Feb. 4, 2025

Sermon On The Mount: Law and Gospel

Sermon On The Mount: Law and Gospel

We continue our review of a sermon about the Sermon on the Mount

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We continue our review of a sermon about the Sermon on the Mount

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Good evening everyone. It is Monday, February third, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently tenh three pm Central Time, and I'm

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas.

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Well.

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If I've said it once, I've said it probably a

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thousand times. One of the fun things about doing a

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sermon review is we never know exactly what's going to happen.

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Right.

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I can see the title of the sermon, I can

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see the scripture that they're going to use, but I

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don't know what's going to happen because whenever I do

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a review, as I've said now over and over and over,

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I don't listen to it first. Right, so many things

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I listen to where people are reacting to something, they

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have watched it first, they've listened to it first. Then

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they may just grab clips from it or whatever the

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case may be. But the reaction I mean, I mean,

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it may not matter to you, but to me, the

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reaction I know is somewhat rehearsed. They know what was said,

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they've already figured out their thoughts about how they're going

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to respond to it. I prefer my way, which is,

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when I do a sermon review, I have no idea

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what's going to happen. We hit play. All of my

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reaction is real, So everything is organic. It's not rehearsed,

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it's not produced. And that I like that. It makes

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it exciting. It makes it I don't really know what's

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going to happen. I don't feel like I'm listening to

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something multiple times and then simply, you know, just simply

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reciting what I've already rehearsed. It feels more real. However,

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that makes it exciting, that makes it interesting, That makes

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it organic, That makes it real, all of the positive

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things that come from that. However, it also means sometimes

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that I think it's gonna go this direction, maybe my introduction,

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maybe things that I'm saying you can clearly tell, oh,

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you think it's going to go this direction, And then

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by the time we're done, I'm like, WHOA, what just happened?

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It went in a completely opposite direction. And that happened

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earlier today. Earlier today, I saw that there was a

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new sermon that had been added to the sermon's two

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point zero app call in the title of the sermon

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was introduction to the Sermon on the Mount. I'm like, okay,

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back in what twenty twenty four? Yeah, I think it

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was twenty twenty four. I think it was May of

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twenty twenty four. Was the last episode that I did

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in a series that we were working on on. Well,

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the Sermon on the Mount. Now, it was designed to

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just be you know, the series never really will come

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to an end. Anytime I'm addressing anything related to the

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Sermon on the Mount, that episode will go there. So

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I'm like, well, I haven't done anything since, like you know,

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May of twenty twenty four, Well, let me let me

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let me review this sermon today on as an A.

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Because it's an introduction to the Sermon on the Mount,

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it'll be interesting, it'll be more content for that series.

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And since since it is an introduction to the Sermon

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on the Mount, we know what that means, right, It's

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going to provide to us how this pastor how this

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particular church, how they interpret the Sermon on the Mount,

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What is their interpretive system, what is their interpretive framework

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that they use to interpret the Sermon on the Mount.

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So I'm like, okay, it'll be good because we can

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explore one of them. Because, as I stressed in the

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last episode, you may not know this. Well, if you

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listen to the first last episode, you do. If you didn't,

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you may not know this. There is at a minimum

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eleven different ways the Sermon of the Mount on the

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Mount has been interpreted throughout Church history, a minimum of eleven. Now,

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on one hand, that's should discourage you, that should frustrate you,

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that should bother you, because you're like two thousand years

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of church history and no one can agree yet on

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how to interpret the Sermon on the Mount, and these

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different interpretations are contradictory to one another. So you know

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what do we learn from that? Well, the one thing

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we learn I talked about it in the first episode. Clearly,

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all of this belief and idea that God helps us

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in our interpretation, God leads us to an interpretation it's

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just bogus because if that was the case, we would

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all interpret the Sermon on the Mouth the same way.

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And now it could imply another thing it can apply

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is that maybe maybe when it comes to the scriptures,

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we just can never truly interpret them because there's something

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just to inherit with the scriptures that we are unable

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to interpret. Maybe the Bible is just it's just beyond

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our ability to interpret it. Maybe that's the case. Right

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now people will push back and go, that's not true,

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that's not true. But just think of the millions of

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different interpretations that have been offered throughout Church history on everything.

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I mean, you have to at least raise that question.

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Or maybe this is just another example that the reason

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we can't come to an agreement on our interpretation of

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the Bible is because everyone interprets the Bible through the

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framework of their theological system. Meaning if you are reformed,

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you interpret the Bible through a reform theological perspective. If

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you're dispensational, you interpret it through a dispensational perspective. Meaning

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then the reality is we don't actually study the Bible,

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we don't actually preach the Bible. We don't actually we

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don't actually teach the Bible. What we actually do is

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simply insert and put into the Bible our theological framework

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and then claim that we find it there because what

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we put it there, which then means the Bible is

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never going to be interpreted correctly. It's always going to

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be interpreted in light of your theological system, And isn't

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it interesting that's what happens. Charismatics interpret the Bible through

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a charismatic lens, and guess what, all of their interpretations

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are consistent with their theological system. A Church of Christ

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interprets the Bible through a Church of Christ's lens. Isn't

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it amazing all of their interpretations are consistent with the

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Church of Christ view a reform person in it weird

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that every theological system is able to say that the

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Bible supports their theological system. They will all claim the

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Bible is the authority and that they their theology is

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based off scripture. But I mean, they cannot be that

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everyone can find their theology in their interpreting of the scripture,

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and it's not because they're interpreting the scripture. They're simply

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reading their interpretation into the scripture based off their theological system.

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And we've discussed that and it's maddening to me. So

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what I wanted to do for the review is I

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wanted to go, hey, guys, there's eleven different ways in

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which people interpret a minimum of eleven different ways that

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people interpret the Sermon on the Mount. And I went

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through and I listed all of them. I'm not going

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to do that right now. I've already reviewing more than

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I planned to, and so we I'm like, so what

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we're going to do is we're going to hear how

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they interpret it, and then we're going to see which

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one of the eleven it fits with, and then we'll

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maybe discuss that particular view. Right And I said, Okay,

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I think it will probably be this way. I thought

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there would go a certain direction because that's where most

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churches go to. I even asked AI to make some predictions.

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Artificial intelligence made some predictions about it, and it acknowledged

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that it probably would go a certain way based on

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the fact that it's a Baptist church. Okay, so I

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was ready to go. We started the review sixty what

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sixty six minutes almost almost seventy minutes of review, and

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where did we get. We never even got to how

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to interpret the sermon on the mount We got to

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Matthew five one, and we read these words and seeing

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the multitudes he went up into a mountain, and when

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he was set, his disciples came unto him. The entire

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part of the sermon that we reviewed made this like

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it was a significant argument. According to them, the sermon

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on the mount was preached to the disciples. In fact,

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he went a step further, it was preached to the

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church that this is the first sermon given to the church.

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The Church is already in existence here, and that this

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is given to the church, not to the multitudes. And

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to try to prove this, this pastor then did this

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weird thing. He started doing cross referencing, and he did

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cross referencing based on the phrase he went up into

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a mountain. So then he went to Mark and Lou

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looked for frase, look for passages that said he went

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up into a mountain, and then tried to claim that

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they were describing the same event, even though everything AI

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was like, absolutely not, these are not the same event, different,

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this different, that different, that there's just no way. In fact,

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the passages that he used to try to cross reference,

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he tried to use, I mean, if I can find

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it here, if I can go all the way back

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up here. He tried to use Mark three thirteen through

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eighteen and Luke six twelve through sixteen, And AI said,

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it is not correct to assume that Mark three thirteen

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through eighteen and Luke six twelve through sixteen described the

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same event. There are similarities, for example, Jesus going up

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into a mountain and addressing disciples. They occur though in

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different context and serve different purposes. And then Ai breaks

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down a comparison of all the similarities and the differences.

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But he just because the phrases, just because He's passages

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used the phrase he went up into a mountain, he

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just made the assumption, Well, they all fit together, and

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it was crazy. And not only that, and all of

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his argument that, hey, Jesus is only speaking to the disciples.

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Jesus is only speaking to the disciples. This is Jesus

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speaking to the church. And this is basically Jesus telling

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the church obey the Sermon on the mount And his

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assumption is is that we can obey the Sermon on

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the Mount, which, of course we can get into all

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of the problems with this. But here is the issue.

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And all of his cross referencing and everything that he did.

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You know what he never read, well, Matthew five to

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one is the beginning of the Sermon on the mount

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and seeing the multitude he went into a mountain, and

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when he was set his disciples came unto him. Well,

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if you go to the end of the sermon. You

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go to the end of the sermon. Matthew, Chapter seven,

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verse twenty eight. And it came to pass when Jesus

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had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his

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doctrine doesn't say the disciples, it says the people, meaning

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that the people not only heard the entire sermon, they

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were able to hear it so well that they could

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immediately compare it to everything else that they had ever

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been taught and anything else that they had ever been heard,

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meaning clearly that the multitudes heard it as well. So

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what should we take from this? That the audience for

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the sermon on the mount was everyone, the multitude and

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the disciples, Meaning then the purpose of the sermon has

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a purpose for both the multitude and the disciples. It

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wasn't just a message to the disciples. And not only that,

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the fact that Jesus went up into a mountain is

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very important, because Moses went up into a mountain to

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receive the law. Jesus now goes up into a mountain

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to expound and explain the true nature of the law.

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And both cases, the law has one specific purpose that

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we've talked about, right It demonstrates our inability to keep it.

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It crushes us, It condemns us, it convicts us. It

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doesn't matter if you are a Christian or not a Christian.

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When you look to the law, you see I cannot

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do this. I cannot keep this. It is impossible. Jesus

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wants to show that nobody can keep the law. In fact,

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he goes so far to say in the Sermon on

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the Mount that you are to be perfect as his

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heavenly Father is perfect, which no one can accomplish. When

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you get done with the Sermon on the Mount, your

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job is not to go I'm doing it. I think

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I'm doing it. I'm doing it enough to prove something. No,

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what it demonstrates is that you cannot obey it. You

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constantly fall short. But the one who preached it is

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the one who obeyed it, and his obedience is imputed

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to our account by faith alone. But all of that

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was ignored in the sermon. He just wanted it was

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the most bizarre thing. He connects passages to it that

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are not connected. He claims that these other events are

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the same event, whether they're not the same event, and

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then he ignores the text that clearly would demonstrate who

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the audience was. It was the people who responded to it,

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which was the crowd. The disciples are not even mentioned there.

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But so it was bizarre. We never even got to

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how we should interpret it. But you know what, it

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demonstrated that once again, two thousand years into church history

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and we still cannot agree on who the audience was

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for the summer, not the math. We can't even agree

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on that within Christianity, even when the text clearly tells us.

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to interpret the Bible are futile. It's vanity, it's meaningless

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because no matter what we no matter what tools we have,

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no matter it doesn't matter, because we are just going

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to constantly just interpret the Bible however we want, for

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whatever reason we want, and it's just going to be

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never ending disagreement. And it's that that's one of the

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most discouraging things, but it's just the reality. So here's

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what I want to do. It's now ten seventeen pm

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Central time here in West Texas. I don't know how

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I'm going to be if or how much I will

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be broadcasting over the next couple of days due to

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some situations. I don't know, So I felt like we

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got to finish this, right, I mean, come, don't we

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I mean all we did was cover the audience. We

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got to figure out what is their system of interpretation.

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he did some things with the audience here I don't

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think I've ever heard before. So then maybe he's got

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a new way of interpreting this summon. In the mind,

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he seems like he's already given it away. Though his

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interpretation is this is for you the Christian, and you

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should obey it, implying that you can. Which then well,

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let's see if he explains how we can pull this off.

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Are you ready? Here we go. I basically have it

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right right where we stopped in episode in the last episode.

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I didn't call it part one, but where we stopped

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in that last episode. Basically I was starting right there.

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I mean I backed it up maybe five seconds. Here

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we go.

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It is not addressed to Christians in general, but Christians

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in general would.

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Do well to obey it.

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But it was designed for a church that was gathered

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in gospel church order.

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This discourse is.

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Not a collection of moral or philosophical enlargements of the

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Law of Moses.

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This, okay, it's addressed to the church that's been gathered

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together in some kind of I guess goss spool order

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church order. I don't know how you even get this.

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this the church and that it's not really an enlargement

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on the law. Are you saying that Jesus is not

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expounding on the Law of Moses and he he's already

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implied that we can obey it. Let's just see where

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he goes with.

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This, Simonlius for his dear church gathered in gospel order,

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so that we can demonstrate true Christian character in the

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work of the ministry. Now, if you've been paying attention,

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we did answer the questions who, what, when, where and why.

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See, here's the thing. Your answers to who, what, where,

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when and why don't agree with anybody else's answers to who, what, where,

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when and why? Isn't that the most Can you even

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comprehend that that in Christianity we all claim the Bible's

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the final authority, But if we ask basic questions of

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the text, who, want, where, when? Why? Right, we can't

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still we don't even come to the same answers. How

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is that possible that you can take Christians open their Bible?

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Who want?

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his answers are completely different than mine. In fact, his

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answers are different than I think most of church history.

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And not only that, his answers are based on doing

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this weird cross referencing thing. Where oh that phrases he

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went up into the mountain, so that event has to

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be the same event. Well, how did you do that?

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And not only that, his who want where?

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How? Is based off ignoring the final two verses that

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conclude the sermon on the Mound and his cross referencing.

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He didn't even bother to go, well how does this end? No,

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I'm not gonna worry about that. I gotta go find

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phrases and say in the mountain and then say it's

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the same event. Because he has big thing is this

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is the church. This is the church gathered in proper

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gospel order. Don't know exactly what he means by that

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this is the church, the church, the church, the church,

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the church, the church and Matthew five and that it's

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supposed to show how that this is supposed to is

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how we demonstrate true Christian character. Right, So I guess

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to show true Christian character you have to obey the

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Sermon on the Mountain. I don't know one hundred percent.

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I don't know.

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Obviously, he seems to imply that we can keep it,

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which just goes against the entire history of the of

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especially coming out out of Catholicism. But okay, let's let's

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see what happens.

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Well, I don't know if I got the how yet,

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but we did get all the w's in there. This

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sermon needs to be preached because it is. It has

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a vibrant and timely message to the Church of the

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Lord Jesus Christ. It is not limited by two thousand

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years ago. This ought to be applied to every Church

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of the Lord Jesus.

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It would solve all of our problems.

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See that we are a complete disagreement. The Sermon on

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the Mount doesn't solve all of our problems. The Sermon

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on the Mount reveals our one problem. It doesn't solve

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our problems. It reveals the problem. The sermon the Law

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doesn't fix our problem. It reveals our problem, and what

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fixes it is the imputed righteousness of Christ. The Sermon

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on the Mount doesn't fix our problem. The Sermon on

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the Mount reveals that we have a problem. We are

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sinners who are incapable of keeping God's law. We cannot

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reach the righteousness that God demands, so we are condemned

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by it. We are driven to across. Christ says, I

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have obeyed everything in the law, all of it. I

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have fulfilled every part of the law, every jot and

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tittle I have fulfilled. He fulfilled it for us by

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putting our faith in Him. His obedience to the law

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is imputed to my account in Christ. Then I am

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a perfect law keeper. In practice, I continue to be

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a law breaker perpetually. So his entire understanding of the

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Sermon on the Mountain is completely contrary. If we'll just

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obey it, we'll solve all of our problems. Well, if

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we could just obey it, we wouldn't need Christ. We

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need Christ before we're saved. We need Christ after we

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say we're saved. Because our hope is never in our

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ability to do it, because we don't possess the ability

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to do it. Our hope is in Christ, who did

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it for us.

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If we would be obedient to this sermon. The churches

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are not brick and mortar. This church does not consist

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of the walls around it, the Church of.

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Jesus Christ, it tells.

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Them first Peter Chapter two, verse two versus Firs. Peter

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Chapter two, verse five. I'll get it right as lively stones.

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Always find it interesting? This is very true in the

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in the non Catholic world, we love to constantly say,

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the church is not brick and mortar. The church is

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not a building. The church is not a place. The

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church is the people. However, we sure spend a lot

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of money maintaining those brick and mortar place We do

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a lot. We raise a lot of money to build them.

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of money to keep up keeping. Again, I tell everyone

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every single time, just figure out how much money it

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takes to keep your church operating for one single year.

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church operating. That's a lot of money, a lot of time,

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a lot of effort to keep it operating. And then

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you have to ask, what are you actually getting from

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all is what you're obtaining from the church? Does it

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equal anything close to the amount of money that's going

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to keep it operating, and what I have seen over

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and over and over, the amount of teaching output from

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most churches don't really justify all the money it goes

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to keep them going, because in many cases, someone sitting

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in a room somewhere with a microphone, a Bible, and

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an internet connection and some platforms to broadcast on can

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put far more put out more teaching, more doctrine, theology,

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discussion questions, answers, Bible study, devotional sermons. I mean, you

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just name it. They can put out far more than

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what the church puts out, and they can do so

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for a considerable less amount of money. So it's weird

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because the church constantly says we're not a brick The

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church is not the brick and mortar. The church is

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not brick and mortar. Well, then if we're churches not

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brick and mortar, why do we spend all so much

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time and maintaining these places that's not the church. Well,

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the people have to come together. The people have to

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come together for what we come together so that we

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can give money to maintain that building. That's not the church.

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I constantly struggle with this. The church is not brick

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and mortar. The church is not brick and mortar. However,

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we need this much money to keep it going. We

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need this. We have to pay this bill, and we

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have to pay this bill and this bill, and you

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name the church, and I don't say this in a

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and this is just not even about me. Anyone with

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a connection like I have, with an Internet connection like

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I have, with a computer like I have, and a

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microphone like I have, and you just pick a couple

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of platforms to broadcast on. If you're dedicated or even

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remotely committed, you can put forth more content in a

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year than that brick and mortar church will ever come

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close to putting out. In fact, you can put them

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to shame. But guess what I mean. I don't know

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how much it takes to keep a church operating. You

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can figure it out. But if I would, if you

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take the probably the average amount it keeps to keep

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a church operating for a year, if I was to

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receive half of that money, half of that money, half

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of that money, I'd be set. I'd be set for

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a long time, right, because it doesn't take that much.

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I mean, other than if the person broadcasting wants to

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get paid to any extent, but even he could get

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paid a good amount, and what it takes to a

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half of what it takes to keep a church operating.

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So it's just I constantly hear the church is not

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the building. The church is not the building. The church

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is not the building. The church is not the building.

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The church is not the building. Hey, please come to

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our services at ten am. We'll be meeting here. And oh,

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when we passed the offering plate, consider giving, because well,

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oh yeah, it costs to keep this building, which is

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not the church operating. It just seems I know people

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can say, well, because you're misunderstanding. I understand. I'm saying

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if you just break it down, you remove all of

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the spiritual language and all of the Christianese, and you

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just break down the concept. The church is not the building.

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The church is the people. Okay, all right, but we've

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got to maintain the building so that the people have

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a place to go. Why do they go to that place. Well,

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if you're a non sacramental church, you go to that

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place for the teaching. Well if you go to the

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place for the teaching, well what is the how much

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teaching is that church outputting? Based on the amount of

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money that they are receiving. Well, in some places you

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get maybe, you know, you maybe get a Sunday school lesson.

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it'll be okay, maybe you'll get forty five men. I mean,

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and you sometimes I don't even have a Sunday night.

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Sometimes I don't even have a Wednesday night. Then they

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may cancel a service for this, or cancel a service

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for that, cancel a service for this. I mean, Ray,

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I know that this is not the point here. And

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this is why we do sermon reviews, because you never

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know what the point is going to be. It's just

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he once again makes that point. Just consider how many

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times you have been told the church is not the building.

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The church is not the building. The church is not

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the building. The church is the people. The people. The

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people are the body of Christ. The people, the people.

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It's not a building. It's not a building. All right, Now,

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what what do you do with that?

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It's a lively stone. You go out there, you see

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a stone that's flopping around on the ground.

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There thought no.

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Lively here is an adjective. It's describing the stone. It

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is a living stone. It is a living stone, are

472
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built up into a spiritual house. The Church of Jesus

473
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.079
Christ is a spiritual house, and you and I are

474
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living stones that make up the structure and the holy priesthood.

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What to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable unto Jesus Christ.

476
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We have no other sacrifice to offer.

477
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Are the spiritual ones, sacrifice of thanksgiving, sacrifices of praise, sacrifices.

478
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Of holiness and holy living and good works. That's what we.

479
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Offer up in this priesthood and as living stones.

480
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It is a church of.

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Redeemed and baptized people whom in Ephesians chapter two, verse

482
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twenty two, he says, whom ye also are building to

483
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get together for inhabitation of God through the Spirit.

484
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What does that mean? The Church of Jesus Christ.

485
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:05.319
There's a place where God has a special dwelling, He dwells.

486
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He says that this, the spiritual building, is a habitation

487
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of God through the spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells upon

488
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his churches in a special way.

489
00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:24.599
The Holy Spirit dwells on his churches in a special way. Wait,

490
00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:28.960
the church is not the building, but the Holy Spirit

491
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:34.200
dwells in a special way on the churches on the

492
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:38.920
people or on the building. If the church isn't the building,

493
00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:46.759
but the Holy Spirit dwells, it gets always confounding and

494
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:49.000
confusing when I start hearing people do this kind of

495
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weird double like the church is not the building, but

496
00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:56.160
the Holy Spirit dwells specially on the building or on

497
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the people. So because the people are the church, the

498
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.039
Holy Spirit dwell especially when we come together in the

499
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:08.480
building or even if we're apart, Like is it the people,

500
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:09.839
is it the building? What? What?

501
00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:10.680
What? Is it?

502
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:20.519
In a special way, a unique way.

503
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But we are instructed of Paul like Timothy that we

504
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may as know how we ought us to behave ourself

505
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in the House of God and to love the brethren fervently. See,

506
00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:34.640
there's a there's a decorum.

507
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In the Church of God.

508
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How we conduct ourselves is in the Church of God,

509
00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.720
and it isn't according to tradition, But there are good

510
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:46.920
traditions that we have and we ought to practice. But

511
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.759
we are there's a decorum and how we do things,

512
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and there is a way in which we practice our

513
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faith and it is New Testament.

514
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If it isn't in the New Testament.

515
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We should never do it, ever do it? Which should

516
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never consider it, which would never be brought up in a

517
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business meeting. I'll tell you, I'll tell.

518
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You, this is an interesting introduction to the Sermon on

519
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the Mount. It is bizarre how now the Sermon on

520
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the Mount is turned into ecclesiology. I am so confused here.

521
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:27.559
I don't know what any of this has to do

522
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with the Sermon on the Mount. Literally nothing. He's just

523
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made the assumption that the Sermon on the Mount's preached

524
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to the church. He just made it. He didn't prove anything,

525
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:39.079
He didn't come anything close to proving that nothing. Because

526
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the text the sermon is reacted to by the multitude.

527
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But supposedly this is the gathering of the church and

528
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Gospel order. So now he's just going into all this

529
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stuff about the church, the church, the church, the church,

530
00:30:50.759 --> 00:30:52.640
but it has nothing to do with the Sermon on

531
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the Mound. He's going all of this on the assumption

532
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that the Sermon them Mount was addressed to the church.

533
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:06.319
But all of that's just been presupposed upon the text.

534
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You do, I'll say, brother, we're not going to do

535
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that because we don't find any instructions in the Word

536
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:16.799
of God. We don't have any leeway now there are

537
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.799
things that we can do where we have freedom to do,

538
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:24.920
but there are things that we don't have freedom to do.

539
00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:29.799
So is he going with the regulative principle the normative principle,

540
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We can only do what is explicitly found in scripture

541
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and well only in the New Testament. So that's clearly

542
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the normative is you can do anything that's not specifically condemned.

543
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So do we have freedom or do we If it's

544
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the regulative principle, You're only free to do what is

545
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.640
specifically instructed. You're not free to do anything other than that,

546
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and not even really wouldn't be freedom. You're really being commanded, right,

547
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So the regulative principle, the normative principle, I don't know,

548
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:04.559
I don't know what. And this has to do with

549
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:06.720
the Sermon on the mount But okay, let's see if

550
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.200
I'm still waiting to see if we get an interpretive

551
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:11.440
framework for the Sermon on the Mountain.

552
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:16.599
That the Bible specifically tells us how to conduct ourself

553
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:20.920
as a church, as a as living stones and the

554
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habitation of God through the spirit. Jesus also said, behold,

555
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I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves.

556
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Be therefore wise the serpents and harmless as doves.

557
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.640
What is bizarre here is that this is an introduction

558
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.240
to the Sermon on the Mound, and almost everything he

559
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has quoted from if you were to go write down

560
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:49.640
every scripture that's been quoted, almost none of them is

561
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.880
from Matthew five, six or seven. He quoted Matthew five

562
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to one. He made some reference to the Beatitudes, but

563
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he actually pulled that from Luke six, and it did

564
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:07.440
a weird thing from that. It's just the weirdest introduction

565
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.079
to the Sermon of the Mount. He's not provided an

566
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.160
observational outline of the Sermon on the Mount. He's not

567
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:17.200
provided a interpretive framework for the Sermon on the Mount.

568
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He's not even if he wanted to go with an

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interpretive outline. He's not provided an interpretive outline. He's not

570
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:28.279
provided a breakdown, he's not provided historical context. He's not

571
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even really provided textual context, because the other text he

572
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went to is not even related to what he's saying

573
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it's related to. So at this point, this has this

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this this would be nothing like your typical intro to

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the Sermon on the Mount. I mean, if you but

576
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there's plenty of time left for him to do some

577
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of those things.

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Do you know. That's how the Sermon on the Mount

579
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teaches us how we can be why serpents and harmless

580
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as doves. It's right there in the Sermon on the Mount.

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In this sermon, we have nine blessednesses of the Redeemed.

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These we learn. By these we learn we have every

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advantage over the flesh, by not just over the flesh,

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but over the devil, and over the world. By these

585
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.400
we learn the true character, heart and mind of a

586
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true follower of Jesus Christ. When the scripture says, let

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this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

588
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these blessednesses reveal the mind of.

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Christ and the heart of our Savior.

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When he taught them, he was revailing to the disciples

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his mind and his heart.

592
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I said, this is how you're going to live in

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the world.

594
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This is how I'm gonna care for you. This does

595
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how I'm gonna watch over you.

596
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Okay, So finally he's getting to the Sermon on the Mount.

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What's kind of fascinating here He says that the beatitudes

598
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show us that we have every advantage over the flesh

599
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the devil and the world. I am somewhat baffled by

600
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.440
this approach, so I did have to ask Ai about this.

601
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So I asked Ai well why he was saying that

602
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It says this. The beatitudes describe the characteristics and blessings

603
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:36.360
of those who belong to the Kingdom of God. The

604
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.199
question is whether they indicate that believers have every advantage

605
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:41.119
over the flesh the devil in the world. Do the

606
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:44.480
beatitude show we have every advantage over the flesh the

607
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.199
devil in the world. No, not in the way that

608
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guarantee immediate victory or superiority over these forces. And said,

609
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:54.360
the beatitudes emphasize humility and suffering and dependence on God

610
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rather than personal strength or dominance over sin and opposition.

611
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.360
And I will argue that these beatitudes are really show

612
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.280
us here's what we Here's what we should be. If

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you want to be blessed, you have to be this.

614
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:12.840
Blessed Are the poor and spirit blessed?

615
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:13.119
Are they?

616
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.679
The morn blessed? Are the meek blessed? Are they which

617
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:20.719
do hunger and thirst after righteousness? Blessed? Are the merciful blessed?

618
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:23.719
Are the pure in heart? When you get to blessed

619
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are the pure in heart. You know what your response

620
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:30.320
should be. I'm never going to be blessed because I'm

621
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:32.559
never going to be pure in heart because I still

622
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:35.960
have a sinful heart even after salvation. And I'm never

623
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.599
going to be truly blessed because do I truly hunger

624
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:42.920
and thirst after righteousness? If you truly hunger and thirsted

625
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:47.000
after righteousness, then you would not be desiring sin. But

626
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:49.800
you know you desire sin. You know you sin, you

627
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:52.400
know you're not pure in heart, so immediately you'd be like,

628
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.039
I'm in trouble. So then you either create a scenario

629
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:56.760
where I'm going to try to do this. I'm going

630
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:58.599
to try to do this because i want to be blessed,

631
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.440
or I want to be blessed, or you realize, Hm,

632
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:06.519
there is one person. The blessed person is Jesus Christ,

633
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:12.400
who this all fits, who he was, his character, his attributes,

634
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:16.559
and in Christ, I am blessed with all spiritual blessings.

635
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:20.960
So in Christ, I am blessed not based on me

636
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.840
meeting these requirements, but based on the fact that He

637
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:30.639
meets those requirements. Unless you water these down until you

638
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:33.159
can feel like you do them, and then you can

639
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:36.519
convince yourself you're blessed not based off what God has done,

640
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:41.280
but bless blessed based off what you do. Well, then

641
00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:44.159
if you are blessed based off what you do, then

642
00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:52.599
how do we understand that in relation to blessed be

643
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:54.719
the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who

644
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.920
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places

645
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:05.079
in Christ. If I already have all spiritual blessings in Christ,

646
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.239
then are you gonna say the blessings here that I

647
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:10.079
supposedly get based off what I do are different than

648
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:13.599
all the spiritual blessings I already have in Christ. I

649
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:17.519
will argue, we have the blessings in Christ. Christ is

650
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:21.039
the blessed person. Christ is the blessed person in Psalm one,

651
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.880
He's the blessed person in Matthew five. It's in him.

652
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.599
When I see what's required for me to be blessed,

653
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.519
I'm never going to get there, because I'm always going

654
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:34.159
to fall short. It's just like if you go to

655
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Psal one. If you go to ps one, I mean,

656
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:41.039
look at the requirements to be blessed. Uh bless uh

657
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blessed is the man that walketh not in the council

658
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:44.719
of the ungully, nor sendeth in the way of sinner,

659
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.920
nor sendeth in said the scornful. But his delight is

660
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:48.920
in the Lord and the law. Doth he meditate day

661
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:50.719
and night. If you're truly gonna be blessed, you have

662
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.400
to meditate on God's word day and night. Now I

663
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:56.679
know what people do. They water that down and they say, well,

664
00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:58.800
if you'll do a morning devotion, all that'll give you

665
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:01.119
something to think about, And they try to water down

666
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:04.000
the requirement so that you can possibly do it. Don't

667
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:08.280
water down the requirement. It's a law passage. Any passage

668
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.320
that tells you to do something, it is law. And

669
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:14.000
you know what those law passages demonstrate over and over

670
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.599
and over. It puts forth a standard. It puts forth

671
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:19.880
a requirement which you cannot meet. So what you're supposed

672
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.840
to do is be broken over it a yell scream

673
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:26.159
out to God in a spiritual cry for help, saying Lord,

674
00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:29.639
I cannot. And then God says, I know you can't,

675
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:33.039
But I said, my son who did, who not only

676
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:36.440
could he? Not only can he? He did? And by

677
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:40.519
putting your faith in him, his obedience him doing all

678
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:43.360
of these things. You can be blessed in him. That's

679
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.360
the only way it works. Or everything else. You either

680
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:48.800
have to convince yourself you're better than you are, you

681
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:51.920
have to lie, or you have to sow water down

682
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:56.519
the requirement. Then anybody can do it, and then you're

683
00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.119
actually destroying and changing God's law.

684
00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:08.280
These blessedness reveal our reward for having such a mind

685
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.440
and a heart. The true happiness of the believer lies

686
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:19.400
in these nine blessednesses. You want to be happy, follow

687
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these nine blessedness is called the beatitudes. I was reading

688
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:31.199
the other day that, in fact, it bears it out

689
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:39.440
in Ecclesiastes. Men are searching for something that will make

690
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them happy. Men aren't happy men, and I say, mankind

691
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:48.480
men and women, children, We're not happy just living the

692
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mundane lives that we live.

693
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We want something more, we.

694
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Want something exciting, we want something different. We're just not fulfilled. Yeh,

695
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:05.920
there's something missing. We need to find out what's missing. Thus,

696
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:09.920
we have all the sports, and not only that, that

697
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:10.679
wasn't enough.

698
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:17.639
We got to go to extreme sports. We have all

699
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:18.840
these uh.

700
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:24.599
Entertainment yeah, uh, it's like six flags and and and

701
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:29.000
these what are that? Yeah, Disney, I all those places,

702
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.960
because people need to be entertained. They want something more

703
00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:37.920
than what they've got. They're not content with their lives,

704
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:40.639
they're not content with what God has given us. They

705
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:42.679
want something more and more and more.

706
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.519
What is a script to say? The eyes are never satisfied.

707
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:50.280
We see something and we want more, and we want

708
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more and we want more.

709
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.280
Right, you're you're describing the sinful condition of all of us,

710
00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:01.320
even you Christians. And you can't do it, I asked Ai.

711
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:04.159
AI said, are you ready? Here's what Ai said about

712
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:08.119
the beatitudes. Each beatitude presents an ideal that goes beyond

713
00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:11.239
human capability in our fallen state. If we take them

714
00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:16.519
as a requirement for receiving blessings, then no one would qualify.

715
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:23.360
Ai understand, you can't do these. You can't, but the

716
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:26.719
church constantly we can't, we can't, but then says, but

717
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.400
we have. Our eyes are never satisfied, and we do

718
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.079
this and we do it. But we can do this.

719
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:33.320
So do we do this? Or do we do this?

720
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:36.400
Because on one hand, it's like, so what its ultimately

721
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.559
turns into? All of those bad people are never satisfied,

722
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:42.159
They never can do it, but we we can and

723
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:44.000
we obey the Sermon on the Mount, and we get

724
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:46.159
the blessings. See, we're the blessed people because we're good,

725
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:48.719
we're better, we do things right. All of you other

726
00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:50.880
people are not blessed, and your lives are terrible and

727
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.960
falling apart. It's because you're trash and your garbage and

728
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.840
you're not as good as us. Now, no pastor will

729
00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.719
ever preach it that way. But if you listen, that's

730
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:04.159
base the message, which is completely not the message of

731
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.320
the Sermon on the Mount. He's got the who, what, where, when,

732
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.119
and how completely wrong in this passage in light of

733
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:17.679
just the text, reason, logic, reality history. But guess what

734
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:19.599
you know what that it doesn't mean. I'm not saying

735
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:21.360
you should agree with me. What I want you to

736
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.840
demonstrate is that two thousand years of church history, nobody

737
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:31.840
agrees on the Sermon on the Mount, And.

738
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:37.000
When we don't get it, there's despair. Disparity creeps in.

739
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.880
Then there's the use of alcohol and drugs and other.

740
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:43.079
Things because we aren't getting enough out of our life.

741
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:43.719
We want more.

742
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:51.880
It's satisfied in the attitudes. The blessedness is the happiness

743
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.280
that we want and need are found in the Holy scriptures.

744
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.840
And if you, as don't believer, are just satisfied on despair,

745
00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:03.239
then you need to go back to the scriptures.

746
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:03.920
You need to go.

747
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.840
Back to the beatitudes and start following them so that

748
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.159
you're gonna have happiness in this life.

749
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:14.960
See so happiness is dependent on your ability to obey

750
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.800
what God says you are to obey. See this is

751
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:21.639
there's no, there's nothing. This is not the gospel, this

752
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:23.880
is not This is simply you want to be happy,

753
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:27.239
do what God tells you to do. You can do it,

754
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.800
do it and you'll be happy. It's just a works

755
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.559
based system.

756
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:30.760
No.

757
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:33.360
The reality is when God tells you to do something,

758
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.320
it's not because you can, it's because you can't. And

759
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.519
you are to see that be broken and crushed. I'm

760
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.079
about to knock the microphone across the room. You're gonna

761
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.039
be broken and crushed. And then run to Christ. And

762
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:46.280
then in Christ you'll find out you'll find the person

763
00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:48.559
who can do it, who did do it, who did

764
00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:50.800
obey it, And by putting your faith in him, his

765
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.559
obedience is you. And then you are blessed in Christ,

766
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:56.079
not by what you do, but by what He did

767
00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:00.239
it's see, we're not even preaching the same gospel. It's

768
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.719
like this message is in a completely different Christian universe

769
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:08.000
than I'm in. We are not in the same Christianity

770
00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:11.880
in any way, shape or form. It's like two completely

771
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:13.559
different Christianities.

772
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:21.199
And in the next you have to start with Blessed

773
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:22.320
are the poor.

774
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:26.559
I know he didn't mean it that way, but he said,

775
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:28.400
you'll be Basically, if you want to be happy in

776
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:30.559
this life, obey this and you'll be happy in this

777
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.320
life and in the next. So you ain't. My happiness

778
00:45:33.320 --> 00:45:35.440
in the next life is dependent on my obedience in

779
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.800
this life. You see that gets really really. I know

780
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.239
that's not how he meant it. I know I'm not

781
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:41.880
I'm going to give him credit. I'm not going to

782
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:44.360
accuse him of saying that it's you get to heaven

783
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.800
by works. I know that's not what he means, but

784
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.519
that's how it comes across. No, my happiness in the

785
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:52.239
next life is dependent upon what Christ did. In fact,

786
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.840
if I really want to be honest, my happiness in

787
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.480
this life is more dependent upon what Christ did, not

788
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.679
in what I do. Because if it's based on what

789
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:03.320
I do, then your Christian life will be a never

790
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:08.400
ending attempt to try to obey that which you cannot obey,

791
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:18.079
and you're gonna live in a perpetual state of frustration, disillusionment, discouragement, despair, worry, anxiety, fear,

792
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:21.960
because you're gonna be like, what's wrong with me? That's

793
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:23.400
no way to live your life.

794
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:28.920
Next week, if I get through this sermon today, I'm

795
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.960
gonna be preaching on poor Man rich Man next week

796
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:37.239
first beatitude. So all you people that are from out

797
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:43.559
of town, you're gonna have to come all the way back. No,

798
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:47.119
we'll we'll be on Facebook. We'll get these things up

799
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:51.039
on our if you go to our website, plug it

800
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:54.639
in here. We at a Baptist church dot org. We

801
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:57.480
got a sermon's page, and we're gonna get these all

802
00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:59.719
up on that sermon's page so you can listen to

803
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:01.079
those sermons at your leisure.

804
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:05.559
No, wait, why will you tell people to go to

805
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:08.639
sermon audio dot com. That's kind of weird, But okay,

806
00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:10.960
I guess if you just have a direct link again. Okay,

807
00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:13.119
just looks like I'd be telling everyone get the sermon's

808
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.920
two point oh app or go to sermon audio, because

809
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:18.400
then you cannot only hear his Not only could people

810
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:22.400
then hear my sermons, they could hear all the other sermons. Right,

811
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:23.920
wouldn't you want people to go?

812
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:34.079
I don't know, but okay, this sermon teaches us how

813
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:38.960
to pray. The disciples rightly desire to know how to pray,

814
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:44.320
they said, Lord, teach us to pray. And we ought

815
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.039
to have a desire to pray as God's people, We

816
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:50.760
ought to want to pray. God is God is not

817
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:54.000
a Santa Claus that we go to with our list

818
00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:56.320
and we say, Lord, I'd like to have this, and.

819
00:47:56.239 --> 00:47:58.320
I'd like to have that, and and.

820
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:00.960
Was I a good enough person to get this too?

821
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:02.639
Or am I going to get a lump of cole?

822
00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:05.760
You know, we sometimes we go to God with some

823
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.119
kind of a as if he's a Santa Claus, as

824
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:11.519
if we use the right formula, we could turn on

825
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:17.480
the tap and get what we want. But he teaches

826
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:23.000
the disciples how to pray our Father, which are in heaven.

827
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:26.719
Hallowed, Holy be thy name.

828
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:34.079
You approach God as a holy, almighty, sovereign God. He

829
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:35.519
is not a Santa Claus.

830
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:37.119
He is not a daddy.

831
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:40.079
He is not your pal and your buddy. He is

832
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:42.280
the God of the universe.

833
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.599
Who created everything and created.

834
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:50.719
You, and we go before him with great reverence. However,

835
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:58.280
he listens to his children as they pray, and he

836
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:04.719
answers their prayers. Is a sovereign God of power and

837
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.519
might that will do whethersoever he will among the inhabitants

838
00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:12.239
of the earth, and we are his emissaries, the people

839
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:16.559
of God, to proclaim the true Gospel. Therefore, whatsoever we need,

840
00:49:16.599 --> 00:49:20.679
he will gladly supply in our work for him. Whatever

841
00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:24.880
we need to say and supply for gospel ministry.

842
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:25.960
He'll give it to us freely.

843
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:32.039
Let us walk in faith, and we shall receive of

844
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.559
his hand. Listen to what our Waldensian brethren wrote a

845
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:37.960
thousand years.

846
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:39.800
Ago about this prayer.

847
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.480
He said the lords, They said, the Lord's prayer are

848
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:50.639
contained seven petitions, breath in words, but weighty in large

849
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:53.960
in a and large in the sense of their meeting.

850
00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:56.960
Again, that this prayer can.

851
00:49:56.840 --> 00:50:01.480
Be can scarce be sufficiently expounded by all the doctors

852
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:04.880
in the world in these seven petitions or request or

853
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:10.719
contain all things necessary for this present life.

854
00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:17.480
There's a weird introduction to this. There's no breakdown. He's

855
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:20.679
not offering any structure he's not offering he's not even

856
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:24.440
offering an interpretive system. It's like it's so weird, Like

857
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:28.519
I've never heard an introduction that doesn't actually do an introduction.

858
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:30.679
This is like, here's an introduction to the Sermon on

859
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:32.559
the Mound. And I'm not going to really break this

860
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:36.679
down in any meaningful structure anything. I'm not going to

861
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:38.760
give you an observational outline. I'm not going to give

862
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:40.800
you a structure outline. I'm not going to point out

863
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.239
the literary devices that he's used. I'm not going to

864
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.760
point out the genre of literature that's being spoken of.

865
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:48.239
I'm not going to give you history. I'm not going

866
00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:52.800
to give you textual context. It is just bizarre. I've

867
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.719
never I mean, this is not how you do any

868
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:58.280
introduction at all. I mean, if you look at if

869
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.480
you're taking any if you take any course of of

870
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:05.719
for any book, and you do the introduction to the book,

871
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:09.440
if you've taken to forget Bible, college, Bible Institute, or

872
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:12.639
even seminary, forget that just if you if you get

873
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:21.840
a I'll just look down. Here, here's here's the large print.

874
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:25.079
Winter twenty twenty four twenty five explore the Bible Personal

875
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:28.599
Study Guide Exodus and Leviticus. Well, if I just go

876
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:32.440
right here, okay, the first Biblical background gives me all

877
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:38.400
the background to Exodus, then it gives me understand the context,

878
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:41.639
gives me one, two, three, four or five paragraphs on

879
00:51:41.679 --> 00:51:45.599
the context. Okay, I mean even that gives me some

880
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.079
basic breakdown. But most study Bibles will give you a

881
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.360
breakdown at least something. I mean, there's got to be

882
00:51:51.400 --> 00:51:53.920
some kind of like, I don't even understand this. It's

883
00:51:54.000 --> 00:52:00.360
just like, well, here's a section. It's just I don't

884
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.400
don't you have to see the big picture before you

885
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.400
can uh study the individual pert That's a basic principle, right, Okay,

886
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:12.719
we're gonna give you an overview. We're gonna break this down, all.

887
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:21.039
Right, And that which is to come. This sermon instructs

888
00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:30.159
us of what our desire should be, that we be

889
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:35.039
not consumed or deceived by the world and its many attractions.

890
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:41.039
Because we are instructed be not deceived. God is not

891
00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:45.320
mocked what's over man, So with that shall he also

892
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:50.039
reap We can be self deceived. Did you know that

893
00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.079
we are the best people at convincing us that we

894
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:55.039
know what we're doing?

895
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:00.920
Why this is this is the right thing for me

896
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:01.199
to do.

897
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:04.159
There's a right path to go on, and we convince

898
00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:07.360
ourselves and we justify ourselves that that's the right thing

899
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.239
to do, and we can deceive ourself. We can deceive

900
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:16.400
ourself and our religion because our religion makes us feel good.

901
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:18.920
You know, I don't want you coming here to church

902
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:26.400
of feeling good when I'm done. I don't want to

903
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:31.199
be the source of your happiness, say preacher, But I

904
00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:36.360
want to feel good when you're done. No, my job

905
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.000
as a preacher is to preach the word of God,

906
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:42.840
and the Holy Spirit will work in your hearts and

907
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:46.440
deal with your hearts after whatever your sin and problems

908
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.320
and difficulties and trials are, God will deal with you

909
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:52.639
with about that. And that may not make you very happy.

910
00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.239
But then on the other hand, you might find something

911
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:59.719
discerning that makes you rejoice with great joy unspeakable, say glory,

912
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.519
Thank God for his Christ, Thank you Lord.

913
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:04.360
For the blessing of my precious Word.

914
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:08.559
So either you're gonna feel really great when you leave

915
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:09.440
it really miserable.

916
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:18.159
Just to follow our theme of Ai versus sermons, I

917
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.599
just asked AI to give me an over basic breakdown

918
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.079
overview of the Sermon on the Mount, and it gave

919
00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:27.920
me a basic introduction. It broke it down the Sermon

920
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:34.199
on the Mount into one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

921
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:37.239
ten parts. Then it broke down a basic summary of

922
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.239
each chapter five, six, and seven, then gave me final

923
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:46.000
thoughts with three points. And it did that in about

924
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:51.719
seven seconds, while we listened to a sermon that's fifty minutes,

925
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:55.679
and in fifty minutes, we still don't have how you're

926
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.519
supposed to interpret it. We don't have We've got it

927
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:02.760
wrong on standing of the audience. We've got a complete

928
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:05.559
misunderstanding of actually what the Sermon on the Mount is about.

929
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:09.760
We've got a complete misunderstanding of the beatitudes. And we

930
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:14.239
still don't have any idea of structure or anything like that.

931
00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:25.679
We don't have anything. Yes, I've got the antithy Okay,

932
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:27.360
I've got I'm just looking at all the things that

933
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:30.280
it's off. I could I could break down the entire

934
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:31.960
Sermon on the Mount right now if you wanted me to.

935
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:37.039
But I mean, AI did it in literally seven seconds. Well,

936
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:41.320
once again, we continue to compare AI to sermons, and

937
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:49.840
AI outperforms every single time. I guess we'll wrap this up.

938
00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:53.519
Obviously we're not going to get anywhere. Obviously, I mean

939
00:55:53.679 --> 00:56:01.840
we're I I don't I don't even I don't know

940
00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:05.199
what to say.

941
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:07.880
That won't be my fault. You talk to the Lord

942
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:08.679
about that, o day.

943
00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:13.960
It is also a.

944
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:19.320
Sermon of warning and judgment, with instructions that identifying the

945
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:23.119
wicked deceiver who would attempt to destroy the true churches

946
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of Christ, having corrupt fruit and claiming.

947
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To be disciples of Christ.

948
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.719
There are many who claim to be great preachers, and oh,

949
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they've got a great, great you know, their doctor so

950
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and so, and they've got a great litany, and they've

951
00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:37.679
written great books, and they've done all these things.

952
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:39.280
Yet they're deceivers.

953
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And the Bible says you shall know them.

954
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By their fruit.

955
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And he tells us that in this sermon we need

956
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:49.599
to pay attention so that we be not deceved by

957
00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:51.320
the evil workers who.

958
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.239
Sound good, who look like sheep and really aren't.

959
00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:00.400
We're also instructed in this sermon of God's great here

960
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.679
over his beloved people in supplying those things needful for us.

961
00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:06.679
Even more if we.

962
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:11.440
But ask him, he takes care of his people. We

963
00:57:11.559 --> 00:57:15.239
don't need to fret, be anxious, and worry about things.

964
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.599
By the sermon, we learn how to live with our

965
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:22.119
adversaries and how to conduct our business in this wretched

966
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:24.880
and destitute world. We are children of the King, and

967
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:27.679
therefore we are always to take the high road in

968
00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:31.679
all moral, obligatory and statutory responsibilities.

969
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:32.760
The high road.

970
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.679
We don't cheat, we don't steal, We speak the truth

971
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:41.800
and everything that we do because we're God's children.

972
00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:46.199
We learn that in.

973
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:50.199
This So he's just kind of going through and picking

974
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:52.840
different sections and just saying, do it, do it, do it,

975
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:54.599
do it, do it, do it, do it, do it,

976
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.719
do it, do it, which is law, law, law, law law.

977
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:02.719
We've yet to hear any gospel. He's yet to say

978
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:05.280
you can't do it. It's just you can't do it.

979
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.559
You can do it, you can do it, you can

980
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:13.239
do it. You can do it. Even AI when I

981
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:15.159
told them to break it all the way down. Look

982
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:19.239
what AI says at the very end, we cannot meet

983
00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:25.360
this standard on our own. Hey, I has now said

984
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:29.960
multiple times, AI understand that it is putting forth an

985
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:33.719
ethical standard in which we cannot meet. We cannot keep.

986
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:35.239
Right.

987
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:38.199
I'm going to stop there. We're almost at an hour. Again,

988
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.960
you say, well, where this kind of falls, I kind

989
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:44.920
of fall. I don't know where it falls in. Since

990
00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:46.679
he's not really I'm not going to place it in

991
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:49.760
any of the eleven I could probably I can make

992
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:51.679
it fit in. I can say it. It's a little

993
00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:54.199
bit like this. But he never bothered to give us

994
00:58:54.400 --> 00:59:02.480
a pilological framework or an interpretive framework. Yeah, I don't know.

995
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:05.360
That's the strangest introduction maybe I've ever heard on the

996
00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:08.400
Sermon on the Mount. Maybe it may be all that

997
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:11.599
time spent on supposedly the who, what, where, when, hell?

998
00:59:12.760 --> 00:59:15.559
And he didn't really answer any of the questions, and

999
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:19.320
his attempt to answer the questions was based off connecting

1000
00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:21.800
passages that are not connected to it. Like it was

1001
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:27.000
just I don't know, I don't even know what to say.

1002
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:33.039
There you go, I don't know, I don't know. But

1003
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you can go listen to the twenty three twenty four

1004
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:36.960
hours we've already done on the Sermon on the Mount,

1005
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:38.800
and you can go listen to all the things we've

1006
00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:41.199
struggled with. Maybe we'll do some more work on the

1007
00:59:41.199 --> 00:59:43.800
Sermon on the Mount and some other time. It's just

1008
00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:45.920
I say it all the time, it's one of the

1009
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:50.280
most misinterpreted mishandled passages in the entire Bible. It's just

1010
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.320
constantly the way it's preached is matt As much as

1011
00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:55.760
I get frustrated with how Isaiah forty through fifty five

1012
00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:58.599
is mishandled, I think if we if we we've been

1013
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:01.280
listening to sermon after sermon on Isaiah forty through fifty five,

1014
01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.320
and it's just like, it's amazing, we can't find one

1015
01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:05.800
that even attempts to try to handle it correctly. I

1016
01:00:05.800 --> 01:00:08.000
think if we did the same thing with Matthew five

1017
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:10.199
through seven, we could spend months and by the end

1018
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:13.599
of it we would be we would just be exhausted

1019
01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:18.000
thinking why is this so difficult to be handled? But

1020
01:00:18.840 --> 01:00:27.519
it's I don't know. You can't ever, You've just pastors

1021
01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:32.000
just constantly interpret things the way your theological team tells

1022
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.760
you you have to interpret thing. That's why I can't

1023
01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:36.639
stand theological teams. That's why I can't stand it. It's

1024
01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:39.000
supposed to be about the text, but it really isn't. So,

1025
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.920
ladies and gentlemen, I'll just say this sermon on them

1026
01:00:43.920 --> 01:00:49.360
mount puts forth the standard of God, which demands perfection

1027
01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:55.199
which demands a righteousness which you cannot achieve. You will

1028
01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:59.039
never achieve it in practice. But the one who preached

1029
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:02.360
it obeyed it perfectly. By putting your faith in him.

1030
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:06.159
His obedience to this sermon is impeded to your account,

1031
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:10.400
and you're declared perfect, righteous, and holy, and you're blessed

1032
01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:13.079
with all spiritual blessings, not in what you do, not

1033
01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:15.320
what you try to do, not what you can achieve,

1034
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:18.599
but what in Christ accomplished. That is the way to

1035
01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:21.679
understand the Sermon on the Mount. It is law law.

1036
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:25.159
Law shows you your inability and drives you to Christ

1037
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:28.559
and shows you not only his ability, but He did

1038
01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:35.599
it for you. That's a basic historical Christian interpretation known

1039
01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:39.639
as the law Gospel distinction. It is not radical, it

1040
01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:44.679
is not new, it's not crazy, it's not liberalism, it's

1041
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:49.960
not Antiinomianism is simply the way the Gospel and the

1042
01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:53.360
law gospel is to be distinguished from one another. And

1043
01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:55.920
the fact that nobody seems to understand that proper distinction

1044
01:01:55.920 --> 01:01:59.199
between law and gospel anymore really proves and means that

1045
01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:03.039
the Reformation Luther failed. It was a complete failure, because

1046
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:06.719
the Church today doesn't even recognize the law gospel distinction.

1047
01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:10.159
It is abandon it completely. In fact, the way we've

1048
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:14.039
so abandoned that law gospel distinction, you can actually argue

1049
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:17.679
Catholicism one and the counter the counter Reformation with the

1050
01:02:17.719 --> 01:02:21.280
Council of Trent actually one, because most Christians are more

1051
01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:24.000
influenced from a Council of Trent way of thinking than

1052
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:27.480
they are a Reformed understanding. And when I say reform,

1053
01:02:27.639 --> 01:02:32.360
reform coming from the actual Protestant reformation of a proper

1054
01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:38.079
distinction between law and gospel. All right, thanks for listening everyone,

1055
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:39.239
Have a great night. God bless