Sept. 10, 2024

How To Read and Study Pt 3

How To Read and Study Pt 3

We return to an article about how to read and study the bible

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We return to an article about how to read and study the bible

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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

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It is Tuesday, September tenth, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently twelve fifty two pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Albilene, Texas. How is your Sunday? How

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is church on Sunday? Did you hear any new interpretations?

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Did you hear any new new ways and how to

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interpret Mark chapter four in Matthew chapter thirteen? Did you

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hear any of that? Did someone present to you a

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new hypothesis and how to interpret a very important parable?

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Did you hear anything like that on Sunday? Okay, I

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don't know what was going on in your church, but

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right here, not in Abilene, Texas, but in Ovalo, Texas,

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which is not too far from where I'm sitting at

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Victory Baptist Church. Well, that's exactly what happened. I told

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everyone to open their bibles to Mark chapter four, Matthew

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chapter thirteen, and we spent two hours coming up with

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a new way to understand the parable of the sewer,

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a new interpretation. I presented a new hypothesis and how

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to deal with this parable? How did it go? Was it?

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I don't know. I mean I felt pretty good about it.

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I did. I felt I felt pretty good about it.

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To be honest with everyone, I thought that I would

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get a much stronger reaction. I really thought I would

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either get wow, that was really awesome, that makes perfect sense,

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or I would get no, absolutely not. Here are my

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thirteen reasons why your interpretation is trash. I thought I

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would get strong reactions, but I feel like for the

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most part, I kind of got okay, Yeah, right, it

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was good. It was okay. I felt like I didn't

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get too much from it. I really felt like maybe

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it was one of those things you put so much

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work into it, you spend so many hours, you really

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thought the reaction would be stronger at least maybe you

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were hoping for. But either way, whether the reaction was strong,

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whether people care, whether people shrug their shoulders and didn't

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shrug their shoulders, I still think it was valuable because

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I believe there's so much misapplication and twisting and almost

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abusing Mark chapter four in Matthew chapter thirteen. As far

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as the parable, the Sower is concerned that I think

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that it was time for someone to challenge the status

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quo and try to come up with something more workable

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and I feel makes a lot more sense. So that's

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what we've done. Hopefully it's been beneficial. I am going

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to offer a slight modification. All right, so let me

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get you all on the same page. This all started

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because I have a KJV Study Bible sitting right here.

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And in this KGV Study Bible, right before you get

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to Genesis, is an article on how to read and

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study the Bible. In this article, they put forth the idea.

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They put forth the hypothesis. Their philosophy is that when

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it comes to Bible study, if it's going to be effective,

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if you're going to be an effective Bible study, a

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Bible student, and if the Bible study is going to

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be effective in doing anything in your life, then what

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you need to do again, If you're going to be

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an effective Bible student, and if the study itself is

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going to be effectual or effective in your life, if

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anything is really going to work in Bible study, you

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don't begin with your mind. It's not about learning hermeneutical principles.

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It's not learning Bible study methods. No no, no, no, no

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no no. You start with your heart. And according to

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this philosophy, your heart has to be right before the

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Bible will be of any value. If your heart isn't right,

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the Bible won't even get into your heart. It will

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just bounce off. It will not be effective. You won't

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be a good Bible student. In fact, roundabout way, I mean,

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I think it's pretty fair to say this would be

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the logical conclusion. There's no point in even reading your Bible,

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studying your Bible, going to church, or listening to sermons

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because it can't do anything until you get your heart right. Well,

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you do realize then the problem If I have to

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have my heart right for the Bible to be of

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any value to me, Well, then I thought I had.

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I thought it was the Bible that actually changed me,

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and it was the Bible that actually changed the condition

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of my heart. But you're telling me I have to

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get my heart right before the Bible can do anything.

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So then it's not the Bible that changes my heart.

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I change my heart, or well then or God just

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then it becomes all of these questions. And we talked

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about that problem and the thing the scripture they use

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to support their argument. Will mark chapter four, verses three

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through twenty. Mark chapter four, verses three through twenty, where

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we read these words, and I'm going to read it again.

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We've read it countless times. You've supposed to have been

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working on this and reading it over and over and over.

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But let me just read it to you one more time,

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all right. Mark chapter four, verse three from The New

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King James. Listen, Behold, a sower went out to sew,

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and it happened as he sewed that some seed fell

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by the wayside, and the birds of the air came

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and devoured it. Some fell on the stony ground where

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it did not have much earth, and immediately it sprang

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up because it had no depth of earth. But when

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the sun was up, it was scorched. And because it

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had no root, it was root it withered away. And

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some seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew

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up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. But

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other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop

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that sprang up and increased and produced some thirty, some sixty,

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and some one hundred. So they use that to support

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their hypotheses, their theory. The Bible will do, will be

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of no true value until you have well the right ground,

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you have the right soil, and that's your heart. So

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if you get your heart right, then your Bible study

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will be effective. The Bible will be effective and effectual

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in your life. You'll be a good Bible student. If

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you don't get your heart right, it's useless. Well, I

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think that's a horrible interpretation of the parable. Not only that,

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it just makes no sense because you're telling me I

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have to get my heart right without the Bible, because

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the Bible can't help me get my heart right until

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I get my heart right. Well, once I get my

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heart right, I don't need the Bible to help me

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get my heart right, because now my heart's already right,

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and I got it right before I even open the Bible.

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So that makes that ley. It makes literally no sense.

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So I started working on a new interpretation. Simply put,

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we first kind of interpret it. I'll call it a

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more dispensational approach. I think that what this parable is

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doing is it's demonstrating the historical reaction of Israel to

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the message of Christ. I'll just say the message the

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Covenant promises the message of the Kingdom, those promises to Israel,

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those words directly given to Israel, and that this parable

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outlines Israel's response, and we see that in this parable

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it kind of obviously highlights and pictures the response that

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we find in Mark chapter three and Matthew chapter twelve.

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And most of that response is spoken of is by

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those who are who are the religious leaders of Israel

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or the Jews at the time. So I think this

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parable what it demonstrates is that from the time of

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the Exodus all the way to the time all of

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those Covenant promises will be fulfilled to Israel, they will

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be restored, they will be in the land. Until then,

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they are going to demonstrate and they have demonstry well

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these responses as pictured by the different soils. Sometimes they've

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demonstrated a very hard heart and in a sense God's

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promises and messages just bounced off of them. Sometimes they

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demonstrated that they were the stony ground and they did

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not have much earth, and immediately it sprang up because

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it had its and immediately it sprang up because it

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had no death of earth. But when the sun was up,

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it scorched him because it had no root. It withered away.

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Sometimes we see Israel responding positively, yes, we will obey,

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and then immediately it falls away. We see that even

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when they were given the Ten commandments, we will obey

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everything you say. And then what was it, twenty minutes

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later they were taking off their clothes and running around

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a golden calf. Right, so we see that a feed

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and some seed fell among the thorns, and it grew

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up and choked it. Well, we see many times Israel

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is distracted and the thorns growing up around it jokes

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out their commitment and following God. And then sometimes and

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I think ultimately we'll see Israel the ground will be

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perfectly tilled, they will be fruitful. And that sounds like

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all of the blessings spoken of about Israel and the

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New Covenant. And that's when they are restored. They in

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a sense, the Israel's revived, restored, and now they are

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blessed and they are fruitful, and all of that language

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sounds like language in Ezekiel and Jeremiah about the New Covenant.

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So I think ultimately that's where it will be fulfilled.

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I said, for us, we're very similar to Israel. Right,

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we have been set free from the bondage of sin,

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in this way, we are no longer under the condemnation

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of sin. We're no longer the guilt and the condemnation

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of sin has been removed in Christ Jesus, we still

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struggle with the power of sin. And don't tell me

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we've been set free from the power of sin practically,

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because if we've been set free from the power of

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sin practice, well then we should be perfect. And you say, well, no,

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we're not perfect. Well then what's keeping me from being

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perfect is in control, which would be sin. Therefore, I've

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not been set free from the power of sin. So

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we have been set free in part positionally. Practically we

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have it. And so guess what happens to us throughout

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our entire Christian life. Sometimes we're the hard ground, Sometimes

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we're the stony place, sometimes the thorns this and we

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ultimately will be fruitful when we step into eternity with

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a new body, and we will become like him and

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then all things will be fruitful. And so I put

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that in glorification as well as a being applicable to us.

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So the only thing I want to do before we

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move on, and I'm going to talk about this a

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little bit on Sunday and I'm going to give this

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as an assignment. I believe all of these soils. I

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think three of them represent how we live out our

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Christian life on a regular consistent basis. Sometimes we're in

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the thorns, sometimes we're the stony place. Sometimes we're the

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hard heart, and I think that that is true. So

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the only modification I'm going to make I do believe

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also that the thirty sixty one hundredfold fruit can also

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occur to some level in our lives. Even before Glorification

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or even before Israel and their history, there were times

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they were fruitful before the actual fulfillment of the New Covenant.

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So I think that there all four represents well for

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Israel things that had happened right that they were, they

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represented all of those. Ultimately, the fruitfulness will be fulfilled

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in the New Covenant when they're in the land and

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all the promises. And for us, these four soils represent

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our Christian life to some level, through different stages, different periods,

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different times, maybe within even different days in the same week.

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Sometimes we're hard, sometimes the heart we have the hard heart.

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Sometimes we're in the stony place, sometimes we're among the thorns,

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and sometimes there's fruitfulness in our Christian life, but ultimately

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the fruitfulness will be fulfilled in glorification. That's the only

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modification I would make is that I think there is

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some sense of fruitfulness even before glorification. I emphasize the

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glorification part, or the fulfillment of the New Covenant part.

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But I think in Israel's history there was times they

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appeared to be fruitful, and in our Christian life there's

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times we appear to be fruitful to some level. That's

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the only modification I would make. Now here is my challenge.

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Here is my challenge. What I want you to do

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is I want you to start considering from Genesis to Revelation.

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I want you to find examples, stories, narratives of people

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in the Bible who would be considered a believer, a

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follower of God, a follower of Christ. Yet in their

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lives they demonstrate these soils, right, hardness of heart, words,

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just not penetrating stony place. Oh it appears to but

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then it kind of just burns away, it withers away.

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Next everything seems to be going good, but the thorns

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seem to choke it out. And then some level of fruitfulness.

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Find believers, those who would be considered believers who demonstrate

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these soils. Right, so find the believer, give me the

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passage of this is the believer, this is the person.

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Here's what happened that demonstrates this soil. And what you're

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going to see is that those soils represent all of

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our Christian lives. We all go through different stages. There

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are times where we just won't lit, we don't listen

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to God's word. It's just bouncing off our heart. Is

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hard it is, it's just it's not receptive and any

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way shape or form. And then there's times where it, wow, yes,

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I'm excited, yes, and then it just just withers away

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quickly fast, and we're like, what happened? And then there's

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times where we're right there amongst the thorns and it's

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choking it out because of the cares of this life,

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and it happens, and sometimes there's periods of fruitfulness. So

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your assignment is very simple, very simple. Find examples of

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people in the Bible who demonstrate this, and maybe be

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one individual that in the complete narrative of their lives,

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you see, Wow, there's a little bit of hardness, and oh,

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there's a little bit of this, and there's a little

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bit of this, and there's a little bit of this,

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because I think that's our lives. Our lives are not

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we sometimes want to reduce our lives a very one

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dimensional one is very simple. You're always this way or

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always that way. You know, you're not always one way.

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going going through stages. It can happen in a week.

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you're approaching, and think about spiritual things and the Bible

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and church, and then how sometimes things can change drastically

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within just a few weeks. That's what I want you

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to do. I want you to to try to picture.

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I want you to demonstrate that this is the existence,

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that those soils represent the existence of Christians throughout their lives.

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I know we like everything to be it's this stage

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and then everything changed. It's never that simple, you know why,

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that depravity, that sin and just being a human being

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with emotions and and all the things and all the

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circumstances we face in life. We're going to go through

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these stages. I think that's at or interpretation of the parable,

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all right, I think primarily Israel's where you need to look.

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I think that's where you need to look first, and

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then I think it represents their history. And then ultimately,

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when you read again the New Testament promises in Ezekiel

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and Jeremiah, which that covenant has made with the House

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of Israel and the House of Judas, clearly Israel, that

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fruitfulness sounds very much like the promises made in Deuteronomy

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twenty eight to thirty. We can go on Ezekiel what

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thirty six? I believe we talked about it on Sunday,

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So that's your assignment, all right. Now, that means we

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then have concluded looking at the section where in this

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article how to read and study the Bible, they say

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begin with the heart, and they go through the parable,

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and they apply it to basically being a good Bible student.

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they have demonstrated, and I do believe then it leads

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to a very compli cad mess where a convoluted mess.

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Forget complicated, it's just convoluted, where the the Bible will

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be of no value to you until you get your

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heart right. But then you have to get your heart

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right without the Bible, because the Bible doesn't get your

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heart right. So then the Bible it just really becomes

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very broken. Now, after all of that, we turn the

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page and the article now moves to motivations. Right, so

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we've read the introduction, We've read their little paragraph or

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section on why to spend time in the Bible. We

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began we looked at their concept of beginning with the heart.

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I'm going to argue you begin with the mind. If

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you want to be a good and effectual Bible student,

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you want the Bible study to be effective, you begin

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with the mind. You have to know the rules of interpretation,

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you have to know hermeneutical principles, you have to know

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how to handle the text of Scripture. Right, I say

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you begin with your mind. You don't begin with your heart,

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because their entire premise makes no sense. Now this means

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we move to the section entitled motivations. Motivations. Now, please

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note how they begin this section. Once our hearts are

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receptive to the word, we can hear the motivations offered

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us in Scripture among other motives we read in the Bible.

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So even they can they double down Hey, look, before

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we even read these scriptures about what should motivate us

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to read the Bible, Well, we can't even hear or

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really understand those motivations until we get our heart right.

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So it's like basically saying, don't even continue reading these

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scriptures I'm about to give you unless you get your

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heart right. Don't get your heart right, then you can

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study the Bible. Then you can learn how to study

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the Bible. There's no point in even listening to reading

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the rest of this article unless you get your heart right.

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It's a very strange perspective. It's like you have to

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get your heart right, and the Bible will not help

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you get your heart right because the Bible can't do

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anything for you until you get your heart right. It

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is a very strange hypotheses that they put through. And

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I know they would say, well, that's not exactly what

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we're saying, but it's clearly what they're saying, so I

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know they would try to well they would probably just

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contradict themselves, but I mean, just listen to the read

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that once our hearts are receptive to the word, we

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can hear the motivations offered us in scripture. We can't

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even hear what the scriptures are saying until we get

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our heart right. You've got to get your heart right.

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We're in so much trouble. And what do you mean

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get your heart right? Like, I don't know what that means.

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that it's perfect, or just we get to get it

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right fifty per If I get my heart write fifty percent,

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then do I only hear fifty percent of scripture? Like

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the whole thing just falls apart. But here they want

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to give us. Are you ready for this? They want

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to give us one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

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ten motivations to get you to buy a Bible, own

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a Bible, read a Bible, and study a Bible. Right,

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here's their motivations. You're ready. There's a lot of scripture

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they are going to provide. So here we go. Here's

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the motivations for why we should read and study the Bible.

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Now again their philosophies. You begin with the heart, I say,

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you begin with the mind. We then we spend all

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of that time working on Mark chapter four three through

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what thirty I think, but Mark chapter four, Matthew chapter thirteen.

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in actual Bible study. So that's how this all fits together.

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Motivation number one. They want us to go to Psalm

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one nineteen Psalm one nineteen and they want us to

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go to verse one hundred and eleven. All right, here

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we go, Psalm one nineteen one eleven. Your testimonies I

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have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the

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rejoicing of my heart. I'm gonna grab a different translation

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Psalm one nineteen, one eleven. Psalm one nineteen one eleven.

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Is this Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever,

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for they are the rejoicing of my heart? All right,

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so pretty similar. That was the King James and the

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new King James. Let me read it to you one

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more time. Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,

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for they his testimonies, which is a term referring to

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God's word. They for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Now,

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this is the way they describe this motivation. You are

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motivated to read and study the Bible to experience consistent joy.

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If you want consistent joy, you read and study your Bible.

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Now is that what Psalm one nineteen eleven is saying.

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Is that what it is saying, let's do a little

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work on it. Let's do a little bit of work. See,

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this is going to take us forever to get through

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this section because we're gonna have to look at all

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these scriptures and then immediately what are we going to do.

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We're going to do Bible study? Right, So, in an

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article about how to study the Bible, we are challenging

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how they're actually using scripture, and so far this article

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is demonstrated a complete misunderstanding and how to actually study

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the Bible, even though it's supposed to be teaching you

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how to do it. I find that a little bit ironic. Right, Hey,

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here's an article about how to read and study the Bible,

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and we're using the article to demonstrate this is not

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how you read and study the Bible. All right, But

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let's do a little bit of work, all right. So

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I'm gonna I'm gonna ask see, I'm going to do

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a little bit of work here, I'm gonna put I'm

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gonna do. I'm going to use chat chat GPT is

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what I'm going to use here. Uh see, here, some

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one nineteen one eleven. All right, I'm going to do it.

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Wait here for it to do everything it needs to do. Here,

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hopefully we can get some answers here. All right, we

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don't need that part, for they are the joy of

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my heart. This part of the verse reveals the emotional

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connection between the Sawmist and God's word. The law isn't

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seen as a burden, but as a source of deep

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joy and fulfillment. The Sawmist finds the greatest delight in

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God's commandments because they align with God's will and bring

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him closer to God. All right, Okay, see now, I'm

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all right. They kind of went that direction, but not exactly.

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I'm gonna read it again. I'm going to read it again,

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all right, So remember the study Bible is telling me.

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This article is telling me, why should you read and

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study your Bible? Because it will bring you will experience

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consistent joy. So it takes this motivation and basically makes

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it a promise you. Why do you read and study

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your Bible? You will have consistent joy. It makes it

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almost a dogmatic promise for your life. I want you

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to read it again. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm

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having a little bit of trouble here, all right, some

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one nineteen one eleven, not obviously some verse eleven, one eleven,

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someone not verse eleven, verse one eleven, p One nineteen

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one eleven. I keep wanting to go to some one

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nineteen eleven because obviously it's a very famous verse. So

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I keep wanting to go back to that some one

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nineteen one eleven. Your testimonies have I taken as heritage forever,

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for they are the rejoicing of my heart. I don't

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think it's a promise. I think it's a declaration. The

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Samis is saying, they your testimonies, they are the rejoicing

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of my heart. That I have a they I find

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joy in them. I don't think it's a guarantee that

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you and I will have the same emotional response. I

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think it's simply seeing the sawmist is saying I rejoice

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in them. I find rejoicing in them. I don't know

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if we can make this a promise, all right. In fact,

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I'm gonna challenge it. See, would it be incorrect.

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To claim the joy expressed is a guarantee for every believer.

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what it says here. Okay, yes, sorry, so chat GPT

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seems to agree with me. It says it would be

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incorrect to claim that the joy we expressed in Some

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one nineteen one eleven is a guaranteed universal experience for

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every believer whenever they read, study, or meditating in the Bible.

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While Some one nineteen emphasizes the salmist personal joy and

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delighting God's word, several factors show why the joy may

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not always be felt by every believer in every circumstances.

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Varied emotional responses to scripture, different life circumstances, People approach

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scripture in different emotional states. Someone dealing with grief, confusion,

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or doubt may not immediately experience joy when reading the Bible. Instead,

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they may encounter other emotions like lament, conviction, or even frustration.

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are meant to produce joy in the moment. Some passages

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bring conviction, correction, or sadness, or for example, you have

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passages of judgment or lament. While joy may eventually follow

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repentance or growth, the immediate feeling may not be joyful.

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Here they go on. So the chat GPT immediately pushes

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back on this idea. I'm pushing back on it, and

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just the way it's read, For they are the rejoicing

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of my heart. He's speaking of himself. The psalmist is

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speaking of themselves. Hey, they bring me joy. They may

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bring us joy, they may not. But you can't say, hey,

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the motivation is Listen to how the motivation is written

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to experience consistent joy. See, this is the idea. This

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is where you stand before the pulpit. Ladies and gentlemen.

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you just take your Bible. You just read it and

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you will be happy. You will have joy. And if

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you don't experience that, it's because something is wrong with

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you spiritually or you're not reading and studying your Bible. Now,

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there may be other scriptures you could use that could

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possibly make some argument that joy should be connected with scripture.

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read these passages where the Psawmist is expressing their personal emotion,

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and then you take that emotion and say boom, this

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is a promise. This is a guarantee. That's bad Bible study.

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It's great that the sawmist found joy, doesn't mean everyone

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will have the same emotional response. That verse some one

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nineteen one eleven is not offering a promise, it's not

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offering a guarantee. It's simply describing the Saalist response that

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he finds joy. Joy would be an acceptable emotional response.

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But it's not a guarantee, at least based on Some

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one nineteen one eleven. Now, we could turn this into

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a you know, an assignment. Find all the verses that

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would seem to indicate that that studying and reading the

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Bible should bring you joy. I me know, we we

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could make it an assignment. I'm not gonna we're not

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to go into that right now. But just once again,

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in an article about how to about how to read

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and study, they're all of their examples so far, they're

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not even I don't know if they know actually how

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to read or study. And I'm not trying to be mean,

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but it's just this is just bad all all the

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way around, right, because what should you do with someone

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nineteen eleven one eleven. You can first you got to

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understand the genre it's poetry, right, so there's going to

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be a poetic element to it. Right. It's very expressive,

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it's very emotional, so you've got to be very careful.

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And in many cases it's simply the samis expressing their emotion.

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It's not always to be taken as now, this is

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what you must do, or this is how it's going

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to happen, or this is a promise, or this is

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a guarantee. A right number two. So the first motivation,

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according to this article is you're going to read and

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study the Bible because you will experience consistent joy. Now

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I would like you, now, I would like for you. You

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don't have to tell me, but I'd like you to

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get very personal, like very very very real. Come on

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personally in your own Christian life. How much consistent joy

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has reading and studying the Bible has has it brought

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to your life? Just be real, just be real. Now,

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you may not be able to say it at church

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because everyone will be like you're a satan, a right,

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who knows what they'll say. So I know in church

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you can't you can't ever be real. You got to

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always be fake in church. But here, you know, it's

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just a podcast, so you can be real. Come on,

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consistent joy that is that you have received in your

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life as a result of reading and studying the Bible. Now,

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whatever that reality is, I just want you to be

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real with it now. Then you can try to struggle

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with why. Why? Why if it's not been consistent joy,

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why I want you to struggle with the reality of that.

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All right? The next the next motivation and the next

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promise here is to sort out our thoughts and motivations.

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So say, one of the reasons we read and study

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the Bible is to sort out our thoughts and motivations,

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and it gives us Hebrews chapter four, verse twelve. Hebrews

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chapter four, verse twelve. Now I think you know exactly

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what we're getting ready to read here, right Hebrews chapter four,

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verse twelve. If I can find Hebrews, they've moved it

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in my Bible. Some conspiracy has happened today. Here we go, Hebrews,

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chapter four, verse twelve. Here we go, Hebrews, chapter four,

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verse twelve. For the Word of God is living and powerful,

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sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even the division

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of soul and spirit, joint andmorrow. And as a discerner

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of the thoughts and the intense of the heart. Now

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I'm getting ready to get it very very frustrated. This

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is the convoluted mess that appears in many Christian books,

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and sometimes it leads me to question my own sanity.

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Their entire premise was you got to get your heart

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right or the Bible will be of no value. Now

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you're telling me that I need to read the Bible

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so that I can understand my thoughts and my motivations,

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because the Bible allows me to see it. It's the

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tool that lets me see in my heart. So I

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can really see what's going on in my heart, and

534
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I can see if my vote motivations are right or

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if my vote motivations are wrong. But I don't need

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the Scripture to help me look into my heart if

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I already got my heart right before I ever study

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the Bible. Because the Bible won't do any good unless

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I already have my heart right. Now you're telling me

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I need the Bible in order to understand my heart, well,

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there would be nothing to understand my heart. How did

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I get my heart right? Like, either my heart is

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right or my heart is not right. Ah, let me

544
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read it again, all right, the Bible, for the Word

545
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of God is living and powerful and sharper than any

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two edged sword, piercing even the division of soul and

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spirit joints tomorrow. And as a discerner of the thoughts

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and intents of the heart, do we Why should we

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be motivated to read and study the Bible? Because the

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Bible is external to you and I. We read it

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so that we can be confronted by something outside of us,

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which we'll confront and try to help us see how

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we're thinking and how we are feeling. That's why I

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reject the concept that God speaks to us inside of us,

555
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because you can't discern that, You can't determine is that you?

556
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Is that God? No, you know what you need. You

557
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need a word outside of you. Now, the word outside

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of you you take and then hopefully it serves as

559
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a mirror and you see, well, I see my thinking,

560
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I see my emotions, I see my desires, I see

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my feelings and their contrary to this word that's outside

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of me. You may not like it, you may disagree

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with it, you may want to reject it. You may

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have a hard heart, whatever the condition of your heart

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may be. But you're going to be confronted with it.

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That's why you need the Word of God to do

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the work in your heart. It's the surgical instrument to

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cut open and expose what's going on in your heart.

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That's why you need the Word of God to fix

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and work on your heart. Oh man, a lot. So

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in the previous section, I got to get my heart right,

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or the word of God will not do any good.

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But I'm motivated to read the Bible because it will

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help me then be able to sort out my thoughts

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and my motivations. Well, I wouldn't have to sort out

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my thoughts and motivations if I already have a right

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heart correct, because my thoughts and motivations should then be right.

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Oh man. Christians love to talk in circles. But this

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is a good motivation. See that first one about consistent joy.

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So here's what I would say. I want I want

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you to ask yourself about, Well, come on, honestly, does

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the Bible bring consistent joy in your life? Come on,

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be honest? And then secondly, what role has the Bible

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played in your life confronting and helping you be able

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to discern your thoughts and your motivations? Has the Bible

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played a big role in your life, allowing you to

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be confronted with oh Man on motivations? Here are not right,

588
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my thoughts are not right? Has it played valuable role there? All? Right?

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Next we'll just do one more. This one has a

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couple of scriptures. Go to Ephesians chapter six, Ephesians chapter six,

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Ephesians chapter six. They want us to read a large

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section here. Pesians chapter six. Start in verse eleven Ephesians

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six eleven. Put on the whole armor of God, that

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you may be able to stand against the wiles of

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the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,

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but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the

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darkness of the age, against spiritual host of wickedness, and

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the heavenly place. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God,

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that you may be able to withstand the in that

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evil day. Having done all the stand stand therefore, having

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girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate

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of righteousness, and having to shod your feet with the

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prespiration preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Above all taking

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the shield of faith with which you will be able

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to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one,

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and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of

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the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Right, so

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they say the first are the not the first The

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first scripture they give for their third point is this,

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we take the scriptures. We are motivated to read the

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scriptures so that we can guard ourselves from sin and error.

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That the Bible will help us guard us from sin

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and error. They also give us First Peter Chapter two,

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First Peter Chapter two, I'm gonna challenge all of this

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First Peter Chapter two, Verse one, therefore laying aside all malice,

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all deceit, hypocrisy. Hang on, there we go. My cover's

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falling off my Bible, therefore laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,

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and evil. Speaking as newborn babes, desire there the desire,

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the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby.

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All right, well, that seems to be more about I'm

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motivated to read the Bible so that I may grow

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so right there that I don't know what this one

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has to do with this one. But they combine these

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two verses to say they combine these two passages the

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Phesian six eleven through seventeen one Peter two one through two,

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and here is their argument. You should be motivated to

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read your Bible because the Bible will guard you from

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sin and error. All right, now, let's think about this.

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David or Moses wrote scripture? Right? The argument is that

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Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. If he

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wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, if

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he wrote those five books, or at least most of them,

633
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all right, obviously he couldn't have recorded his own death.

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But okay, you get the idea. If he wrote most

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of those five books, did it keep him from the

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sin that he committed which kept him from going into

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the Promised Land? He wrote all of that scripture, he

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wrote all of that scripture. Did it keep him from

639
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that sin? David wrote a lot of scripture. Did it

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keep him from adultery? Murder? Cover up? Did it keep

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him from polygamy? So? Did did the scriptures keep Moses

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away from sin? Did the scripture keep David away from sin?

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And we got we could go into David a lot

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of things David did. Right, We're just going with the

645
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big sin. We've got the numbering of the people's situation

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that occurred. We got a lot of situations with David,

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and he had multiple lives. Solomon wrote scripture, right, we

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typically a credit Solomon writing what Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon

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the Proverbs? Did it keep him from sin? Serial adulterer,

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serial polygamist, and an idolater? Paul wrote scripture and he

651
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said the things I want to do I don't do,

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and the things I don't want to do I do.

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He referred to himself as the chief of sinners. Now

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I know what people say, Well, it wasn't actually any sin.

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He just felt that way. Peter wrote scripture, and yet

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he had to be confronted by Paul with error. Hmm,

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So I want you to get really I know I'm

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going to get controversial here, but does the Bible keep

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you from sin? Well? All right, let's just let's go

660
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ahead and throw this out because I think we can.

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We have a starting point here, right. I know this

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is a controversial subject, but we have a starting point.

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We know scripture, no matter how much you read it,

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no matter if you memorize every page of it, we

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know this. It will not keep you from all sin

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because no one can be perfect. So means whatever, however

667
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you think it keeps you from sin, there's a limit

668
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and how much sin it can keep you from because

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nobody can be perfect. I will say I'll just start

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with the scripture be holy as God is holy. But

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that means you have to be perfect. Scripture cannot get

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you to the cannot keep you from sin. That it

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cannot keep you from the sin that keeps you from perfection.

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So then there's a limit to how much sin scripture

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can keep you from. Right, So does scripture actually keep

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you from sin? That is a common thing. Right. There's

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a very famous quote, sin will keep you from the

678
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Bible or the Bible will keep you from sin? Does

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the Bible keep you from sin? I think the Bible

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tells you what sin is. I think the Bible reveals

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your sin. I think the Bible confronts you with your sin.

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I think the Bible condemns your sin. I don't know

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if you can say the Bible keeps you from it.

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The Bible's there to tell you, Hey, your sinful nature

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says do this. The Bible says no, no, no, wrong, wrong, wrong,

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You're guilty in thought word. Indeed, you're guilty by what

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you do and by what you don't do, and your

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only hope is the imputed righteousness of Christ. I don't

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know if you can say it keeps you from sin.

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Read the Bible all day? Just I don't. Well, we're

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already at what we're after new What time is it?

692
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I don't even know what time it is. We're thirty eight,

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all right, No, that's why my stomach is growling. I'm

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starving today. I haven't eaten today. All right, So it's

695
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so forget today, start tomorrow. Tell your boss you can't

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go to work. Twenty four hours. I want you to

697
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stay up. Read your Bible for twenty four hours. Don't

698
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you can eat, But while you're eating listening to it audio,

699
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you don't sleep. Twenty four hours. Read read, read, read, read, read, read, study,

700
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do Bible studies, listen to sermons, memorize. Twenty four hours.

701
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Just that's all you do. And then you let me

702
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know if, well, after twenty four hours you become sinless. Why,

703
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I know you're not going to become sinless, so you're

704
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still going to sind So then how do you measure it?

705
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You said, Well, I stopped doing this. Did you stop

706
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it externally or did you stop it internally? There's a

707
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lot of things I've been able to stop myself from

708
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doing externally, and I can pat myself on the back

709
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and say I'm such a good guy. Internally I'm a

710
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piece of trash. Does the Bible keep you from sin?

711
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I know there's some scriptures that we may use. I

712
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think the Bible condemns it. I think what happens is

713
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the Bible becomes a memes to you knowing not to

714
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do that, and then you try to resist doing it,

715
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and then the idea it keeps us from error. Now

716
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that one is that one sound that one preaches good, Hey,

717
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the Bible. The Bible is the thing that will keep

718
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you from error. Now I used to I would I

719
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:42.960
would preach that content. I would. I would typically use

720
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to say, Biblical illiteracy is the soil in which deception,

721
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:52.960
which error is planted. If you don't know scripture, then

722
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you can be deceived. I do believe there is some

723
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truth to that, but I also have become more cynical

724
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because everyone who picks up a Bible believes that their

725
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understanding is right, and the error is everyone else is

726
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.079
understanding and the other person whom you sing are in error.

727
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They're holding the exact same Bible, the exact same translation,

728
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and they're saying, no, you are in error. But it's

729
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the same Bible. So if the Bible keeps us from error,

730
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then nobody should have any error. But no, but nobody

731
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knows who's in error who's not in error, because everyone

732
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believes their reading of the Bible makes them keeps them

733
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from error, that their understanding is correct. Presbyterians think I'm

734
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wrong because I reject if at baptism. You see the

735
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circular reasoning. It's great to say the Bible will keep

736
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me from error, and then I read the Bible. I'm like,

737
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I'm kept from error. I'm right. Everyone else is wrong. Well,

738
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they have the same Bible, So why isn't the Bible

739
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keeping them from error and having them believe what you believe?

740
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Someone's not right. Presbyterians and Baptists both can't be right

741
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on infant baptism. Baptists and Presbyterians both can't be right

742
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on the structure of the church. Baptist and Lutherans both

743
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can't be right on baptism. Where Lutherans believe it's you know,

744
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it's regenerative, It regenerates it, it turns that baby into

745
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a Christian. It's a means of grace. I mean, go

746
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on and on and on and on. The Calvinists can't

747
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be right, and at the same time the non Calvinists

748
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.360
can be right. They're completely different views of salvation. I mean,

749
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I could go on, but everyone would say the Bible,

750
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the Bible keeps me from error. How is the Bible

751
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keeping us from error if nobody can agree on what

752
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it says? So does the Bible? I want you to

753
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really think about that today. Does the Bible keep you

754
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from sin and keep you from error? I think the

755
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Bible gets I think the Bible is truth, so it

756
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gives us a source of truth and so we can

757
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try to find that truth. So it will help us

758
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in our pursuit against error. But I don't know if

759
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you're going to say in and of itself, it's going

760
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to keep me from error because well, everyone reads it

761
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and thinks they're right, and it keeps you from sin. Well,

762
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if the Bible keeps you from sin and you see

763
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once again, do you see the weird reasoning within the

764
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Christian world? Don't Christian? Does? Your church probably teaches this.

765
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When you become a Christian, you're a new creature. In Christ,

766
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old things have passed away, all things have become new,

767
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And they say that that's true practically. Well, if that's

768
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true practically, I don't need the Bible to keep me

769
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from sin. I'm a new creature. Everything is different. There's

770
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no more sin in me. If all things have become

771
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new and the old is gone, So then why do

772
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I need the Bible to keep me from sin? And remember,

773
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even in this article it says I got to get

774
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my heart right basically before the Bible will be of

775
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any value. Well, why do I need the Bible to

776
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keep me from sin? If my heart's already right, wouldn't

777
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the heart that's in me that's now right, wouldn't it

778
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keep me from sin? Because it's a right heart. So

779
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we have three motivations to experience consistent joy Some one

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nineteen one eleven. I don't think that's a correct reading

781
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of that, but I want you to ask yourself, Come on,

782
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how much consistent joy do you derive from the scriptures.

783
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I know what you're supposed to say, I know the

784
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Church answer. Please just forget the Church answer and just

785
00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:43.199
be real and honest with yourself. Come on, go as

786
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you go, ask your spouse, go ask your kids. Do

787
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:49.400
you think that I'm a happy, joyful person? Come on

788
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:51.519
go ask them do you think I'm just filled with

789
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:54.599
joy and happiness? And what do you think is producing

790
00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:58.639
such happiness and joy? And let them answer and they say, well,

791
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I believe I'm full. I'm consistently joyful because I read

792
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and study the Bible and just look at their their

793
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their their expressions. They may go, they may start laughing

794
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at you. Who knows? How has the Bible played a

795
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role in you understanding your thoughts and your desires? And

796
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number three, how do you process the concept that the

797
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Bible keeps you from sin and keeps you from error.

798
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It guards you from That's the way the article put it,

799
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guard you from. I think I said to keep you

800
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from but to guard yourself from sin and error. But

801
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to guard you means it's keeping it from you. I

802
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think I think that I don't think I was being unfair.

803
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But but I know plenty of we could find sermons

804
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on it that would be making it much more dogmatic,

805
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making it much more dramatic, right like that famous saying

806
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sin will keep you from the Bible the Bible will

807
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keep you from sin. It's that concept. How do you

808
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see the Bible guarding you from sin, guarding you from error?

809
00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:16.800
If the Bible is keeping us from sin and from error,

810
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ladies and gentlemen, then why do you sin? And why

811
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is there so much error in the American Church? Now?

812
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I know when I was a young Christian, the way

813
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is it is because they don't read and they don't study.

814
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If they actually we just read that Bible. Well, obviously

815
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I've now grown enough to realize that was a foolish

816
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thing to say, because they do read and they do study.

817
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What do you think about those motivations and how do

818
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you see them playing in your life? So I have

819
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offered you a little, just a little, a little kind

820
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of modify trying to clean up my interpretation or part

821
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of my interpretation to Mark chapter four. We have called

822
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into question this article's argument that you got to have

823
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:11.320
your heart right before the Bible will be of any value.

824
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We argue you need the Bible for your heart to

825
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have any chance of it's the tools needed to work

826
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:20.840
on your heart. We have looked at their motivation for

827
00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:23.159
why you should read the Bible. Their first one is

828
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:26.599
to experience consistent joy to sort out, second, to sort

829
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:29.360
out your thoughts and motivations, and third to guard ourselves

830
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from sin and error. They have utilized the following scripture

831
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.039
to try to support those points Psalm one, nineteen one eleven.

832
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I don't think that works, that the joy won in

833
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:39.440
any wa should perform number two Hebrews four to twelve,

834
00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:42.000
which I think is a great verse, powerful verse, but

835
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it demonstrates why we need the Bible to do surgery

836
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:48.840
on our heart and our mind. And then they said

837
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that the third motivation is to guard ourselves from sin

838
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and error. Ephesian six eleven through seventeen one, Peter two

839
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one through two. I don't think the scriptures. I don't

840
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think the I don't know if those scriptures really support

841
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.400
that motivation exactly as they have worded it. But I

842
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:09.880
think we have some struggles for exactly what the scriptures

843
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:12.000
do or don't do in regards to guarding us from

844
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:16.320
error and sin. All right, I'm going to stop there.

845
00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:19.119
I could get one more in, but over at fifty

846
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three minutes, we've done a lot. I've tried to summarize it.

847
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.960
I hope it's all made sense. If you want more

848
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:31.599
understanding of my interpretation of Mark four and Matthew thirteen.

849
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:35.599
Please go listen to the two messages that I did

850
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on that right. In fact, I called them me bring

851
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this up really quick. I called them opening up the

852
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church one app I called them parable of the Sewer

853
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:53.320
a New Interpretation Part one and Part two. Please go

854
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.000
listen to them. I could not go back through all

855
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.920
the details of my interpretation. I know I probably oversimplified

856
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:03.800
them in my review, but I just wanted to offer

857
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:10.159
that little bit of modification. Hopefully it made sense. I will,

858
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and I give you an assignment that those four soils,

859
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if they represent different responses in different heart conditions. I

860
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want you to go through the Bible genesister revelation, finding

861
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:26.559
people who would be classified as a believer demonstrating those responses.

862
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.320
Maybe one individual will show all four, maybe one individual

863
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:34.559
will only show two or three. Just find enough individuals

864
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:38.360
that you have one for each soil, and I think

865
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:42.920
you'll be able to demonstrate that as believers, we can

866
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.440
all fall into any of them at any given time.

867
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All right, thanks for listening. Everyone, have a great rest

868
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of their Tuesday. God bless