WEBVTT 00:00:01.379 --> 00:00:06.919 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.900 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:14.140 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.160 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:24.679 right in. And we're welcome to church. We're 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.059 welcome to church. It's always a blessing to 00:00:27.059 --> 00:00:30.399 have us around and we are going to continue. 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.539 with the teaching that we have been on which 00:00:33.539 --> 00:00:36.320 is standing fast on the faith and the scripture 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:41.219 is first corinthians 16 13 i'll read it to us 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:45.100 again first corinthians 16 13 from new king james 00:00:45.100 --> 00:00:49.259 version it says watch stand fast in faith be 00:00:49.259 --> 00:00:54.079 brave be strong watch stand fast in faith be 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.320 brave be strong this is supposed to pose words 00:00:57.320 --> 00:00:59.740 to the church and current in the church and current 00:00:59.979 --> 00:01:05.560 And this word is very relevant to us. This word 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:07.879 is timeless, this word is very relevant to us 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.260 today and always. And in the series we started 00:01:11.260 --> 00:01:15.799 to teach, I think I started with that whole paying 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.640 attention, being aware, being conscious, paying 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.000 attention to God's word, paying attention to 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.459 the disciplines. And we talked about learning 00:01:24.459 --> 00:01:27.480 and how learning is important for our group. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.659 If you don't learn, grow and in this kingdom 00:01:31.659 --> 00:01:34.319 learning is very important learning is a priority 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.799 and then it has to be a priority to you if you 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.760 want to grow and apostle paul says watch watch 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:45.219 watch watch and then he continues by saying stand 00:01:45.219 --> 00:01:49.079 fast in the faith so what i want us to what i 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.579 want us to see is that apostle paul here makes 00:01:52.579 --> 00:01:57.219 use of military terms and it's no surprise to 00:01:57.219 --> 00:02:01.459 us that he will use that on the basis of his 00:02:01.459 --> 00:02:05.099 surroundings, right? He's surrounded by military 00:02:05.099 --> 00:02:08.800 personnel and it's a very interesting situation. 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:11.259 It just communicates to us that we can learn 00:02:11.259 --> 00:02:15.319 from what is around us. We can learn some form 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.340 of learning that happens when you look around 00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:19.780 you, when you observe. Some of us don't take 00:02:19.780 --> 00:02:22.240 time to observe our environment. Some of us don't 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:26.979 take time to understand what is going on. On 00:02:26.979 --> 00:02:29.419 Wednesday, We're encouraged by our lead pastor 00:02:29.419 --> 00:02:32.300 from the world from i think that was second corinthians 00:02:32.300 --> 00:02:37.139 13 Five examine yourself There's an examination 00:02:37.139 --> 00:02:39.120 that you have to do. There's an examination you 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:40.740 have to do of yourself There's an examination 00:02:40.740 --> 00:02:43.020 you do of your surrounding. There's an examination 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:46.000 you have to do of what is going on. Praise god 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.719 and apostle paul Is someone that you will see 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.180 He talks he's very much around the prison or 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:56.539 very much around situations where he's around 00:02:56.539 --> 00:02:59.949 soldiers, right? is around soldiers and and he 00:02:59.949 --> 00:03:04.810 he looks at the way the soldiers behave and that 00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:09.509 word watch is the military term that word which 00:03:09.509 --> 00:03:12.469 is a military term and the Greek word means to 00:03:12.469 --> 00:03:17.389 be a lot to be awake to be vigilant and when 00:03:17.389 --> 00:03:19.310 i say awake this is not the time that you want 00:03:19.310 --> 00:03:23.810 to sleep praise god to be a lot and and he sees 00:03:23.810 --> 00:03:27.650 that in the way the soldiers take They are always 00:03:27.650 --> 00:03:30.750 alert. They're always alert. And I want us to 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:34.650 see a couple of instances, because what has happened 00:03:34.650 --> 00:03:37.909 is that he's either guarded by the soldiers, 00:03:38.449 --> 00:03:41.509 or being escorted by the soldiers, or even rescued 00:03:41.509 --> 00:03:45.710 by the soldiers, or even he travels along with 00:03:45.710 --> 00:03:48.710 them. And in all of these encounters with them, 00:03:48.870 --> 00:03:51.849 he's observing certain things. And in fact, the 00:03:51.849 --> 00:03:55.969 four different phrases he uses here are military. 00:03:56.009 --> 00:03:59.030 very military term and I want us to see it and 00:03:59.030 --> 00:04:02.169 some of us in I think even here on the island 00:04:02.169 --> 00:04:07.789 you know the you know the kingdom is a kingdom 00:04:07.789 --> 00:04:10.889 right and with kingdom there are terms and terminologies 00:04:10.889 --> 00:04:12.930 you know we have to learn to understand that 00:04:12.930 --> 00:04:14.870 people outside don't understand the language 00:04:14.870 --> 00:04:17.810 here you know you will do things like general 00:04:17.810 --> 00:04:23.689 we we we call men we call them generals we in 00:04:23.689 --> 00:04:27.670 fact on this island you use Invasion. You use 00:04:27.670 --> 00:04:29.970 different things that are military terms and 00:04:29.970 --> 00:04:34.250 terminologies that are not literal, right? Because 00:04:34.250 --> 00:04:36.970 they're not physical or literal in that sense. 00:04:37.610 --> 00:04:41.310 And Apostle Paul uses the different military 00:04:41.310 --> 00:04:45.250 terms and he says like a good soldier. In Timothy, 00:04:45.350 --> 00:04:47.550 he says like a good soldier. He uses all of that 00:04:47.550 --> 00:04:49.949 because he picks that. In Ephesians, you see 00:04:49.949 --> 00:04:53.649 him talking about the armor. Praise God. Talking 00:04:53.649 --> 00:04:57.060 about an armor. And he gets that whole inspiration, 00:04:57.459 --> 00:05:00.000 he communicates what he's communicating through 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.800 the lens of what he sees, through the lens of 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.800 the observation from around himself. And we see 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:12.180 in Acts, in Acts 27, when does it go to Acts 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:21.899 27? Acts 27 verse one, we see that it says, and 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:26.569 when, It was decided that we should sail to Italy. 00:05:27.310 --> 00:05:32.009 They delivered Paul and some other prisoners 00:05:32.009 --> 00:05:36.790 to one named Julius, a centurion of the Augustan 00:05:36.790 --> 00:05:39.089 Regiment. That is a soldier here. That's the 00:05:39.089 --> 00:05:41.470 centurion Julius. We see him being delivered 00:05:41.470 --> 00:05:44.889 and they were traveling along and you can get 00:05:44.889 --> 00:05:47.990 a sense of his looking at the soldier, observing 00:05:47.990 --> 00:05:51.009 the soldier. Even in Acts 16, we see him being 00:05:51.009 --> 00:05:56.149 guarded. we see the story of him and Silas in 00:05:56.149 --> 00:05:59.089 the prison being guarded by a soldier that ended 00:05:59.089 --> 00:06:01.410 up getting saved we talked about this in the 00:06:01.410 --> 00:06:04.230 previous teaching and then even in Philippians 00:06:04.230 --> 00:06:08.170 1 verse 13 we get a sense of in Philippians 1 00:06:08.170 --> 00:06:10.709 13 let's go to Philippians 1 13 we'll see another 00:06:10.709 --> 00:06:16.149 instance where we will see him it says so it 00:06:16.149 --> 00:06:20.389 became evident to the whole palace guard and 00:06:20.389 --> 00:06:24.680 to all the rest that my chains are in Christ. 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.439 That my chains are in Christ. So it means that 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.560 he will have encounter with the palace guards, 00:06:30.660 --> 00:06:33.740 and he will be able to draw some form of inspiration. 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:37.220 There are instances, even in Acts 21, where the 00:06:37.220 --> 00:06:39.779 mob was coming at him. He was rescued by the 00:06:39.779 --> 00:06:42.680 mob. Acts 21, 35. He was rescued by the mob. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:48.180 Acts 23, 24. We see a situation where he was 00:06:48.180 --> 00:06:50.699 escorted when he got an information that he was 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:53.819 going to be killed. He was escorted. So he has 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:56.779 so many encounters or so many interactions with 00:06:56.779 --> 00:06:59.939 soldiers. And he, even in the one that we just 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:04.839 looked at in Philippians 1 .13, we understand 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:07.480 that these soldiers were keeping watch over him. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.560 They were keeping watch over him. They were looking 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.560 at him and he had the opportunity to preach the 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.079 gospel to them since there was no other thing 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.379 to do. They are coming around. He had a free 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:20.449 opportunity to preach to them. Praise God. And 00:07:20.449 --> 00:07:23.930 he says watch. And a soldier, I think the last 00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:26.769 time I was speaking I talked about a security 00:07:26.769 --> 00:07:29.529 guard. The role of a security guard is to keep 00:07:29.529 --> 00:07:33.110 watch. A security guard sleeping on duty will 00:07:33.110 --> 00:07:35.629 mean that a lot of things can go wrong. Will 00:07:35.629 --> 00:07:38.069 mean that certain things will happen in their 00:07:38.069 --> 00:07:40.370 sleep or happen without their watch. And we say 00:07:40.370 --> 00:07:43.310 that that word speaks about being alert, speaks 00:07:43.310 --> 00:07:46.050 about being awake, speaks about being vigilant. 00:07:46.410 --> 00:07:49.050 And vigilant in one sense. So what is the danger? 00:07:49.149 --> 00:07:52.029 Because you have to if there would have to be 00:07:52.029 --> 00:07:54.870 a danger for you to be alert, right? If there 00:07:54.870 --> 00:07:57.269 is nothing, you sleep peacefully, right? And 00:07:57.269 --> 00:07:59.850 for some of us, we have a, we're in a place where 00:07:59.850 --> 00:08:03.509 it is secure. We don't sleep locking and, you 00:08:03.509 --> 00:08:05.670 know, but locking and locking things to keep, 00:08:05.870 --> 00:08:08.209 to ensure that nobody comes in and then you're 00:08:08.209 --> 00:08:12.250 safe inside. Praise God. And then the point is, 00:08:12.470 --> 00:08:14.730 for him to make this statement, it means that 00:08:14.730 --> 00:08:17.540 there's a reason why you're watching. There's 00:08:17.540 --> 00:08:19.300 a danger you're trying to avoid. There's a danger 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:21.920 you're trying to protect. And he says, the next 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.899 phrase is, stand fast in the faith. And it means 00:08:25.899 --> 00:08:29.199 that that is a way that you can be able to watch. 00:08:29.779 --> 00:08:31.819 That is the way that you can be able to watch. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:35.200 Stand fast in the faith. And we have been learning 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.620 and we're being taught that anywhere we see the 00:08:38.620 --> 00:08:41.340 word faith, you don't jump into conclusions. 00:08:42.340 --> 00:08:45.179 You want to look at the context and understand 00:08:45.179 --> 00:08:48.769 what that faith will be speaking of what the 00:08:48.769 --> 00:08:51.269 faith is and we've learned that faith first and 00:08:51.269 --> 00:08:54.169 foremost is what can be speaking of what salvation 00:08:54.169 --> 00:08:56.750 right faith can be speaking of salvation it means 00:08:56.750 --> 00:08:58.929 the means by which a person is saved that can 00:08:58.929 --> 00:09:01.429 be what it will be talking about when you have 00:09:01.429 --> 00:09:04.549 to read it in context and we see in Ephesians 00:09:04.549 --> 00:09:07.950 2 verse 8 it says for by grace we have been saved 00:09:07.950 --> 00:09:10.710 through faith so that faith there will not be 00:09:10.710 --> 00:09:12.830 speaking of that's faith they will be speaking 00:09:12.830 --> 00:09:17.570 of salvation being saved same or similar in Galatians 00:09:17.570 --> 00:09:22.809 3 26 where it says, for you are all sons of God 00:09:22.809 --> 00:09:26.909 through faith in Christ Jesus. The faith there 00:09:26.909 --> 00:09:29.129 will be speaking or the faith there will be, 00:09:29.129 --> 00:09:32.950 that's Galatians 3 verse 26, that faith there 00:09:32.950 --> 00:09:36.570 will be speaking of salvation, that's an individual 00:09:36.570 --> 00:09:40.450 being saved. And then faith can also be speaking 00:09:40.450 --> 00:09:43.220 of doctrine or teaching. We have been taught 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:45.299 that. I'm just recapping so that we will see 00:09:45.299 --> 00:09:47.740 what is implied in this particular text when 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:50.000 you see stand fast and faith. Is it doctrine 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.159 or teaching? And that will be the content of 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.600 what is believed. And the faith will mean a body 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.399 of doctrine. And we see that in the passage that 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.860 we're asked to read in Jude 3. We'll see an example 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:08.000 in Jude 3 where there's an instruction to contend 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.279 endlessly for the faith. You can be contending 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.960 for something that you have already received. 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.500 So you can be contented for salvation. Salvation 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:19.480 has already been contented for and received. 00:10:19.620 --> 00:10:22.200 The victory has been won. The contenting there 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:26.399 is for the doctrine and the teaching, the doctrine 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.600 or the teaching that you have been taught. Praise 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:31.539 God. The doctrine or the teaching you have been 00:10:31.539 --> 00:10:33.200 taught. And we'll see that again. And there's 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.379 also the thought bit, which is the response of 00:10:36.379 --> 00:10:38.879 a believer, right? The thought bit is the response 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.820 of a believer. And that response will be that 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:44.740 of trust. to God's command or trust to God's 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:46.960 instruction or trust to God's promise in the 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.419 case of Abraham and in Romans 10 verse 8 Romans 00:10:52.419 --> 00:10:56.960 10 verse 8 it says but what does it say the word 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.820 is near you in your mouth and in your heart that 00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:04.299 is the word of faith which we preach means that 00:11:04.299 --> 00:11:07.679 he has received it and the response to it is 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.940 preaching right is the word of God or the word 00:11:10.940 --> 00:11:14.340 of faith that is being preached that faith there 00:11:14.340 --> 00:11:17.039 will not be that faith there will not be it's 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.740 the response that faith will be an action or 00:11:19.740 --> 00:11:24.679 response to what god has done and then the last 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:29.019 bit is the believers conduct the believers conduct 00:11:29.019 --> 00:11:33.220 faith will be expressed in how a believer conducts 00:11:33.220 --> 00:11:35.519 himself and sometimes in some passages we'll 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:38.740 see in galatians five or six i will want to read 00:11:38.740 --> 00:11:44.169 from the nlt galatians five verse 6 because he 00:11:44.169 --> 00:11:49.230 words it Galatians 5 verse 6. So it says, it 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:53.889 says for we have our faith in Christ There is 00:11:53.889 --> 00:11:56.929 no benefit of being circumcised or being uncircumcised. 00:11:57.129 --> 00:12:01.350 What is important? What is important is faith 00:12:01.350 --> 00:12:04.190 expressing itself in law. Praise God. What is 00:12:04.190 --> 00:12:07.049 important is faith Expressing itself in law meaning 00:12:07.049 --> 00:12:10.049 that it's not just I have faith. There's an expression 00:12:10.049 --> 00:12:12.320 of that faith. Praise God There's an expression 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.019 of that faith in how the believer conducts themselves, 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.519 and it's very important. So it means that when 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:22.139 we see faith, we want to look at the context 00:12:22.139 --> 00:12:26.700 and understand what does that mean. Will it be 00:12:26.700 --> 00:12:29.080 speaking of salvation? Will it be speaking of 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.559 doctrine or teaching? Will it be speaking of 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.700 the believer's response or will it be speaking 00:12:33.700 --> 00:12:36.299 of the believer's conduct? And in our passage, 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.899 in our passage, we'll see it because it says, 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.480 Stand fast in faith. Stand fast in faith, very 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.799 kind of similar to the part where you're contending, 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:55.200 right? Stand fast in faith, contend, and we'll 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.059 see that that is what has been said. When we 00:12:57.059 --> 00:13:00.960 go back to the 1 Corinthians 15, not the 16 now, 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:06.600 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15, it says, 00:13:07.379 --> 00:13:10.960 moreover, brethren, I declare to you, the gospel 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.940 which I preach to you which also you received 00:13:14.940 --> 00:13:20.460 and in which you stand praise God in which you 00:13:20.460 --> 00:13:22.379 stand means that they are standing on something 00:13:22.379 --> 00:13:26.279 right they're standing on the gospel which they 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.340 have received right the gospel which says I preach 00:13:29.340 --> 00:13:32.940 to you and which you have received says and you 00:13:32.940 --> 00:13:35.950 see the instruction is to stand in it The instruction 00:13:35.950 --> 00:13:38.029 is to stand in it. And when we go down in the 00:13:38.029 --> 00:13:41.470 passage, you'll see more reasons why the instruction 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:44.809 to stand in it, because there is an eminent danger. 00:13:46.389 --> 00:13:49.090 Praise God. There's an eminent danger, and it 00:13:49.090 --> 00:13:52.509 requires us to be alert. Because if you're not 00:13:52.509 --> 00:13:54.710 alert, if you're not awake, if you're not vigilant, 00:13:55.129 --> 00:13:57.750 you will have other things coming. Praise God. 00:13:57.769 --> 00:14:00.149 You have other things coming. And know that He's 00:14:00.149 --> 00:14:03.350 not asking them to stand fast in the salvation, 00:14:03.690 --> 00:14:06.659 right? is asking them to stand fast in the doctrine 00:14:06.659 --> 00:14:13.440 that they have received. Praise God. Going back 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:17.299 to Jude 1 verse 3, in the four, just the four 00:14:17.299 --> 00:14:21.779 part, it says, for certain men have creeped in 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:25.919 on notice. Praise God. The four. The first line 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.539 of the four. It says, for certain men have creeped 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:31.220 in on notice. And we understand that if you are 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:34.120 not alert, some things will Some group of people 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.480 will enter, some people will creep in. You see 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:38.519 for certain men have creeped in on notice. Remember 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.759 we said that contending there is contending for 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.480 the doctrine because some people will creep in 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.700 and teach you something else or creep in and 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:48.500 communicate something else other than the truth. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.179 Praise God. Something else other than the truth 00:14:51.179 --> 00:14:53.779 and that's why it's important for us to realize 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:56.559 there's a danger when you don't even know what 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:59.360 the truth is. Right? There's a danger when you're 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:01.350 not learning. There's a danger when you're not 00:15:01.350 --> 00:15:05.470 growing, you'll be very, you'll not have any 00:15:05.470 --> 00:15:09.389 immunity against a lie. Praise God, you'll not 00:15:09.389 --> 00:15:11.750 have any immunity against a lie. And what we'll 00:15:11.750 --> 00:15:15.889 see is the first danger, which is he's warning 00:15:15.889 --> 00:15:20.169 against false doctrine. He's warning against 00:15:20.169 --> 00:15:23.190 false doctrine. And we'll see a couple of reasons 00:15:23.190 --> 00:15:25.470 why he's warning, he's passing that warning. 00:15:25.710 --> 00:15:29.200 We'll see, we'll delve into it even. more. It's 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:30.799 one and against false doctrine. But first and 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.059 foremost, we want to understand what doctrine 00:15:33.059 --> 00:15:39.200 is. What is sound doctrine? What is sound doctrine? 00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:41.659 What is the word doctrine or teaching? We'll 00:15:41.659 --> 00:15:45.279 see that a lot in the New Testament. We'll see 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:47.820 that a lot in the Gospels. We'll see that a lot 00:15:47.820 --> 00:15:51.220 in the Epistles. We'll see that a lot. And when 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:54.279 you see that word in your Bible in English, that 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:58.370 word can mean or Yeah, can be different, can 00:15:58.370 --> 00:16:01.450 be three different words in the Greek. It can 00:16:01.450 --> 00:16:02.950 be three different words in the Greek. That's 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:06.090 why we go to the Greek, not because we want to, 00:16:06.250 --> 00:16:08.009 but going to the Greek will help us establish 00:16:08.009 --> 00:16:10.470 or clarify what the word is. The same way you 00:16:10.470 --> 00:16:14.649 have the word faith, and we say the faith is 00:16:14.649 --> 00:16:17.850 pistes. It's a Greek word, pistes, but it can 00:16:17.850 --> 00:16:20.570 mean different things. But this one is one word 00:16:20.570 --> 00:16:23.909 that can be any of these three. The first... 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:27.100 The first word we will be looking at is dida, 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:36.220 he. D -I -D -A -C -H -E. D -I -D -A -C -H -E. 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.840 And this will be speaking of the context of the 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:46.100 teaching or what is being taught. Or the truth 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:50.559 that is being passed down. The content of the 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.539 teaching or what is being taught. or the truth 00:16:53.539 --> 00:16:58.659 that is being passed down. And this Greek word 00:16:58.659 --> 00:17:04.000 appears 30 times in 29 verses. It appears 30 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:09.700 times in 29 verses. It appears 30 times in 29 00:17:09.700 --> 00:17:16.440 verses in the New King James Version. And I will 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.900 just go through some of the instances. I will 00:17:19.900 --> 00:17:21.980 review myself again. It speaks about the content 00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:25.140 of a teaching. what is being taught or the truth 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:27.579 being passed down or the truth being passed down 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:31.279 and and we'll see a couple of times or we'll 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.880 see most of it in the gospels we'll see a good 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.180 amount of it in the gospels we'll see instances 00:17:38.180 --> 00:17:42.420 where it describes the content of jesus's message 00:17:42.420 --> 00:17:45.099 it describes the content of jesus's message and 00:17:45.099 --> 00:17:48.440 and you will see instances where the listeners 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.819 were amazed because of the authority by which 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:55.180 Jesus spoke. The listeners were amazed because 00:17:55.180 --> 00:17:57.859 of the authority by which Jesus spoke. That is, 00:17:57.980 --> 00:17:59.839 there was something, there's a truth that was 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.579 being passed down that results in them being 00:18:03.579 --> 00:18:06.819 amazed. Praise God. And we'll see the first in 00:18:06.819 --> 00:18:11.799 Matthew 7 verse 28. Matthew 7 verse 28. Matthew 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.900 7 verse 28, it says, And so it was when Jesus 00:18:15.900 --> 00:18:20.289 had ended the saints. that the people were astonished 00:18:20.289 --> 00:18:24.470 at his teaching. That teaching there is the word 00:18:24.470 --> 00:18:28.150 didahé. That teaching there is the word didahé, 00:18:28.289 --> 00:18:31.910 it's pronounced that way. And it means the truth 00:18:31.910 --> 00:18:34.089 has been passed down, what was being taught. 00:18:34.529 --> 00:18:38.069 They were astonished at that teaching. And also 00:18:38.069 --> 00:18:42.190 in Matthew 22, 33, Matthew 22, 33, we'll come 00:18:42.190 --> 00:18:44.549 back to this passage and see, we'll come back 00:18:44.549 --> 00:18:48.660 to this passage again. He says, and when the 00:18:48.660 --> 00:18:51.559 multitude heard this, they were astonished at 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.960 his teaching. We see them being astonished at 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:58.400 the teaching. And then Mark 1, 22, and then 27. 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.660 Mark 1, 22, and 27. He says, and they were astonished 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:06.720 at his teaching, for he taught them as one having 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.460 authority and not as the scribes. 27, he says, 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.650 then they were all amazed so that they questioned 00:19:15.650 --> 00:19:19.930 amongst themselves saying what is this what new 00:19:19.930 --> 00:19:24.690 doctrine is this for with authority he commands 00:19:24.690 --> 00:19:28.769 even the unclean spirit and they obey him with 00:19:28.769 --> 00:19:30.630 authority commands the unclean spirits and they 00:19:30.630 --> 00:19:37.450 obey him and then we look at look 432 look 432 00:19:37.450 --> 00:19:40.849 says and they were astonished as his teaching 00:19:40.849 --> 00:19:44.509 for his word was with authority who has done 00:19:44.509 --> 00:19:48.049 it as his teaching, for his word was with authority." 00:19:48.049 --> 00:19:52.630 And then lastly, let's look at John 7 16. John 00:19:52.630 --> 00:19:56.529 7 16. It says, Jesus answered them and said, 00:19:56.930 --> 00:20:01.829 my doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me. 00:20:02.089 --> 00:20:06.650 My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me. 00:20:06.829 --> 00:20:11.369 And we see that he, There was something about 00:20:11.369 --> 00:20:14.309 the content or something about what he taught 00:20:14.309 --> 00:20:17.690 and communicated that amazed or captivated or 00:20:17.690 --> 00:20:20.430 astonished The congregation who was all the people 00:20:20.430 --> 00:20:21.829 he was speaking on people that were listening 00:20:21.829 --> 00:20:26.210 to him praise God was something about the content 00:20:26.210 --> 00:20:33.079 things he taught and Note that it was truth Right? 00:20:33.259 --> 00:20:37.539 Not that it was truth. The way the truth was 00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:40.359 communicating, praise God. It was truth it was 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:46.599 communicating. And we'll also see in Acts of 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:51.519 Apostles, we'll see where the early church devoted 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:56.579 themselves in Acts 2 .42. Let's resize the Gospels 00:20:56.579 --> 00:21:00.009 now. We'll see an instant where the apostles 00:21:00.009 --> 00:21:03.589 themselves. It says, and they continued steadfastly 00:21:03.589 --> 00:21:07.730 in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the 00:21:07.730 --> 00:21:09.490 breaking of bread and in prayers. And we know 00:21:09.490 --> 00:21:12.789 that the apostles doctrine, as we understand, 00:21:12.950 --> 00:21:15.230 we know that the doctrine that it was what was 00:21:15.230 --> 00:21:17.450 handed to them, right, is a doctrine of Christ 00:21:17.450 --> 00:21:19.329 that was what they communicate, that what they 00:21:19.329 --> 00:21:21.829 were teaching, what they were teaching was a 00:21:21.829 --> 00:21:24.470 doctrine of, and we see that in the NLT we refer 00:21:24.470 --> 00:21:28.089 to it as teaching. In the New King James we say 00:21:28.089 --> 00:21:31.450 this doctrine. So that word, you can see it interchangeably, 00:21:31.609 --> 00:21:33.450 doctrine, teaching, and so on. And then we'll 00:21:33.450 --> 00:21:37.710 now see false teaching. We'll now see false teaching, 00:21:37.950 --> 00:21:47.950 and we'll see that in Revelation 14 -15. It says, 00:21:48.329 --> 00:21:54.670 but I have a few words against you, because you 00:21:54.670 --> 00:21:59.480 have there those who hold the doctrine of Balak 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:04.279 who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:07.599 the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.799 to idols and to commit sexual immorality and 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.660 we see we can see all of this in Numbers 22 to 00:22:14.660 --> 00:22:21.380 25 and then 31 this is toss you also have those 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:25.799 who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which 00:22:27.769 --> 00:22:31.009 thing I hate, which thing I hate. So we see two 00:22:31.009 --> 00:22:32.509 doctrines here, and we know that these doctrines 00:22:32.509 --> 00:22:35.210 are not of Christ, right? We see these two doctrines, 00:22:35.289 --> 00:22:38.630 and it says the doctrine of Balam, and it clarifies 00:22:38.630 --> 00:22:41.069 what the doctrine was, right? Means that there 00:22:41.069 --> 00:22:44.289 was a teaching, right? And it says, who taught 00:22:44.289 --> 00:22:47.950 Balak to put a stumbling block before the children 00:22:47.950 --> 00:22:51.450 of Israel? So there's a, somebody would have 00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:54.230 had, somebody had to do it, right? And we know 00:22:54.230 --> 00:22:59.279 that the story was that Balak, Balam was summoned 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:02.759 to cause them and he had a hard time doing that, 00:23:03.099 --> 00:23:06.019 right? And then he had to now, since he couldn't 00:23:06.019 --> 00:23:10.480 do it, he had to now give, he had to teach Balak 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.680 on what he will do that will result in what he 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:19.180 desired, praise God. And we see that this was 00:23:19.180 --> 00:23:23.900 the, when we were reading numbers, we read and 00:23:23.900 --> 00:23:26.000 then all of a sudden, it changed and then in 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.839 31 numbers 31 that's when we see who was responsible 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.039 for what had happened because something had happened 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:33.839 and then you're wondering what had happened and 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.019 when you read further in that numbers 31 16 you 00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:40.740 will see that it says in number 31 16 says look 00:23:40.740 --> 00:23:44.799 those women caused the children of israel through 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.380 the council of balam to trespass against the 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:52.500 lord and incident of paul and there was a plague 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:55.569 among the congregation the Lord there was a plague 00:23:55.569 --> 00:23:57.730 among the congregation of the Lord and we see 00:23:57.730 --> 00:24:00.609 that is Balam's own and we can clarify what Balam's 00:24:00.609 --> 00:24:02.809 own is and we see that there are doctrines so 00:24:02.809 --> 00:24:06.410 we'll have false doctrines that are not the doctrine 00:24:06.410 --> 00:24:10.390 of Christ and you want to be able to be alert 00:24:10.390 --> 00:24:13.329 right you want to be on the watch you want to 00:24:13.329 --> 00:24:15.650 be vigilant so that you can be able to and if 00:24:15.650 --> 00:24:17.750 you know what the doctrine of Christ is when 00:24:17.750 --> 00:24:20.869 you see something foreign you can be able to 00:24:20.869 --> 00:24:23.410 spot it right you can be able to spot it you 00:24:23.410 --> 00:24:26.559 come be able to say this is not of the Lord and 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:29.500 if there is anything we'll see how God still 00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:32.900 and in that same revelation 2 verse 6 you see 00:24:32.900 --> 00:24:35.380 that that doctrine you see that the doctrine 00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:38.140 will result in actions means that the deeds of 00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:40.619 these people is what they taught and remember 00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:43.799 I was saying something about just looking at 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:46.039 the way people behave around you you can learn 00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:48.500 and that's why you want to be careful of what 00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:50.279 you surround you or who you surround yourself 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.730 with Because if you surround yourself with the 00:24:52.730 --> 00:24:55.349 same subconsciously, you are picking on things, 00:24:55.390 --> 00:24:57.869 you are seeing things that your brain is not 00:24:57.869 --> 00:25:00.329 necessarily processed. You don't even understand 00:25:00.329 --> 00:25:02.529 it, but you would find yourself acting along 00:25:02.529 --> 00:25:05.309 that lines. Asides the fact that somebody teaches 00:25:05.309 --> 00:25:07.750 you is the unconscious learning that happens 00:25:07.750 --> 00:25:11.450 when you watch. Certain things happen and for 00:25:11.450 --> 00:25:14.410 many of us, we grew up in environments and certain 00:25:14.410 --> 00:25:17.049 things are norm, but they are not, they are norm 00:25:17.049 --> 00:25:18.769 in those environments, but they're not the normal. 00:25:19.180 --> 00:25:22.319 Praise God and that is why teaching learning 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.500 is very important learning and teaching is very 00:25:25.500 --> 00:25:30.299 important because you get to you get to Break 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:33.599 away from what you have always known as normal 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.460 to what really is truth. Praise God You get to 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:39.900 break away from it and in this day and age we 00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:42.920 have many false doctrines available You don't 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:46.180 you just need to be alive to be able to to see 00:25:46.789 --> 00:25:50.349 And in fact, you think that it's not over, new 00:25:50.349 --> 00:25:53.710 ones are being cooked. Praise God, and it's not 00:25:53.710 --> 00:25:55.990 new in a sense because it's still old stuff because 00:25:55.990 --> 00:25:58.509 you just bring it back and then it trends again 00:25:58.509 --> 00:26:01.509 and then we see. So the main thing that Apostle 00:26:01.509 --> 00:26:03.549 Paul will be communicating or is communicating 00:26:03.549 --> 00:26:07.369 to the church in current is to be alert, to watch, 00:26:07.950 --> 00:26:12.730 to be vigilant. And the worst form, and I know 00:26:12.730 --> 00:26:16.240 that all of these things are all inspired. Yes, 00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:18.220 they can call it the doctrine of Balaam, the 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:20.900 doctrine of the Likudai, but we know where the 00:26:20.900 --> 00:26:24.599 source is. We know the source or the origin of 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:27.059 it. The source of the origin of it is from the 00:26:27.059 --> 00:26:30.839 devil. And in 2 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 4 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:37.480 verse 1, this will lead us to the other news. 00:26:37.940 --> 00:26:41.259 It says, now the Spirit especially says that 00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:45.069 in the later times, some will depart from the 00:26:45.069 --> 00:26:50.349 faith giving heed to deceiving spirit and doctrines 00:26:50.349 --> 00:26:54.309 of demons and doctrine of demons the doctrine 00:26:54.309 --> 00:26:58.869 there is the second use of the word that is didascalia 00:26:58.869 --> 00:27:01.710 that's the second use that's didascalia i want 00:27:01.710 --> 00:27:04.410 you to write the second one now which is d i 00:27:04.410 --> 00:27:18.250 d a s k a l i a d i d a s k And this is the activity 00:27:18.250 --> 00:27:23.130 of teaching or learning. It's a process of instruction. 00:27:23.309 --> 00:27:25.269 It's all a process of instruction. This activity 00:27:25.269 --> 00:27:29.869 of teaching or learning is a process of instruction. 00:27:32.150 --> 00:27:34.450 And it can sometimes, because it's a process, 00:27:34.589 --> 00:27:37.490 so it can sometimes be used for the first one, 00:27:37.710 --> 00:27:42.140 which is didahe. because sometimes we use for 00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:48.759 it. And you know, teaching is a, learning is 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.480 a process, right? Teaching is a process of being 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.240 instructed, and the first time you don't get 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:58.859 it, the second time you hear it again, it makes 00:27:58.859 --> 00:28:00.940 sense, it doesn't make sense, but it's continuous, 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.420 it has to be continuous for it to be effective. 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.000 It has to be continuous for there to be good. 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.720 And then let me go back a bit. Most dangerous 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.319 forms of errors are the ones that are laced. 00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:20.140 They are subtle distortions. They don't come 00:28:20.140 --> 00:28:25.440 in. Most of us are trained to see error because 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.920 we have seen and we know, okay, this is bad, 00:28:29.980 --> 00:28:33.500 this is good. But the worst forms of errors are 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:37.039 the ones that come in with a bit of truth laced 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:39.559 with the error on the inside. when something 00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.240 is sugar coated or when something is coated with 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.099 something that is nice but inside it you have 00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:48.279 the error right in and you have to taste of it 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.019 to be able to know or to and when you taste of 00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:53.759 it it's already in except if you're a lot enough 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:57.779 to spit it out praise god and it's very subtle 00:28:57.779 --> 00:29:00.819 distortions from sound what is what is sound 00:29:00.819 --> 00:29:03.140 just subtle distortions that happens and that 00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:05.839 is why the process that's why we commit to a 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:08.279 process praise god that's why we commit to a 00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:11.079 process and we don't even we we do we do we do 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:13.940 the learning with others praise god we do the 00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:16.259 learning with others we have and as a church 00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:18.420 we have different times where we are engaged 00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:20.839 in learning so that we get used to the process 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:24.500 of hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing 00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:27.740 again because we forget because we have a tendency 00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:31.299 to forget and an apostle paul uses this one a 00:29:31.299 --> 00:29:36.099 lot he uses this particular one a lot. This didaskalia, 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:39.799 he uses it a lot. He uses it out of the 21 times 00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:43.660 where it appears, he uses it 19 times. He uses 00:29:43.660 --> 00:29:45.859 it 19 times, out of the 21 times. I just want 00:29:45.859 --> 00:29:49.960 to help us see something. He uses it 19 times 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:53.940 out of the 21 times it appears and it's no surprise 00:29:53.940 --> 00:29:57.799 because he emphasizes on sound doctrine and you 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:02.400 don't get sound doctrine from just a session 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.710 of teaching. You can get it, but it doesn't sink 00:30:05.710 --> 00:30:10.630 in. It requires coming into it again, and even 00:30:10.630 --> 00:30:13.170 in the passage that we're looking at, it highlights 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:16.609 the need for vigilance, discernment in teaching, 00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:19.990 and also what leadership you're under. Because 00:30:19.990 --> 00:30:22.609 if you're under a leadership where you are not 00:30:22.609 --> 00:30:28.970 taught again and again what is true, what is 00:30:28.970 --> 00:30:35.039 true, you are seeing error as normal. And we 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:39.359 remember we say that it will just result in erroneous 00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:41.940 actions, praise God. It will result in actions 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:45.099 that are erroneous. And I want us to see this 00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:47.960 because it's very much dependent on the leadership. 00:30:48.859 --> 00:30:54.160 1 Timothy 5 .17, it says, let elders who rule 00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:57.799 well be counted worthy of double honor, especially 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:01.180 those who label in the word and doctrine, that 00:31:01.180 --> 00:31:04.799 doctrine there. is didascalia so label in the 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.180 word and doctrine and then in second Timothy 00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:12.460 4 2 to 5 it says preach the word for second Timothy 00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:15.420 4 2 to 5 it's a preach the word be ready in season 00:31:15.420 --> 00:31:19.339 and out of season convince rebuke exalt with 00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:22.500 all long suffering and teaching note that the 00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:25.380 teaching here the teaching here is didache it's 00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:30.220 not the didascalia it says in all the teaching 00:31:30.539 --> 00:31:35.859 for a time will come when they will not endure 00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:38.759 sound doctrine, when they will not endure sound 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:42.099 doctrine. That doctrine there, at the sound doctrine 00:31:42.099 --> 00:31:46.740 together is Yizaskalya. But according to their 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.920 own desires, because of their itching ears, they 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:52.039 will heap up for themselves teachers, meaning 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.140 that if you are someone that want to hear what 00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:58.000 you want to hear, other than what you need to 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.049 hear, You will find a way or you'll gravitate 00:32:01.049 --> 00:32:03.089 towards those that will tell you what you want 00:32:03.089 --> 00:32:05.509 to hear and you will not grow. You will just 00:32:05.509 --> 00:32:08.410 be, you will just be pacified with something 00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:12.809 that is erroneous. You'll just be, it's going 00:32:12.809 --> 00:32:14.730 to be convenient, but it will not be fruitful. 00:32:15.410 --> 00:32:17.470 It will be convenient, but it will not be fruitful. 00:32:17.849 --> 00:32:21.269 It says, verse four says, and they will turn 00:32:21.269 --> 00:32:24.170 their ears away from the truth. Meaning that 00:32:24.170 --> 00:32:27.190 you have to desire, you have to want to listen 00:32:27.190 --> 00:32:30.180 to and because that action itself means that 00:32:30.180 --> 00:32:31.839 you will not be listening to any other thing 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:35.019 other than what you want to hear and be turned 00:32:35.019 --> 00:32:40.779 asides to fables five now says but be but you 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:44.480 be watchful in all things praise god but you 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.339 be watchful in all things remember that whole 00:32:47.339 --> 00:32:50.579 idea of being a lapse be watchful in all things 00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:55.220 endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:59.079 Fulfill your ministry. It says endure afflictions, 00:32:59.180 --> 00:33:03.940 you know, sometimes I you know in church, right 00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:07.220 That is nowhere the soundness of what you have 00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:09.420 received will be challenged, you know, you know 00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:11.859 when you're in church Nobody is going to ask 00:33:11.859 --> 00:33:14.940 you. What do you believe? It can happen sometimes 00:33:14.940 --> 00:33:18.400 right just to check but when you go outside that 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:20.619 is when you will be able to that that's when 00:33:20.619 --> 00:33:23.559 it will be exercise right as when you have to 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.720 Be sure of what exactly it is that you believe 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:30.579 in. And for many of us, we don't, we learn and 00:33:30.579 --> 00:33:33.519 forget that there's going to be exams. Right? 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:35.259 We learn and we forget that it's going to be 00:33:35.259 --> 00:33:37.740 that time where what you think you know will 00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:41.200 be put to a test. Or you're surprised when you 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:44.019 have an exam. But like I told you, we're just 00:33:44.019 --> 00:33:50.859 meant to just do it. Praise God. It says, do 00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:56.240 the work and And difficult, like if you're, learning 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.180 is not a enjoyable process, I don't know. If 00:33:59.180 --> 00:34:01.619 you are in that place where you are learning, 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:08.900 it's not fun. It's difficult, it's hard. Sometimes 00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:12.940 you have to, you will not believe the things 00:34:12.940 --> 00:34:16.239 you do because you really want to learn. The 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:17.980 lens you will go. because you really want to 00:34:17.980 --> 00:34:20.219 learn. And sometimes you are in a school situation 00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:22.260 where you are taking courses that you don't necessarily, 00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:24.440 you're not the one that chose the courses. The 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.360 curriculum was set already before you came. You 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:29.460 can now sit down and be discussing with your 00:34:29.460 --> 00:34:32.380 advisor. Can we remove this? I don't like this. 00:34:32.659 --> 00:34:34.519 You can only do that with courses that are electives, 00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:37.420 right? You can select that one because they are 00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:40.239 electives. They are core courses that you have 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.119 no choice. It's handed to you. Praise God. And 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.940 so is the saying that things that you are handed 00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:51.980 and there are learnings that you have to do whether 00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:54.199 you like it or not because those are the things 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:57.820 that will help you succeed in the work and he 00:34:57.820 --> 00:35:01.159 says do the work of an evangelist means that 00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:05.900 that work that work has to be done and the way 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:09.400 you can do it is when you are watching in all 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:12.420 things when you are able to endure because it's 00:35:12.420 --> 00:35:15.860 how you can feel down that the work will suffer 00:35:15.860 --> 00:35:18.550 praise god is how you can be down and then the 00:35:18.550 --> 00:35:21.829 work will not make any progress in the work. 00:35:22.210 --> 00:35:26.170 And we don't allow the things that we go through 00:35:26.170 --> 00:35:29.230 affect the work, praise God. The things that 00:35:29.230 --> 00:35:31.050 we're experiencing shouldn't affect the work 00:35:31.050 --> 00:35:35.230 because the work is priority, praise God. Romans 00:35:35.230 --> 00:35:40.949 15, four. Romans 15, four, it says, for whatever 00:35:40.949 --> 00:35:44.349 things were written before were written for our 00:35:44.349 --> 00:35:48.429 learning. that we, through the patience and comfort 00:35:48.429 --> 00:35:51.590 of the scripture, may have hope. It says, we're 00:35:51.590 --> 00:35:54.909 written through patience and comfort. Patience 00:35:54.909 --> 00:35:59.210 and comfort, they say, that we, through patience 00:35:59.210 --> 00:36:02.809 and comfort of the scripture, may have hope. 00:36:03.550 --> 00:36:05.789 And I think, let me just talk about the word 00:36:05.789 --> 00:36:13.329 patience. Patience, you know, Lenin, you know, 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.320 A whole four years to arrive at a destination 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.840 doesn't look like, is a lot of time. But if you're 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:23.519 not patient, you will not see that finish line 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.780 for any journey at all. Means that the learning 00:36:26.780 --> 00:36:29.199 will take time, but you have to be patient with 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.480 it. You have to trust that you will get there. 00:36:32.860 --> 00:36:35.739 And even for us, the learning doesn't end, praise 00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:38.019 God. The learning doesn't end, it continues. 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:41.219 And you will need to be comforted all through. 00:36:41.369 --> 00:36:43.550 Praise God. You need to be comforted all through. 00:36:44.110 --> 00:36:47.090 And there's hope, there's great hope, there's 00:36:47.090 --> 00:36:49.929 great encouragement that comes when we do the 00:36:49.929 --> 00:36:52.469 work. And you know, all of this will not be beautiful. 00:36:52.690 --> 00:36:54.530 All of this, what makes all of this beautiful 00:36:54.530 --> 00:36:57.150 is that you're not doing it alone. You're doing 00:36:57.150 --> 00:37:00.789 it with others. And when you're down, and when 00:37:00.789 --> 00:37:04.130 you're down, you have somebody that will be there 00:37:04.130 --> 00:37:07.369 for you. And we're not doing the work of God 00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:09.789 in isolation. We're doing the work of God together. 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.599 and that should encourage us that should stir 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:16.599 us up and that should help us the word the word 00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:20.880 the word is learning like the word the didascale 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:24.739 here in this passage is is learning that our 00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:27.960 learning and i told us that the word can be teaching 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.440 there's also learning for didascale too there's 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:33.539 another word that that comes in then the third 00:37:33.539 --> 00:37:39.619 one or the last one is hetero didascale is H 00:37:39.619 --> 00:37:48.800 -E -T -E -R -O -D -I -D -A -S -K -A -L -E -O. 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:56.960 Hetero and then the Dascaleo. H -E -T -E -O -T 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:02.519 -E -R -O, sorry, D -I -D -A -S -K -A -L -E -O. 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:08.719 And this is to teach something other than what 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:10.860 is correct. This is to teach something other 00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:14.780 than what is correct. The hetero there, if you're 00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:17.699 familiar, it means different, contrary, or other. 00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:21.599 And then you will notice that it's similar to 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.420 the Daskalia, which is to teach. So it means 00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:27.340 that you are teaching something that is other 00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:29.820 than what is correct. You're teaching something 00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:31.719 that is other than what is going to be, that's 00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:36.059 contrary to the truth. And this one appears just 00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:39.599 twice. This one appears just twice and you can 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:45.159 guess who would have used it is Apostle Paul. 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.320 So on the two occasions where this appears is 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.619 Apostle Paul. Remember we said he's very big 00:38:52.619 --> 00:38:56.679 on the soundness of the teaching, the soundness 00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:59.519 of when he had written a good amount of the epistles. 00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:04.400 So it appears in 1 Timothy 1 .3 and 1 Timothy 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:10.860 6 .3. 1 Timothy 1 .3 and 1 Timothy 6 .3. 1 .3 00:39:10.860 --> 00:39:16.019 and 6 .3 of 1 Timothy says, as I told you, when 00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:21.159 I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus that you 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:26.199 may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:30.179 that they teach no other doctrine is the word 00:39:30.179 --> 00:39:35.139 hetero didascale, that they teach no other. doctrine. 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:40.480 Then 1 Timothy 1 .6, it says, if anyone teaches 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:45.719 otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, 00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:49.539 even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 00:39:49.539 --> 00:39:54.539 to the doctrine which accords with godliness. 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:57.840 The doctrine there is the Dyskalia, the teach 00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:02.480 otherwise is the hetero -dyskalia. So we see 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.809 that there's continuous warnings against false 00:40:05.809 --> 00:40:08.210 doctrines that are taught by false teachers. 00:40:08.570 --> 00:40:10.750 Praise God. These false doctrines don't just 00:40:10.750 --> 00:40:13.909 appear. The false doctrines are taught by false 00:40:13.909 --> 00:40:16.670 teachers and they are contrary to the doctrine 00:40:16.670 --> 00:40:19.210 of Christ. They are contrary to the doctrine 00:40:19.210 --> 00:40:23.750 of Christ. And I want us to see, even Peter highlights 00:40:23.750 --> 00:40:26.449 the same thing. Apostle Peter highlights the 00:40:26.449 --> 00:40:31.349 same thing in, he gives a whole chapter. A whole 00:40:31.349 --> 00:40:33.289 chapter to tell you how possible does the same 00:40:33.289 --> 00:40:35.929 thing. But Peter gives a whole chapter. That's 00:40:35.929 --> 00:40:38.570 2 Peter 2 verse 1 downwards, but we'll just look 00:40:38.570 --> 00:40:43.469 at verse 1. 2 Peter 2 verse 1, it says, but there 00:40:43.469 --> 00:40:48.570 were also false prophets. There were also false 00:40:48.570 --> 00:40:50.980 prophets as the teachers that are running the 00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:53.880 false doctrine, false prophets. Yeah, it's pseudo. 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.239 You see the word pseudo. Pseudo means false. 00:40:56.559 --> 00:40:58.860 Even in English language, when you use pseudo, 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.179 it's very much adopted. When you use anything 00:41:02.179 --> 00:41:04.860 pseudo, it just means false, anything false. 00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.440 So they are false prophets amongst the people. 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:10.820 So know that these people are not outside, right? 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:15.420 Yeah, you can have them inside teaching false. 00:41:15.739 --> 00:41:18.699 They say even as they will be false teachers, 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:21.280 so they are false prophets. false teachers the 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:25.480 false teachers are pseudo didascalios even among 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:30.139 you it says who will secretly bring in destructive 00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:34.500 heresies secretly bring in destructive heresies 00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:39.960 even denying the lord who brought them and it 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.960 says who brought them and bring on themselves 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.780 swift destruction so these people are bringing 00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:49.059 in destructive heresies and then the worst of 00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:52.599 is they're denying the Lord, right? They're denying 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:56.400 the Lord to just cap it up. So he gives a whole 00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:00.280 entire chapter to warn, to strongly warn against 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.920 false teachers and their destructive heresies 00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:09.440 and how they come in to exploit believers for 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.519 their own gain. They're exploiting believers 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:16.800 for their own gain. So we see, even in that same 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:20.570 2nd Peter, we see him make reference to Balam, 00:42:21.010 --> 00:42:24.750 right? We see him make reference to Balam. Let's 00:42:24.750 --> 00:42:32.010 go to the 15 and 16, just to see. 15 and 16, 00:42:32.650 --> 00:42:36.250 it says, they have forsaken the right way and 00:42:36.250 --> 00:42:39.210 gone astray, in order to move away from, gone 00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:41.889 astray, following the way of Balam, the son of... 00:42:41.889 --> 00:42:45.179 Note that this... There's, you know, if you, 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.079 I think we were reading our canonical, you see 00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:50.719 that Jehovah, the son of Nibbeth, is the standard 00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.780 for when people, you would say they say according 00:42:53.780 --> 00:42:57.719 to, when you have done so much evil that they 00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:01.159 are, you set the standard for, when we are saying 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:04.280 evil, we say according to, like, in the simi, 00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:06.599 in fact, some people will go higher than, but 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:10.210 we see that they use, that is being used in this 00:43:10.210 --> 00:43:12.530 case you say following the way and because it's 00:43:12.530 --> 00:43:14.989 now it's now a part that you choose to follow 00:43:14.989 --> 00:43:17.750 not that we say that yes he did that but there's 00:43:17.750 --> 00:43:20.150 a source of it right there's a source of it so 00:43:20.150 --> 00:43:22.570 it says who loved the wages of unrighteousness 00:43:22.570 --> 00:43:25.630 so his own what the drive for it was the resource 00:43:25.630 --> 00:43:27.750 he was going to get and the 16 is an interesting 00:43:27.750 --> 00:43:32.489 process but he was rebuked for his iniquity a 00:43:32.489 --> 00:43:36.150 dumb is it a dumb donkey speaking with a man's 00:43:36.150 --> 00:43:39.070 voice, restrained the madness of the prophet. 00:43:39.530 --> 00:43:45.650 So it had to take a donkey speaking to him, it 00:43:45.650 --> 00:43:47.309 didn't even restrain him, it still went ahead 00:43:47.309 --> 00:43:50.070 because we saw that he had to, it gave the counsel 00:43:50.070 --> 00:43:52.570 that resulted in what befell the children of 00:43:52.570 --> 00:43:54.989 Israel, praise God. And sometimes when people 00:43:54.989 --> 00:43:58.650 want to do evil or when people want to for the 00:43:58.650 --> 00:44:01.130 benefits or the gains they will do, you find 00:44:01.130 --> 00:44:04.170 yourself doing, because it's madness, right? 00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:09.139 It's madness. You know that this is error. In 00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:11.280 fact, you couldn't even do the thing that you 00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:14.559 went for. You failed several times. The man had 00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.659 to take you to different points. You failed several 00:44:16.659 --> 00:44:19.820 times, but you still went ahead and told him 00:44:19.820 --> 00:44:23.300 what he was going to do. So we see it here as 00:44:23.300 --> 00:44:25.719 a way and then it later becomes a doctrine because 00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.760 people now, that's what people look at it and 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:31.480 then they learn. So the question is, what are 00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:34.070 you learning or who are you learning from? Praise 00:44:34.070 --> 00:44:37.150 God. What are you learning or who are you learning 00:44:37.150 --> 00:44:41.170 from? When you open your Bible and nowadays people, 00:44:41.690 --> 00:44:45.389 you do a lot of learning online. You do a lot 00:44:45.389 --> 00:44:47.110 of learning online and when I mean online, I 00:44:47.110 --> 00:44:49.809 don't mean you taking courses online. I mean 00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:53.070 you watching all manner or all forms of content 00:44:53.070 --> 00:44:55.570 and you learn and you learn and you learn and 00:44:55.570 --> 00:44:59.619 you are surprised when you manifest. You're surprised 00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:02.360 when you manifest know that it's a product of 00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.300 what you have bombarded or what you have received 00:45:05.300 --> 00:45:09.219 that you Given off and that's why you scripted 00:45:09.219 --> 00:45:12.260 time and time again will warn us to guard There's 00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:15.039 a guard that there's a garden that you do to 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:18.300 ensure that you don't go off You don't you don't 00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:23.760 enter into error. Praise God and we see In in 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.179 Galatians 1 69 I want to read this very quickly 00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:31.179 says Galatians 1 .69, it says, I marvel that 00:45:31.179 --> 00:45:35.599 you are turning away so soon from Him who called 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:41.179 you in the grace of Christ to a different, that 00:45:41.179 --> 00:45:45.139 different there is, heteros, gospel, that is 00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:52.079 Eugelion. It says, which is not another, but 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:56.650 there are some who trouble you. and want to pervert 00:45:56.650 --> 00:46:00.289 the gospel of Christ. They want to pervert it. 00:46:01.409 --> 00:46:06.409 He says, but even if we, see what he says, even 00:46:06.409 --> 00:46:12.449 if we or an angel from heaven preach any other 00:46:12.449 --> 00:46:17.010 gospel to you than what we have preached to you, 00:46:17.190 --> 00:46:22.429 let him be accursed. Now he says, as we have 00:46:22.429 --> 00:46:27.469 said before, so now I say again he has said it 00:46:27.469 --> 00:46:29.510 before he's repeating himself again because it's 00:46:29.510 --> 00:46:34.530 very important that is said again if anyone preaches 00:46:34.530 --> 00:46:37.929 any other gospel to you other than what you have 00:46:37.929 --> 00:46:42.710 received let him be uh cursed and it means that 00:46:42.710 --> 00:46:44.150 there are people that will pervert if you want 00:46:44.150 --> 00:46:47.730 to get other words the nlt says they are deliberately 00:46:47.730 --> 00:46:50.610 twisting the truth concerning christ they're 00:46:50.610 --> 00:46:52.699 deliberately they know what the truth is but 00:46:52.699 --> 00:46:54.559 they are twisting it. Remember we say they are 00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.280 doing it for their own gain. There's a benefit 00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:59.760 and they are gain. The ESV will say they are 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.980 distorting the gospel. They are distorting the 00:47:02.980 --> 00:47:05.739 gospel. And we see that Apostle Paul's emphasis 00:47:05.739 --> 00:47:09.519 continually is on the purity or the soundness 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:11.840 of what is being communicated. Praise God. The 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:13.340 purity and the soundness of what is being communicated. 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:15.960 And in Hebrews, I want us to see Hebrews first 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.920 before we go back to where we close in what we 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:24.760 are. Hebrews 6 verse 2. Hebrews 6 verse 2, you 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:27.800 see a list, you see that there's a doctrine of 00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:30.719 baptisms, the laying on of hands, there's a resurrection 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:33.340 of the dead, and there's the internal judgment. 00:47:33.699 --> 00:47:37.139 And we'll see that in 1 Corinthians 15, the focus 00:47:37.139 --> 00:47:40.480 is on that resurrection of the dead. The focus 00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:42.960 is on doctrine on the resurrection of the dead. 00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:46.260 That's what we'll see in that 1 Corinthians 15. 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:51.409 Just go to 1 Corinthians 15, 12, to 14. 1 Corinthians 00:47:51.409 --> 00:47:54.929 15 12 to 14 says, now if Christ is preached, 00:47:55.929 --> 00:47:58.969 if Christ is preached that he has raised from 00:47:58.969 --> 00:48:02.429 the dead, how do some among you say that there 00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.190 is no resurrection of the dead? Notice that there 00:48:05.190 --> 00:48:06.789 are some that are saying now that there's no 00:48:06.789 --> 00:48:08.389 resurrection of the dead. Note that there's an 00:48:08.389 --> 00:48:10.210 implication to that statement. When somebody 00:48:10.210 --> 00:48:11.289 says there's no resurrection of the dead, it 00:48:11.289 --> 00:48:14.429 means that Christ didn't, so, but if there is 00:48:14.429 --> 00:48:16.389 no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not 00:48:16.389 --> 00:48:20.010 risen. Remember when we, the previous teaching 00:48:20.010 --> 00:48:22.849 where I, in Matthew 28, where we talked about 00:48:22.849 --> 00:48:26.670 how the soldiers were lying that he never resurrected, 00:48:26.829 --> 00:48:28.590 his body was stolen. You know that his body being 00:48:28.590 --> 00:48:30.210 stolen means that he did not resurrect, that 00:48:30.210 --> 00:48:32.849 he took it physically. So now you have people 00:48:32.849 --> 00:48:36.170 saying that he never resurrected and then, yeah, 00:48:36.550 --> 00:48:40.309 and if Christ was not risen, then the preaching, 00:48:40.570 --> 00:48:43.969 is empty and your faith is also empty. So the 00:48:43.969 --> 00:48:45.670 preaching is empty. There's no need to preach. 00:48:45.750 --> 00:48:48.289 Why are you preaching? Why are you going about 00:48:48.289 --> 00:48:50.570 and telling people that they should surrender 00:48:50.570 --> 00:48:53.409 to this, to Him, to believe in Him? Because the 00:48:53.409 --> 00:48:56.349 whole thing is anchored. They say, yes, we have 00:48:56.349 --> 00:49:00.230 found false witnesses of God. So we that are 00:49:00.230 --> 00:49:03.570 saying it are in error. Like we are the ones 00:49:03.570 --> 00:49:04.929 now in error, they are the ones in the truth. 00:49:04.949 --> 00:49:07.409 That's basically how he's trying to, he says, 00:49:07.510 --> 00:49:11.210 because we have testified of God that he raised 00:49:11.210 --> 00:49:17.889 up Christ whom he did not raise up, if in fact 00:49:17.889 --> 00:49:23.610 the dead do not rise. And we see that all of 00:49:23.610 --> 00:49:27.789 this, let's just stop there. So it's a very interesting 00:49:27.789 --> 00:49:32.349 matter. It's something that shakes the core of 00:49:32.349 --> 00:49:34.190 our faith, something that affects the core of 00:49:34.190 --> 00:49:36.969 our faith. And we know that the people that hold 00:49:36.969 --> 00:49:40.489 on to this are the Sadducees. The people that 00:49:40.489 --> 00:49:42.090 hold on to this belief system are the Sadducees. 00:49:42.190 --> 00:49:46.010 And you understand that because they have believed, 00:49:46.650 --> 00:49:48.190 there are some people that are still holding 00:49:48.190 --> 00:49:51.250 on to the belief of the Sadducees, right? And 00:49:51.250 --> 00:49:54.190 they're the ones that doing this back and front. 00:49:54.489 --> 00:49:57.250 And we'll see that this whole matter that our 00:49:57.250 --> 00:49:59.789 support is trying to address did not start today. 00:50:00.340 --> 00:50:03.519 Let's go back to the Matthew 22, where Jesus 00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:07.880 Christ was dealing with the same situation. Start 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:12.599 from 22, 23. Just to give us a bit of context, 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:14.539 Jesus Christ had just finished dealing with the 00:50:14.539 --> 00:50:17.239 Pharisees. The Pharisees came with their own 00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:19.159 issue with regards to tax, their own government 00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:21.760 issue. So they finished dealing with him, and 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.300 their own was a failed attempt. They did not 00:50:24.300 --> 00:50:27.480 succeed in trying to trap him or trying to trick 00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:29.489 him. their own was a failed attempt. Then the 00:50:29.489 --> 00:50:31.769 Sadducees now come with theirs. That is a bit 00:50:31.769 --> 00:50:35.110 of a spiritual, it's a bit of religious issue. 00:50:35.690 --> 00:50:38.369 And then they said in the 23, it says, the same 00:50:38.369 --> 00:50:41.030 day the Sadducees went and they say that there 00:50:41.030 --> 00:50:44.190 is no, they say the Sadducees, who say? Not that 00:50:44.190 --> 00:50:46.449 they are on the core of, and these people are 00:50:46.449 --> 00:50:48.909 no longer in it. They're no longer there because, 00:50:49.190 --> 00:50:52.550 you know, when, when everybody, when a good amount 00:50:52.550 --> 00:50:54.269 of people believe that Jesus Christ resurrected 00:50:54.269 --> 00:50:57.920 your entire, the core of your whole belief, is 00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:02.760 useless. They are no longer there. So they say 00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:04.840 that there is no resurrection, right? They came 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:08.099 to him and then they asked, saying, that's in 00:51:08.099 --> 00:51:12.699 24 now, saying, teacher, Moses said, they now 00:51:12.699 --> 00:51:14.639 anchor it on what Moses has said. They start 00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:17.079 from the premise of Moses trying to make their 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:21.639 case. Because if you want to anchor it on some 00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:23.980 authority so that you can move from there and 00:51:23.980 --> 00:51:26.659 then make your point. So if a man dies, having 00:51:26.659 --> 00:51:28.940 no children his brother shall marry his wife 00:51:28.940 --> 00:51:30.820 and raise up offspring for his brother he says 00:51:30.820 --> 00:51:35.860 now they are they see they were there was there 00:51:35.860 --> 00:51:39.840 were they were with us seven brothers the first 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:45.000 died after he married and having no offsprings 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.719 left his wife left his wife to his brother then 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:54.210 26 likewise the second also and the third even 00:51:54.210 --> 00:51:56.670 the seven, so it kept happening till the seven. 00:51:56.710 --> 00:51:58.510 So it's like seven, it was where it stopped. 00:51:59.230 --> 00:52:01.789 The last of all, the woman, they say last of 00:52:01.789 --> 00:52:04.809 all, the woman died also. So the woman now concludes 00:52:04.809 --> 00:52:07.630 it. It says, therefore in the resurrection, whose 00:52:07.630 --> 00:52:12.369 wife, whose wife of the seven shall, will she 00:52:12.369 --> 00:52:16.590 be? And the all, it says that for the all had 00:52:16.590 --> 00:52:19.469 her, right? For the all had her. So we see that 00:52:19.469 --> 00:52:22.480 they bring up a hypothetical. bring up something 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:26.659 hypothetical, right? I said, okay, this person 00:52:26.659 --> 00:52:28.980 is married to this person that has seven brothers, 00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:31.800 and then you have, you know that this is practically, 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.400 it doesn't even make sense, right? So Jesus Christ 00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:39.260 now answers them saying, Jesus answered and said 00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:42.619 to them, said, you are mistaken. And that word 00:52:42.619 --> 00:52:46.500 mistaken is, as I explained now, means you're 00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:49.190 deceived. it says not knowing the scriptures 00:52:49.190 --> 00:52:52.090 nor the power of god not knowing the scriptures 00:52:52.090 --> 00:52:55.269 nor the power of god see for in the resurrection 00:52:55.269 --> 00:53:00.809 they neither marry or are given in marriage but 00:53:00.809 --> 00:53:04.150 i like the angels of god in heaven 31 now says 00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:07.329 but concerning the resurrection of the dead have 00:53:07.329 --> 00:53:11.789 you not read anaginousko have you not read what 00:53:11.789 --> 00:53:17.030 was spoken to you by god saying I am the God 00:53:17.030 --> 00:53:20.010 of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of 00:53:20.010 --> 00:53:25.710 Jacob. God is not a God of the dead, but of the 00:53:25.710 --> 00:53:29.110 living. Praise God. God is a God of the living. 00:53:29.210 --> 00:53:32.309 It says, and when the multitudes heard this, 00:53:32.610 --> 00:53:35.809 which is what we read earlier, they were astonished 00:53:35.809 --> 00:53:39.750 at his teaching because he demolishes the entire 00:53:39.750 --> 00:53:42.449 belief system of, because he says like, look, 00:53:42.550 --> 00:53:45.820 he's not God of the dead. It's God of the living. 00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:49.400 And in case you're wondering, you serve a living 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:53.320 God, a God that death could not hold, a God that 00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:57.079 came out of the grave, he conquered death. And 00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.340 on the basis of him conquering death, we will 00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:02.699 do likewise, praise God. Scripture says it's 00:54:02.699 --> 00:54:06.400 the first foot, right? So meaning that we are 00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.860 not just, when we don't, in fact, all through 00:54:09.860 --> 00:54:14.360 scriptures, you see the word used as sleep. And 00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:16.960 that has turned it as his teaching. Remember, 00:54:16.980 --> 00:54:19.539 he said that that teaching there is the dida 00:54:19.539 --> 00:54:22.820 key, meaning that he corrected something. And 00:54:22.820 --> 00:54:24.579 you would think that that was where he started. 00:54:24.699 --> 00:54:28.199 These people have been at it before 2022. They 00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:31.360 have been at it since 16. They have been at it 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:35.119 since 16. They come from time to time to test 00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:38.000 him. And Jesus Christ has even warned his disciples 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.500 to go back to that whole warning them to be alert. 00:54:41.879 --> 00:54:45.960 Just write Matthew 16, 1 to 12. We'll just read 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:49.119 1 and then we'll read 12 for the sake of time. 00:54:49.219 --> 00:54:51.780 Just read 1 and read 12. So what is going to 00:54:51.780 --> 00:54:53.440 happen is that in the subsequent teaching, I'll 00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:57.280 give us examples of individuals, even in the 00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.760 Old Testament, that didn't bow down. They knew 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.780 the truth and they held on to the truth. They 00:55:02.780 --> 00:55:05.559 were persecuted for it, but God delivered them. 00:55:05.659 --> 00:55:07.960 You know, one thing that we fail to, or one thing 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:10.199 that sometimes we can fail to realize is that 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:13.099 When we're standing for the truth, because of 00:55:13.099 --> 00:55:15.940 whose truth we're standing for, God will always 00:55:15.940 --> 00:55:18.239 deliver. And the way He's going to deliver might 00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:20.840 not be the way you want to be delivered, right? 00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:23.320 You might not even know how you'll be delivered, 00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:25.460 praise God. You're going through stuff, you're 00:55:25.460 --> 00:55:26.739 going through situations, you don't know how 00:55:26.739 --> 00:55:28.119 God is going, you have been praying, you don't 00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:29.719 know how God is going to deliver you. You want 00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:32.539 to just trust that He is going to deliver you 00:55:32.539 --> 00:55:34.659 because you are His property, praise God. You 00:55:34.659 --> 00:55:37.559 are His own, you are His child. So Matthew 16, 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.400 Verse 1, it says, then the Pharisees and the 00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:45.000 Sadducees came and testing him, asked that he 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:49.599 would show them a sign from heaven. He will show 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.599 them a sign from heaven. And he goes on and on 00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:58.820 and on about, he points them to the sign of Jonah, 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.059 right? The sign of Prophet Jonah in 5. It says 00:56:02.059 --> 00:56:03.659 now the disciples are, he points them to the 00:56:03.659 --> 00:56:05.719 sign of Prophet Jonah. And then now he now wants, 00:56:05.860 --> 00:56:07.719 he now tells the disciples, that they should 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:10.679 take heed. In verse 6 Jesus said to them, take 00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:14.019 heed and beware of the living of the Pharisees 00:56:14.019 --> 00:56:16.539 and the Sadducees. The disciples were confused. 00:56:16.539 --> 00:56:19.119 They were like, is he talking about bread? Is 00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:20.699 he talking about bread? Because prior to that 00:56:20.699 --> 00:56:23.239 there was a situation that happened where people 00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:25.980 were fed, multitudes were fed. But in 12 now 00:56:25.980 --> 00:56:29.760 we see, it says, then they understood that he 00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:32.920 did not tell them to beware of the living of 00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:36.940 bread but of the doctrine of the Pharisees. and 00:56:36.940 --> 00:56:39.480 the Sadducees. Praise God. He was calling the 00:56:39.480 --> 00:56:42.639 attention to beware of the doctrines of the Sadducees 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.760 and the Pharisees. And even Jesus himself warns 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:50.159 his disciples. Jesus is warning us through Apostle 00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:53.099 Paul in the letter that we should watch. We should 00:56:53.099 --> 00:56:56.460 watch. We should stand fast in the doctrine of 00:56:56.460 --> 00:56:59.000 faith that we have received. We should be strong 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.239 about it. We'll look at that even further. The 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:03.920 other translation we see, we should act like 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.280 men, right? we should act, we should be able 00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:08.940 to take on on it, we should be brave, we should 00:57:08.940 --> 00:57:11.980 be strong. And the strength that we exhibit is 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:14.739 not the strength that, it's not solely the strength 00:57:14.739 --> 00:57:16.739 that comes, it's the strength that comes from 00:57:16.739 --> 00:57:20.480 God, praise God. The strength that is being exercised 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:25.159 is the strength that comes from abundance of 00:57:25.159 --> 00:57:27.119 strength that relies in God, that comes from 00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:29.059 that relies in God, praise God. It's not the 00:57:29.059 --> 00:57:30.860 strength that we, because most of the times we 00:57:30.860 --> 00:57:49.460 have... 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