April 1, 2025

Victory Over Sin

Victory Over Sin

A discussion about a sermon on Galatians 5:16

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A discussion about a sermon on Galatians 5:16

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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

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It is Tuesday, April the first, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently five eight pm Central Time, and I'm coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. Now, a little while ago, I

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walked over to all of my stereo equipment. I placed

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on my headphones and I opened up the Serious XM

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app and I just looked under the library tab and

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it shows all the different stations I have saved in

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my library, but it'll show you what's actually playing on

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any given station at any time. And when you see

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what's playing, you hit play and it will start where

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the song begins. Right, it'll start the song over. If

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it's the song's just three seconds left, it'll still start

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it over. So it's just kind of a cool way.

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You get just kind of scroll through all the stations

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you have saved and you're like, ooh, look at that song,

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and I'll just start it right from the beginning. So

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I was looking looking and I'm like, oh wow, that

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brings back memories. So I tapped on the screen and

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I heard these words, A little ditty about Jack and Diane,

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two American kids growing up in the Heartland. Oh, come on,

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everybody knows that song, right, Jack and Diane. I mean,

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come on, it's a classic. It's a classic from the

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nineteen eighties, right, everyone knows that A little ditty about

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Jack and Diane, two American kids growing up in the Heartland.

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I mean, that song is so catchy you can't help

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but sing along to it, right. And I remember some

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of the lines in the song that was somewhat controversial

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at the time, But overall I missed, especially because of

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my age at the time, I didn't catch the meaning

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of the song. I really did not catch the meaning

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of the song. But if you really pay attention to

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the chorus, there's a lot going on there, right, because

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it says, long after the thrill of living is gone,

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life goes on. Life goes on long after the thrill

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of living is gone. I want you to just think

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about that, life goes on long after the thrill of

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living is gone. Does that resonate with you? Life is

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going to continue long after the thrill of living is gone.

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And the whole idea of the song is, Hey, they're young,

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and it talks about all the things that maybe young

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people will be feeling, experiencing, and doing. But one day,

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the young boy and the young girl turns into a woman,

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into a man, and then they're gonna look around one

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day and life is going to go on, even after

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the thrill of living is gone. Even after that thrill

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of living has long departed, you still left with I

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don't know, ten years, fifteen, twenty years, you still got

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to live even though the thrill of living is gone.

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You know that thrill of living. When you're young, you

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have all these hopes, you have all these dreams, you

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have all these expectations, and you're going to do this,

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and you want to do this, and you can't wait.

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Today you can do this, and you can't wait that

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you don't have to go to school and people are

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telling you what to do, and you just have all

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of these ideas and it's all filled with passion and

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emotion and excitement and zill that thrill of living. But

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when the thrill of living is gone, life goes on.

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Life continues. And I was thinking about that in a

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number of ways. The first thing it hit me is

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it just hit me when I was hearing the song

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that life goes on long after the thrill is living?

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I'm like, I so missed the point of that song.

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When I was young. Usually I was very good at

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analyzing lyrics and breaking it down and having notebooks filled with,

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you know, my song analysis. But for some weird reason,

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I missed the point of this song because I was young.

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I was in the midst of you know, I couldn't

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imagine life without the thrill of living being somewhat a

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part of it, right, the thrill of living is there.

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I can't imagine what do you mean the thrill of

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living is gone? How can that happen? Who can take

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away the thrill of living?

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Right?

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I couldn't imagine what it. You know that that's talking about.

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When you get older and all of that excitement and

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all of that passion and all of that zeal, maybe

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all of that idealism, it just it goes away and

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it leaves you with what maybe regret, maybe you know,

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sitting around telling boring stories of the glory days. Now

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I'm quoting Bruce Springsteen. I mean, maybe maybe that's what

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you're left. I couldn't imagine it, right, but it was.

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It was a kind of a warning. It was kind of, hey,

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one day, this period of your life is going to

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be over and that thrill is going to be gone,

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but life is going to continue you. So the first

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thing I kind of realized I kind of missed the

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point of this song, and it kind of made me

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angry at myself. I'm like, I usually do better than that.

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What was I thinking? Can I go back and slap

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me in the face and go pay attention learn the lesson?

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But I didn't really learn the lesson at the time.

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But then I started thinking about the Christian life. The

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Christian life goes on long after the thrill of it

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is gone. See. I can remember being a Christian. When

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you first become a Christian. You have that thrill, you

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have that passion, you have that zell, you have that excitement,

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and everything is new and you and you have this

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kind of again idealism, this idea that oh, we're all

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Christians and we all agree and everything is wonderful and

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this is amazing, and we're all on the same team.

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And hey, as Christians, we're better than what we were. Right,

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We've all been transformed, we're all new, We basically no

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longer sent we're honest, and we this, and we're that,

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and we're better than and those people out there are bad,

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but now we're we're basically like, we're perfect, because that's

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kind of the idea that you are told. And then

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the longer you are a Christian, well, not only is

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the thrill gone, sometimes that idealism has been taken out

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back and put down, but you still left with your Christianity.

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You've got to continue on even though the thrill is gone.

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Maybe the idealism is gone. Maybe that entire fraudulent idea

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that you were sold burns to the ground. How do

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you move on? I also so I kind of started

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thinking about it in relation to Christianity, and then I

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started thinking about a relationship to this podcast. If you

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listen to this podcast, The last broadcast ended with me

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saying that's it. I'm done. I retire. I'm going to

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delete everything. I give up, because that's sometimes where I

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end up. In fact, in twenty twenty four, all of

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those listening to all of the sermons, and even in

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twenty twenty five, the more sermons I listen to, the

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more I kind of reach this point of, well, I

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guess I'm supposed to continue on but you know, long

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after the thrill is gone, because these sermons kill the

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thrill of anything related to Christianity, because I just get

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so tired. So not only does it impact my Christianity,

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then when it comes to broadcasting, I sometimes the thrill

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of broadcasting is gone. But do I continue on? And

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what kills the thrill of broadcasting? It? Sometimes what kills

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the thrill of broadcasting is you talk about philological issues

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and you just never You're just bombarded with all the

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stuff out there that just seems to have no concern

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with the text, with reality, with truth. It's like it

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just like the more you care about theology and the

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more you care about the text, you're confronted with almost

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this fraudulent form of Christianity. Now what am I speaking

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directly to?

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Right?

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I know it's a long ways from a little ditty

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about Jack and Diane to America kids growing up in

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the heartland. Life goes on long after the thrill is gone.

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I know that that's a long ways from that song.

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But in some ways it's not. Because we are going

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to be reviewing a sermon called the Believer's Victory over Sin.

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The Believer's Victory over Sin, This hot idea of the believers.

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Victory over sin is an idea that has almost you

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talk about the thrill is gone. This thing has so

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this concept has so absolutely led me to the point

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of despair, frustration, irritation, want to give up, want to

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just just it basically makes me want to scream at everyone. Look,

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Christianity has sold you a lie. Everyone stopped believing it

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because it is it is just built into the Christian worldview.

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You become a Christian. Dun dun, dunnah, you are a

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new creature. Old things are passed away, all things have

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become new. Okay, Well that's you mean I can be perfect?

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Well no no, no, no, no, no no no no,

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you can be perfect. Well if I can't be perfect,

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then not all things are new? Old things are not gone,

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because what's keeping me from being perfect? Well, your sinful nature.

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Well then that doesn't mean the oldest gone and everything

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is new. So why do you keep telling me that?

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And then you talk out the other side of your

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mouth and tell me it's not that. Either I'm a

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new creature, old things are gone and all things have

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become new, or I'm not. Which is it? And Christianity

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seems incapable of saying, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

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that is true of us. Positionally, in Christ, we are

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a new creature. Old is gone, All is new in

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our position because by faith, Christ's perfection and righteousness is imputed, imputed,

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or accredited to my account. But practically, I'm a sinful

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nature and I live in perpetual sin. Because the Bible

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tells me to be holy as God is holy, I

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will never do that on perpetual sin. The Bible tells

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me to if I violate one long going of all

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of it. I'm in a perpetual state of sin. The

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Bible tells me to be perfect as your heavenly Father

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is perfect. I'm in a perpetual state of sin. The

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Bible tells me to love God with all my heart,

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my body, and soul. I'm in a perpetual state of sin.

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The Bible tells me to love my neighbor as myself.

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I'm in a perpetual state of sin. The Bible tells

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me to love my enemy, turn the other cheek, resist

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not evil. I'm in a perpetual state of sin. There's

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no other conclusion you can come to. But yeah, Christians

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will talk about victory over sin victory.

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No.

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So now, on one end it's so weird, right because

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it'll say you're a new creature, the old is gone

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and everything is new. And then the other it will try,

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here's a sermon and how to have victory over sin?

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What do you mean have victory over sin? I don't

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need to learn how to have victory over sin. I'm

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a new creature. Old is gone, everything is new. There's

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nothing to have victory over. I'm now new. The old

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is gone. Right, But no, no, no, no no, you

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still need to have victory over sin. Well, how do

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I get victory over sin?

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Well?

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God gives you the victory over sin. Well, how do

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I get God to give me the victory over sin?

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Because God has given me the victory over sin, then

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I should be perfect. Why am I not perfect? If

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God is the one giving me the victory of o sin? Well,

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for God to give you the power and the strength

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to have victory over sin, you have to do things. Well,

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what things do I have to do? It's usually something

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like read your Bible, go to church, join a small group,

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pray more, meditate on scripture. They give me like five

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things to do. So wait a minute, so I have

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to do these five things in my own strength. But

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if I do these five things in my own strength,

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then God will give me the strength to overcome sin.

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But if I can do these things without God's help,

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then why do I need God's help. It's just like

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it's maddening, and it leads you to the point where, man, Okay,

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my Christian life may go on, but the thrill of

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living is gone. So we talked. I don't know how

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long ago it was, we did a broadcast about Galatians

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five sixteen. I think in reality, Galatians five sixteen reality,

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and I talked about the importance of as Christians of

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interpreting scripture and light of reality. We can't just ignore.

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We can't go to the Bible and says, well, hey,

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it says if anyone's a crisis and new creatural things

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are passed away, all things have become new, and just

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interpret that is that's true in a practical way, because

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reality says it's obviously not true in a real way.

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something different. We can't forget reality, and while we're interpreting scripture.

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pastors and some ministries that are so well respected and

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well known, they have power, they have relevance that you're

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not supposed to offer any criticism of them. But I

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don't necessarily hold to that the scriptures are the authority,

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not just because a ministry is well respected. So I

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have a sermon here from doctor Peters, Peter Masters, the

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pastor of Metropolitan Tabernacle and London, very very very famous church,

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and he did a sermon on the believer's victory over sin.

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we have to look at the Bible and can't ignore reality. Well,

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today we're going to get to the sermon and we're

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just going to start reviewing it. We already kind of

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took it apart a little bit. We mentioned a little

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bit of it, but I want you to at least

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hear some of it now. The goal here is not

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to review all of it. It's only thirty something minutes long,

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which is fascinating to me that in thirty something minutes

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you can tell Christians how to have victory over sin.

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tell it is, well, the minute you become saved you're transformed,

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now you're going to live in a perpetual state of victory, right,

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it through you. Well, if God's doing it the one

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through me, then I should be perfect. Well you're not perfect, Okay,

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it's just Oh, Christians drive me crazy when they talk

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about these things. So but you know, on one hand,

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because two thousand years nobody's been able to yet truly

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find victory over sin, you would think it would take

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you a little bit longer than thirty something minutes. But okay,

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just as simple as well, God just gives you victory

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over sin, and well you'll never sin again. And if

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I continue to sin and God is the one who

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gives me the victory over sin, then this God get

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the blame for me not having victory over sin. Oh man,

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I'm telling you, it's almost to the point of just

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you want to give up, but I want to hear.

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just to kind of get us a basic idea, A

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basic idea and once we kind of get that basic

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idea that we'll break away. I did give artificial intelligence

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this sermon. I did give it the transcript, and I

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have here. Hang on, let me get past all of

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my notes here. These are notes we did in the

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previous AI did give me a summary of doctor Peter

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Master sermon the Texas Galatians five fifteen through sixteen. The

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title the Believer's Victory over Sin, and then it says

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doctor Masters explorers Paul's statement, walk in the spirit and

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you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, presenting

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it as a promise, not merely as an exhortation. All right,

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so we're gonna we're gonna listen to this and then

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we're gonna take it apart. AI had a lot to

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say about this sermon, as it typically does, and well, well,

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I will rely somewhat. So this is what I'll be doing.

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I'm gonna be reviewing and and just interrupting and offering

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my own thoughts. Sometimes I will immediately turn to what

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AI had to say about the sermon. And then after

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AI broke the sermon down like he did, it's analysis

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and broke it down into like four or five things

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then me and artificial intelligence picked up a conversation about

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this whole idea of victory over sin. Christians keep saying

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victory over sin. And then me and a me and

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artificial intelligence went back and forth, back and forth, back

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and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,

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not all in one sitting, but over time. And uh,

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and so I will share some of that. So that's

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kind of where we're going to go. So you know,

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life goes on even when the thrill of living is gone. Well,

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sometimes I keep broadcasting after the thrill is gone because man,

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it becomes so discouraging and depressing that not only all

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the issues we've been trying to resolve with the Book

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of Isaiah, the whole storm of storms of life metaphor,

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and then all the talk we've had about law and gospel,

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and now well we've talked about this idea of the

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believer's victory ever said just never stops, and I guess

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it never will. But here we go.

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be honest. This is doctor Peter Masters, far more influential,

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has accomplished more than I ever will accomplish, and is

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far more respected than I will ever be. So by

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all means, if you want to go with his interpretation

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and his understanding, feel free to do so. I will

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be offering something completely opposite of it. But here we go.

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I'm turning today to pause. Letters to the Galicians, chapter

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five and verse fifteen. Galatians Chapter five, verse fifteen. But

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if you bite and devour one another, take heed that

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you be not consumed one of another. This I say, then,

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walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the

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lust of the flesh. And our subject is very simply

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the believer's victory over sin. And really I'd like to

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come to the sixteenth verse, walk in the spirit this

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astonishing promise. Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not

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fulfill the lust of the flesh of the fallen human nature.

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But we must consider the fifteenth verse first before we

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come into the subject. If he bite and devour one another,

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take heed that you'd be not consumed one of another.

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particular exhortation, As it were in verse fifteen, He's been

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dealing with the judaizing heresy. The Judaizers, you remember, were

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following the Apostle around and when churches in Gentile territory

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were founded, many people were converted. As the Apostle the

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preachers moved on. So the Judaizing heretics would come and

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they would try to convince the young church, in this

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case the churches of South Galutia, that Christ wasn't enough

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that they would need to be bosses Jewish poselytes, to

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be circumcised, and to seek to obey comply with the

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Jewish ceremonial law.

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I do find this interesting. So the juda Aizers came

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and said, Christ is not enough. You've got to do something.

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Christ is not enough, you have to do something. That's

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the Judaizers, all right, let's see if fitness sermon, I'm

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going to be told if I have to do something,

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or if Christ is enough? What do you think? What

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do you think? Do you think? Are we going to

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be kind of told to do something? Are we going

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to be told Christ is enough? What do you think?

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In other words, the atoning death of Christ was insufficient

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for salvation. Salvation was not by faith in that after all,

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and he's made various appeals and has expressed his confidence

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that the people of Galicia the South Galatian churches will

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respond and will separate themselves from that heretical teaching. But

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then this comment suddenly leaps in. But if he bite

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and devour one another, take heed that he be not

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consumed one of another. I think we may assume that

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the unrest that the heresy was causing in the churches,

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and loosening the hold of the people from Christ and

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dependence upon Him and love for Him, was leading to

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this situation of people being highly critical of each other

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and accusing each other. If you bite and devour one another,

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but will look at it in passing, it is important

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for us in our day. This would certainly refer to

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any tendency to gossip and to bite behind the back,

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as it were, if he bites interesting language. In other words,

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gossip or anything like that is intended to hurt, like

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a bite. My dogs bite and cats bites. Whoever heard

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of human beings biting? Suddenly becoming savages and biting each

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other when it's use figuracyly, of course, But the bite

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is intended to hurt, so comments about one another behind

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the back, they bites intended to hurt, and it gets worse.

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It leads to the devouring one of another, which is

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figuratively presumably means making nothing of each other, taking away

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the reputation and the standing of the other person, so

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that that person becomes nothing, devoured, disappeared. If he bites

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and devour one another, take heed, your fellowship will disappear,

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that you be not consumed one of another, your community,

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your spiritual community will be destroyed. Certainly, the Holy Spirit

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will withdraw, and there be much hypocrisy. You can't gossip

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and serve the Lord. You can't like derogatory comments behind

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one another's beeps. You've got a problem, deal with it openly.

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Just funny because the text talks about, hey, don't bite

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and devour one another. Take heed, you'd be not consumed

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one for another. Hey, And it's kind of weird he

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saying there's gossip and slander happening. The Holy Spirit will withdraw.

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Isn't the Holy Spirit in every believer who's biting and

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devouring one another? So are the Holy Spirit still going

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to be there? Right? If I'm a Christian and you're

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a Christian and we're gossiping against one another. The Holy

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Spirit doesn't leave us. So the Holy Spirit is still present.

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Do you mean he will withdraw himself in what some

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kind of special way he packs up and leaves the church?

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Why he can't leave the church? If everyone and the

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church is a Christian, they're only do what with the

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Holy Spirit? So that already there just seems confusing. But

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I just find it funny because he's talking about this

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in two thousand years of church history, has there ever

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been I mean, the church is constantly filled with backbiting

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and gossip and slander. Christians do it all the time.

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I mean, and it's a very very very very very

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common sin. So all right, but okay, all right, but

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but but but we're gonna get to We're gonna get

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it to verse sixteen, which seems to say, hey, you

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don't need to bite and devour one another because it's

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really simple. If you do this, you basically won't sin,

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or no, you won't sind. Okay, but let's see where

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this is going to go.

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In the scriptural manner, as you can't do things like

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this and bite and hurts each other and still serve

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the Lord and please him. You can only put on

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the pretense. So it leads to hypocrisy, and it leads

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to the withdrawing of the spirit, and it leads to

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the diminution of all good things and the loss of

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a fellowship.

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Once again, he said it the second time, the withdrawal

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of the Holy Spirit, withdrawing away Holy Spirit just leaves

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the church. But if everyone is in dwelt with the

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Holy Spirit, then all doesn't leave the church, because we're

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the temple of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit

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was he's inside of you me, but he's not no

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longer in the church. I go okay once again, and

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lots of questions, but but that's not what we're here about.

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gonna see how this is handled, right.

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That's the intention of verse fifteen. So the Galatians are warned,

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and we're all warned of the need for great carefulness

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and the duty of maintaining all Christian affection and care

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one to another. Then the Apostle passes on in verse

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sixteen to the great promise, and it is a promise.

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All translators render it in a similar way.

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this is being understood as a promise. The promise is

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if you, if me, if we walk in the spirit,

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we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. We

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will not fulfill it. So whatever the flesh desires, we

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won't fulfill that desire because we're walking in the spirit.

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This would mean sinlessness. Now you can sit there and

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try to mess with it. Well, it's not sinlessness. It

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just means you won't constantly you can play all the

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games you want. The text reads as if I will

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simply walk in the spirit, I will stop sinning. And

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he's saying it's a promise. It's a promise to you

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and me. Have you ever experienced the promise? Now what

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some people say, Well, it's like if I, if I'm

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walking in the spirit and this situation, I won't fulfill

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the lust at that moment. That doesn't mean five seconds

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later I may no longer be walking in the spirit,

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so then I will fulfill it. That's how it's typically explained.

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What means Like on you know, tonight's Tuesday, April the first,

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maybe at about eleven o'clock tonight, I'll be walking in

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the spirit and I won't fulfill the lust of the

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flesh at eleven o'clock tonight on Tuesday, April the first,

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won't be walking in the spirit, and boom, then I'll sin.

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But if I can walk in the spirit, So walking

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in the spirit is like, well, you may be doing it,

463
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you may not be doing it, So it could be like, well, yeah,

464
00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:23.880
I mean, I mean it's a promise that if you

465
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do it, then you won't. Well just consider how much time.

466
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:28.759
So if I walk in the spirit, then I can

467
00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:31.599
be holy as God is holy. That means I can

468
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:34.359
be perfect. Well, it means you can only be perfect

469
00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:36.319
when you're walking in the spirit. But you're still saying

470
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.759
it's possible to be perfect. All I gotta do is

471
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:42.400
figure out how to walk in the spirit, and then

472
00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:46.079
I can be perfect. Well if that's the case, then

473
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.359
how come nobody in two thousand and years has figured

474
00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:50.519
out how to be perfect by walking in the spirit.

475
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.559
So we play all kinds of games with how to

476
00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.119
make this work. Let's see how he's gonna make it work?

477
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.400
One or two? Who differ? Tyndale makes the second part

478
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:09.359
of verse sixteen an exhortation rather than a promise. That's

479
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:13.960
very unusual. All are decided that this is intended as

480
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.559
a promise. This I say, then, walk in the spirit,

481
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:23.640
and ye shall not fulfill the lust the desires of

482
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:29.000
the fallen heart. That word fulfill is interesting. It translates

483
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:34.240
the Greek for complete. In other words, the promise isn't

484
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:40.599
that you won't feel sinful desires, that you won't have temptations.

485
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:46.400
The promise isn't that you'll be immune from having wrong

486
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.680
desires rising up within your own heart and coming to

487
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:58.400
you from the world outside, temptations from within, temptations from without.

488
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:02.440
The promises is walk in the spirits and you shall

489
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.960
not fulfill complete.

490
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:08.880
Now, this is one of another thing that drives me

491
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:12.559
crazy about Christianity, right because you'll get one sermon that'll say,

492
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:14.599
if you are in Christ, you're a new creature. Old

493
00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:17.559
things have passed away, all things have become new. You

494
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:21.279
are new, You've been transformed, And then five seconds later

495
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:22.599
they'll say, hey, if you walk in the spirit, you

496
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:24.359
will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Well, where's

497
00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:26.279
the why do I have any lust of the flesh

498
00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:27.799
If I'm a new creature and all things are passed

499
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:29.559
away and all things have become new. There shouldn't be

500
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:32.279
any lust in the flesh because I've been made completely new.

501
00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:35.880
Well well, yeah, I know, yes, no, no, and it's dull.

502
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:39.200
Oh man, it can be maddening. So this would at

503
00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:42.079
least indicate no, no, no, we still have a sinful nature.

504
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.759
We still have a sinflammation we hate. But everyone quotes

505
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.079
Ezekiel that we have a brand new heart, that we've

506
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.880
been completely transformed on the inside. Now we can say

507
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.240
notice in and yes to God. No, this seems to

508
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:54.720
say that I still have an old nature. So do

509
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.559
I have a new nature and an old nature? Okay?

510
00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:58.640
That we can get into this. Remember we've talked about

511
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:01.160
trying to map this out. It's insane when you listen

512
00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:03.920
to everything Christianity has to say. You don't even know

513
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.039
how to map it out. You can't even make a chart.

514
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:09.519
It's just insane. Right. So, but so at least it's

515
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:13.440
acknowledging you still have a sinful nature, but you can

516
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.799
overcome that sinful nature. All you have to do is

517
00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:18.759
walk in the spirit. Now, do I walk in the

518
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.279
spirit based off what I do? Or do I walk

519
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:23.880
in the spirit and based off what God does. God

520
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:26.599
is God the one who makes me walk in the spirit?

521
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:28.559
Or do I have to walk in the spirit so

522
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:31.359
then I am able to no longer sin? So is

523
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.160
it up to me to do what is necessary so

524
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.319
I no longer sin? Or is God the one doing?

525
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:36.480
Now?

526
00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:38.279
If God is the one causing me to walk in

527
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:40.279
the spirit, well then I should walk in the spirit

528
00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:42.279
perfectly just as you, because God is the one who

529
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:44.359
causing it. But if God is not the one causing

530
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:46.759
me to walk in the spirit, then I have to

531
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.240
walk in the spirit. And then when I walk in

532
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.160
the spirit, then I'll stop sinning. But I have to

533
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:55.000
do the I've got to do. I got to get

534
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:58.319
myself to the walking stage on my own, I guess. I.

535
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.519
Let's see how if we get any clarification.

536
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:09.480
They from bisire, but you won't implement them. You won't

537
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:14.160
have the taste or desire to implement them. You're already

538
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.640
well equipped to resist them, all right.

539
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:20.400
So if you're walking in the spirit, you're going to

540
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.000
have the desire, but you're not going to have the

541
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.359
desire to implement that. The desire may be there for it,

542
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.400
but you're not going to have the desire to actually

543
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.759
do it. See, if you'll walk in the spirit, you're

544
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:32.000
not going to do it because you're not going to

545
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:32.880
have the desire.

546
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:33.000
To do it.

547
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.519
So you've got what you need. You've been equipped with

548
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.400
what you need to basically never to be perfect. All

549
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:41.960
you gonna do is walk in the spirit. If you

550
00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.039
can just walk in the spirit, dunta da da, You're perfect.

551
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:49.160
I'm perfect, They're perfect. The Christianity should be perfect people.

552
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.599
That's the idea. Walk in the spirit, and you shall

553
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:06.519
not complete or fulfill or carry out the lust the

554
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:11.440
desires of the fallen human heart, which is what the

555
00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:17.000
apostle means here by the fresh Well. The key thing

556
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:22.039
is to understand what it means to walk in the spirits.

557
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.000
Now, I do agree here right obviously, if walking in

558
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:31.119
the spirit gives me now the supernatural ability to no

559
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:33.599
longer sin, then I need to figure out what it

560
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:37.480
means to walk in the spirit. Now. Just remember, I

561
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:41.039
reject basically all of Christianity's teaching on this because it

562
00:32:41.160 --> 00:32:44.160
just does not correspond with reality. It doesn't correspond with reality,

563
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:46.440
and only that I get sick and tired of Christianity teaching.

564
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:49.799
Galatians five sixteen at the same time teaching in Second

565
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.200
Corinthians that if anyone's in christis a new creature, old

566
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.119
things have passed away, all things have become new, because

567
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:57.200
both can't be true. If I'm a new creature practically

568
00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:59.440
and the oldest gun and all is new, then there's

569
00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:02.000
no less the flesh because everything is new. Where's the

570
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:04.279
loss of the flesh coming from. So either I'm a

571
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.000
new creature, I'm not a new creature, so then you

572
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.079
would have to go to second cranking. No, that just

573
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:11.400
means you're new positionally. Okay, So if I'm new positionally,

574
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.519
but I'm still a sinner, now what you're telling me

575
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:16.839
is I still have an old nature, so I haven't

576
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.039
been transformed in my nature. I haven't been transformed that way,

577
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.759
but I've now been given the key. All you gotta

578
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.319
do is walk in the spirit and done dun da dah.

579
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:31.960
You don't even have to sin ever again. You can

580
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.039
do it all right. So then what should be the

581
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:39.480
standard in every church? Nobody sins because nobody has to

582
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:42.279
because everyone all they have to do is walk in

583
00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:48.359
the spirit. This church should be sinless, so you don't

584
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.640
have to worry about gossip and slender because everyone else

585
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.200
can walk in the spirit. So what do I have

586
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.440
to do? What do you think we're gonna have to

587
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.160
do to walk in the spirit? Come on, what do

588
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:58.680
you think? What do you think? What do you think?

589
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:00.839
Go ahead and write them down? What do you think

590
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.359
you have to do to walk in the spirit? Because

591
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.599
you're gonna have to do something. I guarantee you you're

592
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.800
gonna have to do something. What do you have to

593
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.519
do to walk in the spirit? Come on, I bet

594
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:12.599
you can go ahead and write them down. It's the

595
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:16.280
same things taught in every sermon a million times a year. Okay,

596
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:19.199
so we'll get we'll get to them. Here we go.

597
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:26.519
If we walk in the spirits, then half the battle

598
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:27.519
is accomplished.

599
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:34.199
If we walk in the spirit, half the battle is accomplished.

600
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.559
Sounds like if I walk in the spirit, all of

601
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.639
the battle is accomplished because I'm no longer going to sin.

602
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.719
What does he mean by only half the battle?

603
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.440
If you're filled with the spirit, there is no room

604
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:55.239
for the world, as the old saying goes, But what

605
00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.079
does it mean to walk in the spirit? Now? There

606
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:03.880
is a different way to markedly different ways of looking

607
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:09.960
at this. These days, it's the charismatic way to walk

608
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:14.159
in the spirit, in the view of most charismatics, are

609
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:18.639
to be careful in generalizing, because there are people of

610
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:23.199
charismatic persuasion. I think they're still mistaken, but they are

611
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:29.679
very sincere and very earnest, and they wouldn't necessarily subscribe

612
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.159
to what I'm about to say. But the majority of

613
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.639
charismatics seem to have these vague ideas that walking in

614
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:44.840
the spirit simply means getting very excited speaking in tongues,

615
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.960
not that anybody speaks in tongues in a biblical way today,

616
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:56.920
Biblical tongues with real languages. The remarkable, miraculous gift of

617
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:01.079
speaking a language, a real language you had never learned,

618
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:06.599
and it had special purposes, and that was a gift

619
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.679
for the foundation stage of the church before the scriptures

620
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.440
were complete. However, you don't have that today. But some

621
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:19.960
people think this can be worked up, and you can

622
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:27.599
have exciting sensational type of manifestations and gifts and dinglings

623
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.519
down your spine and visions and all words of knowledge

624
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:36.480
and all sorts of strange and mystical things. And that

625
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:39.599
is what it means to walk in the spirits.

626
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:45.239
That's now him and I would be in perfect agreement

627
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.440
I think anything. I mean, look, you know what I feel.

628
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.239
Charismatic movement is absolute cancer corruption. I wish it did

629
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.119
not exist. If I could wipe one system of theology

630
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:56.960
off the face of the planet, it would be anything

631
00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.960
related to the charismatic theology. So we're a complete agreement

632
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:03.039
that the charismatic approach here is just wrong because basically

633
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:09.679
walking in the spirit means of some experience, some mystical thing. Okay, well,

634
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:12.360
I completely disagree with that. So we're in agreement there.

635
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.800
We're an agreement there, not.

636
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.960
What it means to walk in the spirit. That's a

637
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:24.960
massive diversion. If someone's mind, even a sincere person, is

638
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.360
taken up by those kind of objectives and aims and aspirations,

639
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.719
they can't easily walk in the spirits. Walking in the

640
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:40.800
spirit is defined in the scripture most carefully and repeatedly.

641
00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:44.639
So we need to remind ourselves what is it to

642
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:49.400
walk in the spirit, because if only we walk in

643
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:55.000
the spirits, then we will not fulfill the lust of

644
00:37:55.079 --> 00:38:02.280
the flesh. All our inclinations and tastes and desires on

645
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:08.679
our side now and against fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. This,

646
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:13.960
I say, then walk in the spirit. So what is

647
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:19.039
it to walk in the spirits? Well, I'm going to

648
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:23.960
give a number of headings very briefly, which are scriptural

649
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:28.039
elements of walking in the spirits.

650
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:32.440
Okay, so here's what it's going to mean to walk

651
00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:34.400
in the spirit. He's going to give us number one,

652
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:38.000
number two, number three, number four, number five, And let

653
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.719
me tell you to what in the spirit means? You

654
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.199
do something? You do something, you do something, So if

655
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:48.000
you do I guess all five of these things. This

656
00:38:48.039 --> 00:38:49.559
is where I think he's going. Now I could be wrong,

657
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.280
Remember I do sermon reviews going in blind. The only

658
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.320
thing is I have a little bit of idea here

659
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:56.719
because I did have AI break this down, so I

660
00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.039
at least have some idea where we're going. So I'm

661
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:00.440
going to be a little bit more or usually I

662
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:02.559
would try to be very hesitant here to say anything,

663
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.800
but I have a feeling that if what I have

664
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.840
broken down here and it's accurate, and this is the

665
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:10.599
part of the sermon where he's going to introduce it,

666
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:13.079
and considering has only got about twenty minutes left, I'm

667
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.320
assuming he's gonna have to go through these things relatively

668
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:18.320
quick that he's about to give us five things. And

669
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.960
remember he just said that Judaizer said Christ isn't enough.

670
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.840
You have to do something. Well, now it's going to

671
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:26.400
be like, wait, so you have Christ, but up up, up.

672
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:31.000
But that's great, that's wonderful. But you don't want to sin.

673
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.159
And the way you don't sin is by walking in

674
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:35.880
the spirit. And the way you walk in the spirit

675
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:38.440
is by are you ready? Let's find out?

676
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:44.400
And if we do this, we're muchily strengthened.

677
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:50.079
Did you hear that? If we do this, we are

678
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:54.800
mightily strengthened. So we have to do this in order

679
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:58.239
to get the strength. That would mean we're doing it

680
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.400
without the strength. So these are things you can do

681
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:04.639
without the strength, meaning you're doing it on your own

682
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.119
because you have to do it in order to get

683
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:11.440
the strength. This is just from a thiological perspective. This

684
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:14.599
is absolutely maddening to me. Right, okay, So all right,

685
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:18.480
so I'm a Christian? Right, what's the goal? Not to sin? Great? Okay,

686
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:20.719
how do I do it? Okay? Well, there's all this

687
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.760
strength that will get that is available to you so

688
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:25.920
that you will not sin. Great, how do I get

689
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:29.960
that strength? You've got to do something, So I've got

690
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:32.079
to do it without the strength. I've got to do

691
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:34.719
things in order to get the strength. It's not the

692
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.079
strength that's going to allow me to do these things.

693
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:40.519
It's doing these things that gets me the strength. All right,

694
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:42.280
So I'm going to do these things. What in my

695
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.440
flesh on my own? Or does God give me a

696
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:48.400
little bit of strength so that I can do these things?

697
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:50.199
So then I can get the real strength? Is it

698
00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:54.599
kind of like a do part A and then you

699
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.880
get part B. Let's see what happens.

700
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.840
Thing clearly is to study.

701
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:13.400
The woods here we Oh man, we're going right down

702
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.119
the path where we always go. Hey, you want to

703
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:21.079
stop sinning? Study the Bible. Study the Bible. Study the

704
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:25.239
Bible more read more read more. The more you read

705
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.519
the more so is there is there a level? Okay,

706
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.320
I read an hour a day, Well that'll only get

707
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:35.360
you to forty percent of not sinning. That only What

708
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.639
if I read three hours a day, Well that will

709
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:40.159
only get you to sixty percent. But wait a minute.

710
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:43.119
I have a job, and I have this, and I'm

711
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:47.000
a caretaker for someone who's dying of a What if

712
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:49.239
I can only read the Bible thirty minutes, I say, well,

713
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:51.840
I'm sorry, you're not going to get the same strength

714
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.599
as as Bob over there, who gets to read five

715
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:57.400
hours a day. So maybe I should sell everything I

716
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.760
own and go move into a monastery, because then I

717
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.559
should be like done, done, Dune, I now have superpowers.

718
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:10.840
So is it now my strength comes from my time

719
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:13.480
spent in the word? And so do we measure this out?

720
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:17.159
If you spend four hours you get forty percent strength,

721
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:20.119
If you spend seven hours you get seventy percent strength.

722
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.440
Do you have to read one hundred hours to get

723
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.039
one hundred percent strength? And it's just reading? Or is

724
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:30.719
that actual study?

725
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:36.559
And be people of the words Christians who rely on

726
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:40.559
the word and feed on the word day by day.

727
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:46.360
Let me tell you briefly, without turning to many texts,

728
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.239
a simple truth. In the New Testaments, particularly in the

729
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:58.480
epistles of Paul, the spirits and the word are almost

730
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:04.280
interchangeable terms. For example, in the Letters of the Ephesians,

731
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:09.840
you'll get a long list of instructions the things that

732
00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:14.559
you are to do in the spirit. In Colossians you

733
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.679
get exactly the same instructions repeated, only this time you're

734
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:24.920
told to do them by the Word, which it's almost interchangeable.

735
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.360
In the spirit equals by the Word. So this is

736
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.440
one important aspect that to walk in the spirit is

737
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:39.880
to be a believer who is welded to the Word

738
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:44.199
of God and takes from it and feeds on it

739
00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:49.599
and loves it, and learns from it and asks questions

740
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:53.719
whenever he reads the Word of God. We often mention

741
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:56.559
these things. You can have them in the back of

742
00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:00.559
the Bible until they're in your minds. What has this

743
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:04.920
passage to say to me? Is there a view of Christ?

744
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:10.320
Is there a view of some attribute of God? Is

745
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:14.079
there a doctrine in the passage that I'm reading and

746
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:18.800
I didn't notice in my hurried reading, Pause and read again.

747
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:24.159
Is there a teaching a doctrine? Is there a duty

748
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:30.519
to believers that I'm neglecting that I'm missing? Is there

749
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:35.920
a reproof perhaps for me in this passage? Is there

750
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:40.960
an encouragement and a consolation I feed on the Word

751
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:44.559
of God. I look for the things which the Word

752
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:49.199
of God provides to me. Is there a statement about

753
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:54.480
God's plans and purposes that will give me perspective as

754
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:57.199
to how I look at this life and my life

755
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.719
in the world, and we ask these question in our mind.

756
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:08.280
Whatever we read, and we take that matter and subject

757
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:11.599
and we send God for in place him for it.

758
00:45:11.639 --> 00:45:14.639
And if it's a juicy or a reproof, apply it

759
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:20.079
to our hearts. As you interact and feed upon the

760
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.840
word of God to nourish and uplift your soul, you

761
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:25.840
are walking in the spirits.

762
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:32.400
So you read and study, ask questions, go through some basic,

763
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.039
you know, observational questions. Does this text have a demand?

764
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.239
Does this text have something about the attributes of God?

765
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.719
The basic kind of you know, generic Bible study method.

766
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:45.320
And if I do that, boom, I'm walking in the spirit.

767
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:52.239
I won't send well. As someone who has now what,

768
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:55.119
I don't even know how many ultimate degrees. I think

769
00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:59.000
I have seven. I have an associates, have multiple bachelors,

770
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:04.679
multiple masters degrees. Okay, all of these are in theological education, theology,

771
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:10.400
biblical studies, religious education. I mean I've got so. I

772
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:13.119
have studied and studied and studied and studied the Bible.

773
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:16.159
I have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. I

774
00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:19.239
don't even know thirty forty times, fifty times, I don't

775
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.679
even know. I have preached it over and I mean

776
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:26.840
I've been preaching almost there's almost a very few times

777
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:30.559
I've not preached on a weekend, on a Sunday. I mean, basically,

778
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.039
for twenty something years, I've preached every Sunday school hour,

779
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.480
every Sunday school or every Sunday school hour, Sunday morning, worship,

780
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:40.920
Sunday night, and Wednesday night, every week, week after week

781
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.960
after week, eftery week. It didn't take vacations, didn't take sabbaticals,

782
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.519
week after week after week after week. That's three hours

783
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:50.039
on Sunday, one hour on weidsdas's four hours a week,

784
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:53.159
and all of my teachings are about an hour long. Yeah.

785
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:57.000
So I've taught taught verse by verse, exegetical studies. I've

786
00:46:57.079 --> 00:46:59.239
gone to school for this, gone to school for that,

787
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:02.440
writing paper on this, writing this, doing this, writing this.

788
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:06.039
I have done who knows how many hours of broadcast.

789
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:10.559
I have probably easily surpassed over ten thousand hours of broadcasting,

790
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:13.440
if not much more than that, probably maybe even twenty

791
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:17.119
thousand hours of broad some crazy number of hours of broadcasting.

792
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.280
Just this podcast alone, I'm well over four thousand hours

793
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:24.000
of broadcasting, well over if you put everything together, maybe

794
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:32.639
even more so. I mean, I've been studying, studying, studying, studying, reading, reading, reading, reading, studying, studying, reading, reading, reading, studying, reading,

795
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:36.400
taking test writing papers, and guess what has never occurred.

796
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:41.119
I have never won stopped sinning. I've been reading and

797
00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:44.440
reading and reading, and have never stopped sinning, not one time.

798
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:46.639
I've yet to love God with all my heart, my body,

799
00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:48.719
and soul. I yet to love my neighbor as myself.

800
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:50.800
I'm yet to be holy as God is holy. I'm

801
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.039
yet to be perfect as God is perfect. I'm yet

802
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:55.280
to love my enemy and turn the other cheek and

803
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:03.840
resist not evil. Give me a break. I know someone's

804
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:06.599
gonna say, well, it's not about being perfect. Wait no,

805
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:08.960
it says if I walk in the spirit, I will

806
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:10.960
not fulfill the loss of the flesh. You just then

807
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.199
turned around and said what it means to walk in

808
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.480
the spirit. It's to be immersing the word. If I

809
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.599
spend all my time in the Word, I won't sin.

810
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.480
So all you gotta do is study and you will

811
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:43.239
stop sinning. That's just factual, not true, man, Okay.

812
00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:45.679
And your tastes are so formed, and your memory bank

813
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:53.199
of Christian duties and responsibilities so built up. Why somebody

814
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.159
who's under the governance and the guidance and the coaching

815
00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:02.960
and the rule of the Word of God, that's walking

816
00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:07.840
by the spirits, and you will not fulfill the lust

817
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:13.719
of the flesh. Do you hear about a Christian who

818
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:18.400
has a great fall? Something's been missing.

819
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:23.920
Because you hear about a Christian who had a great fault.

820
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.320
It doesn't have to be a great fall. All it

821
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.119
has to be is be holy as God is holy.

822
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:32.880
Have you done that? No, you're in sin. If you

823
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:34.880
break one point of the law, you're guilty of all.

824
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:36.559
Have you loved God with all your heart, mind, body,

825
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:38.719
and soul. Have you loved your neighbor as yourself? You're

826
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:42.360
guilty of every point of the law. Have you coveted?

827
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.559
Have you done this? Have you done that? Have you

828
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:47.199
looked at a woman with lust? You're an adulterer. Have

829
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:49.599
you done this? You're a murderer. Have you done this

830
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.199
you're at You're a coveter. Have you done this, You're

831
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.840
an idolator. In fact, if you break one of it,

832
00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:57.760
you're guilty of all of them. So you're all of

833
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:03.440
those things. It's not say I love that. If it's

834
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.079
a are we gonna go Catholic here, Well, see, if

835
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.880
you walk in the spirit, you won't commit a mortal sin.

836
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:11.519
You'll commit all the venial sins all day long. And

837
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:15.360
we're good with the venial sins. If you hear about

838
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.719
someone who had a grate fault, no, if you hear

839
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:21.440
anyone about sin, then the only logical conclusion you can

840
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:23.639
drive is, well, they don't read and study the Bible.

841
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:26.039
But what if they show you clearly they pull up

842
00:50:26.039 --> 00:50:28.280
their Bible app and go, look, I've got seventy five

843
00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:31.280
hours of Bible reading on the last three days. Okay,

844
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:34.199
what are you talking about. I've read this, I've studied

845
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:38.199
here's fifteen notebooks. Yet I think and continue to sin.

846
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.000
Oh man, this tough drives me crazy.

847
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:54.159
The promise of God. If that believer was feeding on

848
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:58.079
the words of God, walking by the spirits in that sense,

849
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:05.239
which have been guarded against any inclination to you, so

850
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:06.519
that's extreme sin.

851
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.480
Now is he gonna Is he really gonna do this? Hey?

852
00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:14.920
So if they said it's because they didn't read their Bible,

853
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:18.000
but he said, you notice the words great fall, extreme sin.

854
00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:22.400
So you're only saying it only works for extreme sins?

855
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.760
Is that the way we're gonna play the game here. Hey, hey,

856
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.400
it will keep you from an extreme sin. You won't

857
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.320
murder someone, you won't get an abortion. I mean, you

858
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:38.639
won't go to Vegas and sleep with three prostitutes. It

859
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:42.360
only it will only protect you from the extreme sins,

860
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.840
you know, those extreme sins that even lost people may

861
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:53.280
not commit. So is that the game we're gonna play here?

862
00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:02.960
So discount us gone a hasty rush through the scripture

863
00:52:03.559 --> 00:52:08.599
to get my duty done, my reading done. No, I

864
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:13.679
try to find sometime, someplace when I can settle down

865
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:18.239
with the Word, my greatest companion.

866
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:24.760
You know, if this is true, ladies and gentlemen, if

867
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.760
this is true, if the key to not sinning is

868
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:32.320
simply spending time and the word, then you don't try

869
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.159
to find time. You know what you do. You don't

870
00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:39.360
get stinking married, You don't have stinking a wife or

871
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:43.559
a husband and kids to take care of. Forget that garbage, right,

872
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:46.599
forget that because you needed to be spending time in

873
00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:49.079
the word. Because you can't be a good father, or

874
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.639
a good husband or a good wife unless you can

875
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:54.559
spend time in the word, because then you won't sin.

876
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:58.079
Can you imagine a sinless husband and a sindless wife. Well,

877
00:52:58.119 --> 00:52:59.639
you've got to spend time in the word. Well, what's

878
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:02.199
the one that's gonna take you away from spending time

879
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:05.199
in the word? All the responsibilities of a job and

880
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.679
a wife and the kids. Just sell everything and go

881
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.280
join the monastery. Then you'll spend a life without sin.

882
00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:12.119
If you spend a life without sin, you won't have

883
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:14.320
any guilt, you won't have any regret, you won't have

884
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.840
any shame, you won't have any scandal, and then life

885
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:18.920
will be a whole lot better. But no, we got

886
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:20.480
to get married. Why do you got to get married?

887
00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.280
You can't. That's going to take away from spending time

888
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:33.159
in the Word. And why do churches say, oh, we're

889
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:35.280
gonna we're gonna have a pot luck, and we're gonna

890
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.199
have a fellowship, and we're gonna have a picnic, and

891
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:40.800
we're gonna cancel services. No, no, chu. If the key

892
00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:43.239
to having a sinless church is more time in the

893
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:47.719
Word than churches would be having church Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

894
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:50.119
You'd have services at eight in the morning, at noon,

895
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.639
at five in the evening, and at ten o'clock at night.

896
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.000
You would be having service after service after service, and

897
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:57.159
it would just be preaching, preaching, preaching, reading the Word

898
00:53:57.199 --> 00:53:59.239
of God, preaching preaching reading the Word of God, because

899
00:53:59.239 --> 00:54:01.719
that's the only way to get sinless congregation, because loss

900
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:03.199
the way to get the people in the church to

901
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:05.400
stop sinning and spending time in the Word. But then

902
00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:08.360
churches cancel Wednesday night services and Sunday night services and

903
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.199
we don't have this class, and we don't have this class,

904
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:13.000
and we're gonna do this because it's this time and

905
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:16.880
we got to do this activity in this activity, Well,

906
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:21.559
then you don't really believe it. I'm not speaking about

907
00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:23.400
that church because I haven't looked at their schedule. I'm

908
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:34.280
just speaking in general. All Christians would do would be

909
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:36.280
read and studying their Bible, because that's the only way

910
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:40.199
to keep them from sin. So guess what, it's not

911
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:43.119
God keeping you from sin, it's you keeping yourself from

912
00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:45.119
sin by reading and reading and reading and reading and

913
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.039
reading and reading and reading and reading and studying and

914
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:51.559
studying and reading and reading and reading and studying. So

915
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:54.599
the way you stop from sinning is by spending all

916
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:56.639
of your time reading. So the way to stop sinning

917
00:54:56.719 --> 00:55:05.400
is by you being the law. It's by works. You

918
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:11.360
overcome sin, by your own fleshly work, because it's your work.

919
00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:14.400
You're it's your discipline, it's your you doing it.

920
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:26.480
The word of God. So that's the first thing. Walk

921
00:55:26.519 --> 00:55:29.920
in the spirit is to make proper use of the

922
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:34.800
word of God. The Savior said, sanctify them through thy

923
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:40.440
truth and his great so called high priestly prayer. Sanctify

924
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:44.599
them the disciples, the people of God, through thy truth.

925
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:52.039
Thy word is truth. Same thought. So to walk in

926
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:56.519
the spirit is to walk in the word. Secondly, and

927
00:55:56.679 --> 00:56:00.559
this is obvious, it is to be a man or

928
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:06.280
a woman of prayer, of meaningful daily prayer.

929
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:10.880
Okay, so if you if so, not just reading and

930
00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:14.079
reading the scriptures and studying the scriptures is not enough. No no, no, no, no

931
00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:16.440
no no no no no no no no no. Say

932
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:18.079
you thought all I got to do now is just

933
00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:20.159
read and study it or no no, no, no, that

934
00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:23.159
doesn't work. You got to now add in you're going

935
00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:26.360
to have to pray, pray, pray. So between all of

936
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.159
the reading and studying and all the praying, I don't

937
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.199
know how you have a job. I don't know how

938
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:33.920
you have a family. I don't know how you do anything.

939
00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:36.679
And why aren't churches open twenty four to seven for prayer.

940
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:41.039
Churches should be filled with people every day and they're

941
00:56:41.079 --> 00:56:43.880
reading and studying and prayer reading. Because this is the answer.

942
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:52.760
We could have perfection, real interaction through Christ with the

943
00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:57.239
Father on High. All the things we have to do

944
00:56:57.719 --> 00:57:02.039
in prayer. And I used to have list for years

945
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:07.719
in the back of my Bible of the chief categories

946
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:12.719
of prayer, and then it becomes printed into your prayer.

947
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:18.039
First category, what do I do when I pray? I

948
00:57:18.159 --> 00:57:25.719
adore Him and praise Him. I adoration.

949
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:31.360
Why wouldn't you start with confession? But okay, all right,

950
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:33.760
just thought, you know, because you probably got a lot

951
00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:35.880
to confess. Well, maybe you don't have anything to confess,

952
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:37.400
because if you're walking in the spirit, you don't have

953
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:39.119
anything to confess because you're not fulilling the loss of

954
00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:43.000
the flesh. So you can just get rid of confession right.

955
00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:47.639
First thing, in any service of worship, what do we

956
00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:51.880
do when we open the service? We don't say, thank

957
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:55.599
you Lord for saving my soul, thank you Lord for

958
00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:01.400
being there for me. We're so God mighty and ever

959
00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:07.440
lost in God Supreme, sovereign God on High, and we

960
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.000
adore him, and we think of his attributes, and we

961
00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:18.920
humble ourselves in His mighty holy presence. And that should

962
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:24.960
be in our prayer every day, to adore the Lord,

963
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:29.840
then to praise him for what he's done and what

964
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:34.440
he goes on to. And then we've got to confess

965
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:35.719
our sin.

966
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:41.960
You only have to confess if you're not walking in

967
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.679
the spirit. There walking in the spirit, you don't have

968
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:51.880
to confess, because you don't have any sins, okay.

969
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:56.320
And that's done very weakly sometimes because we haven't examined

970
00:58:56.559 --> 00:59:01.000
our hearts. We don't even pause sometimes think what have

971
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:06.719
I done today to come before the Lord and repentance.

972
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:14.000
A repentance isn't complete until it's accompanied by a pledge

973
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:20.519
to make every effort to avoid that sin in the future.

974
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:24.880
It makes no sense. I don't have to make every

975
00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:26.960
effort to avoid that sin in the future. All I

976
00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:28.639
have to do is walk in the spirit, and then

977
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:30.599
I will not fulfill the loss of the flesh. So

978
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.239
is it I had I just walk in the spirit

979
00:59:33.239 --> 00:59:34.519
and I don't fulfill the loss of the flesh, Or

980
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.119
do I walk in the spirit not filling the lost

981
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:37.920
of the flesh, but I still have to confess, and

982
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:39.800
then I still have to ensure and make a pledge

983
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:41.880
that I'm going to do everything to avoid that sin.

984
00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:44.760
Either it's just walk in the spirit and I don't

985
00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.760
fulfill the loss of the flesh, or it just makes

986
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:55.400
no sense. I don't understand. Christianity is just man, it's

987
00:59:55.480 --> 00:59:58.719
like a broken It's like it's like someone took logic,

988
00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:02.159
took a a puzzle and it says logic and Christians

989
01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:03.800
just take it, throw it on the floor. There's a

990
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:10.719
million pieces and we're like, look, it makes perfect sense. Okay,

991
01:00:11.239 --> 01:00:13.280
let him finish this. He's gonna go through five things.

992
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.360
But you see how it's good. You gotta do this.

993
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:16.760
You got to do this. You got to do this.

994
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:18.119
You got to do this, you got to do this,

995
01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:19.480
you got to do this, you got to do this,

996
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:21.159
you got to do this, you got to do this.

997
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:23.679
All right, I'll let him finish this, and I'll show

998
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:27.079
you what AI did immediately after AI reviewed this.

999
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:34.920
Boy's a help of God. That must be the well.

1000
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:37.599
If I'm gonna overcome sin or avoid sin by the

1001
01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:39.880
help of God, then God's help should be able to

1002
01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:42.000
get me to perfection. So If God's help's going to

1003
01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:44.480
get me to perfection, then I don't need to confess anything.

1004
01:00:44.559 --> 01:00:46.519
So does God help you get to perfection or God

1005
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:52.159
just help you to get the I? Man, can you

1006
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:55.400
just speak clearly? Do I walk in the spirit and

1007
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:57.159
then I don't fulfill the loss of the flesh? Or

1008
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:59.360
I walk in the spirit by doing all the reading

1009
01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:01.320
and all the prayer. But then I still have to

1010
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:04.239
confess because I'm still sinning. But God's gonna help me

1011
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:06.320
no longer sin. But if God is helping me no

1012
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:09.639
longer sin, if it's God helping me, God is omnipotent,

1013
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:11.679
then I should no longer sin. So it's God helping

1014
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:14.360
me not sin. And if God is helping me not sin,

1015
01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:17.280
then what happens when I'm sinning? God didn't help me?

1016
01:01:17.440 --> 01:01:18.800
Or are you gonna then tell me I didn't you

1017
01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:21.199
want God's help even though I've been begging for God's

1018
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:26.800
help not to sin from the day I was saved.

1019
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:35.519
To ask forgiveness and to pledge obediance. The two things

1020
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:41.280
go together. Ann in secession, who is on your purylace?

1021
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.280
Okay, He's gonna go through all the parts of prayer,

1022
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:47.599
but basically he gives us five things we have to do.

1023
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.559
We have to read and study the Bible. We have

1024
01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:52.679
to have meaningful prayer. Then we have not just reading

1025
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:54.480
and studying the Bible. The number three, we have to

1026
01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:57.440
meditate on God, Christ and spiritual truths. So we can't

1027
01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:59.559
just study and read and we can't just pray. We

1028
01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:03.039
got an I'll spend additional time meditating. At this point,

1029
01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:04.760
I don't know what you're gonna do with your life,

1030
01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:06.519
because you don't. You've got to be reading and reading

1031
01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:08.400
and reading and reading in order to walk in the spirit,

1032
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:09.880
so that you won't fulfill the loss of the flesh.

1033
01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:12.159
You gotta pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, so

1034
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:14.280
in order to walk in the spirit, so you don't

1035
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:15.760
fulfill the loss of the flesh. And then you got

1036
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:18.000
to meditate, meditate, meditating. Oh, and then number four, you

1037
01:02:18.039 --> 01:02:21.400
have to heed the spirit. You have to you have

1038
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:24.840
to heed the spirit. You have to follow So so

1039
01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.000
in order to walk in the spirit, I have to

1040
01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:30.360
obey the spirit. And if I obey the spirit, then

1041
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:32.519
I won't So but wait a minute, So am I

1042
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:34.599
doing this with God's power? Am I doing it myself?

1043
01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:36.800
If I can already obey what the spirit tells me

1044
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:42.960
to do without God's help? Well, am I doing this

1045
01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:45.320
in God's power? Am I doing it to get God's power?

1046
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:47.920
Earlier he made it sound like I have to do

1047
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:49.760
this in order to get God's power. But if I

1048
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:53.800
can already obey the spirit, do I obey the spirit

1049
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:56.079
in order to get God's power? Then that means I'm

1050
01:02:56.119 --> 01:02:58.360
obeying the spirit without God's power. So am I doing

1051
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.800
it to get it? Or do I already have it?

1052
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:03.880
It makes no sense? And then we have to plan

1053
01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:10.840
and aim, all right? So this is what doctor uh,

1054
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:14.199
this is what AI has to say, all right? If

1055
01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:18.280
this passage teaches that walking in the spirit ensures we

1056
01:03:18.320 --> 01:03:20.559
won't fulfill the loss of the flesh, and if the

1057
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:23.639
preacher says we are equipped to overcome sin, isn't the

1058
01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:28.360
logical conclusion that we can and should be perfect? All right?

1059
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.920
So AI scot kind of phrasing this kind of a

1060
01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:35.039
hypothetical kind of question, like what about this? All right?

1061
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:40.000
So here's what AI does. The promise versus reality. Doctor

1062
01:03:40.079 --> 01:03:45.119
Masters interprets Paul's words as an unqualified promise walk in

1063
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:47.119
the spirit and you will not fulfill the less of

1064
01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:50.920
the flesh. Yet this seems to contradict Paul's own struggle

1065
01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:53.920
in Roman seven, where he describes doing what he hates

1066
01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:58.400
and not doing what he desires despite being regenerate. First

1067
01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:00.840
John affirms the struggle. If we say we have no sin,

1068
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:06.320
we deceive ourselves. So Ai says, the language of victory

1069
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.880
over sin often feels like it demands practical perfection. If

1070
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:12.199
we fail, the implication is that we simply don't walk

1071
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:16.880
in the spirit enough right, so that the promise being

1072
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:20.599
offered here doesn't match the reality even found in Scripture

1073
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:23.920
itself and the writings of John, or say the writings

1074
01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:32.840
of Paul, it says uh okay Ai goes on to say,

1075
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:36.679
there's a philological tension that some would point out known

1076
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:39.519
as already and not yet. Ai loves pointing this out.

1077
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:42.360
So how does this work? Well, Positionally we are free

1078
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:45.840
from sin's penalty and dominion. Practically we're still being freed

1079
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:49.800
from sin's presence and habits. Masters touches on this only lightly.

1080
01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:53.000
He does not make space for the inevitable and evitability

1081
01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:55.360
of sin in the believer's life, which even the most

1082
01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:59.119
sanctified Christian continues to confess and repent of So masters

1083
01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:03.000
are masters? Yeah, does not. He doesn't go in any

1084
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.920
detail here in the sermon. He doesn't really explain, Hey,

1085
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:08.599
everyone that you're preaching to is still going to sin.

1086
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:12.920
Everyone you're still sinning. Everyone is still sinning. So how

1087
01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:15.840
do we understand this? He doesn't even draw a distinction

1088
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:20.000
between the position and practical reality all right, His five

1089
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:24.719
five part plan applies that consistent practice equal spiritual victory.

1090
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.599
While spiritual disciplines are vital, This framing can shift the

1091
01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:33.519
burden towards moral achievement rather than deepening dependence on grace.

1092
01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:37.039
The danger Christians may internalize failure as proof they did

1093
01:05:37.039 --> 01:05:41.920
not pray, reflect or read enough. Even though Doctor Masters

1094
01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:45.800
doesn't explicitly teach entire sanctification, the structure of the sermon

1095
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:48.400
leads to the implication that a believer can stop sinning

1096
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:51.719
if they simply walk rightly. This implication can cause guilt

1097
01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:55.480
for those who struggle persistently, pride or self deceit for

1098
01:05:55.519 --> 01:05:58.559
those who think they actually achieve it, or disillusionment when

1099
01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:02.920
someone follows all of the state and find themselves still sinning.

1100
01:06:07.239 --> 01:06:14.159
So it's basically, hey, you can stop sinning if you

1101
01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:16.800
will stop sinning. If you'll just if you'll just spend

1102
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:19.480
all of your time reading the Bible, praying, meditating on

1103
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:23.480
the Bible and obeying the spirit, and then planning and aiming,

1104
01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:26.639
you won't sin. So, ladies and gentlemen, you can stop

1105
01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:30.119
sinning today if you'll just do these five things. Call now, well,

1106
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:32.519
not call now. You have to do it. You can't

1107
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:34.519
just call and get help. You gotta do it.

1108
01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:40.480
Now.

1109
01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:44.119
We didn't even get to my I'm going to radically

1110
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:46.800
challenge all of this. I think this whole thing here

1111
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:51.599
is just crazy. But you see that this just this

1112
01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:56.280
just destroys any zeal or hope. And this turns what

1113
01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:59.320
this is, this is a complete and version of a

1114
01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:03.239
proper understand of law and gospel, because this is telling

1115
01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:06.000
you that you are sanctified, that your victory in the

1116
01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:09.000
Christian life is done by what you do. You don't

1117
01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:14.519
have victory and what by based off what Christ did. See,

1118
01:07:14.519 --> 01:07:18.800
this is a law based form of sanctification. Do do

1119
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:22.199
do do do do this, do this, do this, do this,

1120
01:07:22.280 --> 01:07:25.159
and then you will stop sinning. But what happens if

1121
01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:27.920
I continue to send which you are going to There's

1122
01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:30.960
no I mean, even even in this sermon. I mean

1123
01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:33.880
he's just on point number what number two, just on prayer.

1124
01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:35.960
He's only got like ten minutes left in the sermon,

1125
01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:39.079
So he's just gonna go through the red. There's not

1126
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:42.280
gonna be any breaking this down or explaining. There's not

1127
01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:44.920
gonna be any of that. You're gonna be left with

1128
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.880
I've been doing Christians have been doing these things for

1129
01:07:48.000 --> 01:08:06.159
two thousand years. A little diddy about Jack and Diane,

1130
01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:15.280
two American kids going up in the heartland. Life goes

1131
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:23.680
on long after the thrill of living is gone. Man,

1132
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:27.760
Sometimes when you listen to Christianity and listen to the

1133
01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:32.159
preaching and the and just how just, it just destroys

1134
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:35.039
any thrill of living. It just destroyed, it just wipes

1135
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:38.000
it out because you're just like what you're left with.

1136
01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:40.319
I don't even know what you're left with. You're left

1137
01:08:40.319 --> 01:08:43.960
with a just It sounds like a bad infocommercial that's

1138
01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:50.199
selling you a scam. But life continues to christian Life

1139
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:51.960
continues after the thrill is gone. And you know what

1140
01:08:52.079 --> 01:08:54.359
kills the you know why the thrill is gone because

1141
01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:57.960
some point you wake up and realize none of this

1142
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:00.920
is true, none of this is accurate, none of this

1143
01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:04.720
is even based in any sense of reality of what

1144
01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:07.479
we see. Even AI's like, this is not the way

1145
01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:13.960
it works. That means that there's got to be a

1146
01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:23.479
new way, a better way of understanding this. They say, well,

1147
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:25.399
what's the answer. Well, I don't. I mean we're at

1148
01:09:25.399 --> 01:09:27.920
sixty nine minutes. I don't have the ability to give

1149
01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:39.880
you the answer now. I ended the last broadcast saying

1150
01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:42.359
I said, I give up. I'm dying. I retire. That

1151
01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:46.239
this only just makes me feel it even stronger. It's like,

1152
01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:50.319
because any criticism of this approach puts me at odds

1153
01:09:50.319 --> 01:09:52.840
with every Everyone's like, no, you can do it. You

1154
01:09:52.880 --> 01:09:55.800
can do it. I just go ahead and you believe that.

1155
01:09:55.880 --> 01:09:57.680
And just for five seconds, look at your life and

1156
01:09:57.720 --> 01:09:59.479
ask have you been holy as God is holy? If

1157
01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:02.920
you think you, then you've got more problems than spirit.

1158
01:10:02.920 --> 01:10:05.359
You've got mental health problems. Okay, because you're living at

1159
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:07.880
your delusional You've never been holy as God as whole.

1160
01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:10.439
You actually think your holy as God, you're not. That

1161
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:13.279
means you're in a perpetual status sin be perfect as

1162
01:10:13.319 --> 01:10:15.199
your heavenly Father is perfect. Do you think you're perfect

1163
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:17.520
as God is perfect? No, then you're in a perpetual

1164
01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:20.119
stat of sin. Do you love God with all your heart, mind, body,

1165
01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:21.760
and soul. If you even think that for a minute,

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you're delusional. You don't. You're in a perpetual statu sin.

1167
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Do you love your neighbor as yourself? Give me a break.

1168
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You don't love anything as much as you love yourself?

1169
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All right? Do you love your enemy? Do you turn

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the other cheek? Do you resist not evil? Do you

1171
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bless them who would use you and persecute you? Do

1172
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you do all things without grumbling and complaining? Do you

1173
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not have any lust in your heart? Any coveteousness in

1174
01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:45.279
your heart? Do you have any d forgiveness? In I mean,

1175
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give me a break. You are in sin because you

1176
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have a sin nature. And as long as you have

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a sin nature, you're going to sin. You sin in

1178
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thought word, indeed, by what you do and what you

1179
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leave undone, that's the reality. And by telling people no, no, no.

1180
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If you'll just read your Bible more, if you'll just pray,

1181
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if you'll just meditate on the scriptures, if you'll just

1182
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obey the Holy Spirit and follow his leading, and if

1183
01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:11.680
you just plan and aim done dun dundn, you become

1184
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:21.600
super Christian, and you stop sinning. Stuff has been pounded

1185
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into Christian's brains for so long they don't even know

1186
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what to do. If they hear anything different, they just

1187
01:11:27.159 --> 01:11:30.119
keep and you're just in a never routine of law, law,

1188
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:32.640
do this, do this, do this, do this? Well, what

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in the world did Christ do? Then? If you've got

1190
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to do everything, then what's the point of what Christ did?

1191
01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:46.359
Christ did it all for you? All Right, well, I

1192
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:52.399
give up. It's frustrating, but we'll take Galatians five sixteen

1193
01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:57.720
apart and we'll finally get to a new way to

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01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:01.319
interpret this at some point. Thanks for listening, And as

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I ended the last broadcast, I truly do. I give up.

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There isn't any point. God bless