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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. We will continue from where we stopped

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yesterday. And we try to look at a number of

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things. Fundamentally, we noted that context

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is very important. And we said the very ministry

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we're talking about is hinged upon the truth

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of God's words. Are we together? You are going

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to be laying a wrong emphasis if we lack understanding

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of the essence of scripture. We noted that first,

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that if you are studying any passage of the Bible,

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then you need to bear in mind that first and

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foremost, there is something we call the canonical

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context. And we said is the apex. Everything

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you ever read in this Bible must submit to it.

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We said that you cannot read any portion of this

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Bible and it contradicts that. And you said you

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have actually understood what you have read.

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We said this Bible has a unified plot line, have

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a unified storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

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It's about the subject of salvation. and true

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faith in Christ Jesus. In between narratives,

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you will see the thought of men, you will see

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the devil spoke, and you'll be seeing that everything

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is to come against this storyline. So in every

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part of this Bible, you will see these two things.

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You will see one, for example, light and darkness.

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Because once you have salvation through faith

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in Jesus Christ, you will definitely have characters,

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attitudes, statement that will always negate

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that. Are we together? In history, we have seen

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that. Righteousness and unrighteousness, as I

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said, light and darkness. Amen. You will see

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that faith and the law, these are, you will continue

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to see that. So, which means that if you say

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you are speaking for God, and you are saying

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that you are doing the will of God, then every

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will of God is defined by a unified message.

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And that message is a message of salvation, is

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a message of the love of God, is a message of

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the character of God showing his benevolence,

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showing his mercy to mankind. Anything you read

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and you see is God that deviates from these thoughts.

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That means you are out of context. Are we together?

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And we saw that all scripture is given by the

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inspiration of God. We saw also that no prophecy

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of this scripture is of man's initiative, is

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of man's private interpretation. He said, everything

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you see has been inspired by God. The Holy Spirit

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moved holy men to write it. And we try to make

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a distinction. The fact that it is written in

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the Bible doesn't mean that we have made this

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distinction here in this church over and over.

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And we said it's different. which Pastor Fred

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noted very clearly that there is different between

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the act of the writing, are we together, and

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the content of it. We said everything written

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here was actually inspired by God, but it's not

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everything that is actually documented came from

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God, are we together? So, That means if not everything

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in this Bible came from God, it necessitates

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that we interpret accurately so that we will

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not carry the attribute of Satan and we'll put

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it on God. Are we together? That is a deformation

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of character. We will not carry attitude of a

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fool, attitude of evil, and place it on God's

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character. And remember, because this Bible fundamentally

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is about Christ, and Christ himself laid the

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model of how we should interpret the scriptures.

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In Luke 24, 25, 26, 27, O ye foolish ones, law

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of heart to believe all that the prophet hath

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spoken, in all that the prophet hath spoken,

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or not Christ to have suffered these things and

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to enter into his glory and say beginning at

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Moses and all the prophets he expounded were

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explained unto them the things concerning himself

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so he shows us a pattern that is and we saw that

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from Genesis to Revelation is concerning the

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Christ and so that is the nature of how we should

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read Bible the Bible was not given for you for

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for wealth creation you do man is already ingenious

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to know how to make I mean God has already endowed

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man naturally you understand to know how to be

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creative and make better use of the available

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resources are we together Amen. Yes. And so there

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must be a parity. There must be a sacredness.

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And so we noted that he said from childhood,

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second Timothy, chapter three, and that from

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childhood, that has known the holy scriptures.

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Please, I want you to know that word holy means

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set apart. That means these words are not like

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other scriptures. Are you with me? There are

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many other manuscripts, but this manuscript is

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holy. Are we together? Thou has known the holy

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means set apart, sacred writings. The sacred

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writings means that you can compare them So when

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I'm talking about the character of God the things

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of God the things of the spirit Don't bring natural

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things. They might be good, but they are not

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the same level Are we together? They are not

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at the same level Anywhere the Holy Spirit Is

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like for example now we are gathering here Brother

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this meeting Can never be compared with any meeting

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That is not of God on earth no matter how excellent

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Name it This is what makes it holy you say wherever

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two or three are gathered in my name dear. I

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am in their midst Do you know what it means?

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because that means the gathering of believers

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because of the name of jesus has a sacredness

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that it must be it must it must it must be revealed

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clearly in your heart you can't compare it you

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understand with any meeting not united nation

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it's not as honorable it's very important united

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nation Meeting with Donald Trump meeting with

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any leader on a political meeting or whatever

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the president of your country meeting whatever

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meeting they are important But sir, they are

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not at the same importance with the meeting of

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believers No, if you understand this you're going

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to be a good servant of God So I don't want to

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tomorrow as you continue to be making some careless

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statements Some statement that that shows that

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you are not well taught. No No And that is why

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the Word of God is sacred the Church of God is

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sacred The things of God is sacred in the Sun

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They are not at the same level And that is where

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I'm trying to start from there. We look at immediate

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context. And we saw a lot of things. We said

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it's important that you pay attention to the

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surrounding verses. Don't be picking verses anyhow.

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When this Bible was written, there was no verses,

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there was no, in fact, there was no spaces. It

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is, we have these commas and punctuations and

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space, they are English language. It's not in

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the original. Meaning, the very text in which

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those truths were communicated. So don't just

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be picking verses, they are thoughts. And that's

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why you must follow the author's thoughts. As

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we said, the reason why you have to pay attention

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to that is that because you don't the lives of

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men the eternal destiny of men depends on the

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right interpretation of these words yesterday

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we saw that that error cannot bet new life no

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matter how good you are pocketing message and

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shout this is the glory of god no sir no sir

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it's not today that prophet started following

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for something that looks like the glory of god

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somewhere so alien and say surely this is a lot

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anointed but it's not there it's not by big chest

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you understand I hope you know the world has

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its glory when the devil tempted Jesus he said

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he showed him the glory of the world so that

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world has glory are we together so it is important

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that we pay attention Men cannot develop. You

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cannot mature believers with error. No, sir.

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The reason why we are seeing all kinds of somebody

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have stayed in church, you understand? For decades.

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But when the person speaks and you are just wondering,

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wait a minute. He said he gave to his life in

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the 1990s. This is about how many years now.

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Why is he speaking like that? That means he has

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not been hearing certain, I mean the truth that

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he ought to. So that's why we have to pay attention.

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We now look at and say it again. We have the

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literary context and we saw that God speaks,

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can reveal his thoughts, his will through cultures.

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We saw historical and cultural context. We saw

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geographic context, that geography can speak.

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God have used geography to reveal his will, to

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reveal his thought. And we saw that geography

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explained many times. We saw yesterday salvation,

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bondage, slavery in the spirit, right? Are we

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together? Yes Then we saw the supernatural context

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that as believers we must not be naive That this

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world is just material. Sorry, sir. That's not

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what the Bible says that this material world

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always interacts with the spirit world and There

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are influences and that's why Paul will remind

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us it is upon his understanding that he said

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That the weapon though we live what in the flesh

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we do not wage war after the war after the flesh

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So there are principalities and powers is a ruler

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they are ruling territories While we understand

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so you must understand the understanding there

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is an understanding so when you see the stars

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and the moon in the Sun Don't just be thinking

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it's just science or astronomy. You have to read

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carefully because in those days, the view, the

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worldview of the Bible writers, they have, they

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are heavily influenced by the spiritual. So they

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use those bodies, elements, hosts of heavens.

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in the sun as symbols, elements that tell about

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the spiritual or the spirit beings. We saw it

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yesterday. And when we move, we try to start

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to understand what we call how the Bible has

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been taken out of context and then It was used

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maliciously and it was abused. We started by

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slavery in America. We saw about the slave Bible,

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how men can be cruel. And I'm not trying to scare

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you. Let me tell you, you're going to face persecution,

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but more of the persecution will come from church

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people. It's not today's are started it will

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come from people holding a Bible not people who

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doesn't even believe in God Are we together?

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Yes They're the first people to call you false

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prophet while they are the first prophet They're

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the first people to call you names That is the

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idea and that's the reason why I want to suggest

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to you if it is God you want to You are following

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please. I'm begging you from today as you are

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moving in this meeting please Don't be so sensitive

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about your reputation. Let me say it again Don't

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be sensitive about your what? about your reputation

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hmm, I will show you Jesus said a A servant is

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all greater than his master the context of that

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He was saying that if they have persecuted me,

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they have called me many names, they will also

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do what? They will also call you those names.

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That's why he say, a what? A servant is no greater

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than his teacher. Mean that whatever was done

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to him, be sure it will be done to you. Are we

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together? Hallelujah. And that's the reason why

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we have to sustain a level of conviction in the

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world for us to be able to move on. Amen. So

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let me just highlight some few things about what

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we started on the issue of Slavery America and

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the text. I've already given you some text. So

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I'll just pick from just what I've given you,

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just one or two texts, and then we will interpret

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it based in the light, I mean, in the light of

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what we did yesterday. Are we together? Looking

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at the larger context, which is a canonical context,

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and we'll look at the immediate context. and

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if the text require us, we will look at the geographic

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context, we'll look at the literal context or

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the supernatural context. Are we together? And

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we see where those scriptures have been weep

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on eyes. So today we're going to do a lot of

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heavily on Bible interpretation using those thoughts

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we shared yesterday. Amen. Genesis chapter 9.

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So this is one of the texts that was used to

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promote slavery. Genesis chapter 9 verse 18.

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And remember, those who promoted slavery are

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not just church members who, as I said, they

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are professors of theology. You understand? So

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some of the people you are going to face are

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people who have certificates. Are we together?

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Yes. Genesis chapter nine, verse 18. Genesis

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chapter nine, verse 18. Now the sons of Noah

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who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.

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And Ham was a father of Canaan. Verse 19, these

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three were the sons of Noah. And from these,

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the whole earth was populated. And Noah began

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to be a farmer and he planted a vineyard. Then

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he drank of the wine and was drunk and became

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uncovered in his tent. Verse 22. I'm reading

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from the New King James. And Ham, the father

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of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and

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told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth

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took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders

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and went back and covered the nakedness of their

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father. Their faces were torn away. They did

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not see their father's nakedness. Noah awoke

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from his wine and knew that his younger, his

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younger, Amen. Shall I continue? Verse 24. Verse

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25, then he said, "'Course be canon. A servant

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of servant, he shall be to his brethren.'" Hallelujah.

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Are we together? So these Southern pro -slavery

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theologians, they claim that black people were

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the descendants of Ham. Black people were the

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descendants of Ham and therefore had been cursed.

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They are the descendants of Ham and therefore

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had been cursed. They claim that God had divinely

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ordained the subjugation of black people. They

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said that just as Cain had a mark, you know,

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when Cain did what he did, Genesis chapter four,

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you know, the Bible says that God make a mark

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on him, right? And so they said just like when

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Cain did sinful things and then they make a mark

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on him, so that the name came. In Hebrew means

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dark or black. The name ham means dark or black.

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I'm just trying to tell us what they said or

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what they interpreted as ham means dark or black

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or hot bond, something like that. Which signify

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a mark. So they said that that dark skin, is

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a mark of the curse on the dark skinned people

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of Africa. So not even every part of Africa is

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a dark skinned people is a curse. Now what we

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want to do is that is to look at the claim in

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the sun contextually. First and foremost, just

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that, I mean, you just read it now. You must

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have noted that The curse was not on Ham. That's

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the first thing, right? It was not on Ham. It

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was on one of his sons, which is Canaan. So if

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Ham, I don't know how, because you know, at that

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moment, Canaan, I'll show you because from The

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name Ham seems to promote their narrative. Because

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at that time we didn't develop yet so much on

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the understanding of names. So they just covered

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and said Ham in Hebrew means dark. Because you

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can a canon doesn't, this name does not go close

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to dark. So that's why they moved to harm, because

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they want to paint a narrative. But that's the

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first thing for when you read, because it wasn't

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a harm. Because if it was harm that was caused,

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then that means all his descendants, not just,

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I mean all his sons, the descendants of his sons,

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not just one of them would have been cursed.

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So it's Kanan that was cursed. He said, a servant

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of servant shall be to his brethren. So that

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word they use is servant of servant. That's why

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you say, okay, you have to be perpetual servant

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all the rest of your life because you are the

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descendants of him. Now, as I said, in the study

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of names, you understand, in fact, up to now,

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we don't know what actually, what is the meaning

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of ham in the sun, because it has no roots or

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related to the word dark in Hebrew or any Semitic

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language. I mean, any, it's not just only Hebrew,

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any Semitic language. Ham is not closely, they

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are not, they are not related. There's no any

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name. either dark or black that is related to

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ham at all in Hebrew, or any Semitic language,

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none. So which means that up to now, no one can

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categorically tell you exactly what a ham exactly

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mean. Are we together? Even Kanan curse was due

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to his misconduct. It was not because of his

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skin color. Although they are saying that it

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is a curse. The skin color is a mark of the curse.

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So the descendants of Canaan, again, we know

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them because the Bible clearly tells us that

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descendant. They are the Canaanites in the Middle

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East. They are not in Africa. Amen. because they

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are not lost. We can follow them. You understand

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what I'm saying? Yes. We can follow through the

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descendants. So this means that this doctrine,

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as I said, was just used to justify the enslavement

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of the Dasken people and therefore it is fabricated.

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And as I said, because at that time they are

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looking for any word. that will look closely

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to something that they want to justify and that's

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why they are using harm but as you said harm

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was not the one curse hallelujah this one is

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simple because you can just read through in a

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sign and just get what exactly is saying okay

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let's go to the other ones that looks a little

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bit much more work that we need to do Ephesians

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chapter 6, we said they also use a number of

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texts in the New Testament. Ephesians chapter

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6. So let me just read those verses that they

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use also in the New Testament. Ephesians chapter

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6 verse 5. Ephesians 6 verse 5. Born servant,

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that is a word. uh that translation you slaves

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be obedient to those who are your masters according

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to the flesh with fear and trembling in sincerity

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of heart as to christ in sincerity of heart as

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to what as to christ hallelujah yes so again

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um Colossians chapter 3. Go to Colossians chapter

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3 verse 22. Colossians 3 22. Born servant obey

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in all things your servant according to the flesh

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not with eye service as men's pleasers for the

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sincerity of heart fearing God. Titus chapter

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2 verse 9. Titus chapter 2 verse 9. Exalt bond

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-servants to be obedient to their own masters,

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to be well -pleasing in all things, not answering

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back. They love these titles. Hallelujah. So

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these are the texts they use. Another one is

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in Philemon. We're going to E2, in the sun, in

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Philemon, but we're coming to that. Now, these

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theologians, these pro -slavery theologians heavily

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weaponized the New Testament also, particularly

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these portions that I have read. They used these

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verses to preach total submission, arguing that

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rebelling against a master was a sin. against

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God. Remember yesterday I told us what they did,

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particularly this apostle to the slave, Jones,

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right? He said because if we, we don't need just

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to leave them, you understand, because they targeted

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first the people at the time of authority so

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that they can support and support the slavery.

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But then they say cut, no. If we just ensure

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that the people are the authorities, they are

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the ones that like slavery and they are subjugating

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them, the thing is still, they will be doing

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their work, but they will be doing it grudgingly.

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So how do we also, not just the top, but come

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to the sleeve? Let's first and foremost preach

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Christ, let them be born again. That way we can

00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.079
teach them and psychologically to be completely

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obedient so that they see the slavery itself

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as the will of God. So one of these is what they

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did here and so they use this text of the Apostle

00:32:24.069 --> 00:32:26.509
Paul particularly because these are all texts

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of Apostle you understand and they argue that

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the Apostle only regulated slavery now that's

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what he said that there is nowhere that he called

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slavery or he immediately say no we must abolish

00:32:40.670 --> 00:32:46.950
this no he only regulated it He only regulated

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it. Okay, so let's go to efficiency. Let's look

00:32:51.849 --> 00:32:57.549
at the context. First and foremost, let's look

00:32:57.549 --> 00:33:00.450
at the context of efficiency. Let's start from

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here five, because I told you we are trying to

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look at the immediate context. You might need

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to move across chapters. Are we together? Ephesians

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chapter five, because that's where the discussion

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starts. Or will I say somehow, because it started

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from chapter four, actually. Paul was talking

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about love and use God as an example, as the

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model. So he's talking about love work. That's

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the foundation, love work. So you see, by understanding

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the context already, You already dismantled that

00:33:42.589 --> 00:33:46.009
that is not what Paul is saying. Because there

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is no how you are talking about love work and

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you support slavery. Slavery is not love. It's

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subjugation. It's inhumane treatment. Are we

00:33:56.390 --> 00:34:02.470
together? It's not love work. So are you in chapter

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five? Maybe we'll just start chapter five is

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okay. Chapter five verse one. Therefore, be imitators

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of God as their children, and walk in love."

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And then he didn't leave you to what to be wondering,

00:34:27.289 --> 00:34:29.570
what exactly are we to what? Which love? He's

00:34:29.570 --> 00:34:33.309
on an open ending. He clearly gave you the model.

00:34:34.369 --> 00:34:40.750
He said, as who? As Christ also has loved us.

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How did he love us? He said, and he has given

00:34:45.269 --> 00:34:50.449
himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God

00:34:50.449 --> 00:34:55.789
for his sweet smelly aroma. The opposite is what

00:34:55.789 --> 00:35:01.750
the slave owners were doing. They are exploiting

00:35:01.750 --> 00:35:05.570
other humans. They are not sacrificing, rather

00:35:05.570 --> 00:35:09.289
they are exploiting because he gave us Christ

00:35:09.289 --> 00:35:16.679
as the model. Love as dearly beloved children.

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Are we together? And work in love as Christ also

00:35:22.699 --> 00:35:27.260
has loved us, given himself. So all through what

00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:31.719
we'll be reading from here is about love, how

00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:37.500
to show love to one another. And the model is

00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:43.449
the love of Christ. We were helpless in trouble.

00:35:43.449 --> 00:35:47.309
He came to save us. He did not come to exploit

00:35:47.309 --> 00:35:52.909
us for his own benefits Are we together? We were

00:35:52.909 --> 00:35:59.150
to die. He died on our place We were harassed

00:35:59.150 --> 00:36:03.730
by the devil remember as many as a Partakers

00:36:03.730 --> 00:36:06.650
of flesh and blood he say he partake the same

00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:10.920
why he said that he might test dead And why will

00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.840
he die? He said that he might destroy him. Who

00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.480
has the power of death? That is the devil. And

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:25.500
why is it so? He said, and liberate those who

00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:30.719
have been in all their lifetime. They are in

00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.840
fear. They are in trembling because of that.

00:36:35.190 --> 00:36:38.309
so that means he came to liberate us from the

00:36:38.309 --> 00:36:43.750
harassment of satan in the sun we were perpetually

00:36:43.750 --> 00:36:51.949
in fear of death he came to save us hebrew chapter

00:36:51.949 --> 00:36:56.289
2 verse 14 and 15 he came to save us that is

00:36:56.289 --> 00:36:59.510
why when the spirit of god came into us he said

00:36:59.510 --> 00:37:03.769
you have not received the spirit of bondage to

00:37:03.769 --> 00:37:08.780
do what to fear what you have received, eh? The

00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:14.099
spirit that cried out, Abba, father. So the spirit

00:37:14.099 --> 00:37:18.980
we have received is not the spirit of fear. It

00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:22.000
didn't bring bondage to us, it brought freedom.

00:37:22.619 --> 00:37:26.599
That is the love, not that that exploit a people.

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Are we together? So that's the context. And when

00:37:31.769 --> 00:37:38.530
you continue to read all through to 21, right?

00:37:39.989 --> 00:37:43.590
Talk about fornication in the Psalm, but fornication

00:37:43.590 --> 00:37:47.090
and all uncleanness, covetousness. Listen, all

00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:48.670
these things, do you know that these things is

00:37:48.670 --> 00:37:51.150
not just only a problem to you, it's also a problem

00:37:51.150 --> 00:37:53.809
for the other person? Did you understand what

00:37:53.809 --> 00:37:56.090
I'm trying to say? Yes, because you are harming

00:37:56.090 --> 00:38:01.699
the other person, right? Yes. And then he kept

00:38:01.699 --> 00:38:05.760
saying, these are not befitting of saints. Neither

00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:10.579
fulness and so on and so on. Up until 21, he

00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:13.039
keeps saying, this is what you should be doing,

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verse 18. Do not be drunk with wine and with

00:38:15.860 --> 00:38:18.460
dissipation, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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And then he says, speaking to one another in

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psalms, in hymns and spiritual songs, singing

00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:25.760
and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:31.070
giving thanks always for all things to God. The

00:38:31.070 --> 00:38:33.909
father in the name of Jesus and he says submit

00:38:33.909 --> 00:38:37.010
to one another in the fear of God He was speaking

00:38:37.010 --> 00:38:40.130
to the entire church and then he turned to several

00:38:40.130 --> 00:38:42.510
groups in the church Listen when he turned he

00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:44.889
was not speaking a different thing in the sun

00:38:44.889 --> 00:38:48.170
He just also continued to speak about love. Remember

00:38:48.170 --> 00:38:51.010
he first started addressing the entire church

00:38:51.010 --> 00:38:54.250
As you come together as we are doing things together.

00:38:54.269 --> 00:38:57.070
He now moved to other relationship I hope you

00:38:57.070 --> 00:38:59.969
know that the relationship we have here in the

00:38:59.969 --> 00:39:03.059
church is in different strata. Are we together?

00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.739
Now here we are members of the church, and some

00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:09.199
of us again have another relationship in between

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:10.900
them, which is husband and wife. You understand

00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:13.199
what I'm trying to say? Some has parent and children.

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So there are several kinds of relationship, you

00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:18.860
understand, in within the church. In all the

00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:22.019
relationship, Paul was saying that you must exercise

00:39:22.019 --> 00:39:24.519
love. That's the foundation. And then after talking

00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:27.880
to the general church, he now moved in, verse

00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.409
22, and now talk to wives. Right and say why

00:39:31.409 --> 00:39:36.130
we should submit was 22 to 24. He talked to wife.

00:39:36.329 --> 00:39:39.650
He said this is how you should express love Are

00:39:39.650 --> 00:39:43.750
we together? He says submits in the sun submit

00:39:43.750 --> 00:39:51.070
this submission is not Is not a foundation of

00:39:51.070 --> 00:39:55.789
subjugation. This is love Are we together are

00:39:55.789 --> 00:39:58.550
we together because he gave us a model he said

00:39:58.550 --> 00:40:02.480
as the church submit to Christ. Did the trust

00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.800
submit to Christ to be exploited? So why will

00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.579
you think that the submission Christ is telling

00:40:07.579 --> 00:40:09.900
you to do to your husband is that of exploitation?

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:14.199
How? Where did you get it? The foundation is

00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.880
love. Everything is emanating from love work.

00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:23.019
Are we together? Amen. That is it. So he told

00:40:23.019 --> 00:40:26.800
the wife, submit. As the church submits to Christ,

00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:30.340
as unto the Lord, again Christ's love is the

00:40:30.340 --> 00:40:37.639
model. You now move to the husbands. Next is

00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.519
the husbands. You now tell the husbands, from

00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:47.119
verse 25 to 28, Ephesians 5, 25 to 28, and said,

00:40:47.420 --> 00:40:49.880
you should love your wife. Again, he points them

00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:54.699
to Christ, as Christ loved the church. Are we

00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:57.780
together? As Christ loved the church, this love

00:40:57.780 --> 00:41:00.340
is sacrificial love. I used to tell men, if you

00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:06.360
understand what that means, you will not be everyday

00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.860
looking as if you are a boss in the house. You

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:11.019
won't understand what you are talking about in

00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:17.539
the sun. Because this love, this hardship, this

00:41:17.539 --> 00:41:24.699
leadership is not... because you are wise in

00:41:24.699 --> 00:41:27.099
many instances your wife is wiser than you are

00:41:27.099 --> 00:41:30.000
but that's not what we are talking about here

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.199
because this is an election of grace are we together

00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:36.519
this is an election of grace just the same way

00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.300
we have pastors in this church we are not more

00:41:39.300 --> 00:41:42.840
human than you are we are not actually a more

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:47.420
love before god than you are it's just a a a

00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:49.980
position held by grace are we together that we

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:52.269
will have to leave the church And you are asked

00:41:52.269 --> 00:41:54.989
also to submit to us, you understand? The same

00:41:54.989 --> 00:41:58.570
way as also as unto the Lord. And this submission

00:41:58.570 --> 00:42:02.409
is not exploitation. This submission, you understand,

00:42:02.670 --> 00:42:05.510
is for accountability. This submission is for

00:42:05.510 --> 00:42:07.969
leadership, is for headship. Are we together?

00:42:08.210 --> 00:42:11.429
And that's why he is speaking. And he said, husband,

00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:14.969
love your wife as Christ loved the church. Sacrificial

00:42:14.969 --> 00:42:19.190
love, you understand? Every day, you are protecting,

00:42:19.469 --> 00:42:23.000
you are leading. Means that you are leading you

00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.679
want your wife to know how to love you show it.

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That's leadership You know, it's not a command,

00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:30.619
you know son cries did not come on. That's why

00:42:30.619 --> 00:42:33.539
I have to follow his model It is a you you have

00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:37.480
to love No, he offers some formulas. He did it

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.199
while we're yet sinners and then he said yeah

00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:44.480
By this year all men know that you are my disciple

00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:46.900
if you love one another but first and foremost

00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:50.900
he shared he said He first commanded his love.

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Are we together? In 1 John 3, 16, he will show

00:42:58.420 --> 00:43:01.940
us that this is the way that he's shown his love.

00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:06.480
That he laid down his life for us. So the same

00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:08.579
way, we should do the same. That means we should

00:43:08.579 --> 00:43:11.360
follow his pattern. So if you are the head of

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:16.480
the house, you are to show a leadership, the

00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.159
Christ -like leadership. which means that whatever

00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:21.519
you want a wife to learn whatever because you

00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:23.619
are the leader you have to demonstrate it it's

00:43:23.619 --> 00:43:26.579
not by command here hey hey hey that's a boss

00:43:26.579 --> 00:43:30.699
you know a leader is a one that demonstrate points

00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:33.440
convince show the way you understand i'm saying

00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:35.280
some men we have to start teaching young men

00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.260
in this church you know you don't know how to

00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:39.880
talk you talk anyhow you understand you don't

00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:42.900
know how to how to communicate well you understand

00:43:42.900 --> 00:43:45.860
i said this is what i mean you have to explain

00:43:46.139 --> 00:43:49.119
you are not a boss that you don't need that your

00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.039
subordinate don't need a explanation they only

00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:54.380
say your boss just come in the morning today

00:43:54.380 --> 00:43:57.360
we are going to do this we do that you this one

00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:00.019
you do this one no that's not how to run a house

00:44:00.019 --> 00:44:02.260
you understand it's not a company did you understand

00:44:02.260 --> 00:44:05.219
i'm saying no that's not how to run a house you

00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:08.400
understand before you take a decision you say

00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.340
sit down my love i have some this thing you have

00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:16.050
to explain you understand like a salesman You

00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:18.869
have to show the vision when Jesus will come

00:44:18.869 --> 00:44:21.489
to you. He will not just tell you no He will

00:44:21.489 --> 00:44:24.210
tell you what is going to this is what in fact

00:44:24.210 --> 00:44:27.190
from day one Whatever that you will not get you

00:44:27.190 --> 00:44:30.690
will tell you Whatever you get Jesus will say

00:44:30.690 --> 00:44:32.409
anyone that follow me. This is what this is that

00:44:32.409 --> 00:44:36.070
the conditions will Because it's not a journey

00:44:36.070 --> 00:44:40.130
of deception. It's a journey of clarity But you

00:44:40.130 --> 00:44:45.530
assure you of his commitment to the end That

00:44:45.530 --> 00:44:49.150
is love. Then he moved to children, chapter six,

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verse one. Children, obey your parent in the

00:44:52.690 --> 00:44:55.769
Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and

00:44:55.769 --> 00:44:59.070
mother, which is a first commandment with a promise

00:44:59.070 --> 00:45:02.510
that it might be well with you, and you may live

00:45:02.510 --> 00:45:06.989
long on the earth. You fathers, but before we

00:45:06.989 --> 00:45:10.190
come to fathers, he told children, again, in

00:45:10.190 --> 00:45:13.730
the Lord, the model is Christ's love. Are we

00:45:13.730 --> 00:45:16.150
together? He moved to children. Then he moved

00:45:16.150 --> 00:45:18.909
to fathers verse four. Fathers do not provoke

00:45:18.909 --> 00:45:22.670
your children to rat, but bring them up in the

00:45:22.670 --> 00:45:24.730
training and the admonition of the Lord. This

00:45:24.730 --> 00:45:28.190
is not exploitation. This is clear indication

00:45:28.190 --> 00:45:32.389
of the good of the child. Are we together? This

00:45:32.389 --> 00:45:38.869
is training. This is training. Hallelujah. This

00:45:38.869 --> 00:45:41.690
same word here, bring them up in the training

00:45:41.690 --> 00:45:46.969
is the same word used in second timuti understand

00:45:46.969 --> 00:45:51.409
that word instruction in righteousness verse

00:45:51.409 --> 00:45:53.530
16 all scripture is given by the inspiration

00:45:53.530 --> 00:45:56.650
of god and profitable for doctrine for reproof

00:45:56.650 --> 00:46:00.190
for correction that word instruction in righteousness

00:46:00.190 --> 00:46:03.610
is this same word bring up a child then you know

00:46:03.610 --> 00:46:06.349
that this is one is not about slap here slap

00:46:06.349 --> 00:46:08.889
there slap here slap here slap here that means

00:46:08.889 --> 00:46:16.480
he's talking about instruction teaching Yes,

00:46:17.699 --> 00:46:20.079
they are children. There are times that you will

00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:22.860
need, especially because there are moments you

00:46:22.860 --> 00:46:26.260
will have to give them a spank. The reason is

00:46:26.260 --> 00:46:29.800
because you tell them to do something or you

00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.659
say, don't do this, they repeat it. Don't do

00:46:31.659 --> 00:46:33.380
this, they repeat it. Don't do it, they repeat

00:46:33.380 --> 00:46:38.619
it. If you allow them, they will manipulate you.

00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:44.710
That's where you just give them That is to remind

00:46:44.710 --> 00:46:54.670
them they are under authority. So, and it is

00:46:54.670 --> 00:46:57.409
scriptural. If you read the book of Proverbs,

00:46:57.769 --> 00:47:01.369
there is a book of instruction. There are only

00:47:01.369 --> 00:47:04.289
few verses that talk about the Lord. Are you

00:47:04.289 --> 00:47:06.670
two with me? This is a wisdom, it's not by mistake.

00:47:07.829 --> 00:47:11.889
That means the bulk of the training of a child

00:47:11.980 --> 00:47:16.179
you understand is clearly teaching and instruction

00:47:16.179 --> 00:47:19.659
and may I tell you the first thing that a child

00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:24.440
will learn is from your attitude that is the

00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:27.880
major thing of teaching your lifestyle in the

00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:31.500
house you are joking whatever you do is a useless

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:35.420
one if your attitude does not change your prayer

00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:38.659
life your attitude the way you live with your

00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:41.840
wife these are mandatory modeling is the best

00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:49.719
way of training understand it's first and foremost

00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:55.699
and so he told him then he moved to slaves verse

00:47:55.699 --> 00:48:01.679
five to what verse five to what verse five to

00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:07.780
eight right now this is another form of relationship

00:48:07.780 --> 00:48:11.639
you understand of course so many things listen

00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:14.219
people don't understand when you are reading

00:48:14.219 --> 00:48:18.880
scriptures in the sun when jesus came he came

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:24.179
under the uh what do you call it the roman uh

00:48:24.179 --> 00:48:27.739
will i say rule or coloniality or colonialism

00:48:27.739 --> 00:48:32.460
right because jesus christ's mission did not

00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:35.340
come to overthrow the the government do you understand

00:48:35.340 --> 00:48:37.679
what i'm trying to say That was what the disciples

00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:41.539
thought he came to do. He came to remove the

00:48:41.539 --> 00:48:43.260
Roman government and liberate them and return

00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:45.440
them to those days when their kings were ruling

00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:49.559
them. We see Jesus' mission was different. So

00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:51.760
you kind of expect Jesus came to die, to save

00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.179
us from our sins, and he came, he's trying to

00:48:54.179 --> 00:48:56.980
overthrow the government. That's not why he came.

00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.659
And so just because now he didn't overthrow the

00:49:00.659 --> 00:49:02.780
government, and you now say Jesus is supporting

00:49:02.780 --> 00:49:09.510
colonialism. That means you are confused. Are

00:49:09.510 --> 00:49:13.889
we together? So Paul came and found the eels

00:49:13.889 --> 00:49:22.289
in the society. What he did was to communicate

00:49:22.289 --> 00:49:27.530
that boat, to communicate what they should do.

00:49:31.030 --> 00:49:33.389
He told the servants, they are believers. He

00:49:33.389 --> 00:49:36.610
said, this is how you should treat your own master.

00:49:37.720 --> 00:49:43.280
based according to law, not on eye service. Obedience

00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.780
to them, those who are your masters according

00:49:45.780 --> 00:49:49.019
to the flesh, with fear and trembling, with sincerity.

00:49:50.179 --> 00:49:52.139
The fact that some of them are crude, just the

00:49:52.139 --> 00:49:53.920
same way today, it's not different. Some of us

00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.039
are employed by this thing. How many cruelty

00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:06.239
did you have endured? How many... things that

00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:08.519
your dues has not been paid yet. You didn't go

00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:13.300
and overthrow the university. Did you understand

00:50:13.300 --> 00:50:17.239
what I'm saying? So he's showing them how to

00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:20.980
live life, you understand? Because the fact that

00:50:20.980 --> 00:50:24.659
your university is your enemy, there is a way

00:50:24.659 --> 00:50:27.659
to work with your enemy. He's here in the Bible.

00:50:27.699 --> 00:50:31.300
Yesterday we saw it. You pray for them, you understand?

00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:34.710
He said, by so doing you will heap what call

00:50:34.710 --> 00:50:39.409
of fire in the sun the fact that somebody was

00:50:39.409 --> 00:50:42.949
clear to you he said how you should do things

00:50:42.949 --> 00:50:46.750
to those who do evil to you so paul is teaching

00:50:46.750 --> 00:50:49.469
to these people even though you are servants

00:50:49.469 --> 00:50:53.369
or you are slaves and these people might be cruel

00:50:53.369 --> 00:50:56.630
this is how you should behave but remember he

00:50:56.630 --> 00:50:59.670
didn't stop there he also go to their masters

00:50:59.670 --> 00:51:03.849
themselves are we together He now turned to the

00:51:03.849 --> 00:51:09.349
masters, verse 9. He now said, you and you, masters,

00:51:10.409 --> 00:51:14.050
do the same. Now, say to me, do the same. Do

00:51:14.050 --> 00:51:18.590
the same. Now, this is no way. That means the

00:51:18.590 --> 00:51:21.769
same thing He told the servants to do to their

00:51:21.769 --> 00:51:26.550
masters. He now is saying, you, masters, do the

00:51:26.550 --> 00:51:33.369
same to your slaves. That cannot be a man supporting

00:51:33.369 --> 00:51:43.230
slavery Are we together he said do the same If

00:51:43.230 --> 00:51:45.690
your Bible is not borrowed on the line that place

00:51:45.690 --> 00:51:50.170
because you need it tomorrow he said do the same

00:51:50.170 --> 00:51:55.469
Do the same That means everything is being said

00:51:55.469 --> 00:51:58.289
here is about love walk is the same thing is

00:51:58.289 --> 00:52:00.760
only application at different point You know

00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:04.199
what I'm saying? Different way of relationship.

00:52:07.460 --> 00:52:10.559
Depending on how I'm relating with you. You understand?

00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:19.400
Because Sister Glory is my church member. Are

00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.719
we together? I will relate to her as a pastor.

00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:26.000
You understand? But I can't relate with her as

00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:27.480
her husband. Did you understand what I'm trying

00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:32.539
to say? depending on the relationship, I will

00:52:32.539 --> 00:52:38.019
communicate love in that manner. There is a communication

00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:41.320
of love that Pastor Fred will do to Sister Glory,

00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:44.739
and it's love. Me, if I do it, it's not love.

00:52:46.699 --> 00:52:50.059
It will be lost. Did you understand what I'm

00:52:50.059 --> 00:52:53.840
saying? So, it is a guidance. That's why I told

00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:59.210
you, he said to the masters, do the same. Do

00:52:59.210 --> 00:53:05.449
the same. Things to them. Giving up threatening.

00:53:05.570 --> 00:53:09.690
Did you hear that? He said, you can't threaten

00:53:09.690 --> 00:53:16.710
them. Slavery is based on threats. On compulsion,

00:53:16.989 --> 00:53:26.110
on subjugation. He said, knowing that your own

00:53:26.110 --> 00:53:30.670
master Also is in heaven meaning that in showing

00:53:30.670 --> 00:53:34.909
to them that you must learn from your own master

00:53:34.909 --> 00:53:41.329
Your own master is Christ Yeah, and this master

00:53:41.329 --> 00:53:50.630
this is how he does things Are we together There

00:53:50.630 --> 00:53:56.440
is no what partiality with him This your master

00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:59.679
that you, you the masters must learn is that

00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:05.659
with this master, there is no partiality. With

00:54:05.659 --> 00:54:08.980
this master, he pays you as you work for him.

00:54:09.420 --> 00:54:14.219
He does not exploit you. He is not a partial

00:54:14.219 --> 00:54:19.800
master. You must learn from this master because

00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:29.809
you also have a master. Are we together? This

00:54:29.809 --> 00:54:36.449
is anti -slavery. This is love work. So this

00:54:36.449 --> 00:54:41.769
context, the context of this scripture is not

00:54:41.769 --> 00:54:45.489
slavery, is love. Remember, Pastor Fred told

00:54:45.489 --> 00:54:49.289
us that don't bring a subject that is not a subject

00:54:49.289 --> 00:54:53.090
being discussed. You can learn principle there.

00:54:54.650 --> 00:54:58.769
The context here is love work, not slavery. So

00:54:58.769 --> 00:55:01.590
Paul was not addressing the church. He said,

00:55:01.829 --> 00:55:05.389
hey today we are going to talk about slaves and

00:55:05.389 --> 00:55:12.750
slavery. No, he is discussing love work everyone

00:55:12.750 --> 00:55:20.750
So Paul was giving instruction That how we should

00:55:20.750 --> 00:55:24.210
live is a pastoral letter to the church on how

00:55:24.210 --> 00:55:26.690
we should live the Christian faith That's the

00:55:26.690 --> 00:55:30.010
same thing he did To Colossians because it's

00:55:30.010 --> 00:55:33.030
the same pattern look at Colossians. I'll just

00:55:33.030 --> 00:55:37.650
mention the same pattern Colossians chapter 3

00:55:37.650 --> 00:55:41.070
verse 1 to 17. He also started with the general

00:55:41.070 --> 00:55:45.349
church Talk with them in the sun if they you

00:55:45.349 --> 00:55:48.670
are a you were raised with Christ He said seek

00:55:48.670 --> 00:55:52.909
those things which are above in the Sun We are

00:55:52.909 --> 00:55:56.480
Christ is seated at the right hand of God this

00:55:56.480 --> 00:56:00.400
word above is not talking about the sky in the

00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:03.820
sun it's talking about heaven it's talking about

00:56:03.820 --> 00:56:06.940
the spiritual those things that are spiritual

00:56:06.940 --> 00:56:09.380
that's where you are you say that's where Christ

00:56:09.380 --> 00:56:13.719
is seated right remember this you are raised

00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.880
with Christ uh Ephesians 2 we're raised with

00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.400
Christ seated uh where in the heavies are we

00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.440
together that's this same place you say that's

00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:25.119
where Christ is seated we're sitting with Christ

00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:27.789
here That means what Paul is saying, you should

00:56:27.789 --> 00:56:34.710
do the things that is of your identity, which

00:56:34.710 --> 00:56:42.690
are above. This same word means above. Again,

00:56:42.809 --> 00:56:44.949
he said verse two, set your mind on the things

00:56:44.949 --> 00:56:47.329
above, not on the things on the earth. Listen,

00:56:47.849 --> 00:56:51.989
this word above on earth are figurative. He's

00:56:51.989 --> 00:56:55.800
not talking literature here. Above mean spiritual

00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:02.039
in Christ. On Earth means evil and the flesh.

00:57:02.460 --> 00:57:03.659
You don't understand what I'm saying? He's not

00:57:03.659 --> 00:57:05.599
talking about literature here. That's why when

00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:08.960
you read down, he explained to you exactly what

00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:11.780
he means by above and the things that are on

00:57:11.780 --> 00:57:17.599
the Earth. It's not cars. It's not houses. You

00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:25.130
understand? They are fleshy attitudes. Then verse

00:57:25.130 --> 00:57:26.730
five, look at verse five. He said, therefore

00:57:26.730 --> 00:57:30.829
put to death your members. And then somebody

00:57:30.829 --> 00:57:33.349
will ask, the Bible says we have died. Why is

00:57:33.349 --> 00:57:36.010
he saying we should put to death? You see, this

00:57:36.010 --> 00:57:40.630
word put to death means to render, you understand,

00:57:41.909 --> 00:57:49.590
to render those, remember, this your members

00:57:49.590 --> 00:57:51.670
means your parts of body. Do you understand what

00:57:51.670 --> 00:57:53.369
I'm trying to say? If you say put to death, that

00:57:53.369 --> 00:57:57.030
means you go and court yourself. Amen? Members

00:57:57.030 --> 00:57:59.389
which are on the earth. You understand? That

00:57:59.389 --> 00:58:01.489
means you're part of the body. You understand?

00:58:02.130 --> 00:58:05.730
Members. So when you said put to death means

00:58:05.730 --> 00:58:10.750
behave in your own identity. That's what it means.

00:58:12.070 --> 00:58:16.550
That means to behave according to your identity.

00:58:16.849 --> 00:58:20.730
It means to deny or to deprive. You understand?

00:58:21.750 --> 00:58:25.590
The members on the earth and then he mentioned

00:58:25.590 --> 00:58:27.489
remember we talked about the issue that are on

00:58:27.489 --> 00:58:31.489
the earth Yeah, he said that set your things

00:58:31.489 --> 00:58:34.670
above not on the things on the earth He now mentioned

00:58:34.670 --> 00:58:37.949
the things on the earth fornication uncleanness

00:58:37.949 --> 00:58:41.829
Passion evil desires covetousness adored. You

00:58:41.829 --> 00:58:44.250
know something. These are the things on the earth

00:58:44.250 --> 00:58:46.809
He's saying don't set your eyes on those things

00:58:46.809 --> 00:58:50.829
You should set the things on the things above

00:58:50.989 --> 00:58:54.989
these are the things on earth so you should deny

00:58:54.989 --> 00:58:58.670
your members these things deprive them of these

00:58:58.670 --> 00:59:03.929
things because verse 6 of these things the wrath

00:59:03.929 --> 00:59:07.570
of god is coming upon the sons of disobedience

00:59:07.570 --> 00:59:15.150
in which you yourself once walked and lived in

00:59:15.150 --> 00:59:17.429
them but now you should know you are no longer

00:59:17.429 --> 00:59:20.960
living there you yourself you understand and

00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.820
then he continued he talked about do not lie

00:59:23.820 --> 00:59:27.340
verse 9 to one another these are things on the

00:59:27.340 --> 00:59:33.219
earth verse 11 where there is neither greek nor

00:59:33.219 --> 00:59:37.619
jew he talks about again our life therefore as

00:59:37.619 --> 00:59:42.199
a let of god holy and beloved put on tender mercy

00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:48.760
now these are the things above tender mercy kindness

00:59:50.550 --> 00:59:52.969
Humility, meekness, long -suffering, bearing

00:59:52.969 --> 00:59:57.170
with one another, forgiving one another. If anyone

00:59:57.170 --> 00:59:59.889
has a complaint against another, even as Christ

00:59:59.889 --> 01:00:02.690
forgave you. Christ is the model of the love.

01:00:03.269 --> 01:00:07.269
So you must... You see, this is what he was teaching

01:00:07.269 --> 01:00:12.150
the church. He said the things are both, not

01:00:12.150 --> 01:00:15.889
the things on the earth. Then he came and started

01:00:15.889 --> 01:00:18.369
also the same way that we saw in Ephesians. He

01:00:18.369 --> 01:00:20.550
started dealing with the other relationships

01:00:20.550 --> 01:00:24.349
that are within the church are we together you

01:00:24.349 --> 01:00:27.869
now say wives verse 18 look at verse 18 wife

01:00:27.869 --> 01:00:31.949
submit your husband then verse 19 you say husband

01:00:31.949 --> 01:00:34.349
also you don't turn to husband love your wife

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the same thing we saw verse 20 he turned to children

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he said what children obey your parent in all

01:00:40.389 --> 01:00:43.929
things in the son for this is where please remember

01:00:43.929 --> 01:00:52.460
as we said don't just when you read All things.

01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:55.920
All things is not all things. All things is within

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the context. There's something he mentioned.

01:00:58.500 --> 01:01:03.119
The things on the world. Above. All things. All

01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:07.340
things. All things. Not everything. Both the

01:01:07.340 --> 01:01:14.199
one above and the one on the earth. No! You can't

01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:17.019
carry these all things. These all things is contextual.

01:01:17.750 --> 01:01:26.690
is the old things above. Are we together? And

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then he continued also. After children, he moved

01:01:30.309 --> 01:01:33.409
to fathers, verse 21, right? Fathers do not just

01:01:33.409 --> 01:01:35.989
like we saw. After fathers, then he moved to

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slave, obey your earthly masters. The same thing.

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And then most of us will stop here, right? But

01:01:45.309 --> 01:01:48.400
when you move, he didn't stop there chapter four

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verse one he moved to masters he has not completed

01:01:51.300 --> 01:01:54.320
he must tell these masters he's not everybody

01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:59.260
must hear this he said masters give your bone

01:01:59.260 --> 01:02:03.420
servant what is just and fear is that what slavery

01:02:03.420 --> 01:02:06.639
has been doing these people are evil they remove

01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:10.880
all these verses give your master what is fear

01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:14.019
is what is fear to carry somebody across the

01:02:14.019 --> 01:02:21.230
atlantic and force him to be having sexual intercourse

01:02:21.230 --> 01:02:23.309
or I don't know whether it's immorality intercourse

01:02:23.309 --> 01:02:25.809
or whatever, you understand? To be giving birth

01:02:25.809 --> 01:02:29.510
to babies, breaking families, you understand?

01:02:29.829 --> 01:02:35.349
If you have a big chest like Chris, they will

01:02:35.349 --> 01:02:37.829
carry you, you understand? Even if it's your

01:02:37.829 --> 01:02:40.809
sister, they saw she's also good, they will combine

01:02:40.809 --> 01:02:43.170
you and say you must give birth because they

01:02:43.170 --> 01:02:47.679
want heavy, heavy children. That's evil In the

01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:52.619
Sun is disgusting to think that a pastor a theologian

01:02:52.619 --> 01:03:02.940
has supported this Give them what is just and

01:03:02.940 --> 01:03:05.860
fear knowing that you also have a master in heaven

01:03:05.860 --> 01:03:09.780
We saw it that this master is not saying knowing

01:03:09.780 --> 01:03:12.219
that this master will also deal with you. No,

01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.719
he's saying look at the master you have. This

01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:20.360
master is not a tyrant. This master is one that

01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:24.119
is sacrificial. The lordship of Christ is not

01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:27.260
of servitude. The lordship of Christ is of freedom.

01:03:37.059 --> 01:03:44.340
Go to Titus. Hallelujah. You know Titus is interesting

01:03:44.340 --> 01:03:48.460
in the sun. Titles start with older men. This

01:03:48.460 --> 01:03:51.460
one is telling Titus what to teach in the sun.

01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:54.820
He said I am not here because he said just the

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same way he sent Timothy. He also sent Titus.

01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:04.500
He told Titus in verse two of chapter two. He

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said this is what you should teach in the church

01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:10.039
when you go. This is what you should do. He said

01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.869
to the older men Ask them be sober, be reverent,

01:04:14.190 --> 01:04:17.510
be sound in faith, in love, in patience. Then

01:04:17.510 --> 01:04:19.849
you move to the older. He said to the older women

01:04:19.849 --> 01:04:23.469
in church, tell them this. Teach them this. Older

01:04:23.469 --> 01:04:27.210
women likewise, that they may be reverent in

01:04:27.210 --> 01:04:30.570
behavior, not slanderous, not giving too much

01:04:30.570 --> 01:04:34.489
wine. Teachers of good things. Are we together?

01:04:34.730 --> 01:04:38.590
Vashfor. That they admonish. Then he said, this

01:04:38.590 --> 01:04:42.380
is what you should do. The older women, apart

01:04:42.380 --> 01:04:45.539
that you should teach them to live, ask them,

01:04:45.619 --> 01:04:47.599
because you don't need to go and be teaching

01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:50.460
everybody. As you are teaching these older women,

01:04:50.539 --> 01:04:53.500
ask them to go and teach the younger women. Say

01:04:53.500 --> 01:04:55.739
that they should tell and admonish the younger

01:04:55.739 --> 01:04:59.320
women, first of all. To love their husbands.

01:05:00.219 --> 01:05:05.400
You know, I hear some callous men when they are

01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:08.119
discussing issues. You know, when you remove

01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:13.579
kai, The Bible did not say a woman should love

01:05:13.579 --> 01:05:19.679
a man. The Bible says she should submit. Because

01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:23.320
in his mind, submission means subjugation. Stupid

01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:28.239
man. You see, that's the problem. Remember we

01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.860
already noted that the context of efficient is

01:05:30.860 --> 01:05:34.079
what? It's love work. So the submission is what?

01:05:34.460 --> 01:05:40.409
It's love as well. So when Titus is saying, I

01:05:40.409 --> 01:05:43.289
mean Paul is saying to Titus, tell the older

01:05:43.289 --> 01:05:45.909
women to admonish the younger women, to love

01:05:45.909 --> 01:05:48.710
their husband. What he is saying also is that,

01:05:48.989 --> 01:05:54.949
tell them to submit to their husbands. Are we

01:05:54.949 --> 01:06:04.829
together? See, love is the fruit, fruit, not

01:06:04.829 --> 01:06:11.130
fruits, fruit. of the spirit and it has varied

01:06:11.130 --> 01:06:18.409
what expression love is the fruit of the spirit

01:06:18.409 --> 01:06:24.869
and it has varied expression for the fruit of

01:06:24.869 --> 01:06:32.690
the spirit is not is love and in love there is

01:06:32.690 --> 01:06:38.050
patience in love there is kindness In love, there

01:06:38.050 --> 01:06:40.449
is goodness. Are we together? So when you show

01:06:40.449 --> 01:06:43.130
goodness, what are you showing? Love. If you

01:06:43.130 --> 01:06:45.650
are patient, what are you showing? Love. If you

01:06:45.650 --> 01:06:47.650
have self -control, what are you showing? Love.

01:06:48.250 --> 01:06:50.449
Again, if you are submitting to your husband,

01:06:50.550 --> 01:06:52.489
what are you showing? Love. Do you understand

01:06:52.489 --> 01:06:55.449
what I'm trying to say? Everything is love, only

01:06:55.449 --> 01:07:01.150
that is expressing itself in various ways. So

01:07:01.150 --> 01:07:05.300
when you said, admonish young women to love their

01:07:05.300 --> 01:07:09.940
husband is not contradicting what he said inefficient

01:07:09.940 --> 01:07:22.059
he's just giving it adumkuli hallelujah those

01:07:22.059 --> 01:07:24.260
from northern nigeria understand this greek word

01:07:24.260 --> 01:07:28.159
adumkuli you understand that is i don't know

01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:32.719
how to explain this adumkuli he's giving it as

01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:38.360
a whole, you know what I'm saying? Hallelujah.

01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:45.219
So he now move then to younger men, you know

01:07:45.219 --> 01:07:48.360
what I'm saying? After telling the older women

01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:50.480
to admonish the younger women, to love their

01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:53.260
husbands, but also to love their children, to

01:07:53.260 --> 01:07:56.699
be discreet, to be chaste, homemakers, you know

01:07:56.699 --> 01:08:03.320
what I'm saying? Good, obedient, to their own

01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:10.039
husbands that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:17.539
Homemakers, you understand? Homemakers is not

01:08:17.539 --> 01:08:25.760
saying house help. Homemakers, you understand?

01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:34.189
If you enter to a house of a woman that is making

01:08:34.189 --> 01:08:45.569
her home. You will see it. It means she's a coordinator.

01:08:46.409 --> 01:08:49.689
She coordinates things. Things are not scattered.

01:08:50.189 --> 01:08:59.329
They are not upside down in the sun. That does

01:08:59.329 --> 01:09:01.270
not mean she is the one that necessarily have

01:09:01.270 --> 01:09:07.770
to do it. But she is making it. And we were not

01:09:07.770 --> 01:09:09.670
treating on this. I will not explain this one

01:09:09.670 --> 01:09:12.949
today. That's not what we are dealing with today.

01:09:14.970 --> 01:09:18.390
So that's exactly what he continued to speak.

01:09:18.829 --> 01:09:20.770
Then he turned to the young man, look at it.

01:09:21.250 --> 01:09:24.989
Likewise, you see likewise again. Likewise, that

01:09:24.989 --> 01:09:28.699
is in the same manner. That means he's just telling

01:09:28.699 --> 01:09:31.380
each one to do the same thing, you understand,

01:09:31.939 --> 01:09:37.159
according to his own position. Likewise, exhort

01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:39.619
the young men to be sober -minded. You see, he

01:09:39.619 --> 01:09:45.140
had already told the older men to be sober. Do

01:09:45.140 --> 01:09:48.840
you want something? He said to be sober -minded

01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:53.279
in all things, showing yourself to be a pattern

01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:58.229
of good work, in doctrine. Showing integrity,

01:09:58.750 --> 01:10:01.649
you understand? Reverence, incorruptible. Young

01:10:01.649 --> 01:10:04.510
men don't agree, you understand? People to be,

01:10:04.630 --> 01:10:08.369
that's what he told Timothy. Don't allow your

01:10:08.369 --> 01:10:13.529
youth to be despised, you understand? No, don't

01:10:13.529 --> 01:10:16.029
allow yourself to be looked down upon because

01:10:16.029 --> 01:10:19.649
you are young. Look at what they say that young

01:10:19.649 --> 01:10:24.210
men, you understand? Not talking anyhow. Is it

01:10:24.210 --> 01:10:29.850
the pattern of good works? Inducting. Inducting.

01:10:31.569 --> 01:10:34.949
This is why we are desiring to raise men that

01:10:34.949 --> 01:10:41.090
know God, that are sound. Inducting. In integrity.

01:10:42.029 --> 01:10:46.970
Not swindlers. Not those who are craving always

01:10:46.970 --> 01:10:52.430
to cheat someone. Men of character is an integrity.

01:10:52.670 --> 01:10:57.010
reverence they are incorruptible these are men

01:10:57.010 --> 01:11:02.689
young men this is a desire and the will of god

01:11:02.689 --> 01:11:07.109
then he turned to slaves verse nine and then

01:11:07.109 --> 01:11:12.170
talked to them as well exhort bond -servant to

01:11:12.170 --> 01:11:16.050
be obedient to their masters to be well pleasing

01:11:16.050 --> 01:11:22.159
in all things not in answering back What is trying

01:11:22.159 --> 01:11:26.319
to say that don't be a tyrant also You know,

01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.220
we have even employees today that they are wicked

01:11:29.220 --> 01:11:39.140
than their masters You know something That is

01:11:39.140 --> 01:11:44.260
not submission when your boss is speaking and

01:11:44.260 --> 01:11:49.359
then you are answering back That is not honoring

01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:56.199
Again, when you say all things, it does not mean

01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:01.680
in evil, you understand? In, remember, is a context

01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:03.920
we are talking. If you remove it, it will say

01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:14.939
anything. Are we together? Hallelujah. Fill him

01:12:14.939 --> 01:12:18.880
on. Let's finish with this one, because we need

01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:23.000
to move away from this. So nobody because I have

01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:26.220
seen a lot of people carry this narrative today

01:12:26.220 --> 01:12:30.260
online. They are sharing See that the church

01:12:30.260 --> 01:12:34.220
has supported this thing the church at that Yes,

01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:36.720
we agree a portion of a church have done it but

01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:39.380
don't use the word a church and I want to acknowledge

01:12:39.380 --> 01:12:42.539
I mean admonish you to Don't use those statement,

01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:44.399
you know those statement that because you have

01:12:44.399 --> 01:12:47.079
one experience with somebody you just generalize

01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:52.079
in the Sun Like a lady who has been jilted. All

01:12:52.079 --> 01:12:54.380
men are the same. You understand what I'm trying

01:12:54.380 --> 01:12:56.859
to say? No, don't be speaking like that. You

01:12:56.859 --> 01:13:00.800
understand? We say come for counseling. You refuse.

01:13:01.300 --> 01:13:03.500
You went behind our back. You went and start

01:13:03.500 --> 01:13:07.079
liking the boy. Of course, when the boy displays

01:13:07.079 --> 01:13:10.300
his boyhood. You understand? And then you come

01:13:10.300 --> 01:13:12.680
back and say that's how all men are. You understand

01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:16.000
what I'm saying? That's a boy. We are saying

01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:20.680
all men. No, you have not met a man. You understand?

01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:28.039
All you have been meeting are boys. So I've seen

01:13:28.039 --> 01:13:30.439
all those things and vice versa. You see a man

01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:33.399
just carelessly made. Women, that's how they

01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:35.859
are. You have to handle them that way. You can

01:13:35.859 --> 01:13:40.800
see your mind has been corrupted. Has been corrupted

01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:45.819
by the doctrine of Balaam. The doctrine that

01:13:45.819 --> 01:13:52.340
likes money. You understand? Hallelujah. Doctrine

01:13:52.340 --> 01:13:54.460
that move to control, because that money is moving,

01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:57.479
because they want to control something. Amen.

01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:03.939
Are you in Philemon? Philemon 1. I'm not going

01:14:03.939 --> 01:14:07.439
to read everything, but they use this to support

01:14:07.439 --> 01:14:12.020
this doctrine of slavery also. They call it,

01:14:12.020 --> 01:14:17.159
yesterday I told you, they call it the Christian

01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:26.590
doctrine of slavery. Are we together? Amen. So

01:14:26.590 --> 01:14:30.069
if you start reading from Philemon, they use

01:14:30.069 --> 01:14:33.270
this, they said, Paul sent a runaway slave. He

01:14:33.270 --> 01:14:36.810
said, go back and be the slave you are, in the

01:14:36.810 --> 01:14:41.229
sun. Or Nussemon was back to his master. He said,

01:14:41.289 --> 01:14:45.250
go back, in the sun. That's not what Paul is

01:14:45.250 --> 01:14:48.550
saying. If you read from verse one, talking about

01:14:50.029 --> 01:14:53.229
to Philemon, our beloved brother, and Phileo

01:14:53.229 --> 01:14:58.470
Labora, the beloved Afir, archipelago, and then

01:14:58.470 --> 01:15:02.750
he moved on. And then he started addressing the

01:15:02.750 --> 01:15:10.409
matter downward. Therefore was it, though I might

01:15:10.409 --> 01:15:14.449
be very bold in Christ to command you what is

01:15:14.449 --> 01:15:22.600
fitting, yet, For what? For love what? Hey, are

01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:26.479
we together? For love's sake, I rather appeal

01:15:26.479 --> 01:15:32.300
to you. That's love work. You see how a man is

01:15:32.300 --> 01:15:34.760
demonstrating it? I appeal to you, being such

01:15:34.760 --> 01:15:42.020
a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner

01:15:42.020 --> 01:15:47.180
of Jesus Christ, I appeal to you for my son Onesimus.

01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:49.949
You see how you call him? he did not call him

01:15:49.949 --> 01:15:54.529
his slave, he called him my son whom I have begotten

01:15:54.529 --> 01:15:57.270
while in chains. So that means when he ran away

01:15:57.270 --> 01:16:03.069
they met and he preached Jesus and now he is

01:16:03.069 --> 01:16:06.390
his son in the faith because he was the one who

01:16:06.390 --> 01:16:12.569
led him to Christ. Verse 11, who once was unprofitable

01:16:12.569 --> 01:16:16.130
to you but now is profitable to you and to me.

01:16:16.350 --> 01:16:19.859
I'm sending him back. Now, is he sending him

01:16:19.859 --> 01:16:22.920
back to be a slave again? He said, you therefore

01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:26.659
received him, that is my own heart, whom I wish

01:16:26.659 --> 01:16:33.279
to keep with me. That on your behalf, he might

01:16:33.279 --> 01:16:36.520
minister to me in my change for the gospel. But

01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:40.279
without your consent, I wanted to do nothing

01:16:40.279 --> 01:16:46.399
that your good deed might not be compulsion as

01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:52.609
it were. but voluntary. Verse 15, for perhaps

01:16:52.609 --> 01:16:55.310
he departed for a while for this purpose, that

01:16:55.310 --> 01:16:59.810
you might receive him forever. You will receive

01:16:59.810 --> 01:17:03.069
him for what? Does that look like a servant?

01:17:03.989 --> 01:17:10.529
Does that look like a slave? No. Verse 16, look

01:17:10.529 --> 01:17:16.590
at 16 particularly. He said, no longer as a slave.

01:17:17.069 --> 01:17:24.750
but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially

01:17:24.750 --> 01:17:30.390
to me, but how much more to you both in the flesh

01:17:30.390 --> 01:17:36.430
and in the Lord. Amen. So Paul did not send his

01:17:36.430 --> 01:17:43.229
unassailable back to be enslaved. No, no, he

01:17:43.229 --> 01:17:55.270
is now a brother. Now a brother. So there's no

01:17:55.270 --> 01:17:58.130
how this book, because the book of Philemon is

01:17:58.130 --> 01:18:01.989
not a book of slavery. It's a book of reconciliation

01:18:01.989 --> 01:18:09.409
and love. How we reconcile. That's the book of

01:18:09.409 --> 01:18:15.399
reconciliation. That's what you see. how people

01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:19.039
in dispute can be reconciled. The Bible didn't

01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:22.000
tell us what Onesimus did. We didn't know what

01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:27.479
actually the dabaru he caused in the sun. But

01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:30.699
what we're saying is that, sorry, dabaru means

01:18:30.699 --> 01:18:40.699
the Confucian. We don't know what he did. However,

01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:45.020
for him to end up in prison, to meet Paul that

01:18:45.020 --> 01:18:47.359
means it's something that that is reasonable

01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:49.279
something like that did you hear what i'm trying

01:18:49.279 --> 01:18:51.720
to say because if not they would not have met

01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:53.760
there now if he has just run away like that just

01:18:53.760 --> 01:18:56.039
run away that means it was something a grave

01:18:56.039 --> 01:18:58.300
offense that led him to the prison where they

01:18:58.300 --> 01:19:03.640
met with paul hallelujah amen now these are just

01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:07.420
some of the texts so we will move from this one

01:19:07.420 --> 01:19:10.020
let me introduce the next one which is the law

01:19:10.020 --> 01:19:13.060
of gender discrimination The, why I want to spend

01:19:13.060 --> 01:19:14.880
some time here is because it's one of the problem

01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:17.760
we are still facing up to today. Where women

01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.500
are said that women cannot teach, cannot preach

01:19:20.500 --> 01:19:23.479
in church, cannot be pastors. Is this same attitude?

01:19:23.619 --> 01:19:26.779
Is this same laws that is still, will I say law?

01:19:27.060 --> 01:19:30.819
Is this same discrimination? It has been there

01:19:30.819 --> 01:19:35.199
for a long time and has been promoted by children.

01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:43.050
Some of them, they are professors. or will I

01:19:43.050 --> 01:19:45.529
say they are career people, they are professional

01:19:45.529 --> 01:19:54.529
pastors? Listen. Amen. Okay, number two. So that

01:19:54.529 --> 01:19:56.810
was the first one. We're going to the second

01:19:56.810 --> 01:20:03.109
one that how these scriptures has been, I mean

01:20:03.109 --> 01:20:05.289
the context, the scripture has been removed from

01:20:05.289 --> 01:20:09.010
its context. Number two, Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow.

01:20:10.440 --> 01:20:18.100
Laws and gender discrimination. Jim Crow, J -I

01:20:18.100 --> 01:20:24.039
-M -C -R -O -W. Laws and gender discrimination.

01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:31.100
Now following the abolition of slavery, because

01:20:31.100 --> 01:20:34.600
later on we saw this issue of the slavery led

01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:37.920
to the Civil War America in the sand where the

01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:42.119
North and the South fought. And of course, they

01:20:42.119 --> 01:20:45.640
were able to win what they call the Union. They

01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.460
won and then ensured that because as a result

01:20:48.460 --> 01:20:53.079
of this, the Northern parts with the Union refused,

01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:56.439
they do not agree with the position of the South

01:20:56.439 --> 01:21:02.439
regarding slavery. So when they saw that the

01:21:02.439 --> 01:21:10.699
North wants to succeed in in putting sand inside

01:21:10.699 --> 01:21:14.399
their garden. They say, okay, we're going to

01:21:14.399 --> 01:21:16.539
part away. We're not going to be part of the

01:21:16.539 --> 01:21:19.779
America again. So they separate themselves more

01:21:19.779 --> 01:21:26.460
or less like to, what do you call it in political

01:21:26.460 --> 01:21:30.079
science? Your association, yes. Are we together?

01:21:30.739 --> 01:21:33.420
Yes. So they now say, no, no, no, no. And they

01:21:33.420 --> 01:21:34.840
fought the civil. Just the same with what we

01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:37.439
had in Nigeria, the issue of Biafra. and the

01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:40.260
disunwanted Biafra want to carve out their own

01:21:40.260 --> 01:21:42.720
this and that the Nigerian the other part of

01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:45.600
the Nigerian had to fight the war to keep Nigeria

01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:54.380
united amen so the same thing so after that they

01:21:54.380 --> 01:21:58.880
unite they abolish slavery but you see the problem

01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:03.699
has not gone because the ideology still exists

01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:10.380
The same theological framework we adopted and

01:22:10.380 --> 01:22:15.140
maintain what we call a strict racial segregation.

01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:20.699
A strict racial segregation. That's what is the

01:22:20.699 --> 01:22:25.800
Jim Crow. It's from a fictional character. Just

01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:31.079
make it into that. You can read about that. So

01:22:31.079 --> 01:22:34.619
once you hear the Jim Crow loss, it's all the...

01:22:34.220 --> 01:22:40.920
racial segregation, understand? And then later

01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:44.220
on, we have also other form of restriction, restricting

01:22:44.220 --> 01:22:50.300
women, those segregation, we have racial, then

01:22:50.300 --> 01:22:54.000
we also have this gender discrimination as well,

01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:58.500
meaning to restrict women from civil, from legal,

01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:02.880
from leadership position, even in the church,

01:23:03.619 --> 01:23:07.090
understand? It started, it covers a lot of things

01:23:07.090 --> 01:23:10.109
in the society. Women couldn't vote, women couldn't,

01:23:10.250 --> 01:23:12.670
there are so many things. Then later on they

01:23:12.670 --> 01:23:15.250
were allowed and so on and so forth. And then

01:23:15.250 --> 01:23:17.909
the one that persists up to now is the one of

01:23:17.909 --> 01:23:20.989
the church, the leadership in the church. They

01:23:20.989 --> 01:23:26.409
don't want women to lead, you understand? Hallelujah.

01:23:27.430 --> 01:23:29.409
Because those men, if you are patriarchal, that's

01:23:29.409 --> 01:23:33.310
why you think. Amen. Now, what are some of the

01:23:33.310 --> 01:23:35.090
texts they brought? Let's start from Jim Crow.

01:23:36.229 --> 01:23:41.590
They brought Ezra chapter nine to 10, Ezra chapter

01:23:41.590 --> 01:23:48.489
nine to 10 and Nehemiah 13, Nehemiah 13, the

01:23:48.489 --> 01:23:56.189
whole of chapter 13. Ezra nine to 10 and Nehemiah

01:23:56.189 --> 01:24:00.710
13. So in this, passages Israel we are ordered

01:24:00.710 --> 01:24:04.789
to dissolve marriages with foreign women in the

01:24:04.789 --> 01:24:08.489
Sun Israel we are ordered by their leadership

01:24:08.489 --> 01:24:12.289
at that time to dissolve marriages with foreign

01:24:12.289 --> 01:24:19.710
women so white supremacists in the Sun in America

01:24:19.710 --> 01:24:24.430
use these to pass laws binding interracial marriage

01:24:24.430 --> 01:24:28.729
to depict these texts in the sun and say, no,

01:24:28.770 --> 01:24:31.189
no, no, no, we cannot continue like that. So

01:24:31.189 --> 01:24:35.130
they banned interracial marriage. And that's

01:24:35.130 --> 01:24:42.069
what brought about a lot of these gender discriminations.

01:24:43.449 --> 01:24:47.210
Now remember, as I said, what we have already

01:24:47.210 --> 01:24:56.329
treated for the issue of slavery, are also applicable

01:24:56.329 --> 01:24:59.329
to racial discrimination. So even after the civil

01:24:59.329 --> 01:25:02.149
war, they came together, they were seen discriminating.

01:25:02.270 --> 01:25:04.710
The black person cannot be where the white person

01:25:04.710 --> 01:25:07.069
is because they are also, they are considered

01:25:07.069 --> 01:25:09.789
all the texts we have said. They are cursed,

01:25:10.310 --> 01:25:12.229
they are this, they are that, they are this.

01:25:12.270 --> 01:25:13.930
And that's what brought about the civil rights

01:25:13.930 --> 01:25:20.699
movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. King. and

01:25:20.699 --> 01:25:23.600
so on and that one we are very much aware of

01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:27.539
all those struggles. Amen. Are we together? Yes.

01:25:27.779 --> 01:25:30.920
So what I'm going to address much more now is

01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:35.319
just the issue of women discrimination. Now let's

01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:40.000
look at the text. I'm going to read the whole

01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:44.539
chapter because we have chapter Ezra chapter

01:25:44.539 --> 01:25:49.260
9 and 10 and Nehemiah 13. What I will do is that

01:25:49.260 --> 01:25:50.880
I will give you a snippet that is a position

01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:53.560
I'm going to read because it's important. Normally

01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:57.300
when that place is read, that place is covered.

01:25:58.000 --> 01:26:00.800
It's not been mentioned at all. So let me first

01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:05.359
give you the order of Nehemiah contextually.

01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.300
Now contextually, let's start with Nehemiah 13.

01:26:09.659 --> 01:26:14.380
Now Nehemiah 13, when you look at from verse

01:26:16.599 --> 01:26:23.180
23 to 24. Nehemiah 13, 23 to 24. You will see

01:26:23.180 --> 01:26:30.060
the interracial problem. Sorry, yeah, not interracial.

01:26:30.739 --> 01:26:33.579
Why is I'm using, because I'm using interracial.

01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:38.020
It mean intermarital problem, meaning that the

01:26:38.020 --> 01:26:40.760
money between Israel and the foreign, are we

01:26:40.760 --> 01:26:45.479
together? Yes, so let me say it again. the intermarital

01:26:45.479 --> 01:26:51.140
problem verse 23 to 24 that's the problem so

01:26:51.140 --> 01:26:53.239
just maybe you just say intermarital problem

01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:59.460
23 verse 23 to 24 next is how Nehemiah confronted

01:26:59.460 --> 01:27:03.979
the issue verse 25 how Nehemiah confronted the

01:27:03.979 --> 01:27:13.399
issue that's in verse 25 the next is king Solomon

01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:17.460
as the bad example and this I will have to read

01:27:17.460 --> 01:27:21.039
this place. This is where many of them jump in

01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:28.159
the sand because the reason for the leadership

01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:31.579
at then of Israel to ask that those marriages

01:27:31.579 --> 01:27:35.520
must be dissolved is not because they dislike

01:27:35.520 --> 01:27:39.899
the women. It's not because of segregation. It's

01:27:39.899 --> 01:27:47.369
because these women are from pagan nations. And

01:27:47.369 --> 01:27:51.529
once they come, they corrupt, you understand,

01:27:52.270 --> 01:27:56.710
the service of God. They now lead these people

01:27:56.710 --> 01:28:02.310
or lead the people of God into sin. So the foundation

01:28:02.310 --> 01:28:05.630
of this take is not segregation. It's not gender

01:28:05.630 --> 01:28:10.050
segregation. It is to remove or to stop evil,

01:28:10.449 --> 01:28:13.199
you understand, from happening. Are we together?

01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:17.380
Look at verse 26. Because when Nehemiah was telling

01:28:17.380 --> 01:28:19.619
them the reason why he have to do what he did,

01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:26.960
he gave them an example of Solomon. I think when

01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:34.039
Paso Tike was teaching us, he made mention of

01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:41.920
this issue here. Are we together? 26. He said,

01:28:41.979 --> 01:28:47.800
did not Solomon king of Israel sinned? So you

01:28:47.800 --> 01:28:52.239
see the issue is sinning. How did he sin? By

01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:56.100
these things. What are these things? Yet among

01:28:56.100 --> 01:29:01.039
many nations there was no king like him who was

01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:04.180
beloved of God. And God made him come over Israel.

01:29:06.060 --> 01:29:10.300
Nevertheless, pagan women cursed him. cost even

01:29:10.300 --> 01:29:14.619
him to sin. Did you see the reason? Why am I

01:29:14.619 --> 01:29:17.100
saying that? No, we will not allow you to go

01:29:17.100 --> 01:29:20.340
to other nations to marry. We even have the king

01:29:20.340 --> 01:29:25.180
himself. When he married, his head turned upside

01:29:25.180 --> 01:29:33.300
down. Are we together? Hallelujah. Verse 27.

01:29:33.800 --> 01:29:38.979
Should we then hear of your doing all this great

01:29:38.979 --> 01:29:45.500
evil transgressing against God by marrying pagan

01:29:45.500 --> 01:29:49.159
women. So the focus is not about just marrying

01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:55.060
foreign women. It's marrying pagan foreign women,

01:29:55.699 --> 01:30:00.500
pagan and the late people as three. Now you see

01:30:00.500 --> 01:30:04.840
already the context has nothing to do about marrying

01:30:04.840 --> 01:30:14.560
a foreign woman. is the issue of sin. Nehemiah,

01:30:14.720 --> 01:30:20.140
let's go to Nehemiah. And sorry, Ezra. Ezra 9

01:30:20.140 --> 01:30:22.180
and 10. Again, we're not going to read it. You

01:30:22.180 --> 01:30:25.279
can read it later on in the son, Ezra chapter

01:30:25.279 --> 01:30:28.319
nine, chapter 10. So I will start from chapter

01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:32.520
nine. Again, Ezra in chapter nine, verse one

01:30:32.520 --> 01:30:37.060
and two, he also tell the problem. or the intermarital

01:30:37.060 --> 01:30:41.619
problem, where they go to marry the foreign women.

01:30:42.640 --> 01:30:47.279
Then Ezra, I'm sorry, verse three to verse five,

01:30:47.619 --> 01:30:50.939
Ezra was extremely grieved about the problem.

01:30:51.380 --> 01:30:54.880
Verse three to five, he shows how he was grieved

01:30:54.880 --> 01:31:00.260
about the problem. He was grieved about the problem.

01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:10.890
Verse six, To verse 15. Israel's prayer and confession.

01:31:13.689 --> 01:31:16.789
Israel's prayer and confession. Now I want to

01:31:16.789 --> 01:31:21.189
read verse 10 here. So verse six to 15, it shows

01:31:21.189 --> 01:31:29.949
Israel's prayer and confession. Let me read verse

01:31:29.949 --> 01:31:39.710
10 to 14. And now, O God, what shall we say after

01:31:39.710 --> 01:31:42.369
this? For we have forsaken your commandment,

01:31:42.569 --> 01:31:45.210
which you commanded yourself and the prophets,

01:31:45.229 --> 01:31:50.250
saying, the land which you are entering to possess

01:31:50.250 --> 01:31:55.289
is an unclean land, with the uncleanness of the

01:31:55.289 --> 01:31:58.890
people of the land, with their abomination, which

01:31:58.890 --> 01:32:03.949
have filled it from one end to another with their

01:32:03.949 --> 01:32:09.279
impurity. Verse 12, now therefore, do not give

01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:15.140
your daughters as wife for their sons, nor take

01:32:15.140 --> 01:32:20.319
their daughters to your sons and never seek their

01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:23.460
peace or prosperity that you may be strong and

01:32:23.460 --> 01:32:26.800
eat the good of the land and leave it as an inheritance

01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:30.520
to your children. Did you see why they are asking

01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:33.909
them not to marry? because the land is filled

01:32:33.909 --> 01:32:38.229
with uncleanness. You understand? The people

01:32:38.229 --> 01:32:42.789
are evil. So that's the same fear which we saw

01:32:42.789 --> 01:32:46.689
in Nehemiah. That when you marry these people,

01:32:47.350 --> 01:32:49.630
you understand? When you marry these people,

01:32:49.930 --> 01:32:54.390
they will come in and become and lead your children

01:32:54.390 --> 01:32:58.720
to sin, lead your children to the seven... leaving

01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:02.260
the living God and serving pagans. That's what

01:33:02.260 --> 01:33:11.399
we saw with King Solomon. Verse 13, and after

01:33:11.399 --> 01:33:15.720
all that has come upon us for our evil deeds

01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:20.140
and for our great deal, since you, our God, have

01:33:20.140 --> 01:33:23.079
punished us less than our iniquities deserve

01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:26.880
and have given us such a deliverance as this.

01:33:27.100 --> 01:33:30.899
Should we again break your commandment and join

01:33:30.899 --> 01:33:35.300
in marriage with the people committing this abomination?

01:33:36.380 --> 01:33:39.520
Would you not be angry with us until you had

01:33:39.520 --> 01:33:43.479
consumed us so that there would be no remnant

01:33:43.479 --> 01:33:48.100
or survival? So the focus is the problem that

01:33:48.100 --> 01:33:52.220
marrying these pagan women will cause. You know,

01:33:52.420 --> 01:33:57.189
the woman is powerful. Very, very powerful. In

01:33:57.189 --> 01:33:59.729
history, if you want to catch a man, that's what

01:33:59.729 --> 01:34:02.109
they have been used to. You understand? If you

01:34:02.109 --> 01:34:06.090
have been watching maybe all the security documentaries,

01:34:06.250 --> 01:34:08.670
maybe Mossad and all those, you must have seen

01:34:08.670 --> 01:34:12.449
that one of the weapon they use is a woman. You

01:34:12.449 --> 01:34:20.550
understand? Yes. So they know how strong they

01:34:20.550 --> 01:34:22.409
are. That's why they don't want to, because if

01:34:22.409 --> 01:34:25.939
they allow marriage, And that's why it has happened

01:34:25.939 --> 01:34:33.460
to Solu. Before you know, he started building

01:34:33.460 --> 01:34:36.659
all kinds of high places, shrines everywhere,

01:34:37.699 --> 01:34:41.260
for different gods. And then turns his heart

01:34:41.260 --> 01:34:45.840
away from God. And of course, because he needs

01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:49.180
so much money to be able to afford that kind

01:34:49.180 --> 01:34:51.479
of lifestyle, to provide all houses for all those

01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:55.300
women. He had to tax his people. He overtaxed

01:34:55.300 --> 01:34:57.479
his people. So don't think the money that Solo

01:34:57.479 --> 01:35:01.640
got is from just his work, his business. No,

01:35:02.000 --> 01:35:07.600
it's from taxation. And the foolish young man,

01:35:07.779 --> 01:35:10.600
after him that came, Rehobo, they called him

01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:12.659
and said, bro, now that you are here, this is

01:35:12.659 --> 01:35:14.720
what your father did to you. Please, can you

01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:17.000
just reverse it so that your people follow him?

01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:19.600
And the foolish person would go and join your

01:35:19.600 --> 01:35:24.840
agencies. I have them as his advisors. And he

01:35:24.840 --> 01:35:27.859
told you, hey, don't do that. If your father

01:35:27.859 --> 01:35:35.039
flogged with the ringer, use you scorpion. And

01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:38.140
he led to the division of the Israel into southern

01:35:38.140 --> 01:35:41.800
northern kingdom. I mean, just look at him. Hallelujah.

01:35:42.739 --> 01:35:46.699
We will not be unwise in Jesus' name. We will

01:35:46.699 --> 01:35:49.779
be wise. because every day we're learning from

01:35:49.779 --> 01:35:52.680
the wisdom of God. We're learning to do love

01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:57.060
work. We're learning to repay evil with good.

01:35:57.420 --> 01:36:00.180
Are we together? Nobody is our enemy. We know

01:36:00.180 --> 01:36:03.939
the enemy. Even though they act as enemies, people

01:36:03.939 --> 01:36:06.399
can be enemy, they can see us as their enemy,

01:36:06.819 --> 01:36:12.020
but we are not their enemies. Hallelujah. Are

01:36:12.020 --> 01:36:15.520
we together? Now let me start introducing something

01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:20.079
which will continue in the next session. The

01:36:20.079 --> 01:36:22.779
issue of second Timothy, first Timothy chapter

01:36:22.779 --> 01:36:29.319
two. Again we are on gender discrimination. This

01:36:29.319 --> 01:36:33.100
is one of the hot, even today, so I'm going to

01:36:33.100 --> 01:36:37.100
spend some time here in the sand. This scripture

01:36:37.100 --> 01:36:43.260
has been weaponized to say that Paul say that

01:36:43.260 --> 01:36:47.039
a woman should not teach men, and so should not

01:36:47.039 --> 01:36:52.079
be in leadership position in the church. Verse

01:36:52.079 --> 01:36:56.539
12, look at verse 12, first Timothy chapter one,

01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:02.500
chapter two, sorry, verse 12. I thank the Lord

01:37:02.500 --> 01:37:05.300
because we have already done a part of this text,

01:37:05.500 --> 01:37:08.020
you understand, during issues of women liberty.

01:37:09.100 --> 01:37:12.560
The series are, it's online for those of us who

01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:14.359
are following online if you want to check that

01:37:14.359 --> 01:37:21.899
we've dealt with the issue of uh verse nine in

01:37:21.899 --> 01:37:25.159
like manner that women are do themselves with

01:37:25.159 --> 01:37:29.800
modest apparel and we said again the bible writers

01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:33.420
we are not english writers are we together so

01:37:33.420 --> 01:37:35.720
you don't see operate and think it's clothing

01:37:35.720 --> 01:37:38.699
no this one is not clothing here in the sign

01:37:38.699 --> 01:37:42.180
if you look at the uh root word or the greek

01:37:42.180 --> 01:37:44.279
word here used it's not talking about apparatus

01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:48.220
talking about attitude is an attitude innocent

01:37:48.220 --> 01:37:52.739
that modest attitude attitude and that's why

01:37:52.739 --> 01:37:56.960
you see he said with with propriety and moderation

01:37:56.960 --> 01:38:01.020
that's the attitude and then he now said not

01:38:01.020 --> 01:38:04.500
with breaded here which means that he is comparing

01:38:04.500 --> 01:38:07.819
attitudes are we together he's saying that your

01:38:07.819 --> 01:38:12.300
focus should be on your attitude, not just focus

01:38:12.300 --> 01:38:16.140
on Atwa Sapira. And I'm going to tell you reasons

01:38:16.140 --> 01:38:19.659
why Paul was saying that, because we need to

01:38:19.659 --> 01:38:25.140
understand again the immediate context here.

01:38:25.779 --> 01:38:34.199
Because in Ephesus is a town of spiritual female

01:38:34.199 --> 01:38:38.829
supremacy. You understand? So there are many

01:38:38.829 --> 01:38:42.189
if you understand the context you now know you

01:38:42.189 --> 01:38:44.869
appreciate the reason why Paul was talking this

01:38:44.869 --> 01:38:51.189
week you know, sir Just the same way That we

01:38:51.189 --> 01:38:53.409
have in the days of old and then when we are

01:38:53.409 --> 01:38:55.430
coming we have a patriarchal society So there

01:38:55.430 --> 01:38:59.310
are so much mentality of men in Ephesus. We have

01:38:59.310 --> 01:39:03.609
a goddess called the Artemis in the sun I'm going

01:39:03.609 --> 01:39:05.489
to give us some part in that because we have

01:39:05.489 --> 01:39:10.060
to look at it and see from that what Paul is

01:39:10.060 --> 01:39:14.140
saying here. Amen. Now, so he says, so we have

01:39:14.140 --> 01:39:16.159
already dealt with these and we said, he's not

01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:20.979
saying that you should not wear a braided hair

01:39:20.979 --> 01:39:24.399
or the, no, no, no. His emphasis is that your

01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:28.180
attention should be more, is the same or similar

01:39:28.180 --> 01:39:30.960
text with what Peter was saying, you know what

01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:33.199
I'm saying? That your focus should be on the

01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:36.289
inner beauty, you know what I'm saying? So which

01:39:36.289 --> 01:39:41.789
means that You can wear good clothing see understand,

01:39:41.970 --> 01:39:46.630
but your Emphasis of life should not be outwards

01:39:46.630 --> 01:39:51.529
should be in order of priority your attitude

01:39:51.529 --> 01:39:57.729
should be ahead Are we together then in our state

01:39:57.729 --> 01:40:02.340
verse 10, but which is proper? of women professing

01:40:02.340 --> 01:40:04.699
godliness. So he said that this is actually the

01:40:04.699 --> 01:40:08.180
pattern of godliness we have seen in Assam with

01:40:08.180 --> 01:40:14.680
good works. Then verse 11. In answer, let a woman

01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:23.720
learn in silence with all submission. And I do

01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:29.020
not permit a woman. This is the main text. Verse

01:40:29.020 --> 01:40:32.100
12, I do not permit a woman to teach or to have

01:40:32.100 --> 01:40:37.180
authority over a man, but be silent. So men have

01:40:37.180 --> 01:40:40.380
used this text and say women are banned from

01:40:40.380 --> 01:40:43.800
teaching. They cannot teach, that means they

01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:47.359
cannot be pastors. They cannot be elders in the

01:40:47.359 --> 01:40:50.479
church. But is that what Paul is saying? And

01:40:50.479 --> 01:40:54.420
so those people that are, those that weaponize

01:40:54.420 --> 01:40:59.340
this, do gender discrimination, They have instituted,

01:40:59.500 --> 01:41:01.479
don't go because of now, but we still have the

01:41:01.479 --> 01:41:03.520
problem in church. But in then, including the

01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:08.920
society, in institution, woman cannot be a leader.

01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:11.960
Then when we have very close relationship between

01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:16.960
the church and the state, so the church is highly,

01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:20.279
highly connected with the state. So every part

01:41:20.279 --> 01:41:23.239
of the organization, a woman cannot be a leader.

01:41:25.289 --> 01:41:28.350
So it's a system of exclusion. Remember where

01:41:28.350 --> 01:41:30.409
I told you where they started? Even women cannot

01:41:30.409 --> 01:41:34.250
vote. So the discrimination is high, not to talk

01:41:34.250 --> 01:41:39.430
of talking about that you... They won't get there.

01:41:40.510 --> 01:41:44.289
And they are using Bible. The question is that,

01:41:44.750 --> 01:41:50.750
when Paul was writing this in his head, was his

01:41:50.750 --> 01:42:01.319
intention is to ban women from teaching. That's

01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:04.100
the context. You know, the problem with most

01:42:04.100 --> 01:42:06.060
of the problem we have in the church is that

01:42:06.060 --> 01:42:10.840
we isolate a verse. First you need to ask, you

01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:13.380
remember what we said? You need to ask a question.

01:42:13.819 --> 01:42:16.600
First, let's turn to what we have learned yesterday.

01:42:18.300 --> 01:42:28.720
In Christ, right? In the, that's canonical context.

01:42:29.100 --> 01:42:33.659
In Christ, do we have any discrimination in Christ?

01:42:35.659 --> 01:42:41.100
Are we together? We only have, there is no Greek

01:42:41.100 --> 01:42:45.880
or Jew, there is no male or female, right? We

01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:49.380
are all sons of God. We sang that song. We are

01:42:49.380 --> 01:42:55.739
sons of the Lord. We are built on what? Is it

01:42:55.739 --> 01:42:59.760
the men that are built on the rock alone? Are

01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:03.119
men only the sons of God? No, men and women.

01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:10.039
Are we together? What you have, we have. Peter

01:43:10.039 --> 01:43:13.579
will said, because you are joined hairs of the

01:43:13.579 --> 01:43:17.720
grace of God. First Peter chapter three. Dwell

01:43:17.720 --> 01:43:19.720
with them according to knowledge, verse seven.

01:43:20.439 --> 01:43:23.819
O you husbands, dwell with her according to knowledge.

01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:27.399
With this understanding that you are joined here

01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:33.600
of the grace of God That means in Christ whatever

01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:39.399
you have she has So anything that has to do with

01:43:39.399 --> 01:43:44.560
the With things privileges in Christ in a son

01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:50.779
there is no issue of discrimination Anything

01:43:50.779 --> 01:43:54.060
a man can be, a woman can be. Anything a man

01:43:54.060 --> 01:43:58.420
has, a woman has. Because our identity is spiritual.

01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:03.220
See, that's why I told you, if you start with

01:44:03.220 --> 01:44:06.020
the canonical context, it already started to

01:44:06.020 --> 01:44:12.520
dismantle the argument. Christ did not intend

01:44:12.520 --> 01:44:16.640
to bring any division in his church, any form

01:44:16.640 --> 01:44:22.960
of discrimination. You understand? Not tribe,

01:44:23.279 --> 01:44:27.840
not ethnicity, not gender. You understand? There

01:44:27.840 --> 01:44:32.260
is no any form of discrimination. We are one.

01:44:32.340 --> 01:44:35.199
That's the emphasis of the message of the Bible.

01:44:36.279 --> 01:44:39.659
Common salvation, common faith. Do you understand

01:44:39.659 --> 01:44:42.060
what I'm trying to say? Our own precious faith.

01:44:42.439 --> 01:44:45.239
We have everything common. There is nothing unique

01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:50.750
between a man and a woman. When it comes to Christ

01:44:50.750 --> 01:44:59.390
in the sun when it comes to the church Hallelujah

01:44:59.390 --> 01:45:04.829
Where you begin to see the issue of headship

01:45:04.829 --> 01:45:10.170
the difference in terms of role is in the family

01:45:10.170 --> 01:45:14.909
setting Are we together? It's in the family setting

01:45:14.909 --> 01:45:19.210
and that's why Paul will always ensure that when

01:45:19.210 --> 01:45:21.810
he is talking in the chat and he's talking general,

01:45:22.069 --> 01:45:24.449
you will know, sir, he's talking to everyone.

01:45:25.489 --> 01:45:28.069
If he's talking to married people, sorry, sir,

01:45:28.189 --> 01:45:30.369
he will not use as if he's talking to everyone.

01:45:30.810 --> 01:45:33.770
He will isolate and say, children, I'm talking

01:45:33.770 --> 01:45:36.890
to you. Married people, I'm talking to you. So

01:45:36.890 --> 01:45:39.430
that means if talking to single people, you say

01:45:39.430 --> 01:45:41.529
single people, I'm really talking to you. So

01:45:41.529 --> 01:45:44.710
you cannot go inward and then carry things that

01:45:44.710 --> 01:45:46.949
is for married people. and those paste it for

01:45:46.949 --> 01:45:49.550
everybody or carry things that is for children

01:45:49.550 --> 01:45:52.489
or carry something that is talking to some certain

01:45:52.489 --> 01:45:55.109
people and then paste it or when Jesus is talking

01:45:55.109 --> 01:45:58.289
to Pharisee and then when he said go and chill

01:45:58.289 --> 01:46:00.689
then you two you say you two go and you want

01:46:00.689 --> 01:46:06.890
to sometimes say no because sometimes the Pharisee

01:46:06.890 --> 01:46:10.109
come with foolish questions and then you address

01:46:10.109 --> 01:46:14.479
their foolishness in the sun So you have to understand

01:46:14.479 --> 01:46:20.760
to who was he speaking to? To who was he speaking

01:46:20.760 --> 01:46:24.859
to? When he said, when he was talking about divorce

01:46:24.859 --> 01:46:28.300
and all that which we have seen in the son, Jesus

01:46:28.300 --> 01:46:31.220
was addressing that. When he was even addressing

01:46:31.220 --> 01:46:36.119
that, I say to you, who is to you? Are we together?

01:46:36.939 --> 01:46:41.699
I say to you, who is you? You see, he is talking

01:46:41.699 --> 01:46:44.609
people. They asked him a question. They are conversed.

01:46:44.649 --> 01:46:47.770
They said but Moses said the letter is I say

01:46:47.770 --> 01:46:50.989
to you That means he's not speaking to a general

01:46:50.989 --> 01:46:53.449
people. He was conversing to this people that

01:46:53.449 --> 01:46:57.090
were asking him question He said and he told

01:46:57.090 --> 01:47:00.109
him and Jesus was saying anything because the

01:47:00.109 --> 01:47:02.189
question they asked him is that can they divorce

01:47:02.189 --> 01:47:06.649
for any other reason? That's what Moses law said

01:47:06.649 --> 01:47:11.390
Moses law said if you see an uncleanness That's

01:47:11.390 --> 01:47:15.729
what Jesus interpreted. I said to you, except

01:47:15.729 --> 01:47:18.550
for the sin of immorality. That's the uncleanness.

01:47:18.890 --> 01:47:20.850
Jesus was not inventing anything. He was just

01:47:20.850 --> 01:47:22.590
interpreting because he wanted to make the law

01:47:22.590 --> 01:47:25.390
blanket. You understand? He said, no, no, no,

01:47:25.390 --> 01:47:28.130
no, no, no, no. I said to you. So that means

01:47:28.130 --> 01:47:30.109
that even thing that he was speaking, he was

01:47:30.109 --> 01:47:33.670
not to the church. He was speaking to the Pharisee.

01:47:33.850 --> 01:47:40.069
I'm trying to reinterpret Moses' law. And interpreted

01:47:40.069 --> 01:47:43.770
correctly, but the church carry it today what

01:47:43.770 --> 01:47:47.029
Jesus clearly said That is what the church should

01:47:47.029 --> 01:47:50.510
be concerned. Is that it was not so in the beginning

01:47:50.510 --> 01:47:57.170
That is the will of God So don't say go and say

01:47:57.170 --> 01:47:59.149
Jesus has a law for divorce and marriage. No,

01:47:59.250 --> 01:48:01.949
that's the Moses law He was trying to clarify

01:48:01.949 --> 01:48:08.460
to these people What is our own is that? In was

01:48:08.460 --> 01:48:12.880
no soul in the beginning Are we together? So

01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:15.840
that's what thing I want us to do as we continue

01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.779
so that you will not move around and say ah Jesus

01:48:18.779 --> 01:48:22.659
said we can divorce You know, so you say we can

01:48:22.659 --> 01:48:28.659
divorce he gave us a condition Are we together?

01:48:29.180 --> 01:48:33.359
Hey man Amen Divorce will happen. You know, so

01:48:33.359 --> 01:48:37.760
we are believers. We are washed We are forgiving,

01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:40.119
you understand? He asked us, man of God, read

01:48:40.119 --> 01:48:42.720
the scripture yesterday, that this is the will

01:48:42.720 --> 01:48:44.939
of God, even your sanctification, that you live

01:48:44.939 --> 01:48:46.819
free of immorality, you know the will of God.

01:48:47.380 --> 01:48:49.619
But sometimes, Christian, don't go and do so

01:48:49.619 --> 01:48:51.680
fornication. You don't understand what I'm trying

01:48:51.680 --> 01:48:54.279
to say? So what will you do to these people that

01:48:54.279 --> 01:48:57.319
do fornication? You should throw them away because

01:48:57.319 --> 01:49:01.420
they sin? No! We know the will of God, but sometimes

01:49:01.420 --> 01:49:04.460
people will fall out of it. Then we bring them

01:49:04.460 --> 01:49:08.579
back. But we cannot we cannot hold them captive

01:49:08.579 --> 01:49:12.220
by that team. Did you understand brandy? So people

01:49:12.220 --> 01:49:15.859
will do divorce whether you like it or not because

01:49:15.859 --> 01:49:19.920
this is the reality of it and There are system

01:49:19.920 --> 01:49:23.539
to bring these people in but not to use divorce

01:49:23.539 --> 01:49:26.420
to disqualify a spiritual man. You are a liar

01:49:26.420 --> 01:49:33.380
You can use that In the sun you can't neither

01:49:33.380 --> 01:49:36.149
can you use fornication you understand or anything

01:49:36.149 --> 01:49:39.930
is bad you bring the person to the admonition

01:49:39.930 --> 01:49:42.229
of the lord but not to disqualify the person

01:49:42.229 --> 01:49:46.229
because of that attitude never because what qualifies

01:49:46.229 --> 01:49:49.670
us is not the attitude what qualifies us is christ

01:49:49.670 --> 01:49:55.550
himself are we together he is a one that qualifies

01:49:55.550 --> 01:50:01.609
us you can't buy that qualification he has to

01:50:01.609 --> 01:50:14.359
be the one amen Amen. Now look at it. This letter,

01:50:17.659 --> 01:50:25.300
first Timothy and second Timothy, it was written

01:50:25.300 --> 01:50:29.439
to Timothy as a pastor in Ephesus. Please follow

01:50:29.439 --> 01:50:31.319
me gradually because this is sensitive, so I

01:50:31.319 --> 01:50:37.369
want to clarify this very, as much as I can.

01:50:38.609 --> 01:50:43.930
And why did Paul send Timothy to Ephesus? Look

01:50:43.930 --> 01:50:50.229
at 1 Timothy chapter 1. Look at verse 3. He said,

01:50:50.229 --> 01:50:58.350
I urge you, when I went to, I went into Macedonia,

01:50:59.710 --> 01:51:02.869
remain in Ephesus. And what are you to do in

01:51:02.869 --> 01:51:09.850
Ephesus? that you may charge some that they teach

01:51:09.850 --> 01:51:13.810
no other doctrine. Please, I want you to know

01:51:13.810 --> 01:51:17.810
that. That means there are some doctrines that

01:51:17.810 --> 01:51:21.430
have been flying around that is not according

01:51:21.430 --> 01:51:27.609
to Christ. So he sent Timothy, I say, you must

01:51:27.609 --> 01:51:31.869
talk these people. He said, verse four, no give

01:51:31.869 --> 01:51:35.159
heed to feebles. So that means there are fibus.

01:51:35.260 --> 01:51:40.060
What are fibus? Myth. Myth. You understand? Note

01:51:40.060 --> 01:51:43.699
that one also. We are coming to it. Myth. That

01:51:43.699 --> 01:51:48.319
means some mythical things as used as doctrine.

01:51:52.060 --> 01:51:56.800
And endless genealogies which cause this. Now

01:51:56.800 --> 01:52:00.579
listen, these myths are not just things that

01:52:00.579 --> 01:52:03.390
are cooked up somewhere. There are spiritual

01:52:03.390 --> 01:52:05.949
stories turn into something things you understand

01:52:05.949 --> 01:52:08.029
project. Please. I want you to know this. It's

01:52:08.029 --> 01:52:11.829
not really like We are teaching new age or something.

01:52:11.850 --> 01:52:16.670
I know is the Bible itself That are being used

01:52:16.670 --> 01:52:21.170
in a son, but not a sound doctrine endless genealogies

01:52:21.170 --> 01:52:24.970
in a son Meaning that all know me. I think my

01:52:24.970 --> 01:52:29.710
root is the house of Judah You understand? So

01:52:29.710 --> 01:52:31.550
they will start following all kinds of lines.

01:52:31.609 --> 01:52:33.869
Now, how does that profit your spiritual life?

01:52:34.029 --> 01:52:35.770
Did you understand what I'm trying to say? So

01:52:35.770 --> 01:52:38.850
there are all kinds of genealogy. Me, I'm connected

01:52:38.850 --> 01:52:42.010
to this. Me, I'm connected to my father. All

01:52:42.010 --> 01:52:43.829
those, even though today we do those kind of

01:52:43.829 --> 01:52:46.250
things in some ways anyway. You understand? They

01:52:46.250 --> 01:52:51.350
call it tribe. Right? Am I correct? We have something

01:52:51.350 --> 01:52:54.029
that they say, this is of my tribe. I mean, in

01:52:54.029 --> 01:52:57.489
the household of faith, we're saying, not literal

01:52:57.489 --> 01:53:01.550
tribe. That is, we have a string that we follow.

01:53:02.029 --> 01:53:06.970
You understand? I don't know what tribe are we

01:53:06.970 --> 01:53:16.050
in. Are we together? So they say endless genealogies.

01:53:16.989 --> 01:53:21.670
And these endless genealogies are myths, or fubos.

01:53:23.149 --> 01:53:26.729
Look at what they do. He said they cause what?

01:53:26.880 --> 01:53:32.119
dispute. Please notice the crossword dispute

01:53:32.119 --> 01:53:36.720
rather than godly edification which is in faith.

01:53:38.739 --> 01:53:43.819
So they don't benefit the believer. They don't

01:53:43.819 --> 01:53:47.060
edify the believer. They don't grow the believer.

01:53:47.140 --> 01:53:52.939
They only cause confusion and disputes and acrimony

01:53:52.939 --> 01:53:56.640
and bitterness and envy and confusion and strife.

01:53:56.569 --> 01:54:02.149
and division in the church. That is what. So

01:54:02.149 --> 01:54:05.050
this Ephesus again. So now we understand now

01:54:05.050 --> 01:54:09.590
there is a problem of doctrine in Ephesus. So

01:54:09.590 --> 01:54:16.510
Paul sent Timothy. Okay. Hallelujah. Before we

01:54:16.510 --> 01:54:22.430
go, let's read this church. Let's connect Act

01:54:22.430 --> 01:54:27.159
19. Go to Act 19. Because this is when the church

01:54:27.159 --> 01:54:30.979
was birthed. Are we together? Paul established

01:54:30.979 --> 01:54:34.420
this church in Act 19. And I want to just read

01:54:34.420 --> 01:54:36.920
24, because I don't want to go to read the beginning

01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:39.699
of the church. Pastor Fred did that for us the

01:54:39.699 --> 01:54:44.140
day before yesterday or yesterday. So I just

01:54:44.140 --> 01:54:54.689
want to read from verse 24. For a certain man

01:54:54.689 --> 01:55:02.869
named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver

01:55:02.869 --> 01:55:12.529
shrines of Deanna, brought no small profit. That

01:55:12.529 --> 01:55:16.069
word Deanna is the same in some texts, you see,

01:55:16.329 --> 01:55:30.539
Artemis, A -R -T -E. MIS, Artemis. So, Diana

01:55:30.539 --> 01:55:33.699
brought no profit, no small profit. That means

01:55:33.699 --> 01:55:36.100
they are making a lot of money. They are craftsmen.

01:55:36.739 --> 01:55:40.819
He called them together with the workers of similar

01:55:40.819 --> 01:55:45.699
occupation and said, man, you know that we have

01:55:45.699 --> 01:55:50.279
our prosperity by district. Moreover, you see,

01:55:51.079 --> 01:55:56.500
And hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout

01:55:56.500 --> 01:56:01.619
almost all Asia, this power has persuaded and

01:56:01.619 --> 01:56:07.180
turned away many people, saying that there are

01:56:07.180 --> 01:56:13.560
not gods which are made with hands. That there

01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:16.199
are not gods, sorry, there are not gods which

01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:20.100
are made with hands. Verse 27. So not only is

01:56:20.100 --> 01:56:23.840
this threat of ours in danger of falling into

01:56:23.840 --> 01:56:28.960
dispute, but also the temple of the great goddess

01:56:28.960 --> 01:56:34.479
Diana. Note that goddess Diana, Artemis Diana,

01:56:34.819 --> 01:56:42.220
Artemis or Diana, may be despised and her magnificent

01:56:42.220 --> 01:56:49.350
destroy whom all Asia and the world Worship.

01:56:51.270 --> 01:56:54.710
Now, when they heard this, they were full of

01:56:54.710 --> 01:56:59.930
wrath and cried out, saying, great is the honor

01:56:59.930 --> 01:57:04.470
of Ephesians. So the whole city was filled with

01:57:04.470 --> 01:57:08.029
confusion and rushed into the theater with one

01:57:08.029 --> 01:57:12.409
accord, having ceased games and aristocrats,

01:57:12.710 --> 01:57:16.609
Macedonians, Paul's travel companions, Tati.

01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:22.460
And when Paul wanted to go into the people, the

01:57:22.460 --> 01:57:27.500
disciples would not allow him. Then some of the

01:57:27.500 --> 01:57:31.279
officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent

01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:35.420
to him, pleading that he would not venture into

01:57:35.420 --> 01:57:39.659
the theater. Some therefore cried one thing and

01:57:39.659 --> 01:57:42.500
the other, for the assembly was confused, and

01:57:42.500 --> 01:57:46.649
most of them did not know. why they had come

01:57:46.649 --> 01:57:52.770
together, verse 33. And they drew Alexander out

01:57:52.770 --> 01:57:55.789
of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward,

01:57:56.229 --> 01:58:03.289
and Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted

01:58:03.289 --> 01:58:06.390
to make his defense to the people. But when they

01:58:06.390 --> 01:58:10.850
found out that he was a Jew, all with one voice

01:58:10.850 --> 01:58:17.539
cried out for about two hours. Great is the honor

01:58:17.539 --> 01:58:22.500
of efficiency. So I want to tell you how they

01:58:22.500 --> 01:58:25.359
honor this. You can imagine people, great is

01:58:25.359 --> 01:58:28.279
the honor of you. You know, just like Asna used

01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:33.300
to do. You know, when they are shouting, they

01:58:33.300 --> 01:58:35.279
are trying to warm. Anyway, don't go for the

01:58:35.279 --> 01:58:36.859
Lord, he has helped them. You know what I'm saying?

01:58:37.340 --> 01:58:41.220
But then when they are, I, I, I, I, the Lord

01:58:41.220 --> 01:58:43.470
is, you know what I'm saying? One thing I like

01:58:43.470 --> 01:58:45.310
about them, they have a spirit of endurance.

01:58:45.890 --> 01:58:52.050
For a long time, they can endure hardship. But

01:58:52.050 --> 01:58:54.510
they will be shouting, remember in the stadium,

01:58:54.670 --> 01:58:56.729
they will shout one thing and be dancing for

01:58:56.729 --> 01:58:59.170
hours. Are we together? That's how they have

01:58:59.170 --> 01:59:02.090
been shouting for two hours. Great is Diana of

01:59:02.090 --> 01:59:04.390
visions. Great is Diana of visions. Are we together?

01:59:05.829 --> 01:59:09.789
Please, hold this in your mind as we come. Diana

01:59:09.789 --> 01:59:13.960
is a goddess. their whole heart. She has a temple.

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So what I'm trying to let you to know that Ephesians

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has a problem of female spiritual supremacy.

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Just hold that as we come. Amen? Can we just

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pray? We appreciate you being here today. We

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