03 Do you not hear the irony all this stupid stuff. He's condemning some of this stupid stuff. Are we getting preaching here? Are we getting the text? Are we getting an understanding of Genesis twenty six in any meaningful way. We just had the church elevated above Christ. I know that wasn't the intention, but that's kind of what just happened. We've been things have been allegorized. Not the case. It's over spiritualization. Everything AI said, what's going to happen is happening. So you're gonna condemn other stupid stuff. These other churches are, well, you get other churches, give entertainment.

50:46 You do what you're doing. How do we measure which one is the good one? Which one is the bad one? Oh? Yeah, I'm preaching. And also it said, well of witness, I want you to know this church is a witness, you know, And let me tell you one of the reasons. I noticed that witness two times this week. It was tough because nobody was here about Jared's going and it was a little tough. There's people hear what they've done, called and needed a little something. You know. What they said to me lost two times. I don't know if they's told them the same people. They said, we know something about your church that y'all love people. And I said, well, I said, well who told you that we love people.

51:44 And you know what that travel gas station's down here? What you call it? Pa pa ta? I don't go there, so I don't even know what's called. But evidently there's somebody down there. Thanks y'all something and thanks his church doing something. Did This is a sermon on Genesis twenty six. Ladies and gentlemen. What in the world is happening? What is going on? I don't even man, man, man, I don't know anymore. I don't Okay, well, we just got to finish this. I oh, man, well, and.

52:43 I said, I don't know where Satan's going to upear. He's only got like ten minutes left. I don't know where he's gonna have to throw in Satan here. Quickly because uh that he's got like ten minutes. And they send him down here and I try to help him, help every hey. But we do our best. You know why, this is an oasis? Mark fist down. You're marked fist down any time, are y'all listen? God's blessing and you're getting fresh water out of the way. Mark it down. The devil's gonna try faud dirt in it. Oh yeah, you listen to me.

53:29 I don't want to be a killed joy tonight. But I'm just gonna tell you something that the enemy wants to throw dirt and what's happened that Tays Valley Baptist Church, Because what's happened that tays Value Bade Church ain't happening everywhere. But see, the church is not the source of the refreshment and the peace and all of that. So if Satan throws all the dirt and the world into the church and stops up the Church, the refreshment and the blessing and the revival and all of that, it flows from Christ, not the Church. So Satan can't stop all of these things coming from Christ. That's because in Christ, I have all spiritual blessings. In Christ, I have peace in Christ. Oh, the whole.

54:10 Thing logically is just falling completely apart. If you make the church the source of it, then yes, Satan stops up the Church, then that stops the. Flow of all of these things. Well that's that. It is basically Catholic theology. You have to have the church. Without the Church, there is no salvation. We can go back to some famous quotes in Catholic history about this. This is this is just form of Catholicism, Oh man alive. If the church has stopped up, if the church is burnt to the ground, if there's not a church anywhere, the blessings, the peace, the rest, the refreshment, the revival, all of that does not stop because it flows from Christ, not the church.

55:04 Most churches here don't even have church tonight, but to stop the cause of snow, they never have it. Aren't you glad you got an oasis to come? Well, you're gonna hear the word of God. Man worship sim songs, you sang hoes to choss. I'm aout ready to shout my head off. Is this an oasis where you're coming to hear the word of God? Because we're yet to hear anything about Genesis twenty six? What is the word that's being preached? Ai? I guarantee you AI could break down Genesis twenty. Six far better than what we are given. AI could break down Genesis twenty six and a chapter, summary, method, a chapter, and now anything I want about Genesis twenty six, AI can give me within five seconds.

56:00 I came to wash up, but I want you to notice something. I want you to hear this. The enemy wants to throw dirt Tay's Valley. Baptists are well. But look at verse fourteen and see why they wanted to throw dirt and the devil wants to throw dirt. The Bible says this, and the phyllis you know why they've done it that, and the Philistines envy them. You what bothers me? Why are churches jealous of other churches? I pray for every church that preaches the. Bible and uses the King James. Now all the rest of them, my kind Lord, help him you can.

56:47 But I want you to know a good, solid church. I pray for them. I want every independent Baptist church this area succeed. Amen, But I want to tell you what you said. You really believe it? Devil enmies, Oh my God. Verses one Peter says, the angels desire and they was talking. The contest is talking about joy and the angels desire. And look into it, and the devil was an angel. Uh huh, Amen. I tell you we don't want to lose what we got here. It's precious, it's powerful. Hey, by the way, it's worked over the generations. I've been here forty six years. I can't remember a year. God hadn't blessed us. I can't remember a time God had blessed us. I Hey, listen to God blessing this place.

57:37 He is, but don't watch out, because he wants to stop it up, and not just to us, every church around. Now, let me give you three things and I'll be done. So Satan wants to stop up the church because the church is the source of all this stuff. Because if he stops at the church, we don't have. Access to Oh that's the problems. See, this is what happens when you spiritualize the text that has nothing to do with the church, nothing to do with Satan. It has something to do with a physical well, a physical basically a fleshly, earthly dispute over territory and resources.

58:19 And you're going to turn it into this spiritual metaphor. Once you turn it into the spiritual metaphor philologically, then everything becomes a train wreck. This is a train wreck phiologically because you're now making the church the source of all these things that the scripture say comes from God, not the church. And we can get into the whole thing about Satan. Satan wants to fill in the church with dirt because he envies us somehow. Even AI says there is no direct biblical evidence that Satan envies humans or the church. But I guess we can just make that assumption. We don't need the Bible, but hey, we come to this church because it's an oasis.

59:00 We can hear the Bible preached. I think I could have said in the parking lot, asked Ai five questions about Genesis twenty six, and drove off and would have heard the Bible preach better than this. That's my whole issue. That's why I keep pointing this whole AI thing out, because AI is for the first It's giving us the tool to really demonstrate what I've been saying over and over. Is the church really worth anything? When you take all of the money, all the effort to keep it going, and this and over and over and over, what you get handed to you from. The pulpit is I don't even know how to classify it.

59:41 I'm doing, Am I all right? I'm promising, I'm gonna I'm gonna be long. Why or how how does the devil get it stopped up? Why are you worrying about going long? If the church is just oasis in this place of ref freshmen and revival. Nobody wants to leave. Don't worry about how long you go preach for ten hours? Oh wait, I bet you the people will want to go home and find refreshment. And yeah, okay, all right, now they'll don't don't even get me started to see that when you over spiritualize things. All right, but he's going to give us these points. I know we're at an hour, but hey, come on, let's see. Lets let's I mean, we're this close. Let's finish this up. So how does Satan stop? How does Satan stop.

1:00:26 Up the church? All right? This, oh boy, this has nothing to do with Genesis twenty six, But let's see how Satan stops up to church. Is he going to base it off Genesis twenty six? If he is, this is just this is literally an annihilation of the text. If if that's where he's going to go? Here stuff, how would you by the way, this building's not the church you are, So how does he stop your whale up? Okay? Wait, the church is not the church. You are the church. So you are the source. See where this is not falling apart? If the church is the is the oasis. If the church is the source of revival and refreshment.

1:01:09 And you are the church, then you are the source of the revival and the refreshment, not God. Now this just becomes even a major The logical fallacies in this thing are so bad. The church is an oasis, the church is a source of revival and refreshment. You come to the church. Oh, but you're no the building, not the church, You're the church. Well, if you're the church and you're the source of all these things, then I guess I have to go to you, like what is. I don't even understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. Okay, I gotta finish this. I just I just want to quit right now.

1:01:51 I'll show you number one. When you are more concerned with the world than you are with God, will you look at Genesis chapter twenty six and verse one. This is a this is this, And there was a famine in the land besides the first famine that was member when in the days of Abraham and Isaac went into a blimelech king of the Philistines under Jowar. And look at verse number six. Now he's so turned there at first verse number six and Isaac dwelt in jowar.

1:02:33 Y'all want to know why the well. Got stopped up. Instead of Isaac being near the well, he is out in the world because he thought his supply came from the world and there was a famine. And by the way, his daddy. Done the same thing. And that's why we got the Ishmaelites and this Palestinian confusion. That's just because of Abraham's uh went out without faith. Somebody helped me preach. Not only. It's bad enough that you make decisions to stay away from church because of circumstances we aught to shoot down.

1:03:22 Were not shooting by axplush, you said, But we are to every one of these people that told us all this stuff about COVID to stay out church, they're all knuckleheads. No for crying out loud, I don't even know where to begin this. And now, wait, So the church is the source for all this stuff, But you're the church, But you need to come to church. But why do I need to come to church if I'm the source of all of this? Oh, and now everyone who said anything about COVID is a knucklehead, because you know he knows more than all of those knuckleheads, all those all those knuckles. Hey uh.

1:04:02 Any, Okay, you know what you're saying now, Now I know it's helping you afing, you're you know what you're saying now, masks that ever helped you, all that stuff ever helped you? What's quiet? Even here. You said wild thoughts help me. Oh so now we're gonna get into the stuff about mask. Oh okay, this. Is preaching, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just gonna stop there because now I have to guess what.

1:04:44 I have to go look up and try to show you what masks could and couldn't do. And all the I worked in the medical world twenty two stinking years, we use mask for all kinds of things. Okay, but okay, oh man, so that's preaching. Everyone else is a knucklehead, But he's not a knucklehead. No, they everyone else is a knucklehead. Everyone else doesn't understand everyone else, but he understands. Even though he just destroyed Genesis chapter twenty six beyond any record, they can't even be recognized anymore. What he did to Genesis twenty six, he utterly annihilated it, destroyed it and the philological implications all over the place, and AI predicted all of this.

1:05:39 AI predicted all of this. AI gave me if I go here, if I go all the way back up, AI gave me so much stuff here, hang on, here we go. AI gave me this is what AI said. If I can go back, I got things. Here's a list of questions and critiques you can use to evaluate the sermon on Genesis twenty six Historical context? Does the preacher explain the historical significance of wells in Isaac's time as a source of life, wealth, and territorial claims? No, he did not do that. To any specificity. He may have mentioned it briefly, but nothing. In any case. Are the actions of the Philistines explained in their historical contexts as a territorial or political dispute? Or are they over spiritualized?

1:06:23 Well, guess what they do? They over spiritualize this. Does the sermon address the author's intent and including this account of Isaac's wells showing God's covenant, faithfulness to Isaac and securing the land promised to Abraham. Not in anything that we heard, he didn't do any of that. Is there a clear explanation of the broader narrative within Genesis, such as how the story fits into the covenant promises. Absolutely, we didn't hear anything of that. Are any words or phrases in the text taken out of context or redefined to fit a spiritual allegorical meaning? That's all the sermon was. Does the preacher stay within the text of Genesis twenty six or do they introduce unrelated passages or concept to support their points that's all the sermon did. Does the sermon emphasize God's faithfulness to his covenant never even spoken of?

1:07:07 Is there any acknowledgment of the philological significant of the abem Covenant never even spoken of? Is Satan introduced into the text without biblical support? Does the preacher provide evidence for why the philistine's action should be interpreted as a Satanic attack? How does the preacher balance the idea of spiritual opposition with the text, historical and philological context. Are the wells or Isaac himself presented as types of Christ or Salvation without scriptural warrant? Is there a distinction made between legitimate typology grounded in the text and speculative allegory. I mean AI gave me everything to look for. AI said the sermon is going to do all of these things, and said look for this, and look for this, and look for this. Every single thing AI says to look for. The sermon did and AI was to do did all of this within five seconds. And all it needed was the title and the text and knew exactly the.

1:07:57 Train wreck it was going to be. AI. I predicted it to the letter, and it goes on. It probably gives me three more pages of things to look for and consider and to be a to be on the lookout for. How does that even happen? I don't know what to say, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know what to say. I'm reaching. I'm reaching just. An absolute breaking point, like I feel like I'm at the tipping point. I feel like I've been. Pushed to the edge and there's nowhere else to go except over the edge, over the ledge. There's nowhere else to go. I don't know what else to say anymore.

1:08:52 I mean, I have not appreciated the sermon structure for basically ten years now, maybe fifteen years now. I've had issue use with it, and that that the sermon actually keeps people from the text. So we're gonna get into the actual text, and we're not gonna worry about philological allegiance. We're just going to try to figure out the text, figure out the text, and really started changing everything dramatically because I was becoming so bothered and this is just bringing it. Now. We have a tool that just within seconds can be like what. What what are you doing? What are you doing? I could have right now, I could ask AI for an exegetical, in depth study of Genesis twenty six and guess what it would do.

1:09:39 It would break it down for me instantaneously. I don't, I don't know. How do you what do you do? How does this make you feel? What does it do for you? How do you how does it? How does this impact you? It can't just be me who just has reached kind of like just I'm just exhausted over it. I just don't know what to say or do anymore. I just don't. I give up. I just I give up. I literally I just give up.

1:10:19 I just don't know how to process this anymore. And I know that that sermon right there, the way he handled Genesis twenty six, It's been handled that way fifty million times. I don't I can't even tell you how many sermons I've heard on Genesis twenty six, I've seen it in books, I've heard it. The well. You got to redig your well. The well is your source of spirit? What it just and logically it all falls apart again, So what's the source? Can Satan plug up? Stop God as being the source of refreshment, revival, peace? The whole thing just falls completely apart. Yes, oh man, I give up.

1:11:08 Thanks for listening. Everyone, have a I was gonna say, if you want to have a good day, just don't listen to any sermons. Okay, then that's sad to kind of that's where you kind of get yourself too. I know that's not fair and that's not an, you know, an accurate thing to say, but sometimes I mean, look, we're January the thirteenth, and so far, every time we've put Ai with a sermon, what has been the end result? Every single time? Have a good day.