WEBVTT 00:00:01.400 --> 00:00:07.019 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:07.019 --> 00:00:09.980 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.980 --> 00:00:14.240 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.260 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.260 --> 00:00:23.300 right in. And He said to them, go into all the 00:00:23.300 --> 00:00:25.660 world and preach the gospel to every creature. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.660 He who believes and baptizes will be saved. For 00:00:29.660 --> 00:00:32.840 he who does not believe will condemn. And these 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.060 signs will follow those who believe. In my name 00:00:36.060 --> 00:00:38.619 they will cast out the monks, they will stick 00:00:38.619 --> 00:00:41.560 with new drugs, they will take up starlings, 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:44.880 and if they drink anything deadly, it will by 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.679 no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:52.140 sick, and they will recover. So then, after the 00:00:52.140 --> 00:00:55.479 Lord has spoken to them, he was received up into 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:59.420 heaven, and sat down sat down at the right hand 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:02.299 of God, and they went out, preaching everywhere, 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.239 and the Lord came with them, confirming their 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:09.659 words through their accompanying signs. Amen. 00:01:10.459 --> 00:01:19.099 John chapter 20. John chapter 20 verse 21. So 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:22.719 Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As the 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:26.280 Father has sent me, I send you also. Praise the 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.959 Lord. And when He has said this to them, He breathed 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.900 on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.980 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven. 00:01:38.659 --> 00:01:41.379 If you retain the sins of any, they are retained. 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:50.700 Amen. Luke chapter 24, verse 25 -27. Luke chapter 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:55.980 24. So, this Luke gives us a more broader... 00:01:56.609 --> 00:02:00.010 a account of what happened, and he said to them, 00:02:00.150 --> 00:02:03.129 O foolish ones, and slow hands, and he said to 00:02:03.129 --> 00:02:05.230 them, O foolish ones, and slow hands, believe 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:08.250 in all that the prophet has spoken, the rest 00:02:08.250 --> 00:02:12.030 26. But know the Christ who has suffered these 00:02:12.030 --> 00:02:16.590 things, and to enter his glory. And beginning 00:02:16.590 --> 00:02:19.969 at Moses and in all the prophets, he has founded 00:02:19.969 --> 00:02:22.349 to them, in all the scriptures, the thing called 00:02:22.349 --> 00:02:25.719 signing himself. Praise the Lord. And then verse 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:35.280 44. Then he said to them, These are the words 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.060 which I spoke to you while I was still with you, 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.580 that all things must be fulfilled, which are 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:44.080 written in the law of Moses the prophet, and 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.879 in the Psalms consigning me. Praise the Lord! 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.960 And we said that Jesus, our King, speaking things 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:55.060 not of his own, but the things that we are reading, 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:57.580 praise the Lord, he didn't come and think and 00:02:57.580 --> 00:03:01.199 say, you know what, when we were doing our sound 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.259 meter thing, which was two weeks ago, we were 00:03:03.259 --> 00:03:06.520 talking about, you know, we were just chatting 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.000 about some of the healing that Jesus did. And 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.080 he showed so many things in those things, in 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.360 those healing times. And we were saying that 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.500 he came to heal, right? But in the place of healing, 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.039 there were times where He cried. There were times 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.379 when he did not cry. Praise the Lord! And he 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:30.680 also prayed. He knew he could heal the person, 00:03:31.060 --> 00:03:32.659 but he didn't just come and say, you know what, 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:36.199 this is just a small thing, you know. You know, 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.819 like what we see in our family these days. He 00:03:38.819 --> 00:03:42.340 was not trying to impress anybody. Praise the 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:44.240 Lord! Some of the things that he was doing, he 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.219 was not trying to get the attention of men in 00:03:47.219 --> 00:03:50.530 the negative path. to bring glory to himself. 00:03:50.909 --> 00:03:53.129 The things that he taught and the things that 00:03:53.129 --> 00:03:57.270 he did, he did according to the Scriptures. Praise 00:03:57.270 --> 00:04:00.689 the Lord! The things he did were to fulfill the 00:04:00.689 --> 00:04:08.050 Scriptures. In Luke 24, he said that all things 00:04:08.050 --> 00:04:13.210 must be fulfilled in the law of Moses and the 00:04:13.210 --> 00:04:16.389 prophet and in the Psalms. So some of the things 00:04:16.389 --> 00:04:19.720 he did were to fulfill the things that were written. 00:04:19.819 --> 00:04:22.300 Praise the Lord! And we're going to see a lot 00:04:22.300 --> 00:04:25.100 of the things that he did for fulfillment of 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:27.300 the things that were written. He didn't come 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:29.480 to take glory for himself. He didn't come to 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.939 show them things. But he came to do that which 00:04:32.939 --> 00:04:36.379 was written. We said that Jesus was not teaching 00:04:36.379 --> 00:04:39.720 from Matthew, Luke, and John. Praise the Lord! 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:41.660 He was not teaching from Matthew, Mark, Luke, 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.660 and John. He was teaching from Genesis to Malachi. 00:04:45.860 --> 00:04:49.120 Praise the Lord! He was teaching from Genesis 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.620 to Malachi. He wasn't teaching. Matthew was all 00:04:52.620 --> 00:04:55.360 written. Mark was not written. So, he was teaching 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:01.139 them from Malachi. In verse 27 of that Luke chapter 00:05:01.139 --> 00:05:04.759 24, he says that he expounded, or he expounded 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.000 to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.360 himself. Praise the Lord! He expounded to them 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.500 the things, to them in all the scriptures, the 00:05:14.500 --> 00:05:17.310 things on standing himself. So what he was doing 00:05:17.310 --> 00:05:21.110 there is that he was interpreting the scriptures, 00:05:21.329 --> 00:05:23.810 the things from standing himself. That was to 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:28.050 expound, is to explain, is to interpret the scriptures, 00:05:28.149 --> 00:05:31.050 to give the scriptures meaning. Praise the Lord! 00:05:31.610 --> 00:05:34.689 Is to give the scriptures meaning. The scriptures 00:05:34.689 --> 00:05:37.149 have meaning. Praise the Lord! The fact that 00:05:37.149 --> 00:05:39.910 maybe you read it and do not understand it, or 00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:42.610 it's confusing, does not mean it does not have 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:45.959 a proper interpretation. Hallelujah. It does 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.480 not mean it does not have a proper interpretation. 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.759 That means that the Bible or Bible teaching requires 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.259 interpretation. Praise the Lord. It is not something 00:05:58.259 --> 00:06:01.060 that you just quote and quote and quote and quote. 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:04.300 It demands an interpretation. It has a meaning. 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:06.779 So even Jesus did not say just receiving. Praise 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:10.139 the Lord. He took his time to explain the scriptures. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.379 He took his time to explain The scriptures. Bible 00:06:15.379 --> 00:06:19.079 teaching requires interpretation. So to teach 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.300 the Bible is to interpret it. Praise the Lord. 00:06:22.779 --> 00:06:27.060 To teach the Bible is to interpret it. It has 00:06:27.060 --> 00:06:29.899 its original grammar. Praise the Lord. It has 00:06:29.899 --> 00:06:33.600 its original context. Praise the Lord. It has 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:37.519 its original theology. Praise the Lord. So to 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:41.519 teach it requires interpretation. You don't just 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.170 spread it and put it in your life. credit and 00:06:44.170 --> 00:06:47.189 put in any situation I run with it. Praise the 00:06:47.189 --> 00:06:52.350 Lord! I look for scriptures. So, this Bible, 00:06:53.910 --> 00:06:59.310 you know, one of the things that I do as a work 00:06:59.310 --> 00:07:06.350 is that I rent houses, sell houses, and I manage 00:07:06.350 --> 00:07:09.730 houses. So, this Bible, I got it from one of 00:07:09.730 --> 00:07:16.100 the houses that I I managed. So the owner gave 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.800 me permission to take it because he sold the 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:20.420 house to somebody and the person asked him to 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:23.259 manage it. So if you check in these scriptures, 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:30.680 I like the scripture because it has a new international 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.639 version and then it has two scriptures side by 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.560 side. That's why I like them. So if you check 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.019 these scriptures, you will see that a lot of 00:07:39.019 --> 00:07:41.180 the things that were marked were things in sound. 00:07:41.389 --> 00:07:43.910 The things that you look at and say, wow, this 00:07:43.910 --> 00:07:46.009 is for me, I can roll with this. Praise the Lord! 00:07:46.250 --> 00:07:49.670 A lot of the things that are sacral, mad, it's 00:07:49.670 --> 00:07:52.290 just, you know, you will not find anything mad 00:07:52.290 --> 00:07:54.550 necessarily in the New Testament, just in the 00:07:54.550 --> 00:07:57.810 Old Testament, in the Psalms. Just think of finding 00:07:57.810 --> 00:08:00.750 the blessing, you know, the promises of God. 00:08:00.850 --> 00:08:04.490 Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! So, you have to 00:08:04.490 --> 00:08:07.149 interpret the scriptures. Praise the Lord! I 00:08:07.149 --> 00:08:10.050 bring that example to say that... Bible studies 00:08:10.050 --> 00:08:13.569 or Bible teaching requires interpretation. What 00:08:13.569 --> 00:08:16.550 is God saying? Praise the Lord. What does God 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:21.589 mean by the things that He's saying? The Bible 00:08:21.589 --> 00:08:25.889 in its entirety is God's intervention into man's 00:08:25.889 --> 00:08:28.529 affairs. What is God saying? Praise the Lord. 00:08:29.089 --> 00:08:31.610 So you need to find out what is God's intervention. 00:08:32.169 --> 00:08:35.710 What is God doing there? Praise the Lord. What 00:08:35.710 --> 00:08:39.120 is it about? What is? the theology? What is the 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.799 grammar? What is the context of what you're reading? 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.240 What does it address? Praise the Lord! What does 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:52.399 it address? Because, like I said, if it just 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:55.419 applies to your life, you might be misinterpreting 00:08:55.419 --> 00:09:00.519 what it says. If you don't understand what it's 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.940 saying, what is God's intervention? What does 00:09:02.940 --> 00:09:05.559 God mean? Are you just straight up interpreting 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:10.519 and putting it in your life, you might be misinterpreting 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.159 the scriptures. The context is important. We 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.519 have been teaching time and time again. I want 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.019 to say this to people that sometimes when you 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:23.759 see the way we teach, it's not because, you know, 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:27.779 we're trying to sound very intelligent or trying 00:09:27.779 --> 00:09:31.200 to sound or make you just wow, oh wow, this person 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.480 knows the scriptures. No, we're trying to let 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.730 you know. how important it is. Part of the things 00:09:36.730 --> 00:09:40.590 that you first know as a child of God is how 00:09:40.590 --> 00:09:43.450 to interpret the Bible. It's so important in 00:09:43.450 --> 00:09:46.350 your life so that you are not deceased. Praise 00:09:46.350 --> 00:09:50.769 the Lord. Some of us, it took us years and years 00:09:50.769 --> 00:09:53.610 and years because we were thinking that God was 00:09:53.610 --> 00:09:56.590 angry at us. Praise the Lord. Because somebody 00:09:56.590 --> 00:09:59.090 said this is what the scripture says. Praise 00:09:59.090 --> 00:10:01.909 the Lord. Or we were doing some practices for 00:10:01.909 --> 00:10:05.179 years and years because somebody misinterpreted 00:10:05.179 --> 00:10:07.779 the scriptures, and they taught it to us, and 00:10:07.779 --> 00:10:12.379 we ran with it for so much of our lives. Praise 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:15.840 the Lord! So, it is important that you know these 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.659 things. Also, when we begin to learn these things, 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.360 even for me, for example, when I begin to pay 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.340 attention to what the Bible is saying, I might 00:10:24.340 --> 00:10:27.460 not have known the things of the spirit or understood 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:30.379 it, but when I see somebody start misinterpreting 00:10:30.379 --> 00:10:32.610 the Bible, or start saying what he's all saying, 00:10:32.789 --> 00:10:35.029 my ear just stopped. Because I know this is not 00:10:35.029 --> 00:10:37.669 it. That's not the way I was taught. It's the 00:10:37.669 --> 00:10:40.909 same thing that we're trying to do to you, that 00:10:40.909 --> 00:10:44.129 you understand the interpretation of scriptures 00:10:44.129 --> 00:10:46.669 so that you are not deceived. Praise the Lord! 00:10:46.789 --> 00:10:48.950 I remember, I was listening, I sent us a video. 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:52.029 Someone was talking about Philadelphia and he 00:10:52.029 --> 00:10:54.289 said it's a state or it's a place in the United 00:10:54.289 --> 00:10:57.049 States. Praise the Lord! The preacher was saying 00:10:57.049 --> 00:10:59.649 that Philadelphia is a place in the United States. 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:01.940 We know there is a place in the United States, 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.340 but in the Scriptures, there was no United States 00:11:04.340 --> 00:11:08.139 at the time. Praise the Lord! It is somewhere 00:11:08.139 --> 00:11:11.519 around you. The place that you meet is somewhere 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.279 around you. Hallelujah! So it is important that 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.840 we pay attention to this, so that we don't misinterpret 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.659 the Scriptures or apply them in our lives, and 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:24.419 it will take us years to recover. And one of 00:11:24.419 --> 00:11:28.000 the things that... The wrong interpretation, 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.419 thus to us, is that we run with it for such a 00:11:31.419 --> 00:11:34.580 long time. You know, there are some things that 00:11:34.580 --> 00:11:37.759 are happening online, people vibe to it, a train. 00:11:38.259 --> 00:11:42.320 Like a train has a window, it doesn't go too 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:46.279 far. But if you begin to apply misinterpretations 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.460 of structures in your life, it will take you 00:11:48.460 --> 00:11:51.419 years. It's on the train. You will take it into 00:11:51.419 --> 00:11:54.360 your life, you will practice it for years. And 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.009 it will not be of any effect to you. Praise the 00:11:57.009 --> 00:11:59.549 Lord. You will be missing all the things of God. 00:11:59.970 --> 00:12:02.210 Praise the Lord. It took me a while to discover 00:12:02.210 --> 00:12:06.110 that God can speak to me. Praise the Lord. My 00:12:06.110 --> 00:12:08.649 God can speak. I was so excited. So it means 00:12:08.649 --> 00:12:11.570 that when I pray, that God can speak to me. Praise 00:12:11.570 --> 00:12:13.610 the Lord. It means that I can hear the voice 00:12:13.610 --> 00:12:16.230 of God, or I can hear God for somebody else. 00:12:16.649 --> 00:12:21.590 Praise the Lord. So I'm not telling a God that 00:12:21.590 --> 00:12:24.909 I need to come. I remember there is a pattern 00:12:24.909 --> 00:12:27.139 of prayers. And when you come in the morning, 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:31.799 you begin to see a type of prayer. It is so mechanical. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.120 It is so payload in such a way that if you say 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.000 something wrong, your fellow is like, I don't 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.000 know, that prayer, you didn't do it very well. 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:44.480 Praise the Lord. It is all because of lack of 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.419 understanding of what the scriptures says. So, 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:52.600 kindness is very important. So you take things 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:57.220 out of context when you misinterpret things. 00:12:57.460 --> 00:13:01.779 Praise the Lord. So context is important. The 00:13:01.779 --> 00:13:06.980 context of every statement is what is God intervening 00:13:06.980 --> 00:13:09.019 or what is God doing? What is God solving? What 00:13:09.019 --> 00:13:11.740 is the problem that He is solving? What is the 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:17.100 situation? So interpretation goes that way. So 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:20.539 we see now what Jesus was teaching. He was teaching 00:13:20.539 --> 00:13:23.580 from the Old Testament. Praise the Lord. He was 00:13:23.580 --> 00:13:29.240 teaching from Genesis to Malachi. So another 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.139 thing about interpretation is that you need to 00:13:32.139 --> 00:13:35.279 know or you need to hear what the audience is 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.960 hearing. Praise the Lord. A lot of times when 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.860 we are trying to explain some difficult matters 00:13:40.860 --> 00:13:44.700 to us, we say that the people there were not 00:13:44.700 --> 00:13:48.090 conscious. Praise the Lord. The people there, 00:13:48.090 --> 00:13:50.789 at that moment, when Jesus was speaking, or the 00:13:50.789 --> 00:13:52.950 apostles were speaking, they were not confused. 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:55.929 They understood what He was saying. Praise the 00:13:55.929 --> 00:13:58.129 Lord! They understood what He was saying, or 00:13:58.129 --> 00:13:59.429 if sometimes they don't understand what He is 00:13:59.429 --> 00:14:01.889 saying, He will explain to them again what He 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:04.830 is saying. Praise the Lord! So, we need to understand 00:14:04.830 --> 00:14:07.570 as well, or we need to hear what the experience 00:14:07.570 --> 00:14:10.309 is hearing. Praise the Lord! It means that you 00:14:10.309 --> 00:14:12.649 have understanding. That's what it means. You 00:14:12.649 --> 00:14:15.090 need to hear what they are saying. If you don't 00:14:15.090 --> 00:14:19.009 hear what they are hearing, you will likely misinterpret 00:14:19.009 --> 00:14:22.009 it. Praise the Lord! You will hear the wrong 00:14:22.009 --> 00:14:24.629 thing. You need to hear what they are hearing. 00:14:27.710 --> 00:14:30.950 So, we said that Jesus was not reading from Romans, 00:14:31.210 --> 00:14:33.590 he was not reading from Ephesians, he was not 00:14:33.590 --> 00:14:36.110 reading from Luke, he was not reading from Acts, 00:14:36.190 --> 00:14:42.070 but rather was reading from Genesis to Malachi. 00:14:42.429 --> 00:14:46.830 So this is very fundamental in the way to understand 00:14:46.830 --> 00:14:49.629 what the audience is hearing, to know that what 00:14:49.629 --> 00:14:53.629 he's teaching them is not in Luke, it's not in 00:14:53.629 --> 00:15:00.230 Matthew, it's not in... So in that verse 45, 00:15:00.669 --> 00:15:13.250 verse 45 of Luke chapter 4, he said, And we said 00:15:13.250 --> 00:15:15.809 that this place where he said he opened their 00:15:15.809 --> 00:15:20.110 understanding, it's not a magic trick. It wasn't 00:15:20.110 --> 00:15:22.649 that he laid hands on them and they had understanding. 00:15:23.169 --> 00:15:25.370 Praise the Lord! I mean, that's not the way you, 00:15:25.429 --> 00:15:27.149 when you pass your exam or when you understand 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:29.649 a course, hands were not laid on you. Praise 00:15:29.649 --> 00:15:31.509 the Lord! When they are teaching you in class 00:15:31.509 --> 00:15:33.210 and somebody has understanding and somebody does 00:15:33.210 --> 00:15:35.110 not have, it's not because the other person was 00:15:35.110 --> 00:15:37.289 laid hands on. Praise the Lord! It's because 00:15:37.289 --> 00:15:39.370 as they were teaching, the person was following. 00:15:39.629 --> 00:15:41.590 and the person understood what they were saying. 00:15:41.830 --> 00:15:43.509 So it was the same thing that Jesus was doing. 00:15:43.809 --> 00:15:47.129 He was teaching and their understanding was open. 00:15:47.490 --> 00:15:49.950 Praise the Lord! He knew that He gave them a 00:15:49.950 --> 00:15:53.450 proper attitude. Praise the Lord! He gave them 00:15:53.450 --> 00:15:56.049 a proper attitude. He opened their understanding 00:15:56.049 --> 00:15:59.509 that they may understand. The word to understand 00:15:59.509 --> 00:16:07.269 is the word sunyami. Right? It's S -U -N -I -E 00:16:07.269 --> 00:16:10.769 -N -I. Sunyami. right in the Greece. It simply 00:16:10.769 --> 00:16:14.769 means he read it together. Praise the Lord. It 00:16:14.769 --> 00:16:18.190 means he read it together. Which means that you 00:16:18.190 --> 00:16:23.129 must read Genesis to Malachi together. Then read 00:16:23.129 --> 00:16:27.110 Matthew, Luke and John together. Praise the Lord. 00:16:27.429 --> 00:16:30.730 So what Jesus was doing, he wasn't quoting one 00:16:30.730 --> 00:16:33.230 place and just told them, no, he was reading 00:16:33.230 --> 00:16:35.909 everything together. Oh, so it means that that 00:16:35.909 --> 00:16:39.379 prophet or that What Moses said and what this 00:16:39.379 --> 00:16:41.320 prophet is saying, they were saying the same 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.139 thing. Praise the Lord! To hear me, it means 00:16:44.139 --> 00:16:46.919 that he read it together. But for us to have 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.519 an understanding of the scriptures, we also need 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.779 to read it together. Right? We need to read Genesis 00:16:52.779 --> 00:16:57.100 to Malachi together. Then we read Matthew, Luke 00:16:57.100 --> 00:16:59.659 and John together. And then the epistles that 00:16:59.659 --> 00:17:02.019 we have, which is the doctrine of the church. 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.099 Praise the Lord! The explanation of the same 00:17:05.099 --> 00:17:08.390 books. So the pieces are the explanation of the 00:17:08.390 --> 00:17:10.029 same books, of the things that were written. 00:17:10.369 --> 00:17:13.450 Praise the Lord. We read everything together. 00:17:14.950 --> 00:17:17.509 So when you say, for example, somebody might 00:17:17.509 --> 00:17:19.210 be arguing with you and say, the Bible says, 00:17:20.109 --> 00:17:22.450 right? And the person went and quote one please. 00:17:22.609 --> 00:17:25.190 That's not what the Bible says. Praise the Lord. 00:17:25.410 --> 00:17:28.029 So when you say the Bible says, what you're saying 00:17:28.029 --> 00:17:34.430 is that Genesis to Malachi states Matthew to 00:17:34.430 --> 00:17:37.890 Revelation says, praise the Lord, you are bringing 00:17:37.890 --> 00:17:40.849 the entirety of the scriptures in your explanation. 00:17:41.630 --> 00:17:46.190 Hallelujah. So when you say the Bible says, right, 00:17:46.289 --> 00:17:49.190 you are reading the whole thing. What does the 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:54.329 Bible say? It means Genesis to Revelation. That 00:17:54.329 --> 00:17:57.450 is what the Bible says. So don't take a statement 00:17:57.450 --> 00:18:01.029 in Psalms, like I said, right, and say, But read 00:18:01.029 --> 00:18:03.950 it through, read it all together, read it through. 00:18:05.329 --> 00:18:08.049 You read through the scriptures to know what 00:18:08.049 --> 00:18:10.829 the Bible says. Praise the Lord! For example, 00:18:11.589 --> 00:18:16.849 you think about some controversial or contentious 00:18:16.849 --> 00:18:19.789 topics, right? You don't go to one place and 00:18:19.789 --> 00:18:22.670 say, but it says there that you shall not do 00:18:22.670 --> 00:18:25.950 this. Praise the Lord! You cannot just move on 00:18:25.950 --> 00:18:27.809 to that one verse when you've thought several 00:18:27.809 --> 00:18:30.869 times. You cannot hold on to our one verse and 00:18:30.869 --> 00:18:33.890 make a doctrine out of it. You need to read it 00:18:33.890 --> 00:18:36.869 through. Praise the Lord! So, when it says that 00:18:36.869 --> 00:18:39.529 he opened the understanding, Jesus was reading 00:18:39.529 --> 00:18:43.809 through. They also, like some of us, where we 00:18:43.809 --> 00:18:46.390 were before, also had this misunderstanding. 00:18:46.990 --> 00:18:49.309 They also had places where they picked up things 00:18:49.309 --> 00:18:51.769 and they ran with it. Praise the Lord! So, what 00:18:51.769 --> 00:18:54.670 he did was that he read it through. Praise the 00:18:54.670 --> 00:18:59.369 Lord! He read the entirety of it. So, just like 00:18:59.369 --> 00:19:02.329 a lot of the pastors and some of the people that 00:19:02.329 --> 00:19:06.849 we have here are professors, right? They didn't 00:19:06.849 --> 00:19:09.930 become professors because they did only graduate 00:19:09.930 --> 00:19:14.069 in law. I said, this is enough. You can call 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:18.829 me a professor. I'm a voice in this field. Praise 00:19:18.829 --> 00:19:22.170 the Lord! No! They had to study through. They 00:19:22.170 --> 00:19:24.930 had to go through the training. Praise the Lord! 00:19:25.430 --> 00:19:27.839 So, when you say the Bible says, You have to 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:34.400 go through it. You read the Bible through, to 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.119 know what the Bible is saying. Now, Matthew 28 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:44.660 verse 19, when we read, part of our conversation 00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:48.619 was that God has given us a mandate to go and 00:19:48.619 --> 00:19:52.019 teach, to go and make disciples of all nations. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.259 Verse 19, He said, Go therefore and make disciples 00:19:55.259 --> 00:19:58.609 of all nations. baptizing them in the name of 00:19:58.609 --> 00:20:01.490 the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 00:20:01.549 --> 00:20:04.910 Last time, I was talking to us about how important 00:20:04.910 --> 00:20:07.549 it is that He said, "...baptizing them in the 00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:11.109 name of the Father, the Son, and of the Spirit." 00:20:11.109 --> 00:20:14.109 And we're also talking about what that baptism 00:20:14.109 --> 00:20:17.650 was, or what the meaning of that baptism was. 00:20:18.390 --> 00:20:21.549 He said, to make disciples of all nations, right? 00:20:21.769 --> 00:20:24.069 To make disciples, we said He's a Greek word 00:20:24.069 --> 00:20:38.190 for Makathio. Praise the Lord! That is, to make 00:20:38.190 --> 00:20:41.930 a scholar. Praise the Lord! To make a scholar. 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.730 To make a scholar. To make a student of the Scriptures. 00:20:46.609 --> 00:20:49.789 To make them. So when Jesus, so Jesus was not, 00:20:49.890 --> 00:20:52.549 so he's in Genesis from the beginning. We see, 00:20:52.849 --> 00:20:56.309 right, is that he's... He wants people that are 00:20:56.309 --> 00:20:59.490 made students of the Scriptures. So, he's saying 00:20:59.490 --> 00:21:01.809 that we should go and make disciples, right? 00:21:01.970 --> 00:21:04.670 Make them students of the Scriptures, people 00:21:04.670 --> 00:21:07.410 that understand the Scriptures. Praise the Lord! 00:21:07.930 --> 00:21:09.690 The truth should tell us what? That you shall 00:21:09.690 --> 00:21:12.730 know the truth, and the truth will do what? It 00:21:12.730 --> 00:21:14.990 will make you free. If you don't know the truth, 00:21:15.329 --> 00:21:17.750 you'll be living in bondage. Praise the Lord! 00:21:18.349 --> 00:21:21.450 And some of those bondages are bondages of teachings. 00:21:22.460 --> 00:21:25.500 A lot of them are bondages of the things that 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:28.380 we have been taught, or the things that we have 00:21:28.380 --> 00:21:31.240 refused to draw, or the things that we have refused 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:36.779 to unlearn, to make a scholar, to make a student. 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:43.559 So it therefore means that the Bible, like the 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:48.859 way academic books are, the Bible transmits virtual 00:21:48.859 --> 00:21:53.079 realities and values. Praise the Lord! So, when 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.039 he says you should make a student, how do you 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.740 make a student? How do you make a nursing student? 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:01.460 You go through four years of studies. Praise 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:04.039 the Lord! You go through four years of studies. 00:22:04.180 --> 00:22:05.940 There are some places, five years of studies. 00:22:06.339 --> 00:22:08.079 Praise the Lord! That's how you know a distressing 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:12.000 is quantified to be a nurse. Hallelujah! So, 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.180 how do you make a Bible student? Praise the Lord! 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.599 He says what? Do you trust me? Right? The Bible, 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.660 it transmits spiritual realities. Praise the 00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:26.059 Lord. The person becomes the scholar of the scriptures. 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.720 It's a book that transmits spiritual truths and 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:36.299 realities, spiritual truths and values. It means 00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:39.400 it must be read and understood, or it means it 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:43.200 must be read, studied, and understood. It is 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:46.980 not a magazine. Praise the Lord. It is not something 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:50.500 that you just read. and the three lines, praise 00:22:50.500 --> 00:22:52.400 the Lord. Something that you just read, you just 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:54.480 say, okay, I had this story and all of that. 00:22:54.779 --> 00:22:58.779 It must be read, studied, and understood. Praise 00:22:58.779 --> 00:23:03.000 the Lord. So it is because of the lack of studies, 00:23:03.539 --> 00:23:07.720 it is because of the lack of proper reading and 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.420 understanding that we have teachings that are 00:23:12.420 --> 00:23:15.690 not according to scriptures. Praise the Lord. 00:23:16.329 --> 00:23:18.710 That we have teachings that are not deep, that 00:23:18.710 --> 00:23:21.509 do not explain the things of God, or the mind 00:23:21.509 --> 00:23:24.849 of God, or the intentions of God. Praise the 00:23:24.849 --> 00:23:32.009 Lord. So, it is not a book of quotes. Praise 00:23:32.009 --> 00:23:36.150 the Lord. You don't just say, no, it is something 00:23:36.150 --> 00:23:39.710 that is read through. It is not a book of quotes. 00:23:41.150 --> 00:23:44.130 It is a book that transmits spiritual reality. 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:47.460 Like I said, it must be read, it must be understood, 00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:52.099 and it's linked. You must see it that way. So 00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:56.920 to understand the Bible, you must hear it, to 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:03.160 make the disciples a student. So one of the things 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.599 that you learn as a student is how. Praise the 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.660 Lord. It's how. Some teachers don't like questions, 00:24:11.779 --> 00:24:17.200 okay? One of the things you learn as a student 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:21.099 is how, but how is that? How did that come about? 00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:25.299 Praise the Lord. It's part of the values of a 00:24:25.299 --> 00:24:27.460 good student, the thing that a good student must 00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:30.500 have. How did that come about? Praise the Lord. 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:39.099 How is that a star nation? You must learn the 00:24:39.099 --> 00:24:45.539 how of the spiritual, right? the how to read 00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:49.839 the scriptures. You must learn how to read the 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.559 scriptures. Praise the Lord. You must read, read, 00:24:53.660 --> 00:24:57.740 so you must learn how to learn the scriptures. 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:02.940 How to read the scriptures. How to teach the 00:25:02.940 --> 00:25:05.519 scriptures. You must learn that, right? As a 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.059 student of the scriptures, you must learn that. 00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:14.259 So let's focus on something In that Matthew 28, 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.240 verse 20. So teaching them to observe all things 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.460 that have commanded you, and know I'm with you 00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:25.039 always, even to the end of the age, even to the 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:29.720 end of the age. That word, teaching them, as 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:33.859 we said several times, is the word didascho in 00:25:33.859 --> 00:25:38.660 the Greek. Right? Didascho in the Greek. Which 00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:43.910 is, we said it has a body of... It's from a body 00:25:43.910 --> 00:25:50.230 of walls. It has aloes. It has alia. Right? It's 00:25:50.230 --> 00:25:55.509 from a body of walls. Right? So, let's focus 00:25:55.509 --> 00:26:01.369 on one of it, which is didache, or didahane. 00:26:01.569 --> 00:26:09.150 D -A, sorry, D -I -D -A -C -H -E. D -I -D -A 00:26:09.150 --> 00:26:14.210 -C -H -E. So, it's the same word that Jesus used 00:26:14.210 --> 00:26:19.329 in Matthew 7, from verse 28 to 29, for teaching. 00:26:20.069 --> 00:26:28.589 Matthew 7. And so it was, when Jesus had ended 00:26:28.589 --> 00:26:32.869 this thing, that the people were astonished at 00:26:32.869 --> 00:26:36.789 His teaching. Praise the Lord. And He took them 00:26:36.789 --> 00:26:41.230 as one, having authority, not as the scribe. 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.500 Praise the Lord! Not as the scribe. It's the 00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:48.440 word for teaching there we see there in chapter 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:53.819 28. Right? Remember, this was when Jesus had 00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:56.700 finished the salmon on the mount. Praise the 00:26:56.700 --> 00:26:59.480 Lord! The people were astonished at his doctrine. 00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:02.180 It's also the same word as doctrine. Right? That 00:27:02.180 --> 00:27:04.599 word teaching there. The same word as also doctrine. 00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:07.319 Praise the Lord! We see that in the New Testament 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.940 most of the time. Remember? We also talked about 00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:15.599 this the last time, right? That these people 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.519 have had the teachings of the Pharisees and the 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:21.720 Pharisees and the scribes. They have experience 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.539 of their teaching. Praise the Lord. They have 00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:27.500 experience of their teaching. So also, it's so 00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:29.720 many people that you will encounter when you 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:32.380 want to explain the Bible. They have experience 00:27:32.380 --> 00:27:35.119 of teaching. Praise the Lord. They have written 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.759 books. You cannot assume that this person doesn't 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:40.200 know. They know some things. They know a lot 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.819 of things. Praise the Lord! They have been taught 00:27:42.819 --> 00:27:46.200 as well. So, these people had experience of the 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:49.359 teachings of the Pharisees, right? They are familiar 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:52.380 with it. They know the way they are taught. But 00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:55.500 then, they were astonished at Jesus' teaching, 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.519 right? They were astonished. They felt something 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:02.640 about His teaching. Wow, this is different! This 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:06.299 is different from everything that we have been 00:28:06.299 --> 00:28:09.059 hearing. Praise the Lord! They were as strong 00:28:09.059 --> 00:28:14.599 as teaching. They know the way they strive to 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:19.980 help them. So we said that teaching is a word 00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:27.240 for teaching. It means a mode of teaching. There 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.140 is a way Jesus taught them. There is a mode of 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:32.779 teaching. I explained this briefly the last time 00:28:32.779 --> 00:28:39.349 I was teaching. That word teaching is a mode 00:28:39.349 --> 00:28:47.049 of teaching. They were astonished at this mode 00:28:47.049 --> 00:28:50.829 of teaching. He did not teach them as the Pharisees. 00:28:51.009 --> 00:28:53.690 Praise the Lord. Now, don't get this wrong. When 00:28:53.690 --> 00:28:55.210 you say the mode of teaching, somebody might 00:28:55.210 --> 00:28:57.630 be thinking that Jesus was jumping up and down. 00:28:58.009 --> 00:29:00.769 Praise the Lord. Or he was shouting. Or maybe 00:29:00.769 --> 00:29:04.480 he was slow with his voice. He was, because you 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:06.640 see that word, he says as one that has authority, 00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:08.900 right? So you might start thinking that, oh, 00:29:08.900 --> 00:29:11.579 Jesus was shouting. You know the way, I think 00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:13.519 the former president of psychology stopped when 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.599 it comes to graduation. He used to raise his 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:21.940 voice like one of those Haitian people, right? 00:29:22.059 --> 00:29:23.859 He used to be shouting, shouting. People would 00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:26.299 be so hyped. That's not the way Jesus was. That's 00:29:26.299 --> 00:29:28.700 not the mode of teaching. Oh, that's not the 00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:31.279 mode of teaching. Praise the Lord. He was teaching 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.640 them. through the structures. Praise the Lord. 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.519 So again, remember that Jesus also was warning 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:43.740 them about the teachings of the Pharisees. He 00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:46.759 also warned them, beware of the leavens of the 00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:49.859 Pharisees. He tells them, beware of the teachings 00:29:49.859 --> 00:29:52.359 of the Pharisees. Praise the Lord. So he was 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:54.460 also warning them. So he was not just teaching 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:56.539 them, or he had a mode of teaching, but he was 00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:59.519 also warning them against some type of teaching, 00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:02.660 a particular type of teaching that people are 00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:08.400 bringing. Praise the Lord! I thank God for the 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.980 internet, personally. I think it's the doing 00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:15.799 of many and the undoing of a lot. Praise the 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:20.180 Lord, because you need to see the things that 00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:22.759 people have in the inside of them. You see them, 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.319 and you see a lot of the gifts and the wonderful 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:28.359 things that people do have in the inside of them. 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:32.660 Praise the Lord! He wrenched them. as well about 00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:36.019 the mode of teaching of the Pharisees. So one 00:30:36.019 --> 00:30:37.839 of the things that you know, one of the things, 00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:40.539 one of the ways in which you can know false teaching 00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:44.220 is the way it is taught. Praise the Lord. One 00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:46.960 of the ways you can know false teaching is the 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:51.200 way it is taught. Right? One of the things that 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:56.779 is done in the, in false teaching is that scriptures 00:30:56.779 --> 00:31:00.420 are lifted out of context. It's very crucial. 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:05.359 criteria, praise the Lord, of false teaching, 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:08.599 is that scriptures are listed out of context, 00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:12.759 to say what the person wants is to say. Praise 00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:15.859 the Lord. That's one of the ways in which you 00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:20.099 will know false teachings. Remember in Matthew 00:31:20.099 --> 00:31:24.279 chapter 18, right? In Matthew chapter 19, when 00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:27.240 they came and they were quoting to Jesus, talking 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.000 about the woman, the adult trust woman, right? 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.240 They came and they were quoting the Chronicles 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:36.740 of the 24th verse 1. Jesus said to him, you are 00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:40.299 reading dishonesty. What they were reading was 00:31:40.299 --> 00:31:43.099 dishonest. They were not reading it properly. 00:31:44.380 --> 00:31:46.660 He said to them, let's go to the beginning. He 00:31:46.660 --> 00:31:50.640 said, in the beginning, it was not so. They came 00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:53.819 and they were quoting scriptures for him to push 00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:56.619 an agenda. And he said, you are reading dishonesty. 00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:58.759 I think we talked about this as well. You are 00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:01.559 reading dishonesty. In the beginning, it was 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:05.000 not so. Praise the Lord! I think I have some 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.619 people that I buy books for. I've looked at them. 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.920 They are not writing. Praise the Lord! Please, 00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:12.700 if I buy a book for you, I'll show you how to 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:19.079 write it. It's not you paying me back. So, he 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.299 says, in the beginning, it was not so. He says, 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.480 take it to context. Don't list it out of it. 00:32:25.579 --> 00:32:28.259 Take it to the context in the beginning. Praise 00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:30.970 the Lord! He took them back to Genesis chapter 00:32:30.970 --> 00:32:34.710 1 and chapter 2. In the beginning, it was not 00:32:34.710 --> 00:32:36.990 true. The same thing went said and came, and 00:32:36.990 --> 00:32:39.250 he was quoting Psalms for him. Praise the Lord, 00:32:39.289 --> 00:32:44.589 he was quoting Psalms 91 to him. Right? Now, 00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:47.569 it's the same thing that Jesus said to him. Jesus 00:32:47.569 --> 00:32:50.569 went and said, let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 00:32:50.569 --> 00:32:55.670 6. Praise the Lord. Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 00:32:55.670 --> 00:33:00.720 6. So, even in the real testament, the structures 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.980 were not perfect. For you to properly understand 00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:06.880 them, you cannot run with 14. Praise the Lord! 00:33:07.140 --> 00:33:09.579 You must also read the Old Testament together 00:33:09.579 --> 00:33:12.259 to understand what it is saying, because as they 00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:14.900 say something, as they are reading Deuteronomy, 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.460 Jesus is taking them to Genesis. As the devil 00:33:17.460 --> 00:33:19.940 comes and is bringing some, Jesus is also taking 00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:26.720 them to Deuteronomy. Praise the Lord! So which 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.519 means that even the Old Testament, the quoting 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:35.079 of the text, without the other Old Testament 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:40.200 book, is also misinterpretation. Praise the Lord. 00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:43.720 It's also misinterpretation. You might be quoting 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.359 it out of context. Praise the Lord. So we are 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:49.700 quoting one part without thinking about what 00:33:49.700 --> 00:33:51.940 the other part is saying. You might be quoting 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:55.390 it out of context. Praise the Lord. So we see 00:33:55.390 --> 00:33:58.890 that Jesus was also doing that and he's the examples 00:33:58.890 --> 00:34:02.210 that we learn. He took him back to Deuteronomy 00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:08.010 chapter 6. They say take this statement or take 00:34:08.010 --> 00:34:10.650 this your statement statement to the context, 00:34:11.369 --> 00:34:17.309 right? Take it to the full of it. So context 00:34:17.309 --> 00:34:24.289 is not just in the book. It's not just In the 00:34:24.289 --> 00:34:28.469 chapter, it is in the entire Bible book. Praise 00:34:28.469 --> 00:34:32.110 the Lord! We said that context, there is the 00:34:32.110 --> 00:34:35.090 context of the Bible. Praise the Lord! It's not 00:34:35.090 --> 00:34:37.650 just in the chapter, or it's not just in the 00:34:37.650 --> 00:34:40.170 book that you're reading. It's also the entirety 00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:43.289 of the Bible. Praise the Lord! So, when you have 00:34:43.289 --> 00:34:45.750 the confusion, or when you read something and 00:34:45.750 --> 00:34:48.610 you're confused, praise the Lord! And it's not 00:34:48.610 --> 00:34:51.130 just that, okay, you're confused. That's good, 00:34:51.510 --> 00:34:54.519 right? It means that... You need to also understand 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:57.719 what the Bible is saying. What is the entirety 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.840 of the Bible? We're going to see something briefly 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.920 about that. You need to put it in the entirety 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:10.760 of the Bible. So Jesus, we saw, has a mode of 00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:15.179 teaching. And He transmits this mode of teaching 00:35:15.179 --> 00:35:19.079 to His disciples. And His saying words also do 00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:22.659 the same. By saying words, teaching them to observe 00:35:22.809 --> 00:35:25.210 or the things that have commanded you. He's saying, 00:35:25.349 --> 00:35:28.150 transmit this thing that I transmit to you to 00:35:28.150 --> 00:35:33.170 other people. Praise the Lord! Transmit it to 00:35:33.170 --> 00:35:39.449 other people. Hallelujah! Transmit it to other 00:35:39.449 --> 00:35:45.530 people. So he says what? In the beginning, Jesus 00:35:45.530 --> 00:35:48.869 was saying, beginning at Moses, right? And in 00:35:48.869 --> 00:35:51.090 all the prophets, he read it together. That's 00:35:51.090 --> 00:35:53.900 what he's saying. He read them together, as we 00:35:53.900 --> 00:36:00.579 say, Tsunemi. Acts, Acts chapter 2 verse 44, 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:04.219 the same word we are still in either here or 00:36:04.219 --> 00:36:10.480 there too, Acts chapter 2 verse 42. This one 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.639 is great. All this is confusing. And he continues 00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:18.500 steadfastly in the apostolic doctrine and in 00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:20.590 his fellowship. And in the breaking of bread 00:36:20.590 --> 00:36:22.409 and in prayers, praise the Lord, He said, they 00:36:22.409 --> 00:36:25.909 continue steadfastly in the apostolic doctrine. 00:36:26.309 --> 00:36:28.570 So that doctrine is a word that either he or 00:36:28.570 --> 00:36:31.889 she has said, right? In mode of teaching. In 00:36:31.889 --> 00:36:34.210 the mode of teaching, you wish the God from what? 00:36:34.469 --> 00:36:39.449 From Jesus. Praise the Lord! Do you understand 00:36:39.449 --> 00:36:42.070 that? Right? I have an all -close background. 00:36:42.969 --> 00:36:44.710 Okay? When I read this, continue steadfastly 00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:46.900 in the apostolic doctrine. Right? My head went 00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:48.860 somewhere. So let me say that again. It seems 00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:50.960 to me we're running out of time. They continuously 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.139 said firstly that they are post -Jewish doctrine. 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.440 Now, they are post -Jewish doctrine. Where did 00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.019 they come from? Praise the Lord! Where did they 00:37:00.019 --> 00:37:04.360 learn it from? Who did they learn it from? Praise 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.739 the Lord! It is a thing also that Christ taught 00:37:07.739 --> 00:37:10.360 them, right? That they were teaching. Praise 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:13.260 the Lord! It is the mode of teaching of Christ, 00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:16.239 right? It's also the mode of teaching that they 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:19.739 are also teaching. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:27.699 So, Jesus warned His disciples to beware of the 00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:33.920 mode of teaching of the Pharisees. He also warned 00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:37.519 them about the Pharisees. He also warned them 00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.880 about their mode of teaching. So, it's not just 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:44.190 good enough to beware of the Pharisees. Right? 00:37:44.250 --> 00:37:46.110 They say, oh, these guys, they teach false things. 00:37:46.670 --> 00:37:52.070 Let's be aware of them. Right? Beware of their 00:37:52.070 --> 00:37:55.969 teaching. Beware of how they quote scriptures 00:37:55.969 --> 00:38:00.030 out of context. Praise the Lord. It is not a 00:38:00.030 --> 00:38:02.989 small matter. Okay? When somebody is quoting 00:38:02.989 --> 00:38:05.030 scripture out of context and you're saying anything, 00:38:05.369 --> 00:38:07.210 it is not a small matter. It's not something 00:38:07.210 --> 00:38:11.610 that you say, oh, you know what? Do you understand? 00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:15.800 It is delicate. Praise the Lord. It is delicate. 00:38:16.019 --> 00:38:20.079 Beware of how they talk. So it doesn't matter 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.159 if this person is your guy, you know, if this 00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:25.699 person is your friend, if this person is your 00:38:25.699 --> 00:38:28.059 classmate, if this person is your wife, your 00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:32.300 husband. Praise the Lord. Beware of how they 00:38:32.300 --> 00:38:36.360 handle the sexes. Beware of how you handle the 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:41.059 sexes. Praise the Lord. It's not a small matter. 00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:44.489 Beware of how you handle the scriptures. It could 00:38:44.489 --> 00:38:46.550 be your uncle or your father, praise the Lord. 00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:54.510 Beware of how you handle the scriptures. So, 00:38:55.829 --> 00:38:58.289 it is one of the greatest things that we see 00:38:58.289 --> 00:39:01.550 or that affects us, or you can even call it a 00:39:01.550 --> 00:39:05.210 sin, praise the Lord if you like, right? To handle 00:39:05.210 --> 00:39:08.710 the scriptures anyhow. Because what you are doing 00:39:08.710 --> 00:39:11.010 is that you're putting somebody 10 years back 00:39:11.010 --> 00:39:14.409 or 20 or maybe forever back. Praise the Lord! 00:39:14.889 --> 00:39:17.769 If they are not able to hear sound doctrine or 00:39:17.769 --> 00:39:21.769 sound teaching, praise the Lord! So many people 00:39:21.769 --> 00:39:25.429 have left, you know, I wouldn't say left the 00:39:25.429 --> 00:39:27.909 faith, right? So many people have stopped going 00:39:27.909 --> 00:39:31.469 to church or stopped being... because maybe somebody 00:39:31.469 --> 00:39:34.190 taught something that meant something that was... 00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:37.949 or somebody did not properly explain the scriptures 00:39:37.949 --> 00:39:40.769 or somebody used the scriptures for their own 00:39:40.769 --> 00:39:43.570 personal benefit. Praise the Lord! Or somebody 00:39:43.570 --> 00:39:46.750 uses the church or the activities of the church 00:39:46.750 --> 00:39:49.909 for their own personal benefit. Praise the Lord! 00:39:50.789 --> 00:39:53.949 So, it is not a small matter. It is not something 00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:55.429 that you just say, you know what, let's just 00:39:55.429 --> 00:39:57.570 keep going. Praise the Lord! It doesn't matter 00:39:57.570 --> 00:40:04.210 who the person is. It is dangerous to mishandle 00:40:04.210 --> 00:40:07.570 the scriptures. Praise the Lord! It is dangerous 00:40:07.570 --> 00:40:10.900 to mishandle the scriptures. One of the things 00:40:10.900 --> 00:40:21.739 why it is dangerous is because man would have 00:40:21.739 --> 00:40:25.380 a God. Praise the Lord! It doesn't matter if 00:40:25.380 --> 00:40:28.139 you are a Christian or not. Man would have a 00:40:28.139 --> 00:40:30.920 God. Praise the Lord! Whenever you say you are 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.280 an atheist or not, you would have a God. Praise 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.440 the Lord! So, when somebody is in the faith, 00:40:37.659 --> 00:40:43.159 they need to be taught So, what I also want, 00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:48.679 Romans chapter 6, Romans chapter 16 and 17, now 00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:52.280 I urge you brethren, not those who cause division 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.980 and offences, contrary to the doctrine which 00:40:55.980 --> 00:41:01.480 you have learned, which you learn, and avoid 00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:05.679 them. Praise the Lord. You see, when he says 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:09.190 contrary to The doctrine, what it means is that 00:41:09.190 --> 00:41:12.289 contrary to the mode of teaching, that's what 00:41:12.289 --> 00:41:14.050 it means. We looked at that word, we saw what 00:41:14.050 --> 00:41:18.750 that word means. Contrary to the mode of teaching. 00:41:19.190 --> 00:41:21.869 He said, what should you do? If you do what? 00:41:22.690 --> 00:41:27.429 Avoid them. Praise the Lord. Avoid them. You 00:41:27.429 --> 00:41:29.550 know somebody, they tell us about what Joseph 00:41:29.550 --> 00:41:32.210 did. Praise the Lord. When you know what was 00:41:32.210 --> 00:41:34.070 why we begin to cast our eyes on him. What did 00:41:34.070 --> 00:41:38.880 he do? He ran away. And we have admonished, and 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:40.659 will continue to admonish, that you do what? 00:41:40.980 --> 00:41:43.079 You run away. One of the things you should also 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.480 run away from, don't say you're a strong man 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.519 or you're a strong man or wrong, no. One of the 00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:51.320 things that we also admonish is also to do what? 00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:57.400 To avoid, to run away. From what? Mishandling 00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:00.920 prior teachings or mishandling of the Spirit, 00:42:01.340 --> 00:42:04.840 of God's teachings. To go away from that place. 00:42:05.449 --> 00:42:09.369 Beware of it, because it does influence you. 00:42:09.590 --> 00:42:12.429 Praise the Lord! What you hear will influence 00:42:12.429 --> 00:42:17.730 you. Hallelujah! What you hear will influence 00:42:17.730 --> 00:42:20.530 you. We all know this, right? So, when you see 00:42:20.530 --> 00:42:22.849 somebody behaving somehow, you know how to think, 00:42:23.449 --> 00:42:25.750 but your father did not teach you that. Your 00:42:25.750 --> 00:42:27.190 mother did not teach you that. He was hearing 00:42:27.190 --> 00:42:29.469 it somewhere. Praise the Lord! Maybe they gave 00:42:29.469 --> 00:42:32.570 him a phone, and then he was listening to a lot 00:42:32.570 --> 00:42:34.980 of praise. and he's listening to somebody telling 00:42:34.980 --> 00:42:37.139 him, you know what? This, this, that, and that. 00:42:37.340 --> 00:42:39.539 And you see the person. And he's saying some 00:42:39.539 --> 00:42:42.440 things like, this guy, I grew up with you, this 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:46.099 is your doctor, whatever you are, whatever social 00:42:46.099 --> 00:42:49.059 thing you're trying to promote, right? I know 00:42:49.059 --> 00:42:51.320 you did not learn it from where we grew up. Praise 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.039 the Lord. He learned it from somewhere. Praise 00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.300 the Lord. Somebody informed him. As he was hearing 00:42:57.300 --> 00:42:59.860 it, the thing informed him. It triggers something 00:42:59.860 --> 00:43:02.480 in the inside of him to think that he's something. 00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:09.530 that he is not. There is a lot. So false teaching 00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:13.889 or some mode of teaching, right, will affect 00:43:13.889 --> 00:43:17.769 you to unflinch it. So how says to avoid it? 00:43:18.969 --> 00:43:23.349 Now what is the kind of language that is used 00:43:23.349 --> 00:43:30.530 in chapter 6, verse 17, Romans 6, 17? But what 00:43:30.530 --> 00:43:33.719 we think That though you were slaves to sin, 00:43:34.099 --> 00:43:37.380 yet you obeyed from your heart. That form of 00:43:37.380 --> 00:43:44.039 doctrine which you received. That form of doctrine 00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:49.760 which you were delivered. That form of doctrine 00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:53.159 which you were delivered. Right? It's systemic 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:56.460 teaching. Right? So you have a mode of teaching. 00:43:56.900 --> 00:44:00.099 I teach Dr. Juan Meznai. So talking about... 00:43:59.769 --> 00:44:02.590 Or you want to put somebody in a leadership position, 00:44:03.210 --> 00:44:06.750 leaders as a pastor, or as a cell leader, as 00:44:06.750 --> 00:44:09.690 a leader of a team, right? Titus, chapter one, 00:44:09.789 --> 00:44:22.349 verse nine. Nine, verse nine. He said, all things 00:44:22.349 --> 00:44:25.730 fast, the faithful word as you have been taught, 00:44:26.909 --> 00:44:30.849 right? that he may be able, by sound doctrine, 00:44:31.349 --> 00:44:34.690 both to exalt and to convict those who contradict. 00:44:35.369 --> 00:44:39.650 Praise the Lord. Holding fast the faithful world 00:44:39.650 --> 00:44:45.210 as he has been taught. So he needs to hold fast 00:44:45.210 --> 00:44:49.449 to what? Right? For anybody who is a leader of 00:44:49.449 --> 00:44:53.050 everything in the church, needs to hold fast 00:44:53.050 --> 00:44:57.260 to what? To that which he has been taught. So 00:44:57.260 --> 00:45:00.679 you cannot just put somebody into any position. 00:45:01.139 --> 00:45:03.699 Say, you know what, ah, I like your vibes. Just, 00:45:03.699 --> 00:45:07.820 you know, be one of the leads. Your voice is 00:45:07.820 --> 00:45:11.679 so good. And you lead our worship team. I think 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:14.519 you're tall, you're handsome, you know, you have 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.400 a straight face. And you lead our ushering team. 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.139 We need people that are well physically and, 00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:22.400 you know, that can command some respect. Praise 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:24.360 the Lord. You don't just put people like that. 00:45:24.420 --> 00:45:26.519 It doesn't work like that. Praise the Lord. there 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:29.059 are people that are holding fast to that one 00:45:29.059 --> 00:45:32.539 which they were taught in mode of teaching. Right? 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:37.079 So that by what? They may be able by sound doctrine, 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.760 they too, right, to be able to teach. That's 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:41.840 what he's saying. That whatever they are teaching 00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:45.820 is also very sound. Praise the Lord. So, let 00:45:45.820 --> 00:45:48.599 me digress. So it therefore means that the church 00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:53.380 is not a place where some people should know 00:45:53.380 --> 00:45:59.650 higher than other people. Praise the Lord. A 00:45:59.650 --> 00:46:04.690 church, a gathering of believers, shouldn't be, 00:46:04.750 --> 00:46:10.730 could be, shouldn't be a place where some people 00:46:10.730 --> 00:46:13.369 know more than the others. Praise the Lord. So 00:46:13.369 --> 00:46:16.309 it therefore means that the pastor who is teaching, 00:46:17.190 --> 00:46:19.210 the person who is ushering, or who is the leader 00:46:19.210 --> 00:46:23.349 of the worship team or media team, is able also, 00:46:23.530 --> 00:46:26.250 by the same sound doctrine, be able to teach. 00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:28.980 as equally as the pastor is teaching. Do you 00:46:28.980 --> 00:46:34.500 understand? Praise the Lord. So you don't just 00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:37.400 put anybody, right? There is a mode of teaching. 00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:40.719 It's not something you just, you know, wish away 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:42.760 and something that you just say, no, it doesn't 00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.500 matter. I think it's qualified. Praise the Lord. 00:46:45.659 --> 00:46:49.179 It is critical and important. Praise the Lord. 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:55.590 Second John, chapter one, verse nine. 2 John, 00:46:55.650 --> 00:47:00.070 chapter 1, verse 9. See another strong word that 00:47:00.070 --> 00:47:04.110 was used there. 2 John, remember we're still 00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:08.829 in Dida H, or Dida T. Whoever transgresses and 00:47:08.829 --> 00:47:12.570 does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does 00:47:12.570 --> 00:47:18.590 not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of 00:47:18.590 --> 00:47:23.449 Christ has both the Father and the Son. He said 00:47:23.449 --> 00:47:27.820 does not and does not have or does not abide 00:47:27.820 --> 00:47:30.579 in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. 00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:34.840 Praise the Lord. A mode of teaching. This is 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:39.960 very strong. It does not have God. He that abide 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:42.860 in the teaching or in the teaching of Christ, 00:47:42.980 --> 00:47:45.320 the mode of teaching of Christ, it says what? 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:50.699 Has what? Has both the Father and the Son. Which 00:47:50.699 --> 00:47:53.280 means that the concept of the Father, which I 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:57.659 also talked about, the last time we talked about. 00:47:57.739 --> 00:48:00.559 It's not a secondary thing. The idea of the Father, 00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:04.059 the Son, and the Spirit is not a secondary thing. 00:48:24.059 --> 00:48:29.480 Who is a liar or he who denies that Christ is, 00:48:29.739 --> 00:48:33.159 sorry, he who denies that Jesus is the Christ 00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:38.219 is an antichrist who denies what the Father understands. 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:42.639 Just keep down the street, okay? Now, we have 00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:48.199 believers who don't stick in doors, okay? We 00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:52.989 have believers who, you know, say that The only 00:48:52.989 --> 00:48:54.889 way of worshipping, you need to use this and 00:48:54.889 --> 00:48:58.690 use that. We have such believers in the book 00:48:58.690 --> 00:49:03.190 of Acts. We have believers who do ceremonies, 00:49:03.809 --> 00:49:08.849 who do different types of things. There's some 00:49:08.849 --> 00:49:11.610 who give holy communion, some don't. Praise the 00:49:11.610 --> 00:49:14.929 Lord. Some dance, some do not dance. Praise the 00:49:14.929 --> 00:49:20.349 Lord. We have different types of things. These 00:49:20.349 --> 00:49:25.789 things are not... They're not fundamental things. 00:49:26.409 --> 00:49:35.090 We don't dance. You dance. Believers don't wear 00:49:35.090 --> 00:49:38.670 trousers. Those who cover their hair. Women in 00:49:38.670 --> 00:49:44.789 worship. There are so many things. They're not 00:49:44.789 --> 00:49:47.829 fundamental things. They can have an effect. 00:49:48.429 --> 00:49:50.610 They can bring some composition here and there. 00:49:50.730 --> 00:49:54.489 Okay? But we're not very fundamental, right? 00:49:55.809 --> 00:49:59.429 We have believers that preach on tithes, right? 00:50:00.869 --> 00:50:03.750 You know, within the Old Testament context. I 00:50:03.750 --> 00:50:05.570 said, you know what? It's not applicable in the 00:50:05.570 --> 00:50:07.630 New Testament. For those who preach on it and 00:50:07.630 --> 00:50:09.469 say, yes, it's applicable in the New Testament. 00:50:09.869 --> 00:50:12.010 We have things like that. Do you understand? 00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:14.650 Right? As I said, they're not fundamental things. 00:50:14.730 --> 00:50:17.110 We have believers who cover their head. We have 00:50:17.110 --> 00:50:18.949 believers who don't cover their head. We have 00:50:18.949 --> 00:50:21.230 believers... and I believe that women should 00:50:21.230 --> 00:50:23.489 not wear trousers. You know, women in worship 00:50:23.489 --> 00:50:26.030 is not fundamental. We have believers who believe 00:50:26.030 --> 00:50:28.730 that women should not be pastors, right? We have 00:50:28.730 --> 00:50:34.309 things like this. You know, there are doctrinal 00:50:34.309 --> 00:50:37.590 issues, obviously, right? There are doctrinal 00:50:37.590 --> 00:50:42.769 issues that can be resolved. Praise the Lord! 00:50:43.349 --> 00:50:44.989 There are doctrinal issues. All of these topics 00:50:44.989 --> 00:50:47.610 are things that, you know, You don't understand 00:50:47.610 --> 00:50:49.409 the scriptures. They are doctrinal things that 00:50:49.409 --> 00:50:51.849 we can teach and somebody will have understanding. 00:50:52.389 --> 00:50:58.650 Praise the Lord! They can be handled. If they 00:50:58.650 --> 00:51:00.510 are not properly handled, they can hinder the 00:51:00.510 --> 00:51:03.510 growth of a believer. Praise the Lord! But they 00:51:03.510 --> 00:51:09.110 are not foundational things. But then, why do 00:51:09.110 --> 00:51:13.809 we have people deny the Father and the Son? This 00:51:13.809 --> 00:51:18.760 is different. they deny the deity of the Christ. 00:51:23.340 --> 00:51:32.619 What it means is that when you find somebody 00:51:32.619 --> 00:51:36.059 that denies the father and the son or the deity 00:51:36.059 --> 00:51:40.800 of Christ, that person is not a believer. There 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.019 is no, you know what, you're my brother, you're 00:51:43.019 --> 00:51:47.610 my sister, those ones These are fundamental things. 00:51:48.610 --> 00:51:52.289 They are strong things, right? You are no longer 00:51:52.289 --> 00:51:56.570 brothers and sisters. You believe, I will say, 00:51:56.789 --> 00:51:59.710 you are no longer a believer that I know. Praise 00:51:59.710 --> 00:52:01.690 the Lord. You are no longer a believer. Praise 00:52:01.690 --> 00:52:07.829 the Lord. So, we cannot say, you know what, let's 00:52:07.829 --> 00:52:10.389 just look over it. Know something that we can 00:52:10.389 --> 00:52:12.510 have a drink over. Praise the Lord. Something 00:52:12.510 --> 00:52:15.190 that we can take a walk over. Praise the Lord. 00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:18.079 We can sit at a table and eat and some of these 00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:20.159 things. We can do that with some of these doctrinal 00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:22.579 thoughts. Say, can we have a lunch? And then 00:52:22.579 --> 00:52:25.139 you teach the person about the things of God. 00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:27.179 The person will have understanding. Praise the 00:52:27.179 --> 00:52:30.840 Lord! Right? But this is critical. Right? The 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.280 doctrine to Christ is strong and it's serious. 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.119 In the idea here, it is fundamental. Right? In 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.639 the doctrine, it is fundamental that Jesus is 00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:47.099 God. He's not an opinion. Praise the Lord! It 00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:51.599 is not an opinion. Maybe your classmate tells 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:52.860 you that people are too strict. They say, what 00:52:52.860 --> 00:52:55.719 do you mean? No, people are too strict. Your 00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:58.480 friend tells you that these things are not that 00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.280 serious. Why do you say that? Praise the Lord! 00:53:01.900 --> 00:53:04.440 What difference does it make if I don't affirm 00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:08.920 that Christ is God? What difference does it make? 00:53:09.179 --> 00:53:13.440 Does He change anything? Does He change the fact 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:17.210 that He is my Savior? Do you understand? Just 00:53:17.210 --> 00:53:19.170 tell the person that you have become in Jehovah's 00:53:19.170 --> 00:53:24.210 Witness. Hallelujah. You have become in front 00:53:24.210 --> 00:53:26.809 of the Jehovah's Witness. We are no longer brothers. 00:53:26.909 --> 00:53:29.130 Hallelujah. It's very simple. You're no longer 00:53:29.130 --> 00:53:33.530 brotherhood. Our brotherhood is on the deity 00:53:33.530 --> 00:53:37.570 of Christ. Praise the Lord. Our fellowship is 00:53:37.570 --> 00:53:45.179 on the deity of Christ. So, He's on the doctrine 00:53:45.179 --> 00:53:49.780 of Christ. And that explanation involves what? 00:53:49.900 --> 00:53:54.500 The deity of Christ. He is God. Praise the Lord. 00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:59.179 He is God. So, you can also have people that 00:53:59.179 --> 00:54:01.400 misinterpret the scriptures. There's a lack of 00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:04.679 understanding of us. Not everybody that misunderstands 00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:08.539 the scriptures does it maliciously. Okay, that's 00:54:08.539 --> 00:54:10.460 an order as well. That not everybody that you 00:54:10.460 --> 00:54:12.500 saw this person is reading. Oh, you're not interpreting 00:54:12.500 --> 00:54:14.639 the scriptures rightly. It means that the person 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:17.599 is evil or the person is not. A lot of people 00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:21.099 are genuine, right? A lot of people are genuine, 00:54:21.179 --> 00:54:23.219 but they don't understand it. They don't know 00:54:23.219 --> 00:54:26.360 it. Praise the Lord. These are issues that you 00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:30.619 can, like I said, have a glass of... I don't 00:54:30.619 --> 00:54:35.079 know why. You can sit down at the table and eat 00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:40.099 and talk about it. Praise the Lord. Sometimes, 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:43.110 again... Some people might misinterpret. For 00:54:43.110 --> 00:54:47.829 example, the book of Revelation, what does it 00:54:47.829 --> 00:54:50.769 mean? You can have all this and you need to understand 00:54:50.769 --> 00:54:54.090 it. It's not very fundamental. Like I said, it 00:54:54.090 --> 00:54:57.889 might have an effect. It might affect people's 00:54:57.889 --> 00:55:00.869 growth. It might affect a lot of things, but 00:55:00.869 --> 00:55:03.309 it's something that can be resolved. But when 00:55:03.309 --> 00:55:07.090 somebody watches the deity of Christ, that is 00:55:07.090 --> 00:55:09.949 no longer a brotherhood type of conversation. 00:55:10.329 --> 00:55:18.449 Praise the Lord! This is very critical. It is 00:55:18.449 --> 00:55:22.630 very important. The doctrine of Christ. Praise 00:55:22.630 --> 00:55:27.409 the Lord! The blood of atonement. Praise the 00:55:27.409 --> 00:55:30.590 Lord! The redemption through His sacrifice. It 00:55:30.590 --> 00:55:39.170 is a noble area. Praise the Lord! This is fundamental. 00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:45.139 Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! So, in systematic 00:55:45.139 --> 00:55:47.699 teachings, we have these things like what Christ 00:55:47.699 --> 00:55:52.380 explained in John chapter 14, John chapter 14, 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:58.460 John chapter 14, 16, 15 to 16. He also emphasized 00:55:58.460 --> 00:56:03.340 the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Praise the 00:56:03.340 --> 00:56:06.519 Lord! So, like I said, we are looking into the 00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:10.440 union of the spirit we have. Praise the Lord! 00:56:10.820 --> 00:56:13.539 And lastly, we continue our oneness to Christ. 00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:16.820 So, when we are looking at this, I will read 00:56:16.820 --> 00:56:21.460 out John, John chapter 14, verse 16 to 16. If 00:56:21.460 --> 00:56:25.059 you love me, keep my commandment, verse 16. And 00:56:25.059 --> 00:56:26.900 I will pray to the Father and he will give you 00:56:26.900 --> 00:56:29.920 another helper who will abide with you forever. 00:56:30.059 --> 00:56:31.920 Just keep that verse. Praise the Lord! So, we 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:34.880 see here again, emphasizing the Father, the Son, 00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:37.019 and the Spirit. Right? Like I said, we're looking 00:56:37.019 --> 00:56:41.219 at the union of the Spirit that we have. Right? 00:56:41.219 --> 00:56:43.420 So, the first thing that we see, or we have been 00:56:43.420 --> 00:56:45.920 talking about, is that we looked at also the 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:49.400 previous time, is that the gospel is for everybody. 00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:52.380 Praise the Lord! When He says, you should go 00:56:52.380 --> 00:56:54.340 and preach the gospel everywhere. It means that 00:56:54.340 --> 00:56:58.239 the gospel is for everybody. It is for everybody. 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.199 Right? It is for everybody. The Spirit of God 00:57:02.429 --> 00:57:06.030 is for everybody. And if the gospel is for everybody, 00:57:06.190 --> 00:57:09.869 then the spirit is also for everybody, right? 00:57:11.409 --> 00:57:13.630 Praise the Lord. So the essence of redemption 00:57:13.630 --> 00:57:18.050 or salvation is what? The giving of the spirit. 00:57:18.389 --> 00:57:21.010 What does it say? And I will pray to the Father, 00:57:21.409 --> 00:57:23.650 right? And he will give you another helper. He 00:57:23.650 --> 00:57:29.789 will abide with you forever. Forever is forever. 00:57:30.269 --> 00:57:33.619 Praise the Lord. We appreciate you being here 00:57:33.619 --> 00:57:36.679 today. We hope you carry this word with you throughout 00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.500 your week. Don't forget to check the show notes 00:57:39.500 --> 00:57:42.260 for additional insights. Stay connected with 00:57:42.260 --> 00:57:45.079 us through our website or follow us on social 00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:48.559 media. 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