Sept. 23, 2024

Secrets of the Christian Life

Secrets of the Christian Life

A look at the book, Six Secrets of the Christian Life

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A look at the book, Six Secrets of the Christian Life

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Well, do I say it?

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I've been avoiding the word good now for a number

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of broadcasts. Do I say good morning? Or do I

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just say morning? I know, I guess it's expected to

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say good morning, but I don't know if it's a

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good morning yet.

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So I'm just going to say welcome everyone.

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It is Monday, September the twenty third, twenty twenty four,

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It is currently ten thirty nine am Central time, and

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I am coming to you live from the Theology Central

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studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, why have

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I avoided the word good Because I don't know if

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you've been paying attention recently. But there's been a lot

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of things happening that's it's hard to use the word

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good in the midst of right. It's just been sin, sin, failure, failure, scandal, accusations, speculations, judgment,

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crazy comments and lots of videos on YouTube. And obviously

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I'm referring to a very very famous pastor who was

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removed from ministry, and most are saying he has been

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permanently disqualified. Some is saying he has disgraced the name

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of Christ, and I yet I'm not going to use

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the name, even though the name is everywhere, because I'm

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trying not to make it about him and make it

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all about scandal and information and reporting and all the

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ways that I've seen all the other broadcasts on YouTube

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and other places how they've handled it, and it's just

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it's like, Hey, I can get some clicks and downloads

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by mentioning this name, and I'm like, I'm not going

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to do that because I have no desire to do that.

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It's not beneficial to anyone. However, what I want to

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do is, because this thing is being talked about, is

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I would prefer to use this quote unquote scandal, this failure,

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this sin, this painful situation for everyone involved, and try

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to just challenge ourselves, look at ourselves, look at our

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own sin, look at our own failure, and just look

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at sin in general, look at how Christianity handles sin

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or how it doesn't really handle sin very well, how

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Christianity handles failure.

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And we've been talking about it.

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We spent two hours one well actually almost three hours

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if you look at the late night broadcast, so we

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just kind of been talking about all of this, and

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I did a little bit of research, kind of going

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through church history, looking at how Christianity at large just

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tries to handle the reality of sin. I said it Sunday.

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I'm going to say it again. I know it's a

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controversial statement, but I'm going to say it. The Christian

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life is a life of sin. I know that goes

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against all the theology out there because everyone saying no,

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the Christian life is a life of victory. It's a

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life of overcoming sin. And it because we sell it

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that way. But the reality is, deep down, we know

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you and I sin over and over and over and again,

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and and even church history acknowledges that look at the

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majority of Christianity and their worship services, right, they almost

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inevitably they would begin a worship service with a time

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of confession, a general confession. We read one last night.

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Let me just read it again. This is the one

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we used last night. Let me see here, yes, most.

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Let me read it.

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This is a general confession that would be used in

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the opening and the beginning of many worship services.

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Here we go, Are you ready, Merciful.

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God, We confess that we have sinned against you and thought,

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word and deed. By what we have done and by

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what we have left undone, we have not loved you

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with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbors

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as ourselves. We are truly sorry.

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The fact that throughout church history, worship service after worship

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service after worship service at the very beginning or close

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to the beginning, would have a time of general confession

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where everyone is confessing that they have sinned, indicates that Christianity,

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at least on one hand, knows that everyone showing up

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to a worship service has sinned. They have sinned Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

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they probably already send on their way to church, and

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they're going to send after church. We all show up

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to worship as sinners.

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That's the reality.

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Even our worship services, at least throughout church history has.

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Acknowledged that fact.

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Most Christians will acknowledge, well, no one can be perfect,

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which means we are in a perpetual state of sin.

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Most would look at a scripture that says be holy

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as He is holy, and go well, no one's ever

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accomplished that, so we're in a perpetual state of sin.

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Most would look at.

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Scripture that says love God with all your heart, mind, body,

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and soul. I say, well, I'm in a perpetual state

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of sin. You think Christians would acknowledge that. But in

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one hand, we'll kind of acknowledge it. But if you

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look at the way Christianity is typically sold, how it's preached, it's.

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Constantly oh, no, no, no. When you became saved, you

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received a new heart.

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Now that's why we will preach you received a brand

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new heart that's pure, that's clean. At the same time,

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we sing worship songs that say, created me a clean heart. Well,

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wait a minute, why is a Christian asking God to

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create in them a clean heart if we were given

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a new heart in salvation.

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I don't understand the inconsistent.

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And see, on one hand, we say, if anyone is

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in Christ, he's a new creature. All things have passed away,

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all things have become new. Yet well, nobody is going

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to be perfect. We're still going to sin. Well wait

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a minute, why am I sinning? If I'm a new

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creation the old is gone and everything is new. Of course,

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because Christianity doesn't teach that verse as referring to our

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position in Christ, it seems to try to bring that

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over to the everyday practical life. Not our position, but

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our and our practice. And the only problem is, well,

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obviously we're not a new creature with the old things.

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They are gone and everything is new. Because we continue

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to sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, Christianity can't quite figure

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out what to do. It's a lot of contradiction. I mean,

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we know that Christianity on one hand, has to acknowledge

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that sin is consistent. Why because every time you turn

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around someone there is a new conference or a new

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book and how to combat this sin, how to deal

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with this sin, how to fight this, how to deal

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with this, how to deal with this? Wait a minute, Why,

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I thought we have a new heart. I thought we're

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a new creature. I thought the old was gone. We

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wouldn't be having constantly The entire Christian publishing world has

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made billions of dollars selling books on how to overcome

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this sin, how to deal with this sin, how to

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deal with this in, how to combat this, how to

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do this, how to fix this?

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Why?

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Because we're constantly looking for help, because we constantly are

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aware of our sin, even though on one hand we

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seem to act like no, no, no, you've been set

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free from sin. And then when you hear of a

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pastor falling into sin, just start reading the comments. Well,

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all he had to do was ask God to help,

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because God will help him overcome sin. Well, why would

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he need God's help if he has a new heart

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and he's a new creature in the oldest gone like

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it's so weird, And or if you commit certain sin,

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like in this particular case, this pastor who is removed,

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I've seen comments saying, what this proves he was never saved.

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You're like, all right, so I already threw him out

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of the Kingdom of God. It's just it's so.

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It can be maddening, depressing. That's why I refuse to

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use the word good right now.

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Because right now nothing is good.

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It's just depressing and discouraging to watch it unfold. But

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in the midst of all of this, in the midst

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of all of this craziness, I don't know which website

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it was, but it was a website reporting on this

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famous pastor who's been removed from ministry, And of course

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everyone was offering their comments, and someone posted a link

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basically saying what everyone needs is a book entitled six

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Secrets of the Christian Life. Six Secrets of the Christian Life. Now,

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of course, when I saw it, I'm just gonna be

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honest with you. I know, I'm very cynical. I know

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I'm very negative because just sometimes I get so I

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do get tired of this. But as soon as I

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saw I'm like, oh, here we go again. Someone has

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found the secrets to the Christian life. And so because

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there's this failure, the implication is, see, failure wouldn't happen

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if you would learn these six secrets of the Christian Life.

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And I'm like, okay, what are these six secrets? So

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I looked up the book and I'm like, huh, interesting.

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This book was written by Zaye Hodges. Now Zaye Hodges

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would be labeled by especially the pastor who was removed,

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who held to lordship Salvation. Well, he would have said,

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Zaying Hodges is easy believism, and that.

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May go so far as to say as a false teacher.

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All right, but he.

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Would Zaye Hodges would be un known what is what

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is known as the Free Grace movement, all right, some

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would refer to it as easy believism.

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So I'm like, well, this is interesting.

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Zay and Hodges wrote a book on the six Secrets

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of the Christian Life. I wonder what the secrets are. Now,

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I don't like the whole idea I have found the

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secret nobody else has, but I have found this here.

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I don't like that idea. But I'm like, okay, let

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me look at this book. Then I noticed I could

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get it for the kindle for like three dollars.

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All right. Then I noticed it was only like fifty

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five pages.

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I'm like, okay, well this may be at least worthwhile

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looking into. And so I thought I would turn on

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the microphone today tell everyone about it. Well, we'll introduce

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it by looking a little bit at the table of contest.

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It's introduction the prologue, and then we'll look at a

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little bit of the first chapter. And then maybe we'll

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do some some podcasts working through the book to some level.

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Maybe I don't. I'm not going to make any promises

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or guarantee. But the reason I want to do this

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is because, one, it's coming from a different perspective, right,

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It's not coming from the lordship perspective or other theological perspectives.

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It fits right now where you know everyone's talking about sin,

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and well, this man's sin and how we understand sin

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and how we process failure as Christians.

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So six secrets. Hey, hey, people need the six secrets.

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Basically, the implication was, then we can avoid I guess failure.

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I don't know, so.

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I'm like, I'm interested from it from that perspective. So

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in the light of everything going on, I mean, look,

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I don't know about you. I think I think all

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Christians can state this. Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe

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every Christian if presented, hey, here are the secrets to

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the Christian life that will keep you from falling, that

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will keep you from sin, and you basically will be perfect.

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I think everyone would purchase.

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That book, sign up for that class, take that class,

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because there's very few Christians who walk around and just say,

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you know what, I just want to live completely in

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sin and be filled with guilt, shame, and humiliation for

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the rest of my life.

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I think most people would love never to sin again.

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Now, I think the reality is again a proper understanding

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of I think the Gospel and the Bible is the

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Law is there to demonstrate we are never going to

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be without sin, We're always going to be sinners, We're

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always going to fall short. We're always going to be guilty,

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and that's why our only hope is not in trying

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to do better. Our only hope is in the fact

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that Christ died for us, and I am saved by

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his righteousness being accredited to my account, which I have

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now stated so many times. But it feels like modern

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day Christianity has abandoned this truth to some level.

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So what are these six secrets? Again?

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The name of the book is The Six Secrets of

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the Christian Life by Zay Hodges. Again, it can be

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purchased for three dollars for kendall. If you want a paperback,

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it's only six dollars. Again, it's only fifty five pages,

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am not saying these six Secrets are revolutionary is maybe

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some people would would state.

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I'm not saying that these are even real secrets. The

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way the description of the book, there's not much to it.

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grow spiritually by beholding the glory of Jesus and walking

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in the light of the Word of God.

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The key, These are the keys to living a victorious

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Christian life, to growing spiritually. I mean, everyone seems to

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think that they have found the answer. What I find

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interesting is, after all the books have been written, after

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all the sermons have been.

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Christian life is a life of sin. And I still

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don't think Christians know how to deal with that fact.

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don't know how to deal with people falling. We don't

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know how to We just we judge it, we condemn it.

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who sin, we may throw the people who sin under

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the bus. Whatever we may do, we just seem not

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very capable of, Like what do we do?

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So you want to do?

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You want to look a little bit into the book?

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I'm going to open it up on my kindle.

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Am. I'm looking at the cover. Six Secrets written kind

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of green of the Christian Life. That kind of the

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font there is kind of interesting. Six Secrets of the

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Hodges.

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I turned to the next page. It just has six

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Secrets of the of the Christian Life. Six Secrets of

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the Christian Life, Zane Hodges. It just states it again.

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and they put out a number of of of I

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think decent, I think good material. I think everyone should

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at least be should at least hear their teaching, because again,

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Free Grace people, but I which I just hate. I

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think sometime we've got to hear the different perspectives to

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be challenged. All right, So but well, you know we can.

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Then we get to the contents. We have the forward,

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Then we have six basic chapters, right, the Miracle of Resurrection,

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God's marvelous mirror, seeing what we are living in the light.

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one of those sections, interesting enough, is the six Secrets.

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six secrets. Maybe we will look at that in a minute.

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All right, so maybe we'll get to that. But let's

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go to the forward. All right, here we go.

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Here, let's go to the forward. Are you ready?

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Are you ready to hear how this kind of is

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introduced and how this is how this begins?

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All right? Are you ready? Here's how it begins.

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Nearly thirty years ago, I decided I was leaving the pastorate.

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Whoever is writing the forward is saying, look, thirty years ago,

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I was done. I was leaving ministry. I was finished.

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Something was going on? What was going on?

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I was angry. I was frustrated with being angry.

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Now let's stop right there, let's stop right there. People

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sitting in the pew. People sitting in the pew.

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Now, I know what I'm getting ready to say here

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is going to sound like I'm making a lot of justification,

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and I'm excusing.

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I am not.

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All I would like to say is people who sit

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in the pew, and when a pastor falls or a

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pastor sends the people in the pew, a lot of

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times make judgments. But all I would say, and I'm

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not saying judgments aren't allowed to be made.

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What I am going to say is this.

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Now we could go to Romans two one and talk

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about judging what. Okay, we can get into that discussion.

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for part two. All right, but I would say this,

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the people in the pew, I don't think ever can

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and and I and it's and it's I think it's

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fair to say this. And I don't think people in

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the pew would argue with this. I don't know if

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they can really understand what it is to be a pastor.

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I don't think they can really understand how frustrating it

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can be, discouraging, it can be depressing, how you can

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get so sick and tired of it because all people

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do is complain, complain, complain, complain, attack, attack. Now, I'm

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not saying in my particular situation, I've experienced all this.

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I've experienced some I've experienced some negative things, but I'll

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say it over and over, my experience in ministry was

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a million times better than about basically than any pastor

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I've ever heard talk about their experiences my experience has

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been better than any other pastor I've ever heard speak

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of theirs. In fact, other pastors who speak of their experiences,

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Like, whoa wait, what happened? What was going on in

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your church? The people did? What? I mean?

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go to their office on Monday or Tuesday and there

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would be notes slipped under their door basically telling them.

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To quit, to die, to go away. And you would

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be like, wait.

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Someone in the congregation is slipping notes under your door.

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I'm like, what is happening? Like crazy things?

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a deacon basically rushed him and punched him in the face.

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Go on in churches is insane, right, Like a lot

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of people never want to acknowledge just how messed well.

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The Christian life is a life of sin, and we

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see it play it out in church all the time.

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of self righteousness and putting on a lot of fig leaves.

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is taken off. You see a church filled with backstabbing

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and gossip and slander and fighting and politics, and it's

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ugly and it's disgusting, and a pastor has to try

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to navigate all of that well at the same time

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maintaining his own spirituality, in his own godliness. And I'm

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just saying that there's sometimes pastors are there and they

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are going through a lot, and no one really understands,

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but everyone expects them to maintain some level of perfection

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or at least perfection when it comes to certain sins.

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that pastor is not infallible or supernatural have supernatural power.

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He's a ciner, just like you. And guess what, there's

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good days, bad days. There's emotions, there's things going on

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in their personal life, going on inside the church, and

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it can lead to some really, really, really bad situations.

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So this pastor, this person writing was at the end

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of his rope, I guess you could say. He goes

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on to say, I hated myself more than I can

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express and I didn't feel I could remain a pastor

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with integrity I decided I needed to leave the ministry.

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I think there's a lot of pastors who hate themselves

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because they know they're preaching one thing. But they know

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their own self. They know their own weaknesses, their own failures,

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their own struggles, their own thoughts, their own that nobody

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else can see. But they have to continue to put

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forth a certain image of basically being perfect, because I mean,

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can a pastor just.

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could a pastor just say, hey, guys, let you know

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it's been a rough week. I screamed and yelled at

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my wife. I threatened my kids, I watched pornography. I

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got mad at someone in traffic and cussed like a

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pastor really can't do any I'm not saying that would

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be the appropriate place. I'm just saying the pastor really can't.

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He can't necessarily be real. He's got to put forth

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the image that he's got it all together.

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have it.

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All together, but you're still you know, does a pastor

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given supernatural power. Now, many Christians believe all Christians have

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been given supernatural power, and they're basically all Christians can

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be basically perfect or close to perfect. But again we're inconsistent,

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and that teaching itself because we say that, and yet

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everything around us shows that, Hey, here's a book and

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how to fix this and how to overcome this and

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how to do this, and hey, all worship services for

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two thousand years have begun with a confession because we're

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all confessing that we're still sinners.

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Well, if we're still sinners, well then wait a minute.

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But yet I'm a new creature. You can see.

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It can become very just psychologically confusing. But this pastor

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was at the end, all right. Uh He says, basically,

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I had no hope. I'm not trying to read every

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single word because you know, this could take five hours.

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basically I could identify with the advice.

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I had no hope. I was done.

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point that he had no hope.

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And he was done. He was finished.

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That's a horrible place to be if you are a pastor,

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you understand that's a depressing even if you're a church member,

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trying to imagine that you're supposed to be preparing sermons,

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standing before the people, preaching, but deep down you are done.

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You hate yourself, you're discouraged, you're depressed.

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What do you do well?

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In this particular case, the person who wrote the forward,

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he contacted Zaye Hodges, well, the one who wrote this book,

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to tell him I was leaving. He had invested a

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great deal into my life and I felt I owed

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him that much. So Zaye Hodge was obviously his mentor,

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and so he contacts him to say, hey, look man,

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I'm done. Thank you for all you've done, but I

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can't do this anymore.

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I'm finished.

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Now you can see how this is setting up. You

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can see how the book is setting this up. Right,

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do you see the setup? The setup is this man

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was finished. This man was done. This man had no hope.

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He contacted Zaane Hodge, and Zaye Hodges was like, hey, hey,

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I've got the.

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Secret to the Christian life. And there's six of them.

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So if those six secrets changed this man's life to

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someone who wanted out of ministry, to now is flourishing

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in ministry. Then these six secrets can take you as

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a Christian who's without hope and can change your life.

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That is at least the way it's being set up

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in my mind. We'll see if it goes that direction.

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But that's the setup I feel is happening here.

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Now, hang in there. He said, I will walk you

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through this. I told him no, I didn't want to.

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I was sick of secrets and keys that never work.

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So Saint Hodges like, hey, stay in there, I'll help

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you through this. And he was like, no, I'm tired

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of the secrets. I'm tired of the keys. And you

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know what, as anyone who's a Christian, you should be

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sick of them.

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We should all be sick of them.

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Because Christianity has been the Christian publishing world has made

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billions off selling the secrets.

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The key, here's the key, here's the secret. Here's the key,

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here's the secret.

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And it's always like, if you'll learn these secrets, secrets,

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if you'll learn this, then boom, you're gonna be victorious

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and your Christian life is going to be roses and

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rainbows and skittles and everything's going to be wonderful and unicorns,

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and everyone's gonna be singing kumbah Yah and having a

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coke and a smile, and everything's gonna be wonderful. It's

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gonna be great. But the reality is, you know it,

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and I know it.

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It's sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin.

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to keep selling the secrets? Why do they have to

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00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:33.880
keep selling the keys? Because you know, look, if you're

473
00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:36.359
a pastor standing in front of any group of people,

474
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:40.079
those people know their struggles, they know their guilt, they

475
00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.279
know their shame, they know and they're looking for an answer.

476
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.000
And guess what. Pastors buy the books because they're.

477
00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:52.160
Looking for an answer. Everyone's looking for an answer. Now,

478
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:54.519
what's sad is the answers we're looking for. It's not

479
00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.880
the fact that no, we are not say, by an

480
00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.759
infused righteousness. We are say, by an imputed righteousness. And

481
00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:04.000
the answer is we rest in the imputed righteousness of Christ,

482
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:05.880
and that positionally I am perfect.

483
00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:07.519
Practically, I never will be.

484
00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.400
Practically I will always be sinning in some way, shape

485
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:13.759
or form. There will always be some level of sin

486
00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:16.000
in my life. Twenty four hours a day, seven days

487
00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:19.079
a week. Until glorification, and we have to rest in

488
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:23.319
what we are positionally, but at the same time acknowledge.

489
00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.720
That we're never going to be what we want to

490
00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:25.839
be practically.

491
00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:29.839
But see, nobody likes that answer because that sounds as

492
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:34.920
and I've received these emails you preach a weak, defeated Christianity.

493
00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:38.880
Now I'm trying to preach a Christianity that acknowledges reality.

494
00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:42.359
And I think a correct understanding.

495
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.279
Of God's law. God's Law is always.

496
00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.519
There to condemn and show us our inability to keep it,

497
00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:51.359
and we cannot keep it even as a Christian.

498
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:54.880
I know that goes against everyone's theology. But this pastor

499
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:55.319
had had it.

500
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.559
He didn't want any more secrets, he didn't want any

501
00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:03.200
more keys that never worked. But Zain insisted, I promise,

502
00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:08.039
I'll walk you through this and someday you can help others.

503
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:12.519
I respected Zaying a great deal. If there was anyone

504
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:14.319
who can pull this off, I thought it was him.

505
00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:17.839
I agreed to talk to him. So over the course

506
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:23.920
of a year, Zayin took me through truths that would

507
00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:29.079
change my life and ultimately.

508
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.160
Give me hope.

509
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.279
Now, of course I told you that's exactly where it

510
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.400
was going to go, right. I told you, hey, I

511
00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:37.799
was done saying Hod just gave me the.

512
00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:40.119
Secrets that gave me hope.

513
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:42.960
All right, Now you can hear my start, you can

514
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.880
hear a little bit of sarcasm, you can hear my cynicism.

515
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:48.880
Yeah, not necessarily a fan.

516
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:51.920
Of this, but again, I'm still fascinated that this is

517
00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:56.359
coming from a free grace perspective. Right, So I want

518
00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.480
to hear there's supposed secrets, right, because every system of

519
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.920
theology has their so called secrets, right, So let's see.

520
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.160
Where they're going to go with this.

521
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.640
Much to my surprise, we spent a good deal of

522
00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:16.200
time and First and Second Samuel.

523
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:24.680
What First and Second Samuel? Does that not throw you

524
00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:25.519
off a little bit?

525
00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:29.359
Okay, you got a pastor who's ready to he's done,

526
00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:30.759
he's ready to get out of ministry.

527
00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:31.839
He has no hope.

528
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.599
You're like, hey, we're gonna spend some time together and

529
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.640
for basically a year, we're gonna be spending time in

530
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:41.400
First and Second Samuel, and there we're gonna find I

531
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:42.319
guess is that where.

532
00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:43.000
The secrets are?

533
00:28:43.599 --> 00:28:45.599
Are the secrets to the Christian life? And First and

534
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:51.119
Second Samuel historical narrative is that prescriptive or descriptive? Like

535
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:53.319
I got a lot of hermeneutical questions here. Now my

536
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.920
mind is racing. My mind is like, Okay, I gotta

537
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:57.599
figure this out. Like there's a part of me that

538
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.160
wants to set down this book Secrets of the Christian Life,

539
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:03.000
and I just want to be like, Okay, I'm going

540
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.599
to study for Samuel and First Samuel chapters one and

541
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.000
two for the next year and see if I can

542
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.960
find the secrets on my own, Like forget Zay and Hodge.

543
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:16.440
I'm gonna find them. Hey, you find them. So for

544
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:19.079
this week, if you want to, just at least make

545
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:21.960
it a priority to read First and Second Samuel, I

546
00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:26.519
don't know, a few times, to read it a few times,

547
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:32.000
just to see if some secret jumps out to you,

548
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.440
if you if you figure it out all of a sudden,

549
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:36.720
if you if you see it, if you can figure

550
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.359
it out, definitely let me know.

551
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:47.519
COM's sitting here looking at this. Yeah, I'm just I

552
00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:57.920
don't know, I'm just looking at this. Yeah.

553
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:03.480
But well, let's continue reading, all right. We also discussed

554
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.559
the topics that he would later publish as Six Secrets

555
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.359
of the Christian Life. Those conversations changed my life and

556
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:15.240
my ministry.

557
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:20.680
I stayed. So this man was at the end of

558
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.599
his rope. He had no hope. He calls saye Hodges,

559
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:26.359
sayt Hodges is like, hey, let's walk through it.

560
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:28.720
They spent a year basically in First and Second Samuel,

561
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.160
and all of this becomes the book Six Secrets of

562
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.279
the Christian Life.

563
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:35.000
And these secrets.

564
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:39.079
Changed this man's life, his ministry, and he went from

565
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.079
getting ready to quit to staying in ministry. I told

566
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:43.400
you that's where I thought it was going to go.

567
00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:45.279
I mean, you could tell the story, you could tell

568
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:51.200
the narrative was leading us that direction. Now, next section,

569
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.759
regardless of what you believe, my guess is, there are

570
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:04.599
millions of believers who are afraid of being found out. Wow,

571
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:11.559
that's a strong statement. There are millions of believers who

572
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:19.240
are afraid of being found out. That would tell me

573
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:25.559
there are millions of believers who do a lot of pretending. Again,

574
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.599
I know I use the same language, but I use

575
00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:32.240
it because I think it works. Christians are masters at

576
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:37.039
wrapping ourselves and fig leaves a robe of self righteousness.

577
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.759
We say the right words, we play the part. We're

578
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:49.240
the great pretenders. The whole time we're pretending there's stuff

579
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:55.680
going on nobody wants to talk about, nobody wants to admit.

580
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:56.279
But at the.

581
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.880
Same time and aroundabout way, millions of Christians will stand

582
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.680
in worship services where you begin the service with a confession.

583
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:08.119
Because there everyone is confessing what they don't want anyone

584
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.079
else to know, what they don't want anyone else to see.

585
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:16.079
They confess in this very general way, and because they know, yes,

586
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:24.680
we all stand here as sinners. My guess is that

587
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.000
millions read Romans seven fifteen through twenty four and think,

588
00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:36.599
just like me, right, everybody knows Romans seven fifteen through

589
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:41.279
twenty four. I'm gonna turn over here really quick, Romans

590
00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:53.160
chapter seven, starting in verse fifteen. Romans chapter seven, Verse fifteen.

591
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:57.480
You know this very famous words for that which I do,

592
00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:02.240
I allow, not for what I would that do I not?

593
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:10.359
But what I hate that do? I paraphrase. The things

594
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.519
I want to do I don't do. But the things

595
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.680
I don't want to do, the things I hate, those

596
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.599
are the very things I do, Ladies and gentlemen, If

597
00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.119
that's the Christian life, No, I know many Bible preachers

598
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:23.480
and many Christians.

599
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:24.640
Are going no, no, no, no, no, no.

600
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:27.640
That was Paul explaining his problem. But he found the

601
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.400
secret so that he stopped doing that. But just remember

602
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:34.279
this verse ends Romans seven, Verse twenty five ends with

603
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:36.920
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then

604
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.039
with my mind, I myself serve the law of God,

605
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:43.279
but with my flesh the law of sin. Paul ends

606
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.559
the section with acknowledging, Hey, my.

607
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.119
Mind, it's about God. In my flesh, it's about sin.

608
00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:55.680
There's a duality, a contradiction in the Christian life.

609
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:57.440
We look when we became.

610
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.839
Christians, and everyone wants to talk about repentance. I believe

611
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:02.200
it's a change of mind. I change my mind about

612
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:05.759
God and about sin. I now acknowledge this as a sin.

613
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.519
I now acknowledge this is how God wants me to live.

614
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:12.800
I now acknowledge God's law. But guess what, even though

615
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.880
I've changed my mind, my nature is still a sinful nature,

616
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:20.239
and so I'm still going to sin. And this leads

617
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.119
to the great struggle in the lives of believers.

618
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:24.440
How do I reconcile.

619
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:28.320
My mind knows this is wrong, understands it's wrong, but.

620
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:32.079
I continue to sin, and it leads to.

621
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:41.599
Lots of very difficult struggles. My guess this is the

622
00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:44.480
back to the author. Millions of people read Roman seven

623
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.960
fifteen through twenty four, and I think, just like me,

624
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:50.000
I am certain there are people who have placed their

625
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:53.320
faith in Christ alone for eternal life, are born again,

626
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:56.719
and if they were very honest, they would admit that

627
00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:59.679
there are times the extent and frequency of their sin

628
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:07.840
stuns and scares them.

629
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:09.440
Are you ever stunned.

630
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:12.239
And scared by the the sin in you?

631
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:20.079
The desires, the thinking? The church is the last place.

632
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:21.719
See we can't.

633
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.360
We can't do that now on an anonymous podcast. Right

634
00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:26.320
See you can. You're can be sitting wherever you are,

635
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:29.119
in your car right now, in your house, right now,

636
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:32.719
and you can be like man, that guy has no idea.

637
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.639
Oh trust me, you have no idea. See See this

638
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.519
is the podcast for all of us, all of us

639
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:43.039
who are basically trash. See all of us who our

640
00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:45.320
lives are a dumpster fire and we're all sinners. See

641
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.159
we can be honest here seeing a church, you gotta

642
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:48.760
be like, praise.

643
00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:49.599
God, Everything's good.

644
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:53.960
I can do all things in Christ, Jesus victorious over

645
00:35:54.039 --> 00:36:02.119
I'm an overcomer man. Here's we can we can we

646
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:04.639
can just take off the fig leaves, we can just

647
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.920
burn the robe of self righteousness, and we can all

648
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.760
be like, man.

649
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:09.159
We got a problem. Now.

650
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:12.280
My fear is he's gonna say, hey, this is this

651
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:13.679
is how I used to feel.

652
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:17.679
But dund I have the secrets. Let's let's see. Let's

653
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:19.000
see what he goes on to here.

654
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:23.280
Now, look, he names some sins here, right he goes

655
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:25.440
So I am certain there are people who have placed

656
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:28.480
their faith in Christ alone for eternal life, are born again,

657
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:30.280
And if they were honest, they would admit that there

658
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.519
are times and that the extent and frequency of their

659
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:39.079
sins stuns and scares them. Fornication, anger, laziness and so

660
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:44.760
on overwhelms them. But honesty must be kept at arm's length.

661
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:48.760
Why no one wants to think that they never had

662
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.519
it or at some point lost it, so they're left

663
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.480
to lead lives of denial, fear, or like me, giving up.

664
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:02.079
I am saying there is hope. My sincere wish is

665
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:04.239
that you will also come to realize the love and

666
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:06.960
power of the one who is a savior, not only

667
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.719
eternally but daily.

668
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:11.199
Right now, that makes me a little nervous.

669
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:16.400
Now, I do agree that people have to we cannot

670
00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:18.960
be honest within Christianity. We have to keep everything at

671
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:22.559
an arm's length because you're left with either you were

672
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:26.440
never saved or depending on your theology. So basically, within

673
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:29.159
a lot of Christianity, you have too basically options if

674
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:29.920
you can, if.

675
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:31.920
You admit all of that sin, then you have to

676
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:33.079
come to two conclusions.

677
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:36.199
You never were saved, so you're living a lie. Or

678
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.079
you were saved and you lost it. That's basically the

679
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.079
two major camps within Christianity. You never had it or

680
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:48.719
you lost it. And I think that that never had

681
00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:52.119
it means now you're judging salvation based off action, not

682
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:54.639
in the action of the person, not on the action

683
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:57.199
of Christ. Salvation is determined by the action of Christ,

684
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:01.800
not my actions. And well then that would be well,

685
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.400
then that's a whole different problem. And then that's again

686
00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:10.719
another another version of a workspace system. But he is saying, hey,

687
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:16.679
there's hope. There's hope. Now what is that hope?

688
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:19.440
Next paragraph?

689
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:27.000
Now this may sound this might sound surprising, but when

690
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.800
I first read the finished book, I didn't like it

691
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:37.800
very much. The writing was strange, it was too skeletal,

692
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:42.280
There wasn't much to it. So I called Zayn and

693
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:46.119
I asked him why he wrote it that way. He says,

694
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.360
six Secrets were meant to be skeletal. It was meant

695
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.280
to teach basic principles that would be better learned when

696
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:57.000
put into practice. The meat he helped me put, the

697
00:38:57.079 --> 00:38:59.960
meat he helped me put on was a direct result

698
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.039
of me and my situation. All right, So this is

699
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:06.320
already warning you. This is going to be very skeletal.

700
00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:09.159
It's going to be very basic, but it's supposed to

701
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:11.320
be because well, you got to put.

702
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:11.920
It into practice.

703
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:15.559
Now, I say, I'm already getting nervous because it sounds

704
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:17.599
like the Six Secrets are going to be things once

705
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:20.039
again that we have to do.

706
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:23.840
Well, how many books have been written like.

707
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:25.440
You need to do this, you need to do this,

708
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:27.199
you need to do this, you need to do this,

709
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:30.000
you need to do this. I mean, I've read every

710
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.800
kind of book in the world about how to overcome

711
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:33.880
this and how to overcome this. And while those books

712
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:35.920
keep saying you would only need one book, you would

713
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.000
think at some point and everybody would just put it into.

714
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.360
Practice and done, du da dah, we would all be perfect.

715
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.000
But everyone acknowledges we cannot be perfect, so that means

716
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there's still going to be sin, even if you apply

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all the secrets and all the keys that's ever been given.

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Everyone admit, most Christians admit, you cannot.

719
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Get to perfection, which means then no matter what you do,

720
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you're still going to sin. So in this forward, they continue,

721
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that's why six Secrets might seem unhelpful at first. It's

722
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because reading it on paper is different from actually living

723
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those principles out and practice. Six secrets gives you the bones.

724
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Live out these principles, and life will put meat on

725
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the bones. I think Six Secrets is especially important in

726
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light of how some critics call us the no lordship view.

727
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What they've never understood about free grace position is that

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we agree the lordship of Christ is an essential aspect

729
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of any good theology and the essential goal of any

730
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good theology. Perhaps surprisingly to some, I'm deeply grateful for

731
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the lordship theology and those who expouse it. From talking

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to them and reading their ideas, it seems to me

733
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that at least one reason they so dislike free grace

734
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theology is fear, and it's a good fear. They're concerned

735
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for the honor of Christ. They're concerned. Their concerned theology

736
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is like ours with will okay, let me read this again.

737
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They're concerned for the honor of Christ. Their concerned theologies

738
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like ours, will teach a type of Antiinomianism that won't

739
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honor the Lord.

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Uh. Lord.

741
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From listening to and reading them, it's clear most don't

742
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understand our theology and in some cases deliberately deliberately misrepresent it.

743
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Right now, again, this is going to come at the

744
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Christian life from a non lordship position, and then the

745
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lordship position obviously will condemn it.

746
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And of course.

747
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Immediately they if anyone who ever tries to uh, if

748
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you move away from lordship in just slightly, you're going

749
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to be almost immediately accused of being an Antiinomian. And

750
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was it Martin Lloyd Jones the famous quote, you'll know

751
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:48.079
you finally preach the Gospel correctly when you were accused

752
00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:53.320
of being an Antiinomian. Until you're accused of being an Antiinomian,

753
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:56.760
you have never preached the gospel right now.

754
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You can argue about the truthfulness.

755
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But I feel my own life, I was not accused

756
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of being an Antiinomian until I started trying to ensure

757
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that the Gospel was understood more fully and more correctly

758
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than the next thing.

759
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You know, I was accused of being an Antiinomian.

760
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Calling calling it the no lordship view is one example

761
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of the misrepresentation. May the Lord grant them mercy for this.

762
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What our critics don't understand is that only free grace

763
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.800
theology can take the lordship of Christ seriously. Only free

764
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grace theology can take us to the goal.

765
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We all want.

766
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Only proper exegesis elicits proper theology. Free grace theology is

767
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:42.760
biblical theology. And let me make it very clear, lordship

768
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:46.840
would say the same thing. Lordship is the thing that

769
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will give us a proper exegesus. It's it's lordship that's biblical.

770
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Everyone claims that their theology is the right exogesis of scripture.

771
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Everyone claims their theology is the biblical one. Everyone claims

772
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:04.599
that lordship non lordships are many Calvinists, Calvinist, non Calvinist, uh.

773
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:06.119
Charismatic, non charismatic.

774
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:11.800
Everyone says their theology is the biblical one. Everyone claims

775
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that You see, critics want to attain the lordship of

776
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Christ with a decision of the will at the moment

777
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of faith. But the lordship of Christ over life is

778
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impossible to attain in our own strength. We can't do

779
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it without the Holy Spirit. Oh, here we go, dun

780
00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:37.000
dun dudum. You already know where this is headed right

781
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.639
not now, see that the plot's been given away.

782
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They they've they've they've they've.

783
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Revealed their hand once again. What the secret of the

784
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Christian life is going to be?

785
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Dun dun du du.

786
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We've got supernatural power. We've got power, ladies and gentlemen,

787
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We've got the power. Everyone thinks we've got power. Look, ultimately,

788
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.239
all theologies believe that we have some supernatural power that

789
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:07.840
will enable us to live out the Christian life in

790
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:11.440
supposedly some supernatural way. Well, if we all have power,

791
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why is it that power cannot get me to perfection?

792
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And just think about this, If that power cannot get

793
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:24.960
me to perfection, whatever is keeping me from perfection is

794
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:29.639
actually stronger than the power I have been given. Because

795
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if the power I've been given is greater than the

796
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thing that tries to keep me from perfection, then I

797
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.719
could get to perfection. You could get to perfection, you

798
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.800
could get to sinlessness. I could get to sinlessness. As

799
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:44.159
long as something is holding us back from sinlessness, then

800
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.559
whatever that is holding us back is greater than whatever

801
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:51.840
power I'm supposedly received. Now, whenever I try to articulate that,

802
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:54.360
Christians lose their ever living.

803
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:55.199
Mind and get mad at me.

804
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:58.079
But it's like, just take a deep breath, think that

805
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:02.920
through logically, because the question is can I be sinless?

806
00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:05.920
Can I be holy as God is holy? Now? Some

807
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.039
say yes, you can do some will say you can't. Well,

808
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:12.920
if you think we can, then oh, then you know what.

809
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:14.280
We don't need to argue.

810
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:17.519
I just wait until you accomplish it, and whenever you

811
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accomplish it, it would be wonderful. Now, I've heard people

812
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:24.000
who hold to certain theologies who believe in an entire

813
00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:27.840
sanctification as possible. They all say it's possible, but I've

814
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.719
yet to achieve it. I'm like, well, you all everyone

815
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.159
claims that it's possible, but nobody can pull it off.

816
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:36.880
That's highly unlikely. Like, why is it so difficult to

817
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:39.840
pull off? Because supposedly it's God giving me the power

818
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:41.440
to do it. So if God's given me the power

819
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to do it, it shouldn't be difficult. Since God is omnipotent.

820
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:49.039
His power should get me there instantaneously. So the whole

821
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:53.880
thing becomes maddening. So already here though we can't do

822
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:57.039
it in our strength. That sounds so spiritual. Okay, I

823
00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:57.960
can't do it, but.

824
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.199
Done, dun dun, dune.

825
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:04.119
You've got power, So now you can do it in

826
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.159
God's strength. Well, if I can do it in God's strength,

827
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:12.960
you think that strength should get me to perfection, all right,

828
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.039
So they go on to say this, we can't do

829
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.320
it without his grace. Otherwise we're helpless. In fact, recognizing

830
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and experiencing that helplessness and inability is a key to

831
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beginning growth.

832
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:26.519
In the Christian life.

833
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For example, when I told Zayin and I got really angry,

834
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:32.159
he taught me that failure properly responded to can be

835
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a great means of Christian growth. Of course, he did

836
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.519
not mean sin was a good thing. What he did

837
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:38.920
teach was how to learn from my failure to honor Christ.

838
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:42.719
I truly believe Six Secrets has the potential to radically

839
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.000
shake up your Christian life for the better. If you

840
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.039
want to mature in your walk with Christ, read the

841
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:50.199
book Zain Did Not Believe. Zain did not believe, nor

842
00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:52.639
am I suggesting that this is all you need to know.

843
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:56.760
What I'm saying is that these are six essentials you

844
00:46:56.800 --> 00:47:01.079
can't grow without. I still go through times of great

845
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:08.039
personal disappointment. So hey, these six secrets will change your life.

846
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:10.239
But just so that you know, I still go through

847
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:15.880
times of great personal disappointment. What sod the six secrets work?

848
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:18.880
Or do they not work? They work, but it's not

849
00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:19.960
going to fix everything.

850
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:20.880
Is that what you're saying?

851
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:26.079
I still live contrary to how I know I should.

852
00:47:26.199 --> 00:47:26.519
All right?

853
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:29.719
So he still lives with great disappointment, and he still sins.

854
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.320
He didn't use the word sin, but I still live

855
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contrary to how I know I should. So even with

856
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:38.599
these six secrets, even with supposedly the Holy Spirit giving

857
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:42.599
us power, he has to admit, Hey, I mean I

858
00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:44.039
still can't pull it off.

859
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.119
What do the secrets actually accomplish? I don't know? All right?

860
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:53.719
Uh?

861
00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:56.559
I see I never.

862
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.320
Hope is a good thing, and it's one thing I

863
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:05.840
never had before understanding these principles. Today, I hope, but

864
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:08.199
my hope is not in me. It is a savior

865
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:12.119
who continues to save. And that's written by a pastor

866
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:18.880
from a Grace Bible Church in Omaha, Nebraska. All right, now,

867
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.599
but please now even after he has hope. Now, now

868
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:24.719
I do like this idea. My hope is not in me,

869
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.760
It's in a savior who continues to say, Now, I agree.

870
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:29.000
My only hope is.

871
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:31.679
In what Christ has done for me, in his imputed righteousness.

872
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:34.199
But if you imply that my hope is that Christ

873
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.159
will then do something in my practical life that I

874
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:41.079
don't know achieve. What can I achieve perfection? No? If

875
00:48:41.079 --> 00:48:43.840
I can achieve perfection, then what's the Christian life going

876
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:44.039
to be?

877
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:44.800
Consist of?

878
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:49.079
Regularly daily sin? How do I know that? Because even

879
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.320
two thousand years of church history, many worship services begin

880
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:55.360
with a general confession of sin, because it's an acknowledgment

881
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.039
that we're all sin, all sinners, and that we have

882
00:48:58.159 --> 00:48:59.280
been sinning all week.

883
00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:05.400
So we go from the ford to the prologue. Here's

884
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.679
the prologue.

885
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:13.199
A few years ago, Jimmy believed in the Lord for

886
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.440
let me read this again. I'm skipping words here. A

887
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:18.800
few years ago, Jimmy believed in the Lord Jesus Christ

888
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:22.079
for the free gift of everlasting life. He knows that

889
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.360
he is eternally saved and destined to live forever in

890
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:29.199
the Kingdom of God. His initial experience of the Christian

891
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:32.039
life was one of joyful discovery as he learned more

892
00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:35.039
and more about God's word in the Bible teaching church

893
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:38.880
he attended. God also answered a lot of his prayers.

894
00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:45.760
But now years later he feels bogged down. Christianity seems

895
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:50.000
less joyful to him, and now he is struggling unsuccessfully

896
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:55.719
with some personal sins. Oh no, this cannot be happening.

897
00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:00.719
This never happens. Now, maybe if he knows the Six Secrets. Okay, yes,

898
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.440
I'm being somewhat again cynical. Look, here's the here's the idea.

899
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:10.039
We're always going to struggle with sin. See that's that's

900
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:12.719
that's the my thesis. And I'm just gonna say it.

901
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:14.840
The Christian life is a life of sin.

902
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.199
But let's see what they say here, all right.

903
00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:23.559
One day he bumps into Tom, an older Christian who

904
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:26.679
he hasn't seen for a while. After a few minutes,

905
00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:30.599
Tom asks Jimmy a question, So how are you doing

906
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:36.079
in your Christian life? Jimmy, Well, Tom, I don't know,

907
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.159
not too good. I guess now right there, I do

908
00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:45.079
love the honesty, right, I mean, come on, how are

909
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:45.599
you doing in.

910
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:48.320
Your Christian life? Come on? How are you? Now?

911
00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:50.239
You may want to say, I'm doing wonderful, I'm doing great,

912
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:53.559
I'm a conqueror, I'm victorious. Okay if that, if that's

913
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:57.119
the case, then all right. I sometimes I think Christians

914
00:50:57.159 --> 00:50:58.960
have to deny reality.

915
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.599
All right? But what what what happens here?

916
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:05.800
So this other person responds, Tom responds, well, how so, Jimmy,

917
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.440
what seems to be the problem. Oh? I guess it's

918
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:14.119
just that it all seems like such a struggle. I

919
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:18.920
have some bad habits that I just can't seem to shake.

920
00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:24.880
And that's how the prologue ends. Now, obviously we can

921
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.119
understand the strategy. The prologue is written in a way

922
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.119
that we can all relate to.

923
00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:29.960
This, we can all.

924
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:35.119
Relate to Jimmy, Man, I'm struggling. I can't get I

925
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.280
keep sinning. I keep struggling. All right, So now we

926
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:39.199
come to chapter one.

927
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:41.320
Dun, dundun dun.

928
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:47.599
The sixth Secrets are about to descend from heaven, and

929
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:50.480
now our lives are going to be radically transformed and

930
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:52.480
we are going to find Okay, maybe I'm being a

931
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:54.840
little hyperbolic. I'm not saying that's the way the book's

932
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:59.039
presenting it, but clearly that's the idea we all can

933
00:51:59.119 --> 00:51:59.599
relate to.

934
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:03.360
Jim. Now we just need the answers.

935
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:11.480
So how does chapter one begin? How does a Christian?

936
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:19.599
How does a Christian live the Christian life? Oh? How

937
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:24.199
does a Christian live the Christian life? By working hard

938
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:28.519
at it, by firmly making up his mind to do it,

939
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:30.639
by preserving in.

940
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:32.239
Spite of all the difficulties.

941
00:52:33.639 --> 00:52:36.920
At best, such answers as these do not tell us

942
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:41.159
very much. At worst, they misrepresent the Christian life by

943
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:44.480
giving an unbalanced view of it. They suggest that the

944
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:47.599
kind of life that's pleasing to God is primarily a

945
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:51.400
matter of effort and striving. And this is where the

946
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:55.679
duality within Christianity, this is where it becomes very contradictory, because.

947
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:56.679
Someone say, no, no, no, no, no.

948
00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.800
The way you live the Christian life is not by striving,

949
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.880
not by working, by surrendering to God. And God will

950
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:05.519
live the Christian life through you, and everybody in the

951
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:09.760
congregation will be like, Amen, that was a great sermon, Pastor.

952
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:11.599
But nobody goes gets in the.

953
00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:13.559
Car and go, well, wait a minute, if I don't

954
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:15.679
have to strive and I don't have to try, and

955
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God is just gonna live the Christian life through me.

956
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:20.199
If God is the one living the Christian life out

957
00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:24.880
through me, then my Christian life should be perfect because

958
00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:26.519
God is the one living it out through me.

959
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:28.480
So do I have to do it?

960
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.519
And then at the same time they say, it's not

961
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.800
about what you do. It's not about your struggles and

962
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:35.159
you're striving, it's about God doing it. But then at

963
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:37.119
the same time it'll be like, but you need to

964
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:38.760
make sure you show up to church. You need to

965
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.920
make sure you tie, you need to make sure you pray.

966
00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:42.800
You need to make sure you fast. You need to

967
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:44.480
make sure you read your Bible. You need to make

968
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:46.440
sure you memorize your Bible. You need to make sure

969
00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:48.119
you do this. You need to make sure you do this.

970
00:53:48.280 --> 00:53:49.880
You need to make sure you do this. Make sure

971
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:51.800
you don't look at this, make sure you don't watch this.

972
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.559
Don't do this. Have an accountability partner, don't do this.

973
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:57.000
Don't be alone with this person, don't do this, don't

974
00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.440
do this, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this,

975
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:01.760
and you're like for crying out loud I thought God

976
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:03.719
was the one living out the Christian life through me.

977
00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:05.880
So do I do it? Or do I not do it?

978
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:15.880
Of course, most Bible believing people would want to add

979
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.480
something about getting help from God. Now that's true. Almost

980
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:21.199
everyone would say, oh, well, you got to get help

981
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.000
from God. You got to get help from God. That's

982
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:26.800
the Christian go to. God will help us. God will

983
00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:28.480
do it. God will give us the strength.

984
00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:31.360
Now the author here and then this is saying Hodges.

985
00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:32.400
He says, he writes this.

986
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.079
But if we ask them how does God help us?

987
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:44.639
The answers might turn out to be very general, perhaps

988
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:45.519
even vague.

989
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:48.039
So how does God help me? You say, God will

990
00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:50.519
help me overcome sin? How does he do it? How

991
00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:53.159
does he do it? Do I just all of a

992
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.480
sudden get strength? I don't want that sin anymore.

993
00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.440
Now, if God's really going to help me, then the

994
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.719
first step would be to get rid of my sinful nature,

995
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:05.280
from which all sin arises. Now, some Christians will go

996
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:08.039
so far as to say God has given basically eradicated

997
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:08.719
the old nature.

998
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:11.559
But then they can't explain why I can't get to perfection.

999
00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:15.440
So how does God?

1000
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.639
I mean, if God's going to help that wouldn't be like,

1001
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.119
the number one way to help a sinner is to

1002
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:21.239
remove the sin nature.

1003
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:31.039
That would be like step one. Right, So let me

1004
00:55:31.079 --> 00:55:31.719
read this again.

1005
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:35.239
Most Bible believing people would want to add something about

1006
00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:38.199
getting help from God. But if we then ask how

1007
00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:40.440
does God help us, the answer might turn out to

1008
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:44.039
be very general, perhaps even vague. He gives us strength,

1009
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:48.440
Some might say, but what exactly does that mean? What

1010
00:55:48.679 --> 00:55:52.480
is the nature of that strength? If it is spiritual,

1011
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:58.320
what do we mean by spiritual? Now I do love

1012
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.639
the way this chapter begins, because it's already kind of

1013
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:10.000
too demonstrating some of the confusion within Christianity. Now I'm

1014
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:12.920
going to stop right there. I am going to go

1015
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:16.159
back to the table of contents. Now when you start

1016
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:17.960
reading chapter one, I still want you to get this

1017
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:18.480
book again.

1018
00:56:18.519 --> 00:56:21.960
It's called The Six Secrets of the Christian Life. I

1019
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:22.840
want you to get it.

1020
00:56:23.039 --> 00:56:25.480
I am not saying, Look, I don't like the secret idea,

1021
00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:26.159
the key idea.

1022
00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:26.760
I don't like that.

1023
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:29.440
I don't like the idea that, hey, this is the

1024
00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:31.400
book that's going to fix it. But what I do

1025
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:33.760
like is that this is another attempt in the history

1026
00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:36.960
of christiandom to deal with the reality that the Christian

1027
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.960
life is one of sin. It's just the reality, and

1028
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.960
everyone approaches it differently. Some approach it by like, well,

1029
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.400
the reason there's so much sin within Christianity is because

1030
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:47.719
ninety nine percent of the people aren't saved. But thank God,

1031
00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:50.079
I am, okay, And then somehow deny the fact that

1032
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.519
you're still sinning, right, all right, So that's an approach,

1033
00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.800
or all these people lost their salvation, that's an approach.

1034
00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:57.679
This is more of a free grace approach.

1035
00:56:57.719 --> 00:56:59.559
And I don't know if we're going to agree with

1036
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:01.679
their approach, which either, but it's good to know all

1037
00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:05.440
the different approaches. So I'm going to go back to

1038
00:57:05.480 --> 00:57:12.400
the table of contents. I'm scrolling back, swiping back the

1039
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:14.719
six Secrets, page ninety three.

1040
00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:20.960
Okay, well, hang on, this may not get me to

1041
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:21.800
where I want to go.

1042
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:25.599
Here when I click on it, it's the hyperlink's not working.

1043
00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:27.679
Hang on, let's see here. I thought they were going

1044
00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:28.280
to give me.

1045
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:38.599
A summary. I thought they were going to give me

1046
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:39.679
a summary. Maybe they're not.

1047
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:46.159
I don't think they are. Okay, it doesn't look like it.

1048
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:51.480
That's weird the way the table contents have. They have

1049
00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:55.519
something called the six Secrets. But it's not I guess

1050
00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:56.920
it's not an actual hyperlink.

1051
00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:59.599
Yeah, it just takes me to the beginning page. All right.

1052
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:02.280
So I was hoping, hang on, let's go all the way,

1053
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.280
hang on, let's do this, even if you get all

1054
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:07.400
the way to the end.

1055
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:10.039
Yeah, they don't have.

1056
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:15.800
All right, Yeah, they don't really give us very far.

1057
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:17.920
They don't give us very far. So I'll do this.

1058
00:58:18.519 --> 00:58:19.800
I'll go back to chapter one.

1059
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.119
I was gonna. I thought, maybe they summarize here are

1060
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:25.239
the six but they don't. They don't. They don't seem

1061
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:26.079
to do that. Here.

1062
00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:30.679
I'll give you a hint. All right, they start off

1063
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:33.440
and and and see. I'm just I'm just gonna give

1064
00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:35.199
you at least a hint of where the first one

1065
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:35.679
is headed.

1066
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:36.119
Right.

1067
00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:37.639
I don't know if like, I don't know how he

1068
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:42.840
would summarize this, But here we go the section here

1069
00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:45.840
for I guess the first secret is he calls it

1070
00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:57.840
the Christian's dad body, the Christian's dad body, and talking

1071
00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:00.519
about the Christian life. There are a number of superb

1072
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:04.840
biblical passages where we could begin, but one of the

1073
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.760
best that is found in the eighth chapter of Romans.

1074
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:12.360
They're the Apostle Paul writes, and he wants us to

1075
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:17.559
look at Romans eight ten through eleven, and if Christ

1076
00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.920
be in you, the body is dead because of sin,

1077
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:26.440
but the spirit is life because of righteousness. But of

1078
00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:29.119
the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus Christ from

1079
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:31.840
the dead, dwell in you. He that raised up Christ

1080
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:34.440
from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by

1081
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:39.880
the spirit that dwelleth in you. All Right, See, I

1082
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:41.440
think I kind of see where they're going to go.

1083
00:59:41.639 --> 00:59:43.679
Are they going to go with the idea that the

1084
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.639
way to understand sin in the Christian life is this

1085
00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:54.400
Our body is dead in sin, but inside we've been changed.

1086
00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:58.480
So the conflict is with the inside with the external body.

1087
00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:03.360
Now, well, you may want to go with that idea.

1088
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:05.639
This is how, Here in a nutshell, we have the

1089
01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:11.719
fundamental problem. So they're gonna he's gonna summarize it. Here

1090
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:14.639
in a nutshell, we have the fundamental problem of Christian living.

1091
01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:22.000
Every Christian inhabits a dead body. We often forget this.

1092
01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:26.559
So is he gonna draw some kind of division? My

1093
01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:31.719
body is dead, but inside there's what what shit? Remember

1094
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:33.639
we we've talked about this so many times. I've told

1095
01:00:33.639 --> 01:00:35.559
you to try to just draw some kind of a

1096
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:38.079
picture of this, and it's so confusing when you listen

1097
01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:41.320
to Christians. Right, you have a brand new heart. Okay,

1098
01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:43.039
well I have a brand new heart, then the old

1099
01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:46.000
heart is gone. Do I have a sinful nature or

1100
01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:48.280
his heart nature the same thing? Do I have a

1101
01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:50.559
new heart but an old nature? Or if I have

1102
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:52.559
a new heart, then the old nature is gone. Well,

1103
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.679
if I have a new heart, and if i'm and again,

1104
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:59.320
if you, if you the way Christians preach Second Corinthians,

1105
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:01.679
if anyone's in is a new creature, old things have

1106
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:04.440
passed away, all things have become new, then everything should

1107
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:06.480
be new. Right, you can't have still some of the

1108
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:09.000
old left if everything has become new. That's why that

1109
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:13.800
verse is so just misunderstood. That's referring to my positional standing.

1110
01:01:13.960 --> 01:01:17.119
Practically that cannot be true or everything but all the

1111
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:21.119
old would be gone, all the anything remaining would be

1112
01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:24.440
of the old would be completely basically, I'd be glorified.

1113
01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:29.000
So we know that that verse is not is so misunderstood.

1114
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.480
So some will say like okay, so, but then it's

1115
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:35.159
really weird because it'll be like, hey, you've got a

1116
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:37.079
new heart. But then it'll be like, but we're still

1117
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:40.760
fighting against sin, and we're still fighting with sinful desires,

1118
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:42.480
so we need to ask God to create in us

1119
01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:44.039
a clean heart. Wait, I thought you already said I

1120
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:45.960
have a new heart. And wait, you told me that

1121
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:47.800
I'm a new creature, the oldest gone. What am I

1122
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:51.480
still fighting against? And it's like this weird contradiction. So

1123
01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:53.679
I think what they're going to try to go with is, Hey,

1124
01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:58.400
the way to understand this is that my body is dead,

1125
01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:01.840
but inwardly, as a Christian, I'm all new, and so

1126
01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:05.039
the conflict is between the new end and the old out.

1127
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:08.000
But if the if the if the.

1128
01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:13.719
Sin is out, it's my body. Well, wait, Jesus said

1129
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:16.599
all of our sinful things flow from our heart flows.

1130
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:18.719
I would still argue we still have.

1131
01:02:18.679 --> 01:02:23.599
A sinful nature, not just a sinful body.

1132
01:02:23.719 --> 01:02:26.719
So even this is going to be somewhat difficult to

1133
01:02:26.760 --> 01:02:30.360
work its way through, all right, So I want to

1134
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:37.599
stop right there. Yeah, they're they're they're going to make

1135
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.280
a big deal out of this, and so we're gonna

1136
01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:42.800
have to kind of we'll try to piece it together

1137
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:47.920
and try to understand what exactly is being stated here.

1138
01:02:48.199 --> 01:02:51.000
But In the meantime, I want you to get the book.

1139
01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:52.920
It's only like three dollars, Like I said, four dollars

1140
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.599
even for a physical copy. It's The Sixth Secrets of

1141
01:02:55.639 --> 01:02:58.760
the Christian Life by Zay Hodges. I'm not telling you

1142
01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.840
to agree with it. I'm not telling you do it.

1143
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:03.000
I'm not telling you to agree with anything about it.

1144
01:03:03.039 --> 01:03:05.599
What I'm trying to tell you is every form of

1145
01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:09.760
Christianity tries to have some answer about the reality that

1146
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:11.119
we all know, which.

1147
01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:12.599
Is sin, sin, sin, sin sin.

1148
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:24.760
And I think every approach is questionable, problem, problematic, convoluted, contradictory, illogical, insane, ridiculous, nonsensical,

1149
01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:30.119
and denies reality. At least this book opens up with

1150
01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:35.320
the fact that, hey, here's the reality. Are good even

1151
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:38.480
this states that some of the advice given makes no

1152
01:03:38.639 --> 01:03:41.119
sense good, So we're starting off good here.

1153
01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.360
But I kind of feel I know where they're going.

1154
01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:47.920
They're going to draw this contradiction that your body that's

1155
01:03:47.960 --> 01:03:52.480
the problem inside, is all good inside your golden outside.

1156
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:54.679
And it's like, wait, so now I'm in a conflict

1157
01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:59.159
with myself. Now in some ways I can agree with that,

1158
01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.280
right because the things I want to do, I don't do,

1159
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:03.480
and the things I don't want to do I do,

1160
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.079
So there is a contradiction. Now I tend to go.

1161
01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:11.760
My mind has been changed. Like the reason there's a

1162
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.519
contradiction or a conflict is because my mind has been

1163
01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:18.400
changed in salvation, right, because repentance is a change of mind.

1164
01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:21.320
I changed my mind about God, about sin, So my

1165
01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:23.880
mind now knows this is wrong, this is what I'm

1166
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:28.119
supposed to do. But every other part of me, and

1167
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:30.880
even my mind, even though I've changed my mind, my

1168
01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:34.119
mind is still impacted by the varied depravity.

1169
01:04:33.719 --> 01:04:39.119
That is still very much in me. So I do

1170
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:39.960
believe in some.

1171
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:45.679
Ways there's a duality. But I think overall my whole

1172
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:52.599
being is still very much dominated by a sinful nature.

1173
01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:55.639
And you say, no, it's not dominated. You've been set free. Well,

1174
01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:57.480
then I should be able to be perfect. Well, you're

1175
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.880
not going to be perfect. Whatever's keeping me from is

1176
01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:05.000
obviously the thing dominating because it's keeping me from something,

1177
01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:13.559
meaning it's in charge. All right.

1178
01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:16.039
I want to Oh, we're sixty five minutes. I want

1179
01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:17.239
to well, you know I done.

1180
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.119
I did exactly what I did I wanted. I want

1181
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:21.599
you to go read the book. I want you to

1182
01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:25.079
read the book, So get a copy. Six Secrets of

1183
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:28.280
the Christian Life again. Three dollars for the kindle, he said,

1184
01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:30.079
I don't have a kindle. You get download the kindle

1185
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:35.880
app right. Four dollars for a natural physical copy, fifty

1186
01:05:35.920 --> 01:05:38.800
five pages. You're not too much committed, and you can

1187
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:40.599
just kind of may you may read it and be

1188
01:05:40.760 --> 01:05:41.400
just as confused.

1189
01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:42.440
You may go, I don't get it.

1190
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.000
I have a feeling I'm not going to agree with something,

1191
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.320
or not only I agree with it. I'm not sure

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I'm going to be able to understand some of it.

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Because I think any attempt to try to fix this problem,

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nobody's got the answer.

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Even though everyone thinks they've got the secret. There's no secret.

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You know what.

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The reality is, You're a sinner. You're still a sinner,

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and you'll be a sinner until glorification. You're going to

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sin all the way to glorification, and your only hope

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is the finished work of Jesus Christ and his imputed righteousness.

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He said, well, what does that mean for my practical life?

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Somehow we have to be prepared and acknowledge we're still

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going to sin, and the church seems incapable of knowing

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how to deal with that other than saying, well, you

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can commit all these sins and you're okay, just don't

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commit this one, because if you commit this one, we're

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going to kill you with a pile of rocks, you know,

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bashing against your head, or we're going to get nails

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and a hammer and we're going to crucify you and

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then we're going to burn the body. That just means

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we've just created our own list of mortal and venial sin.

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All right, we'll stop there. Oh I want I got

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the book right here. I got the book right here.

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Do you want anyone else that says do do do you?

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Well? All right, we'll talk about it soon. Thanks for

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listening everyone, Have a great day.

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God bless