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Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is

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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

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walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until

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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

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right in. From the scriptures we've studied so

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far, we have sufficient evidence to conclude

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that the works that Jesus did were contained

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from the scriptures, that is, from the Old Testament

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scriptures. And the apostles also did exactly

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what Jesus did. The context of their ministry,

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the things they did, the things they taught,

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were from the Old Testament scriptures. So we're

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trying to examine the writings of the prophets,

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And we asked, we said, do the New Testament writers

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ask the same questions that we are trying to

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answer today? And we were able to establish some

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certain things that, you know, they had a context

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to what they were writing, right? They had a

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context to what they are writing. We say that

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one of the challenges we face today is our desire

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to answer today's questions. using the writings

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in the New Testament. But we must be careful

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not to move into error because in our bid to

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apply these scriptures, we tend to negate or

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forget the context and the questions that these

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writers were trying to answer. So it is necessary

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for us to rightly interpret the scriptures in

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their context so that in our application we can

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rightly apply the word of God. Hallelujah. So

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as men that God has called to continue the work

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of the Apostles, we are obligated by virtue of,

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you know, the ministry we've received that is

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of the Lord to rightly divide the word of truth

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so that we would not teach what is an error.

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So one of the most important principles we've

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established that in biblical interpretation of

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the New Testament particularly we must consider

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or We must allow the New Testament writers to

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answer the questions they were actually addressing,

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rather than forcing our own ideas into what they

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were writing. So we say that every episode was

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written to real audience with a specific historical

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context and to address a particular issue facing

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the early church. So our responsibility is to

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first understand their questions. What are they

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trying to answer? What was the situation? For

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example, now if you read the context of the Corinthian

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church, there were several things that were happening

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in that church. So the epistles were written

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specifically to address some of the horrendous

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practices in that church. And even though that

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church is a church of Jesus Christ, even that

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church had a sense of God, but there were some

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malpractices happening in the conduct of the

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believers. So we see how Paul will write to correct

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some of those things happening in that particular

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church. We say that the things that were written

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were written not to us, but for us. That from

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them we will learn we can edify ourselves from

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what we were written, but we must understand

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the context of things that were written. And

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also, you know, we talk about some things that

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the writers of the New Testament, We're not focusing

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on, we talk about the issue of women ministry,

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which we didn't go into details. The issue of

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salvation, which we say that the New Testament

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writers, you know, did not actually, their intent

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was not to address the issue of whether people

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can lose salvation or not, because in our careful

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study of the New Testament scriptures, we will

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realize that there is an assumption that salvation

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is eternal. And there is no any hint of whether,

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the believer is losing salvation or not but does

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that mean that we can answer those questions

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from scriptures when we look at the whole context

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of gospel we can answer those questions hallelujah

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so but then we must appropriate scriptures in

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the context to which they were given so that

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we will remain within the authority to which

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the scriptures has been given so one of the things

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that was assumed in scripture was marriage Hallelujah.

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When I mean marriage, I mean marriage practices

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in the epistles, right? Marriage practices. For

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example now, in the New Testament, consistently

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assume the reality of marriage between a man

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and a woman. Are we together? But gives very

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little information about how marriage ceremonies

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were conducted. You know, for example, the scripture

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never tells us how Priscilla and Aquila were

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married. They didn't tell us the pastor that

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joined them together, but we know that they were

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a couple who were married and they were serving

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the Lord. Hallelujah. So if you're going to the

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Bible to answer whether it's a church marriage

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you want to do, or it's a court wedding you want

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to do, or it's a traditional whatever it is,

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the Bible is not there to answer such kind of

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questions because it was not written in that

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way, to answer such questions. But does that

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mean that we will not be able to address such

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kind of issues? within the scriptures. Yes, we

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can address such issues, but we must be able

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to look at God's Word in a totality in order

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to arrive at a conclusion concerning issues that

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face us today, because contemporary questions

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must be answered within the authority of God's

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Word of the entire scriptures. So likewise, as

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we said, the New Testament never prescribed a

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church within Or exchange of rings or anything,

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but we know that customary we see this and happen

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and we've mistaken to adopt those things as scriptural

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They may not necessarily be scripture, but they

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are practices that may not in themselves be sinful

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right so The text cannot legitimately answer

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a question. It was never intended to address

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Faithful interpretation begins by asking what

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question was the Bible offers answering? What

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question we do answer only after understanding

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the original context should we apply its timeless

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principles? To the contemporary issues we face

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in our lives today So Paul will tell Timothy

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once again in second Timothy 2 verse 15 be diligent

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to present yourself a proof of God Rightly handling

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the word of truth. So likewise, Jesus Christ

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will see He himself modeled this method by rightly

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interpreting the word of truth for us. Hallelujah.

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So what are the questions we are facing today?

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Today we are faced with diverse questions today.

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In our contemporary world today, we are faced

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with issues the New Testament writers did not

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address directly. All right? such as, as I've

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mentioned earlier in my example, the idea of

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transgenderism, whatever it is, was never a matter

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of discourse in scriptures. Issues of abortion

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was not a topic of discussion in the scriptures.

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So how do we answer such kind of questions? Issues

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about surrogacy, issues about capitalism, issues

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about democracy, was not the questions that were

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answered or asked in scriptures. Issues concerning

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socialism, communism, in fact, even slavery and

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colonialism were not, you know, the issues that

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the Bible writers were attempting to answer,

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whether it is good or it is bad. That was not

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their intention. You know, sometimes we'll face

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people that will come to us with very confrontational

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issues and questions. they will tell you that

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the bible is encouraging colonialism or is encouraging

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slavery the bible is written to enslave people

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is written to control slaves but when you look

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critically contextually the scriptures were not

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written with the intent of executing these kind

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of you know practices so we cannot appropriate

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source interpretation to scriptures because that

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was never the intent of the writers from the

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beginning So we must be able to know the truth

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about the world's work understand the purpose

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for these scriptures understand the reason or

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the inspirations of those scriptures the questions

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that they were answering at that moment in order

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for us to address the contemporary issues we

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are facing with today hallelujah and in the process

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of addressing our contemporary questions today

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we must uphold the entirety of scripture in that

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attempt to answer that from Genesis to revelation

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because when we pick a passage it will not be

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adequate because the word of God is the entirety

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of the word that enables us to look at we can

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look at God's plan in entirety and they will

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be able to give answers to every issue so the

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Bible writers never wrote about online church

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because they will not even understand what is

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online church I believe that when Paul was saying

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never neglect the the gathering of the brethren

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he was very specific And he didn't say that that

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garden of rebellion can be online. All right?

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But we cannot even condemn online church from

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reading the epistles. But from the entire council

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of gods, we will know the plan of God. And when

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we read the entire council of God, we will know

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that church actually cannot be online. Because

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there are some certain things we can see with

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evidence of the entire scriptures that indeed

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will not benefit powerfully and well from what?

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From that kind of process. or system. So the

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entertainment -driven worship of today were not

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some of the things that were exposed in scriptures

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or attempted to explain to us. Feminism, you

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know, is one of the issues that today we are

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faced every day. I confronted someone that is

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very close to us from this church, the person

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I've left. The person wrote a whole lot of things

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about the issue of feminism, the issue of patriarchy,

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something, something. And I have to take the

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person back to the plan of God to see what is

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God's original intention for creating man and

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woman. So when we navigated through the plan

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of God, I will look at the whole council of God

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concerning these issues, the person realized

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that the scriptures, well not properly interpreted,

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will allude what it has never been intended to

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say. Hallelujah. So outside Christ, outside the

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plan and the purpose of God, the scripture can

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mean anything. But that is not the intent of

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it. That's not the intention of the scriptures.

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So we must understand how to rightly handle this

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Bible. This scriptures has been given to us as

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a guide to the exercising of the authority that

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we have to do greater works. So I said, yes,

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are the scriptures, especially the New Testament,

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sufficient to answer our contemporary questions,

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the scriptures and the New Testament? The answer

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is yes. The scriptures meaning the entirety of

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God's word is sufficient enough. The New Testament

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may not address these issues directly, but it

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provides the biblical principle and the interpretative

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framework for us in order to answer some of these

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questions. So we answer today's questions not

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by forcing modern issues into the Bible, but

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by understanding how the Bible authors address

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the issues of their day. And then we faithfully

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apply those same God -inspired principle. to

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our contemporary challenges that we face today.

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Hallelujah. So I want us to look at an issue

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that was raised during Jesus' time. Then we will

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just follow a little bit of his pattern. Then

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we will have a clue of how we can address some

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of the issues that we face today. For example

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now, when Jesus Christ was confronted with the

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question of divorce, when Jesus was confronted

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with the controversial issue of divorce in his

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time, it was controversial. He did not begin

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with contemporary opinions of cultural practices.

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All right? He didn't begin to tell them, oh,

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you know, in the case of so and so and so, this

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was what happened. No. He went straight to the

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scriptures. He returned to God's original design

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revealed in the scriptures. Hallelujah. Now,

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let's go back to the text we read in Matthew

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19 verse three to nine and see an examine and

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see a model on how we can address even the question

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that we face today. Okay? Matthew 19 verse 3,

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Matthew chapter 19 verse 3. The Pharisees also

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came to Jesus, to him, testing him, and saying

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to him, is it lawful for a man to divorce his

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wife for just any reason? For just any reason?

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And he answered and said to them, have you not

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read that he who made them at the beginning,

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made them male and female? And said, For this

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reason a man shall leave his father and mother

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and be joined to his wife and a two shall become

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one flesh So then they are no longer two but

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one flesh therefore what God has joined together

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Let no man what let no one separate verse 7 they

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say to you why then did Moses Command to give

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a certificate of divorce and to put our way He

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said to the Moses because of the hardness of

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your heart Because of your hardness because of

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your hardness of heart permitted you to divorce

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your wives but from the beginning It was not

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so from the beginning girls never intended for

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divorce In fact, we'll read some scriptures in

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the Old Testament. We'll see where Jesus the

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Bible is written that you know, he had got he

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had divorce, right? Yes, he hates divorce. I

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think I've forgotten the text. Yeah Malachi,

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right? So if God was a head divorce, then why

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would Moses give a certificate of divorcement?

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So and he said to them Whoever divorces his wife

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except for sexual immorality and marries another

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commits adultery and whoever marries her who

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is divorced commit adultery so The Pharisee acts

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in verse 3 is it lawful is it lawful that a man

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divorces his wife for any reason So Jesus answered

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by taking them back to Genesis, all right? Back

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to Genesis, not to the current debate, but he

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went back to the original plan of God, the intention

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of God, the counsel of God from the beginning.

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And what is the counsel of God? He said to them,

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have you not read that he, that is God, who created

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them from the beginning, make them male and female.

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Therefore, what God has joined together let no

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man separate. So when they appeal Moses's permission

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of divorcement in Deuteronomy 24 verse 1 to 4,

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Jesus clarified, they get clarity to what happened.

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Hallelujah. So we as well are to give clarity

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to questions that will arise from some of the

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things we see in scriptures. Someone has once

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asked the question that why is it that, you know,

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why is the Bible so bloody? That will see a scripture

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where God will give them command to go and wipe

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a generation. Why is the Bible so genocidal?

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And I asked him a question. I said even did in

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the scriptures the children of Israel went and

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they wiped a generation completely. Let's say

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for example now which tribe was always they have

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always fighting? The Amalekite, right? First

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instance, they said and you hear the report that

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they He saw the entire Amalekite and none was

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left. And after 203 -05 he heard that the Amalekite

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came and overcome. Where did the Amalekite come

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from? Even did they were erased from the face

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of the earth. How comes we see after 203 kings,

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in fact the Amalekite will still be coming to

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fight them. So it doesn't mean that they were

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not really erased. Yes, you must understand biblical

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language. When you write reports about war, especially

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in their time, in their context, right? For example,

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Nani, if I say Arsenal demolish Man U, five goals

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to zero, we kill them completely. We ensure that

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none of them was alive in the game. Am I literally

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saying that we kill the entire players on the

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pitch? No. But you must understand that it's

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a way of communicating our victory of demolishing

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them. He's laughing. Hallelujah. So you must

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understand the way the scripture is written,

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the way they narrate these issues in scriptures.

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They're not saying that they're erased because

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we see them several times. In many, many years

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we'll see their existence on the face of the

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earth, hallelujah. So we must be able to understand

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scriptures properly, contextually, understand

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the background and the context, the historical

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context, the cultural context of those people.

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in order for us to arrive at a better understanding

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of scriptures. So we see Jesus Christ giving

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clarity to an issue, right? It says, Moses permitted

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you to divorce your wives, verse eight, because

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your hearts were hard, but it was not this way

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from the beginning. So let's notice Jesus' method.

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He acknowledged the present question. Did he

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dismiss the question? He acknowledged the question

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that they were asking. And then he returned to

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scriptures. Where did he return to? He went back

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to the scriptures. He distinguished between God's

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original intention and the temporary concession

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made because of human sin, because of human inability.

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Hallelujah. So we see the techniques he used.

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He interpreted the alt -estimate in the light

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of God's redemptive purpose. He interpreted that

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question or he interpreted that scripture in

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the light of God's redemptive purpose. Therefore

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giving clarity to God's plan and God's purpose.

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Why did God give, why did Moses give him the

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permission to divorce? It's because of their

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stubbornness. Because some of them as passers

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-by told us that if we allow them with the wife

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they may even do domestic violence will be so

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high. Because those who were so stubborn that

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they can do anything. Somebody can just walk

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up and say he does not like his wife and he will

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divorce her. At least he should let her go alive

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to her parents house, it's better. All right,

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so because of the wickedness that is in the heart

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of men, Moses permitted, so but in the beginning

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that was not God's intention. In the redemptive

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plan of God, That was not the intention, because

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the idea of marriage was to communicate God's

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eternal purpose. And in God's communication of

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his eternal purpose, there is no idea of separation.

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In God's idea, there is no separation. So Moses'

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permission for divorce was not God's ideal. It

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was a concession because of Israel's hardness

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of heart. God's original design for marriage

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established in creation remain his true intention.

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So the framework for today's issue is that from

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this issue, the way Jesus handled this matter,

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it provides us a biblical framework for addressing

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every contemporary issues. We must begin from

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God's original purpose as revealed in the scriptures.

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Hallelujah. That must be the genesis of every

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question that we have that pertains to scriptures.

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To distinguish between God's eternal design and

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what is seen in a falling world. And then we

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apply the timeless principle of scripture faithfully

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to our modern questions. What are the issues

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about abortion? For example now, is it right

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for you to do abortion? And we have to go to

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scriptures. Because when you go to the epistles,

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you will not see, they don't even have an idea.

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It will be strange to them to think that somebody

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will be pregnant and go to a physician and say,

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I want to remove the etes. That will be the highest

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level of witchcraft in their time. They will

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not understand it. But today, it has been coined

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at women's rights in our contemporary world.

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It has been coined as a fundamental human right.

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The right to eliminate another person's right

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is a fundamental right in today's world. But

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when we go to scriptures, we discover that we

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look at what is God's intention for creating

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a life. Life is safe. Do you have dominion over

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another life as a man or as a woman? Do you have

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authority over the existence of another person?

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Then we will begin to come along and we'll see

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in God's eternal plan. questions about gender,

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about sexuality, about biotech, biotech, technology,

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economics, worship, or any contemporary challenge,

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the task of a biblical teacher is to ask, what

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is God's original intention from the beginning?

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What is God's counsel? What is God's intention

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right from the beginning of the creation of the

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world and humanity? Okay? How did the biblical

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authors address issues in their context? If the

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issues were addressed specifically in scriptures,

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we have to look at contextually, how did they

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address these matters? What timeless theological

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principle can emerge from the text that will

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express the scriptures? And then how we should

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faithfully apply those things today. So the Bible

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remains sufficient for every generation. The

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Bible remains sufficient for every generation.

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In fact, the truth of scripture is eternal. The

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truth of scripture is eternal. No matter the

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level of advancement in technology, the eternal

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truth of the scriptures cannot be outdated. The

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principle enshrined in the entire council of

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God's word are eternal principles. So, Our responsibility

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is to make the scripture fit our culture, all

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right? To ensure that the scripture is our culture.

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Right, I said our responsibility is not to make

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the scripture fit our culture, but to understand

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God's revealed will, okay? His revealed will

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will be found within the pages of the scriptures,

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the entirety of the council of God's word. So

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our duty is to find and to understand his revealed

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in the scriptures and apply its enduring principle

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to the questions of our time today. So this is

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the interpretation framework that we can see

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from, we can believe there are several instances

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in scriptures where Jesus Christ was confronted

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with issues and then in answering those issues

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he has to go back from the beginning and even

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the apostles sometimes when they are faced with

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issues they have to go back from the genesis

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of the creation of mankind. And then through

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scriptures, they are able to skim through scriptures

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and show a straight line around, you know, the

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things that God has as a plan and a purpose for

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humanity, thereby reaching a conclusion concerning,

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you know, the issues that affect their time.

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So therefore, we must study the scriptures carefully.

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We must study the scriptures carefully and then

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rightly interpret God's Word to understand his

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whole counsel, his original intention, especially

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when it comes to creation and his redemptive

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purpose. Only then we can faithfully apply his

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word. We can fulfill the work of ministry and

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also work in the greater works to which Jesus

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Christ has called us to do. So we have a big

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obligation. Now, what is our duty? Our duty is

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to go back to the Word of God, the entirety of

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the Word of God, and not treat some above others,

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but uphold the entirety of God's Word in order

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to arrive at the understanding of God's plan

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for us. So we've looked at the essence of the

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synoptic gospels in our bid to look at the context

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of what Jesus did, the works Jesus did. We've

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looked at the reason or the importance of the

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epistles. What were the epistles for? Now, what

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about the Old Testament scriptures, the Old Testament

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scriptures? Since we've emphasized that they

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are crucial, right, for the works that we do,

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then it becomes necessary for us to understand,

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even though we may not... Go through the entirety

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of it, but it's important for us to understand

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the basic foundational truth that we found in

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scriptures. The moment you open the scriptures,

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what is the first thing you see about God? The

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first thing we will see about God is creation.

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Hallelujah. So the common misconception, or the

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view of the Old Testament. When I say the Old

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Testament, understand what we are saying. Genesis

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to Malachi. is that it is merely a collection

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of prophecies pointing to the New Testament.

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If we just look at it as just prophecies, there

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are prophecies pointing to the New, actually,

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to Jesus Christ and his fulfillment and all that

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will happen. There are prophecies. But when we

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just look at it as only prophecies pointing to

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the New, then we will not be honest or we will

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not be fair to the characters that are found

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in those Old Testament scriptures. because they

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had a dealing with God. They had experiences

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with God. They had a relationship with God. Are

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we now saying that all that happened in their

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time was pointing to what is new? That they never

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had an understanding of what they were doing

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until when the New Testament writers arrived,

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they now told us, or they explained to us what

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happened in the Old Testament? Then we will be

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in that dangerous position to assume that, you

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know, God was not really honest with some of

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the things we see we deal with in the alt -estement.

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So, we must understand that why the alt -estement

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certainly anticipates Christ. It first served

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as God's revelation to its original audience,

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okay? We must understand that the alt -estement

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scriptures first and foremost served as God's

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revelation to its original audience. and must

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be understood within its own historical and literary

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context. All right? Removing the context of any

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biblical passage will mean that we remove the

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message of it. Amen? So I don't want to go into

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my pastor's handouts to go into his notes. Yeah.

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So the Autism Enlays the Theological Foundation

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for God's Identity Plan. All right? Whatever

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God will do or whatever God has done, the foundation

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of it, the intention and the foundation of everything

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was laid right from the beginning. Among its

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most important themes is what we call the creation

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theology. As we've seen from Genesis chapter

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1 verse 1, we will see the story of creation.

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All right? The story of creation. And of course,

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we'll see the concept of sin in Genesis 3. Both

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of which are essential for understanding the

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rest of scripture if we don't establish an understanding

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of what is creation Genesis 1 and we don't establish

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an understanding of the scene that happened in

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Genesis 3 then it becomes difficult for us to

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navigate through the entire scriptures and Find

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a better understanding of the character of God

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and what God is doing If our understanding of

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creation is wrong, our understanding of seeing

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how Adam failed is wrong, then I don't think

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we'll be able to know God's will and God's plan.

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Hallelujah. So what I'm going to be attempting

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to do is to maybe pick one of the teams and then

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discuss and then we will interpret it together

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and then see how it goes. So these foundational

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teams are further developed through doctrinal

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messages or themes that we will see. We'll see

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salvation, walk of the Spirit, and then the Church,

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and many, many other things that will come up

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later. So a proper understanding of this will

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enable us to know the purpose of God. Hallelujah.

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So now let's go to Genesis chapter one and try

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to walk through gently in the next few minutes

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that we have. Wherever we stop, we'll just stop

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there. Okay? Now, let's look at Genesis chapter

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one, especially from verse one. It says, in the

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beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

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All right? Now, let me say this. If we don't

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understand this first verse of scripture, then

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understanding the will and the purpose of God

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will be difficult for us. So this is what has

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been termed as creation theology. Creation theology.

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So this creation theology is a foundational theme

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of biblical theology. and the starting point

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of understanding the message of the entire Bible.

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All right? In case you are writing this already,

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you can just write the creation theology. It

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is the starting point of understanding the message

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of the entire Bible. The first two chapters of

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Genesis provides the theological framework upon

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which every major biblical doctrine, salvation,

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including salvation is built. So without a proper

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understanding of creation, we cannot understand

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the rest of scripture. The key biblical concepts

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such as heaven and earth, humanity, God's purpose,

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and his relationship with creation are the first

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thing we can see with the moment we open the

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Bible in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. And they serve

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to us as the foundation for the narrative we

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see in Soskem passages of scripture. So to interpret

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Genesis 1 and 2 correctly, we must first ask

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the same question that his original audience

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will have asked, okay? For us to understand Genesis,

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then it becomes necessary that we today should

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ask probably the questions that will be in the

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heart of the hearers of that teaching at that

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moment. Now the primary concern of these chapters

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or these books especially Genesis is not to explain

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to us the scientific origin of the material universe

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or to resolve modern debates such as evolution

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because one of the biggest mistakes we make is

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that we try to carry the Bible and we try to

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prove evolution theory wrong or right or we try

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to prove how old the world is You know, Pastor

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says, I've taught us that Moses, the writer of

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this scripture was not an, he was not an archaeologist.

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He was not a historian. He was a prophet. So

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what he will write must be the message concerning

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God. So the Bible, especially Genesis, is a book

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concerning God. is not about history knowing

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the history of the world so when we try to carry

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the bible or especially the book of genesis and

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we try to say okay let's interpret let's try

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to know let's try to bring scientific things

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into it we will not be able to answer scientific

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questions with the scriptures hallelujah because

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the bible in its essence was not given for scientific

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research it was not given for scientific purposes

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it was given for spiritual purpose Was given

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for spiritual edification. We say that all scripture

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is given by inspiration of God and it's forfeitable

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for what? For doctrine for teaching and in the

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end we say that the man of God will be what?

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Will be complete for every good work. That is

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the essence of scripture So when it becomes a

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tool for debating scientific research, you know

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the history of the world then we will miss the

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intent of the scriptures Who means the intent

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of the scriptures So rather the Bible revealed

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God, okay, especially this Genesis 1 and 2 reveal

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who God is It reveals his purpose for creation

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It reveals the purpose for creation, okay and

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humanity's role within creation It reveals God's

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purpose for creation and the role of man within

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God's creation. So biblical theology therefore

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seeks to understand the text in its original

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context and cause believers not to only interpret

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scriptures accurately, but also live out his

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truth in the daily life. So we must understand

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how to appropriate scriptures by interpreting

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scriptures contextually, especially within the

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purpose to which they were written so that our

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lives will be edified by scriptures. Hallelujah.

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No one that Paul would tell Timothy, don't engage

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in so much arguments and, you know, debates that

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only will lead into what? It will lead into more

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offenses and other things. There is a focus for

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scripture. It's not for all those kind of debates.

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So let's go back to Genesis 1 and try to understand

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God's word. The essence is that we will know

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the will of God. All right We've seen it as the

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council the whole council of God. We've prayed

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some scriptures that our eyes will be open to

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understand What are we understand? We're understanding

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the old council of God's what inefficiency and

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any coercions of the one Who will be praying

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that we may understand what? We understand the

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way the will of God. Hallelujah But the wheel

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of God begins as a story. There's a storyline

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of God's purpose and his plan and his purpose

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from the beginning to the end. It's a plan and

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it's a story that begins from Genesis 1. So Genesis

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of the 1 verse 1 says in the beginning God created

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the heavens and the earth. Now it is vital to

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understand again that the concept of heaven and

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earth in the communication of Moses and his immediate

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audience in their world. It is important for

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us to understand the concept of heaven and earth

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as communicated in Moses' communication, all

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right, and his audience. The word heaven, from

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the Hebrew word, is from the Hebrew word shamayim,

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S -H -A -M -A -Y -I -M. And it's often referred

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to in relation to God's activities, or the supernatural.

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Okay? This word heaven in the Hebrew, Shamaim,

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was often referred, referenced in relations to

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God's activities, or the supernatural. That is,

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the unseen activities in the, the unseen activities

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in the natural. So to the context of his audience,

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when you talk about heavens they're talking about

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the supernatural all right they're talking about

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the supernatural in the eastern culture the word

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heaven that is the eastern culture has to do

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with the culture of those in whom Moses was writing

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to the children of Israel all right so in their

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culture heaven would refer to where God is where

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God dwells or in literal form God's activities

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in the earth that is found within men Hallelujah

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Heaven would refer to God's dwelling place or

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a literal form God's activities in the earth

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I will see another word again The earth in that

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verse one in the beginning God created the heavens

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and then we will see and the earth So the earth

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was referred or referenced to man's dwelling

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place and activities. Man's dwelling place and

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activities. So there are two, you know, I would

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say complementary ideas presented in Genesis

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1 verse 1. The heavens and the earth. The heavens

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and the earth. The earth was created for man

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to dwell. while heaven relates to the unseen

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part of the earth where God dwells the sphere

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of God's authority over man on the earth the

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realm of influence of God over man on the earth

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right and in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2 let's

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look at verse 2 it says the earth that is where

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man is the earth was without form and void darkness

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was on the face of the deep and the spirit of

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God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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What does it mean? Without form and void and

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we see darkness. Now the word darkness was derived

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from the Hebrew word chashek which implies obscurity.

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So what we see on the earth was obscurity. It

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further implies that what darkness implies without

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light or absence of light, that what Chachak,

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S -H -O -S -H -E -K is derived from the verb

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Chachak. So from Chachak we now have Chachak.

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Chachak, C -H -A -S -H -A -K. which implies to

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make dark, to make dark. So darkness, you know,

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here implies obscurity on the earth. We see another

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phrase in that same verse too, without form.

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It says, the earth was without form and void

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and darkness was on the face of the deep and

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the spirit of God was moving over the face of

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the waters. So what does the phrase without form

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mean? It was derived from the word, the Hebrew

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word tohu, T -O -H -U, which implies emptiness,

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or I would say desolation, emptiness. So what

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we see on the Earth is obscurity and emptiness,

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all right? Obscurity and emptiness. In essence,

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the time without form and void and the word darkness

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seems to be synonymous in the application in

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this verse. Void and without form and darkness

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seems to be synonymous in the application in

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this verse. Now let's observe verse two carefully.

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It says upon the face of the deep. Upon the face

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of the deep. Now by just looking at the use of

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the word face upon the face upon the face of

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the deep Darkness does that man has a face. Let's

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read and see it says the ad was void What would

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I form and void and darkness was upon the face

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of the deep? Attributing you know a Character

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of something that is intimate something to something

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is it shows that is a figure of speech you see

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it So, in saying that upon the face of the deep

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and the spirit of God moves upon the face of

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the waters, that word face will see appear twice

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in that same verse two. Yes, it appears twice

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in that verse two. And that word is derived from

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the Hebrew word panin, P -A -N -Y -M. And it

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implies appearance, appearance before the presence

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of. So, the uses of the word face needs to be

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examined what does it mean for darkness to be

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upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god

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was hovering over the face of the waters we see

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face in relation to the the darkness on the face

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of the deep our see face in relation to the spirit

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of god hovering over the waters so it means that

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we need to examine and see what is this face

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the uses of the word face need to be examined

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Firstly says darkness upon the face of the deep

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and also the spirit of God moving on the waters

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Now watch without form and void and darkness

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in this one to a describe They describe the state

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of the man that is the earth away from God's

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creation That is God's plan. They they show the

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time to describe, you know the state of man the

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earth refers to man Let's just say it this way.

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The Earth refers to man. And then the idea of

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without form and void and darkness describe the

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status of man, the Earth, apart from goals, own

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plan, and its purpose. So let's study some more

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about the phrase. We'll look at the phrase later.

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Without form and the idea of without form and

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also darkness. Without form was derived from

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the Hebrew word to who, as we saw. And we can

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see the same word also was used in Deuteronomy

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chapter 32 verse 10. Let's look at Deuteronomy

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chapter 32 verse 10 to see the uses of that word.

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Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 10. Are we there?

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Yes. So he says he found him a desert. A desert

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land and with the Westland, that Westland speaks

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about, without form, that Westland. A holding

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wilderness, he encircled him, he instructed him,

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he kept him as the apple of his eye. So the word

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to who is used to imply West in this text, contextually,

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okay? Confusion in this text, nothingness, desolate,

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vanity. What is vast, what is empty, right? Wilderness.

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So this can be associated with chaos contextually

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to this text as seen here. So what does Moses

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means by darkness in Genesis chapter one verse

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two? Based on how we see him using it again in

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another text. He explains what he implied by

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darkness. in the subsequent verses in Genesis

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chapter one, especially verse two, verse three

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and verse four, as the absence of light on the

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face of the earth. Let's look at verse three,

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Genesis chapter one, verse three. Then God said,

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let there be light, and there was light. So this

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is, you know, the implied meaning of darkness.

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It says, let there be light, And there was light,

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verse four. And God saw the light that it was

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good. And God divided the light from darkness.

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So there was a division that God made between

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the light and the darkness. The prophets also

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presented this idea in the scriptures, in their

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writings, because the prophets, their writings

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has a context. And the context of their writings

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is from the writings of Moses. They all found

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their genesis and their inspirations from the

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writing of Moses. Now let's see how they themselves

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used this concept. Jeremiah chapter four verse

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23. Jeremiah chapter four verse 23. So Jeremiah

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four 23 will say, I beheld the earth, okay, and

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indeed it was without form. and void. Jeremiah

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speaking from Genesis. And the heavens, they

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have no light. Let's look at Isaiah 60 verse

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1. Another prophet. Isaiah 60 verse 1. Isaiah

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60 verse 1. Arise, shine, for your light has

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come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon

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you. Specifically talking about light, shine,

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and is a context of Genesis chapter one. So in

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essence, darkness clearly is Moses' explanation

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of the state of humanity without the Spirit of

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God, which is that light. So the time without

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form and void, and of course darkness, were employed

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by Moses to explain this to his audience, okay?

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So these are terminologies that Moses will employ

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in revealing the state of man's condition to

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his audience and his time. This has nothing to

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do with physical creation of the earth so far

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till now because there are a lot of figures used

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here, figures of speech used here that needs

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to be considered and interpreted properly to

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arrive at the intention of the writer. So let's

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look further into Genesis 1 verse 2. The phrase

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without form and void is further substantiated

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by the darkness, by the word darkness. This implies

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that the without form and void, Elia described

00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:44.960
as chaos, can be inferred as the word darkness,

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okay? So remember, as we said, the word earth

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was figurative. was figuratively employed to

00:49:55.179 --> 00:49:59.619
explain humanity or mankind. Now, some of the

00:49:59.619 --> 00:50:01.300
allusions I've made, I've not given proof yet,

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but we're going to see how the writers of scripture

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will refer to earth as humanity, okay? We'll

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see how it was used in scriptures. So, let's

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see Jeremiah once again, Jeremiah 422. Jeremiah

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422, the scripture we read earlier on, to see

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his writing concerning this concept, Jeremiah

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422 to 27. For my people are foolish. They have

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not known me. They are silly children, and they

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have no understanding. They are wise to do evil,

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but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld

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the earth, where we read earlier on. So he's

00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:58.920
talking about the children of Israel, right?

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And he's bringing the conversation of Genesis,

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he's talking about the earth. So when Moses,

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when Jeremiah was speaking about the children

00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:08.599
of Israel, was he referring to people on the

00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:10.159
earth? He was referring to people on the earth,

00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:13.360
right? And he says, I beheld the earth. Don't

00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:16.780
get out of context here. And indeed, it was without

00:51:16.780 --> 00:51:20.079
form and void. Is he referring to their conduct?

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Right? Without form and void, and the heavens,

00:51:24.590 --> 00:51:28.730
they had no light. Verse 24, I beheld the mountains,

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and indeed they trembled, and all the hills moved

00:51:33.369 --> 00:51:37.289
back and forth. So there's a chaos here. The

00:51:37.289 --> 00:51:39.269
mountains and the earth, there's a chaos here.

00:51:39.489 --> 00:51:43.510
I beheld, and indeed there was no man, and all

00:51:43.510 --> 00:51:49.170
the birds of the heavens had fled. I beheld,

00:51:49.170 --> 00:51:52.099
and indeed the fruitful land, you see, concept

00:51:52.099 --> 00:51:56.239
of land the concept of earth the land which is

00:51:56.239 --> 00:52:00.340
the earth was a wilderness wilderness has to

00:52:00.340 --> 00:52:04.300
do with you know dissolution desolation rather

00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:09.719
and all the cities were broken down at the presence

00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:13.300
of the lord by his face anger verse 27 the last

00:52:13.300 --> 00:52:17.940
verse here 27 for thus says the lord the whole

00:52:17.940 --> 00:52:30.880
land shall be what So from the above text that

00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.900
we just read, it can clearly be inferred that

00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:40.300
the word darkness depicts the state of the disobedience

00:52:40.300 --> 00:52:45.119
or the rebellion of man towards God as we see

00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:48.500
in the expression of the prophet in his use of

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:51.130
language. in his use of the same concept as Moses

00:52:51.130 --> 00:52:56.849
presented in Genesis. While the word light will

00:52:56.849 --> 00:53:00.909
depict God's response to this anomaly, okay,

00:53:01.349 --> 00:53:05.690
the solution to the chaos is actually the light

00:53:05.690 --> 00:53:13.409
that has been alluded here has been absent. So

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let's see also Genesis chapter five verse six.

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To have a clear understanding of this darkness

00:53:22.260 --> 00:53:26.079
that was upon the earth Genesis of the six verse

00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:29.760
five Genesis of the six verse five to see how

00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:33.159
this concept has been expressed entirely in scriptures

00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:36.900
Genesis of the six verse five to six then they

00:53:36.900 --> 00:53:40.420
all saw That the wickedness of man was great

00:53:40.420 --> 00:53:43.099
in the earth So you see the idea is about what

00:53:43.099 --> 00:53:45.420
is happening on the earth and what we are seeing

00:53:45.420 --> 00:53:48.670
as a darkness upon the earth was wickedness and

00:53:48.670 --> 00:53:51.349
that every intent of the thoughts of his heart

00:53:51.349 --> 00:53:57.489
was continually evil and the Lord was sorry that

00:53:57.489 --> 00:54:02.130
he had made man on the earth so man on earth

00:54:02.130 --> 00:54:05.369
and wickedness the chaos that was happening on

00:54:05.369 --> 00:54:08.250
the earth and he was grieving his heart now let's

00:54:08.250 --> 00:54:14.010
move to verse 11 verse 11 to verse 13 the end

00:54:14.010 --> 00:54:16.789
also was corrupt so we see darkness we see corruption

00:54:16.789 --> 00:54:19.699
we see evil all talking about the state of the

00:54:19.699 --> 00:54:23.780
earth. the earth was corrupt before God and the

00:54:23.780 --> 00:54:26.519
earth was filled with violence. so you see violence,

00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:33.159
chaos, violence verse 13. and God said to Noah

00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:37.500
the end of all flesh has come before me for the

00:54:37.500 --> 00:54:41.340
earth is filled with violence through them and

00:54:41.340 --> 00:54:44.739
behold I will destroy them with the earth. so

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here also emphasizing the state of the earth,

00:54:49.179 --> 00:54:51.039
the wickedness that is increasing upon the face

00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:56.820
of the earth. These are the expressions of the

00:54:56.820 --> 00:55:02.860
darkness that is in the heart of men. These are

00:55:02.860 --> 00:55:05.420
different expressions, Moses in his writing expressing

00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:08.179
the darkness that is on the face of the earth.

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And we see it from the beginning, we see it even

00:55:11.780 --> 00:55:15.710
during the time of Noah here. giving us a clear

00:55:15.710 --> 00:55:21.829
scenario of darkness upon the earth. Hence, this

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would be seen in the physical disposition and

00:55:25.809 --> 00:55:28.630
the action of men without the light of God. So

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we see the darkness upon the earth in the activity

00:55:31.690 --> 00:55:34.789
of men that don't have the light of God in them.

00:55:35.710 --> 00:55:39.489
We see wickedness on the increase. We see violence.

00:55:39.610 --> 00:55:43.050
We see disobedience. We see contrary lifestyle.

00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:46.420
that does not align to God's will and his purpose.

00:55:48.179 --> 00:55:50.820
Again, we see another employed word in the text,

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corrupted, that is the act was corrupted. The

00:55:54.380 --> 00:55:56.860
act was corrupted before God, was corrupt before

00:55:56.860 --> 00:56:00.840
God as a description of mankind in rebellion

00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:05.840
towards God, okay? The word F can be seen in

00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.340
the letter writings as the word world. So the

00:56:09.340 --> 00:56:12.159
word F and the words have been used interchangeably

00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:15.579
in scriptures, let's see. For example, in John's

00:56:15.579 --> 00:56:20.039
explanation, 1 John chapter 5 verse 19. 1 John

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chapter 5 verse 19. We see John also writing

00:56:25.139 --> 00:56:28.400
from the inspiration of scriptures. He says we

00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:34.340
know that we are of God and the whole world lies

00:56:34.340 --> 00:56:39.260
in what? It lies sway of the wicked one, okay?

00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:42.860
so the word earth here is used interchangeably

00:56:42.860 --> 00:56:46.519
to the world without God it lies in the sway

00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:51.860
of the wicked one wicked one wickedness in this

00:56:51.860 --> 00:56:54.000
context can be interchangeably applied to the

00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:58.159
word darkness here also all right so Paul also

00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:00.860
allude to this similar fact in Galatians of the

00:57:00.860 --> 00:57:04.860
one verse four talks about this world has been

00:57:04.860 --> 00:57:08.849
evil Galatians of the one verse four who gave

00:57:08.849 --> 00:57:13.329
himself for our sins that he may deliver us from

00:57:13.329 --> 00:57:17.570
this present evil age. The word age day is world,

00:57:18.210 --> 00:57:20.670
all right? The word age day is talking about

00:57:20.670 --> 00:57:24.070
the world according to the will of our God and

00:57:24.070 --> 00:57:28.010
father. So interchangeably here we see the F

00:57:28.010 --> 00:57:33.010
also used as what? As the world by Bible writers,

00:57:34.250 --> 00:57:38.059
okay? By Bible writers. And of course, as I said,

00:57:39.539 --> 00:57:42.000
this echo the description of the state of the

00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.960
art, as we have seen in the time of Noah, Genesis

00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:48.079
chapter six was five to six, and Genesis chapter

00:57:48.079 --> 00:57:52.619
six was 11 to 13. So therefore, the word light

00:57:52.619 --> 00:57:57.460
and darkness in scripture were not always applied

00:57:57.460 --> 00:58:00.019
literally. When we see light and darkness in

00:58:00.019 --> 00:58:03.199
scripture, especially from Genesis one, they

00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:07.460
are not always applied literally. but were often

00:58:07.460 --> 00:58:11.219
figuratively used to depict the state of being

00:58:11.219 --> 00:58:20.840
of man. That is this world, okay? Man, the F.

00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:24.619
John continues with the same narrative in his

00:58:24.619 --> 00:58:28.000
account. We'll read his epist, I mean the John

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chapter one verse four to five, we'll see. Let's

00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:33.190
look at his writing in John chapter one. verse

00:58:33.190 --> 00:58:35.570
four, to see how he carried this narrative from

00:58:35.570 --> 00:58:39.289
Genesis and expounded on it in explaining to

00:58:39.289 --> 00:58:42.110
his audience. He said in the hymn, John chapter

00:58:42.110 --> 00:58:47.849
one, verse four, says in the hymn was life and

00:58:47.849 --> 00:58:51.650
the life was the light of men. So the light is

00:58:51.650 --> 00:58:55.090
in relation to men. The light is meant to be

00:58:55.090 --> 00:58:59.230
for men, okay? Verse five, and the light shines

00:58:59.230 --> 00:59:02.039
in a darkness. where will the darkness be from

00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:05.119
we'll see it later and the darkness did not comprehend

00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:09.480
it okay so john describes the word as having

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life and contrast that light and darkness this

00:59:15.579 --> 00:59:20.099
echoes strongly genesis 1 verse 2 and 3 so as

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we've seen before in what we are trying to look

00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.179
at the creation story the creation theology creation

00:59:26.179 --> 00:59:31.670
you know story of scripture It borders around

00:59:31.670 --> 00:59:35.369
God putting order to disorder because we will

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see God will say, let there be light and there

00:59:37.710 --> 00:59:42.269
was light. Okay? So God introducing light to

00:59:42.269 --> 00:59:44.530
darkness. That is what we're going to see in

00:59:44.530 --> 00:59:49.550
the entire story of creation. That God putting

00:59:49.550 --> 00:59:53.730
order to disorder and putting light to darkness.

00:59:55.269 --> 00:59:57.960
The four gospel writers. In giving an account

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of Jesus' teachings, spoke several times of this

01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:03.179
concept. What concept? The concept of God making

01:00:03.179 --> 01:00:06.639
light to shine in darkness. Particularly John,

01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:10.360
give us an express, you know, explanation of

01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:13.139
Genesis 1. In John chapter 1 verse 5, let's go

01:00:13.139 --> 01:00:14.900
back to that John that we read, we stop at, okay,

01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:17.360
chapter 5, let's go from verse 5 to 9, and see

01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:19.239
the continuation of his explanation. He says,

01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.059
and the light shines in the darkness, and the

01:00:22.059 --> 01:00:25.039
darkness did not comprehend it, verse 6. There

01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:27.820
was a man sent from God whose name was John.

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Now this John is not the one writing, he's talking

01:00:30.579 --> 01:00:33.019
about this particular John, he's talking about

01:00:33.019 --> 01:00:37.039
John the Baptist, okay? This man came for a witness

01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:43.579
to bear witness of the light. Now the light here,

01:00:43.780 --> 01:00:47.239
okay, if you read contextually here, is used

01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:50.179
as a figure referring to a personality, to an

01:00:50.179 --> 01:00:53.139
individual. This man came for a witness to bear

01:00:53.139 --> 01:00:58.230
witness of the light that all through him might

01:00:58.230 --> 01:01:01.070
believe so the essence of the light coming is

01:01:01.070 --> 01:01:04.690
that men may believe in that light he was not

01:01:04.690 --> 01:01:07.769
that light who was not that light john was not

01:01:07.769 --> 01:01:12.630
that light okay but was sent to bear witness

01:01:12.630 --> 01:01:18.789
of that particular light he was sent as a witness

01:01:18.789 --> 01:01:22.940
as as a witness to that particular light So we

01:01:22.940 --> 01:01:27.960
see verse 7 that the light was applied as a personality,

01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:31.820
as an individual here, okay? To bear witness

01:01:31.820 --> 01:01:35.440
of the light that all men through him might believe.

01:01:36.579 --> 01:01:41.360
So this implies that the word the light was personified

01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:45.559
in the writing of scriptures, was used figuratively,

01:01:46.380 --> 01:01:52.920
particularly personified as a person. as a message

01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:56.840
the light lightens all men that believe verse

01:01:56.840 --> 01:02:00.880
9 from here what's not give me verse 9 says that

01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.960
that was a true light which gives light to every

01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:09.480
man coming into the world so this light illuminates

01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:13.579
men that believe okay John the Baptist a prophet

01:02:13.579 --> 01:02:17.760
was described as one who came to be a witness

01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:23.059
of that light Now let's look at how Luke used

01:02:23.059 --> 01:02:25.679
that concept of light and darkness. Luke presents

01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:28.679
the fact that the light was a message preached

01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:33.480
by the prophets across ages. Luke chapter 2 verse

01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:41.239
32. Luke chapter 2 verse 32. Look at how Luke

01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:46.000
put it. He says a light to bring revelation to

01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:50.500
the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel.

01:02:50.829 --> 01:02:54.070
That is to say this light was meant to bring

01:02:54.070 --> 01:02:56.510
revelation not only to the nation of Israel,

01:02:56.570 --> 01:03:02.269
but also to the Gentiles Okay, so he's presenting

01:03:02.269 --> 01:03:05.150
the light as a message that brings revelation

01:03:05.150 --> 01:03:07.429
And he's alluding the context say is that that

01:03:07.429 --> 01:03:08.989
is what the prophets all over scriptures has

01:03:08.989 --> 01:03:14.929
been talking about So this key facts are also

01:03:14.929 --> 01:03:17.570
explored when we look at Jesus's teaching in

01:03:17.570 --> 01:03:20.860
the four gospel How did Jesus use the concept

01:03:20.860 --> 01:03:24.440
of light the idea of light when we see how the

01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:26.920
Apostles the epistles Interpret that concept

01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:29.119
of light and scriptures how the prophet explained

01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:31.340
the idea of light. Let's look at Jesus's teaching

01:03:31.340 --> 01:03:34.599
concerning that idea of light Matthew chapter

01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:42.699
4 verse 16 Matthew chapter 4 verse 16 The people

01:03:42.699 --> 01:03:49.250
who sat in darkness Have seen a great light And

01:03:49.250 --> 01:03:51.849
upon those who sat in the region and shadow of

01:03:51.849 --> 01:03:56.750
death, light has done, light has done, talking

01:03:56.750 --> 01:04:00.809
about light coming to people who are in darkness.

01:04:02.050 --> 01:04:06.269
Matthew 6, 23, Matthew 6, 23, we're looking at

01:04:06.269 --> 01:04:07.949
Jesus's word, he's teaching in his teaching how

01:04:07.949 --> 01:04:11.269
he used that word light. But if your eye is bad,

01:04:11.369 --> 01:04:14.869
your whole body will be full of what? Of darkness.

01:04:15.809 --> 01:04:20.070
If therefore the light, that is in you is darkness.

01:04:20.469 --> 01:04:22.929
How great is that darkness? So he's talking about

01:04:22.929 --> 01:04:27.130
a light that should be in a man. Okay? The essence

01:04:27.130 --> 01:04:30.389
of the light is to illuminate and to dwell in

01:04:30.389 --> 01:04:33.750
a man. In this context of research in this scripture.

01:04:34.329 --> 01:04:39.610
Matthew 10 verse 23. Matthew 10 verse 23. Matthew

01:04:39.610 --> 01:04:44.829
10 verse 23. When they persecute you in this

01:04:44.829 --> 01:04:50.320
city, flee to another. Marry in the right text,

01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:57.519
Matthew 10, 27, sorry, 27. Matthew 10, 27. Whatever

01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:01.699
I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. And

01:05:01.699 --> 01:05:04.780
what you hear in the air, preach on the house

01:05:04.780 --> 01:05:08.980
top, okay? And then Luke 1 verse 79, Luke 1,

01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:16.219
79. Luke 1 verse 79. We're looking at how Jesus

01:05:16.219 --> 01:05:19.909
used this word, okay? was it literal or it was

01:05:19.909 --> 01:05:22.949
figurative was it literal up until now we've

01:05:22.949 --> 01:05:25.409
not seen Jesus speaking about this light as a

01:05:25.409 --> 01:05:28.190
literal light but he was using it figuratively

01:05:28.190 --> 01:05:31.510
to express express concept that has to do with

01:05:31.510 --> 01:05:35.210
with humanity with men to give light to those

01:05:35.210 --> 01:05:39.429
who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to

01:05:39.429 --> 01:05:44.070
guide our feet into the way of peace so here

01:05:44.070 --> 01:05:49.550
light is also used figurative okay Because I

01:05:49.550 --> 01:05:52.510
wonder how light, if it's literal light, can

01:05:52.510 --> 01:05:57.010
save people from death. So this is applied figuratively.

01:05:58.250 --> 01:06:02.070
John chapter three, verse 19. John chapter three,

01:06:02.150 --> 01:06:06.829
verse 19. John chapter three, verse 19. And this

01:06:06.829 --> 01:06:11.570
is a condemnation that the light has come into

01:06:11.570 --> 01:06:16.369
the world. And men love darkness. rather than

01:06:16.369 --> 01:06:18.610
light, because their deeds were evil. So we see

01:06:18.610 --> 01:06:20.809
consistently in his teaching, he is contrasting

01:06:20.809 --> 01:06:23.489
between light and darkness. And in the contrasting

01:06:23.489 --> 01:06:25.789
between light and darkness, he is using the light

01:06:25.789 --> 01:06:29.570
and the darkness figuratively, especially in

01:06:29.570 --> 01:06:33.250
dealing with humanity on the earth. Hallelujah.

01:06:34.090 --> 01:06:36.110
So we must keep in mind that the word light and

01:06:36.110 --> 01:06:41.050
darkness are majorly employed figuratively within

01:06:41.050 --> 01:06:45.550
the scriptures. to depict spiritual realities

01:06:45.550 --> 01:06:49.190
and personalities. In all the texts we read so

01:06:49.190 --> 01:06:52.030
far, we'll see that the users of the word light

01:06:52.030 --> 01:06:57.590
or darkness is used to explain either personalities

01:06:57.590 --> 01:07:04.150
or spiritual realities. Also, this will find

01:07:04.150 --> 01:07:07.510
expressions through the heart, okay? Oftentimes,

01:07:07.710 --> 01:07:09.909
when we see what Jesus will say, that this light

01:07:09.909 --> 01:07:13.389
will find expressions through the heart of heart

01:07:13.389 --> 01:07:17.590
or what we call the mind or the conduct of men

01:07:17.590 --> 01:07:25.070
as seen in Genesis chapter 6 as seen in Genesis

01:07:25.070 --> 01:07:26.809
chapter 6 narrative about the wickedness that

01:07:26.809 --> 01:07:29.369
was on the face of the earth how men became wicked

01:07:29.369 --> 01:07:32.869
you know so this concept is further explained

01:07:32.869 --> 01:07:35.050
through the scriptures especially let's look

01:07:35.050 --> 01:07:40.599
at the epistles Acts chapter 26 verse 18 Let's

01:07:40.599 --> 01:07:49.880
look at Acts 26 verse 18. Acts 26 verse 18. To

01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:54.159
open their eyes in order to turn them from darkness

01:07:54.159 --> 01:08:00.619
to light and from power of Satan to God that

01:08:00.619 --> 01:08:03.360
they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance

01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:07.079
among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:10.500
So the quotation here, is making a contrasting

01:08:10.500 --> 01:08:14.280
of two issues here. Firstly, the idea is that

01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:19.119
the personality here, okay, will turn them from

01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:24.119
darkness to light. And this darkness to light

01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:29.920
is meaning from the power of Satan to God. So

01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:33.119
darkness and light is used figuratively to explain

01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:36.880
the power of Satan and of course God in this

01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:39.609
context here. So it's not used literally across

01:08:39.609 --> 01:08:42.329
scriptures, but it's used figuratively for spiritual

01:08:42.329 --> 01:08:46.010
realities and for personalities. Romans 2 verse

01:08:46.010 --> 01:08:51.989
19. Romans 2 verse 19. Romans 2 verse 19. Let's

01:08:51.989 --> 01:08:59.010
look at what Paul will say about this. And are

01:08:59.010 --> 01:09:02.050
confident that you yourself are guide to the

01:09:02.050 --> 01:09:06.260
blind. Okay? a light to those who are in darkness.

01:09:06.300 --> 01:09:09.779
So he's talking about the people here as guide

01:09:09.779 --> 01:09:15.079
to the blind and people becoming light to those

01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:17.899
who are in darkness, all right? Use figuratively

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for individuals, for personalities here, okay?

01:09:21.939 --> 01:09:23.960
So again, observe the application of the word

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darkness in the first Corinthians of the four

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verse 15, light and darkness in first Corinthians

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of the four verse, see? My goal is to give an

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overwhelming evidence Beyond reasonable doubt.

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Okay that this is how this idea is expressed

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in scriptures Now first Corinthians chapter 4

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verse 5 First Corinthians to the 4 verse 5 therefore

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judge nothing before the time until the Lord

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comes who will but bring to light the hidden

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things of darkness and reveal the counsels of

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the heart when each one's praise will come from

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God. So the word light was employed to describe

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revelation and the word darkness to describe

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that which is hidden, okay? So also is applied

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figuratively here. Jesus referring himself as

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a light of the world. John chapter 3 verse 19.

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Jesus referred to himself as a light of the world.

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And this is the condemnation that the light has

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come into the world, and men love darkness rather

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than light because they are due to evil. So he

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is talking about himself here, that he is the

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one that has come into the world. John chapter

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8 verse 12. John chapter 8 verse 12. John. it

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verse 12 then Jesus spoke to them again saying

01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:09.300
I am the light of what of the world he who follows

01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:14.520
me shall not walk in darkness but have the light

01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:20.880
of life I am the light of the world so he is

01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:23.899
a light that the world what is the world here

01:11:23.899 --> 01:11:27.390
talking about the earth thinking about men okay

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jesus is a light of men who are those who follow

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him those who believe in him they will no longer

01:11:34.369 --> 01:11:37.390
work under the influence of darkness darkness

01:11:37.390 --> 01:11:40.369
here is an expression of what a spiritual reality

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while jesus is using the light as a symbolic

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expression of himself or a figurative expression

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of himself john chapter 9 verse 5 john chapter

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9 verse 5 John chapter 9 verse 5. As long as

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I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

01:12:06.699 --> 01:12:10.920
I am the light of the world. John chapter 12

01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:17.239
verse 35. John chapter 12 verse 35. He says,

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then Jesus said to them, a little while longer

01:12:19.899 --> 01:12:22.920
the light is with you, referring to himself.

01:12:23.539 --> 01:12:26.800
Walk while you have the light. Let darkness overtake

01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.409
you. He who walks in darkness does not know where

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he is going, referring to himself as the light

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of the world. So this clearly shows that the

01:12:36.250 --> 01:12:39.289
phrase light and darkness will refer to spiritual

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entities or attributes or the state found in

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man, okay? Now let's examine that John chapter

01:12:48.210 --> 01:12:51.989
8 verse 12 again. He says, he that follows me,

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not John chapter 8 verse 12, he that follows

01:12:54.689 --> 01:12:59.569
me. How do you follow him? I am the light of

01:12:59.569 --> 01:13:01.989
all he who follows me shall not walk in darkness

01:13:01.989 --> 01:13:05.390
with half light He that follows many face to

01:13:05.390 --> 01:13:09.369
faith in the light While the first walk in darkness

01:13:09.369 --> 01:13:13.170
implies being in unbelief So when you walk when

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you follow him when you believe him You will

01:13:16.850 --> 01:13:21.250
not walk in the darkness Okay, so Jesus here

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describes himself as a light of the world the

01:13:24.289 --> 01:13:28.729
world I am as we see all over later in the book

01:13:28.729 --> 01:13:33.189
of john was translated from the from a greek

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word ego in my ego in my e g o e m i he says

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i am the light so is from that greek word ego

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in my which was transliteration of the hebrew

01:13:50.069 --> 01:13:53.569
word higher okay i am from the old testament

01:13:54.220 --> 01:13:58.180
From the Hebrew writings So he is saying he is

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God. He is the I am that is a light of the world

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That has come to the world Let's say Jesus control

01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:10.279
description of himself in John's account. You

01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:15.359
see you say I am the light I am the way I Am

01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:18.340
the truth. I am divine. I am the life. I'm the

01:14:18.340 --> 01:14:22.159
bread of life One vital description that is that

01:14:22.159 --> 01:14:25.340
he described in safe is that among all these

01:14:25.340 --> 01:14:30.840
that he is the light. Okay? But keep in mind,

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the light that we've been talking about in Genesis

01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:35.840
of the one verse three, the essence of going

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around is to see how biblical writers employ

01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.199
the usage of this word light and darkness so

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that we can comprehend the communication of Moses

01:14:47.640 --> 01:14:50.420
in Genesis of the one verse two, verse three,

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down in the context of the creation story. Because

01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:56.960
all the biblical writers were not inventing their

01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.560
concepts. They were writing from the inspirations

01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:03.319
of the scriptures. They were writing from the

01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:07.180
verbiage of the scriptures. They were using terminologies.

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They were associated with the writings found

01:15:10.880 --> 01:15:17.659
within the borders of the scriptures. So John

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equally records seven declarations of Jesus about

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himself. as the I Am in what we call the Septuagint

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Bible. The Septuagint has to do with the Greek

01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:36.340
Old Testament, okay? So in the Septuagint, the

01:15:36.340 --> 01:15:40.119
term I Am was translated from two words, ego

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and imai. Now let's look at them, some of them.

01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:50.260
John chapter 14 verse six. John chapter 14 verse

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six. Jesus said to them, I am the way, the truth

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and the life. No one comes to the Father except

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through me. So that I am there is a transliteration

01:16:02.779 --> 01:16:05.859
of the word I am that is found in Hebrew, which

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is higher. Okay? So, John chapter six verse 35

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also, verse 35, verse 35, John six, 35. John

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chapter six verse 35. And Jesus said to them,

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I am the bread of life. So Jesus is not bread.

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He's not physical bread. So if he's not physical

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bread, then he cannot be physical light. Because

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that is the context of the usage of this word.

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That is how the writer has been writing. He who

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comes to me shall never hunger. And he who believes

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in me shall never thirst. So believing in Him

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and never fasting is actually drinking of Him,

01:16:55.090 --> 01:16:58.270
okay? Eating of Him that you may not be hungry

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and you may not fast. Look at verse 41 and verse

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45, you know, same text. Verse 41 and verse 45

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of that same text. Yes, the Jews then complain

01:17:09.489 --> 01:17:12.409
about Him because He said to them, I am the bread

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which came down from heaven. Let's read down.

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42. quickly it is written in the prophets that

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the son of joseph whose father okay let me read

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again and they said is it not jesus is not this

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this jesus son of joseph whose father and mother

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we know how is that then he says i have come

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down from heaven 43 just therefore answer and

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say to them do not mourn among yourselves verse

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44 no one can come to me unless the father who

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sent me draws him and i will raise him Up at

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the last day was 45. It is written in the prophets

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and They shall be taught about taught by God.

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She is making a bold claim here It is written

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in the scriptures That they shall be taught by

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God Therefore everyone who has heard and learned

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from the father comes to me 46 Not that everyone

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has seen the father except the he who is from

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God He who has seen the father verse 47 Once

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I surely I say to you he who believes in me has

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everlasting life 48 I am the bread of life 49

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Your father's at the manner in the wilderness

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and are dead This is a bread which comes down

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from heaven that one may eat of and not die 51

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the last verse I am the bread the living bread

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which come down from heaven if anyone eats of

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this you will live forever and the bread that

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i shall give is my flesh which i shall give for

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the lie of the world so we will see clearly that

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you know he keeps saying i am i am i am so in

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john 8 jesus employed that phrase ego in my several

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times you know speaking of himself speaking of

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himself. So John understood that the Old Testament

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writers wrote concerning that I Am that is in

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the Old Testament. That is the background of

01:19:25.430 --> 01:19:30.989
his writing about Jesus. He wrote with that understanding

01:19:30.989 --> 01:19:34.569
of that I Am. They were writing concerning Jesus.

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And this was because Jesus revealed himself as

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the I Am of the Scriptures. Okay? Let's see that

01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:47.479
John chapter 17 verse 6. We'll see how he linked

01:19:47.479 --> 01:19:50.079
himself to the Eternal Father. John chapter 17

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verse 6. I have manifested your name. What name

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has he manifested? What name did Moses make in

01:19:59.220 --> 01:20:02.859
the wilderness? He made a God that is called

01:20:02.859 --> 01:20:05.899
I Am, right? And Jesus here is saying, I have

01:20:05.899 --> 01:20:08.380
manifested your name to the men whom you have

01:20:08.380 --> 01:20:12.229
given me out of the world. They were yours, you

01:20:12.229 --> 01:20:15.590
gave them to me and they have kept your word.

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Verse 26, jump to verse 26. Verse 26. And I have

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declared to them your name and will declare it

01:20:29.229 --> 01:20:34.569
that a love which you love me may be in them

01:20:34.569 --> 01:20:40.010
and I in them. So he's alluding an eternal union

01:20:40.010 --> 01:20:43.590
with the father here. So the word manifested

01:20:43.590 --> 01:20:47.689
here, okay, him manifesting the name, the word

01:20:47.689 --> 01:20:53.590
manifested here is the Greek word feneru, feneru,

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P -H -A -N -E -R -O, P -H -A -N -E -R -O, which

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implies to reveal or to unveil, to reveal or

01:21:06.659 --> 01:21:12.100
to unveil. So Jesus says he is a manifestation

01:21:12.100 --> 01:21:15.819
of the name of God. He is a revelation of that

01:21:15.819 --> 01:21:21.159
I am. By his use of the phrase ego in my, Jesus

01:21:21.159 --> 01:21:27.439
reveals himself as the I am. John was actually

01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:30.140
explaining from the Old Testament scriptures.

01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:35.899
He was writing his story of Jesus. with the Old

01:21:35.899 --> 01:21:42.119
Testament scriptures in mind. Okay? Especially

01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:44.300
Exodus chapter one, chapter 20, verse one to

01:21:44.300 --> 01:21:46.579
three. Let's look at the Exodus chapter one,

01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:49.680
verse three. Exodus chapter one, chapter 20,

01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:55.560
sorry, chapter 20. Exodus 20, verse one to three.

01:21:59.699 --> 01:22:03.939
Is it one to three? Yes. And God spoke all these

01:22:03.939 --> 01:22:08.899
words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought

01:22:08.899 --> 01:22:12.340
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house

01:22:12.340 --> 01:22:14.859
of Bandajor. It sounds similar to what Jesus

01:22:14.859 --> 01:22:17.939
was claiming. You shall have no other gods before

01:22:17.939 --> 01:22:24.739
me. Shall have no other gods before me. All right,

01:22:24.859 --> 01:22:29.939
let's look at the same conversation that Moses

01:22:29.939 --> 01:22:34.840
later was speaking to the same nation, Hebrews,

01:22:35.060 --> 01:22:42.359
Deuteronomy 5 verse 6 and 7. You know, the phrase,

01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:46.739
the Lord thy God, was referenced in the Torah

01:22:46.739 --> 01:22:49.520
to describe a singularity of the entity. We're

01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:52.539
trying to see the union of Jesus and God, okay?

01:22:52.939 --> 01:22:55.800
In his expression of that particular light, I

01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:58.779
am that he's been expressing. So I am the Lord

01:22:58.779 --> 01:23:01.840
your God. who brought you out of the land of

01:23:01.840 --> 01:23:07.520
Egypt out of the house of bondage all right so

01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:09.960
in his expression and saying the Lord thy God

01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:16.359
he was referring to a unity that word the Lord

01:23:16.359 --> 01:23:22.060
thy God is is a unity is a word that describes

01:23:22.060 --> 01:23:26.020
a singular entity okay Deuteronomy 6 verse 4

01:23:26.020 --> 01:23:40.529
also betrays is that So the author presents God

01:23:40.529 --> 01:23:42.789
using two Hebrew words, Yahweh, that is Jehovah,

01:23:43.329 --> 01:23:47.109
and Elohim, which is God. Earlier in Exodus 3,

01:23:47.449 --> 01:23:49.670
we had referenced the same word, Yahweh, we saw

01:23:49.670 --> 01:23:52.869
it. Exodus 3 verse 10 to tattoo, we see it there.

01:23:53.489 --> 01:23:55.430
So the context of the author's discussion in

01:23:55.430 --> 01:24:00.779
Exodus 3. of the word name was derived from the

01:24:00.779 --> 01:24:04.140
name name because Moses was asking for the name

01:24:04.140 --> 01:24:07.680
of God all right what should I tell them Exodus

01:24:07.680 --> 01:24:11.380
3 please what should I tell them is your name

01:24:11.380 --> 01:24:18.760
let's say Exodus 3 let's say verse 14 verse 14

01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:24.460
yes and also to them three Moses I am who I am

01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:26.920
And he said thus you shall say to the children

01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:32.460
of Israel, I am has sent me to you Okay, so in

01:24:32.460 --> 01:24:34.340
the context of the conversation here the word

01:24:34.340 --> 01:24:38.239
name Of course is derived from the Hebrew word

01:24:38.239 --> 01:24:41.000
shame a word used to describe a person's character

01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:45.579
and The use and also used for an office also

01:24:45.579 --> 01:24:47.260
has been teaching us about the name of Jesus

01:24:47.260 --> 01:24:50.020
the name of God the name of Jesus Okay, so the

01:24:50.020 --> 01:24:53.600
use of the phrase I am in verse 14 Was derived

01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:55.520
from the Hebrew word higher as we saw player

01:24:55.520 --> 01:25:00.319
on higher Previously which implies to exist to

01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:04.819
become or to exist or to become So the first

01:25:04.819 --> 01:25:08.060
I am in today's language or we translated to

01:25:08.060 --> 01:25:10.720
today's English language Will be written this

01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:14.079
way. I am what I am and I will be what I will

01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:22.239
be Okay, I Am what I am and I will be what I

01:25:22.239 --> 01:25:31.539
will be. So Moses was revealed a God that is

01:25:31.539 --> 01:25:37.479
called Ayam. And in his revelation of the Ayam

01:25:37.479 --> 01:25:41.979
was towards the goal that that Ayam will exist

01:25:41.979 --> 01:25:47.039
and follow him through the redemption of the

01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:49.699
children of Israel from Egypt. I wanted to see

01:25:49.699 --> 01:25:51.100
what I'm trying to draw the line I'm trying to

01:25:51.100 --> 01:25:54.800
draw here. Moses had a revelation of God, that

01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:58.380
is, I Am, that will work together with Moses

01:25:58.380 --> 01:26:00.260
for the redemption of the children of Israel

01:26:00.260 --> 01:26:04.420
from Egypt. And when Jesus came in the flesh,

01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:08.920
also for the work of redemption, he revealed

01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:12.140
himself as the I Am for what purpose? For the

01:26:12.140 --> 01:26:17.000
purpose of redemption. So we can see the unification

01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:23.109
of this concept of God being one in purpose,

01:26:23.630 --> 01:26:27.289
okay? God being one. So in other words, the name

01:26:27.289 --> 01:26:31.029
Yahweh will be interpreted to imply redemption

01:26:31.029 --> 01:26:36.210
in Exodus 6 verse 1 to 6 to 8 in all the contextual

01:26:36.210 --> 01:26:38.869
application to the children of Israel. We see

01:26:38.869 --> 01:26:43.489
that it is implied to redemption to save and

01:26:43.489 --> 01:26:48.000
to deliver. However, In the context of Israel,

01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:53.479
the salvation of the nation of Israel. So God

01:26:53.479 --> 01:26:57.180
revealed what he will become to Israel, that

01:26:57.180 --> 01:27:02.000
is in salvation. However, however, Moses was

01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:03.760
the one who led the congregation of Israel out

01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:08.859
of Egypt. So Moses used the phrase, thy Lord,

01:27:08.939 --> 01:27:12.380
thy God, was in view of him working in partnership

01:27:12.380 --> 01:27:15.340
with God to bring the children of Israel out

01:27:15.340 --> 01:27:20.420
of Egypt. So in scriptures apart from the word

01:27:20.420 --> 01:27:24.119
Yahweh, we see the word Elohim meaning unification.

01:27:24.460 --> 01:27:26.920
The word Elohim is generic term used for God.

01:27:27.420 --> 01:27:31.439
It is also referred to deities and for angels.

01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:33.859
I wouldn't want to go deeper into this because

01:27:33.859 --> 01:27:39.140
it is crucial but it is important in helping

01:27:39.140 --> 01:27:54.449
us understand the conversation at hand. Now let's

01:27:54.449 --> 01:28:03.949
look at what Jesus said in Matthew 28 Okay, and

01:28:03.949 --> 01:28:08.590
I want you to unify this thought to Moses He

01:28:08.590 --> 01:28:12.850
was the I am the work with Moses for the redemption

01:28:12.850 --> 01:28:17.649
of the nation of Israel When he arrived on earth

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for the work of redemption he revealed himself

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as that I am to redeem humanity. Matthew 28 verse

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20, we'll see that in relation to the work of

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ministry, okay, Jesus established that same concept

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of I am. Matthew 28 verse 20, it says, teaching

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them to observe all things that I have commanded

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you and know what I am with you always, even

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to the end of the age. And this is contextual

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in the work of ministry that we also will do

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on the earth. So he pointed out that the God

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of Israel, the I Am was there with them. Okay,

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we'll see similarly in John chapter 12, verse

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46, you know, the expression of that. So again,

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as we conclude this session, for us to put a

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stop. Let's observe the order of creation in

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Genesis chapter 1 verse 4 and 5. After going

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around to establish that Jesus is that light,

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and seeing how he connects himself to God, he

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connects himself to the Father for the purpose

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of redemption, and the light itself shines in

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the darkness, talking about redemption. Okay?

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Now Genesis 1 verse 4, and God saw the light,

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and it was good, and God divided the light from

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the darkness. and god called the light day and

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the darkness he called night so the evening and

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the morning were the first day okay the evening

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and the morning were the first day that is god's

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plan god's plan is to create order okay and this

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order his intention is to bring about a separation

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between the darkness and the light That would

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be that is what would be good that is saying

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it is good. Okay I'm also the light that it was

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good. So God intention is to see that that light

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Distinct or seen in its effect on the earth that

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is in men Separating them from the darkness That

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is what is good. That is what is fitting. This

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was a middle theme Now when we look through scriptures,

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we'll observe, you know, the contrast, the contrasting

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theme of the gospels in the book of, in the gospel,

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we'll see how, you know, the emphasis were laid

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concerning the light and darkness. And similarly,

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we'll see in the writings of the apostles, many

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times, especially, let's see one contrasting

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fact in 2 Corinthians 6 verse 14, where Paul

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uses this same idea. Let's see it briefly, and

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then we run off for today. 2 Corinthians 6 verse

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14. Yes, 2 Corinthians 6 verse 14 He says do

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not be unequally yoke together with unbelievers.

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All right for what fellowship has righteousness

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and lawlessness and What communion has lied with

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darkness? So Paul was writing here with a concept

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of God's plan and God's course from the beginning

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that God in God's plan He was intending to bring

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about a separation between light and darkness

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And remember how we've been defining darkness

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as chaos. Remember how we've been defining darkness

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as what? As lawlessness. And God's desire is

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a righteousness will be separated from what?

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From lawlessness. So he describes the believers

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as righteousness. He described the believers

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as light in Christ. He described Christ, you

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know, the believers as what? As righteousness,

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light, as Christ, and as a temple of God. This

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description are qualified terminologies or pointers

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to narratives in the Hebrew text because as I

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keep on saying, the writers of the New Testament

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scriptures are now writing a different story

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from what we found in the Old Testament scriptures.

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So this shows a clear division between light

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and darkness as pointed out in creation theology,

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which is an important thing for us to understand,

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okay? It's an important thing for us to understand.

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Finally, for now, for now, as we rest, let's

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take this last text, 2 Corinthians 4 verse 1.

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2 Corinthians 4 verse 1. Tomorrow when we come,

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we'll just try to conclude on this idea of creation,

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looking at what was the plan as expressed in

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scripture. As we view the divination of the terminology

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so far, We'll be able to tie it together and

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see okay. What was God's plan? Understanding

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God's plan from the beginning as a separation

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between light and darkness and how God will implement

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this Especially in his salvation work will help

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settle many many of the ambiguity we have about

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the scriptures So when we begin to read the scriptures

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with that background in mind We will not deviate

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from the initial plan of God from the beginning

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And consistently we will see how the story unfolds

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until the time of Jesus Christ and how we ourselves

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are brought into the matter. Because we're going

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to see how this was communicated in the time

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of Abraham. We're going to see how this was communicated

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in the time of the nation of Israel when they

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were coming out of Egypt. We're going to see

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how, you know, this was tied down to the church

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era and how you and I have brought into this

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conversation and how we partner with God. Who

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is the I Am? and bringing about the manifestation

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of his plans and his purpose on the earth says

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therefore since we have this ministry as we have

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received mercy do not lose heart but we have

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renounced the hidden things of shame what are

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these hidden things of shame that we've renounced

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not working in craftiness or handling the word

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of god deceitfully But by manifestation of truth,

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commanding ourselves to every man's conscience

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in the sight of God was three. But even if our

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gospel is veiled, who is it veiled to? It is

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veiled to those who are perishing. How are they

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perishing? They are perishing fundamentally because

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their minds, okay, whose minds the God of this

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age has blinded who do not believe Less what

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the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ

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who is the image of God should shine on them

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Okay So to shine on them. Yes So we do not preach

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ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves

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once I run for Jesus Christ For it is that it

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is the God who commanded where did he command?

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He commanded that in what in Genesis of the one

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right? For it is the God who commanded light

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to shine out of darkness who has shone in our

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hearts So we see the operation of that light

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in the heart of men. All right to give the light

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Who has shone in our hearts? To give the light

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of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face

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of Jesus Christ Hallelujah So what I want to

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bring to our notice, before we put the pause

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and continue tomorrow, is that the conversation

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in Genesis was actually the communication of

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God's plan, especially the plan of redemption.

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And in that redemption is communicated in figures

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of speech, is communicated in what? In terminologies

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that when we go through scriptures we will see

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consistency in the communication of God. there's

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clarity in God's communication right from the

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beginning and we will discover that Genesis 1

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verse 1 verse 2 verse 3 and all the conversation

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in creation story when we tie it up together

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we will discover that the creation story was

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actually redemption story hallelujah we appreciate

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you being here today we hope you carried this

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word with you throughout your week Don't forget

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