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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is

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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

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

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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

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right in. teachings like this is that we will

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be equipped enough, okay, we will be equipped

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enough, right, to teach Jesus all over the world

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without fear, without doubt, without worry, with

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full confidence that we know that people will

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be saved. So yesterday we started, you know,

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to talk about apologia, which is an answer and

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the logos, which means an all trans is like,

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it's like a statement, an all trans, an explanation,

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right? About why we believe what we believe.

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And we say that this thing is common. It's common.

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It's something that you should expect as a believer,

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right? Don't dodge it. don't avoid it is something

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that should come on a regular basis, right? It's

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something that should come on a regular basis

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that you are able to consistently give an account.

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All right. So there are three commitments that

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we must put upon, right? This morning, right?

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So our commitments to apologia, our commitments

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to apologia, right? If I say I'm committed, I'm

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committed to apologetics. I'm committed to be

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giving an explanation. There are commitments

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that we need to specifically identify this morning

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as we go. Before we begin to talk about the different

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sects and the different beliefs and why those

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beliefs are actually not the faith of Jesus and

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how you can correct those beliefs. So, we first

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of all see our commitments. Our commitments.

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Let's go to our scripture again. 1 Peter 3. The

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key scripture, right? Let's go to 1 Peter 3,

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verse 15. Let's read it again. 1 Peter 3. Sanctify

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the Lord God in your heart and always be ready

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to give a defense to everyone who asks you a

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reason for the hope that is in you. with meekness

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and fear. Having a good conscience that when

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they defame you as evildoers. Now, we saw this

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yesterday. When they defame you as evildoers,

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those who revile your good conduct in Christ

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may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the

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will of God, to suffer for doing good than for

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doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins,

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the just for the unjust, that he might bring

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us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but

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made alive in the spirit. Made alive in the spirit.

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Now, the verse 18 is fine, right? So what we

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see here is that we saw sanctification, right?

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Yesterday, from yesterday, so let's go back to

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verse 15. We saw sanctification that... So apologia

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is actually setting ourselves aside, right? Consecration.

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It means I'm different for Jesus because I'm

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ready to give an account. We see the answer there,

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to give a defense, right? I think in this, what

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did they call it? In this translation is the

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word defense, which is to give an answer, right?

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And to give an answer, an answer which relates

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to all trances, which relates to a reason why

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we believe what we believe. And we said that

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verse 17, let's see. Okay, go to 16, go to 16.

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Yeah, it says, so that those who revile your

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good conducts may be ashamed. And we also say

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that the ashamed there is not to put them to

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shame, okay? It's not like to make them feel

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bad because that is not part of the power of

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the gospel, right? God does not make someone

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to feel, to see shame. Let's put it that way,

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right? But the evidence, the explanation of this

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shame is that when evidence is presented, right,

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your evidence is sufficient enough, right, for

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them to put their evidences aside and accept

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your own, right? So to put their evidences aside,

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and we check scriptures where that actual word,

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right, I think we checked it yesterday, where

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that actual word popped out. So today we have

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to have a foundation upon which our commitment

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to apologetics, right? Our commitment to apologetics.

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So go to the same first bit that, is it having

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a good, go to 15, let's see, something I'm looking

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for. Always be ready and answer to give a reason,

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right? For the hope that is in you, right? That

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is in you. Now, the first thing that we must

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do, right? Or the first commitment is, the first

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thing is that, To know what we believe first.

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That's our first commitment. That's why verse

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15 says, A reason for the hope that is in you.

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So the first thing is, you must know the hope

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that is in you. You must know the hope that is

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in you. So we must know what we believe. So when

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there are teachings, when there are things concerning

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the faith, and you realize that you are lacking

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in knowledge, you should investigate it. You

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should pay attention to study it until you find

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an answer from the scriptures. You should have

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a note. This particular part, I need to study

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it. This particular part, I need to study it.

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If you are trying, you can tell the pastors,

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you can tell people around you, right? And the

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church, over time, can go in that direction,

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right, based on the decision of the leadership.

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So what we are saying is that we must know the

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hope that we believe in. We must know what we

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believe. We must know what we believe because

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we cannot defend what we don't understand. Now,

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this is the difference between other people who

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call themselves probably some organizations or

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some sets and... The true Christian faith, which,

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of course, there's no other true Christian faith.

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It's just the Christian faith. But the committed

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Christian faith. The difference is that you must

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understand what you believe. The ones we are

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going to check today, you don't need to understand.

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Just follow. In fact, you just have to follow

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the organization. Right? You just have to follow

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the organization. You don't ask questions. But

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in the faith, you must be ready to give an answer.

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It therefore means that you must know. Ephesians

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1. Ephesians 1. Someone says, to know the hope

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that is in you. Ephesians 1 explains it very

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well, or opens it up a little bit. And it became

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Paul's prayer. From verse 15. Wherefore, I also,

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after I have heard of your faith in the Lord

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Jesus, and the love unto all the saints, I say

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this not to give thanks for you, making mention

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of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you

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wisdom of the Spirit, right? And revelation in

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the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding,

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being enlightened, that you may what? Know. Okay?

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That you may know. What will you know? The hope.

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What is the hope of his calling? You must know

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the hope of his calling. You must know what you

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believe. It's not, the Christian faith is not

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without understanding. Okay? The Christian faith

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is not without understanding, right? There's

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understanding that must go. You must know what

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you believe. And in essence, the reason is that

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we can be able to give sufficient defense, sufficient

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answer, right? The defense of the gospel is the

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title, right? So sufficient defense, sufficient

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answer to those who ask us. And note that...

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He says, you may be able to give to those who

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ask you. And now see, some people will revile

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you. So among those who ask you, do we need to,

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okay, all right. So among those who ask you are

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actually people who will revile you. So not everybody

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that asks you is actually coming to revile you.

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And we saw that yesterday, right? We saw that

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there will be people, what's the first group

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of people that we might encounter? New generation,

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right? So the new generation might not ready,

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they are not coming to revile you. They just

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want to know. Purity everywhere, right? Now,

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the false prophets too, they are not coming to,

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I'm sorry, not the false prophets, the sincere

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preachers, right? Sincere teachers. They are

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not coming to revile you, right? They are coming

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actually, they don't know. When Apollos was taken

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into the house of Priscilla and Aquila, right?

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It was not to revile him or he was also not reviling

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them, right? It was actually for him to be taught.

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So we see that. However, we know that false prophets,

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mockers and scoffers, they want to revile you,

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right? So you must be ready to provide an evidence.

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So the first thing is that we must be committed.

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These are our commitments in this meeting as

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we go, as we, you know, after this meeting, that

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I'm committed to know everything pertaining to

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the scriptures. You know, one time I used to

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tell people, I tell someone, okay, preach John

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3, 6, preach about salvation for me. The people,

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they prepare the teachings and it goes only across

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the New Testament or maybe only in the book of

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John or maybe just a few scriptures. And I said,

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you see this thing that you do now, it's good,

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but it is insufficient. Just like we say, if

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we stay only in the New Testament, we will miss

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the foundation, which is the Old Testament upon

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which the New Testament is built upon. So in

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such. Right? It means that in our explanation,

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we will do like Jesus. Right? In our explanation,

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we'll do like Jesus. In Luke chapter 24. Right?

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Let's go there. Add that scripture. Luke chapter

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24. We will do like Jesus. So, we must know.

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Right? We must know. Luke chapter 24. From verse

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44. Right? From verse 44. We have verse 44. He

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said, these are the words which I speak unto

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you while I was yet with you. That. All things

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must be fulfilled, which are written in the law

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of Moses, in the prophets, in the Psalms concerning

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me. And I said, he opened their understanding.

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So when we need to learn about the faith, we

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must go to the scriptures. So you will not just

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stay in the Psalms. You will not just stay in

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the New Testament, but you will go across scriptures

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to be able to teach what you know. Right? So

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we must go. We can put 2 Peter 3 verse 18. 2

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Peter 3 verse 18. Grow in grace and in the knowledge

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of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Grow in

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grace. So, spiritual growth as a believer is

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to grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Okay, the spiritual growth is to grow in the

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knowledge. So if we say more grace unto you,

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we are saying more knowledge, more revelation,

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right? So if I greet someone, more grace unto

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you, I'm telling you more knowledge, more revelation

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on the basis of this verse, right? So I'm saying

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more knowledge to you, more revelation as you

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press on, right? That you may know, you may know.

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So when we talk about grace in this context,

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it's talking about the increase in the knowledge,

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which is the same thing, again, back to Ephesians.

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Back to Ephesians, telling us that there will

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be revelation, the knowledge, in the knowledge

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of Christ. So we must be zealous to actually

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know more, right? There should not be any question,

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like Pastor Fred used to say, he used to say,

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tell me something. He said, you see, you have

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to follow the conversation. The reason is because

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people under us are listening to these same conversations.

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Right? So, when you listen to that combat, maybe

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some people giving some explanations, because

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people listen to them, you listen to them so

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that you can know how to teach them from Genesis

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to Revelation on that matter when the question

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comes. Do we get it? So, it means that we have

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to grow in the knowledge of Christ, having eyes

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of our understanding enlightened. Let's progress.

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Colossians 3, 16. Colossians 3, 16. Let the word

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of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

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Now, teaching and admonishing one another in

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psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with

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grace in your hearts to the Lord. You see, again,

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the word of Christ dwelling in us richly, in

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abundance, in surplus, like you have the wealth

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of the word of God in you. You have the wealth

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of the word of God in you. The second thing which

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we saw is... It's still connected to knowing

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what we believe. It's majorly to say that we

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should know why we believe what we believe. So

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it's still connected to what I just said. You

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must know the why, right? You must know the why.

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You will know what you believe, right? You must

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know what you believe. Then we must know why,

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the reason behind it, right? We must know why,

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which is the reason behind it. The reason behind

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what we believe has historical foundation and

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revelational foundation, okay? The reason behind

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the Christian faith, why, has historical foundation

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and revelational foundation. Why? Because it

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is God working with and within a culture of a

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people to communicate to the entire world. Some

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say, why do you believe it? It's an Englishman's

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religion. Oh, why do you believe it? It's an

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imported. Why do you believe it? It's just something

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to control the masses. No. Right? The Christian

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faith, across history, He has a historical foundation.

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He has a revelational foundation. He has apostolic

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foundation. Right? So, those are the reasons

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why we believe what we believe. It's not just

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that we read it, we know it. We know the reason

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why we know it. We know the reason why. Right?

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We know the reason why. Now, like I said, the

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ones we are going to discuss today, I will ask

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you a question. Whether they have historical

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foundation or they have revelational foundation.

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Right? We're going to see. Because Pastor Victor

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is the one that used the word archaeological

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evidences, you know, all the time. When I started

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studying, I started seeing that actually, Christian

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faith is so solidly founded on realities that

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happened on these earths that God fulfilled.

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Right? And in those realities, which we call

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the eyewitnesses accounts, there is what? Revelation.

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Right? There is revelation. But in most cases,

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you barely find... any archaeological or any

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pointer to the fact that some people existed

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somewhere. Where's Brother Prince? Ah, okay,

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he's outside. If someone can replace him, it

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would be nice. Yes, so, Victor, if you can replace

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him, if he's not in anything, he should come

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inside. So, there's archaeological evidences,

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right, evidences on this faith and there's revelational,

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there's eyewitness evidence, to solidify the

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Christian faith, which in most cases is difficult

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for other faiths to establish. So we must know

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why. Now, the third one is you must know how

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to communicate the faith. Ah, you must know how

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to communicate the faith. You must know how to

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communicate the faith. You must know how to communicate

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the faith. One of the things I really, you know,

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honor pastors for is Not just that they know

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it, but they are apt to teach. See, teaching

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is something that every day you must trust God

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that it gives you understanding on how to present

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the message of the gospel. This teaching is one

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of the most, I mean, one of the challenging for

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me to teach. Reason because I'm torn between

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I don't want to teach someone's doctrine and

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trying to correct doctrine. Yes, I need to teach

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the church. So our job is to teach the church.

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It's not to teach someone's error. But in teaching

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the church, we would correct someone's error.

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Do we get it? So our job is not to pick, we don't

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need to pick all the errors, right? No, not at

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all. We want to teach the church. Now, in our

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teaching the church, many errors out there will

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be corrected. So I was torn in between, right?

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Where do I start from? Where do I organize this?

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and trusting the Spirit to flow with us even

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as we teach. So you must learn how to communicate

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it. You must learn how to communicate it. 2 Timothy

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2 verse 15. 2 Timothy 2 verse 15. Be diligent

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to present yourself approved to God, a worker

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who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing

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the word of truth. Say that word ashamed again.

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So it's not shaming, it's actually to shrink.

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Like, oh, I don't have sufficient evidence to

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present. Right? So, you will not shrink that

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you don't have sufficient evidence when you rightly

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divide the word of truth. That is what it means.

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It means to withdraw. I withdraw my case from

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this discussion because I don't have sufficient

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evidence. When you rightly divide the word of

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truth, you wouldn't shrink. So, it means that

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there's a pattern that we need to use to communicate,

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to communicate the gospel. 2 Peter 1, 20 -21

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will rightly divide the word of truth. So, rightly

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divide simply means to cut across the scripture

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to give an explanation, right? Cut across the

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scripture to give An explanation. To what? Now,

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some people are wondering, knowing first, above

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all, that no prophecy is of private interpretation.

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And we have explained this, right? That it's

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not necessarily meaning someone has a revelation,

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right? That's not what it means. That means like,

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oh, this is my interpretation. That is your interpretation.

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But what it's explaining is that no scripture

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should be taken alone. No scripture is independent

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of the order. Right? So, if I read Genesis, it's

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not independent of Exodus. It's not independent

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of Malachi. For the prophecy never came by the

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will of man. But see, holy men, stay on this

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one, holy men of God spoke as they were moved.

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So, Moses spoke as he was moved. So, if he was

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moved by the spirits, right? It means that when

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Isaiah was moved by the Spirit, Moses and Isaiah

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would be communicating the same thing. Do we

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get it? So, holy men, they move. They will move,

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right? They spoke as they will move. So, it means

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that because it is of the same origin, right?

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No single scripture has a separate message from

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the other. Because it is inspired by God, by

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the same Holy Spirit, No single, that is what

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we call the, what the pastor Victor call it,

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thematic context, right? The entire context of

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the Bible, right? This is thematic, those places,

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those concepts, I was supposed to write them

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down there in my book. I probably will bring

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that, right? We need them because that is the

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thematic context of the Bible, the overall message

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of the Bible, saying that no book is independent,

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but these books brought together. By men in different

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generations and across different times, they

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were moved by the Holy Spirit. And does the Holy

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Spirit have two messages? No. Just that one message

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of what God will do in us. What God will do.

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So, how do I, right, communicate the gospel,

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right? I communicate it across scriptures, holding

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on to the messages of the scripture. Holding

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on to... the messages of the scripture. So there's

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no one scripture that stands alone, but you bring

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them together and they spoke as they were moved

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by the Holy Ghost. Let's go to Philemon 6. Philemon

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6. Philemon 6. The communication of our faith.

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Right. The communication of our faith. Philemon

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6. Okay. Media, help us. So Philemon sees. 6

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says, the communication of our faith would become,

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he said, that the sharing of your faith may become

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effective by acknowledgement of every good thing

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which is in you in Christ. That as we acknowledge

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all that is ours in Christ, means that you will

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cut across, to acknowledge what is yours in Christ,

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it means that you will cut across all scriptures

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to know all that is yours in Christ. Living no

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matter untouched. We will cut across all scriptures

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knowing what is ours in Christ. Then the communication

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of our faith, the sharing of our faith becomes

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very effective. Right? It becomes very effective.

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It becomes very effective. So this three commitment

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is something that should go with us every day

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as we go. Every day as we go. I need to know

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more. I need to know more. Right? I need to know

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why. And I need to communicate. That is why when

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you learn, you communicate it. You teach people,

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right? The reason why we have us here is not

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for us to just teach you, teach you, teach you,

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but that you will go and teach others. So if

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you don't practice how to teach others, how would

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you be able to be effective in the communication

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of your faith? To give a defense, you must learn

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how to communicate the defense. You must learn

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how to communicate. And it doesn't come in one

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day. It's not something that you will just wake

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up one day and you know how to communicate of

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it. No, it's practice. Practice after practice,

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after practice, after practice. It's like people

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who are going for evangelism, the more you do

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it, the more you know how to do it. So the first

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time you went to speak with someone, you realize

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that the scripture you started with or the way

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the conversation started, you could have taken

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it through these other parts. Or started with

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this scripture and moved towards this scripture?

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Or asked this question? So, in that, you are

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practicing how to communicate your faith. Right?

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You are practicing how to communicate your faith.

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So, it is not just mere eloquence. It is not

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mere eloquence. It is not in the wisdom of men.

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It is not eloquence. It is not in the wisdom

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of men. It is also not quoting scriptures. Okay?

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So we've warned each other about quoting scriptures

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randomly and using them haphazardly, right? In

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this place, right? This is not just me quoting

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scriptures, but staying on it. Because we have

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people who have quoted scriptures across all

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times. In fact, in their quoting of scriptures,

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they did terrible damage to people who were looking

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for what to believe in. They had to follow them.

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So it is not quoting scriptures. Like some said,

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right, to confuse people. Just quote randomly,

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quote randomly. In fact, like Pastor Victor also

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said, he said, the people that have done damage

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the most to the faith, I mean, unfortunately,

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are people who use the same material. People

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who hold the Bible across history and even people

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who try to create organizations. Why? Because

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they are using the same book. Now, I tell you

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that if someone was using another book, right?

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You remember what happened in Ephesus? What did

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they do? Right? They will bring out their books

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and they will burn it. Right? They will bring

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out their magic books. Right? And they will burn

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it. Because they have believed in the message

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of Christ. Now, somebody that is using the same

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book with you. First, he does not need to burn

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the book. We don't want to burn the book. But

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the person is communicating and keeping people

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in darkness, right? In the name of using the

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same book. So people who really give the most

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challenge when it comes to apologetics, people

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who give the most challenge is the people who

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actually carry the same book or claim to teach

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from the same book. So we must pay attention,

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right? We must pay attention to how to communicate

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this message. So we will teach it instruction

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by instruction, conviction by conviction, evidence

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by evidence. Okay, we will teach it instruction

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by instruction, conviction by conviction, evidence

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by evidence, correction by correction, precepts

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by precepts. It means that we will be detailed.

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We will be detailed in our communication of the

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gospel. We will be detailed in our communication.

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of the gospel. Alright. The next thing is to

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know what is the state of heart of someone who

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is giving a defense of the gospel. The state

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of our state of heart. Now, one of the challenges,

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so the next thing is our state of heart in giving

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a defense. Right? We can say it that way. Our

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state of heart in giving a defense. There's a

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challenge. I think I was saying it one day that

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one of the reasons why people don't go for evangelism

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is because they don't know what the person will

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say. One. Secondly, sometimes they think that

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they are coming apprehensively to attack somebody.

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No. Sometimes they think, okay, someone I've

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never met before. It's because you have not conditioned

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your heart to know what you're about to go and

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do. So if you condition your heart that, okay,

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I'm going to save souls. I'm not going to attack

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anybody. I'm going to have a communication with

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this person. I'm going to discuss and explain

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the scriptures, right? And it's not like you're

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coming to, you know, hold the person, force the

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person. Is it that you believe or not? You know,

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some people will use the wrong scripture, the

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kingdom of God, suffering violence, right? You

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must take it. But no, no, no. That's the very

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wrong explanation of that. We've seen people

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do very funny things with scriptures. So our

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hearts has a position. Believe me, this will

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help you. when you are going. It will help you

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when we are going. You see this one, this is

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the foundation of the next thing we are going

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to teach. So that when we begin to talk about

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doctrines that don't align with the faith of

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Jesus and why a faith cannot be called salvation.

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I said that. Why a faith cannot be called salvation

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or a belief cannot be called salvation. You will

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know that we are coming from a state of hearts

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that is appropriate, that is consecrated. Let

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me use that word, right? A state of heart that

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is consecrated, right? We are coming from a state

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of heart that is consecrated. So the first thing

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that we must know, right? I know many of us might

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not like it. Some of us are so cool. Some of

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us, we are very reserved, right? But the first

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thing you must know when you are going out for

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an apology is that you are confronting ideologies.

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So many people don't like confrontation. Many

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people don't like confrontation, right? You don't

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want confrontation, right? To discuss, to argue,

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to explain, no. So, first, the state of our heart

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must be that we are going to confront ideologies.

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We are going to confront ideologies, strongholds,

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and arguments. Ideologies, strongholds, and arguments.

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Ideologies, strongholds, and arguments. That

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exalts themselves against the knowledge of God.

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That exalts themselves against... So you must

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know, this one you must know. You will not get

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there and tell the person A is B. And the person

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will say, oh, glory to God, I believe. Right?

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No, it's not going to happen like that. So you

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must know that we are going to confront ideologies.

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People are not born tabula rasa. Tabula rasa

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means a plain head. People are not plain head.

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Right? They are not a white board where nothing

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is written on. Something has been written in

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their mind. before they met you, right? Even

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if they have no faith, something has been written

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in their mind. For example, you are going to

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preach even to a new generation person. The person

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will ask you, why does God allow a child in Gaza

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or somewhere to die? Why does he not stop that

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bomb at that last minute before it exploded?

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Right? Someone will ask you such a question.

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You are preaching the love of God. The person

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is telling you, If truly God controls all men,

00:30:46.009 --> 00:30:51.309
if God is truly ultimate, why can't he not just

00:30:51.309 --> 00:30:54.390
kick that bomb away and that child will survive?

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These are questions they will ask you. Now, this

00:30:56.809 --> 00:30:58.430
one is not coming from anything. This one is

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coming from a moral mind. It's coming from a

00:31:02.089 --> 00:31:04.849
humanity mind. If you meet people who believe

00:31:04.849 --> 00:31:06.670
in humanity and they follow those, this is a

00:31:06.670 --> 00:31:08.329
question they will ask you. Why didn't God stop

00:31:08.329 --> 00:31:12.349
it? And you have to explain. So, that is an ideology.

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That it is, God is contributing to that thing

00:31:15.500 --> 00:31:17.880
that is happening by not doing anything. Have

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we seen that in the Old Testament before? Are

00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.180
we together? Have we seen that in the Old Testament?

00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.799
Leaders, we have seen that. Where they will say

00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:30.259
that God is contributing to an evil that is taking

00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:35.200
place because of his absence. His absence in

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:37.420
those cases. So the same way today. Today you

00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:40.039
will see it practically. Why is God not stopping?

00:31:40.140 --> 00:31:42.319
So we must know, you must have this in your mind.

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.799
Have it settled. You are going to confront ideologies,

00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.279
arguments that exalt themselves against the knowledge

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.640
of God. 2 Corinthians 10, 4, verse 5. 2 Corinthians

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.599
10, 4, verse 5. Romans 1, verse 16. Put them

00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:01.420
together. Romans 1, verse 16. For the weapons

00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:04.640
of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:08.759
God, to the pulling down strongholds, casting

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:12.980
down arguments and every high thing that exalts

00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:16.579
itself against the knowledge of God and bringing

00:32:16.579 --> 00:32:19.759
every thought into captivity to the obedience

00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.339
of Christ. So, go back. So, he says, go back

00:32:22.339 --> 00:32:26.140
to the first one, right? Where are you? 2 Corinthians.

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:28.119
I'm still in 2 Corinthians. I'm not in... Yes.

00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:30.099
It's like the weapon of our warfare. So, you

00:32:30.099 --> 00:32:32.880
must know that you are not going for a physical

00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:35.920
fight, okay? The confrontation is not physical

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.000
fight. So, you must know this, right? So when

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.400
the person becomes physical, you move. That's

00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:47.420
the truth. You move. Okay? Because what we are

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:50.980
doing, it's an argument. I mean, a debate, yes.

00:32:51.140 --> 00:32:57.119
A conversation. That is why when Festus and Agrippa,

00:32:57.299 --> 00:33:00.119
when they questioned Paul, they said, what are

00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:02.279
you guys? This guy does not deserve this. He

00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:04.960
has not done, there's nothing physical. It's

00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.109
not a physical warfare. It's just to them. It's

00:33:08.109 --> 00:33:12.230
just ideological. So why should you say he's

00:33:12.230 --> 00:33:13.990
condemned to death? Of course, over history,

00:33:14.109 --> 00:33:16.250
we have seen people that because of their ideology,

00:33:16.410 --> 00:33:18.289
they were condemned to death as well, right?

00:33:18.369 --> 00:33:21.849
So he was saying, let's think. Let's think together,

00:33:22.029 --> 00:33:24.750
right? He doesn't deserve death. But Paul knew,

00:33:24.930 --> 00:33:28.390
right? Paul knew that the weapons of his warfare

00:33:28.390 --> 00:33:31.470
are not carnal. Paul knew what he was doing.

00:33:32.139 --> 00:33:34.880
Apostle Paul was certain that he was bringing

00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.319
down the argument. And because they could not

00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:39.720
stand, so people might not be able to stand and

00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:41.880
they turn into fights. Then you just withdraw,

00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:44.220
right? So if you have this mindset, I'm going

00:33:44.220 --> 00:33:47.640
out to have a conversation over the ideologies,

00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:50.359
over the strongholds that are in the minds of

00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.940
people. I'm going out to answer questions that

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:56.539
are in the mind of people, random people who

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:58.980
haven't been able to understand the love of Christ.

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So this will help us a lot. Now go to Romans

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1 verse 16. Romans 1 verse 16. by faith. So it

00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.019
is the power of God. So your communication of

00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:37.519
the gospel, right? The power of God is in it.

00:34:38.380 --> 00:34:40.340
So don't think that you're just going to just

00:34:40.340 --> 00:34:42.380
have a debate, have an argument, have a discussion,

00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.420
explain. No. When you are saying that Jesus is

00:34:45.420 --> 00:34:47.920
son of God, the power of God is in that communication.

00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.800
When you are saying that when God created man,

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:55.000
he has the intention to fill all men, the power

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.599
of God is in that communication. When you say

00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:01.119
that to be filled, You need to believe in the

00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:03.280
suffering of Christ and the glory that follows.

00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:05.920
The power of God is in that communication. So

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.059
don't let it look like you are going out to just

00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:09.719
say mere words. No, you are not going to say

00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:12.559
mere words. You are going to communicate the

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:15.139
power of God. So be bold to enjoy confrontation.

00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:19.980
Right? Be bold to enjoy confrontation. Be bold

00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:22.860
to enjoy confrontation. One of the means by which...

00:35:23.489 --> 00:35:26.750
maybe early days, right, before, you know, I

00:35:26.750 --> 00:35:28.610
got very, I mean, it's not something that also

00:35:28.610 --> 00:35:31.170
I just jumped into being able to have a confrontation

00:35:31.170 --> 00:35:32.829
about the gospel. No, it didn't happen all of

00:35:32.829 --> 00:35:35.949
a sudden, right? I just realized that when someone

00:35:35.949 --> 00:35:38.429
asks a question, right, I just smile, right?

00:35:38.510 --> 00:35:41.349
So if you smile, it calms you down. Then they

00:35:41.349 --> 00:35:43.210
arrange your mind together. Then you know, okay,

00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:45.969
we are not fighting, right? It is that we want

00:35:45.969 --> 00:35:47.590
to communicate, we want to have a conversation.

00:35:47.829 --> 00:35:50.130
So me, that is, first thing, someone comes to

00:35:50.130 --> 00:35:52.130
me, in fact, these days when I smile is because

00:35:52.130 --> 00:35:54.260
I know that, okay, This person, this is another

00:35:54.260 --> 00:35:57.739
opportunity to win someone, right? This is another

00:35:57.739 --> 00:36:00.360
opportunity to win someone. So, we are going

00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.380
for confrontation. It's not a fight. We put on

00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:04.920
a smile. You approach the person. You have your

00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:08.139
scriptures. And again, right? Again, this is

00:36:08.139 --> 00:36:11.760
one of the things. Let's put a second one. Let's

00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:13.699
put a second one. So, now it's confrontation,

00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.480
right? Confrontation. Let's take a few scriptures.

00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:20.659
1 Timothy 1 verse 3. 1 Timothy 1 verse 3. I think

00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:23.079
Pastor Victor read this. And I urge you when

00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.679
I went into Macedonia, so we are still on confrontation,

00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.199
please. We have about a number of scriptures

00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:33.179
here. Yes, a number of scriptures here to deal

00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:36.059
with. As I urge you when I went to Macedonia,

00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:38.880
remain in emphasis that you may church some that

00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:44.199
they teach no other doctrine, neither give heed

00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:48.199
to fables and endless genealogies, which minister

00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:51.230
questions rather than godly edification. which

00:36:51.230 --> 00:36:54.809
is in faith. Sorry, which is in faith, yes. So,

00:36:54.809 --> 00:36:58.989
he says he besought Timothy, right, to abide

00:36:58.989 --> 00:37:02.250
still at Ephesus, right, so that he might do

00:37:02.250 --> 00:37:05.769
what? He might charge people to teach no other

00:37:05.769 --> 00:37:08.409
doctrine. Now, to charge people to teach no other

00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:10.989
doctrine would not be very easy, would not just

00:37:10.989 --> 00:37:14.869
be stop teaching this doctrine, right? If you

00:37:14.869 --> 00:37:16.670
tell people stop teaching this doctrine, the

00:37:16.670 --> 00:37:20.699
next question is why? So, what? Timothy is going

00:37:20.699 --> 00:37:23.400
to do is not to say, nobody should teach fables

00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.699
here. Nobody should teach, I am from David, I

00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:31.780
am from whatever tribe. No, no, no, he's not

00:37:31.780 --> 00:37:34.219
going to do that. He's going to show from the

00:37:34.219 --> 00:37:37.860
scripture that it is from one Lord, one baptism,

00:37:38.099 --> 00:37:41.460
one faith, so that you would not have an attachment

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:45.739
to anything you have traced. Endless genealogies

00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:50.280
that is not for profiting. Fables. Right? So,

00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:53.039
these NDS genealogists and these fables are not

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:55.280
just something we say stop. No, he has to use

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:59.119
the scripture, right, to stop them. So, it is

00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.519
the teaching of the scripture that will stop

00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:03.460
it. So, he's going to go and confront people

00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:06.719
to tell them to stop and to show them from the

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.800
scriptures that we are all the children of God.

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:15.360
So, this is how he confronts it. Acts 13 verse

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14 to 16, let's add that. Still on confrontation,

00:38:18.650 --> 00:38:23.690
Acts 13, verse 14 to 16. Acts 13, verse 14 to

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16. But when they departed from Pega, they came

00:38:27.829 --> 00:38:30.289
to Antioch in Pidicia and went into the synagogue

00:38:30.289 --> 00:38:35.110
on the Sabbath day and sat down. And after the

00:38:35.110 --> 00:38:37.110
reading of the law and the prophet, the ruler

00:38:37.110 --> 00:38:39.929
of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men and

00:38:39.929 --> 00:38:43.289
brethren, if you have any word of exhortation

00:38:43.289 --> 00:38:47.800
for the people, do what? Say on. Then Paul stood

00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.760
stuck here. Now, this is the one I was talking

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:54.260
about yesterday. That Paul intentionally would

00:38:54.260 --> 00:38:58.659
put himself in a circumstance where people would

00:38:58.659 --> 00:39:02.579
ask him and say, tell us more. Right? Where people

00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:05.880
would say, give us a defense of the scriptures.

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:09.420
Right? Give us a defense. Now, these people are

00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:11.960
also very interesting people. Right? They realize

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:13.980
that the reading of the scripture is not enough.

00:39:14.139 --> 00:39:16.429
But the explanation of the scripture. is where

00:39:16.429 --> 00:39:19.449
the revelation is. Okay? The explanation. Don't

00:39:19.449 --> 00:39:21.750
forget, the Ethiopian eunuch also was reading.

00:39:22.429 --> 00:39:25.429
Right? And Philip had to do what? Explain the

00:39:25.429 --> 00:39:28.929
scriptures. So Paul put himself in a circumstance.

00:39:29.570 --> 00:39:32.289
So there's nothing wrong where you find people

00:39:32.289 --> 00:39:35.469
talking. Right? When you find people talking

00:39:35.469 --> 00:39:38.949
and you go and join them. Right? Because you

00:39:38.949 --> 00:39:41.849
want them to ask you questions. Right? I think

00:39:41.849 --> 00:39:43.230
you want them to ask you questions. I think my

00:39:43.230 --> 00:39:44.630
wife always says something that, you know, she

00:39:44.630 --> 00:39:48.489
goes to lunch. with some people because she knows

00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:50.650
that they will ask her questions. Right? They

00:39:50.650 --> 00:39:51.929
will ask her questions about your faith. So,

00:39:51.949 --> 00:39:54.630
she goes, I mean, there are, what I call them,

00:39:54.690 --> 00:39:56.349
some of them are Christians, right? And people

00:39:56.349 --> 00:39:58.050
who are yet to believe are among them. So, you

00:39:58.050 --> 00:40:01.090
go in that midst and because you know the state

00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:03.929
of mind that they are going to ask a question,

00:40:04.130 --> 00:40:06.809
you want to keep that. Why? Because you want

00:40:06.809 --> 00:40:10.369
to be able to give an answer. Right? So, this

00:40:10.369 --> 00:40:11.829
is what Paul is doing here. Similar to what Paul

00:40:11.829 --> 00:40:13.650
is doing. Putting himself, getting into a synagogue,

00:40:13.829 --> 00:40:17.380
reading the scriptures, And then they said, now

00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:20.699
speak. You know, now speak. Then Paul stood up

00:40:20.699 --> 00:40:23.840
and motioning his hand said, men of Israel and

00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:26.679
you who fear God, listen. The God of his people,

00:40:26.739 --> 00:40:29.679
Israel, choose our father and exalted people

00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:32.260
when they dwell as strangers in the land of Egypt.

00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:35.500
And with an uplifted hand, he brought them out.

00:40:35.659 --> 00:40:39.300
This alone is the message of salvation. A picture

00:40:39.300 --> 00:40:41.980
of salvation is already painted there. Next.

00:40:42.579 --> 00:40:45.849
Now for a time, for about 40 years. He put up

00:40:45.849 --> 00:40:47.829
with their ways in the wilderness. So here we

00:40:47.829 --> 00:40:50.030
see that Paul actually went to confront people.

00:40:50.170 --> 00:40:52.389
He put himself in a circumstance where they would

00:40:52.389 --> 00:40:55.269
say, speak. You remember the same thing. What

00:40:55.269 --> 00:40:58.030
did they tell Stephen? Speak. Are these things

00:40:58.030 --> 00:41:03.090
so? Confirm that this is true. Speak. What did

00:41:03.090 --> 00:41:06.429
they tell Paul? Now you can answer for yourself.

00:41:06.829 --> 00:41:09.070
That's what they told Paul. They asked Stephen,

00:41:09.230 --> 00:41:11.250
are these things so? Paul, they asked him, you

00:41:11.250 --> 00:41:13.869
can answer for yourself. And here they told Peter,

00:41:14.050 --> 00:41:17.059
right? Right? Is it Peter or Paul? They say stand

00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:19.380
up, Paul. They say stand up and what? And speak.

00:41:19.579 --> 00:41:21.980
Right? Paul put himself in this circumstance

00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:25.119
again. So this is what we see. So it's not bad

00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:27.980
to find yourself in such circumstances. Now go

00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:32.619
to 42 to 46. Verse 42 to 46. Of this same chapter,

00:41:32.659 --> 00:41:36.519
please. 42 to 46 of this same chapter of Acts.

00:41:37.219 --> 00:41:39.920
So when the Jews went out of synagogue, the Gentiles

00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:42.260
begged that this word might be preached to them.

00:41:42.590 --> 00:41:45.550
the next Sabbath. So the Jews were angry about

00:41:45.550 --> 00:41:49.849
the message that was preached. Yet, some people

00:41:49.849 --> 00:41:52.789
wanted the message to be preached to them again

00:41:52.789 --> 00:41:56.530
the next Sabbath. So in your apologia, as much

00:41:56.530 --> 00:41:58.789
as you'll find people who would confront and

00:41:58.789 --> 00:42:02.030
they will say no, you must also be having a mind

00:42:02.030 --> 00:42:05.150
and a heart that somebody will hear. Okay? Somebody

00:42:05.150 --> 00:42:07.230
will believe. Don't have this mind that nobody

00:42:07.230 --> 00:42:10.170
will believe. No. Somebody will believe. Somebody

00:42:10.170 --> 00:42:13.309
will hear. Somebody will say yes. Somebody would

00:42:13.309 --> 00:42:16.969
follow. The more you do it, right? So we had

00:42:16.969 --> 00:42:19.050
some people say, let them preach this word to

00:42:19.050 --> 00:42:21.969
us again in the next Sabbath, 43. Now, when the

00:42:21.969 --> 00:42:24.250
congregation had broken up, many of the Jews

00:42:24.250 --> 00:42:27.349
and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas,

00:42:27.409 --> 00:42:31.070
who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue

00:42:31.070 --> 00:42:35.590
in the grace of God. So some Jews, right? And

00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:39.440
some converts, right? They followed Paul. and

00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:40.980
persuaded them to continue the worldview. So

00:42:40.980 --> 00:42:43.480
those ones received the word. On the next Sabbath,

00:42:43.539 --> 00:42:45.679
almost the whole city came together to do what?

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.900
To hear the word of God. Right? People would

00:42:48.900 --> 00:42:51.739
hear. This is a result of putting yourself in

00:42:51.739 --> 00:42:54.599
a place where you begin to teach. Verse 45. But

00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:56.840
when the Jews, again, these same Jews, saw the

00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.519
multitudes, they were filled with envy and contradicting

00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:05.039
and blaspheming. They opposed the things spoken

00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:07.159
by Paul. So you can see it's a very great confrontation.

00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:10.239
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold. Say, I grew

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:15.139
bold. Say, I grow bold every day. Yeah. They

00:43:15.139 --> 00:43:17.679
grew bold and said, it is necessary that the

00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:20.400
word of God should be spoken first to you. Now,

00:43:20.420 --> 00:43:24.619
it is necessary. That word is historical. That

00:43:24.619 --> 00:43:28.980
word is entire Genesis and the law. It is necessary

00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:33.360
that it be spoken to you first. Because you are

00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:36.789
people in... Abraham, of course, a father in

00:43:36.789 --> 00:43:40.269
your lineage that believed in God. So by the

00:43:40.269 --> 00:43:44.789
promises of God and by the election of God, right?

00:43:44.849 --> 00:43:47.210
You were the ones that will carry this message

00:43:47.210 --> 00:43:51.710
and share, right? That's by God's election. It's

00:43:51.710 --> 00:43:53.690
Israel that would carry this message and share.

00:43:54.210 --> 00:43:56.750
So he said, it is necessary that he be spoken

00:43:56.750 --> 00:44:00.449
to you first. However, you did what? You reject

00:44:00.449 --> 00:44:05.110
it. Now, judge for yourself. and judge yourselves

00:44:05.110 --> 00:44:07.750
rather on worthy of everlasting life. Behold,

00:44:07.750 --> 00:44:11.210
we do what? We turn to the Gentiles. We turn

00:44:11.210 --> 00:44:15.429
to the Gentiles. For the Lord has commanded that

00:44:15.429 --> 00:44:17.550
I have said to you as a lie to the Gentiles that

00:44:17.550 --> 00:44:20.130
you should be salvation to the world, to the

00:44:20.130 --> 00:44:23.070
ends of the earth. So it's not just Gentiles,

00:44:23.130 --> 00:44:25.170
right? No, no, just stay under scriptures. It's

00:44:25.170 --> 00:44:28.050
not just Gentiles, right? But Paul had a heavy

00:44:28.050 --> 00:44:32.030
labor. Paul had heavy labor for the Gentiles.

00:44:32.409 --> 00:44:34.869
But it's not just apostles to the Gentiles. You're

00:44:34.869 --> 00:44:37.949
restraining me a whole lot. Otherwise, we would

00:44:37.949 --> 00:44:40.710
remove the epistles, give the Gentiles only the

00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:43.449
epistles, and we would stay with the gospels

00:44:43.449 --> 00:44:47.969
and maybe Peter, John. So Paul is also an apostle

00:44:47.969 --> 00:44:50.230
to us, right? He's an apostle to us. We're going

00:44:50.230 --> 00:44:54.110
to see that in laying the foundation, right?

00:44:54.190 --> 00:44:57.150
Why nobody can build anything apart from that

00:44:57.150 --> 00:45:01.239
which is already established. So verse 47. We'll

00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:03.480
just stay on verse 7. Right. So, he said, I've

00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:06.199
said it. So, he's an apostle to the ends of the

00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:08.980
earth. Right. To the ends of the earth. For salvation

00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:12.039
to the ends of the earth. So, let's go to another

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scripture. Acts 19, verse 3. Acts 19, verse 3.

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And he said to them, into what then were you

00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:22.079
baptized? So, they said, into John's baptism.

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Again, he met people who were already saved.

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I mean, people who had received the message.

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Which is the message of? John the Baptist. I'm

00:45:31.099 --> 00:45:32.260
saying there's no problem about that message,

00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:35.559
but the way it's communicated, it's communicated

00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:38.659
in a coded form, in a hidden form of what is

00:45:38.659 --> 00:45:41.480
to come. But in our communication, we communicate

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:44.599
what is already done. The finished work of Christ

00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:46.679
is what we communicate. This one is telling them

00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:48.199
somebody will come and do some finished work.

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:50.780
There's somebody that is going to fulfill it,

00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.559
right? So, he confronted these people and said,

00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:57.599
well, this is it, right? And he taught them appropriately.

00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:01.559
Verse 9 and 10. Verse 9 and 10 of the same scripture.

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But when some were hardened and did not believe,

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I'll go to verse 8, take it a little bit back.

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And again, he went into the synagogue and spoke

00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:15.400
boldly for three months. You see, always going

00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:19.179
to, in the synagogue, looking for places where

00:46:19.179 --> 00:46:22.300
people would have questions and explain the scriptures

00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:25.500
to them. So, spoke boldly for three months. Reasoning,

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did you see? Reasoning. It means giving explanation.

00:46:29.739 --> 00:46:32.539
The Logos, giving explanation and persuading

00:46:32.539 --> 00:46:36.880
concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:41.380
Right? He was going about meeting people and

00:46:41.380 --> 00:46:44.340
giving explanation regarding things concerning

00:46:44.340 --> 00:46:47.480
the kingdom of God. So Paul did not shy away

00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:50.320
from confrontation. Right? And we cannot shy

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:54.059
away. Go to verse 10. But when some were... Okay,

00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:56.280
go to verse 9. Stay on 9. Let me see. But when

00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:59.260
some were hardened... and did not believe, but

00:46:59.260 --> 00:47:01.280
spoke evil of the way, which is the message,

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:04.239
before the multitude, he departed from them and

00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:08.039
withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the

00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:11.639
school of Tyrannus. Now, look at, did he reason

00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:14.380
in the synagogue with them? Did he reason in

00:47:14.380 --> 00:47:18.099
the synagogue with them? Yes, he did. Now, when

00:47:18.099 --> 00:47:21.559
he realized that one, two, three, four people,

00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:26.019
they are getting it, right? He took them aside.

00:47:26.860 --> 00:47:30.800
and train those ones very well, right? Train

00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:33.019
those ones so that those ones will go and do

00:47:33.019 --> 00:47:36.340
what? Will do the same work. So as much as you

00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:38.059
are seeing confrontations, right? You'll meet

00:47:38.059 --> 00:47:41.320
people who will believe. In fact, sometimes you

00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:44.000
can go and teach somewhere or you're talking

00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.639
to two friends and you realize that in that evangelism,

00:47:46.739 --> 00:47:50.780
one is more receptive, the other one is not receptive,

00:47:51.059 --> 00:47:54.099
right? One is more receptive, the other one is

00:47:54.099 --> 00:47:57.440
very... It's not receptive. Now, it would be

00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:59.739
good that that one that is receptive, you put

00:47:59.739 --> 00:48:01.960
more energy, get person number, you follow up

00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:04.380
such kind of people. Let me put it this way.

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They are closer to the kingdom of God. Okay?

00:48:08.099 --> 00:48:11.179
Such kind of people, they are closer to the kingdom

00:48:11.179 --> 00:48:13.320
of God. It means that they are ready to hear

00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.719
your reasoning. So, reasoning is something that

00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.239
we must do. So, he took them aside. So, specifically,

00:48:19.579 --> 00:48:21.579
he continued with those ones. The question is,

00:48:21.619 --> 00:48:23.380
do you think those ones will not have questions?

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They have questions. The disciples of Jesus had

00:48:26.150 --> 00:48:28.769
questions. These disciples had questions and

00:48:28.769 --> 00:48:30.829
then he answered their questions. So we see that

00:48:30.829 --> 00:48:33.429
in general, you can have confrontation with a

00:48:33.429 --> 00:48:36.489
group. You can have people specifically also

00:48:36.489 --> 00:48:39.750
being separated for discipleship while you are

00:48:39.750 --> 00:48:42.750
confronting the ideologies in our mind. So again,

00:48:42.829 --> 00:48:46.809
just put this as a note that you cannot control

00:48:46.809 --> 00:48:50.789
how people respond, right? But you must be faithful

00:48:50.789 --> 00:48:53.940
to the teaching of the word. You cannot control

00:48:53.940 --> 00:48:56.480
how people respond. But you must be faithful

00:48:56.480 --> 00:49:00.900
to the teaching of the word. You must be faithful

00:49:00.900 --> 00:49:05.340
to the teaching of the word. So, some people

00:49:05.340 --> 00:49:07.460
will be receptive at some point, some people

00:49:07.460 --> 00:49:10.900
will not. So, you must be faithful to the teaching

00:49:10.900 --> 00:49:14.719
of the word. Now, observe that James, the brothers

00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:17.539
of Jesus, did not believe him at some point in

00:49:17.539 --> 00:49:22.119
time. Right? They did not. But when... Peter

00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.820
would hand over church. It was James, the brother

00:49:24.820 --> 00:49:28.559
of our Lord, that he handed over to. So there

00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:30.139
are some people that the current confrontation,

00:49:30.340 --> 00:49:33.000
they might not be able to receive it. I say it

00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.079
again. The brothers of Jesus never believed them.

00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:36.739
We've taught that before. After resurrection,

00:49:37.019 --> 00:49:40.480
they believed, right? And when James, the apostle,

00:49:40.579 --> 00:49:42.900
was killed, James, the brother of Jesus, took

00:49:42.900 --> 00:49:46.619
over the church from Peter. So Jerusalem became

00:49:46.619 --> 00:49:49.139
where James, the brother of our Lord, was. In

00:49:49.139 --> 00:49:52.260
Galatians, we see... Paul, Peter emphasizing

00:49:52.260 --> 00:49:54.800
that because they set the lead arms to kill James

00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:56.659
and all of that. And there was another James.

00:49:56.739 --> 00:49:59.519
So we see that people, we don't control the response.

00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:01.260
Jesus could not control his brother's response,

00:50:01.460 --> 00:50:04.320
right? But after resurrection, sufficient evidence,

00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:08.039
they believe the message of the gospel. Now,

00:50:08.059 --> 00:50:10.179
the second thing is we are fighting a good fight.

00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:12.039
Okay, we are fighting a good fight. 2 Timothy

00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:17.400
6 verse 12. We are fighting a good fight. We

00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:21.130
are fighting a good fight. Sorry, 1 Timothy 6

00:50:21.130 --> 00:50:23.130
.12. Sorry, I think it should be 1 Timothy 6

00:50:23.130 --> 00:50:26.590
.12. It should be 2 Timothy 4 .1. 1 Timothy,

00:50:26.670 --> 00:50:29.789
yes, 6 .12. Fight a good fight of faith, lay

00:50:29.789 --> 00:50:32.949
hold of eternal life, to which you were also

00:50:32.949 --> 00:50:36.409
called, and have confessed the good confession

00:50:36.409 --> 00:50:41.369
in the presence of many witnesses. I urge you

00:50:41.369 --> 00:50:43.630
in the sight of God, who gives life to all things,

00:50:43.690 --> 00:50:46.750
and before Christ, who witnessed the good confession.

00:50:47.579 --> 00:50:49.539
Now, go back to verse 14. Let me explain something

00:50:49.539 --> 00:50:52.760
in verse 14. Now, verse 12, sorry. Verse 12,

00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:54.440
go to verse 12. Now, fight a good fight of it.

00:50:54.539 --> 00:50:57.820
Lay hold of eternal life is not talking about

00:50:57.820 --> 00:51:00.460
that Timothy does not have eternal life, okay?

00:51:00.539 --> 00:51:02.059
It's not saying Timothy does not have eternal

00:51:02.059 --> 00:51:05.940
life, right? It is that fight of faith, right,

00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:09.079
that is the work of eternal life, okay? It's

00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:11.780
not saying that, oh, now, fight a good fight

00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:14.119
of it, then hold eternal life, right, to which

00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.460
you have been called. Now, look at it. Take hold

00:51:16.460 --> 00:51:18.679
of eternal life. Eternal life to which you have

00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:21.059
been called and have made a good confession.

00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:25.539
So, he's talking about the message and the ministry.

00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:28.300
That's what he's saying. He's talking about fight

00:51:28.300 --> 00:51:30.300
a good fight, but do the work of ministry, right?

00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:33.380
And that is eternal life itself. So, eternal

00:51:33.380 --> 00:51:36.440
life is not something that we have alone. It's

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:39.320
something that we do. Okay? Eternal life is something

00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.190
that we do. It's something that we do. That fight

00:51:42.190 --> 00:51:44.050
of faith is eternal life. It's something that

00:51:44.050 --> 00:51:46.150
we do. It's not just something that we have.

00:51:46.809 --> 00:51:49.829
Right? So it's something that we do. So we would

00:51:49.829 --> 00:51:51.670
fight a good fight. It means we are taking hold

00:51:51.670 --> 00:51:54.050
of eternal life. It means we are preaching the

00:51:54.050 --> 00:51:56.030
gospel. We are doing that which we are called

00:51:56.030 --> 00:51:59.809
to do. That which we have confessed and we have

00:51:59.809 --> 00:52:03.230
confessed before many witnesses. So taking hold

00:52:03.230 --> 00:52:05.690
of eternal life is you fighting a good fight

00:52:05.690 --> 00:52:08.170
of faith. It's you giving a defense. So we must

00:52:08.170 --> 00:52:11.070
know that it's a fight. Right. We must definitely

00:52:11.070 --> 00:52:13.610
know that it's a fight. So it means that not

00:52:13.610 --> 00:52:15.969
everybody will celebrate you. People will reject

00:52:15.969 --> 00:52:19.269
you. Right. People would, people would even give

00:52:19.269 --> 00:52:21.570
you a new reputation. Right. Pastor Victor was

00:52:21.570 --> 00:52:24.610
saying that if you, if your reputation is at

00:52:24.610 --> 00:52:28.550
stake, right, then you are not ready for a defense

00:52:28.550 --> 00:52:31.829
of the gospel. Right. He said something like

00:52:31.829 --> 00:52:34.170
that. You know, you should void yourself of any

00:52:34.170 --> 00:52:36.789
reputation. If you would teach the word correctly,

00:52:36.909 --> 00:52:40.299
if you would teach the word accurately. because

00:52:40.299 --> 00:52:42.460
people would give you names, they'd give you

00:52:42.460 --> 00:52:45.380
reputations, people would, you know, come against

00:52:45.380 --> 00:52:48.420
you. So it's a fight, right? It's a fight. So

00:52:48.420 --> 00:52:51.139
it means that we have to contend, that word contend

00:52:51.139 --> 00:52:54.239
there in James that we saw, he says we should

00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:56.119
contend for the faith. It's the same thing here,

00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:59.239
fight a good fight of faith, contend for the

00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:03.440
faith, right? So we see that in that. Now let's

00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:07.239
see 1 Peter 3 .15. The third thing, Peter said,

00:53:07.420 --> 00:53:10.780
we should do it with meekness and fear, right?

00:53:11.099 --> 00:53:13.300
Meekness and fear. So in this confrontation,

00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:17.159
in this fighting, right? Fighting means, you

00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:20.380
know, arguments, debates, ideologies, you know,

00:53:20.380 --> 00:53:22.800
having this conversation. We should do it with

00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.679
meekness and fear. He says, but sanctify the

00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:28.239
Lord, be ready to give a reason. He said, do

00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:31.480
it with meekness and fear, right? So you are

00:53:31.480 --> 00:53:34.949
not doing it. you're not doing it arrogantly,

00:53:35.070 --> 00:53:37.510
right? You're not doing it to say, oh, you guys

00:53:37.510 --> 00:53:40.329
don't know. No, it's not about they don't know.

00:53:40.429 --> 00:53:43.190
It's about that you want to have their life,

00:53:43.429 --> 00:53:45.869
right? You want to have the life of God rather

00:53:45.869 --> 00:53:49.349
in them. So you are doing it with meekness, knowing

00:53:49.349 --> 00:53:53.510
fully well that you too, you were once like them.

00:53:53.769 --> 00:53:56.809
So in meekness and fear. So when you're going

00:53:56.809 --> 00:53:58.829
out, you should have this in your mind that,

00:53:58.909 --> 00:54:01.150
oh, I'm going to do this with meekness and fear.

00:54:01.659 --> 00:54:04.440
He's talking about reverence to God, right? Meekness

00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.760
and fear. You're doing it with gentleness. 2

00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:12.920
Timothy 2, 2 Timothy 2, 14 and 19. 2 Timothy

00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:15.940
2, 14 and 19. Remind them that these things,

00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:18.400
charging them before the Lord, not to strive

00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.980
aboutwards to no profit to their runes of their

00:54:20.980 --> 00:54:25.119
heralds. The next one. But be diligent to present

00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:27.360
yourself a proof of God, right? A worker who

00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:30.039
does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing.

00:54:30.829 --> 00:54:33.489
the word of truth. The next. But some profane

00:54:33.489 --> 00:54:35.550
and idle babbling for they will increase to more

00:54:35.550 --> 00:54:38.289
ungodliness and their message will spread like

00:54:38.289 --> 00:54:41.650
cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort

00:54:41.650 --> 00:54:44.530
who have strayed concerning the truth saying

00:54:44.530 --> 00:54:48.250
that the resurrection right is already past and

00:54:48.250 --> 00:54:52.010
they overthrow the fate of some. Nevertheless,

00:54:52.349 --> 00:54:56.530
the solid foundation of God stands. The solid

00:54:56.530 --> 00:54:58.869
foundation of God stands. Having this seal, the

00:54:58.869 --> 00:55:01.769
Lord knows those who are his. Let everyone who

00:55:01.769 --> 00:55:06.110
names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

00:55:06.110 --> 00:55:09.570
Go to 24 and 25. And the servant of the Lord

00:55:09.570 --> 00:55:13.289
must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able

00:55:13.289 --> 00:55:18.489
to teach patience in humility, correcting those

00:55:18.489 --> 00:55:22.469
who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant

00:55:22.469 --> 00:55:25.949
them repentance so that they may know the truth.

00:55:26.510 --> 00:55:30.179
Right? so that they may know the truth. So you

00:55:30.179 --> 00:55:33.900
can see cautions on gentleness, meekness, carefulness

00:55:33.900 --> 00:55:38.940
in the teaching, carefulness in the explanation

00:55:38.940 --> 00:55:42.039
of the gospel, apt to teach, able to teach. You

00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:43.880
see that word, able to teach? We already discussed

00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:45.980
that. We already talked about that this morning.

00:55:46.619 --> 00:55:50.000
Now, the next thing is boldness, not harshness,

00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:51.840
right? This is also related to this. You have

00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:56.809
to go in boldness, not in harshness. Boldness,

00:55:56.809 --> 00:55:58.550
not in harshness. We're still connected to this.

00:55:58.610 --> 00:56:01.469
We must go in boldness. You can put Acts 4, 29

00:56:01.469 --> 00:56:05.949
to 30, which gives us the context of that. Boldness,

00:56:05.949 --> 00:56:10.349
not doing it harshly. Now, what happened in Acts,

00:56:10.449 --> 00:56:12.929
for them to walk in this boat, it's not that

00:56:12.929 --> 00:56:15.670
the boldness was not there, right? But circumstances

00:56:15.670 --> 00:56:19.909
happened. Okay? So, when you are doing your apologia,

00:56:19.929 --> 00:56:24.800
you might meet someone, right, that's at... So

00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:28.219
many philosophies, right? And you were not able

00:56:28.219 --> 00:56:31.360
to bring down their stronghold on that day, right?

00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:33.000
You might not be able to bring that. Or there

00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:34.840
were just a lot of arguments and all of that,

00:56:34.860 --> 00:56:38.099
you know? There's always a time that, I think

00:56:38.099 --> 00:56:40.739
it's part of the ask, that we will speak to you

00:56:40.739 --> 00:56:43.380
on this matter again after a matter was discussed.

00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:46.000
So there's always that time to speak to the person

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.760
again, right? So you will not say, because I

00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:50.780
went out today, I'm trying to explain, I'm trying

00:56:50.780 --> 00:56:54.119
to give a defense today. You know, it seems like

00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:58.059
I couldn't answer a few questions, right? Answering,

00:56:58.059 --> 00:56:59.420
not being able to answer a few questions does

00:56:59.420 --> 00:57:02.440
not mean that you should withdraw. Are we together?

00:57:02.980 --> 00:57:05.019
So if you have questions, it doesn't mean that

00:57:05.019 --> 00:57:07.119
you will withdraw. I have people who would go,

00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:09.519
they would send me message, sir, someone asked

00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.320
me this question during evangelism. I don't have

00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:17.519
an answer, but we plan to meet again. That is

00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:20.400
the way it should be, right? So you also notice

00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:23.039
that. When something happened, the context of

00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:26.219
this is after they had probably disciplined the

00:57:26.219 --> 00:57:29.699
disciples, right? And the Jews, they said they

00:57:29.699 --> 00:57:33.179
went to their own company. You see, they went

00:57:33.179 --> 00:57:36.460
to their own company, right? And in that company,

00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:40.500
this is where prayer was said for them to walk

00:57:40.500 --> 00:57:43.460
in boldness. So we must know that we must walk

00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:46.460
in boldness. And that comes through a prayer

00:57:46.460 --> 00:57:48.579
life. So you can put it down. Prayer life helps

00:57:48.579 --> 00:57:52.960
us. To give a good defense. Prayer life helps

00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:56.539
us to give a good defense. So as much as you

00:57:56.539 --> 00:57:58.780
study, you study, you study, you must pray. The

00:57:58.780 --> 00:58:00.619
prayer life helps you to give a good defense.

00:58:00.820 --> 00:58:05.980
The prayer life helps you to be bold. To be bold.

00:58:06.980 --> 00:58:11.159
Prayer life helps you to be bold. Now, just a

00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:13.340
few counsel here, right? This one's a counsel

00:58:13.340 --> 00:58:16.079
before we move to the next thing, right? Just

00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:18.900
a few counsel here. Now, when we are up... Approaching

00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:22.780
Apologia, which we are going to do now in the

00:58:22.780 --> 00:58:25.400
next five minutes, right? We are going to enter

00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:29.059
into some teachings and see. Now, if you are

00:58:29.059 --> 00:58:31.559
approaching Apologia, the first thing we must

00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:36.699
know is that it is not a personal... How do I

00:58:36.699 --> 00:58:40.880
put it? We must draw a line between the personality

00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:47.260
and the theology. Okay? We must draw a line between...

00:58:47.659 --> 00:58:53.539
The personality and the theology. If we are able

00:58:53.539 --> 00:58:57.760
to address the theology, the personality will

00:58:57.760 --> 00:58:59.340
be transformed to the personality of Christ.

00:58:59.579 --> 00:59:02.360
Hallelujah. So, when you are giving a defense

00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:04.840
of the scripture or you are approaching someone,

00:59:05.059 --> 00:59:06.940
you must draw a line between the personality

00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:11.340
and the theology. Because the teaching and the

00:59:11.340 --> 00:59:13.960
ideologies of that person is what you want to

00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.730
address. This is also preparing our minds, getting

00:59:16.730 --> 00:59:19.329
our minds ready. What you want to address is

00:59:19.329 --> 00:59:23.070
not the person. It's not you are taking only

00:59:23.070 --> 00:59:28.369
communion. It's not you are not celebrating Christmas

00:59:28.369 --> 00:59:30.409
or all of that. No, those are not the ideologies

00:59:30.409 --> 00:59:33.449
that you want. It's why is the person. What do

00:59:33.449 --> 00:59:36.849
you believe? So it's not the personality. It's

00:59:36.849 --> 00:59:39.210
not the individual that you are attacking. Don't

00:59:39.210 --> 00:59:41.750
forget, our warfare is not carnal. We are bringing

00:59:41.750 --> 00:59:45.519
down strongholds, ideologies. thoughts, arguments

00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:48.880
that exalt themselves, right? Did you see a person

00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:53.119
there? No. It's these arguments, right? These

00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:56.480
arguments. So, we are not attacking people. The

00:59:56.480 --> 01:00:00.179
personality. Our focus is on what is your theology.

01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:02.860
Then the person explains their theology. If we

01:00:02.860 --> 01:00:05.840
teach you right, you will practice right. Okay?

01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:09.559
If we teach you right, we will practice right.

01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:14.159
Galatians 2 verse 11 to... I think we used the

01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:17.340
scripture yesterday. Now, when Peter had come

01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:19.519
to Antioch, I withstood him to his face because

01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:22.440
he was too be blamed. For before certain men

01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.639
came from James, he would eat with Gentiles.

01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:28.880
But when they came, right, he withstood and separated

01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.900
himself. Watch. Separated himself, fearing those

01:00:31.900 --> 01:00:33.860
who were of the circumcision. This is what he

01:00:33.860 --> 01:00:35.980
practiced. Now watch. The rest of the Jews also

01:00:35.980 --> 01:00:37.860
played the hypocrite with him. So they played

01:00:37.860 --> 01:00:40.000
the hypocrite. so that even Barnabas was carried

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:42.340
away with their hypocrisy. Continue. But when

01:00:42.340 --> 01:00:44.960
I saw that they were not straightforward, did

01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:48.940
you see that he did not just jump on them and

01:00:48.940 --> 01:00:50.519
say, oh, you are not eating with the Jews. No,

01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.780
no, no. The argument is that they were not what?

01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.820
Straightforward about the truth of the gospel.

01:00:58.059 --> 01:01:01.699
So their conduct or their practice was a result

01:01:01.699 --> 01:01:07.170
of a theology. And what Paul addressed, Was that

01:01:07.170 --> 01:01:10.750
not being straightforward? And that not being

01:01:10.750 --> 01:01:13.789
straightforward, being addressed, Peter changed,

01:01:14.050 --> 01:01:16.750
right? He became a better person. Even him began

01:01:16.750 --> 01:01:19.570
to give a defense, right? Do you want to put

01:01:19.570 --> 01:01:23.170
a stone on people's neck after God has saved

01:01:23.170 --> 01:01:25.309
them, right? He used the word, do you want to

01:01:25.309 --> 01:01:29.510
tempt God, right? By putting this circumcision

01:01:29.510 --> 01:01:31.329
on them. Now, that was Peter giving a defense.

01:01:31.349 --> 01:01:34.889
But here, what Paul was doing was addressing.

01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.239
He said to Peter before them all, if you're being

01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:40.880
a Jew, living a manner of a Jew and not as Jew,

01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:43.659
why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? The

01:01:43.659 --> 01:01:47.059
next one, who we, who were Jews by nature and

01:01:47.059 --> 01:01:50.239
Gentiles and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing

01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:54.800
that a man is what is not justified by the works

01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:58.500
of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. Even

01:01:58.500 --> 01:02:01.840
we have believed in Jesus Christ, in Christ Jesus,

01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:05.489
that we might be justified by faith. and not

01:02:05.489 --> 01:02:09.869
by works of the law. For by works of the law,

01:02:09.949 --> 01:02:14.809
no flesh shall be justified. This is the explanation,

01:02:15.110 --> 01:02:18.050
right? This is the explanation. And when they

01:02:18.050 --> 01:02:22.550
went to Jerusalem to talk about this matter of

01:02:22.550 --> 01:02:25.570
circumcision, right? When they went to the council

01:02:25.570 --> 01:02:29.769
in Jerusalem to talk about this matter of circumcision,

01:02:30.150 --> 01:02:33.789
they did not talk about that Peter was eating.

01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:37.119
with the gentiles they didn't have this conversation

01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.199
right let's check let's check the scriptures

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go to acts 15 uh let me see go to acts 15 verse

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1 and certain men which came down from judea

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taught the brethren and said except ye be circumcised

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after the words the manner of moses ye cannot

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be saved right they cannot be saved now Look

01:03:03.670 --> 01:03:11.989
at how it was answered here. Go to verse 7. And

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when there had been much disputing, Peter rose

01:03:16.550 --> 01:03:20.349
up and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know

01:03:20.349 --> 01:03:26.170
that a good while ago God made choice amongst

01:03:26.170 --> 01:03:29.969
us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear

01:03:29.969 --> 01:03:32.559
the word of gospel. Right? You see, so the Gentiles

01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:34.860
also heard from Peter, not just Paul, right?

01:03:34.940 --> 01:03:37.239
They heard from Peter as well, right? I mean,

01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:40.340
that was Cornelius heard from him and believed.

01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.860
And God, which knoweth the heart, bear them witness,

01:03:44.019 --> 01:03:46.739
giving them the Holy Ghost, even as it did unto

01:03:46.739 --> 01:03:49.440
us, and put no difference between us and them,

01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:52.320
purifying their hearts by faith. Now, therefore,

01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:56.099
why tempt ye the Lord to put a yoke upon the

01:03:56.099 --> 01:03:59.019
neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers

01:03:59.019 --> 01:04:03.059
nor... Our fathers know we were able to bear,

01:04:03.139 --> 01:04:06.360
but believe that through the grace of God, Jesus

01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:10.360
Christ, we shall be saved even day. So it is

01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:13.039
the doctrine. Look at the teaching he explained.

01:04:13.219 --> 01:04:17.300
God put no difference, right? Put no difference

01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:20.400
between them and us that we all will be saved

01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:24.380
by grace, not by circumcision. What is addressed

01:04:24.380 --> 01:04:29.829
is not the practice, right? But much more. The

01:04:29.829 --> 01:04:32.710
doctrine, therefore the practice is corrected.

01:04:32.989 --> 01:04:37.550
The theology, right? Good. So again, another

01:04:37.550 --> 01:04:41.469
concern is that we would notice that most teachings

01:04:41.469 --> 01:04:43.690
that we would examine, right? These teachings

01:04:43.690 --> 01:04:48.429
are actually, how do I put them? These teachings

01:04:48.429 --> 01:04:51.570
are actually individual centered, right? The

01:04:51.570 --> 01:04:53.630
things we are going to check in a few minutes.

01:04:53.690 --> 01:04:58.190
They actually go to capture the individual. Right?

01:04:58.190 --> 01:05:01.750
With an unquestionable theology. So let's start

01:05:01.750 --> 01:05:05.230
a new section. Right? Let's start a new section.

01:05:06.050 --> 01:05:10.809
Let's start a new section. Just one minute. Can

01:05:10.809 --> 01:05:12.489
we just pray in the Holy Ghost? Can we just pray

01:05:12.489 --> 01:05:14.849
in the Holy Ghost? Can we just pray in the Holy

01:05:14.849 --> 01:05:16.869
Ghost? We want to talk about things pertaining

01:05:16.869 --> 01:05:20.449
people's belief now. Why they believe what they

01:05:20.449 --> 01:05:22.809
believe and how that is not correct. Can we just

01:05:22.809 --> 01:05:25.480
pray? The Lord, we do it in the right spirit.

01:05:25.659 --> 01:05:27.739
We do it in the right spirit, even as we come.

01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:39.679
We have wisdom in the name of Jesus. Can we pray

01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:45.679
in the Holy Ghost? There's abundance of revelation.

01:05:46.119 --> 01:05:48.219
There's abundance. Oh, we do this in the right

01:05:48.219 --> 01:05:50.559
spirit. We do this in the spirit of Christ. Even

01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:53.349
as we teach, even as we open up. These issues

01:05:53.349 --> 01:05:55.190
we teach in the Spirit of Christ in the name

01:05:55.190 --> 01:05:58.230
of Jesus. We have boldness. We have boldness

01:05:58.230 --> 01:06:06.389
in the name of Jesus. We have boldness to give

01:06:06.389 --> 01:06:08.869
a defense of the gospel. We have a boldness to

01:06:08.869 --> 01:06:11.590
give a reason why we believe what we believe.

01:06:11.650 --> 01:06:14.349
We have boldness. We commit ourselves to study.

01:06:14.469 --> 01:06:17.210
We commit ourselves to pray much more. We commit

01:06:17.210 --> 01:06:20.579
ourselves, oh, to give an answer. Or to those

01:06:20.579 --> 01:06:48.699
who come around, this is our consecration. Can

01:06:48.699 --> 01:06:52.940
we pray? Can we just pray? Can you pray for yourself

01:06:52.940 --> 01:06:55.500
that you are ready, ever ready, to give a defense

01:06:55.500 --> 01:06:58.079
of the gospel? You are ever ready to give a defense

01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.480
of the gospel? You are not weak. In your mind,

01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:03.239
your mind is strengthened. In the name of Jesus,

01:07:03.420 --> 01:07:06.139
my mind is strengthened to always give an account.

01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:08.079
My mind is strengthened. Can you pray for yourself?

01:07:08.300 --> 01:07:11.139
I'm an able teacher. Oh, I am an able teacher

01:07:11.139 --> 01:07:13.340
of the gospel. I'm unable to teach all of the

01:07:13.340 --> 01:07:16.119
gospel. I'm apt to teach. I'm unable to teach

01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:18.320
all of the gospel. See, I answer all questions.

01:07:18.619 --> 01:07:20.960
I answer all questions by the Spirit of God.

01:07:21.099 --> 01:07:23.239
I answer all questions by the Spirit of God.

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Oh, I search the scriptures. We bring down every

01:07:48.579 --> 01:07:51.679
argument. We bring down every ideology. We bring

01:07:51.679 --> 01:07:54.079
down every word that exalts themselves against

01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:56.460
the knowledge of God. We bring down every thought

01:07:56.460 --> 01:07:58.400
that exalts themselves against the knowledge

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:01.400
of God as we speak, as we confront people, as

01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:03.679
we tell them about the message of Christ, as

01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:06.980
we explain to them in detail. Oh, starting from

01:08:06.980 --> 01:08:09.760
the prophets, the Lord, the Psalms. Oh, why in

01:08:09.760 --> 01:08:14.019
the name of Jesus, they are transformed. They

01:08:14.019 --> 01:08:15.480
are transformed. They come to the knowledge of

01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:18.079
Christ. Can we pray? Can we pray? Let me hear

01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:24.859
us praying. Say, the gospel is powerful in my

01:08:24.859 --> 01:08:27.560
mouth. The gospel is powerful in my mouth. The

01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:30.079
gospel is powerful in my mouth. The gospel is

01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:32.520
powerful in my mouth. When I say it, it comes

01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:35.000
forth with power. He comes forth with demonstration.

01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:37.880
He comes forth with power. He comes forth with

01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:40.279
demonstration. He comes forth with power. He

01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:49.159
comes forth with demonstration. In Jesus' name

01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:52.859
we pray. Amen. So this is actually the greater

01:08:52.859 --> 01:08:55.039
works that we are doing, right? Giving an apology

01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:58.539
is part of greater works. It's part of greater

01:08:58.539 --> 01:09:02.739
works. And if you give... an apology or an explanation,

01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:07.000
an answer to people, right? And they believe

01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.920
they are able to walk in greater works. Now let's

01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:14.659
start. First, because we're going to check two

01:09:14.659 --> 01:09:16.880
sects and I'm going to tell us, we're going to

01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:20.039
check the Mormon doctrine and the Jehovah Witness

01:09:20.039 --> 01:09:22.239
doctrine. The question is, are they believers?

01:09:22.420 --> 01:09:24.399
I think Sister Christy disturbed me about this

01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:27.020
a lot. She disturbed me a lot on this matter.

01:09:27.159 --> 01:09:31.140
Are they believers? Did they believe? Wait, relax.

01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:34.500
The answer will come. By the time we unleash

01:09:34.500 --> 01:09:38.939
some of the things that they pertain to, you

01:09:38.939 --> 01:09:42.180
will know what they are. Right? You will know

01:09:42.180 --> 01:09:44.720
what they are. Now, 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians.

01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:47.479
The first thing is no other foundation except

01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:49.859
Christ. That's the heading now. After that, then

01:09:49.859 --> 01:09:52.520
we begin to go layer by layer into what they

01:09:52.520 --> 01:09:55.460
teach. Now, no other foundation except Christ.

01:09:56.180 --> 01:10:01.220
1 Corinthians 3. 9 to 13. Can I have that scriptures?

01:10:02.140 --> 01:10:05.779
For we are God's fellow co -workers. So note

01:10:05.779 --> 01:10:09.439
that word, fellow co -workers. We are not the

01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:13.479
master, but God's fellow co -workers. I'm sorry,

01:10:13.640 --> 01:10:16.319
God's fellow workers. We are co -workers with

01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:19.340
the apostles, but we are God's workers. Okay?

01:10:19.439 --> 01:10:22.039
So we are God's workers, but we are co -workers

01:10:22.039 --> 01:10:23.819
with the apostles. We're going to see that. So

01:10:23.819 --> 01:10:26.779
we are God's fellow workers, right? We are...

01:10:27.050 --> 01:10:30.789
God's field. You are what? The building. According

01:10:30.789 --> 01:10:34.109
to the grace of God, which was given to me, right?

01:10:34.369 --> 01:10:38.470
Paul, as a wise master builder, I did what? I

01:10:38.470 --> 01:10:41.930
have laid the foundation and another builds on

01:10:41.930 --> 01:10:45.869
it. But let each one take heed how he works,

01:10:46.029 --> 01:10:50.090
how he builds. For no other foundation. You see,

01:10:50.170 --> 01:10:52.289
he said, I've laid the foundation. The next verse

01:10:52.289 --> 01:10:55.810
says, for no other foundation. Can anyone lay

01:10:55.810 --> 01:10:59.270
than that which is laid? And that which is what?

01:10:59.609 --> 01:11:03.970
Christ. So Christ is who? The foundation. Now,

01:11:03.989 --> 01:11:05.710
if anyone builds on this foundation with gold,

01:11:05.750 --> 01:11:09.430
precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each work

01:11:09.430 --> 01:11:11.989
will become clay for the day we declare it. Now,

01:11:12.010 --> 01:11:15.430
he's talking about the work of ministry. Okay?

01:11:15.909 --> 01:11:17.850
Paul is talking about the work of ministry here.

01:11:17.989 --> 01:11:19.890
Because in that church, they were saying, I'm

01:11:19.890 --> 01:11:21.909
from Apollos, I'm from Paul. I'm from Apollos,

01:11:21.949 --> 01:11:24.090
I'm from Paul. So Paul begins to tell them that,

01:11:24.649 --> 01:11:29.569
We are God's workers together, right? And I've

01:11:29.569 --> 01:11:33.149
laid a foundation upon which I expect the leaders

01:11:33.149 --> 01:11:37.229
of this church to build. Not that I have also

01:11:37.229 --> 01:11:38.989
laid the foundation, but the foundation itself

01:11:38.989 --> 01:11:44.590
is Christ. So Paul is saying that what he is

01:11:44.590 --> 01:11:48.329
teaching that church is not anything that is

01:11:48.329 --> 01:11:50.989
separate from things concerning the kingdom of

01:11:50.989 --> 01:11:54.979
God that Jesus taught. Do we get it? Paul is

01:11:54.979 --> 01:11:58.239
saying, what I have presented to you that I want

01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:02.680
you to work on is nothing out of what Jesus said

01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:06.380
was prophesied, spoken regarding him from the

01:12:06.380 --> 01:12:08.619
prophets, the Lord, the prophets, the Psalms.

01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:12.840
So it therefore means that Paul's constraint

01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:17.720
is within the scriptures, within the scriptures,

01:12:17.939 --> 01:12:21.239
Christ himself. Good. I've forgotten verse 13.

01:12:21.439 --> 01:12:25.460
Okay, no. Now, Ephesians 2 verse 19 to 20. On

01:12:25.460 --> 01:12:28.600
the foundation of the apostles. Now, verse 19.

01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:31.640
Okay, yes, good. Now, therefore, you are no longer

01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:33.680
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens

01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:36.500
with the saints and the members of the household

01:12:36.500 --> 01:12:39.060
of God. The next. Having been built on the foundation

01:12:39.060 --> 01:12:41.720
of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself

01:12:41.720 --> 01:12:45.600
being what? Being the cornerstone. So, the teachings

01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:49.420
of the apostles. which are the prophets, right?

01:12:49.500 --> 01:12:50.939
The messengers of those who carry the message

01:12:50.939 --> 01:12:52.739
of God, right? The teachings of the apostles,

01:12:52.979 --> 01:12:56.020
which are the prophet and his sky. No, no, no.

01:12:56.039 --> 01:12:58.479
Stay there. Stay in the previous one. He is the

01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:00.920
foundation. And he says Christ himself is the

01:13:00.920 --> 01:13:02.899
cornerstone. It means that the cornerstone of

01:13:02.899 --> 01:13:06.859
the teaching of the apostles is Christ. Okay?

01:13:07.020 --> 01:13:09.500
The cornerstone of the teachings of the apostles

01:13:09.500 --> 01:13:14.640
is Christ. It means that not just Paul, right?

01:13:15.020 --> 01:13:19.840
But the apostles. did not teach anything outside

01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:23.859
that which Christ taught from. And Christ did

01:13:23.859 --> 01:13:27.279
not teach anything outside that which the scriptures

01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:33.600
have said. Can you see? So, the gospel is self

01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:37.720
-confirmatory. The gospel is self -confirmatory.

01:13:37.739 --> 01:13:40.659
The message of God is self -confirmatory. It

01:13:40.659 --> 01:13:44.800
reveals in itself what the message is. So, we

01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.109
see that the foundation here, is Christ. The

01:13:48.109 --> 01:13:52.130
foundation here is Christ. So we can say, right,

01:13:52.210 --> 01:13:56.270
we can say that the interpretation of the scriptures

01:13:56.270 --> 01:14:00.989
is already set by the apostles. The interpretation

01:14:00.989 --> 01:14:05.890
of the scriptures, right, is set by the apostles.

01:14:06.069 --> 01:14:10.329
Means that I should not go out of what the apostles

01:14:10.329 --> 01:14:13.029
have taught, which they did not go out of what

01:14:13.029 --> 01:14:17.670
Christ has taught. Again, I should not go out

01:14:17.670 --> 01:14:21.510
of what the apostles have explained because we

01:14:21.510 --> 01:14:24.550
said the epistles explained the Old Testament,

01:14:24.750 --> 01:14:26.770
right? Gives us the light and clarity of the

01:14:26.770 --> 01:14:29.470
Old Testament. So I should not go out of what

01:14:29.470 --> 01:14:31.310
the apostles have teach because the apostles

01:14:31.310 --> 01:14:34.649
did not go out of what Jesus taught. So we can

01:14:34.649 --> 01:14:37.090
say that interpretation of scriptures is also

01:14:37.090 --> 01:14:40.829
within the scriptures. It means that no creed.

01:14:41.090 --> 01:14:44.229
So we are writing no creed, no organization.

01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:50.319
can put a new interpretation of the scripture

01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:57.899
for us. No creed, no organization can put forward

01:14:57.899 --> 01:15:02.199
a new interpretation of the gospel. This will

01:15:02.199 --> 01:15:04.159
hinder they themselves from doing the greater

01:15:04.159 --> 01:15:06.420
works. It will hinder those who will believe

01:15:06.420 --> 01:15:10.500
them from doing greater works. No creed, no organization.

01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:16.390
Let's go to Acts 17 verse 11. Acts 17 verse 11.

01:15:17.109 --> 01:15:21.329
These were more fair -minded than those in Thessalonica

01:15:21.329 --> 01:15:24.890
in that they received the word with all readiness

01:15:24.890 --> 01:15:28.210
and searched the scriptures daily to find out

01:15:28.210 --> 01:15:32.310
whether these things were so. The teachings of

01:15:32.310 --> 01:15:37.289
the apostles can be searched. Right? The teachings

01:15:37.289 --> 01:15:40.350
of the apostles can be searched. The scriptures

01:15:40.350 --> 01:15:43.010
can be searched and the teachings of the apostles

01:15:43.010 --> 01:15:45.939
can be searched. It means that we can check it

01:15:45.939 --> 01:15:51.020
and examine it if it were so. We can check it

01:15:51.020 --> 01:15:55.340
and examine it if it were so. So Paul's teachings

01:15:55.340 --> 01:15:58.000
can be examined. Peter's teaching can be examined.

01:15:58.899 --> 01:16:02.640
You can put 1 Thessalonians 5 .21. 1 Thessalonians

01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:07.939
5 .21. 1 John 4 .1. 1 Thessalonians 5 .21. 1

01:16:07.939 --> 01:16:12.500
John 4 .1. 2 Corinthians 1 .24. So I'll read

01:16:12.500 --> 01:16:16.000
it again. 1 Thessalonians 5, 21, which says,

01:16:16.060 --> 01:16:19.020
prove all things, right? He said, test all things.

01:16:19.140 --> 01:16:24.640
Hold fast what is good. 1 John 4, verse 1. It

01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:27.359
says, beloved, do not believe every spirit, but

01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:30.680
test every spirit, whether they are of God. Because

01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:33.460
many false prophets have gone out into the world.

01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:37.579
Now, here, he's not talking about discerning

01:16:37.579 --> 01:16:40.199
or discerning, right? He's saying false prophets.

01:16:40.340 --> 01:16:42.600
He's talking about teachings here. Right? You

01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:45.380
are not trying to differentiate between spirits,

01:16:45.539 --> 01:16:49.199
right? But it's actually talking about the teachings

01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:51.760
of these false prophets. So these prophets are

01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:53.659
the false spirits, right, that have gone out.

01:16:53.779 --> 01:16:55.920
So we see that in this place. 2 Corinthians 1,

01:16:56.020 --> 01:17:01.340
24. 2 Corinthians 1, 24. Now that we have dominion

01:17:01.340 --> 01:17:05.060
over your faith, but we, not that we have dominion

01:17:05.060 --> 01:17:07.899
over your faith, but we are fellow workers for

01:17:07.899 --> 01:17:13.090
your joy. For by faith you stand, right? For

01:17:13.090 --> 01:17:16.109
by faith you stand. So you are standing in the

01:17:16.109 --> 01:17:20.170
faith of Christ, right? So the faith is not oppressing,

01:17:20.369 --> 01:17:26.909
is not forcing, is not oppressive. He says, we

01:17:26.909 --> 01:17:30.590
are fellow workers for your joy. For by faith

01:17:30.590 --> 01:17:33.109
you stand. So the faith that makes you stand

01:17:33.109 --> 01:17:38.750
is what is making me stand. Amen. Good. Now let's

01:17:38.750 --> 01:17:41.930
check. Now we have established that no other

01:17:41.930 --> 01:17:47.149
creed, no other organization can establish any

01:17:47.149 --> 01:17:51.909
doctrine that is not found in there. In fact,

01:17:51.930 --> 01:17:54.569
they cannot establish any doctrine except that

01:17:54.569 --> 01:17:57.130
which is already established. So now let's start

01:17:57.130 --> 01:17:59.970
with the Jehovah Witness faith, right? The first

01:17:59.970 --> 01:18:02.970
thing is that, again, note that what is our rule?

01:18:03.090 --> 01:18:06.840
We don't attack the personality, okay? We don't

01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:09.140
go after the personality. When you want to approach

01:18:09.140 --> 01:18:12.699
them in their communication is not in the personality

01:18:12.699 --> 01:18:15.039
of the founder. Though we're going to give you

01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:17.819
a little bit of information on that because this

01:18:17.819 --> 01:18:20.180
is training, right? This is training. We're going

01:18:20.180 --> 01:18:22.239
to give you foundation that will let you know

01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:24.779
why they believe what they believe, right? All

01:18:24.779 --> 01:18:27.659
of them, both the founder of the Jehovah Witness

01:18:27.659 --> 01:18:29.859
faith and the Mormon faith, they had similar

01:18:29.859 --> 01:18:35.420
thing. One thing is common is that in both, okay,

01:18:35.850 --> 01:18:40.750
In both, the childhood experience becomes a faith,

01:18:40.930 --> 01:18:44.590
becomes part of their contribution to faith.

01:18:45.369 --> 01:18:47.829
Their childhood is a both faith, their childhood

01:18:47.829 --> 01:18:49.949
experience becomes part. So it therefore means

01:18:49.949 --> 01:18:54.829
that their experience is presented forth as part

01:18:54.829 --> 01:18:57.550
of what should be the faith that people would

01:18:57.550 --> 01:19:00.449
follow. And that means that they are creating

01:19:00.449 --> 01:19:03.210
what? A new foundation. And scripture says no

01:19:03.210 --> 01:19:07.489
other foundation. No other foundation can be

01:19:07.489 --> 01:19:09.510
established. So I've given us just a general

01:19:09.510 --> 01:19:11.850
view of both persons, the childhood experience.

01:19:11.869 --> 01:19:13.909
Now we don't attack the childhood experience,

01:19:14.170 --> 01:19:16.210
right? We don't say, oh, this is, but rather

01:19:16.210 --> 01:19:19.869
when we meet the followers, we address what they

01:19:19.869 --> 01:19:21.829
believe. What do you believe about the scripture?

01:19:22.510 --> 01:19:24.369
So for the Jehovah Witness, the person's name

01:19:24.369 --> 01:19:27.189
is Charles Taze Russell, right? So you can write

01:19:27.189 --> 01:19:31.170
it down, Charles Taze Russell. Charles Taze,

01:19:31.189 --> 01:19:35.869
Charles T -A -Z -E -R -U -S -S -E -L -L, right?

01:19:36.210 --> 01:19:41.989
This is the founder of that organization. And

01:19:41.989 --> 01:19:47.149
this organization was established 800, almost

01:19:47.149 --> 01:19:51.069
700 years after the church, 700 years. So he

01:19:51.069 --> 01:19:53.529
was born in 18 something and therefore the organization

01:19:53.529 --> 01:19:58.109
was established 700 years. to establish a new

01:19:58.109 --> 01:20:00.890
foundation. Now, the timeline is enough to debunk

01:20:00.890 --> 01:20:04.890
whatsoever new revelation would come. So, he

01:20:04.890 --> 01:20:07.850
was born in this period. Now, he was raised in

01:20:07.850 --> 01:20:10.729
a religious environment, but he rejected the

01:20:10.729 --> 01:20:14.050
doctrine of eternal judgments. So, he was born

01:20:14.050 --> 01:20:16.170
in a religious environment, means he was born

01:20:16.170 --> 01:20:19.630
in a Christian environment where the eternal

01:20:19.630 --> 01:20:24.210
punishment is taught. That is why one of their

01:20:24.210 --> 01:20:27.359
teachings is that there's no eternal punishments.

01:20:28.260 --> 01:20:32.180
So he rejected the doctrine of eternal punishments.

01:20:32.739 --> 01:20:35.399
Right? He rejected the doctrine of eternal punishment.

01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:38.760
He handed over to someone called Rutherford.

01:20:38.899 --> 01:20:41.119
Right? He handed over to someone called Rutherford.

01:20:41.699 --> 01:20:43.920
And we are going to touch upon that. So these

01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:46.140
are just the personalities of someone called

01:20:46.140 --> 01:20:50.760
Rutherford. And as a result of the controversies

01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:53.579
with the so -called Jehovah's Witness doctrine,

01:20:54.390 --> 01:20:57.409
Rutherford changed the name to actually become

01:20:57.409 --> 01:20:59.289
Jehovah's Witness. So it was not the founder

01:20:59.289 --> 01:21:02.829
that gave the name. So Charles Taze Russell established

01:21:02.829 --> 01:21:07.130
what we call the Watchtower Society, right? The

01:21:07.130 --> 01:21:10.369
Watchtower Society. So it wasn't the name. It

01:21:10.369 --> 01:21:12.050
wasn't the name Jehovah. It wasn't the first

01:21:12.050 --> 01:21:14.090
person who founded it that gave it that name.

01:21:14.229 --> 01:21:16.470
It was the Watchtower Society. It was an organization.

01:21:17.430 --> 01:21:22.130
It was an organization. Then Joseph Franklin

01:21:22.130 --> 01:21:26.270
Rutherford. gave the name Jehovah Witness to

01:21:26.270 --> 01:21:29.510
the people, to that organization, after Charles

01:21:29.510 --> 01:21:34.170
died. The reason was because of too much controversies

01:21:34.170 --> 01:21:38.289
in what Russell has established. So too much

01:21:38.289 --> 01:21:42.489
controversies, less was rebranded. So the name

01:21:42.489 --> 01:21:44.409
itself is not what they started with. The name

01:21:44.409 --> 01:21:47.750
is a rebranding to avoid controversies of the

01:21:47.750 --> 01:21:51.890
person who established that organization. See,

01:21:51.949 --> 01:21:53.449
I'm calling it an organization, not a church.

01:21:53.890 --> 01:21:58.189
So pay attention. So in these establishments,

01:21:58.210 --> 01:22:01.949
right, we will take their doctrine. For him,

01:22:01.989 --> 01:22:05.850
there are not so much what we call scandals and

01:22:05.850 --> 01:22:08.710
stuff around in the case of these people, but

01:22:08.710 --> 01:22:12.409
they are doctrines. And over time, the two, Watchtower

01:22:12.409 --> 01:22:14.970
Society and Jehovah Witness, separated. Till

01:22:14.970 --> 01:22:17.350
today, they are still separated, right? Some

01:22:17.350 --> 01:22:20.029
people still believe they stay on the founder's

01:22:20.029 --> 01:22:21.859
teaching. And some people believe they have moved

01:22:21.859 --> 01:22:25.439
on. But there is no single difference in both

01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:27.699
of them. So what are their teachings? Because

01:22:27.699 --> 01:22:30.060
that's what we want to address. I just gave us

01:22:30.060 --> 01:22:32.800
that background and I intentionally said he did

01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:35.140
not like the eternal punishment. It's like you

01:22:35.140 --> 01:22:36.819
grew up in a Christian family and they are always

01:22:36.819 --> 01:22:39.020
teaching you about hell, hell, hell, hell. So

01:22:39.020 --> 01:22:40.560
when you started your own organization, you said

01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.020
there's no hell. We're not even going to teach

01:22:43.020 --> 01:22:44.239
about hell because they have a lot of teachings

01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:46.479
about hell. But the cell meeting teaching is

01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:50.210
already sufficient on hell. Now, what is their

01:22:50.210 --> 01:22:53.010
belief? They don't believe in the Trinity at

01:22:53.010 --> 01:22:56.649
all. At all. They don't believe. Both of them

01:22:56.649 --> 01:22:59.789
don't believe in the Trinity. So, this is fundamental.

01:23:00.289 --> 01:23:03.369
If you don't believe in the Trinity, it's a big

01:23:03.369 --> 01:23:05.829
challenge. Now, we are going to see and give

01:23:05.829 --> 01:23:09.310
them credits for where they deserve credits.

01:23:09.949 --> 01:23:14.090
Right? Now, the argument is that, first of all,

01:23:14.109 --> 01:23:16.310
we all know that there's no place in the Scripture

01:23:16.310 --> 01:23:18.250
where the word Trinity is established. Right?

01:23:18.779 --> 01:23:21.199
Are we together? There's no place in the scripture

01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:25.300
where the word Trinity is written as a word,

01:23:25.460 --> 01:23:29.500
right? Do we get it? Just the same way, all the

01:23:29.500 --> 01:23:32.260
words that we find and we say it's a metaphor,

01:23:32.460 --> 01:23:35.359
this is a simile, right? They are not written

01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:38.760
there in the scriptures like that. But because

01:23:38.760 --> 01:23:41.439
we understand it, that this is the understanding

01:23:41.439 --> 01:23:45.020
of this, we call it Trinity. Now, it's the same

01:23:45.020 --> 01:23:47.260
way in my house. For now, we are Trinity. We

01:23:47.260 --> 01:23:50.180
can say we are Trinity. We are three, right?

01:23:50.300 --> 01:23:52.279
Are we not three? We three, we function together.

01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:55.859
We do things together, right? Now, we have made

01:23:55.859 --> 01:23:58.560
it a word of divinity. It's an English word,

01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:01.159
right? Trinity is an English word, right? But

01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:03.560
we have made it a word. We have put it within

01:24:03.560 --> 01:24:06.060
the context of Christianity alone, right? Which

01:24:06.060 --> 01:24:08.819
is triune, right? Triune, trinity, and all of

01:24:08.819 --> 01:24:11.960
that. Now, they argue that it is unscriptural

01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:15.819
and it is satanic. Not the word, the teaching.

01:24:16.649 --> 01:24:20.449
about God in three essence, they said it is not

01:24:20.449 --> 01:24:24.550
doctrinal, it is satanic. Now let's check the

01:24:24.550 --> 01:24:29.029
scriptures and see if truly God has manifested

01:24:29.029 --> 01:24:32.350
himself, right, in three essence, if God has

01:24:32.350 --> 01:24:35.550
manifested himself. So they said this is pagan

01:24:35.550 --> 01:24:38.649
and they said it teaches that there is one God

01:24:38.649 --> 01:24:42.489
who eternally exists, right, and Father, Son,

01:24:42.510 --> 01:24:43.869
and Holy Spirit. So they believe that when we

01:24:43.869 --> 01:24:46.840
say God is one, And the Father, the Son, and

01:24:46.840 --> 01:24:50.579
the Holy Spirit are all in one. They don't agree

01:24:50.579 --> 01:24:53.399
with that, right? So let's see. Let's go to Deuteronomy.

01:24:53.960 --> 01:24:56.260
Deuteronomy 6, verse 4. Now, they don't have

01:24:56.260 --> 01:24:58.340
much scriptures on all of these, but we'll go

01:24:58.340 --> 01:25:00.899
to some scriptures that they touch upon. It says,

01:25:00.979 --> 01:25:06.720
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one. Hear,

01:25:06.800 --> 01:25:10.699
O Israel, the Lord our God is one. This is from

01:25:10.699 --> 01:25:15.010
the... People that God communicated the same

01:25:15.010 --> 01:25:17.789
message to, that we are carrying, and they claim

01:25:17.789 --> 01:25:20.109
to be carrying. So, we see that, it says, the

01:25:20.109 --> 01:25:24.569
Lord our God is one. Isaiah 45, verse 5. It says,

01:25:24.609 --> 01:25:27.109
I am the Lord, right? And there is no one. There

01:25:27.109 --> 01:25:30.149
is no God beside me. I will guide you, though

01:25:30.149 --> 01:25:32.010
you have not known me. And this was actually

01:25:32.010 --> 01:25:34.550
talking about Cyrus. We are talking about a man

01:25:34.550 --> 01:25:38.750
that God intends to use. Now, on the basis of

01:25:38.750 --> 01:25:41.619
this foundation, they agree with this. They agree

01:25:41.619 --> 01:25:43.600
with this, the Lord God is one and there's no

01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:47.920
other God. However, the problem is in the person

01:25:47.920 --> 01:25:52.100
of Christ and the Holy Spirit. So I think I wrote

01:25:52.100 --> 01:25:54.460
something here. I say, acknowledgement of the

01:25:54.460 --> 01:25:57.500
Father is not a problem. We will come to the

01:25:57.500 --> 01:25:59.920
misrepresentation of the Father. However, how

01:25:59.920 --> 01:26:03.520
the Father will do what he will do, writing on

01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:06.800
that, how God intends to do what he will do was

01:26:06.800 --> 01:26:09.500
rejected by them. And that is why it is impossible.

01:26:10.109 --> 01:26:13.729
to call them Christians. Right? It's impossible

01:26:13.729 --> 01:26:16.710
to call them Christians because what God will

01:26:16.710 --> 01:26:20.970
do, they rejected how God will do it. And it

01:26:20.970 --> 01:26:24.869
is saying that God chooses a path to save man

01:26:24.869 --> 01:26:27.810
and man chooses the other path. Is that scriptures

01:26:27.810 --> 01:26:31.029
in Romans that says that the potter can choose

01:26:31.029 --> 01:26:35.369
to make one unto this and choose to make this

01:26:35.369 --> 01:26:38.529
other path unto this. So you cannot question

01:26:38.529 --> 01:26:42.329
the potter. Are we together? You cannot question

01:26:42.329 --> 01:26:44.770
the Father. You can write it down. That God said,

01:26:44.829 --> 01:26:47.649
I am. Right? I think Pastor Fred talked about

01:26:47.649 --> 01:26:50.310
the I am, right? God said, I am. And is that

01:26:50.310 --> 01:26:54.369
he will do what he will do. It means that the

01:26:54.369 --> 01:26:58.770
salvation of men will come from God himself.

01:26:59.529 --> 01:27:02.050
So write it down. That they reject the fact that

01:27:02.050 --> 01:27:04.810
the salvation of men will come from God himself.

01:27:04.850 --> 01:27:08.189
I will tell you how that happens. They rejected.

01:27:08.680 --> 01:27:12.779
The fact that the salvation of man will come

01:27:12.779 --> 01:27:16.460
from God himself. They rejected the fact that

01:27:16.460 --> 01:27:19.399
the salvation of man will come from God himself.

01:27:19.779 --> 01:27:24.920
Rather stating that God will use another creation

01:27:24.920 --> 01:27:30.960
of his. Okay? They rejected that God will do

01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:34.180
what he will do by himself. But rather, they

01:27:34.180 --> 01:27:37.539
stated that God will use another creation of

01:27:37.539 --> 01:27:42.119
his. To do what he will do. Now let's go to.

01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:45.199
Let's go to first John. John chapter 1 verse

01:27:45.199 --> 01:27:48.399
1. Which is the first key scripture. John chapter

01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:51.880
1 verse 1. Now if you read it in the original.

01:27:52.380 --> 01:27:56.939
This is the fundamental. Which means. That they

01:27:56.939 --> 01:27:59.180
missed something here. Now in the beginning was

01:27:59.180 --> 01:28:01.640
the word. And the word was with God. And the

01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:06.479
word was God. Now in the original. There is nothing.

01:28:07.079 --> 01:28:11.000
Like the word was a God. So the last, the word

01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:13.600
was God. In their new word translation, please

01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:15.520
don't use that translation, right? It's not for

01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:19.439
you. They added that it is a God, right? Now,

01:28:19.439 --> 01:28:23.399
it simply means that before any creation that

01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:28.239
God created, God had to create Jesus first. Do

01:28:28.239 --> 01:28:31.939
we get it? So the argument is that before God

01:28:31.939 --> 01:28:35.039
created anything, the first creation of Jesus,

01:28:35.220 --> 01:28:38.779
the first creation of God, was Jesus. Because

01:28:38.779 --> 01:28:42.500
in here, we could not argue less that the person

01:28:42.500 --> 01:28:44.939
that was being spoken about here is who? Is Christ.

01:28:45.619 --> 01:28:48.300
So how can they say that this is God? They are

01:28:48.300 --> 01:28:50.439
saying no. This was actually talking about the

01:28:50.439 --> 01:28:55.199
first creation of God, which is Jesus. So they

01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:58.239
argue here that through Jesus, all things were

01:28:58.239 --> 01:29:01.359
made, but God had to make him first. So they

01:29:01.359 --> 01:29:04.560
put an intermission, right? Or they put something

01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:08.039
in the middle there. And what is the teaching

01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:10.500
of the scripture? The teaching of the scripture

01:29:10.500 --> 01:29:15.220
is that there was nothing that was made. Can

01:29:15.220 --> 01:29:19.000
we go to next? The next verse. The next verse.

01:29:19.140 --> 01:29:23.260
Verse 2. Stay here. He was in the beginning with

01:29:23.260 --> 01:29:26.079
God. All things were made through him. Without

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him, nothing was made that was made. Right? Nothing.

01:29:30.880 --> 01:29:33.720
It means that there was no creation before him.

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This is what he said. So it's not like he said

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that he was made to make other things. He said

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there was nothing that was made. So no, nothing

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existed, right, from the beginning. So we can

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see that the Bible is clear. The Bible is clear

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that there was no creation before Christ. Christ

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himself is the one who created all things. So

01:29:59.619 --> 01:30:02.939
we can therefore say that Christ is God. Okay,

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this is the main argument. If Christ is God or

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not. We can therefore say that Christ is God.

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Now, if you go to, you know, some of their meetings,

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you will see them celebrating Jesus a lot. They

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literally thank Jesus for what he does. Like

01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:17.680
they thank him, like, thank you for accepting

01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:21.119
to do this mission. But if you're not careful,

01:30:21.340 --> 01:30:23.659
right? If you're not careful, you will assume

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we are saying the same thing. But we are not

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saying the same thing. We use the same words,

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salvation, atonement, but we don't mean. The

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same thing. When they say they thank Jesus, they

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thank him as an agent of God. So Christ is not

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an agent. Christ is God himself. Christ is God

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himself. So there was no A there. It was added

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by these translators. Let's go to Colossians

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1, 16 -17. Colossians 1, 16 -17. The same scriptures,

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nothing that was made. For by him, All things

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were created that in heaven and on earth, visible

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and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or

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principalities of power, all things were created.

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All things means all things, right? Were created

01:31:11.850 --> 01:31:16.989
through him and for him. Through him and for

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him. Now, the question is, when scripture says,

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go to verse 15 of this Colossians. For he is

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the image of the invisible God. The firstborn

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of all creation. This is the scripture they use.

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That he is the firstborn. That him is the number

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one. And every other thing takes number. So this

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is the scripture that is being injured. Injurious

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acts. So this scripture. So let's go to that

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Colossians and see. So this is their main scripture

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to say, Oh, Jesus is the one that was the firstborn.

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Then other borns came in. You know. including

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animals. That would be what he means, right?

01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:00.479
Including animals, including birds, including

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everything that has been made. Now, go to Colossians

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1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, the will

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of God, by the will of God, and Timotheus, our

01:32:10.420 --> 01:32:11.819
brother, to the saints and faithful brethren

01:32:11.819 --> 01:32:14.020
in Christ, which are in Colossae, grace be unto

01:32:14.020 --> 01:32:18.439
you, peace from our God, right? Our Father, peace,

01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:22.340
grace be unto you, and peace from God, our Father,

01:32:22.380 --> 01:32:24.939
and the Lord Jesus Christ. So, he's writing definitely

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to believers, right? He's writing to believers

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here. Now, if you move to verse 16, if we move

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to verse 16, or probably, let's move a little

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bit, verse 10, that we might walk, go to verse

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10, sorry, that we might walk worthy of the Lord

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in all pleasing, being fruitful in every good

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work, increasing in the knowledge of Christ,

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strengthening with all mind according to the

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glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering

01:32:50.779 --> 01:32:53.909
with joyfulness, giving thanks to, unto, Giving

01:32:53.909 --> 01:32:56.069
thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet

01:32:56.069 --> 01:32:57.869
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints

01:32:57.869 --> 01:32:59.869
in light, who hath delivered us from the power

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of darkness and translated us into the kingdom

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of his dear Son. Right? In him we have redemption

01:33:06.329 --> 01:33:09.949
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

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Who is the image? Now, pay attention now. Who

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is the image of the invisible God? Image of the

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invisible God and the firstborn of every... Okay?

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Don't forget we are coming from talking about

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the realities of the believer in this context.

01:33:30.170 --> 01:33:33.550
Okay? The forgiveness of sins translated us to

01:33:33.550 --> 01:33:36.270
the sons. We talk about redemption. We talk about

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forgiveness of sins. We talk about translation.

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Now, the image of the invisible God talking about

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the firstborn of every creature is not talking

01:33:46.189 --> 01:33:51.770
about every creature. Right? So, invisible image.

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The image of the invisible God means that God

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is Christ, right? Because it's talking about

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Christ here. The Lord Jesus Christ is talking

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about Christ is the God that is invisible, right?

01:34:05.229 --> 01:34:08.170
But is the image, is the one that we see to know

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God. Do we get it? So Christ is the one that

01:34:11.489 --> 01:34:15.130
we see when we no matter seen God, but when we

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saw Christ, we knew that we have seen God. Do

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we get it? Now, the word, the firstborn of every

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creature, that word firstborn, right, is the

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word prototokos. Okay? You can write it down.

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It's the word prototokos. Prototokos. It refers

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to those, it refers to one that others take after.

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It's not just, they created me, then they now

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created she, then they now created them. No.

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Everyone, every other pattern that came, took

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after my pattern. That is what you call prototype.

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It's the word, I mean, you know the word prototype,

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right? So this is a prototype. Every other thing

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will follow in the same pattern. You will not

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create an architecture, you will not, let me

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just do this very clear, physical understanding.

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You will not create the prototype of something.

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And we now see the building. It's three -story

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building, the prototype. In what was produced

01:35:08.560 --> 01:35:11.720
is bungalow. That is not prototocusing, right?

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It's not doing the job. That is not a prototype.

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So, What a prototokos means is that when we see

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the others that will follow, they will follow

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the same what? The same pattern, the same character,

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the same nature. Do we get it? The same pattern,

01:35:26.510 --> 01:35:29.090
the same character, the same nature. So it's

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prototokos. It means that every other one comes

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after this in this manner. In this manner. So

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therefore, that firstborn cannot mean everything

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God created took after Christ. So that firstborn

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cannot mean that everything God created, including

01:35:47.640 --> 01:35:50.779
everything that you see in nature, right? It's

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not all nature. He's not talking about nature

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here. He's not talking about creation. Because

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they say God created him, then through him, everything

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was created. It will include animals because

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in their teachings, it included that. So we see

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here that it means that Christ is a pattern that

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others... Now, the word prototokos... writes,

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we can find it also in Hebrews 1 verse 6, Hebrews

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11 verse 28, the firstborn, 12 verse 23. Hebrews

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1 verse 6, Hebrews 11 verse 28, Hebrews 12 verse

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23. But again, when he again brings the firstborn

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into the world, he say, let all the angels worship

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him. The next one. By faith, he kept the Passover

01:36:40.329 --> 01:36:43.470
and the sprinkler of the blood, lest he who destroyed

01:36:43.470 --> 01:36:45.930
the firstborn should touch. So the same word

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happening here, to the general assembly and to

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the church of the firstborn who are registered

01:36:53.069 --> 01:36:54.970
in heaven, to the God of all joy, the spirit

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of the just man made perfect. Stop here. Now,

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we see that Israel actually was the first, you

01:37:02.789 --> 01:37:04.310
know, they use this word, not prodigal cause,

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but in the Greek, the word firstborn was also

01:37:06.010 --> 01:37:10.390
used for Israel to picture a people that God

01:37:10.390 --> 01:37:13.880
would establish. to carry his message. So the

01:37:13.880 --> 01:37:17.659
word firstborn and son was used for Israel to

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picture a people that God will use to carry his

01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:24.439
message. So again, when they used firstborn and

01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:27.659
son for Israel, it was not meaning trees, animals,

01:37:27.939 --> 01:37:31.300
anything. No, it was referring to the same pattern

01:37:31.300 --> 01:37:34.520
of Israel. To carry my message, I will create

01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:37.960
the church, the church of the firstborn, the

01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:41.000
church in the wilderness. The firstborn and the

01:37:41.000 --> 01:37:44.399
son. You see, tell Pharaoh, Israel is my firstborn

01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:48.720
and my son. Right? So, the word firstborn and

01:37:48.720 --> 01:37:54.020
son refers to creating the same pattern. Right?

01:37:54.039 --> 01:37:56.560
Following the same pattern. Now, here we see

01:37:56.560 --> 01:37:59.060
that it says to the general assembly and the

01:37:59.060 --> 01:38:01.399
church of the firstborn who are registered in

01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:05.260
heaven. Now, this was not possible. Prototokos

01:38:05.260 --> 01:38:08.979
is not possible. in Christ without resurrection.

01:38:09.579 --> 01:38:13.100
You can write it down. That the reality of Christ

01:38:13.100 --> 01:38:17.100
being the firstborn was not possible except through

01:38:17.100 --> 01:38:20.319
the resurrection. The reality of Christ being

01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:21.579
the firstborn was not possible except through

01:38:21.579 --> 01:38:25.659
the resurrection. I think we need to read Hebrews

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2 here. Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2

01:38:30.340 --> 01:38:33.899
from verse 13. And again, I'll put my trust in

01:38:33.899 --> 01:38:36.569
him and behold. And again, behold, I and the

01:38:36.569 --> 01:38:38.689
children which God hath given me. For as much

01:38:38.689 --> 01:38:40.670
as the children are partakers of flesh and blood,

01:38:40.810 --> 01:38:45.229
also him likewise partook of the same, that through

01:38:45.229 --> 01:38:47.310
death he might destroy him that hath the power

01:38:47.310 --> 01:38:50.029
of death, that is the devil, and deliver them

01:38:50.029 --> 01:38:55.050
who through fear of death were all their lives

01:38:55.050 --> 01:38:59.789
subject to bondage. I think we need to take it

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a little bit higher. Let's go to some earlier

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verses there. Verse 9. Verse 9. But we see Jesus

01:39:07.800 --> 01:39:09.699
who was made a little lower than the angels for

01:39:09.699 --> 01:39:11.619
the suffering of death, crowned with glory and

01:39:11.619 --> 01:39:15.500
honor, that he by grace of God should taste death

01:39:15.500 --> 01:39:18.899
for every man. For it became him for whom all

01:39:18.899 --> 01:39:22.699
things and by whom all things in bringing many

01:39:22.699 --> 01:39:26.119
sons unto glory, to make the captain of their

01:39:26.119 --> 01:39:28.619
salvation perfect through what? Through suffering.

01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:33.479
So Jesus will suffer to bring many sons to glory.

01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:36.340
Right? So if Jesus suffers and brings many sons

01:39:36.340 --> 01:39:39.680
to glory, he himself coming into glory, resurrection,

01:39:39.819 --> 01:39:45.079
becomes the firstborn. Not that he's created

01:39:45.079 --> 01:39:47.319
in the beginning to create everything. No. The

01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:50.760
firstborn is that he, through the power of resurrection,

01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:53.819
after suffering, he will bring many sons into

01:39:53.819 --> 01:39:58.039
his glory. He will bring many sons into his glory.

01:39:58.140 --> 01:40:01.579
And this takes place through suffering and the

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glory that followed. through suffering and the

01:40:05.100 --> 01:40:10.340
glory that followed. The other word is monogenes.

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Let's write it down. Only begotten. I think we've

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had this teaching before, but we shall have it

01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:17.800
again. Only begotten. Because this is the teaching

01:40:17.800 --> 01:40:20.579
that will address that issue of the first begotten

01:40:20.579 --> 01:40:24.439
of the creations. Only begotten. The word only

01:40:24.439 --> 01:40:29.739
begotten can be found in John 1, 14, which is

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monogenes. Right? monogenes monogenes g -e -n

01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:40.939
-e -s the word became flesh and dwell among us

01:40:40.939 --> 01:40:46.000
and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only

01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:48.460
begotten of the father full of grace and truth

01:40:48.460 --> 01:40:53.159
now this monogenes is talking about the unique

01:40:53.159 --> 01:41:00.140
appearance of god on earth that no man ever walked

01:41:00.140 --> 01:41:05.210
in except christ What we walked in is after resurrection.

01:41:06.170 --> 01:41:09.590
So it's the unique appearance of God on earth

01:41:09.590 --> 01:41:13.409
that no man walking except Christ. We joined

01:41:13.409 --> 01:41:16.529
that identification after resurrection. So there

01:41:16.529 --> 01:41:19.930
was no begotten. Only begotten is the only begotten

01:41:19.930 --> 01:41:23.930
at this time. So when God came to earth, which

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again is what they rejected, the incarnation.

01:41:26.489 --> 01:41:29.409
When God came to earth and he became the unique

01:41:29.409 --> 01:41:33.020
appearance on earth. They said that is not God.

01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:38.359
That is just one God. Okay? They said that is

01:41:38.359 --> 01:41:42.140
not God, but said that is one God. That is a

01:41:42.140 --> 01:41:46.579
God, not God himself. So they deny the incarnation

01:41:46.579 --> 01:41:50.340
to say that Christ is not God. Now, the argument

01:41:50.340 --> 01:41:54.079
is that when we say that we are having Holy Spirit,

01:41:54.220 --> 01:41:56.920
the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, that we

01:41:56.920 --> 01:42:00.560
are actually practicing. actually is a contradiction

01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:03.319
on their side because when you say that Christ

01:42:03.319 --> 01:42:05.500
is a God, it means that the Father is a separate

01:42:05.500 --> 01:42:08.020
God, the Son is a separate God, then the Holy

01:42:08.020 --> 01:42:10.979
Spirit is not a God. This is the argument. So

01:42:10.979 --> 01:42:14.199
it's actually the, you know, you try to debate

01:42:14.199 --> 01:42:16.199
something but you put yourself in the trouble.

01:42:16.340 --> 01:42:17.920
So by saying that Christ is a God, it means that

01:42:17.920 --> 01:42:20.979
in their own religion there are two gods and

01:42:20.979 --> 01:42:25.340
one wind. Right? Two gods and one wind. So, but

01:42:25.340 --> 01:42:28.619
what we see here is that he's saying that I appeared

01:42:28.619 --> 01:42:32.060
on earth to come and do what I will do for men.

01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:34.659
There is no other person that is called the only

01:42:34.659 --> 01:42:37.600
begotten, but there are many people who follow.

01:42:38.220 --> 01:42:40.680
There are many begotten after, there are many

01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:44.359
sons after resurrection, right? But nobody is

01:42:44.359 --> 01:42:47.699
the same way that our God anointed Christ. That

01:42:47.699 --> 01:42:51.760
office of the anointed Christ is the only begotten,

01:42:51.779 --> 01:42:54.909
right? So we can see that John 1, 18, You can

01:42:54.909 --> 01:42:59.609
go John 1, 18. John 3, 16. John 1, 18. John 3,

01:42:59.630 --> 01:43:04.409
16. 1 John 4, verse 9. 1 John 4, verse 9. I will

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do one more. Then we'll come back to the second

01:43:07.550 --> 01:43:10.090
half. I'll do one more. Come back to the second

01:43:10.090 --> 01:43:13.729
half. Another argument that they rejected. Many

01:43:13.729 --> 01:43:16.229
arguments. If we are going to create, you know,

01:43:16.229 --> 01:43:19.250
something to help us. So we can just write those

01:43:19.250 --> 01:43:21.350
scriptures. I already explained monogenes. Now,

01:43:21.449 --> 01:43:25.439
the second claim is that Christ, is Archangel

01:43:25.439 --> 01:43:28.520
Michael. You should say hmm to that one without

01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:31.020
me presenting an evidence. You should just say

01:43:31.020 --> 01:43:34.579
hmm. The argument, how can you say Christ is

01:43:34.579 --> 01:43:37.300
Archangel Michael? What scripture do they use?

01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:40.600
Revelations 12, 7 -9. This is their scriptures.

01:43:41.420 --> 01:43:44.039
Without already doing scriptures together, we

01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:48.279
will fall into trouble. Revelations 12, 7 -9.

01:43:48.300 --> 01:43:51.819
So they claim again that we are done with Christ.

01:43:52.619 --> 01:43:54.720
the son and the mother Jesus and the firstborn.

01:43:54.779 --> 01:43:57.220
Now we are going to Christ, the claim that Christ

01:43:57.220 --> 01:44:01.319
is archangel Michael. Right? Where's Revelation?

01:44:01.739 --> 01:44:05.479
Oh, okay. We don't have it yet. Revelations 12,

01:44:05.699 --> 01:44:09.899
7 to 9. Now it says, and there was war in heaven.

01:44:10.760 --> 01:44:13.819
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon

01:44:13.819 --> 01:44:17.819
and the dragon fought and his angels and he prevailed

01:44:17.819 --> 01:44:21.119
not. Neither was there place found anymore in

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heaven. And the great dragon was cast out. The

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old serpent called the devil, the Satan, that

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deceived the whole world. He was cast out in

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the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

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Because they said he led the world. There was

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one in heaven and Michael and his angels. Meaning

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an archangel, right? That is the word. An archangel

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means one that leads other angels. Right? They

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said one that did what? That leads other angels.

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And they said, well, this is also Christ, right?

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Because their doctrine is more related to Revelation

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somewhat. This is the major reference. And it's

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quite very easy to debunk with this one. The

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first place that we'll find this, right, is,

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let's open Revelation 22, verse 8 to 9. They

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identified Jesus with angel Michael. Now, I saw,

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now, I, John. Did you see? So angel put himself,

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say, meal. And Moses, we can say, angel said,

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the people who have believed, Moses, the people

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who are in faith, those who believe the words

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of this book, right? Those who believe the word

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of this book, we are all what? Servants. That's

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the explanation. We are all servants. You see,

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for I am your fellow servants, you and I, fellow

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servants, you are functioning as human, I'm functioning

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as angel. So angel did not receive his worship.

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So fellow servant did not receive. Another servant

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worshiped. Do we get it? He says, worship who?

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God. Now open to Matthew 14, 33. Matthew 14,

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33. Matthew 28, verse 9. Matthew 14, 33. Matthew

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28, verse 9. To distinguish between an angel,

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the conduct of an angel, and the conduct of Christ.

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Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped

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him, saying, truly you are the son of God. Truly

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you are the son of God. 28, 9. And as they went

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to tell his disciples, Behold, Jesus met them.

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This is post -resurrection. Saying, rejoice.

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So they came and held him by his feet. And they

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did what? They worshipped him. The next one.

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John 9, 38. John 9, 38. Hebrews 1, 6. And then

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he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.

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Now, Hebrews 1, 6. But when he again brings the

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firstborn into the world, he says what? Let all

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what? Angels. Now stop it. This one is one that

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should scatter it very easily. When he brings

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the firstborn into the world. Firstborn Christ.

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They agree that firstborn is Christ. Right? Yet

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is archangel. That's a contradiction based on

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the scripture. So the office of the firstborn

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is occupied by someone here who is Christ. And

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then he said, let all angels do what? Worship

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him. So, they warned, did Jesus receive worship?

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Yes. But angels did not receive worship. You

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will observe their cautious conduct when they

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come to deal with men. When they come to give

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a message, they will say, I am a messenger. Some

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of them say, I stood by the presence of God.

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So, they honor their servitude position and refuse

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to take worship. But what we see is that people

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worship Christ. And he never said stop because

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he is God, right? They said he is the son of

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God. So this is also correct. Now, another pattern

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that we will see is that, okay, we have one minute

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more, is that when there was war in heaven, there

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was a scripture, we're going to see that after

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we come back. He said, the angel Michael said,

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the Lord rebuke you, right? But when Jesus would

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talk to the devil himself, he said, I rebuke

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you, right? It was rebuked. It was a direct,

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it was not, it says, get deep behind me, right?

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And that system shows the authority of Christ

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above angel, right? Not to now talk of, when

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we begin to read Hebrews, right? Hebrews 1 established

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clearly the difference between Christ and any

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angel and was not classified as an angel. So

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in such a doctrine that classified Christ as

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an agent, as a God, at the same time as an angel,

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right? Definitely states that God is not the

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one that came to do what he did. He created an

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agent to go and do the job. And therefore, we

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cannot in any way hold on to such faith. Now,

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the reason why we are giving such amount of scriptures

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is that you can go back and read and study that

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when you are confronted with such ideologies,

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you will pull them down to the obedience of what?

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Christ. We must bring all this argument. together

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to the obedience of Christ we must gather them

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and say these arguments they are not in alignment

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