WEBVTT 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:06.919 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.900 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:14.140 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.140 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:25.820 right in. So today, the teaching is actually 00:00:25.820 --> 00:00:29.399 the defense of the gospel. What we want to talk 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.780 about this afternoon is the defense of the gospel 00:00:34.780 --> 00:00:42.159 the defense of the gospel The defense of the 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:46.960 gospel And now I like a few things as before 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:52.479 progress writes before progress our light in 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:59.130 a few things The scriptures, okay can we write 00:00:59.130 --> 00:01:06.469 that the scriptures answers to itself okay that 00:01:06.469 --> 00:01:14.090 the scriptures answers to itself meaning that 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:17.390 scriptures are used to corroborate scriptures 00:01:17.390 --> 00:01:21.609 so when you read a scripture and you have a question 00:01:21.609 --> 00:01:24.650 is still the scriptures that will answer that 00:01:24.650 --> 00:01:29.590 question If we have a scripture, we have questions, 00:01:29.989 --> 00:01:32.049 it's still the scriptures that will answer that 00:01:32.049 --> 00:01:34.790 question. And you can see that in several patterns 00:01:34.790 --> 00:01:38.849 in Jesus' teaching, that scriptures will answer 00:01:38.849 --> 00:01:44.189 questions that arise from scriptures. And that 00:01:44.189 --> 00:01:47.230 is why when Jesus has been asked questions, as 00:01:47.230 --> 00:01:49.150 I think Pastor Victor and many other pastors 00:01:49.150 --> 00:01:51.849 that have been here that acknowledge their teaching, 00:01:53.039 --> 00:01:56.340 Already point us to how Jesus was answering questions, 00:01:56.340 --> 00:02:00.159 right? So they talk about marriage and Where 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.459 did Jesus go to answer the question of marriage 00:02:03.459 --> 00:02:08.659 the scriptures? right, so Jesus did not stand 00:02:08.659 --> 00:02:13.979 out to put up a defense to say that I'm the one 00:02:13.979 --> 00:02:16.900 that have the revelation about marriage. She 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.520 does not say we in the beginning I was there 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.560 I was the one who did it who wrote it down that 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:26.009 they should not be they should be male and female 00:02:26.009 --> 00:02:30.229 no he didn't say that right he said from the 00:02:30.229 --> 00:02:32.830 beginning he referred to them he referred to 00:02:32.830 --> 00:02:35.909 the scripture from the beginning the creation 00:02:35.909 --> 00:02:41.789 that's the way made male and female so even jesus 00:02:41.789 --> 00:02:47.909 in his answers to questions in his defense of 00:02:47.909 --> 00:02:52.860 the scriptures right quoted the scriptures or 00:02:52.860 --> 00:02:55.840 referred to the scriptures or more specifically 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:01.099 thoughts from the scriptures. So we can say that 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:06.479 it will be very unfair and unjust of us that 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:11.240 we want to answer scriptural questions and we 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.199 quote ourselves. Right? We quote ourselves. Now, 00:03:14.259 --> 00:03:16.219 there's a reason why I'm saying that because 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:21.830 tomorrow we are going to deal with uh some theologies 00:03:21.830 --> 00:03:24.210 in quotes I call them I mean we also write them 00:03:24.210 --> 00:03:25.969 as theologies but they are not theologies because 00:03:25.969 --> 00:03:28.810 there's no other gospel right but some certain 00:03:28.810 --> 00:03:33.569 teachings when men refer to themselves even Jesus 00:03:33.569 --> 00:03:36.090 did not refer to a revelation Jesus never said 00:03:36.090 --> 00:03:40.289 I saw a revelation to answer a question but rather 00:03:40.289 --> 00:03:43.930 always refer him back in his temptation refer 00:03:43.930 --> 00:03:46.629 back to the scriptures in his encounter refers 00:03:46.629 --> 00:03:49.479 back with the Pharisees refers back to the scriptures. 00:03:50.500 --> 00:03:55.560 So the scriptures answers to itself. Now the 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.340 defense of the scripture, our case scripture 00:03:58.340 --> 00:04:02.680 is 1 Peter chapter 3. Let's go to 1 Peter chapter 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:08.520 3, which is where we find that word defense of 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:14.120 the scripture. 1 Peter chapter 3 verse, I will 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:27.800 put it short. Verse 15. Verse 15. Verse 15, from 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.439 verse 15, let's start reading. It's a, but sanctify 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.899 the Lord in your hearts and be ready always to 00:04:34.899 --> 00:04:38.319 give an answer, right? Which scripture are you 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:39.879 using? Always ready to give a defense. Okay, 00:04:39.939 --> 00:04:42.699 good. NKJV. All right, that works. So this, but 00:04:42.699 --> 00:04:44.899 sanctify the Lord in your hearts and always be 00:04:44.899 --> 00:04:48.500 ready to give a defense. to everyone who asks 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:55.680 you a reason for the hope that is in you, with 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:00.680 meekness and fear. With what? With meekness and 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.459 fear. Having a good conscience that when they 00:05:03.459 --> 00:05:08.360 defame you as evildoers, those who revile your 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:11.180 good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. We'll 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:16.009 come to this later. Next verse. For it is better 00:05:16.009 --> 00:05:18.810 if it is the will of God sober for doing good 00:05:18.810 --> 00:05:24.610 than for doing evil. Go back to verse 15 Go back 00:05:24.610 --> 00:05:27.470 to verse 15. We'll come back to these other scriptures 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:31.209 verse 15 It's about sanctify the Lord in your 00:05:31.209 --> 00:05:35.569 hearts and always be ready to give a defense 00:05:35.569 --> 00:05:41.129 Always be ready to give a defense To everyone 00:05:41.129 --> 00:05:44.649 who asks you a reason a reason so the defense 00:05:44.649 --> 00:05:50.709 of the gospel requires a reason right a reason 00:05:50.709 --> 00:05:54.930 the defense of the gospel requires a reason you 00:05:54.930 --> 00:05:56.810 cannot just say you know there was one time to 00:05:56.810 --> 00:05:59.050 say i'm apologize i'm unapologetic i just do 00:05:59.050 --> 00:06:02.910 it you know you can't just do it right you can't 00:06:02.910 --> 00:06:08.009 just do it whatever you do which is faith right 00:06:08.009 --> 00:06:10.730 what will do is faith are we together so when 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:14.680 we do things there's an explanation in whichever 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.680 expression there's an explanation in the scriptures 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.399 why we do that so if someone asks you so that 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.000 you can't be able to answer this is the reason 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.139 this is the reason for the hope that is in me 00:06:29.139 --> 00:06:31.959 with meekness and fear now the word reason is 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.319 the word apologia okay so we can write down the 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:43.089 word reason is the word apologia So what I want 00:06:43.089 --> 00:06:48.069 to do is some levels of apologetics, right? Apologetics 00:06:48.069 --> 00:06:52.649 to explain, right? We are not a faith that cannot 00:06:52.649 --> 00:06:55.910 be explained by the scriptures. That's why I 00:06:55.910 --> 00:06:59.189 say the scripture itself answers to itself. The 00:06:59.189 --> 00:07:01.410 scriptures answer the questions that we have 00:07:01.410 --> 00:07:04.990 regarding the scriptures. So the word there is 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:07.290 apology. Now, I've been studying faiths that 00:07:07.290 --> 00:07:09.370 we're going to talk about tomorrow. One of the 00:07:09.370 --> 00:07:14.519 major things that makes you know, right, that 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.680 you might be in a cult, right, is when what you 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.660 believe cannot be questioned and cannot be explained. 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.920 Okay? When what you believe is something that 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.120 is said, we just receive it, we don't question 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.160 it, and we don't explain it, you are already 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.639 in a cult. If you join them, you are in a cult. 00:07:37.459 --> 00:07:41.779 But the faith of Christ, Right? The third of 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:45.100 Christ, we can question and receive explanations 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:48.800 from the scriptures. Okay? We can question, ask 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.199 questions, and receive explanations from the 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:59.500 scripture. So that word, Apologia, it's a reasoned 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:03.500 answer. It means a reasoned answer. Answer that 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:07.019 is not just shabu -shabu answer, not quick fix 00:08:07.019 --> 00:08:14.089 answer, not Key points. It's not key point answer. 00:08:14.509 --> 00:08:22.089 It's a reasoned answer. A verbal defense. This 00:08:22.089 --> 00:08:24.470 is where we're going. This is what we will do. 00:08:25.170 --> 00:08:28.310 We will give a reasoned answer, a verbal defense, 00:08:28.730 --> 00:08:33.409 a reasoned explanation. As I said, in this kind 00:08:33.409 --> 00:08:34.850 of explanation, you will explain, but you will 00:08:34.850 --> 00:08:37.750 not be tired. You will explain and explain and 00:08:37.750 --> 00:08:40.750 you keep explaining. This is what we are called 00:08:40.750 --> 00:08:42.629 to do. As I said, we will preach the word until 00:08:42.629 --> 00:08:44.590 the end of time. We'll keep doing it. We won't 00:08:44.590 --> 00:08:48.350 get tired, because that is what we have been 00:08:48.350 --> 00:08:50.470 called to do. So it's a reasoned answer, a verbal 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:55.889 defense, a reasoned explanation, right? It does 00:08:55.889 --> 00:08:59.230 not mean apologizing for being a Christian. OK, 00:08:59.230 --> 00:09:00.710 so you can write it out. It doesn't mean I'm 00:09:00.710 --> 00:09:03.269 trying to apologize. No. If I'm giving an explanation, 00:09:03.450 --> 00:09:08.379 I'm helping you to clear your confusion. So it 00:09:08.379 --> 00:09:10.919 is not apologizing for being. It's not like you're 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.500 giving excuse. No, no, no, no, no, no. Apologia 00:09:13.500 --> 00:09:18.720 is not excuse. It's reason understanding. You 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.960 are opening the minds of people to know why you 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:30.840 believe what you have believed. A reason explanation, 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.620 and it does not mean apologizing for being. Rather, 00:09:35.659 --> 00:09:38.909 it is actually a thoughtful biblical explanation. 00:09:40.470 --> 00:10:00.870 A thoughtful biblical explanation. All right. 00:10:01.090 --> 00:10:05.960 So is it thoughtful biblical explanation? It 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.419 is given the reason for the faith that we have 00:10:08.419 --> 00:10:11.720 in Christ. It is given a reason for the faith 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:18.980 that we have in Christ. Now, notice that Peter 00:10:18.980 --> 00:10:26.240 will not, right? Peter will not assume, okay? 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:31.860 Peter will not, okay. All right, Peter will not 00:10:31.860 --> 00:10:37.159 assume, right, to say that give a reason when 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.580 there will be nobody to ask you. So what it means 00:10:41.580 --> 00:10:44.539 is that Peter knew that where these people are, 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:48.000 the context of first Peter, right? Okay, maybe 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.820 you should go to chapter one. You will see that 00:10:50.820 --> 00:10:54.700 is a place where people would ask you for the 00:10:54.700 --> 00:11:01.320 reason of the faiths that you have in Christ. 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:06.480 Now, first Peter. chapter 1 verse 1 Peter an 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.840 apostle of Jesus Christ to the stranger scattered 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.299 Right you see those who he's writing to right 00:11:12.299 --> 00:11:16.299 to the stranger scattered through out Pontus, 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:23.620 Dalatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bethany Elect according 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:26.279 to the full knowledge of God the Father through 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:29.340 sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and 00:11:29.340 --> 00:11:33.009 sprinkling of the blood of Christ Grace unto 00:11:33.009 --> 00:11:35.610 you, and peace be multiplied. So, he's talking 00:11:35.610 --> 00:11:37.610 about believers that are what? Scattered abroad. 00:11:38.809 --> 00:11:40.809 Right? He's not talking about believers that 00:11:40.809 --> 00:11:43.049 are in Jerusalem. Even in Jerusalem, people are 00:11:43.049 --> 00:11:44.889 asking them questions. But he's not talking about 00:11:44.889 --> 00:11:46.889 people that are scattered abroad. That people 00:11:46.889 --> 00:11:50.149 that didn't know, people that are in places where 00:11:50.149 --> 00:11:52.669 they've never probably heard about who Jesus 00:11:52.669 --> 00:11:56.429 was. Places maybe they've never heard about the 00:11:56.429 --> 00:12:01.190 faith of Christ. To Asia, to Brittany, to places. 00:12:01.529 --> 00:12:04.289 that the message of the gospel might not have 00:12:04.289 --> 00:12:10.990 been preached, right? So it therefore means that 00:12:10.990 --> 00:12:13.850 you will be asked questions, right? So this is 00:12:13.850 --> 00:12:16.049 the background. So therefore to say that they 00:12:16.049 --> 00:12:19.549 should be ready to give an explanation means 00:12:19.549 --> 00:12:23.149 that people will ask them questions, okay? So 00:12:23.149 --> 00:12:25.750 we cannot be Christians that people cannot ask 00:12:25.750 --> 00:12:28.960 questions. We cannot be believers that people, 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.840 people must ask you questions. They must ask 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.960 you questions about your faith. That is when 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.299 you know that you are in the faith. I mean, that's 00:12:36.299 --> 00:12:38.279 a signal that it's obvious now, like in your 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:39.720 conduct, in your lifestyle and everything you 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:41.259 do, people are, this one is a believer. Let's 00:12:41.259 --> 00:12:44.220 ask her about the kingdom of God. So at your 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:46.480 workplace, be excited, be ready for people to 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.000 say, ah, what do you think about death? What 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.720 do you think about heaven? What do you think 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.320 about, you know? Life after dates. I have a very 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:56.659 special person in school that always asks me 00:12:56.659 --> 00:12:58.559 that question. Just comes lunchtime, just starts 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:00.919 asking those questions. And I'm excited to answer 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.639 him. And one thing I also do is I said, this 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:06.879 is what you believe, which we are going to come 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.639 there. We're going to come to that. I say, this 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:16.059 is what you believe. This is what you believe. 00:13:16.059 --> 00:13:19.820 Thank you. All right. This is what you believe. 00:13:19.899 --> 00:13:23.559 And I tell him, this is what we. Christian belief, 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.240 right? You see, drawing that boundary would help 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.559 us very well. Sometimes we are scared. What if 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.879 I tell him that is what I believe and his belief 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:35.080 is different? No, when it comes to apologia, 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:37.559 we're gonna teach us how to approach someone 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.600 and say, this is my stand, right? This is your 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:42.899 own stand. We are not standing on the same footing, 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:45.500 right? So people will ask the question. So in 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.580 this life, as a believer, always be ready that 00:13:48.580 --> 00:13:51.580 people will ask you, don't hide. right don't 00:13:51.580 --> 00:13:53.820 hide sometimes we used to hide right don't hide 00:13:53.820 --> 00:13:56.899 in fact sometimes when we start reading the scripture 00:13:56.899 --> 00:14:01.840 we will see that intentionally people call will 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.059 go to a place so that they were asking questions 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:09.440 why because he has an intention to give an explanation 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.759 of the scriptures it will intentionally start 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.139 the conversation that will lead to them asking 00:14:15.139 --> 00:14:19.649 him questions and he will preach So every opportunity 00:14:19.649 --> 00:14:22.649 we can be asked questions. So it therefore means 00:14:22.649 --> 00:14:24.750 that we will be asked questions and we have to 00:14:24.750 --> 00:14:29.710 give an explanation. We have to give an explanation. 00:14:32.470 --> 00:14:38.990 Let's go to Jude 3. During the course of the 00:14:38.990 --> 00:14:41.210 last three weeks of one month, the good driver, 00:14:41.330 --> 00:14:43.710 Pastor Fred, started the foundation of this. 00:14:44.230 --> 00:14:54.700 So Jude 3. Can I go to Jude 3? Jude 3. Beloved, 00:14:55.080 --> 00:15:00.179 while I was very diligent to write to you concerning 00:15:00.179 --> 00:15:05.419 our common salvation, I found it necessary to 00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:10.200 write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:16.970 for the fates, which was once all delivered to 00:15:16.970 --> 00:15:22.409 the saints, right? To contend earnestly for the 00:15:22.409 --> 00:15:25.769 faith that was once delivered to us, the saints. 00:15:25.950 --> 00:15:31.649 So it therefore means that in these faiths that 00:15:31.649 --> 00:15:35.509 we have, right? We are going to face people. 00:15:36.950 --> 00:15:39.450 That is one thing we must know, right? We are 00:15:39.450 --> 00:15:41.990 going to face people that will ask us questions 00:15:41.990 --> 00:15:46.759 and we have to contend for the faiths. So we're 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.240 gonna face people they're gonna access series 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:58.200 of questions series of question series of question 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:07.840 Okay, all right so therefore means that we must 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.860 be ready right at all times to give an answer 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:16.139 To defend the faiths that we have to defend the 00:16:16.139 --> 00:16:20.620 faith that we have. Now, please, can you tell 00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:23.120 me which of the words that I translate to as 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:29.340 Apologia? The reason, right? Can you go back 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:31.559 to that scripture, please? Can you go back to 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:39.740 1 Peter 3 verse 15? 1 Peter 3 verse 15. Use KJV, 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:48.960 let me see. Okay, and be ready to always give 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.580 an answer. Okay, the word answer is actually 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:53.940 the apologia. So please, can you correct that, 00:16:54.259 --> 00:16:59.679 right? The word answer is actually the word apologia, 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.059 right? The word answer is actually the one that 00:17:03.059 --> 00:17:06.299 carries the word apologia. And the word reason 00:17:06.299 --> 00:17:09.559 is logos, which is the word, right? Explanation, 00:17:09.940 --> 00:17:11.900 right? So the word answer, please correct that, 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.960 is the apologia. The word reason is the logos. 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:21.000 So it means that the word answer, okay, is the 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.880 apologia. The word logos is the reason. Means 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:28.759 that it is something that is explained, spoken, 00:17:29.259 --> 00:17:32.880 talked, okay? Means that something that is explained, 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:35.940 something that is spoken, something that is talked, 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:38.359 right? Something that is talked. So the answer 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.769 is the apologia that we are providing. for the 00:17:41.769 --> 00:17:44.230 people the apologia there we are explaining and 00:17:44.230 --> 00:17:49.170 we are using logos which is word to explain the 00:17:49.170 --> 00:17:52.029 reason of our faith so it means like this altered 00:17:52.029 --> 00:17:55.130 speech the logos is altered speech right what's 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:58.390 that is being said right the saints the saints 00:17:58.390 --> 00:18:01.730 and we know that this same is the same that is 00:18:01.730 --> 00:18:05.349 found in the word of god okay this logos is the 00:18:05.349 --> 00:18:08.809 same the teachings the words that is found in 00:18:08.809 --> 00:18:12.000 god all right so We can come together to say 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.000 that we should be ready to give an answer, Apologia, 00:18:15.420 --> 00:18:20.180 to anyone who asks us to give an answer for the 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:23.140 reason why we believe what we believe. It means 00:18:23.140 --> 00:18:25.500 that we have to give an explanation. So this 00:18:25.500 --> 00:18:29.440 is what is expected in the life of every believer. 00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:39.119 Now let's go to Acts 23. Acts 23. Acts 23, from 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:55.099 verse 1. Acts 23 from verse one. Okay, go to 00:18:55.099 --> 00:18:58.660 26. Go to 26. I wanna show us an example. This 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:04.960 one, 23 will be very long. Go to 26. Because 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.359 if we go to 23, we have to read the long, little 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:15.650 bit long. Just go to 26. Then Agrippa said unto 00:19:15.650 --> 00:19:21.109 Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. 00:19:21.490 --> 00:19:25.730 Then Paul stretched forth the hand and answered 00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:29.529 for himself. Paul stretched forth his hand and 00:19:29.529 --> 00:19:33.470 did what? And answered for himself. So Paul actually 00:19:33.470 --> 00:19:35.970 has been arrested, right? The context of this 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:39.210 is that Apostle Paul has been arrested, right, 00:19:39.230 --> 00:19:41.289 for preaching the gospel. And you know, the same 00:19:41.289 --> 00:19:44.440 pattern. Jesus was arrested, right? Accusations 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.779 was placed before him, right? And they bring 00:19:46.779 --> 00:19:50.380 him before Herod, okay? It's the same pattern. 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.819 Paul preached the gospel, was arrested, and they 00:19:53.819 --> 00:19:56.420 brought him before Agrippa. Agrippa is also King 00:19:56.420 --> 00:20:00.440 Herod, just having a title, Agrippa II. So the 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.519 same pattern, right, is what is happening here. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.920 So he has been brought before two leaders, right? 00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:11.710 It was before first two in verse... In chapter 00:20:11.710 --> 00:20:15.869 25, right? In chapter 25, you go from verse 23. 00:20:16.730 --> 00:20:19.289 And on the morning when Agrippa was come and 00:20:19.289 --> 00:20:22.009 Bennis, the great Tom, and was entered into the 00:20:22.009 --> 00:20:24.809 place of the hearing, the chief and the captains 00:20:24.809 --> 00:20:30.950 and principal men of the city, at Fester's commandment, 00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:34.650 Paul was brought forth, right? Paul was brought 00:20:34.650 --> 00:20:38.289 forth. And Fester said, King Agrippa, all men 00:20:38.289 --> 00:20:41.160 which are here present with us, And yet see this 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.420 man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews 00:20:44.420 --> 00:20:47.940 have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and also 00:20:47.940 --> 00:20:52.339 here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:55.400 Does it sound like what he did to Jesus? Does 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.180 it sound like what he did to Jesus? Yes. So a 00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:04.799 servant is not greater than his master. Example 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:08.900 in Paul's life. What he did to Jesus, he did 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:12.319 to Paul. So they said he ought not to leave the 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:14.839 Jews They said he ought not to leave from Jerusalem 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.460 and those that are here. But when I found that 00:21:17.460 --> 00:21:20.779 He had committed nothing worthy of death. Does 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:23.519 he also sound a game like what's happened to 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.279 Jesus before Pontus Pilate? Are we together? 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.839 It's a pattern said I find nothing in the in 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:33.299 the in the life of this man that is worthy of 00:21:33.299 --> 00:21:37.039 death He's about argument and debates about your 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.849 Jewish rights about what concerns you, and is 00:21:40.849 --> 00:21:43.569 only stating his point of view, his position 00:21:43.569 --> 00:21:46.369 on the matter of faith, why should it be put 00:21:46.369 --> 00:21:51.910 to death? You know, Romans, they reason. Romans, 00:21:52.170 --> 00:21:55.549 they reason. So they can't find anything. In 00:21:55.549 --> 00:21:58.849 fact, from their own point of view, to debate 00:21:58.849 --> 00:22:04.509 in theaters is a normal system of, you know, 00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:06.710 whatever development they have, philosophies 00:22:06.710 --> 00:22:09.490 and all of that. So for him to stay the position 00:22:09.490 --> 00:22:12.990 is not a crime. So they couldn't find anything. 00:22:13.109 --> 00:22:15.609 So the same thing here, after Festus has examined 00:22:15.609 --> 00:22:18.349 him, of course it was from Felix, now Festus. 00:22:18.569 --> 00:22:20.829 What I found out that he had committed not in 00:22:20.829 --> 00:22:23.190 worthy of death, and that he himself had appealed 00:22:23.190 --> 00:22:26.450 to Augustus, I have determined to send him, of 00:22:26.450 --> 00:22:29.269 whom I have no certain thing to write on to my 00:22:29.269 --> 00:22:32.049 Lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, 00:22:32.509 --> 00:22:35.009 especially before the old King Agrippa, that 00:22:35.009 --> 00:22:38.200 after examination had, other examination had 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.779 I might have so much to write for it seemed to 00:22:41.779 --> 00:22:46.140 me unreasonable to send a prisoner not and not 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:49.220 without to signify the crimes laid what against 00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:52.539 him means there was no crime against him right 00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:55.319 it means to defend the gospel to preach the gospel 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:58.859 there's no it's not a crime even in you know 00:22:58.859 --> 00:23:01.940 the Roman system and now it's not a crime because 00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:04.200 this is what Paul did. Then Agrippa said unto 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:07.599 Paul, thou art permitted to speak for thyself. 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.140 Then Paul straight forth the hand and answer 00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:14.079 it for himself. I think myself happy, King Agrippa, 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:19.099 because I shall answer for this day before thee 00:23:19.099 --> 00:23:22.339 touching all things, whereof I am accused of 00:23:22.339 --> 00:23:26.539 the Jews. Right? So Paul was there to do what? 00:23:26.619 --> 00:23:29.200 To give an answer. Now, do you think Paul was 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.319 there to give an answer pertaining himself? No, 00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:34.019 Paul wasn't there to give an answer pertaining 00:23:34.019 --> 00:23:36.440 himself. He was actually there to preach to them 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:39.940 again, to give an explanation of the gospel again. 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:43.880 Right? To give an explanation of the gospel. 00:23:44.099 --> 00:23:47.380 Now observe, especially because I know you need 00:23:47.380 --> 00:23:50.859 to be an expert in our customs and questions, 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.140 which are among the Jews. Right? So it's a matter 00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:58.160 pertaining to questions and customs among the 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:03.130 Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 00:24:03.730 --> 00:24:06.230 My manner of life from my youth, which was the 00:24:06.230 --> 00:24:09.309 first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know 00:24:09.309 --> 00:24:11.690 all the Jews. So they knew him, and the kind 00:24:11.690 --> 00:24:14.230 of person he was, which knew me from the beginning, 00:24:14.569 --> 00:24:17.529 which they would testify that after the most 00:24:17.529 --> 00:24:21.609 strictest sets of our religion, I leave a Pharisee. 00:24:21.609 --> 00:24:24.690 And now I stand and I'm judged for the hope of 00:24:24.690 --> 00:24:29.109 the promise made of God unto our fathers. Started 00:24:29.109 --> 00:24:34.430 explaining. I am being judged on the hope that 00:24:34.430 --> 00:24:37.170 God made, on the hope of the promise that God 00:24:37.170 --> 00:24:40.690 made to our Father. So Paul was standing there 00:24:40.690 --> 00:24:45.769 and explaining to Agrippa an explanation he has 00:24:45.769 --> 00:24:48.789 done in several places and giving an apology 00:24:48.789 --> 00:24:53.430 of why he believed what he believed, right? Onto 00:24:53.430 --> 00:24:56.190 which promise our 12 tribes and we're going to 00:24:56.190 --> 00:24:59.119 speak and in verse 9 it says I've already taught 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.160 with myself that I ought to do many things I've 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:04.900 already told myself that I ought to do many things 00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:07.839 contrary to the name of Jesus which thing I do 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.420 I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints 00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:13.519 did shut up in prison having received the authority 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.859 from Christ from chief priests and when they 00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:18.079 put to death and they were put to death including 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.859 steven I gave my voice against them and I punished 00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:26.240 them and he explained all of this now verse 14 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:31.579 and when uh no no from from verse 12 whereupon 00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:34.180 as i went to damascus to continue the persecution 00:25:34.180 --> 00:25:36.960 with authority and commission from the chief 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:41.339 priest at midday okay i saw the way a light from 00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:44.259 heaven above the brightness of the sun shining 00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:47.660 around me and then and we then we journeyed with 00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:50.059 me and when we were all falling to the earth 00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:54.279 i heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:56.710 the hebrew language in the british Saul Saul, 00:25:56.789 --> 00:26:00.329 why persecuted thou me? It is hard to kick against 00:26:00.329 --> 00:26:02.829 the pricks, right? So we had that reading as 00:26:02.829 --> 00:26:05.150 well. Now let's see, he quoted Jesus, let's look 00:26:05.150 --> 00:26:09.029 to verse 19. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was 00:26:09.029 --> 00:26:12.109 not disobedient unto this heavenly vision, but 00:26:12.109 --> 00:26:16.529 showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, 00:26:16.789 --> 00:26:19.309 and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then 00:26:19.309 --> 00:26:22.710 to the Gentiles, that they should repent and 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:27.759 turn to God, and do works meets for repentance. 00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:33.099 To do works meets for repentance. For these causes, 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.619 verse 21, the Jews caught me in the temple and 00:26:37.619 --> 00:26:41.440 then they were about to what? To kill me. Right? 00:26:41.819 --> 00:26:46.259 So he wasn't saying anything than the fact that 00:26:46.259 --> 00:26:51.579 he had an encounter with Christ and that encounter 00:26:51.579 --> 00:26:55.880 changed him. because this is what was promised. 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.640 That encounter changing and onto that, because 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.019 he's preaching in this name, that is why they 00:27:04.019 --> 00:27:07.579 have found him. Now he started explaining that 00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:12.000 long verses and the explanation continue. Now 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.480 let's see, let's see something that happened 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:23.920 in verse 24. Verse 24. I think I'd like to read 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:26.259 from verse number two, sorry. Having therefore 00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:29.019 obtained help of God, I continued on to this 00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:31.740 day, witnessing both to small and great, saying 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:34.539 none other things than those which the prophets 00:27:34.539 --> 00:27:39.299 and Moses did say should come. Again, explaining 00:27:39.299 --> 00:27:41.960 that this is what has been promised to the Father, 00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:44.779 this is what the prophets said, this is what 00:27:44.779 --> 00:27:50.180 I am saying. So the explanation of Paul was also 00:27:50.180 --> 00:27:52.960 in accordance to what has been written. in the 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.940 scriptures. Are we together? So Paul's explanation 00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:59.240 is also in alignment to what has been written 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:03.359 in the scriptures, right? So the apologia of 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:07.579 Paul is from what has been written in the scriptures. 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:13.940 What has been written in the scriptures. Verse 00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:18.720 23, that Christ should suffer and that he should 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:23.819 be the first that should rise from the dead and 00:28:23.819 --> 00:28:27.539 show and should show lights unto the people and 00:28:27.539 --> 00:28:30.700 to who? The Gentiles. To show light on the people 00:28:30.700 --> 00:28:34.339 and the Gentiles. And I suspect for himself in 00:28:34.339 --> 00:28:38.279 an apologian explanation answer to why he's been 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.880 held. What did Fester said? Fester said with 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.900 a loud voice, Paul thou art beside thyself. Much 00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:51.980 learning doth make thee mad. Now, This okay much 00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:54.420 learning much may be mad now then restore faces, 00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:58.819 but I said I am not mad most noble festers but 00:28:58.819 --> 00:29:02.579 speak forth the words of truth and words and 00:29:02.579 --> 00:29:05.339 Sobhan is for the king knoweth this things for 00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:08.920 whom I speak freely Right and the students have 00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:12.240 said King Agrippa believers believers now the 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:16.539 prophets. I know now believers So God give an 00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:20.000 explanation that's made people that make festers 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:22.460 to say you are you are out of your mind like 00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:24.819 you are out of your mind and he said no i'm not 00:29:24.819 --> 00:29:28.720 out of my mind Agrippa think Agrippa can bear 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:32.940 witness to these things that it has been said 00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:36.119 by the prophets right because don't forget he 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:38.900 said you are a man that knows about the customs 00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:43.079 are we together so we are the man that knows 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:45.660 about the custom and Agrippa and he asked him 00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:48.119 you see a very way to catch someone when you 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.960 are doing evangelism after you have said everything 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:56.960 don't wait for the person to say what now no 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.740 no no wait for the person to say what now you 00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:01.039 cannot preach and you wait for the person to 00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:03.759 say what now basically i tell you that's a good 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:06.339 speech you know i like that i like rito i've 00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:08.559 seen people said that yes i'm telling you really 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.579 i've seen people say you do as a believer you 00:30:10.579 --> 00:30:14.480 don't wait you ask them straight do you believe 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.950 do you believe right you don't wait Some people 00:30:18.950 --> 00:30:21.650 say, wow, that was a good speech. In this environment, 00:30:21.670 --> 00:30:25.029 it's quite common. They can come to your church, 00:30:25.410 --> 00:30:27.269 and they will hear the sound. So you guys play 00:30:27.269 --> 00:30:29.869 good music. I like the dance in church. I like 00:30:29.869 --> 00:30:32.029 the way people clap in church. Please don't accept 00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:33.509 those things. Ask the person, do you believe? 00:30:34.509 --> 00:30:36.410 When the person tells you, I like the way you 00:30:36.410 --> 00:30:38.650 guys dress on Sunday to church, you guys are, 00:30:38.789 --> 00:30:41.990 that's an opportunity. So really, you like the 00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:44.470 way we dress to church? Let me tell you why we 00:30:44.470 --> 00:30:46.690 dress to church like that. Then you preach the 00:30:46.690 --> 00:30:48.880 gospel. and you explain, you ask the person, 00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:52.200 do you believe? Now let's see what Agrippa said, 00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:55.079 Agrippa verse 27, King Agrippa, believers thou 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.799 the prophets and I know that thou believers, 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:02.019 and Agrippa said unto Paul, almost thou persuades 00:31:02.019 --> 00:31:08.200 me to be a Christian, almost persuaded me to 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:13.240 be a Christian. It means that, this is what it 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.920 means, let me tell you what this means, it means 00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:22.900 that Paul presented every evidence with doubts, 00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:26.160 doubts. It means that beyond the reasonable doubts, 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:32.420 you know, beyond the reasonable doubts, Paul 00:31:32.420 --> 00:31:35.240 presented that Christ is the Messiah and through 00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:39.359 him, the penance, forgiveness of sins will be 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:43.359 given. He presented beyond the, but because of 00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:46.619 the hardness of man, He said, you almost persuaded 00:31:46.619 --> 00:31:49.240 me. I don't know why Agrippa didn't believe, 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.000 probably because Festus was there, probably because 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.980 of the culture and the people was. Sometimes, 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:54.220 you know, leaders, they don't want to believe 00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:56.980 in a public place, right? They like to, you know, 00:31:57.099 --> 00:32:00.740 it's pride. So what we see here is that beyond 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:03.640 reasonable doubts, two people, one said is mad. 00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:06.680 Because for you to collect those things together, 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.200 your mind must really be beyond. You must have 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.559 a supernatural mind to bring that together. And 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:19.000 then, So what we see is that in our apologia, 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:21.440 people must be persuaded. They will not reach 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.599 halfway. You can say to yourself, in my explanation 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:27.519 of the gospel to someone, they will be persuaded. 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:32.039 They will be persuaded. They will come to believe. 00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:39.559 They will come to believe. They will come to 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:53.779 believe. So, let's go to Acts chapter seven, 00:32:54.079 --> 00:33:02.920 verse one. Acts chapter seven, verse one. Again, 00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:06.720 then said the high priests, are these things 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.579 so? So they were asking Stephen, right? They 00:33:10.579 --> 00:33:12.940 were asking Stephen, after all the accusations 00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:16.079 around him, right? So, it is expected, you know, 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.009 Mbemfaba will still come there. Part of the things 00:33:19.009 --> 00:33:21.390 that come with apologia, explaining the scripture, 00:33:21.529 --> 00:33:24.930 is persecution. In these two cases, they are 00:33:24.930 --> 00:33:29.029 calling them to explain. The expectation of the 00:33:29.029 --> 00:33:33.130 Jews is that maybe they will change their mind 00:33:33.130 --> 00:33:35.829 about what they believe, and then we will preserve 00:33:35.829 --> 00:33:39.930 them. But Paul and Stephen did not change their 00:33:39.930 --> 00:33:43.690 mind. And they said these things, and then the 00:33:43.690 --> 00:33:46.109 hybrid said, are these things so? And he said, 00:33:46.509 --> 00:33:51.859 men and brethren, fathers hacking the God of 00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:55.359 glory appeared onto our father Abraham again 00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:59.339 referring to what God has promised us for time. 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:03.880 He has promised a long time ago when he was in 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.380 Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Cairo. Now look 00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:10.219 at those people they are not just quoting John 00:34:10.219 --> 00:34:14.360 3 .16 like are you getting it? It's not just 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:18.090 one scripture they are coming from the Old Testament, 00:34:18.309 --> 00:34:23.590 from the prophets, to begin to explain in detail 00:34:23.590 --> 00:34:28.230 about the message of the gospel. So the Apologous 00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:33.150 Gospel is the detailed explanation beyond reasonable 00:34:33.150 --> 00:34:37.489 doubt. The detailed explanation beyond reasonable 00:34:37.489 --> 00:34:40.389 doubt. So it says, God appeared unto our father 00:34:40.389 --> 00:34:43.050 Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he 00:34:43.050 --> 00:34:47.659 dwelt in Corinth and said unto him, get the out 00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:52.480 of their country now this explanation went okay 00:34:52.480 --> 00:35:01.780 until verse 53 verse what 53 so they were listening 00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:07.980 to a preaching an explanation a defense of the 00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:11.639 gospel that was what they listened to a defense 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:18.730 of the gospel the answer of steven to what they 00:35:18.730 --> 00:35:20.289 were asking him. So the defense of the gospel 00:35:20.289 --> 00:35:23.230 is very long. You should be prepared. So if you 00:35:23.230 --> 00:35:24.829 want to give up, it's not something you just 00:35:24.829 --> 00:35:26.409 quickly, that's why we say, that's why we see 00:35:26.409 --> 00:35:28.010 that. You see that in this church we pay attention 00:35:28.010 --> 00:35:32.070 a lot to teachings. As much as we can do anything 00:35:32.070 --> 00:35:35.269 on a Sunday service, on a Sunday service, the 00:35:35.269 --> 00:35:36.869 teaching time remains what? At least one hour, 00:35:36.949 --> 00:35:40.869 if you have observed. Because the explanation 00:35:40.869 --> 00:35:43.349 of the gospel, has to be detailed. The reason 00:35:43.349 --> 00:35:46.929 is because you don't want to leave the person 00:35:46.929 --> 00:35:50.489 in confusion. And that's why Pastor Victor was 00:35:50.489 --> 00:35:53.170 saying that such kind of an explanation or a 00:35:53.170 --> 00:36:00.349 teaching that does not explain the gospel cannot 00:36:00.349 --> 00:36:02.429 produce life, cannot produce eternal life, cannot 00:36:02.429 --> 00:36:05.590 produce faith in someone. So you have to be detailed 00:36:05.590 --> 00:36:08.630 in your explanation of the gospel, in the answer 00:36:08.630 --> 00:36:11.909 that you give people. So we say that people will 00:36:11.909 --> 00:36:14.809 ask us questions, right? People will ask us questions. 00:36:14.929 --> 00:36:16.570 It might be for persecution. It might be for 00:36:16.570 --> 00:36:19.170 people to know, right? But one thing that is 00:36:19.170 --> 00:36:21.590 certain is that they will ask questions. Now 00:36:21.590 --> 00:36:25.570 let's see some demonstrations of explanation 00:36:25.570 --> 00:36:28.989 of the gospel in the Old Testament, right? So 00:36:28.989 --> 00:36:33.489 it's like more or less tracing themes of apologetics 00:36:33.489 --> 00:36:37.090 in the Old Testament. Answers where people are 00:36:37.090 --> 00:36:41.269 being taught. or told, or there's a practice 00:36:41.269 --> 00:36:45.210 of it in the Old Testament. So most of the time 00:36:45.210 --> 00:36:47.469 we want to pick it from there because whatever 00:36:47.469 --> 00:36:51.250 we are doing today that we found in the New Testament, 00:36:52.010 --> 00:36:56.110 right, must have been found in the Old Testament 00:36:56.110 --> 00:36:58.550 as well, what we call the Old Testament text. 00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:01.369 So we can trace something in the Deuteronomy 00:37:01.369 --> 00:37:07.570 6 verse 20 to 25. Deuteronomy 6 verse 20 to 25. 00:37:08.809 --> 00:37:14.889 good and when thy son asketh thee in time to 00:37:14.889 --> 00:37:19.550 come saying what mean the testimonies and the 00:37:19.550 --> 00:37:24.030 statutes and the judgments which the Lord our 00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:27.630 God at commanded you so it means that you they'll 00:37:27.630 --> 00:37:30.489 wake up one day and begin to say why do we observe 00:37:30.489 --> 00:37:33.409 the Passover what is the Passover for why do 00:37:33.409 --> 00:37:35.909 we keep the showbread why do we have all of this 00:37:35.909 --> 00:37:41.760 then thou shall say unto thy son we were once 00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:45.920 pharaohs born men in egypt and the lord brought 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.059 us out of egypt with a mighty hand stop that's 00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:54.699 that's that's a picture of god's salvation so 00:37:54.699 --> 00:37:57.719 it is from here they'll begin to explain to them 00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:02.980 this is what happened to us and this is the message 00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:08.469 now go to verse 22 Verse 22 and the Lord show 00:38:08.469 --> 00:38:11.389 signs and wonders great and so upon Egypt upon 00:38:11.389 --> 00:38:13.989 Pharaoh and upon all the household before our 00:38:13.989 --> 00:38:18.250 eyes next and it brought us out from this that 00:38:18.250 --> 00:38:21.590 he might bring us in to give us the land which 00:38:21.590 --> 00:38:24.869 is swore unto our fathers and the Lord commanded 00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.969 us to do all the statues to fear the Lord our 00:38:27.969 --> 00:38:31.269 God for our good always that he might preserve 00:38:31.269 --> 00:38:35.369 us alive as it is at this day and five and he 00:38:35.369 --> 00:38:39.010 shall be our righteousness if we observe all 00:38:39.010 --> 00:38:42.769 to do all these commandments before the Lord 00:38:42.769 --> 00:38:47.170 our God as he has commanded us so we see that 00:38:47.170 --> 00:38:51.469 he said that a generation will come and you would 00:38:51.469 --> 00:38:54.929 need to give an explanation of why you are doing 00:38:54.929 --> 00:38:59.650 what you're doing right a generation will come 00:38:59.650 --> 00:39:02.829 we'll come to that when we start picking why 00:39:02.829 --> 00:39:05.369 we need apologetics we will come to that we'll 00:39:05.369 --> 00:39:07.829 come back to this scripture again all right exodus 00:39:07.829 --> 00:39:12.730 12 26 to 27 the same scriptures exodus 12 26 00:39:12.730 --> 00:39:20.769 to 27 just write that down exodus 12 26 to 27 00:39:20.769 --> 00:39:33.150 exodus 13 verse 14 so here verse 12 says, what 00:39:33.150 --> 00:39:37.630 mean ye by this service? So it will be practices, 00:39:38.590 --> 00:39:40.489 it will be service, it will be whatever they 00:39:40.489 --> 00:39:45.190 do as a nation. 13 verse 14, Exodus 13 verse 00:39:45.190 --> 00:39:49.550 14. And shall be when thy son access thee in 00:39:49.550 --> 00:39:51.690 time to come, what is this? That thou shall see 00:39:51.690 --> 00:39:54.989 unto them by the strength of the Lord, by the 00:39:54.989 --> 00:39:57.230 strength of hand, the Lord brought us out of 00:39:57.230 --> 00:40:00.070 Egypt from the house of bondage. Again. explaining 00:40:00.070 --> 00:40:02.869 so you can just write those scriptures down the 00:40:02.869 --> 00:40:08.230 scriptures down joshua 4 6 to 7 joshua 4 6 to 00:40:08.230 --> 00:40:12.530 7 observe that observe that in this explanation 00:40:12.530 --> 00:40:17.730 is like some things were set in place and those 00:40:17.730 --> 00:40:21.989 things triggered a question okay some things 00:40:21.989 --> 00:40:25.309 were set in place and those things triggered 00:40:25.309 --> 00:40:28.070 a question So when it comes to apology, it might 00:40:28.070 --> 00:40:30.750 be your lifestyle that somebody will just see 00:40:30.750 --> 00:40:32.590 and will ask you, why are you living like this? 00:40:33.170 --> 00:40:34.989 Why are you not the aggressive type? Why are 00:40:34.989 --> 00:40:38.610 you not the one that just live without principle? 00:40:38.710 --> 00:40:42.010 Why are you so kind? Why are you so loving? So 00:40:42.010 --> 00:40:44.989 through that, you find the means by which you 00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:49.860 can explain extensively why we believe. words 00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:52.519 we believe so just four six to seven it tells 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.139 you that there were stones right uh that this 00:40:55.139 --> 00:40:56.619 may be a sign among you that when a children 00:40:56.619 --> 00:40:59.260 asks the same thing what's minutes these stones 00:40:59.260 --> 00:41:04.920 in this case stones stones now some 78 verse 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:19.760 128 my people to my law and incline your ears 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.780 to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth 00:41:22.780 --> 00:41:24.960 in a parable and I'll utter dark sayings of old 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:29.019 which we have heard and known and our fathers 00:41:29.019 --> 00:41:33.260 have told us we will not hide them from their 00:41:33.260 --> 00:41:35.920 children we will not hide them from their children 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:38.460 showing to the generation to come the praises 00:41:38.460 --> 00:41:41.099 of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful 00:41:41.099 --> 00:41:45.489 works that he had done wonderful works that he 00:41:45.489 --> 00:41:47.269 had done for he established a testimony in Jacob 00:41:47.269 --> 00:41:49.269 and appointed the law in Israel and he commanded 00:41:49.269 --> 00:41:52.969 our father that we should make them what known 00:41:52.969 --> 00:41:58.630 to our children right known to our children now 00:41:58.630 --> 00:42:03.349 let's write these other scriptures Micah 6 1 00:42:03.349 --> 00:42:07.789 to 5 Micah 6 1 to 5 I'm also going to give one 00:42:07.789 --> 00:42:10.750 again these ones are teachings right This was 00:42:10.750 --> 00:42:13.210 our teachings, teachings, teachings, teachings. 00:42:13.570 --> 00:42:15.889 Let's say one that the defense of the gospel, 00:42:15.889 --> 00:42:20.050 right? You know, it's almost the only example 00:42:20.050 --> 00:42:23.869 that it happened in a very practical way, right? 00:42:23.929 --> 00:42:26.230 In a very practical way. Let's go to 1 Kings 00:42:26.230 --> 00:42:37.349 18, 1 Kings 18 20 to 39, where the prophets who 00:42:37.349 --> 00:42:40.119 has been preaching to them, right? 1 Kings 18 00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.059 verse 32, 39. If you're there. Now, so here I've 00:42:45.059 --> 00:42:47.320 sent all the children of Israel and gathered 00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:49.719 the prophets, and they came onto Mount Camel. 00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:52.619 And Elijah came onto all the people and said, 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:58.800 how long holds here between two opinions? If 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.699 the Lord be God, follow him. But if bow, then 00:43:01.699 --> 00:43:04.460 follow him. And the people answered him, not 00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:07.659 a word. Then Elijah said unto the people, I, 00:43:07.659 --> 00:43:09.679 even I only remain a prophet of the Lord, but 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:13.599 Baal's prophets are 450 men. Let them therefore 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.059 give us two bullocks. Let them choose one bullock 00:43:17.059 --> 00:43:19.320 for themselves and cut it into pieces and lay 00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:23.780 it on the wood. And put no fire under it, and 00:43:23.780 --> 00:43:25.920 I will dress the other bullock and lay it on 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.150 the wood and put no fire under it. next and call 00:43:29.150 --> 00:43:30.989 you on the name of your gods and I will call 00:43:30.989 --> 00:43:35.030 you on the name of the Lord and the God that's 00:43:35.030 --> 00:43:37.769 answered by fire let him be God and all the people 00:43:37.769 --> 00:43:41.690 answered and say it is well spoken right in this 00:43:41.690 --> 00:43:44.570 case there is no teaching right in that sense 00:43:44.570 --> 00:43:48.489 but what we observe is that he was providing 00:43:48.489 --> 00:43:52.170 evidence to them by signs I want us to say that 00:43:52.170 --> 00:43:57.329 God is God right God is God so that's a demonstration 00:43:57.500 --> 00:44:01.780 demonstration so we can say that in apologia 00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:06.199 right in explaining the demonstration of the 00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:10.320 spirits okay the demonstration of the spirits 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.960 can aid in our explanation of the gospel or will 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.340 aid us in our explanation of the gospel the demonstration 00:44:18.340 --> 00:44:21.559 of the spirits so you are teaching someone about 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.599 jesus and you have preached to the person and 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:25.980 you call the person and say, can I pray with 00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:28.119 you? You hold the person's hand and the person 00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:32.900 receives instant healing. So the demonstration 00:44:32.900 --> 00:44:36.079 of the spirit comes with, can hear those or will 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:40.019 hear those in the explanation of the gospel, 00:44:40.860 --> 00:44:44.599 in our prologue. Good. Now let's go back to 1 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:48.099 Peter 3, 15. Let's go back to that first Peter, 00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:55.170 which is our key scripture. It says, was sanctifying 00:44:55.170 --> 00:44:58.050 the Lord in your hearts. Now let's talk about 00:44:58.050 --> 00:45:01.550 sanctifying the Lord in our hearts, right? Santification, 00:45:01.590 --> 00:45:05.110 I don't know. What does this mean? It is simply 00:45:05.110 --> 00:45:11.110 to set the Lord aside, is a form of a consecration, 00:45:12.449 --> 00:45:16.969 right? So what this means is that above all, 00:45:17.389 --> 00:45:22.900 right? There is a place. where you have a concentration 00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:27.880 that's any time you are ready to give an apology, 00:45:28.300 --> 00:45:31.340 an explanation, an answer about the gospel. So 00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:34.119 again, let me say it. Being ready to give an 00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.599 answer about the gospel is concentration and 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.739 is sanctification. You are sanctifying yourself. 00:45:40.300 --> 00:45:45.059 Being ready always to give an answer about the 00:45:45.059 --> 00:45:47.539 message of the gospel is your concentration, 00:45:48.019 --> 00:45:52.130 is your sanctification. It means you are set 00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:56.190 aside. It means all the ideologies in this world. 00:45:56.429 --> 00:45:58.909 You are set aside that when you are called, when 00:45:58.909 --> 00:46:02.389 you are asked, you are ready to give. So that 00:46:02.389 --> 00:46:04.829 is consecration. Because that is why I say, but 00:46:04.829 --> 00:46:09.090 sanctify the Lord in your hearts. In today's 00:46:09.090 --> 00:46:10.769 world, you say the Lord has a special place in 00:46:10.769 --> 00:46:13.849 my heart. He has a special place that if you 00:46:13.849 --> 00:46:17.269 just touch any wrong doctrine, I would be kind 00:46:17.269 --> 00:46:23.690 to explain to you that you are not representing 00:46:23.690 --> 00:46:25.489 God well in your teaching. So it means that you 00:46:25.489 --> 00:46:28.929 are ready. You are ready. It's not being apprehensive, 00:46:29.250 --> 00:46:32.650 but being ready. You are just ready to teach 00:46:32.650 --> 00:46:34.590 someone. You are ready for someone's knowledge 00:46:34.590 --> 00:46:38.130 to increase and come to faith. So that sanctification 00:46:38.130 --> 00:46:42.150 there means when you are able to give an explanation, 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:44.519 It means you are putting yourself in a state 00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.780 of consecration. Now, it matches with Isaiah 00:46:46.780 --> 00:46:50.460 8, verse 13. So we can go to Isaiah 8, verse 00:46:50.460 --> 00:46:58.280 13. Isaiah 8, verse 13. It says, sanctify the 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:03.500 Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your fear, 00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:07.639 and let him be your dread. Sanctify the Lord 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:11.269 of hosts himself. Now, this is a situation. where 00:47:11.269 --> 00:47:14.150 they were facing enemies. And it says, sanctify 00:47:14.150 --> 00:47:18.090 the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your 00:47:18.090 --> 00:47:22.849 dread. So it means that you hold on. Now go to 00:47:22.849 --> 00:47:29.250 verse 20. Let me read them together. Verse 20. 00:47:29.610 --> 00:47:31.869 It says, so the law unto the testimony, if they 00:47:31.869 --> 00:47:34.610 speak not according to the words, it is because 00:47:34.610 --> 00:47:38.630 there is no light in them. If we read it a little 00:47:38.630 --> 00:47:41.630 bit. me open them from my scriptures then we 00:47:41.630 --> 00:47:43.969 can get a little bit of a context of what is 00:47:43.969 --> 00:47:47.349 happening there and then we can build on that 00:47:47.349 --> 00:47:56.289 so it's like they're facing uh isa 8 sorry let's 00:47:56.289 --> 00:48:07.130 open it quickly all right good so if you read 00:48:07.130 --> 00:48:10.190 from verse Verse one, so the Lord said unto me, 00:48:10.409 --> 00:48:13.690 take thee a great school, a great rule, and write 00:48:13.690 --> 00:48:16.809 it in a man's pen, consigning Melchaleh as bash. 00:48:17.050 --> 00:48:22.050 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record 00:48:22.050 --> 00:48:24.670 Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of, the 00:48:24.670 --> 00:48:26.610 name is there, right? Verse three said, I went 00:48:26.610 --> 00:48:29.210 unto the prophetess and she conceived. Now this 00:48:29.210 --> 00:48:32.710 is in a situation of distress, actually, in Israel, 00:48:33.429 --> 00:48:36.670 right? It's in a situation. of distress. Of course 00:48:36.670 --> 00:48:39.809 we know Isaiah was talking about where they were 00:48:39.809 --> 00:48:42.030 in distress. Now verse 7 says, now therefore 00:48:42.030 --> 00:48:44.389 be you the Lord bring upon thee the waters of 00:48:44.389 --> 00:48:46.530 the river and the waters of the river strong 00:48:46.530 --> 00:48:49.610 and many even the king of Assyria and all is 00:48:49.610 --> 00:48:52.570 glory and he shall come up over all the channels 00:48:52.570 --> 00:48:55.610 and go over all the banks and he shall pass through 00:48:55.610 --> 00:48:58.949 Judah he shall overflow and go over and go over 00:48:58.949 --> 00:49:01.389 he shall reach even to the neck of the outstretched. 00:49:01.809 --> 00:49:05.219 Right so the whole context here right is Israel 00:49:05.219 --> 00:49:07.519 right being in distress Israel being in exile 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.820 and this is Isaiah prophesying and verse from 00:49:10.820 --> 00:49:14.420 verse 11 says for the Lord spake thus to me with 00:49:14.420 --> 00:49:16.719 a strong hand and instructed me that I should 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:21.420 not walk in the way of these people saying saying 00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:24.539 not a confederacy to all them to whom these people 00:49:24.539 --> 00:49:27.960 shall say a confederacy neither fear their fear 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:31.679 nor be afraid was sanctified the Lord right so 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:35.619 it's like holding on to the God's testimony in 00:49:35.619 --> 00:49:38.920 a circumstance right holding on to God's testimony 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:41.780 in a circumstance if you keep reading it says 00:49:41.780 --> 00:49:44.840 and it shall be for a sanctuary but for I shall 00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:47.679 be for a sanctuary but for a stone of stumbling 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.780 and a rock of offense to both the house of Israel 00:49:50.780 --> 00:49:53.500 and for a jinn and for its net to the inhabitants 00:49:53.500 --> 00:49:56.599 of Jerusalem and many among them shall stumble 00:49:56.599 --> 00:49:59.789 and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken 00:49:59.789 --> 00:50:03.329 bite of the testimonies to seal the law among 00:50:03.329 --> 00:50:06.690 my disciples so it's mainly emphasizing if people 00:50:06.690 --> 00:50:10.210 set aside right sanctify the Lord our voice himself 00:50:10.210 --> 00:50:12.829 and letting be your fear so the fear here right 00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:15.929 is talking about reverencing God in a circumstance 00:50:15.929 --> 00:50:21.250 okay so reverencing God in a circumstance so 00:50:21.250 --> 00:50:24.889 we can say that to be ready to give an account 00:50:24.889 --> 00:50:29.059 of the gospel is actually a reverence to God 00:50:29.059 --> 00:50:34.860 in that circumstance. So be ready to give an 00:50:34.860 --> 00:50:37.860 account and explain the teaching and say this 00:50:37.860 --> 00:50:41.480 is what the scripture says is actually reverence 00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:44.039 to God. So if you want to reverence God, if you 00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:47.119 want to honor God, if you want to fear God in 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:52.260 the words of Isaiah is that you are always willing 00:50:52.260 --> 00:50:57.619 to give an account. Now let's now see, the next 00:50:57.619 --> 00:51:00.659 thing is, why do we need apologetics? Is it just 00:51:00.659 --> 00:51:02.940 for the fun of it? Is it just to show that I 00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:06.739 know Bible? No, definitely not. Definitely not. 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.500 Why do we need apologetics? That's the next subheading. 00:51:10.019 --> 00:51:14.739 Why should I be so engrossed in the scriptures 00:51:14.739 --> 00:51:17.960 that I can explain the scriptures from Genesis 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:22.800 to Malachi and to Revelation talking about the 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:26.179 message of God? Why? Why is it important? Why 00:51:26.179 --> 00:51:31.599 is it important? The first thing is that a generation 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:35.659 would rise. A new generation would rise. Or I 00:51:35.659 --> 00:51:37.619 think I wrote it there, a new generation will 00:51:37.619 --> 00:51:42.039 always rise. A new generation will always rise. 00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:46.179 Today you have, I mean, let's even use the scientific 00:51:46.179 --> 00:51:49.159 way of saying it. You have Gen Z, right? After 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:51.780 Gen Z will be done, you have Gen Alpha, right? 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:57.179 It means that new people would come. Right? And 00:51:57.179 --> 00:52:00.039 they will come, a new generation will always 00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:02.719 rise. Just like the children of Israel are the 00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.719 new generation that knew not the law or what 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:09.980 God has done. And that is why they were instructed, 00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:13.179 write it down. Let the stones be there. Let the 00:52:13.179 --> 00:52:15.639 book be here. Let the statues be there. Why? 00:52:15.860 --> 00:52:18.760 So that even before you say you want to teach, 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.920 your children will do what? They will ask, why 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:25.190 are we doing this? Right? Why are we doing this? 00:52:25.409 --> 00:52:27.869 So a new generation will always rise. Now we 00:52:27.869 --> 00:52:29.590 are a new generation. This generation is totally 00:52:29.590 --> 00:52:34.070 different from mine. In my generation, I mean, 00:52:34.090 --> 00:52:36.110 I'm still very young. I think the way I'm saying 00:52:36.110 --> 00:52:40.070 it is looking as if I'm old. But being in, let's 00:52:40.070 --> 00:52:42.349 say, in my 20s, let's wait. I think we can say 00:52:42.349 --> 00:52:45.630 that now, right? Being in my 20s, you can say 00:52:45.630 --> 00:52:47.889 that now, right? Sometimes I used to feel myself 00:52:47.889 --> 00:52:54.369 still very young. Now, in my own 20s, Which, 00:52:54.590 --> 00:53:00.050 of course, even before my 20s, the zeal and passion 00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:06.789 we have for God, I beg to say that is different 00:53:06.789 --> 00:53:12.670 from this generation. I really do beg to say 00:53:12.670 --> 00:53:19.050 that the zeal that we have, this generation looks 00:53:19.050 --> 00:53:24.340 a little bit cold. I'm sorry to say. Now we didn't 00:53:24.340 --> 00:53:27.699 have all the revelation. We just had one thing. 00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:34.159 Jesus followed. That's it. We were reading all 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:37.920 manner of books. We fell into the ones that are 00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:41.599 good. We came out. We fell into the ones that 00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:43.400 are good. We held on to it. So we fell into the 00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:44.679 ones that are bad. We came out. The ones that 00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:48.659 are dangerous. Then one thing we held on to this 00:53:48.659 --> 00:53:53.230 one. Right? In my own time, they don't, they 00:53:53.230 --> 00:53:55.989 don't compare you to come to church. You want 00:53:55.989 --> 00:53:59.690 to be in church. Like they don't have to, you 00:53:59.690 --> 00:54:01.989 know, you have to save money. They don't tell 00:54:01.989 --> 00:54:05.210 you to save money. You trick. It's not a joke. 00:54:05.349 --> 00:54:08.969 We trick from Goyeli to Fuwa. They are here, 00:54:09.230 --> 00:54:12.170 at least people that were here. And it's not 00:54:12.170 --> 00:54:15.530 here we started. We started from far back home. 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:19.179 where you go and carry the speaker with your 00:54:19.179 --> 00:54:21.519 head. I'm not saying that you should not desire 00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:24.579 comfort in this time, but when it's not available, 00:54:25.099 --> 00:54:29.340 then stretch. Stretch. So a generation will come. 00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:32.300 In fact, the way we did, you know, now we're 00:54:32.300 --> 00:54:34.619 saying, okay, rich canonicals, we're trying to 00:54:34.619 --> 00:54:38.420 push each other. Some of us came here three months 00:54:38.420 --> 00:54:40.860 in Cyprus to down the Bible. I'm not kidding. 00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.199 What were you doing? You go to school, you go 00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:47.260 to church, you come back home. Where? No club, 00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:49.639 nothing. They don't do anything. No social activities. 00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.519 We're sitting down. So sometimes I try to understand 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:57.219 the zeal. So it means that in this generation, 00:54:58.059 --> 00:55:02.639 we need to do what? To teach the zeal of my father's 00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:05.619 house. Right? We need to do what? We need to 00:55:05.619 --> 00:55:10.699 teach the zeal of God's house. We need to teach 00:55:10.699 --> 00:55:12.920 it again. I remember sometimes we were going 00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.079 to meet in Pastor Frey's house. That time, now 00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:17.269 the transfer system is very good in Cyprus. right 00:55:17.269 --> 00:55:20.769 we have class now that time going early boss 00:55:20.769 --> 00:55:25.070 will stop at seven seven thirty and we'll have 00:55:25.070 --> 00:55:27.230 meeting in pacifist house in probably in other 00:55:27.230 --> 00:55:30.590 coin or yenikent area and we are living in merits 00:55:30.590 --> 00:55:32.250 i know some of you two are doing that tricks 00:55:32.250 --> 00:55:35.929 now so we'll get bishop will carry a guitar we'll 00:55:35.929 --> 00:55:40.190 be singing and be trekking till we get to merits 00:55:40.190 --> 00:55:41.929 but some people got started knowing us that these 00:55:41.929 --> 00:55:43.940 people always come back playing guitar and all 00:55:43.940 --> 00:55:46.059 of that and I'm saying that this thing did not 00:55:46.059 --> 00:55:48.840 started here what happened here in this is because 00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:52.199 we already had the zeal and the truth about the 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:55.500 matter is another generation will rise truly 00:55:55.500 --> 00:55:59.820 not maybe because it's not about zeal or maybe 00:55:59.820 --> 00:56:02.599 because it's a generation where is the internet 00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:06.340 generation every gospel everything is online 00:56:06.340 --> 00:56:10.539 right your short message is the someone that 00:56:10.539 --> 00:56:13.989 works for you you know attention span all of 00:56:13.989 --> 00:56:17.250 the it therefore means that we need to explain 00:56:17.250 --> 00:56:21.230 the zeal again of my father's house to us right 00:56:21.230 --> 00:56:24.090 so generations will come and things will change 00:56:24.090 --> 00:56:26.469 but one thing that must be consistent that we 00:56:26.469 --> 00:56:32.929 must keep emphasizing the importance of the gospel 00:56:32.929 --> 00:56:36.289 we must keep emphasizing now it's better i don't 00:56:36.289 --> 00:56:38.809 know their generation i'm praying for them you 00:56:38.809 --> 00:56:42.360 know trusting god That is why it is not wrong 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:45.579 for them to be praying now. So that when they 00:56:45.579 --> 00:56:47.539 grow, they'll say, daddy, what is these tongues? 00:56:48.699 --> 00:56:51.659 Then we can teach, right? Why do we go to church? 00:56:52.539 --> 00:56:56.719 Then we can explain, right? Because that is the 00:56:56.719 --> 00:56:59.880 way they will be preserved. So generations will 00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:02.980 come. Generations will come. And things will 00:57:02.980 --> 00:57:05.679 change. Many systems will change. So we must 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.750 be ready. Right, I think it was first was saying 00:57:09.750 --> 00:57:12.750 past I was asking about some questions that didn't 00:57:12.750 --> 00:57:15.750 come out From the scriptures stretch on that. 00:57:15.750 --> 00:57:20.110 It is not a context of Paul or Peter But yet 00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:22.989 we have to from the wisdom of the scripture answer 00:57:22.989 --> 00:57:26.989 those questions is the same explain Just like 00:57:26.989 --> 00:57:30.309 pastor Fred pastor Victor did The bunting or 00:57:30.309 --> 00:57:33.250 the feminist and all those ideologies and those 00:57:33.250 --> 00:57:35.489 supremacists and all of that. We must be able 00:57:35.489 --> 00:57:39.829 from the scripture to explain what is the will 00:57:39.829 --> 00:57:43.070 of God. So, Apologia, therefore, is for us to 00:57:43.070 --> 00:57:47.190 be ready for energy. Now, the word of God, the 00:57:47.190 --> 00:57:50.849 scripture, is transgenerational. You must acknowledge 00:57:50.849 --> 00:57:54.730 that. So, whether you are A, B, C, D, E, F, depending 00:57:54.730 --> 00:57:58.150 on the category they put you, or you are the 00:57:58.150 --> 00:58:00.130 one that live wilderness and you are the one 00:58:00.130 --> 00:58:03.889 that is entering Canaan, it doesn't matter. The 00:58:03.889 --> 00:58:07.679 word of God is transgenerational. Therefore, 00:58:07.940 --> 00:58:13.539 it will stand. So it is for any generation. Any 00:58:13.539 --> 00:58:15.500 generation. Therefore, that's why we have to 00:58:15.500 --> 00:58:17.420 repeat it. We don't have to update it. Those 00:58:17.420 --> 00:58:19.019 ones that are trying to make it the language 00:58:19.019 --> 00:58:22.300 of today, try to make it, the Lord is my friend. 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:26.539 We. They are putting in, the Lord is my shepherd. 00:58:26.619 --> 00:58:30.500 They are changing it to something else. There 00:58:30.500 --> 00:58:35.460 are translations, if you touch. Yes. They are 00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:38.820 giving things like that. So you have to avoid 00:58:38.820 --> 00:58:42.059 all of those things. You don't need to keep it 00:58:42.059 --> 00:58:44.579 the way it is. So we must keep it our soul. That 00:58:44.579 --> 00:58:47.800 is one. A new generation will come and they deserve 00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:50.519 thoughtful answers. Now you must know that you 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.980 owe the generation to come a thoughtful answer 00:58:52.980 --> 00:58:55.820 about the scripture. You owe them that. We owe 00:58:55.820 --> 00:58:58.719 them because it's instruction from God. We owe 00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:01.480 them that. You will give back to children. That's 00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:03.440 another thing. Your kids will come. They will 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:05.559 ask you. they will tell you somebody told me 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:08.179 outside that I can be a boy and a girl at the 00:59:08.179 --> 00:59:11.820 same time and you will need to explain that and 00:59:11.820 --> 00:59:13.219 you will tell me with scripture if you are not 00:59:13.219 --> 00:59:18.599 grounded in the scripture so we must know that 00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:20.500 generations will come will give back the children 00:59:20.500 --> 00:59:23.760 and we owe them one thing that the word of God 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:27.639 will not be scarce in our generation the word 00:59:27.639 --> 00:59:30.199 of God will not be scarce in our generation yeah 00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:33.579 so the next one is Reason why we need apologetic 00:59:33.579 --> 00:59:37.440 teacher, there are some sincere teachers that 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:42.260 needs to be corrected. And I mean the word sincere 00:59:42.260 --> 00:59:45.500 teachers that mean to be corrected. Now, sincerity 00:59:45.500 --> 00:59:49.940 does not excuse wrong doctrine, okay? Sincerity 00:59:49.940 --> 00:59:52.980 does not excuse wrong doctrine. There are some 00:59:52.980 --> 00:59:54.559 sincere teachers that needs to be corrected. 00:59:55.260 --> 00:59:59.000 Sincerity does not excuse wrong doctrine at all. 00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:01.869 It doesn't. Wrong doctrine is wrong doctrine. 01:00:02.250 --> 01:00:03.789 Whether you know it, whether you don't know it, 01:00:03.989 --> 01:00:07.929 wrong doctrine is wrong doctrine. But accepting 01:00:07.929 --> 01:00:12.809 correction is honorable. Yes. But accepting correction 01:00:12.809 --> 01:00:19.510 is honorable. It's honorable. Accepting correction 01:00:19.510 --> 01:00:26.690 is honorable. For the first one, Deuteronomy 01:00:26.690 --> 01:00:29.190 6 .20 still stands for a new generation will 01:00:29.190 --> 01:00:32.750 rise. The 206 -20 still stands for that, for 01:00:32.750 --> 01:00:35.170 the first one. The second one, Acts 18, verse 01:00:35.170 --> 01:00:44.210 24 to 28, Galatians 2, 11 to 14. For the second 01:00:44.210 --> 01:00:46.190 one, some T, some synthesizers that needs to 01:00:46.190 --> 01:00:51.389 be corrected, Acts 18, verse 28 to 24, 24 to 01:00:51.389 --> 01:01:01.579 28, sorry, and Galatians 2, 11 to 14. Acts 2 01:01:01.579 --> 01:01:08.300 Timothy 3, 16. 2 Timothy 3, 16. Now in Acts 18, 01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:11.840 verse 24 to 28, you can see a sincere teacher, 01:01:12.179 --> 01:01:17.440 Apollos, okay? He was sincere, teaching, okay? 01:01:17.699 --> 01:01:21.219 Those are sincere. That's a sincere teacher. 01:01:21.619 --> 01:01:23.800 He was eloquent in the world. So eloquent is 01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:26.320 also not revelation, okay? Eloquent is not revelation. 01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:29.969 So he was sincere in what he was teaching. but 01:01:29.969 --> 01:01:33.050 it was not accurate it was sincere and it was 01:01:33.050 --> 01:01:38.289 eloquent yet not accurate sincere and eloquent 01:01:38.289 --> 01:01:40.969 yet not accurate we know the scripture so we're 01:01:40.969 --> 01:01:43.469 not going to read it and we'll move please don't 01:01:43.469 --> 01:01:46.389 let my time disappear and reduce just bring it 01:01:46.389 --> 01:01:50.369 back thank you all right so let's read peter's 01:01:50.369 --> 01:01:53.429 case calatians 2 verse 11 to 14 let's read peter's 01:01:53.429 --> 01:01:56.769 case and when peter was come to aunt george i 01:01:56.769 --> 01:01:59.909 was stood in to the face because it was to be 01:01:59.909 --> 01:02:04.409 blamed for before the starting before that starting 01:02:04.409 --> 01:02:08.530 came from James he did eat with the Gentiles 01:02:08.530 --> 01:02:11.610 but when they were calm he withdrew and separated 01:02:11.610 --> 01:02:14.670 himself fearing them which were of circumcision 01:02:14.670 --> 01:02:21.309 now go back go back to go back to uh that scripture 01:02:21.309 --> 01:02:26.849 let me see uh go back to the first verse that 01:02:26.849 --> 01:02:29.469 I that I mentioned, right? Galatians 2 .11. Now 01:02:29.469 --> 01:02:31.170 look at it. He said, I withstood him. It means 01:02:31.170 --> 01:02:36.750 that Paul, right, approached Peter. Why? Because 01:02:36.750 --> 01:02:38.630 he was to be blamed. What was to be blamed? I 01:02:38.630 --> 01:02:41.409 think some transitionists put it very well, that 01:02:41.409 --> 01:02:45.429 he stood condemned, right? What that means, we 01:02:45.429 --> 01:02:47.989 are going to dig deeper into it. It means that, 01:02:48.250 --> 01:02:50.070 let me tell you what that means, a four time. 01:02:50.610 --> 01:03:01.679 It means that Peter provided evidences that Gentiles, 01:03:01.940 --> 01:03:04.659 Peter, I'm saying Peter not Paul, are part of 01:03:04.659 --> 01:03:09.539 what God is doing. Peter practiced that, okay, 01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:11.380 and that is why he hurts with the Gentiles, and 01:03:11.380 --> 01:03:14.820 I'll say that with them. Do you get? Now, when 01:03:14.820 --> 01:03:20.820 someone else came, some circumcision party, Peter 01:03:20.820 --> 01:03:25.019 now stood before them. I saved the evidence of 01:03:25.019 --> 01:03:27.960 what he did is wrong. That is what it means. 01:03:29.579 --> 01:03:32.099 So Peter stood before them as if he did the wrong 01:03:32.099 --> 01:03:35.280 thing. Like I presented evidence to you. We're 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.579 gonna see it when it comes to Apologia. This 01:03:37.579 --> 01:03:39.519 thing I'm teaching is very important for Apologia. 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.880 You know why? Because one of the things that 01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:49.199 would happen is that Apologia is actually to 01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:51.599 make people, go back to the scripture. You just 01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:54.239 put that, I need that word blame there. Apology 01:03:54.239 --> 01:04:00.019 is actually to make people to stand blamed. Actually, 01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:03.260 it's also another word is ashamed. Now it is 01:04:03.260 --> 01:04:06.719 not to shame somebody. It is not to insult somebody 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:08.340 because when I explain spiritual, I'm not saying 01:04:08.340 --> 01:04:11.420 to insult you, right? We're gonna see that is 01:04:11.420 --> 01:04:13.280 either blamed or ashamed. You can use either 01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:15.320 of the two because they refer to the same thing. 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:17.960 It means that you have provided all evidences 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:22.590 that this is true. Someone now comes and begin 01:04:22.590 --> 01:04:26.289 to say something. And you now feel, ah, this 01:04:26.289 --> 01:04:28.510 thing is not true. You now felt this thing is 01:04:28.510 --> 01:04:31.949 not true for all the evidences that you provided. 01:04:33.010 --> 01:04:35.449 This is what happened to him here. So he felt 01:04:35.449 --> 01:04:37.969 like, ah, maybe all these things that I'm teaching 01:04:37.969 --> 01:04:42.210 is not true because some people came. That is 01:04:42.210 --> 01:04:44.670 why Paul had to stand before him and say, no, 01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:48.320 there is more than sufficient evidence. So the 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:52.079 things that you did and you teach, there is more 01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:54.420 than sufficient evidence. So you should not stand 01:04:54.420 --> 01:04:56.719 blamed. Why should you stand blamed? Why should 01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.500 you stand as if the evidences and the life you 01:04:59.500 --> 01:05:04.420 live is not what Christ expected? So he said, 01:05:04.539 --> 01:05:06.400 no, you cannot stand blamed. You cannot stand 01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:10.960 condemned. But when we are preaching, right? 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:12.880 We're going to come to that. When we are preaching 01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:15.260 and we are speaking to someone, What we want 01:05:15.260 --> 01:05:18.559 the person to do is to see that amidst all their 01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:24.320 evidences, the scripture supersedes. Right? And 01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:28.039 that will be that to show them that this evidence 01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:30.119 from the scripture supersedes so that they can 01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:31.880 discard their evidences. We're going to see that 01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:34.579 even from tomorrow. So what we'll see here is 01:05:34.579 --> 01:05:36.760 that they are sincere. Now, is Peter a sincere 01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:39.300 teacher? Yes. Is Apollo a sincere teacher? Yes. 01:05:39.579 --> 01:05:42.989 They are not doing it for their bellies. They're 01:05:42.989 --> 01:05:44.829 not doing it for their belly. That's what I mean 01:05:44.829 --> 01:05:47.750 by a sincere teacher. And they are also receiving 01:05:47.750 --> 01:05:50.269 what? Correction. They're also receiving correction. 01:05:50.409 --> 01:05:52.949 The next one, which I think for this one we will 01:05:52.949 --> 01:05:55.769 see it's correct. The next one is false teachers, 01:05:55.969 --> 01:05:58.889 mockers, and scoffers. Why we need apologetics? 01:05:59.730 --> 01:06:07.030 False teachers, scoffers, mockers. False teachers, 01:06:07.050 --> 01:06:11.099 mockers, and scoffers. must be answered so that 01:06:11.099 --> 01:06:16.800 others are not deceived. They must be answered 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.659 so that other people will not be deceived. So 01:06:20.659 --> 01:06:23.599 you cannot allow somebody to just be saying something. 01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:25.800 Now, I'm not saying online. Please don't quote 01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:28.280 me. I'm still talking about in an environment. 01:06:28.380 --> 01:06:30.559 This has not gotten to that, right? So we are 01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:32.440 somewhere and someone is teaching what is not 01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:36.239 correct. I can approach them and correct them. 01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:39.099 I said again that false teachers, mockers, and 01:06:39.099 --> 01:06:41.840 scobards must be answered so that others are 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:49.260 not deceived. Right? Romans 16, 17 to 20. Romans 01:06:49.260 --> 01:06:54.639 16, 17 to 20. Now I beseech you brethren, mark 01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.039 them which cause divisions and offence, contrite 01:06:57.039 --> 01:07:00.019 to the doctrine ye have received, and avoid them. 01:07:00.139 --> 01:07:03.059 Next. For they that are such serve not our Lord 01:07:03.059 --> 01:07:05.699 Jesus Christ. Did you see? This group is different 01:07:05.699 --> 01:07:09.619 from Peter and Apollos. Are we together? This 01:07:09.619 --> 01:07:11.360 group is different from Peter and Apollos. He 01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:13.239 said those, these ones, they are not serving 01:07:13.239 --> 01:07:14.920 our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter and Apollos, they 01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:17.519 are serving the Lord Jesus. But their own belly, 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:21.860 you see, and by good words, words, hold on to 01:07:21.860 --> 01:07:24.880 that good words, and fresh pitches, they deceive 01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:30.159 the hearts of the simple. Verse 19. For your 01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:32.280 obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:35.159 therefore on your behalf But yet I would have 01:07:35.159 --> 01:07:38.579 you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning 01:07:38.579 --> 01:07:41.860 evil means talking to them about this people 01:07:41.860 --> 01:07:44.559 and God of peace shall bruise Satan under your 01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:47.079 feet shortly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 01:07:47.079 --> 01:07:50.760 be with you. Amen So the instruction is to these 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.559 people that cause division. How do they cause 01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:57.400 division because division by first pitches first 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:02.099 pitches, you know Let me use the word of Pasto. 01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:10.199 They use literature. Maybe, I don't know, I'm 01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:12.139 trying to find the word for it. You know, they 01:08:12.139 --> 01:08:15.639 put words together, right? They put words together. 01:08:15.659 --> 01:08:17.420 I don't want to say the very popular one so that 01:08:17.420 --> 01:08:20.640 it doesn't look like Aspire to Paspire, you know, 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:23.960 those kind of a thing. Those kind of very sweet 01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:27.500 words, right? They bring it together. Now, again. 01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:30.119 They are using the scripture to do this thing. 01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:34.399 They are using the scripture to do this. So first 01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:37.659 speeches, speeches are very attractive, very 01:08:37.659 --> 01:08:41.199 attractive, right? This is what they are doing, 01:08:41.659 --> 01:08:46.560 good words to lure people away. So now go to 01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:55.819 1 Peter 3 verse, 1 Peter 3 verse 16, let's see 01:08:55.819 --> 01:09:03.500 what is there. Okay. He said having a good conscience. 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:05.739 Now from verse 15, we already have established 01:09:05.739 --> 01:09:08.159 what is happening in verse 15, right? Good verse 01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:09.619 15, let's read it quickly then we'll come to 01:09:09.619 --> 01:09:12.060 16. But I'm sorry, the Lord, the God in your 01:09:12.060 --> 01:09:14.100 heart and be ready always to give an answer to 01:09:14.100 --> 01:09:17.359 every man that ask it, that ask get you a reason, 01:09:17.619 --> 01:09:20.680 right? Of the hope that is in you with meekness 01:09:20.680 --> 01:09:23.060 and fear. The next one, having a good conscience. 01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:28.319 Now see, having a good conscience that whereas 01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:32.159 they speak evil of you, as evildoers means that 01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:36.779 in their evidence you you are evildoer. Now what 01:09:36.779 --> 01:09:39.439 will happen to them? They may be ashamed that 01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:44.420 falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 01:09:45.819 --> 01:09:49.420 They may be ashamed that falsely accuse your 01:09:49.420 --> 01:09:51.920 good conversation in Christ. So don't forget 01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:54.300 the conversation is coming from sanctify the 01:09:54.300 --> 01:09:58.060 Lord to give an answer right? So your answer 01:09:58.060 --> 01:10:01.140 right that they may be ashamed that firstly accuse 01:10:01.140 --> 01:10:05.279 you of your answer in Christ's okay the answer 01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:07.119 you are giving them they will be ashamed now 01:10:07.119 --> 01:10:09.340 what is our shame our shame is able to put them 01:10:09.340 --> 01:10:13.760 to shame no it simply means that by evidences 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.560 what I explained right all evidences that you 01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:20.140 will present they will see that this one that 01:10:20.140 --> 01:10:24.460 we are holding is not the evidence of Christ 01:10:24.460 --> 01:10:28.079 do we get it put more scriptures put more scriptures 01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:33.100 where we need to put them. Luke 3 .16, let's 01:10:33.100 --> 01:10:36.880 just write them down, then we'll read them. You 01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:40.260 will see the opposite of ashamed, right? This 01:10:40.260 --> 01:10:42.520 ashamed that they use here. You will see the 01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.640 opposite of it soon when we read the scriptures. 01:10:45.899 --> 01:10:50.539 Luke 3 .16, 2 Corinthians 10 verse 8, Philippians 01:10:50.539 --> 01:10:55.960 1 verse 20. Luke 3 verse 16, 2 Corinthians 10 01:10:55.960 --> 01:11:01.449 verse 8. Philippians 1 verse 20, sorry. So let's 01:11:01.449 --> 01:11:09.029 go to Luke 3 verse 16, please. Luke 3 verse Luke, 01:11:09.890 --> 01:11:15.569 not second, okay. All right, so in these scriptures 01:11:15.569 --> 01:11:18.170 you will see, and then as I send on to them, 01:11:18.449 --> 01:11:26.239 I did, sorry, is that a scripture I need? That's 01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:28.600 quite interesting. Where's the 2 Corinthians 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:33.119 10 .8? Let's go to that one. Let's see. Luke 01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.359 3 .15. Use the hearts. Just go to 2 Corinthians 01:11:36.359 --> 01:11:41.939 10 verse 8. For though I should boast somewhat 01:11:41.939 --> 01:11:45.520 more of our authority, which the Lord had given 01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:48.939 us for edification, not for your destruction, 01:11:49.659 --> 01:11:53.300 I should not be ashamed, right? This is the same 01:11:53.300 --> 01:11:55.939 word there, right? Though I should boast somewhat 01:11:55.939 --> 01:12:00.300 of our authority, which he had given us for edification, 01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:05.539 right? And not for your destruction, I should 01:12:05.539 --> 01:12:08.619 not be ashamed. It means that by the evidence 01:12:08.619 --> 01:12:12.300 of knowing the authority God has given me, right, 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:17.060 it is for your building, lest I will be ashamed. 01:12:17.750 --> 01:12:20.550 Let's be ashamed. The next scriptures are Philippians 01:12:20.550 --> 01:12:24.189 1 -20. That's the one that will give us this 01:12:24.189 --> 01:12:33.890 quickly. According to any expectation and my 01:12:33.890 --> 01:12:38.470 hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed. So really 01:12:38.470 --> 01:12:41.710 according to the ns expectation and my hope that's 01:12:41.710 --> 01:12:45.710 in nothing I shall be ashamed but with all boldness 01:12:45.710 --> 01:12:49.789 as always and so now also Christ shall be magnified 01:12:49.789 --> 01:12:54.510 in My body whether is be life or by dead. So 01:12:54.510 --> 01:12:57.930 look at it is it that's in nothing I shall be 01:12:57.930 --> 01:13:02.430 ashamed but what's What's that with all boldness? 01:13:02.430 --> 01:13:07.810 So it means that when I come to teach and I explain 01:13:07.810 --> 01:13:11.090 and I give an answer pertaining the power and 01:13:11.090 --> 01:13:13.869 demonstration of God and the suffering of Christ 01:13:13.869 --> 01:13:17.130 and his glory and his ascension in me, when I 01:13:17.130 --> 01:13:19.989 give evidences to it, those false teachers will 01:13:19.989 --> 01:13:24.569 lose their boldness. Do you get it? It is Sean 01:13:24.569 --> 01:13:27.890 profane babbling, right? You know there are scriptures, 01:13:28.250 --> 01:13:30.869 Sean profane, that is it. So we would not, they 01:13:30.869 --> 01:13:34.050 will be shut up, right? They will lose their 01:13:34.050 --> 01:13:37.109 boldness. So it's not like, you know, they'll 01:13:37.109 --> 01:13:39.489 come out, they have boldness to teach, right? 01:13:40.890 --> 01:13:45.630 But when they see sufficient evidence, like Elimas 01:13:45.630 --> 01:13:49.970 saw the teachings and the miracles, right? I 01:13:49.970 --> 01:13:52.829 feel it did, right? And what happened? It dropped. 01:13:54.310 --> 01:13:56.449 It dropped, right? So what happened is that when 01:13:56.449 --> 01:13:59.510 sufficient evidence is presented, people who 01:13:59.510 --> 01:14:02.449 are false prophets will lose their boldness. 01:14:03.109 --> 01:14:06.500 Muckers and scoffers will lose their boldness 01:14:06.500 --> 01:14:09.979 when evidence is beyond reasonable that as we 01:14:09.979 --> 01:14:14.119 teach so of course uh the scripture we put there 01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:17.000 is sufficient right to take now first emotive 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:19.159 four verse 16 you can add it you can add that 01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:22.300 to it first emotive four verses said take heed 01:14:22.300 --> 01:14:25.020 unto thyself and unto thy doctrine continuing 01:14:25.020 --> 01:14:28.899 them for in doing this thou shall save thyself 01:14:28.899 --> 01:14:32.340 and them that hear thee so one of the things 01:14:32.340 --> 01:14:36.359 why we have to teach and explain scripture apologetically 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:41.899 is that we will save people we will save people 01:14:41.899 --> 01:14:46.560 we will snatch people from the hands of the enemy 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:51.260 right we will snatch people from the hands of 01:14:51.260 --> 01:14:53.699 the enemy so that's one of the reasons why we 01:14:53.699 --> 01:14:57.739 have to explain so that we can save you know 01:14:57.739 --> 01:15:02.609 the people from wrong doctrine Good, the first 01:15:02.609 --> 01:15:06.270 one is that there will be persecution and you 01:15:06.270 --> 01:15:10.609 need boldness to speak. Okay, there will be persecution 01:15:10.609 --> 01:15:13.449 and you need boldness to speak. Now we've seen 01:15:13.449 --> 01:15:16.310 that in the case of Stephen, we've seen that 01:15:16.310 --> 01:15:21.270 in the case of Apostle Paul, right? We've seen 01:15:21.270 --> 01:15:23.729 that in both cases and in all the lives of the 01:15:23.729 --> 01:15:26.149 disciples, we've realized that when there is 01:15:26.149 --> 01:15:32.079 persecution, there is always an answer. for the 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:34.619 gospel so you cannot be persecuted and they ask 01:15:34.619 --> 01:15:36.979 you why are you being persecuted and you cannot 01:15:36.979 --> 01:15:39.880 give a comprehensive answer of why you have been 01:15:39.880 --> 01:15:43.699 persecuted so persecution will come and you must 01:15:43.699 --> 01:15:48.020 give an answer right you must give an answer 01:15:48.020 --> 01:15:50.399 first Peter 3 17 the first Peter just go to verse 01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:54.979 17 first Peter just go to the verse 17 of that 01:15:54.979 --> 01:15:59.119 first Peter he said it is better if the will 01:15:59.430 --> 01:16:03.869 of God be so that you suffer for well doing than 01:16:03.869 --> 01:16:08.170 for evil doing. What is well doing here? To give 01:16:08.170 --> 01:16:11.350 an answer for the gospel, right? Well doing here 01:16:11.350 --> 01:16:14.710 is to give an explanation for the gospel and 01:16:14.710 --> 01:16:16.869 if you suffer for that you say let it be so. 01:16:17.470 --> 01:16:19.609 It therefore means that persecution or giving 01:16:19.609 --> 01:16:21.510 an answer for the gospel would come with that 01:16:21.510 --> 01:16:26.109 or persecution will require you to explain further. 01:16:29.069 --> 01:16:33.329 what Christ has done. So you need boldness. You 01:16:33.329 --> 01:16:37.210 need boldness to teach, to explain why you have 01:16:37.210 --> 01:16:40.369 been, you know, some will say, at least in the 01:16:40.369 --> 01:16:43.390 course of it, a number of people will be saved. 01:16:44.430 --> 01:16:46.789 But you have to preach the right message. In 01:16:46.789 --> 01:16:49.489 the course of being persecuted, a number of people 01:16:49.489 --> 01:16:51.189 will be saved. I think Masfredo was telling me 01:16:51.189 --> 01:16:55.770 that someone went to debunk, you know, some religious, 01:16:55.770 --> 01:17:02.729 you know, false teachings and in the place of 01:17:02.729 --> 01:17:06.390 having a conversation over the doctrine of a 01:17:06.390 --> 01:17:08.630 particular religion and our religion and our 01:17:08.630 --> 01:17:12.069 faiths rather two people give their lives means 01:17:12.069 --> 01:17:15.390 two people believed and they followed Christ 01:17:15.390 --> 01:17:18.350 on the sports and within that confinement that 01:17:18.350 --> 01:17:20.329 environment they killed the person who gave the 01:17:20.329 --> 01:17:24.909 defense right that's a game painful but again 01:17:24.909 --> 01:17:28.350 right that's a game Paul was saying, for me to 01:17:28.350 --> 01:17:30.689 leave is Christ, right, to die is gain. That 01:17:30.689 --> 01:17:34.850 is how much painful is it? Two people on the 01:17:34.850 --> 01:17:40.649 spot. That is great, right? But how did he do 01:17:40.649 --> 01:17:44.029 it? Sufficient evidence so that these people 01:17:44.029 --> 01:17:47.390 became ashamed and they didn't know how to respond 01:17:47.390 --> 01:17:52.449 than to kill. Sufficient evidence. If you tell 01:17:52.449 --> 01:17:55.090 that man if he was alive I asked him would you 01:17:55.090 --> 01:17:57.449 like this kind of story I bet you he will say 01:17:57.449 --> 01:18:01.050 no matter how painful I think is a good one so 01:18:01.050 --> 01:18:03.810 persecution will come and it is the reason why 01:18:03.810 --> 01:18:08.350 we need sufficient evidence right sufficient 01:18:08.350 --> 01:18:10.850 evidence you know let me let me put it funny 01:18:10.850 --> 01:18:12.869 if you want to die for the gospel die for the 01:18:12.869 --> 01:18:17.010 correct one like make sure what you are teaching 01:18:17.010 --> 01:18:20.550 is the correct one is what dying for right so 01:18:20.550 --> 01:18:23.399 be sure So that's why we need to pay attention 01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:27.000 to these. So just put scriptures, Acts 7, Stephen's 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:32.640 story again, is another one, Acts 7 in that context. 01:18:36.579 --> 01:18:40.420 Acts 4, 29 to 30, Acts 4, 7, just put chapter 01:18:40.420 --> 01:18:43.960 7, chapter 7 is fine, across all chapter 7. Then 01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:49.439 Acts 4, 29 to 30, that you will grind unto thy 01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:53.289 servant, with all boldness they might be able 01:18:53.289 --> 01:18:55.970 to do. That is why it's apologia when you say, 01:18:56.170 --> 01:18:59.569 should we listen to God or we should obey man? 01:19:00.710 --> 01:19:04.270 They cannot say obey man. They cannot say obey 01:19:04.270 --> 01:19:06.510 man. They know that you should listen to God. 01:19:06.670 --> 01:19:09.189 You should do what God requires you to do. So 01:19:09.189 --> 01:19:12.689 that's an apologetic approach to approach people 01:19:12.689 --> 01:19:16.590 who are hard -hearted. Now, the fifth one, which 01:19:16.590 --> 01:19:19.050 is the one we are going to deal with tomorrow. 01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:21.260 very well, we're going to deal with this tomorrow 01:19:21.260 --> 01:19:27.739 very well, is we need apologetics because of 01:19:27.739 --> 01:19:31.840 groups that are misrepresenting the Bible. Put 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:33.619 it that way. We need apologetics because of groups 01:19:33.619 --> 01:19:36.699 that are misrepresenting the Bible. Now, it is 01:19:36.699 --> 01:19:39.460 different from, you see, if you are false prophets, 01:19:40.180 --> 01:19:43.520 right, it's okay. One here, there. But when they 01:19:43.520 --> 01:19:49.039 become an organization, it's more deadly. If 01:19:49.039 --> 01:19:51.880 you have one or two prophets, one by one, we 01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:54.739 can hold them, right? We can just share ourselves 01:19:54.739 --> 01:19:58.680 here and we can go and teach. But when it becomes 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:03.760 an organization, it becomes a very deep problem, 01:20:03.880 --> 01:20:09.279 right? So, and the influence is spreading. So 01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:11.880 we need this, right? Because of this group that 01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:16.029 represents the... the scriptures now the interesting 01:20:16.029 --> 01:20:19.329 thing is that most groups want to found a foundation 01:20:19.329 --> 01:20:21.489 in the bible like everybody wants to use the 01:20:21.489 --> 01:20:24.069 foundation as the bible like you want to start 01:20:24.069 --> 01:20:27.989 your conversation your story is from the bible 01:20:27.989 --> 01:20:31.329 your it's either you say oh the bible is corrupt 01:20:31.329 --> 01:20:33.909 then you build your own or you say after the 01:20:33.909 --> 01:20:37.829 bible we collect another revelation why is it 01:20:37.829 --> 01:20:39.930 the bible it shows the that shows the authenticity 01:20:39.930 --> 01:20:42.869 of the bible if it's not authentic if you use 01:20:43.149 --> 01:20:46.010 or roomil as book, it will not be a problem. 01:20:47.090 --> 01:20:49.289 We're not even gonna discuss anybody that did 01:20:49.289 --> 01:20:51.810 not touch the Bible here. But if you touch the 01:20:51.810 --> 01:20:54.449 Bible, we will discuss you. Yes, that is it. 01:20:54.850 --> 01:20:57.750 Because you pick the Bible as the authenticity, 01:20:58.170 --> 01:20:59.930 and we all know the authenticity of the Bible, 01:21:00.250 --> 01:21:03.470 and you build a wrong doctrine on it. So as a 01:21:03.470 --> 01:21:06.829 result, those groups needs to be touched upon 01:21:06.829 --> 01:21:09.829 gradually, because when you go out, those are 01:21:09.829 --> 01:21:12.229 the people you meet. Now, if you meet, if you 01:21:12.229 --> 01:21:16.149 meet, a nominal person, right? The person doesn't 01:21:16.149 --> 01:21:19.750 have arguments. They don't have much, right? 01:21:19.810 --> 01:21:23.109 You are too loaded, right? So even you, you're 01:21:23.109 --> 01:21:25.909 trying to just put them within Romans 10 and 01:21:25.909 --> 01:21:29.930 John 3 .16, right? You're not going to bend hell 01:21:29.930 --> 01:21:33.210 to him, you know? The uniqueness and the appearance 01:21:33.210 --> 01:21:34.510 of, you're not going there. You're just giving 01:21:34.510 --> 01:21:37.949 them, you're giving them little. But you see 01:21:37.949 --> 01:21:41.029 this group. They went to study that Ben Elohim 01:21:41.029 --> 01:21:44.130 and interpreted it wrongly. And they gave it 01:21:44.130 --> 01:21:48.890 to people to swallow. That is unfaithfulness. 01:21:49.789 --> 01:21:52.390 Okay? So these people that are unfaithful with 01:21:52.390 --> 01:21:55.170 the Bible, they are unfaithful. That one we cannot 01:21:55.170 --> 01:21:57.789 condone, right? We need apologetics for those 01:21:57.789 --> 01:22:01.869 ones because they are not propagating the Bible. 01:22:01.949 --> 01:22:05.079 Now under them, let's quickly touch to... We'll 01:22:05.079 --> 01:22:07.880 touch one or two there about... So under this 01:22:07.880 --> 01:22:10.000 five, can you just put A, right? Just put A. 01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:13.399 Those who assume we are same. Those that assume 01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:15.239 that we are same, right? There are people who 01:22:15.239 --> 01:22:17.520 assume that we are same, we are the same. You 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:20.159 know, we serve the same God. And this one is 01:22:20.159 --> 01:22:25.100 common in this environment. Put at 14 .11. At 01:22:25.100 --> 01:22:29.220 14 .11, let me show you. People who thought apostles 01:22:29.220 --> 01:22:32.079 were same with them. And when the people saw 01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:35.359 what Paul had done, They lifted up their voices 01:22:35.359 --> 01:22:39.460 saying, in the speech of Laconia, the gods are 01:22:39.460 --> 01:22:44.180 come down to us in the likeness of men. They 01:22:44.180 --> 01:22:46.739 assume that it is the God that they have been 01:22:46.739 --> 01:22:52.579 serving, right? That appear to them in the person 01:22:52.579 --> 01:22:57.979 of Apostle Paul. Right? So there are people who, 01:22:58.220 --> 01:23:00.500 when you manifest or you do something, they'll 01:23:00.500 --> 01:23:03.000 say, oh, we are the same. We are serving. Now 01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:05.640 look at verse 12. Go to verse 12. And they called 01:23:05.640 --> 01:23:10.000 Barnabas Jupiter. And they called Paul's Macurius. 01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:13.880 Because he was the chief speaker, next, then 01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:16.960 the priest of Jupiter. Can you see? They called 01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:20.100 a service immediately, which was before the acidity, 01:23:20.300 --> 01:23:23.640 brought oxen and gallants onto. We are not the 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:25.340 same. It's something else. Let's see how the 01:23:25.340 --> 01:23:28.840 apostles responded. no no come back to the previous 01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:30.619 scriptures and brought garlands onto the gates 01:23:30.619 --> 01:23:34.399 and would have done sacrifice to the people right 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:37.840 with the people rather next which when the apostles 01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:40.060 them when the apostles brother buds and poor 01:23:40.060 --> 01:23:44.260 head of they rent their clothes and ran in among 01:23:44.260 --> 01:23:47.020 the people crying out go to the next verse now 01:23:47.020 --> 01:23:50.159 that rents in and they just are they just like 01:23:50.159 --> 01:23:51.859 they what would i say they just spoil the show 01:23:51.859 --> 01:23:54.520 there you know if is a if they were not believers 01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:58.720 let's say they were not apostles right the moment 01:23:58.720 --> 01:24:01.859 you see that they have made you influencer right 01:24:01.859 --> 01:24:04.920 what will you do you're gonna follow us right 01:24:04.920 --> 01:24:08.239 you gotta follow us and before you know everywhere 01:24:08.239 --> 01:24:10.560 the city they've made you the king jupiter and 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:13.960 more mercurius but look at their response and 01:24:13.960 --> 01:24:17.819 saying sas why do you these things why do you 01:24:17.819 --> 01:24:21.760 these things we are also men we are also a man 01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:25.659 of light passions with you and preach unto you, 01:24:25.859 --> 01:24:28.060 that ye should turn from this thing, this same 01:24:28.060 --> 01:24:29.180 thing that you are doing, that you want to do 01:24:29.180 --> 01:24:32.560 unto us, unto the living God, which made the 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:34.399 heaven and the earth and the sea and all the 01:24:34.399 --> 01:24:37.939 things that are therein. Who in the past suffered 01:24:37.939 --> 01:24:40.880 all nations to walk in their ways, nevertheless 01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:43.859 he left not himself without weakness, in that 01:24:43.859 --> 01:24:46.100 he did good and gave us rain from heaven and 01:24:46.100 --> 01:24:50.159 full seasons, filling our hearts with food and 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:55.550 gladness. And with this saying, Scarce restrained 01:24:55.550 --> 01:24:58.890 they the people, that they had not done sacrifice 01:24:58.890 --> 01:25:02.750 unto them. And there came Tita, certain words, 01:25:03.250 --> 01:25:05.649 Jews, from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded 01:25:05.649 --> 01:25:10.170 the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him 01:25:10.170 --> 01:25:13.409 out of the city, supposing he was dead. So, of 01:25:13.409 --> 01:25:14.869 course, you know what the Jews do, right? This 01:25:14.869 --> 01:25:18.090 is their style. They look for a crowd, right? 01:25:18.930 --> 01:25:21.949 They look for a crowd, and within the crowd, 01:25:21.989 --> 01:25:25.050 right, they create a rebellion. They create a 01:25:25.050 --> 01:25:29.270 rebellion. They create a rebellion that creates 01:25:29.270 --> 01:25:32.289 a problem for the apostles. So they couldn't 01:25:32.289 --> 01:25:34.449 preach. Now if those Jews were not there, maybe 01:25:34.449 --> 01:25:36.350 they would have sat down and they would have 01:25:36.350 --> 01:25:39.829 taught them continuously. We have the ones that 01:25:39.829 --> 01:25:42.829 they were saying to the unknown God. And from 01:25:42.829 --> 01:25:44.989 there, we're going to see that much more. I think 01:25:44.989 --> 01:25:47.449 very closely now we might have to see that. So 01:25:47.449 --> 01:25:51.170 we have people who might find unifiers, but there 01:25:51.170 --> 01:25:54.420 are no unifiers. Is it that you're here or you're 01:25:54.420 --> 01:25:57.020 not here? So we have that. Now one of the things 01:25:57.020 --> 01:26:00.680 we must convince them of, convince them, one 01:26:00.680 --> 01:26:03.640 of the things we must convince them of is that 01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:14.579 although, right, humanity is the handwork of 01:26:14.579 --> 01:26:17.279 God, right? Humanity, all of us being humans, 01:26:17.460 --> 01:26:20.250 right? We are created, right? Humanity is the 01:26:20.250 --> 01:26:23.430 handwork of God, right? Means God created humans, 01:26:23.649 --> 01:26:26.630 means created Adam and from Adam we are procreated 01:26:26.630 --> 01:26:30.329 and as a result we say God created humanity, 01:26:30.609 --> 01:26:38.170 right? God is not the father of all. God is not 01:26:38.170 --> 01:26:43.029 the father of all. Although God creates humanity, 01:26:43.529 --> 01:26:46.470 right, without whom there will be no breath of 01:26:46.470 --> 01:26:53.020 life in any man. God is not the father of all. 01:26:54.180 --> 01:26:59.539 God is not the father of all. Acts 17, 24 to 01:26:59.539 --> 01:27:09.439 27. Acts 17, 24 to 27. Now you see here, it says, 01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.880 God that made the world and all things therein, 01:27:13.079 --> 01:27:15.239 seeing that his Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:19.289 not in temples made with hands, neither is neither 01:27:19.289 --> 01:27:23.109 is worshipped with man's hand as though he needed 01:27:23.109 --> 01:27:27.229 anything seeing that he give it to all life and 01:27:27.229 --> 01:27:32.470 breath and all things and had made of one blood 01:27:32.470 --> 01:27:35.970 all nations of men for to dwell on all the face 01:27:35.970 --> 01:27:39.529 of the earth at the time in their times before 01:27:39.529 --> 01:27:43.130 appointed and bounds of their habitation right 01:27:43.130 --> 01:27:46.550 that they may seek the lord if aptly they might 01:27:46.550 --> 01:27:51.050 feel after him and finding though he be not far 01:27:51.050 --> 01:27:53.930 from every one of us. So it's talking about God 01:27:53.930 --> 01:27:58.810 creating a people within this earth, okay? It's 01:27:58.810 --> 01:28:02.250 not saying that he's the father of all. So God 01:28:02.250 --> 01:28:04.689 creates, that's why saying that they should seek 01:28:04.689 --> 01:28:11.399 the Lord that they might find him. Okay, that 01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:13.520 they should seek the Lord that if he's talking 01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:15.939 to, if he's talking about that those people that 01:28:15.939 --> 01:28:18.399 God created are believers and he's talking about 01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:20.680 the creation in Christ, he would not be saying 01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:23.840 they should seek the Lord and find him because 01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:28.159 they found God. So it was coming from explanation 01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:32.899 of a general creation, right? Explaining to those 01:28:32.899 --> 01:28:36.159 who say to the unknown God. From that point, 01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:38.920 it was coming to explain the gospel to them. 01:28:39.860 --> 01:28:44.000 Right? So we can acknowledge that, well, we did 01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:46.560 not exist. No man, no person created any man. 01:28:46.699 --> 01:28:50.500 God created Adam, and from there, we exist. So 01:28:50.500 --> 01:28:53.340 we can agree. But to say that he's the father 01:28:53.340 --> 01:28:56.260 of all, no. So he's not the father of all. Neither 01:28:56.260 --> 01:28:59.699 is he the God of all. Hallelujah. Neither is 01:28:59.699 --> 01:29:01.899 he what? The God of all. He's not the father 01:29:01.899 --> 01:29:05.000 of all. He's not the God of all. Everybody knows 01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:13.600 their father. Ephesians 2. Ephesians two. Ephesians 01:29:13.600 --> 01:29:26.899 two. From verse one. And you hear at quick in 01:29:26.899 --> 01:29:29.739 who we are dead in trespasses and sin. When in 01:29:29.739 --> 01:29:32.439 the past year worked according to the course 01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:35.500 of this world, according to the prince of the 01:29:35.500 --> 01:29:38.760 power of air, the spirit that is at work in the 01:29:38.760 --> 01:29:43.640 children of disobedience right the spirit that 01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:47.239 is at work in children of disobedience so it 01:29:47.239 --> 01:29:49.819 means that the children of disobedience in this 01:29:49.819 --> 01:29:52.159 world there are people now is this one talking 01:29:52.159 --> 01:29:54.479 about believers that have come to believe right 01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:57.840 but it simply refers to people who are working 01:29:57.840 --> 01:29:59.859 according to a spirit that is not a spirit of 01:29:59.859 --> 01:30:04.119 god and therefore god cannot be their father 01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:07.039 and neither will he be their God. Now if you 01:30:07.039 --> 01:30:10.800 read when Jesus is talking to the Pharisees, 01:30:11.060 --> 01:30:14.020 right, it tells them, it says, you know your 01:30:14.020 --> 01:30:15.880 father, right, it talks about your father the 01:30:15.880 --> 01:30:18.760 devil and his activities from the beginning. 01:30:19.140 --> 01:30:21.380 So it means that the source of what they are 01:30:21.380 --> 01:30:25.579 doing is from the devil. So when people see us 01:30:25.579 --> 01:30:27.680 and say, oh we serve the same God, we serve, 01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:30.319 you have to ask them, what do you mean? Tomorrow 01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:31.920 we are going to see that. The way people have 01:30:31.920 --> 01:30:35.109 used terminology, even salvation, It's worse 01:30:35.109 --> 01:30:37.670 these days because even in movies, you'll be 01:30:37.670 --> 01:30:41.229 seeing atonement. You'll be seeing salvation. 01:30:42.130 --> 01:30:46.529 You'll be seeing deliverance in movies. And this 01:30:46.529 --> 01:30:49.130 has become the order of the day. And people are 01:30:49.130 --> 01:30:52.470 believing this thing. So we must know that we 01:30:52.470 --> 01:30:54.529 are not the same. Now let's look at the second 01:30:54.529 --> 01:30:59.029 one. The second group on that is five. Those 01:30:59.029 --> 01:31:02.989 who believe Christianity is perverted, right? 01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:05.899 or the Christendom is perverted. Those who believe 01:31:05.899 --> 01:31:08.239 Christendom is perverted. They literally go after 01:31:08.239 --> 01:31:12.000 it and say, in fact, some of them refuse to call 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:15.560 themselves Christians, or they say the Christendom 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:17.539 that we practice, Christianity is perverted. 01:31:18.920 --> 01:31:20.520 And the third one is those who believe they are 01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:23.720 totally different from us. Those who believe 01:31:23.720 --> 01:31:29.539 they are totally different from us. Now, what 01:31:29.539 --> 01:31:35.810 is As we close, what is our responsibility? We're 01:31:35.810 --> 01:31:38.890 gonna see more of it tomorrow. Our responsibility, 01:31:39.109 --> 01:31:42.409 right, towards them. First, it's still love, 01:31:42.829 --> 01:31:49.670 right? It's still love, but much more. Much more. 01:31:49.930 --> 01:31:52.710 Holding on to the faithfulness and integrity 01:31:52.710 --> 01:31:57.510 of God's word in our explanation to them. Holding 01:31:57.510 --> 01:32:00.760 on to the... faithfulness and the integrity of 01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:05.760 God's Word in our explanation to them. Why did 01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:10.060 I say love? Because most of these groups, right, 01:32:10.880 --> 01:32:17.479 they actually, they're actually anti or antagonistic 01:32:17.479 --> 01:32:20.420 towards the gospel. Clearly antagonistic towards 01:32:20.420 --> 01:32:22.760 the gospel. Clearly, what I mean clearly, they 01:32:22.760 --> 01:32:25.920 go, I mean, they come and say, this is, you know, 01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:29.000 this is not a faith. right so so our job to them 01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:33.560 is clearly love and faithfulness in or to the 01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:38.899 integrity of God's word so the integrity of God's 01:32:38.899 --> 01:32:42.619 word so we'll stop here for today so that we 01:32:42.619 --> 01:32:44.180 can continue tomorrow we still have a whole lot 01:32:44.180 --> 01:32:47.119 to cover but as we go one thing i want us to 01:32:47.119 --> 01:32:51.399 go is to have a mindset that you will study the 01:32:51.399 --> 01:32:56.100 scripture sufficiently enough to be able to explain 01:32:56.359 --> 01:32:58.699 the message of salvation, that there will be 01:32:58.699 --> 01:33:02.460 no subjects, there will be no question, right? 01:33:02.460 --> 01:33:04.600 I'm trusting that after this meeting we are going 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:06.680 to prepare a material, I think that's a question 01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:08.359 raised that matter at some point in time, that 01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:10.100 we're going to prepare materials, right, for 01:33:10.100 --> 01:33:12.520 us, that you will have those materials and when 01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:16.239 you go out before the person says anything you 01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:19.460 know where the person is coming from and in love 01:33:19.460 --> 01:33:22.140 you will explain to the person and bring the 01:33:22.140 --> 01:33:25.300 person out of darkness into the marvelous line 01:33:25.300 --> 01:33:29.359 of price. Hallelujah. Can we begin to pray? We 01:33:29.359 --> 01:33:32.140 appreciate you being here today. We hope you 01:33:32.140 --> 01:33:34.260 carry this word with you throughout your week. 01:33:35.079 --> 01:33:37.140 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional 01:33:37.140 --> 01:33:39.939 insights. Stay connected with us through our 01:33:39.939 --> 01:33:43.819 website or follow us on social media. If you 01:33:43.819 --> 01:33:46.119 were encouraged, share this message with someone 01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:49.760 you care about. Until next time, stay blessed.