Aug. 7, 2024

One God Pt 2

One God Pt 2

We conclude our review of a sermon on Ephesians 4:5

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We conclude our review of a sermon on Ephesians 4:5

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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. Ladies and gentlemen.

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I have found my pencil. I have found my pencil.

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Do you remember the last episode? It ended with a cliffhanger,

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where is his pencil? He lost his pencil? Where did

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the pencil go? And you tuned into the same bat

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channel at the same bat time. Okay, I'm pulling from

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the old Batman TV series from the sixties. Okay, all right,

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are the seventies with sixties seventies? I don't remember which

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decade a long time ago, so but yes, I left

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you with a cliffhanger about a pencil. And you know

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why that last episode ended on a cliffhanger about a pencil,

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because I don't know what we did for the rest

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of that hour plus, But it wasn't any discussion about

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Ephesian's chapter, which left me completely frustrated. So I got

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so frustrated I could not find my pencil. But I

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have found it. And it's kind of sad that over

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an hour of teaching it really came down to where

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is his pencil? Not well, that was a great discussion

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about Ephesians. It was very frustrating, and unfortunately we have

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to do a little bit of more. We have to

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do more of that to bring this to some kind

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of conclusion. It's not going to be a satisfying conclusion,

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but I feel that we have to. But before we

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do any of that, I just I knew. I know

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all of you been. You weren't able to sleep last night.

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You're like, I hope he finds his pencil. I hope.

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I know. So now you can be like, yeah, right

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now you can be texting people he found his pencil.

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He found and everybody like, oh, thank goodness, I've been

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up all night worried about it. So you can tell that. Okay,

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I know, and that's ridiculous, and I know I'm being ridiculous,

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but hey, that's so in review, was ridiculous. All right, Okay,

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maybe is that. I'm not trying to be negative, but

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it feels negative. But I say all of that to

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say first, well, I say all of that, but I

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need to actually say this. Good morning everyone. It is Wednesday,

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August the seventh, twenty twenty four. It is currently eleven

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forty three am Central Time, and I am coming to

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you live from the Theology Central studio located right here

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in Albilene, Texas, and it was in this studio where

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the pencil I'm holding it up. I know you can't

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see it, but this pencil was found, So all right,

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so I have that pencil. I have my journal where

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that pencil was supposed to be, but it fell out

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of the journal and rolled under my chair. And when

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I kept looking for it during the live broadcast, I

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couldn't see it because while it was underneath my chair.

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But we we forget all of that. We've got work

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to do. Are you ready? Okay? So everyone remember for

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the Sermons two point zero app sermon Challenge, you're supposed

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to be this week listening to messages from the twenty

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twenty four Salt and Light Conference from Tyler Primitive Baptist Church, Right,

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that's what you were supposed to be doing. So as

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you're doing that, there's thirteen messages. I said that I

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would try to review some of them, right, I mean,

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it'd be great to review all thirteen, but we know

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by the time I did that, it would be twenty

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twenty six. Okay, so in reality, we know that's not possible.

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But I started reviewing the first one and we found ourselves, well,

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at least I found myself very very, very frustrated. Not

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only that, another thing you're supposed to be doing is

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you're supposed to be reading Ephesians chapter four over and

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over and over, and you're also supposed to be trying

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to determine how the contents of Ephesians chapter four relate

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to the things in Ephesians one, two, and three. Because

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I took it upon myself to kind of give you

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a study of the structure of Ephesians. Ephesians one, two,

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and three is still logical exposition. Chapter four, verse one.

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You see the word therefore, and it transitions that therefore

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is a transitional term, a transitional word that transitions us

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from the philological exposition to the practical exposition. So as

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you're reading chapter four, you're supposed to be writing down, Okay,

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this is there because it connects to the philological exposition

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of chapter one or chapter two, and you're supposed to

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be writing down those references. Also, I give you an

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assignment about salt and light. We will get to that

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at some point. Now. The first message, however, that we reviewed,

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deals with one God and one Father. All right, that's

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the first message that we reviewed. After reviewing, I think

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over half of it now he said basically as he

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was getting done with that first half, that it was

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just his introduction. But I can't really his introduction had

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nothing to do with Ephesions. From my estimation, it really

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turned into kind of a discussion about authority and truth

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that Hey, the world out there, they don't have any truth,

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they don't have absolute truth, they don't have any authority,

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but we do. It's the word of God. And I

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challenged that, I think in a very blunt way, in

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a way that a lot of Christians don't like. Well,

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it's easy for us to say that we have the truth,

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it's God's word, But the reality is we do what

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is right in our own eyes and what and the

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reality is we take the Bible and we interpret it

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the way we want and then we say it's right.

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And that's why Christians can't agree on anything. So I

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really challenged his perspective. But the most and the reason

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I had to challenge his perspective is because he really

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wasn't doing anything with Ephesians Chapter four. He wasn't doing

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anything with it. He didn't really He did say that

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this section had something to do with unity, but he

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did not really, he didn't connect it to the word

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therefore and how it connects to chapters one, two, and three.

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It was it was just bizarre. Like I'm still baffled.

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So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to

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offer us a little bit of actual teaching about Ephesians

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four five. Then we'll complete this sermon review. And the

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only reason I even feel obligated, the only reason I

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even feel obligated to finish this, because I definitely don't

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want to, but I feel obligated is because he himself

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said in the sermon that this is all that everything

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we reviewed was just his introduction. So it'd be unfair

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for me to criticize the introduction as having nothing to

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do with Ephesians four when possibly the rest of the

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sermon is going to be this brilliant exposition of Ephesians

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four five, and I would have misrepresented the entire sermon.

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So I feel obligated that we have to finish it.

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But let's do this. Ephesians four, verse five, let's read it.

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I'm reading from the New King James. Are you ready? Ephesians.

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I'm going to go Ephesians four four because I think

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maybe we can't. Actually, I'm gonna go to verse three,

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so I don't think you can. I know that their conference,

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the twenty twenty four Salt and Light Conference, is the

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focus is on verse five. But can you understand five

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without three? Right? Please note you have the word endeavoring

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and verse three endeavoring. Do you see that word endeavoring.

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I'm gonna look this up in the King James. Look,

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this is the New King James. Where's my King James Bible.

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It's over here. I'm gonna reach down. Okay, I'm gonna

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grab it. See if it's the same word. I think

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I think we're gonna I know I'm supposed to be reviewing.

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I think i'm gonna end up all right, well, and

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I think I'm gonna end up just taking over and

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doing this myself. But okay, Ephesians four to three, you

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see the word endeavoring. It's the same word in the

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King James. Ephesians four three endeavoring, the New King James endeavoring.

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All right, so let's look up the word endeavoring. Let's

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let's look this up.

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All right.

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I'm gonna go open up the Blue Letter Bible. App

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I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna. I'm gonna. I want

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to give us some solid teaching because this the sermon

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review is not providing any and I'm not trying to

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be mean. You can draw your own conclusion if you

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think it did wonderful. I think it just I think

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it raised more questions than it did and giving us

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any answers. And it definitely didn't cover anything in Ephesians.

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But endeavoring is this Greek word or it comes from

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this Greek word? You're ready.

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Strongs g forty seven four. Spoo dodzo spoo dodzo, spoo.

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Dodzo, spoo dodso. That's a cool word to say, spoo dodzo,

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spoo dodzo. All right, so I need you right now

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if you have kids around and say, hey, spoo dodzo

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spoo dodso. You can say it to your spouse spoo godso,

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you can say it to your dog, spoo dodso, you

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can say it to your cat spoo dog. You can

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call your friends right now, spoo dodsoh spoo dodso, come on,

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spoo and you gotta slap your hands spoo dodso. And

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why because spoo dodzo means to use speed, to make effort,

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give diligence, to be diligent, to endeavor, to hasten, make haste,

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to exert oneself, endeavor, give diligence. Hey, hey, spoo dodso,

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make haste, hurry up, give diligence, work endeavor. Come on,

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exert oneself, spoo Dodso. If you're homeschooling your kids, spoo dods, oh,

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come on, put forth some effort, make haste, finish that up.

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If someone's in the kitchen cooking for you, spoo dods, oh,

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come on, let's make haste. Let's speed this up. Come on,

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put in some effort. I want that food to taste good,

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spoo Dodso. Now I am really emphasizing that I'm going

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above and beyond. I'm doing overkill, spoo dodso. Why because

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Ephesians one, two, and three is the theological exposition, and

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Ephesians four we have therefore that therefore transitions us to

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now the practical exposition. And look what happens therefore the

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uh their I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you.

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I beseech you, I beg you, I plead with you.

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I challenge you to do what to walk worthy of

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the calling with which you were called? And how are

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you going to walk worthy? Well? You do so with lowliness, gentleness,

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long suffering, bearing with one another in love, speedodzo spoo dodzo,

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spoo dodso, endeavor, make haste, put forth, effort, give due

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diligence to what, spoot dodso to what to keep the

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unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. Put

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forth the effort to maintain unity. Put forth, spoot dodzo.

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Hurry up, put forth effort to maintain unity. Now, so

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what is he doing? Therefore? Then, in verse four, he says,

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there is one body, one spirit, just as you were

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called into, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith,

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one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is

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above all and through all and in you all. Well,

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how do we understand this? And light of the philological exposition,

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it makes perfect sense here and the practical exposition, right, Hey,

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maintain unity, do so, spoot dodzo, put forth, effort, work

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for it, put give it every bit of effort you

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have to maintain the unity within the body. And then

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it seems he's kind of reminding them of the philological reality. Hey,

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why should you do this? Because here is the philological reality. Now.

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I was looking up and trying to see how others

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handled this. So here is what I found. And Ephesians

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four to one. Paul uses the word therefore to mark

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a transition from the philological teachings and the first three

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chapters to the practical applications. In chapters four through six,

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I said the exact same thing. This shift indicates the

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practical instructions are built on the philological foundation laid out

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earlier in the letter, exactly what I stated. Ephesians four

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or five states one Lord, one faith when baptism. To

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interpret and understand these this verse and the context of

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the transition, consider the following points. Unity in the Body

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of Christ. This verse emphasizes the unity that should characterize

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the Christian community. In the early chapters, Paul explains the

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spiritual blessings and unity believers have in Christ. So please

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note see we have and I stated this in the

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last message, but I really want to stress this. Everyone

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needs to get this down. We endeavor we spoo dodzo

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for unity practically because we already are unified in Christ.

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The practical unity flows from the spiritual unity that we

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already possess in Christ. We are one. In Christ. There

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is neither jew gentile. There's not male, there's not female.

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There's not black, there's not white. There's not Texan versus

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someone from some other, you know, inferior state. We're all

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just one. We're all just I know, I made a

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little joke there. Okay, We're all just one. That is true. Positionally,

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we are all righteous, we are all perfect, we are

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all obedient. We're all new. The old is gone. Positionally speaking, practically,

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now we have to endeavor spooddzo. We have to put

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forth work, we have to put forth effort to now

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live out practically what is true philologically, that is the

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that is the Christian life. Like if you want to

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understand the Christian life, the Christian life has two realities.

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all of that. Then there's the practical reality. We are

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not new. We are sinners, we have a sinful nature,

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we are ungodly, we're disobedient. So what we have to

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attempt to do is now live out and practice what

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we are positionally. And this is true even when in

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regards to unity. So so Ephesians four five. This verse

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emphasizes the unity that should characterize that should characterize the

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Christian community and the early chapters Paul explains the spiritual

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blessings and unity. Paul explains the spiritual blessings and unity

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believers have in Christ. In chapter four, he urges believers

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to live in a way that we're lects that unity.

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we don't do a very good job of it, do we.

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at large there is just no unity because we disagree

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on everything the fact, so there's unity in the body

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of Christ. This this goes on to talk about one Lord.

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means recognizing Jesus as being Lord and reinforcing the call

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to unity under his leadership. So the idea, if there

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is one Lord, then we should be all submitted to him.

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He should be Lord, not us. Right, So look, so

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in depth to keep the unity of the spirit and

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the bond of piece. There is one body and one spirit,

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one body, one spirit. But then there is one Lord,

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so we should be surrendering to him. He should be

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the authority one faith. This signifies the shared belief and

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the core doctrines of Christianity. Despite diverse backgrounds and perspectives,

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Christians are united by their common faith in the Gospel message. Now, no,

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we are called to have one faith. We should endeavor

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to have one faith. But we don't. You could say, no, no,

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we believe the essentials. That is completely a lie. Christians

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don't agree on the Gospel. We don't agree on baptism.

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on the word repentance. We don't agree on the Gospel.

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agree that. So the point is that Ephesians four to

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five is saying, hey, guys, this is what you should

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be endeavoring to do. Is we should be endeavoring to

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keep the unity, and we should be living as if

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there is one Lord, one faith, one hope, one baptism,

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and all of those types of We should endeavor to

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live that out right? What is the Greek word class?

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What is the Greek word for today? You're gonna go

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around the house seeing it.

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Today, Strongs g forty seven four. Spoo doodzo, spoo.

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Doodzo, spoo dodzo, spoo dodzo. Come on, spoo Dodso you

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got to slap your hands. You got to really emphasize that.

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Spoo dods oh, spoo dods Oh, all right. If you

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need your dog to hurry up and go outside, spoo dodso.

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If you need your dog to hurry up and come

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back in, spoo dods so. If you need your kids

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to clean up the room, spood whatever you need, all right,

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we need to put forth effort to be diligent. That's

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what's going on in Avisians four. Now, I did all

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of that in what I don't know, five ten minutes

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now so far. Unfortunately, the sermon we are reviewing after

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I don't know, we spent over an hour and we

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we got nothing. We got nothing, all right, So, and

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some weird reason, he really felt this desire to talk

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about well, nobody out there has truth, and we have truth,

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and here's the authority. He didn't obviously deal with all

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the questions that should be that should come to your mind,

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but maybe he felt an overwhelming desire to talk about

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this even though he's supposed to be preaching on Ephesians

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four five. Look, I've done that. Sometimes I'll sit down

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here to do a broadcast or a podcast and my

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I'm talking about something. It's like it's two separate messages.

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now we're going to get to the actual thing. I

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don't know. I don't know why it's going to happen.

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To remember, when I do these reviews, I don't listen first,

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So you're gonna find out with me. Are you ready?

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All right, Let's hope when this is over today it

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won't be about where is his pencil Today? You're just

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gonna get up and go spoo dods, Oh, spoo dods.

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today is spoo dodsoh just go go around saying it

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all day everywhere, Just spoo dods. So everywhere just you say,

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that's ridiculous. I know it's ridiculous. But you're gonna remember

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Ephesians four or five, well, three, four and five, you're

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now let's see where he takes this. Probably not as

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exciting as spoo dods. So well, let's see.

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each and every one of you in this room, here's

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your first requirement. Love the Lord that God with all

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thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,

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and with all thy strength.

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That is the most baffling there. What does that got

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to do with Ephesians four? What does that got do

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to do with Ephesians For even if you find a

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way to connect it to Ephusians four, let me just

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make sure you may say that is the requirement of

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everyone listening to love the Lord that God with all

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your heart, mind, body, and soul. Even if you tell

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everyone that's their requirement. If you're going to have a

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proper distinction between law and gospel, let me just go

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ahead and tell everyone you will never accomplish it. Therefore

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you are perpetually guilty of that command. That's why you

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need Christ, Jesus. In Christ, you love God with all

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your heart, mind, body and soul. Because Christ loves to

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the Father. That perfect love is imputed to your account.

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practically you do not. So you need the imputed righteousness

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because this is a law that condemns you. It's not

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a law you will ever be able to commit, be

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able to obey. I know Christians teach that you can

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obey it, but I'm telling you you will never love

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God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. You cannot.

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flesh and you still possess a sinful nature. And you

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did not lose that sinful nature in salvation. And anyone

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who teaches you that you did, they are out of

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their ever living mind. Right now, let's continue.

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Mark twelve thirty. That's what we're required to do, just

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to love God. Now if I in this, I think

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my cell phone is running too fast. But anyway, we

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want to talk about one God. We want to talk

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about Father, we want to talk about God being in

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the believer. And lastly, and I hope more importantly, in

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some ways to go along with what Brother Tim said earlier,

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reverence for God, particularly in our worship services. Our text

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declares that there is one God and Father of all,

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who is above all and through all, and in you. All.

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Tewod Corinthians earlier where he talked about God's many and

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Lord's many. But to us there is only one Lord

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and one God. But I direct your attention to Isaiah

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chapter forty three.

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at it as an apologetic. Hey, this this is a

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there's one God. The idea is spooddzo put forth effort

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to maintain unity. And how do we maintain unity is

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by remembering, by understanding, by living as if there is

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This is all. This is all to push and to

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challenge and practically apply this in a in a practical way.

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to people there's one God. No, this is not unapologetic

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to prove there's one God. This is an argument that

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there is only one God? Is God's word Isaiah forty three,

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Lord and my servant, whom I have chosen, that ye

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may know and believe me and understand that I am here.

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be after me. And by the way, I won't have

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time to get into all of this. But this God

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is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God

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I even I am the Lord, and beside me there

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is no Savior. I have declared and have saved, and

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have shown there was no strange God among you. Therefore

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you are my witnesses, Saith the Lord, that I am God.

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Yay before the day was and leave that I am out. Well,

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you could just say I am really, I am He

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before there was any day God was there, I.

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I am just I don't get this, like the whole

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structure of Ephesians is being ignored, the whole, the whole

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like I don't even understand. I really do believe, I

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really do believe that, and I hate to say this,

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I really do believe. I believe the majority of Christians

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who go to church they really don't care if the

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text is even being remotely handled correctly. And sometimes I

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don't even know why people go to you. I don't

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even know why we even have church. I don't because

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I mean, he's speaking at a conference, so he obviously

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is more well known enough to be invited to a conference.

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He's speaking at a conference. I mean, I don't. I don't.

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really put forth the effort in the time to really

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hold to the text and try to figure out the

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text and question the text and challenge the text, that

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you're there's no place for you anymore in Christianity. Because

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I don't, I don't. I just don't understand this, Like

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this is not a personal thing. Look, I'm not saying

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anything he's saying is incorrect. This is not challenging or

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calling someone a heretic, nothing like that. It's just I

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don't understand the approach. This verse literally is all a

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part of this spood dodzo endeavor, endeavor to keep the unity.

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for one, it's connected to this the philological exposition, and one, two,

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and three. Like it has structure, it all fits together.

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There's a logical progression of thought. And then this has

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just been ripped out and it's like, well, I'm gonna

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take these phrases one God and one Father, and we're

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going to make it an apologetic argument for monotheism. This

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is not an argument for monotheism. This is not the

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point here of the text in any way, shape or form.

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Then we'll get to the I am Lord William, and

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there is none that can deliver it out of my hand.

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I will work and who shall let it? And by

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the way, let me pause for just a moment. In

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the midst of all of the chaos and turmoil that's

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going on in this world and in our nation, God's

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still on the throne. It's not out of control with him.

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So look unto the Lord. Looking to the Lord. Don't

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worry about evening news. They'll lie to you. Whether it's

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liberal or conservative, it doesn't matter. Look to God.

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Okay, now I'm getting irritated. Okay, because this has nothing

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to do with Ephesians for none, none. But I am

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sick and tired of Christians constantly saying, don't worry about

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the evening news. They'll lie to you, they'll lie to you. Well,

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if all the news is lying, then how do you

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know anything? Like, I get so sick of Christians with

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their nonsense about fake news, fake news. Stop that political

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talking point. Look, you get information from so right. I'm

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so sick of it. If you don't like the information,

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it's fake news. If you like the information, it's true news.

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you know anything because where are you getting your information from.

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If all news is fake, then you don't know anything

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going You don't know anything going on in the world.

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So stop acting like you know what's going on in

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the world because all the news is fake. If you

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think there's chaos in the world, maybe there's not actually

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00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.319
chaos in the world because all the news reporting it

456
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:33.839
is fake. If everything is fake, then you don't know anything. Man.

457
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.440
I guess so sick of that, so sick of it.

458
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.480
Next time I hear someone say fake news, I'm gonna

459
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:42.640
just leave. I'm gonna I'm gonna find a way to

460
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:50.160
leave the planet. So sick of that. Man. Now, I

461
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:53.839
don't like bias in the news. I don't like when

462
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:57.880
news is misleading. I don't like it. But you can't

463
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:01.319
just say the way this is true. If I don't

464
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:06.960
like it, it's fake. I've seen this play out. If

465
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.559
say someone's a Trump supporter and they're like Trump this

466
00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:12.119
and Trump this and Trump this, and you'll be like, well,

467
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:14.279
this is not actually true and that's not actually true.

468
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:17.079
No fake news. I saw this with the situation in

469
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.200
the Olympics with the boxer. You're like, who whoa wa,

470
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:21.400
Wait a minute, wait a minute, that's not accurate. That

471
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:24.519
that's fake news. That's fake. Oh so it's all fake.

472
00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:28.799
But guess what isn't fake? Your your truth isn't fake.

473
00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:32.839
See what you think is true. See everyone thinks that

474
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.160
what they think is true is right in their own ice.

475
00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.519
Literally this goes right back to my His entire first

476
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:42.400
part of this message was we have one authority, the

477
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.200
Word of God, and the world out there they can't

478
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.599
find truth. Well, when you start saying fake news, fake news,

479
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.359
fake news, well then what but everything you think happens

480
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.200
to be true? See, you make yourself the authority, and

481
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.720
it just becomes this. I get so sick of it

482
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:02.640
that as soon as you don't like what someone If

483
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.000
you state something about Trump and someone's like, well that's

484
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:07.440
not actually true, or that's not actually true. You say

485
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.920
something about a boxer in the Olympics, well that's not

486
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:12.440
actually true and that's not actually true, then immediately it's

487
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:16.319
fake news. Well then you know what, isn't it interesting

488
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:19.319
that what you think is real but what I try

489
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:21.680
to give you is fact is fake because you don't

490
00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.880
like the facts. Do you understand how foolish that makes us?

491
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.200
Do you understand how you know we can't function as

492
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:32.960
a society that way. There are facts, Those facts may

493
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.079
go against your little worldview, and it may lead you

494
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:39.599
to have to apologize for saying all the foolish things

495
00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:42.880
you did, but you won't apologize because you just keep saying, oh,

496
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:45.720
it's fake news. I'm so sick of hearing that. And

497
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.720
what does any of that have to do with Ephesians?

498
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:50.440
For it has literally nothing to do with Ephesians. For

499
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:55.119
I see, the whole reason I started this was like, oh,

500
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:57.839
this is a conference, it's all on Ephesians four. What

501
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.240
a great we can make this a great week by

502
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.839
digging into Ephesians four. And now I've got to sit

503
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:06.839
here and address the whole fake news phenomenon that I'm

504
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.400
so sick of hearing Trump utilized that as a weapon

505
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:15.200
anything he didn't like. Fake news, fake news, everything's fake.

506
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.680
I know every except what you say happens to be true.

507
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.200
Now am I saying every news article is factual? Now

508
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.960
I'm saying everything has to be checked and verified. But

509
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:35.079
we're getting news from some source. We're getting something right.

510
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:40.799
So it requires work. It requires spoo dodzo, make haste,

511
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:44.920
put forth effort, be diligent and looking for information. You know,

512
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:46.839
you can hear my anger there because I'm just so

513
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.720
sick of it, and I'm sick of it being that

514
00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:53.559
concept being promoted from the pulpit, because what you're telling

515
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:58.519
people is don't trust anything. But who can I trust them?

516
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.799
Can I trust him? Can I trust you? As the preacher?

517
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:03.920
Because maybe you're giving me fake news? Who can I trust?

518
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.720
And what almost inevitably it is? You know, people are

519
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.079
trusting things like I don't know. If you're conservative, you

520
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:12.599
only trust Fox News even though they were sued for

521
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:14.799
what a billion dollars and had to pay what seven

522
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:19.200
hundred and something million dollars for their lies about the election.

523
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:21.480
Oh no, no, no, we're not going to do all

524
00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:25.400
the lies Christian media and other media said in regards

525
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:27.480
to the election, where people had to come back and

526
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.440
apologize and correct their mistakes. Look, the thing is is,

527
00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:36.480
you have to get information from multiple sources. But when

528
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.960
you basically create an environment where people don't trust anything

529
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.720
except the sources they choose, and then all of a

530
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:46.799
sudden they inevitably think the the sources they choose are true,

531
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:53.119
it's not that simple. Help people navigate the confusion. Don't

532
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:58.160
perpetuate the very thinking that only leads to misinformation, disinformation,

533
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.039
and people living inside an echo chamber where they can

534
00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:03.559
never be challenged with any facts that contradict their little,

535
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:16.159
tiny worldview. All right, now, I'm frustrated now because see

536
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:18.400
why I didn't even want to do that. I didn't

537
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:20.639
want to do that. I just want Ephesians four. It's

538
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.719
all I'm asking for. Just Ephesians four. It's all I'm

539
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:24.280
asking for.

540
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:25.000
Now.

541
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:29.159
I've already I already, within about ten minutes, I gave

542
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.280
you Ephesians one through three. The structure I gave you four.

543
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:35.159
I gave you the idea of therefore I went back

544
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.320
endeavoring spudadzo. I gave you the Greek word, and just

545
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.119
within a couple of minutes I was able to break

546
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:42.800
it all down for you, and hopefully a meaningful way.

547
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.559
Sad part is, we're supposed to be listening to this,

548
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:47.800
and it's supposed to be about Ephesians four or five.

549
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:56.400
I'll give you one other Isaiah forty four versus six

550
00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:01.280
to eight. Six. They're eight the Lord, the King of

551
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.719
Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts. You know

552
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:09.360
what that Lord of host is. That's the Lord of

553
00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:14.960
all the angelic hosts. He's the lord of it all. Anyway,

554
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:19.840
the Lord of Host. I am the first, and I

555
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:23.159
am the last. And beside me there is no God.

556
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:29.320
There's no god beside this God. He's not a god

557
00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:33.519
above all gods. He's the only God. There's one God,

558
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:39.480
and he has specific kind. He's a particular kind of God.

559
00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:45.000
But anyway, and who as I shall call and shall

560
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.639
declare it and set it in order before me for me,

561
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.360
since I appointed the ancient people, and the things that

562
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:57.880
are coming stop there. The things that are coming, God

563
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:07.079
appointed Justice. God in history prepared history for the first

564
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:11.039
coming of Christ. He's still on the throne. He's preparing

565
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:15.599
history for the second coming. That's another sturbance, studious. You know,

566
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:23.840
brothers act that we could go into and the things

567
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:25.599
that are coming and shall come.

568
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:33.400
I I don't know what to do. I don't know

569
00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:35.559
what to do. I don't know how to analyze. I

570
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:41.280
don't know how to I don't know what to do.

571
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.880
I literally don't know.

572
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.719
What to do. All I can do is, I guess

573
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:50.480
just keep playing a little bit more. I don't think

574
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.800
we're going to finish this because I don't at this point,

575
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.159
I feel like I'm just going to spend the next

576
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.360
I don't know to twenty thirty minutes, how much is left,

577
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.880
thirty five minutes, whatever is left, just basically saying I

578
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:00.199
don't know what to say, I don't know what to do,

579
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.280
and then when he says something when he chases a

580
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:05.599
little rabbit, then kind of address the rabbit. But it's

581
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.079
just getting us further and further away from Ephesians four.

582
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:11.599
So I'm gonna let it play a little bit longer.

583
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:14.400
But I want you to be in Efesians four that's

584
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:15.880
what I want you. I want you to live in

585
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.199
Ephesians four. That's what I want you to do. Now,

586
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:21.119
don't let that stop you from listening to the other

587
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.440
twelve messages in the conference, because maybe the next message

588
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:27.480
you'll be radically different from a different speaker and it'll

589
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.519
get much more into Ephesians four. I'm just very this

590
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.519
is the opening message, really, and I just like there's

591
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:36.400
no discussion of the structure of Ephesians four. There's no

592
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.480
there's no discussion of the actual media context. If you're

593
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.119
going to go to five, you have to go to Spoodadzo.

594
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:49.079
You've got to go to Endeavoring. You gotta go to Endeavoring.

595
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.599
You've got to go there. You have to, I mean,

596
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:55.440
because that's that's literally where the context where this all

597
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:56.000
falls in.

598
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:05.320
Let them show unto them, fear not neither be ye afraid?

599
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:11.280
Have not I told? Have not? I told thee from

600
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:15.840
that time and have declared it. Ye are my witnesses.

601
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:18.239
Is there a God beside me?

602
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:20.440
Yay?

603
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:26.800
There is no God. I know, not any one God.

604
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:33.880
One God. He's one of a kind, He's not one

605
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:40.920
among many. One God. You might look at Isaiah forty

606
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:43.599
five verses five through twelve. I won't take the time.

607
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:47.519
I've got it written down, but there's a lot of others.

608
00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:53.920
You can look them up on your own. And all

609
00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:04.400
life revolves around a philosophy, and your philosophy ultimately refine

610
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:09.480
defines your idea and view of God. And you either

611
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:14.519
believe there's one God or you don't. I don't know

612
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:19.039
what you will believe. I'm assuming that you do, but

613
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:22.719
I asked the questions earlier because I can't assume too much.

614
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:30.079
But you, who are sitting there, you must answer these

615
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:39.639
questions for yourself. Not mother, not daddy, not the preacher,

616
00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:45.719
not the husband, not the wife. You've got to answer

617
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:51.320
that for yourself. You need to know for yourself. You

618
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:55.519
need to have a conscious awareness of what you believe,

619
00:39:56.760 --> 00:40:02.280
not just some vague idea, not just what Tyler Primitive

620
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:09.840
Baptist Church believes, or your particular congregation, but for yourself individual.

621
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:24.000
As Jerome's Ankus put this in fifteen hundred, the will

622
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:28.360
of God is so the cause of all things as

623
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:33.559
to be itself without cause, for nothing can be the

624
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:39.519
cause of that which is the cause of everything. First

625
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.559
time I read that, I had to stop and reread

626
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.559
it for about thirty minutes to let it sink in.

627
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:49.400
But I hope from what I've already said, maybe some

628
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:55.559
of it will sink in. Modern day philosophers and the

629
00:40:55.599 --> 00:41:02.320
movers and shakers, both conservative and liberals, never come to

630
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:07.079
the understanding of how to fix the problem because they've

631
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:15.000
never come to the understanding of one God. And many

632
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.639
conservatives were quote Bible, then make applications from the Bible,

633
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.159
but it's their twisted applications of what they think the

634
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:27.280
Bible means, not what it says.

635
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.559
It's their twisted interpretation of what they think the Bible says.

636
00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:35.760
But it's not what the Bible means. It's not what

637
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:38.880
the Bible means according to what you think it means.

638
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:43.119
Because if they're quoting it and you're questioning their interpretation

639
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:45.679
and twisting of the scripture, how do I know then

640
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:48.360
the year interpretation of the scripture is right. See, it

641
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:52.559
all comes down to everyone's own interpretation. That's what his

642
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.280
whole argument it constantly, Hey, they're twisting the scriptures and

643
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:59.800
they're going and they're offering an interpretation and not what

644
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:06.119
scripture means according to you. According to them, it would

645
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.679
be what the Scripture means according to you, it's not

646
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:16.880
what it means. Does anyone know what it actually means? Now, see,

647
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:19.079
that's a good conversation to have in a lot of

648
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:25.679
effusions for where it's about unity endeavoring. Spidazzo, spudazzo. Let's,

649
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:27.599
in fact, let's just play the Greek word again, because

650
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:29.440
I'll start I mean, I get so frustrated with all

651
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.639
this other stuff, I start saying it incorrectly, so let's

652
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:32.400
say it correctly.

653
00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:39.679
Strongs g. Forty seven four Spudazzo, spudazzo, spidazzo.

654
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:42.760
I was saying it correctly. I think I was. Who knows, spodotzo,

655
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:44.320
but say a lot of that. Hey, we need to

656
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.400
endeavor to keep the unity. Well, how do we keep

657
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.360
the unity when the reality is we are all our

658
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.880
own and own Pope, were our own magisterium, we're our

659
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.199
own interpreter, we're our own everything. So we say, hey,

660
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.360
you're you're twisting the scriptures and you're going gets what

661
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:03.480
they actually say according to who according to me? Well

662
00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:05.440
then someone will look at you and go, no, you're

663
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.000
not going with the script Who gets to determine who's

664
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.719
twisting the scriptures and who gets to determine who's actually

665
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.960
teaching the scriptures correctly. Every individual gets to make that determination.

666
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.239
So then how do we maintain unity and light of

667
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.760
that reality? See that's a good question. Since Ephesians four

668
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:28.280
is about spoodazo, hurry up, make haste and keeping the unity? Well,

669
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.320
how do we keep unity in a situation like that? See,

670
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:34.519
that's a good theological question to discuss. That's a good hermit,

671
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:40.079
that's a good challenge to figure out.

672
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.760
Genish is one. One is not what you think it means,

673
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:52.119
just what it says. What it says.

674
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.360
Well, then it should be simple. Hey, guys, the Bible

675
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.880
it's not what you think it means. It's what it says.

676
00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:04.880
All right, great, all right, we have two thousand years

677
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.400
of church history. Ladies and gentlemen. Baptism is not what

678
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:11.599
you think it means. Is what the Bible says it is? Well,

679
00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:14.199
we can't agree on it, all right. Repentance is not

680
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:15.960
what you think it is, it's what the Bible says. Well,

681
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.239
we don't agree on that. Hey, the Gospel isn't what

682
00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:20.000
you think it is. Well, we don't agree on that.

683
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.719
The Lord's we don't agree on that. Divorce we don't

684
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:26.840
agree on that we don't agree on anything. But hey,

685
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:29.239
hey guys, it's not what you think. It's just what

686
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:37.360
the Bible says. Okay, as he's preaching Ephesians four to five,

687
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.039
not focused on what the text actually says, do you

688
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:43.239
not find that ironic?

689
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And I'm sure that you understand and know that God

690
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is eternal, and God is I Am, and God is Jehovah.

691
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I've got several passages of here, but time is going on,

692
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:12.239
but I want to turn to Exodus, and I'm sure

693
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:16.440
you know the passage well, and your particular minister should

694
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be able to help you with all of this.

695
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But in Exodus, I'm just gonna stop. I wanted to

696
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make it to the end, but I look, obviously people

697
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.039
can do whatever they want with the text, they can.

698
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And if you want to turn effusions four five into

699
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:42.920
I guess an apologetic by saying, hey, there's one God,

700
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:44.320
and we're going to look at all the scriptures that

701
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.639
seem to indicate that there's one God and then the

702
00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:49.440
scriptures of who that God is and utilize it almost

703
00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:53.440
in a category, almost in a kind of catechisis kind

704
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:56.280
of way like you know, hey, hey, how many gods

705
00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:58.320
are there one. Who is this guy? I mean, I

706
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:02.199
don't have my Luther's Small Catechism.

707
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:02.719
Where is it?

708
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:04.199
I don't have it. I think it's probably sitting at

709
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:09.239
the church. Well, he does that exact same thing. How basically,

710
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.239
how many Gods? Who is this God? And it goes

711
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:13.440
through the attributes of the God, the oneness of God,

712
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.960
the eternality of God, the sovereignty of God, all the

713
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.480
attributes of God, communicable and noncommunicable. Okay, I guess, I

714
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.079
mean you have every right to do it that way.

715
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:23.840
You have every right to do it that way. I mean,

716
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.079
that's the way you want to do so. So it's

717
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:35.360
not that he's saying anything that's incorrect, it's just how

718
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:40.400
do you take five and ignore the whole context here,

719
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:47.840
spoo doadzo to keep the unity? You endeavor, you strive,

720
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:50.679
you make haste to keep unity, and that unity, then

721
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.320
that whole thing there has everything to do with five,

722
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:58.400
and five has everything to do with one, two, and three,

723
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:03.880
because for one agains with a transitional term, therefore transitioning

724
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.039
to a practical exposition from the philological exposition in one

725
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:15.480
through through chapters one through three, like do we listen

726
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:19.360
to a little bit more. I'm just gonna I'll let

727
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:20.599
him finish the point that he's on.

728
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This chapter three, when God met with Moses on Mount

729
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:42.159
Sinai in the Burning Bush and verse thirteen, and Moses

730
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:44.599
said into God, behold, when I come and to the

731
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children of Israel, and say it to them, the God

732
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:52.159
of your fathers has sent me unto you, And they

733
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:55.519
shall say to me, what is his name? And what

734
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:00.239
shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses,

735
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I am that I am. And you know what God

736
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:15.480
is today? He still I am hes I am. You

737
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:21.440
see everything going on in history with us is yesterday, today,

738
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:27.440
and tomorrow. But yesterday, today and tomorrow is I am.

739
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:34.239
With God. Everything is now. You say that blows my mind.

740
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:38.920
I can comprehend it. Good if you could comprehend it.

741
00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:42.840
That means God can fit into your cranium. God can

742
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.840
fit into your brain. God can't fit into your brain.

743
00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:50.440
God is bigger than you are. God is bigger than

744
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:53.360
I am. And what God wants us to know about

745
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.880
him is what he has said in his word. You

746
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.760
can ask more questions than I can, and you can

747
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:04.440
ask questions that are not in the Bible. And all

748
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:09.239
I needed to do is say I don't know. I

749
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:14.400
appreach the revelation. Not some years back, one minister said

750
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:17.920
he'd been listening to my sermons about revelation. I said, well,

751
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:20.159
what did you think? He said, you said, I don't

752
00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:26.039
know a lot. I took that as a compliment. You

753
00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:28.239
can say, well, I think it's this. I think it's that.

754
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.440
You can think one thing, I can think another, and

755
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:34.519
both of us may be wrong. But if we'll just

756
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:36.840
take it for what it says and leave it at that,

757
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.679
and say I don't know how it's going to fall out,

758
00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:42.519
just leave it there. Got to take care of his own.

759
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:48.559
He said, what's six sixty six? I don't know, but

760
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:51.519
when it's time for God people to know what it is,

761
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.920
he'll let us know. I believe that. I just leave

762
00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:57.480
it at that. I don't have to worry about it.

763
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.559
I have to figure out the unknown. I have enough

764
00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:14.239
trouble with the non I am. I am. Your preachers

765
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:19.000
can preach a whole lot of things about I am,

766
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:22.119
and I'll just leave it at that. I'm just touching

767
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:28.000
the I'm like a barn swallow flying across a body

768
00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.960
of water that right a load gip barely tipping the

769
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.199
surface of occasionally. For you city folks don't know what

770
00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:38.079
a barn swallow is. I'm just kind of like somebody's

771
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:41.800
skipping along and just kind of hitting the ground occasionally.

772
00:50:52.199 --> 00:51:01.320
But knowing God, I would give you, well, there's too much, uh,

773
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:09.440
I want to give you one verse John seventeen three.

774
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:17.000
Yeah, I don't know it. I don't understand it from

775
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.320
a like what he's said. I'm not what he's saying.

776
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:23.039
It is true, right, I'm not going against that. I

777
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:32.920
just don't understand it would have been better. It would

778
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.880
have been better to structure it this way from my perspective. Tonight,

779
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:39.920
we're going to do a little bit of apologetics. We're

780
00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:43.719
going to start with a basic concept. How many gods

781
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:49.719
are there one God? The Bible declares the oneness of

782
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:54.840
God boom, how many persons are in the godhead? Three?

783
00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:58.960
What are the characteristics and attributes of this God? This

784
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:03.159
God is? And not even worry about Ephesians four other

785
00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:06.920
than maybe go to Ephesians four for the support text

786
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:11.320
of go back to it of there is one God

787
00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:13.840
and one Father of all, using it as a as

788
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:16.960
a support text, but not really say we're dealing with

789
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:20.400
we're working on Ephesians four five, because to work on

790
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:23.880
Ephesians four five, you can't take four five out of

791
00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:27.559
four one, two, three and four, especially three and four,

792
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.599
which is the spoo dadzo is the What are we

793
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:34.480
endeavoring here? For? He even acknowledged that this section was

794
00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:37.599
about unity. He even acknowledged that at the beginning of

795
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:43.000
his sermon, But then somehow that got completely forgotten, and I,

796
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:50.920
I don't understand. So there you go, I hope I've

797
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.480
to help you under What can you take from this? Well,

798
00:52:53.559 --> 00:52:59.119
yesterday we left with a lost pencil. We found it. Unfortunately,

799
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:03.159
that's what we left with. Today we leave with the

800
00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:09.320
Greek words boodadzo, make haste, be diligent, put forth every

801
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:15.920
effort to do what to maintain unity? How can you

802
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:23.039
and I, as Christians maintain unity within a system like

803
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.320
the non Catholic system because we don't have a magisterial authority,

804
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.039
we don't have a pope. How do we maintain unity

805
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:33.800
and a system where you pick up the Bible, you

806
00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:37.800
offer an interpretation, you believe that interpretation is right. Then

807
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:42.039
you judge what everyone believe on the basis of your interpretation.

808
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:44.840
You judge the preaching in your church on the basis

809
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.880
of your interpretation, and you can tell the preacher you're wrong,

810
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:50.000
and you can literally leave that church and go to

811
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:53.559
another church that agrees with your interpretation. And everyone else

812
00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:56.480
interprets the Bible and they say you are wrong, and

813
00:53:56.519 --> 00:53:58.320
you say, no, you are wrong. You say, well, you

814
00:53:58.400 --> 00:53:59.800
just need to go with what the Bible says, and

815
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:01.719
they no, you go with what the Bible. I go

816
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:03.639
with what the Bible says, you don't. And then back

817
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:06.159
and forth, back and forth. How do we maintain any

818
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:13.840
resemblance of unity when everyone is their own pope, everyone

819
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.440
is their own authority. I know you say no, the

820
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:19.719
Bible is the authority. No, your interpretation of the Bible

821
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:25.239
is the authority. That maybe we just leave with that question.

822
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:33.079
I don't know. You can email me.

823
00:54:33.079 --> 00:54:37.840
News if Yahoo dot com news. If it Yahoo dot com,

824
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.360
that's news. I f it yahoo dot com. I do

825
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:43.480
apologize for getting so upset of with a fake news.

826
00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:48.840
Comment, but man, I am so utterly sick of hearing it,

827
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:53.920
especially within the Christian world, because you create an atmosphere where, well,

828
00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:57.880
nobody knows. I can't trust anything. But it's amazing how

829
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:01.480
everyone says everything is fake news, but everyone has an

830
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:04.760
opinion about everything, and they stated as dogmatic fact that

831
00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:07.119
they know. Well, where did you get your information? If

832
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.119
all news is fake? Then where did you get your

833
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:12.719
information to draw those conclusions about You just named the situation,

834
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:17.280
situation in Israel, situation about the Olympics, you just name

835
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:22.079
the situation about the economy, the stock market dropping dramatically.

836
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:26.280
About where do you get your information from? Then how

837
00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:30.000
do you draw these strong conclusions and opinions if all

838
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:34.119
news is fake? Well, no, where you get your news from.

839
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.400
You've determined it that's true, and then anything that disagrees

840
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.599
with your news source is fake. Do you understand how

841
00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:43.840
utterly foolish and illogical and how you cannot you can't

842
00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:47.719
have meaningful conversations and that kind of an environment. The

843
00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:51.760
church should be the last place promoting set idea. And

844
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.639
if the media is full of fake news, well then

845
00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:56.000
what do we do? I Stead of worrying about the

846
00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:58.159
media being full of fake news, let's worry about the

847
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:00.360
church being one of the biggest sources. This is a

848
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:07.480
fake and false and fragile in information. Okay, maybe not

849
00:56:07.519 --> 00:56:09.639
the biggest source, but you get the idea. I hear

850
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:18.880
lots of completely fraugile things from the pulpit constantly. All right,

851
00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:19.880
I don't know what else.

852
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:20.320
I don't.

853
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:25.960
Hey, Ephesians four, it's there. Don't let this distract you

854
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:30.039
from it. Keep working on Ephesians four. I will at

855
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:33.079
least preview the second sermon from the conference and see

856
00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:34.639
if I feel like it's going to go in a

857
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:36.920
better direction, and maybe we'll do some review for there.

858
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:38.679
For now, I'm just going to take a break because

859
00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:41.480
it's been an hour and I don't know. I want to.

860
00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:43.719
I feel like I need to get like fifteen things

861
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:47.119
done today. Now I'm just disheartened and disillusioned and kind

862
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:51.360
of frustrated because I spent almost two hours, well yeah,

863
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:53.400
over two hours, but when I'm talking about moving, like

864
00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:56.920
two and a half hours probably at this point, and

865
00:56:57.159 --> 00:57:11.400
I just I don't I'm going to spoo Dadzo downstairs

866
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:14.199
and try to make the best of my day. All right,

867
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.360
Thanks for listening, God bless