Learning How To Walk

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Welcome to relentless truth with John Warren, the

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John with this week's powerful and practical insights.

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talking about a particular subject or series. I

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to do so. We've had several the,

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series, beautiful series on God's word.

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We've also thrown in some really interesting guests.

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we'll we'll continue to do that as as

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well. And and we've had some topical episodes

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where we've just talked about the economy or

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our government or a current event.

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And I'm sure this election season will afford

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us the opportunity to do that again. Well,

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today, we're we're in,

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and we have arrived.

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At the very beautiful,

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chapter 2

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of this epi.

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And, you know, Paul is is walking through

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the doctrine of our completeness

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in Christ, that is really the theme

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of this letter to the Church at.

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Paul is just a few years from his

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death. He obviously, wouldn't know that. And he

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is in prison at Rome.

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And

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he he wrote some beautiful letters

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during that season of his life during that

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approximately

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a 2 year,

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period where he was under

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house arrest.

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Well, we've arrived at chapter 2, and I'm

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just gonna jump right in

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It's interesting. I I like to pe like

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to

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review,

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but

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it's hard to do here, and I'm not

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sure it makes sense. You can

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the, you know, the listener can always go

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back and listen to the last episode for

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the review. So,

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Paul has been,

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talking about proclaiming Christ.

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He said in in verse 28 warning,

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everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom and

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that we may present everyone mature in Christ

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for this I toil,

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struggling with all his energy that he powerfully,

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works in me. That is we we labor

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by Christ's

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in enable,

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and that isn't that beautiful. He he calls

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us to do it and then enables us

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to do it. He... There are all kinds

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of ways to say this. This this finds

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its way onto to plaques and refrigerator magnets,

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you know, god god equip us for what

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he calls us to.

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There are all kinds of iterations of that

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that you've heard over the years, And it's

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just true, and it's a it's not a

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slogan. It's a beautiful truth. God does equip

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us beautifully

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to do what he would

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have us to do.

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And then Paul starts, I I read those

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2 verses because Paul starts with 4 or

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I want you to know how great a

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struggle I have for you. And for those

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at La,

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and for all

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who have not seen me

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face to face.

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This this letter has quite a different tone

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than the Philip letter, the church at Philip

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letter

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that we studied just before this 1.

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He doesn't...

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Necessarily

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know them,

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in and in colossus. He knows hip for

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us, and he... He's been visited apparently by

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some people from that church.

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But but he he doesn't know them, and

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many of them have not have clearly

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not seen him face to face

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So he's been talking about how Christ works

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within him.

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That... That's why we said the theme is

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completeness in Christ.

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It's a study of christ, A study about

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Jesus Christ, our lord. This this letter is.

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And so he says because

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least transitioning in chapter 2 because I want

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you to know how great a struggle I

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have for you. Notice

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present tense that how great a struggle has

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the idea of, how how great is is

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is magnitude, the Greek word there

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as as the idea of significant matt magnitude,

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and that word struggle is agony or or

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striving. It's it's well translated in the English

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standard version. How great a struggle I have

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for you

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and for those at L

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and for all who have not seen me

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face

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to face.

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So he's he's letting him know. I'm I'm

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with you. This is a tender moment in

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the letter.

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III

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struggle for you, and then he says in

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in verse 2.

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That their hearts

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may be

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encouraged

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that they that they might be encouraged,

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being being knit together

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in love that word knit together, those words

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have the idea of uniting.

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It's it's actually AAA medical metaphor,

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being knit together

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in love.

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Is isn't that beautiful that their hearts may

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be encouraged

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being knit together in love, You know, talked

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back in Philippians about this unity. Remember our

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2 ladies, Y and Cent. And just just

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the general issue of all of dis unity

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that that surface there. And if you've if

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you've been part of any

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particularly Christian organization, but any organization, you know

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that there's always going to be some dis

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unity. I I used to think,

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and I might have even prayed for this

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at 1 time

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that that that I I wanted to live

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a life

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just full of unity with no dis unity.

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And my logic was Well, you know, Christian

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people should all get along. And and what

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I've learned is that that Unity is among,

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the challenges that we all face. We don't

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talk about it a lot. We don't we

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don't like to be complaining and gru to

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use Paul's words in back in philippians.

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but we... And and we just don't talk

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about it a lot, but we all face

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this this notion of of dis unity and

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Paul,

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is talking to the church You know, they've

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they've had some no and other false teaching,

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that that really domains the...

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The ministry

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of of Jesus Christ,

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and and the person of Christ. His deity,

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even,

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And, you know, they taught that all the

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knowledge rests in them

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interestingly. You've you've seen cults like this and

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cult kind of organizations like this. If you're

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not 1 of us,

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you don't have any knowledge. You know, you

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don't you don't have the ability to reason.

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That's why you don't get it because you're

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not you're not 1 of us.

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But but Paul is teaching that that this

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church should be knit together

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in love in a gap.

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To reach

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all the riches of full assurance

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of understanding

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and the knowledge

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of God's mystery,

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which is Christ,

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in whom are hitting all the treasures of

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wisdom and knowledge. Now,

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this is fascinating to me because

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He is just body slamming the no.

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Because they believe all knowledge knowledge was in

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them, and he says so being let's go

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back. Being knit together in love in verse

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2, that that medical metaphor that uniting in

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love,

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being knit together in love. That's what we

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should

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strive for. And then he says, to reach

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so the purpose of of of this is

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to reach all the riches

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a full assurance of understanding

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and the knowledge

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of god's mystery,

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which is Christ.

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How to listen to this. That that word

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knowledge is Gen.

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That that that is that this full understanding

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of room, we talked about the word to

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know and scripture. And and there... There's 1

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word in in the ia is the... Is

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the hebrew word often translated to know

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the the Y expression

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Yada yada is

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is

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made famous by Jerry Seinfeld and others over

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the years is really yeah I know. I

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know. It it... That's literally what it says.

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What it means.

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But in the new testament, in the Greek,

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there's a word we translate idaho to English,

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which is, you know, I know I know

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that flower is red. I I know my

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address,

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barely some days. But but, you know, I

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know things. And and then and then there's

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Gen or No, GN0S sis.

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And that that is to to to to

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understand well, you know, to to to really

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know.

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And then a stronger form of the word

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is epi,

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that prefix epi,

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emphasizes the word makes the word more powerful,

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which is to deeply understand. Well, this word

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or Gen or Epic

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that it it is

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the, it's sep 2 agent, the the Greek

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version of the, of the,

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Hebrew old testament. So the Greek

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version of that,

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yeah, uses this word

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Gen to describe the

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intimacy of the union between a man and

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woman.

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And and so this is

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this is relational this word. This is

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this is not just superficial knowledge. This is

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deep understanding relational understanding. Remember, Paul,

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talked in in in Romans 6 about our

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being in Christ incorporated with him. He uses

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the word baptism.

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He is being in us and our being

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in him being found in him.

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And so he says the knowledge of God's

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mystery

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which is Christ. You say, Paul knew the,

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and he knew there was a certain mystery

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here

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around Christ, and then he explains it in

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verse 3, in whom are hidden

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all the treasures

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of wisdom and knowledge. Now, if you're... Yeah,

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I'm just saying if you're if you're agnostic.

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And you're reading this. You're ticked now, because

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Paul has just stumped you in the head.

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In whom are hidden all the treasures of

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wisdom and knowledge, and Christ is the 1

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and who are hidden all the treasures of

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wisdom and knowledge. III just love this about

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Paul. Paul is loving.

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He's gracious in his communication, but you never

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see Paul, you know, and we talked about

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this last time. You never see Paul back

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down. He says the next thing. He doesn't

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leave it unsettled, you know, I'm I'm I'm

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not gonna mention that because it'll offend people.

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You know, I'm gonna hint at it, but

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I'm I'm not going... No. He says,

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any and he corrects them with the right

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information, which is Christ,

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in whom are hidden

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all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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As we mature in the faith as you

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mature in the faith, and I tell this

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to my my students, my my 17, 18

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year old students, I... Had 16 year to

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18 year old students.

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I I make this clear that as as

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you mature,

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you're you're going to realize

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that Christ is everything.

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The gospel of Jesus Christ,

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is everything.

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Scripture tells us to preach it to ourselves

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to remind us of ourselves of the gospel

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to live

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life

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in the context of the gospel.

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Well, what what does that mean? That means

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that I'm a sinner who's been saved by

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grace by Jesus Christ.

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He he came to earth was born of

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a virgin,

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lived a sin endless life. All these details

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are important,

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was tempted just like we are,

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was executed on a cruel roman crossed the

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harshest form of death, the kind of death

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that a Roman citizen was prohibited from suffering.

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It's an humiliating death.

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He conquered sin and death. He took on

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sin for us, conquering sin and death was

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raised on the third day.

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Paying the price for our sin.

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And then he spent

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a number of days on Earth.

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We believe 40 days on earth and ascended

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sits at the right hand of father making

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session. For us and that salvation is is

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accessed

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by faith.

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By simple faith by putting our trust in

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our confidence in Christ.

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Christ is everything.

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When Paul says in whom are hidden all

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the treasure wisdom and knowledge, he means it.

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He's slamming diagnostics, but this is a truth

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for us, and that word knowledge is in

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fact Gen

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there.

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So he's talking about this

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this knowledge, this intimate knowledge,

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relational knowledge, not just...

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Some sort of intellectual ascent.

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Isn't that amazing? And then he says, I

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say this. So so

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again,

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the beauty of of Paul's teaching. You you

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you lays it out there for you. I

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say this in order that no 1 may

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d dilute you

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with plausible arguments.

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Now isn't that

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interesting. Attorneys out there, you I happen to

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know

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that what the word plausible means. In a

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legal sense. And the only reason I do

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is I was sitting at a conference table...

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Conference table selling a bank

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of all things 1 day, talking to board

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members,

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and the investment banker used the word plausible.

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He said, well, it's plausible. We're were talking

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about, you know, what if we what if

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we don't sell it now, What might happen

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in the future. And and this was back

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during a really volatile period in the economy

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2012,

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I believe.

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And and

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and and so the the attorney said, well

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plausible is actually a weak

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standard. It just means it could happen. It

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doesn't mean it's likely to happen.

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And so so let's look at these words.

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I say this in order that no 1

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may del dilute you.

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That that that word d dilute literally means

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to reason or speak beside.

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It it it has the idea of faulty

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logic.

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So so

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he he's saying, I'm I'm writing for your

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own good church at.

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That no 1 may may fool you with

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faulty logic

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with plausible

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arguments. That is that word plausible is literally

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a persuasive argument, a type, a type of

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speech they're designed to entice others.

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I don't know about you.

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But when I listen to

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say,

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oh, I don't know. Joel Ol or somebody,

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I just really

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enjoy that. III...

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You know,

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I I know he's a a false teacher

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largely.

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And and there there's some other people out

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there who names I just can't think of

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right now who who who just...

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Every word is beautiful and

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and some of what they say is is

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is true and they're just so encouraging.

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I I know older people who who must

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listen to him,

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Joel, Hosting.

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And and there some others that are out

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there that are they're just smooth.

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They they dilute people. They use faulty logic.

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Their teaching is is damning,

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but

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It's a kind of persuasive a type of

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speech designed to entice. They make it flower

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and beautiful.

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It's not edgy and harsh.

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It... It's designed to entice. It's it's it's

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kinda cool,

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on the surface in in human terms.

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It's it's ana. It's it's to be it's

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to be

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tram.

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It's it's it's not worth our time. It's

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it's dangerous. It's it's.

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But but these arguments are enticing.

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Don't ever. Please, dear brother and sister in

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Christ.

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Even think for a moment

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that we're above falling for false teaching.

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It is the wisdom and knowledge of Christ.

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In whom all treasures are hidden back in

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verse 3,

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and we are to walk

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by faith in him.

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And and that's a mouthful. That that means

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a lot of things that we'll talk about

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as we go forward here.

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So so there's... There's just beauty in this

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This this is a warning.

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It's a it's a warning

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against the no.

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It's a real punch in the mouth to

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to the no, but it's an encouragement to

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the church. You know, you can imagine. I

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I mean, I can barely imagine paul's in

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prison under house rest, and shack to a

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Roman guard. And and, you know, they don't

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have... They can't text their friends to see

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how things are going

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the in other parts of the world, like

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we can do now,

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but they had to write and have letters

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delivered and and read, you know, replicated by

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hand and red out loud. And so communication

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took time, travel was on foot or by

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boat, and and it was slow.

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And and and so Paul, you you can

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just imagine how he feels as he's trying

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to protect this dear your church.

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What, as as you get seasoned in the

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faith, and and that that... That's a that's

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a nice way to say old,

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as you age,

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you become wiser, and you naturally want to

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protect other people.

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And and 1 1 of the things I

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say to students often, and I said it

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at a graduation that where I got to

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speak a couple years ago,

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you know, parents need to understand that

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But by the time, a a student is

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graduating from high school. They already have all

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the advice that we're going to give them.

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But what we actually do is we... We

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imagine that, you know, if they're going off

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to college,

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what that's gonna be like, and we wanna

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be sure. We feel like maybe we failed

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them, not that they've failed us necessarily, but

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that we might have failed them and so

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we we think, oh, my goodness. I gotta

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pack all this knowledge.

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Into them, and get... We... So we give

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them our opinion again and again, and again,

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if you ask them, they already know our

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opinion on and everything.

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And what they need to know is that

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they're loved.

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But there's this, you know, if you if

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you want to just put on Paul's hat

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for a moment and imagine

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what this was like.

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You can,

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just think about a child going off to

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college. And by the way, parents, if you're

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not there yet and haven't experience that brace

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yourself, that is 1 of the hardest things

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you will do and parenting

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for an adult teenager

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or a person in their early twenties is

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really difficult.

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To do. But in any case, that's probably

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the best example that I can think of.

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And and Paul is Paul is warning them

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that no 1 made to dilute them with

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plausible arguments. He's he's hearing things from reliable

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sources,

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probably.

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That that these people are are struggling. There's

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false teaching in the church and he's and

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he's trying to shore them up in the

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faith and he says in verse 5, for

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though, I am absent in the body.

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Yet I am with you in spirit.

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Re

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to see your good order, that good order

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is actually discipline

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re to see your discipline, your good order,

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and the firm ness

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of your faith.

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Your your corporate strength and stability

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is the idea there. The firm

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of your faith

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in Christ.

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So

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he

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I'm absent in the bottom. I'm not there

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with you. I haven't I haven't even met

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some of you yet. Most of you Yet,

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I am with you in spirit,

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re to see your good order and the

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firm of your faith in Christ. If you've

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worked with missionaries supported people, you don't know

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communicated with other churches and works across the

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country or across the globe even

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you know what this means. You can we

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can rejoice in Christ. If we agree on

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the essentials of the faith.

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And we can

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rejoice with others

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just like Paul says here yet. I'm with

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00:20:38,434 --> 00:20:39,729
you in Spirit re.

556
00:20:40,661 --> 00:20:42,489
Practicing what he taught in philippians,

557
00:20:43,696 --> 00:20:46,872
experiencing joy to see your good order, your

558
00:20:46,872 --> 00:20:49,015
discipline and the firm of your faith in

559
00:20:49,174 --> 00:20:51,818
Christ. He's he's he's basically corrected

560
00:20:52,604 --> 00:20:53,323
And then he's saying,

561
00:20:54,041 --> 00:20:54,999
though I'm not there,

562
00:20:56,116 --> 00:20:58,133
I'm with you in Spirit, and I know

563
00:20:58,192 --> 00:20:59,091
that you're disciplined

564
00:20:59,788 --> 00:21:00,746
and that you have the...

565
00:21:01,479 --> 00:21:04,210
The strength together, the corporate strength

566
00:21:04,667 --> 00:21:05,645
and stability

567
00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:08,811
of your faith in Christ, the faith that

568
00:21:08,811 --> 00:21:09,210
you need,

569
00:21:09,784 --> 00:21:11,939
He encourages by being so positive.

570
00:21:12,418 --> 00:21:14,334
And and he and he doesn't lie. He

571
00:21:14,334 --> 00:21:16,489
knows this about them that they're a strong

572
00:21:16,489 --> 00:21:18,006
church. Then he goes on,

573
00:21:19,058 --> 00:21:21,152
He pivot. Therefore, so

574
00:21:21,528 --> 00:21:22,564
again, because of this,

575
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,671
as you received Christ, Jesus, the Lord,

576
00:21:26,548 --> 00:21:28,221
so walk in him.

577
00:21:28,793 --> 00:21:28,952
Well,

578
00:21:29,825 --> 00:21:32,047
how how did they receive Christ Jesus the

579
00:21:32,127 --> 00:21:33,238
Lord by faith.

580
00:21:34,111 --> 00:21:34,270
Right?

581
00:21:34,984 --> 00:21:36,889
This is this is 1 of the hardest?

582
00:21:37,698 --> 00:21:40,875
Bits of teaching, I believe in in all

583
00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:43,496
of scripture. Hardest in the sense that it

584
00:21:43,496 --> 00:21:47,174
gets abused and misunderstood and we gravitate toward

585
00:21:47,174 --> 00:21:47,994
legal ism

586
00:21:48,535 --> 00:21:49,275
and and

587
00:21:49,974 --> 00:21:51,174
and and you say, what in the world

588
00:21:51,174 --> 00:21:51,894
are those things.

589
00:21:52,695 --> 00:21:54,055
We'll talk about that in a minute. But

590
00:21:54,055 --> 00:21:54,795
he but

591
00:21:55,190 --> 00:21:57,049
that we we are so tempted

592
00:21:58,549 --> 00:22:00,169
to become self sufficient

593
00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:02,490
every day, post

594
00:22:02,869 --> 00:22:03,369
salvation

595
00:22:03,765 --> 00:22:05,684
post trusting in Christ. Therefore.

596
00:22:06,244 --> 00:22:08,404
As you receive Christ Jesus the Lord,

597
00:22:09,365 --> 00:22:10,345
so walk

598
00:22:10,965 --> 00:22:11,605
in him.

599
00:22:12,658 --> 00:22:14,088
I I have people who asked me, and

600
00:22:14,168 --> 00:22:16,893
I've heard people ask other people in in

601
00:22:17,108 --> 00:22:19,174
sort of audience question sessions.

602
00:22:19,984 --> 00:22:21,573
What does it mean to walk by faith?

603
00:22:21,811 --> 00:22:23,559
Does it mean to follow Christ?

604
00:22:24,195 --> 00:22:25,704
Well, Paul gives it to us right here?

605
00:22:25,943 --> 00:22:28,247
Therefore, as you received Christ jesus the Lord?

606
00:22:28,819 --> 00:22:30,497
How did you receive him by faith.

607
00:22:31,216 --> 00:22:33,932
So walk in him. Walk by faith. This

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00:22:33,932 --> 00:22:35,450
is this is present tense.

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00:22:36,024 --> 00:22:39,627
It it indicates perpetual activity, daily, constantly.

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00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,298
So walk

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00:22:42,071 --> 00:22:42,947
in in him.

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00:22:43,599 --> 00:22:46,316
That now there there are kinda 6 features

613
00:22:46,316 --> 00:22:47,834
of of the walk that he gives us

614
00:22:47,834 --> 00:22:49,911
here. And let let's look at him. So

615
00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:51,837
so so first 1 is by faith as

616
00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:54,221
you receive Christ jesus the lord. So so

617
00:22:54,221 --> 00:22:55,970
the this wall happens by faith.

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00:22:57,083 --> 00:22:59,800
Not by sight. First not by grinding not

619
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,184
by waking up every day and trying harder

620
00:23:02,184 --> 00:23:04,172
with a checklist. Although if you need a

621
00:23:04,172 --> 00:23:06,556
checklist, that's fine. I do from time to

622
00:23:06,556 --> 00:23:06,715
time.

623
00:23:07,843 --> 00:23:10,229
So walk in him. So second feature of

624
00:23:10,229 --> 00:23:11,820
the walk is it's a walk, not a

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00:23:11,820 --> 00:23:11,979
run.

626
00:23:12,775 --> 00:23:15,099
It it it... I mean, it it a

627
00:23:15,099 --> 00:23:17,419
metaphor expression, but it's... But it's... It it

628
00:23:17,419 --> 00:23:17,899
there's a walk.

629
00:23:18,779 --> 00:23:21,419
It indicates it present tense indicates doing it

630
00:23:21,419 --> 00:23:23,039
perpetually or daily constantly.

631
00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:26,232
It's So walk in him at him being

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00:23:26,312 --> 00:23:26,632
Christ.

633
00:23:27,750 --> 00:23:28,150
Rooted.

634
00:23:29,029 --> 00:23:29,588
Number 3,

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00:23:30,228 --> 00:23:30,547
grounded,

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00:23:31,267 --> 00:23:32,305
beyond grounded, rooted.

637
00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:34,898
And built up

638
00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:36,396
in him,

639
00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:37,775
and

640
00:23:38,473 --> 00:23:40,871
this... That's 4 built up in him. Rooted

641
00:23:40,871 --> 00:23:41,270
his 3,

642
00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:44,493
and then 5 is and established,

643
00:23:45,904 --> 00:23:49,349
you know, Paul constantly talks about how suffering

644
00:23:49,406 --> 00:23:50,224
makes us

645
00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:50,998
steadfast.

646
00:23:51,808 --> 00:23:53,796
Makes us grounded rooted established.

647
00:23:54,273 --> 00:23:56,681
He uses this language throughout all of his

648
00:23:57,055 --> 00:23:57,294
epi.

649
00:23:58,327 --> 00:23:58,827
Established

650
00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:00,417
in the faith

651
00:24:01,364 --> 00:24:03,198
I was talking about in the faith, the

652
00:24:03,198 --> 00:24:05,112
faith, the truth of Jesus Christ.

653
00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:07,367
Just as you were taught

654
00:24:08,462 --> 00:24:08,962
abounding

655
00:24:09,579 --> 00:24:10,616
in number 6,

656
00:24:11,508 --> 00:24:12,008
thanksgiving.

657
00:24:13,101 --> 00:24:14,774
So this walk is by faith,

658
00:24:16,048 --> 00:24:17,164
walking in him,

659
00:24:18,454 --> 00:24:18,853
rooted,

660
00:24:19,891 --> 00:24:20,450
built up,

661
00:24:21,887 --> 00:24:23,106
established in the faith

662
00:24:24,202 --> 00:24:25,101
and abounding

663
00:24:25,879 --> 00:24:26,698
in Thanksgiving.

664
00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:30,544
1 of the things, 1 of the barometer

665
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,516
indicators that I can use in my own

666
00:24:32,516 --> 00:24:33,016
life

667
00:24:34,031 --> 00:24:35,728
is is whether I'm

668
00:24:36,743 --> 00:24:37,243
being

669
00:24:38,513 --> 00:24:38,912
thankful.

670
00:24:39,630 --> 00:24:41,065
Have a thankful heart or not.

671
00:24:41,943 --> 00:24:44,335
If I'm living in the flesh or or

672
00:24:44,335 --> 00:24:46,569
or or just ticked off because Usually, I

673
00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:47,946
have a good underlying

674
00:24:48,416 --> 00:24:50,162
reason or theme or at least I think

675
00:24:50,241 --> 00:24:52,304
I do. And and I'm just gru and

676
00:24:52,622 --> 00:24:54,447
And that that person this and this that,

677
00:24:54,606 --> 00:24:56,614
in that situation is not good. And

678
00:24:57,239 --> 00:24:58,190
I am not thankful.

679
00:24:59,380 --> 00:25:00,514
But if I'm walking

680
00:25:01,282 --> 00:25:03,423
in him as Paul describes here,

681
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:05,346
I am grateful,

682
00:25:06,064 --> 00:25:07,100
which makes me gentle,

683
00:25:08,216 --> 00:25:09,970
which makes me established,

684
00:25:11,086 --> 00:25:12,442
rooted, built up.

685
00:25:13,333 --> 00:25:14,762
And walking in him.

686
00:25:16,429 --> 00:25:16,929
So

687
00:25:17,303 --> 00:25:19,526
I think Thanksgiving is an important part of

688
00:25:19,526 --> 00:25:21,431
this. Paul talked about that in Philippians if

689
00:25:21,431 --> 00:25:22,249
you remember

690
00:25:22,797 --> 00:25:24,468
I think those 2 ladies would have stopped

691
00:25:24,468 --> 00:25:26,559
fighting if they turned and looked at Christ

692
00:25:26,855 --> 00:25:29,003
and their own salvation and were thankful.

693
00:25:30,053 --> 00:25:32,519
I think a wonderful way. Paul Paul goes

694
00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,348
through conflict resolution in that book, and there's

695
00:25:34,348 --> 00:25:35,325
an episode

696
00:25:35,939 --> 00:25:38,818
titled something like that conflict resolution. You should

697
00:25:38,818 --> 00:25:39,935
go back and listen if you missed it.

698
00:25:40,094 --> 00:25:43,226
But but III just think Paul's a master

699
00:25:43,285 --> 00:25:45,997
at at conflict resolution. He knows biblical truth.

700
00:25:46,236 --> 00:25:48,365
He knows god's truth, and he knows that

701
00:25:48,643 --> 00:25:50,556
a, thankful heart is not going to be

702
00:25:50,556 --> 00:25:51,591
in in conflict.

703
00:25:52,069 --> 00:25:54,619
And then let's go on. The new new

704
00:25:54,938 --> 00:25:55,416
paragraph.

705
00:25:55,908 --> 00:25:57,260
See to it that no 1 verse 8,

706
00:25:57,420 --> 00:25:58,851
see to it that no 1 takes you

707
00:25:58,851 --> 00:25:59,908
captive by

708
00:26:00,362 --> 00:26:02,294
philosophy, by or through

709
00:26:02,669 --> 00:26:03,169
philosophy.

710
00:26:04,594 --> 00:26:06,592
And empty d see. So he's gonna rattle

711
00:26:06,592 --> 00:26:08,051
off a few things that are

712
00:26:08,749 --> 00:26:10,507
that that are ways that we're taking captive.

713
00:26:10,667 --> 00:26:12,126
I think there are 5 of them here

714
00:26:12,185 --> 00:26:12,665
approximately.

715
00:26:13,158 --> 00:26:14,586
See to it that no 1 takes you

716
00:26:14,586 --> 00:26:15,720
captive by

717
00:26:16,410 --> 00:26:16,910
philosophy

718
00:26:17,679 --> 00:26:18,892
and empty

719
00:26:19,344 --> 00:26:19,844
d.

720
00:26:21,423 --> 00:26:23,658
So he's... Again, he's he's talking about the

721
00:26:23,658 --> 00:26:25,834
no and the aesthetics and others

722
00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:28,846
who who are trying to take you captive.

723
00:26:29,005 --> 00:26:32,381
He's He's back to visiting that same topic

724
00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:34,741
that he visited in chip and verse 4

725
00:26:34,741 --> 00:26:36,091
when he of chapter 2 when he says

726
00:26:36,170 --> 00:26:37,123
I say this in order it to know

727
00:26:37,123 --> 00:26:39,048
when may. To dilute you with possible arguments.

728
00:26:39,208 --> 00:26:41,199
So it goes back to that topic. See

729
00:26:41,199 --> 00:26:43,212
to it that no 1 takes you captive

730
00:26:43,828 --> 00:26:46,319
by philosophy and empty defeat. It's it's interesting

731
00:26:47,266 --> 00:26:48,798
we we become captive

732
00:26:49,330 --> 00:26:51,155
too bad philosophy. If you buy in into

733
00:26:51,155 --> 00:26:53,695
bad ideas. Now, you've probably tried to talk

734
00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:55,362
to people who reject Christianity.

735
00:26:55,934 --> 00:26:57,770
And they bought into a couple of tenants

736
00:26:57,770 --> 00:26:58,509
of nonsense

737
00:26:59,207 --> 00:27:00,026
that that

738
00:27:00,564 --> 00:27:02,580
philosophical nonsense. It makes it impossible

739
00:27:03,198 --> 00:27:04,315
for them to see the truth.

740
00:27:04,967 --> 00:27:06,896
And I think that's the kind of captivity

741
00:27:07,429 --> 00:27:10,129
that Paul is is talking about. You might

742
00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:11,956
relate to this in terms of being captive

743
00:27:11,956 --> 00:27:12,774
to sin

744
00:27:13,563 --> 00:27:15,716
young people can relate to this because they

745
00:27:15,716 --> 00:27:17,710
they live in sin, they form

746
00:27:18,268 --> 00:27:21,060
lies around their life for with let's say,

747
00:27:21,220 --> 00:27:22,416
for example, with their parents,

748
00:27:23,069 --> 00:27:25,063
and and or they live 2 lives, 1

749
00:27:25,063 --> 00:27:26,419
with their Christian friends and 1 with non

750
00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:29,051
Christian friends, and they become captive to that

751
00:27:29,051 --> 00:27:31,444
so that they're they're serving it. They're they're

752
00:27:31,444 --> 00:27:33,930
a slave to it. That's what happens with

753
00:27:34,009 --> 00:27:35,284
Sin. It owns us. And well the same

754
00:27:35,284 --> 00:27:36,717
thing happens with simple,

755
00:27:37,434 --> 00:27:38,549
Aaron philosophy.

756
00:27:39,027 --> 00:27:41,416
We should constantly anchor ourselves.

757
00:27:41,988 --> 00:27:45,242
In truth. Paul says, an empty d. So

758
00:27:45,242 --> 00:27:46,194
he's talking about lies.

759
00:27:46,988 --> 00:27:48,679
So so he's talking about heresy

760
00:27:49,464 --> 00:27:52,245
And then he says, so first, it's... We're

761
00:27:52,245 --> 00:27:53,914
taken captive by bad philosophy.

762
00:27:54,391 --> 00:27:56,219
And empty d is second.

763
00:27:56,934 --> 00:27:57,967
According to human,

764
00:27:58,936 --> 00:28:02,121
tradition. Third, there are lots of human traditions

765
00:28:02,121 --> 00:28:03,019
that are sinful

766
00:28:03,634 --> 00:28:07,235
and and and and secular tradition, know, Paul's

767
00:28:07,235 --> 00:28:09,795
already identifying secularism here just so, you know,

768
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:12,434
I know we didn't name it that until

769
00:28:12,434 --> 00:28:15,154
a few decades ago, but but that's exactly

770
00:28:15,154 --> 00:28:15,634
what it is.

771
00:28:16,767 --> 00:28:17,483
Human tradition,

772
00:28:18,278 --> 00:28:20,687
according to the number 4 elemental

773
00:28:21,062 --> 00:28:21,562
spirits

774
00:28:22,415 --> 00:28:24,815
of the world, Those are those are principles.

775
00:28:25,054 --> 00:28:27,121
It's it's that things in a in a

776
00:28:27,121 --> 00:28:27,757
in a series,

777
00:28:29,189 --> 00:28:29,689
legal

778
00:28:30,938 --> 00:28:31,176
observations.

779
00:28:32,228 --> 00:28:33,904
Observe... Or or ob absorb as even.

780
00:28:35,102 --> 00:28:36,619
The elemental spirits,

781
00:28:37,417 --> 00:28:37,736
the

782
00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:40,690
there's so many... It's not really that word

783
00:28:40,690 --> 00:28:42,623
spirits is kinda of poorly translated. Talking about

784
00:28:42,623 --> 00:28:43,102
principles,

785
00:28:44,141 --> 00:28:46,219
elemental principles of the world.

786
00:28:46,858 --> 00:28:48,696
There there are some just some some assumptions.

787
00:28:48,856 --> 00:28:51,185
It you it pause Paul's here talking about

788
00:28:51,185 --> 00:28:51,685
worldview.

789
00:28:52,779 --> 00:28:55,330
You know, he's talking about not being taken

790
00:28:55,330 --> 00:28:57,823
captive by the the elemental principles

791
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,974
or or things in a series that

792
00:29:00,855 --> 00:29:02,774
that might appear to have some logic, but

793
00:29:02,774 --> 00:29:03,274
are

794
00:29:04,454 --> 00:29:04,954
ob

795
00:29:05,414 --> 00:29:06,554
of of the world

796
00:29:07,015 --> 00:29:08,705
or We should be so careful.

797
00:29:09,423 --> 00:29:11,816
We should not embrace legal as we should

798
00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:13,889
be afraid of it. It is counter to

799
00:29:13,889 --> 00:29:16,123
the gospel of Jesus Christ. It sounds good.

800
00:29:16,282 --> 00:29:18,555
It feels good. We like to have legal

801
00:29:18,615 --> 00:29:20,615
neighbors because they're really good and keep their

802
00:29:20,615 --> 00:29:22,615
lawns nice and their and their fence is

803
00:29:22,615 --> 00:29:24,454
tidy and and they're they're very courteous.

804
00:29:25,188 --> 00:29:28,369
But but but they... They... Their philosophy is

805
00:29:28,369 --> 00:29:28,766
damning,

806
00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:30,436
and Paul knows that.

807
00:29:31,469 --> 00:29:33,219
And then he goes on and not according

808
00:29:33,219 --> 00:29:33,775
to Christ,

809
00:29:34,904 --> 00:29:36,980
All of this is not according to Christ

810
00:29:37,219 --> 00:29:40,652
Christ is everything. He is all. He is

811
00:29:40,652 --> 00:29:42,887
in all. And then he says for in

812
00:29:42,887 --> 00:29:43,287
him,

813
00:29:44,498 --> 00:29:46,746
the whole fullness of deity

814
00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:48,629
dwell bodily.

815
00:29:50,297 --> 00:29:51,671
There... There's a long

816
00:29:52,045 --> 00:29:53,157
conversation we could have about this.

817
00:29:54,525 --> 00:29:55,184
He is

818
00:29:55,644 --> 00:29:56,144
completely

819
00:29:56,684 --> 00:29:58,285
God, the whole fullness.

820
00:29:59,085 --> 00:30:00,365
Paul would have been okay just saying the

821
00:30:00,365 --> 00:30:02,605
fullness. Right? But the whole fullness.

822
00:30:03,659 --> 00:30:04,456
The full fullness,

823
00:30:05,573 --> 00:30:06,450
the whole wholeness,

824
00:30:07,886 --> 00:30:08,604
all all of it.

825
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,853
The full the whole fullness of Deity

826
00:30:13,724 --> 00:30:14,224
dwell

827
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:15,877
blah bodily.

828
00:30:16,675 --> 00:30:19,466
Now Jesus Christ had been in heaven.

829
00:30:20,583 --> 00:30:22,816
Now for about 30 years as Paul's writing

830
00:30:22,816 --> 00:30:23,056
this.

831
00:30:23,709 --> 00:30:25,467
Give or take a few years.

832
00:30:27,145 --> 00:30:30,262
And so Jesus, we know, and from this

833
00:30:30,262 --> 00:30:31,860
section and other teaching in scripture,

834
00:30:32,833 --> 00:30:33,333
is

835
00:30:34,264 --> 00:30:36,275
has the body that was resurrected

836
00:30:37,365 --> 00:30:38,318
and maintains it.

837
00:30:39,431 --> 00:30:41,283
Is in that state in heaven

838
00:30:42,309 --> 00:30:44,404
the whole fullness of Deity dwell

839
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:46,376
bodily present tense.

840
00:30:48,768 --> 00:30:51,081
And you have been filled in him,

841
00:30:51,734 --> 00:30:52,789
who is the head

842
00:30:53,243 --> 00:30:54,299
of all rule

843
00:30:55,784 --> 00:30:56,658
and authority.

844
00:30:57,373 --> 00:30:59,835
Now there there was the tendency by the

845
00:30:59,835 --> 00:31:00,970
no too

846
00:31:01,438 --> 00:31:04,215
to worship and these these things they called

847
00:31:04,215 --> 00:31:04,453
angelic,

848
00:31:05,167 --> 00:31:05,643
intermediaries.

849
00:31:06,516 --> 00:31:09,134
And and so he's paul setting everything straight

850
00:31:09,134 --> 00:31:11,135
here for in him, the whole fullness of

851
00:31:11,215 --> 00:31:12,249
Deity dwell bodily.

852
00:31:12,805 --> 00:31:15,111
We we we we don't need the angels

853
00:31:15,111 --> 00:31:18,212
aren't little gods aren't part of god. Mormons

854
00:31:18,212 --> 00:31:18,848
have it wrong.

855
00:31:19,737 --> 00:31:21,272
Lot lots of lots of

856
00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:23,078
other groups have it wrong.

857
00:31:24,033 --> 00:31:26,101
We're we're not becoming little miniature gods.

858
00:31:26,753 --> 00:31:29,960
In Christ, the whole fullness of Deity dwell

859
00:31:30,256 --> 00:31:30,733
bodily.

860
00:31:31,450 --> 00:31:32,746
And you have been filled

861
00:31:33,281 --> 00:31:33,838
in him.

862
00:31:34,970 --> 00:31:35,470
Beautiful

863
00:31:36,089 --> 00:31:38,089
ephesians talks about this in chapter 1 being

864
00:31:38,089 --> 00:31:38,730
in him.

865
00:31:39,289 --> 00:31:42,429
It's very consistent with Gen that knowledge and

866
00:31:42,490 --> 00:31:43,049
intimate knowledge,

867
00:31:43,624 --> 00:31:44,502
being in him,

868
00:31:45,381 --> 00:31:46,440
who is the head

869
00:31:46,818 --> 00:31:48,036
of all rule

870
00:31:48,734 --> 00:31:51,368
and authority. Jesus Christ is the head of

871
00:31:51,368 --> 00:31:53,045
all rule and authority.

872
00:31:53,696 --> 00:31:57,292
There are no angelic intermediaries or other intermediaries

873
00:31:57,427 --> 00:31:59,673
areas, and we should be careful

874
00:32:00,284 --> 00:32:01,895
with astrology with

875
00:32:02,364 --> 00:32:04,357
with with fortune telling with.

876
00:32:05,234 --> 00:32:07,785
I I see Christians dabble in some of

877
00:32:07,785 --> 00:32:08,843
these things, and

878
00:32:09,221 --> 00:32:11,861
it it makes me cringe it gives me

879
00:32:11,861 --> 00:32:12,361
pause

880
00:32:12,970 --> 00:32:14,817
because Christ is the head

881
00:32:15,347 --> 00:32:17,724
of all rule and authority. And then verse

882
00:32:17,724 --> 00:32:17,882
11,

883
00:32:18,533 --> 00:32:20,926
in him, also, you were ci sized with

884
00:32:20,926 --> 00:32:22,463
a ci decision made

885
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,712
without hands. Very consistent with language Paul uses

886
00:32:25,712 --> 00:32:27,546
in the... His epi to the church at

887
00:32:27,706 --> 00:32:27,865
Rome.

888
00:32:28,597 --> 00:32:30,505
He's he's talking about salvation.

889
00:32:31,857 --> 00:32:33,311
A ci decision made

890
00:32:34,084 --> 00:32:36,151
without hand. So he's he's going to appeal

891
00:32:36,151 --> 00:32:37,583
to Jewish readers here.

892
00:32:38,234 --> 00:32:39,694
By putting off the body

893
00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:42,174
of the flesh

894
00:32:42,714 --> 00:32:43,694
by the ci

895
00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:45,595
of Christ.

896
00:32:47,287 --> 00:32:50,388
J taught that physical ci decision was essential

897
00:32:50,388 --> 00:32:51,580
for salvation Didn't they.

898
00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:55,094
Paul had been aggressively pursued by them. You

899
00:32:55,094 --> 00:32:57,109
could make an argument that they pushed him

900
00:32:57,406 --> 00:32:58,762
to go to some of the places he

901
00:32:58,762 --> 00:33:00,517
went and and and actually,

902
00:33:01,554 --> 00:33:02,054
they

903
00:33:02,750 --> 00:33:04,345
stirred up enough trouble they have them arrested.

904
00:33:06,278 --> 00:33:08,216
And and yet he's he's still fighting

905
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,391
by the ci of Christ having been buried

906
00:33:11,391 --> 00:33:12,451
with him in baptism,

907
00:33:13,004 --> 00:33:16,196
that is spiritual baptism incorporated with him in

908
00:33:16,196 --> 00:33:17,174
which you were

909
00:33:17,951 --> 00:33:20,127
also raised with him through faith

910
00:33:20,598 --> 00:33:22,604
in the powerful working of God

911
00:33:22,975 --> 00:33:25,431
who raised him from the dead.

912
00:33:26,778 --> 00:33:27,278
So

913
00:33:28,861 --> 00:33:31,195
We we've been ci sized, spiritually

914
00:33:32,849 --> 00:33:33,407
by Christ,

915
00:33:34,204 --> 00:33:36,539
having been buried with him in baptism,

916
00:33:37,569 --> 00:33:38,707
in which you also

917
00:33:39,482 --> 00:33:42,273
were raised with him through faith and the

918
00:33:42,273 --> 00:33:45,223
powerful working of God who raised him from

919
00:33:45,223 --> 00:33:45,962
the dead

920
00:33:46,914 --> 00:33:49,474
resurrection is important. We could talk a long

921
00:33:49,474 --> 00:33:50,694
time about the

922
00:33:51,234 --> 00:33:51,394
resurrection.

923
00:33:52,835 --> 00:33:55,407
It is the conquering the proof. Of the

924
00:33:55,407 --> 00:33:56,464
conquering of

925
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,571
sin and death. And Jesus was seen

926
00:34:00,186 --> 00:34:01,483
by so many

927
00:34:01,939 --> 00:34:02,916
after his

928
00:34:03,531 --> 00:34:03,984
resurrection

929
00:34:04,342 --> 00:34:08,001
the resurrection indicates victory over over death.

930
00:34:08,717 --> 00:34:10,229
No no other person did that.

931
00:34:11,595 --> 00:34:12,731
Was was resurrected,

932
00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:14,716
and any who

933
00:34:15,169 --> 00:34:16,916
experienced something similar to that where they were

934
00:34:16,916 --> 00:34:18,187
dead for a short period of time and

935
00:34:18,187 --> 00:34:18,981
healed by Jesus,

936
00:34:19,714 --> 00:34:21,154
restored to life by Jesus,

937
00:34:22,114 --> 00:34:23,635
eventually died a second time, didn't they?

938
00:34:25,394 --> 00:34:25,875
Not him.

939
00:34:26,609 --> 00:34:28,047
He lifts today and inter seats for us

940
00:34:28,047 --> 00:34:29,725
at the right end of the father. And

941
00:34:29,725 --> 00:34:31,244
verse 13 and you who were dead in

942
00:34:31,244 --> 00:34:31,963
your tres passes.

943
00:34:32,602 --> 00:34:33,422
That is your,

944
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:34,200
your...

945
00:34:34,934 --> 00:34:38,043
Your your your your acts of sin, your

946
00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:40,674
deliberate acts of sin, dead in your tres

947
00:34:40,674 --> 00:34:41,891
passes and the un.

948
00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:44,356
Of your flesh.

949
00:34:45,233 --> 00:34:47,385
God made alive with him.

950
00:34:48,740 --> 00:34:50,835
Having forgiven us all

951
00:34:51,211 --> 00:34:51,711
our

952
00:34:52,023 --> 00:34:52,658
tres passes.

953
00:34:53,213 --> 00:34:55,063
That is apart from human

954
00:34:55,436 --> 00:34:55,754
merit.

955
00:34:56,706 --> 00:34:59,032
He has God made a alive together

956
00:34:59,406 --> 00:35:00,041
with Christ.

957
00:35:01,088 --> 00:35:02,118
When we are in him.

958
00:35:03,465 --> 00:35:04,813
Ephesians 2 5 through 6.

959
00:35:06,398 --> 00:35:09,434
God made a lot God made a life

960
00:35:09,434 --> 00:35:11,454
together with him having forgiven us

961
00:35:12,074 --> 00:35:12,574
all

962
00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:14,234
our tres passes.

963
00:35:15,355 --> 00:35:15,994
Listen to this.

964
00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:18,979
By canceling the record of debt

965
00:35:19,594 --> 00:35:22,459
that stood against us with its legal demands.

966
00:35:23,573 --> 00:35:25,904
God's righteousness was maintained

967
00:35:26,694 --> 00:35:29,811
throughout the entire gospel of Jesus Christ through

968
00:35:29,811 --> 00:35:33,087
his sin life his death, his resurrection and

969
00:35:33,087 --> 00:35:33,587
his

970
00:35:34,126 --> 00:35:36,372
ultimate ascension. And setting at the right hand

971
00:35:36,372 --> 00:35:37,666
of the father. God's righteousness

972
00:35:38,516 --> 00:35:40,580
was not compromised. If you struggle with that

973
00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:41,215
go read

974
00:35:41,850 --> 00:35:42,747
Romans 3

975
00:35:43,374 --> 00:35:45,363
I think it's around verse 20 and following.

976
00:35:46,238 --> 00:35:48,705
Just read it. God did not compromise his

977
00:35:48,705 --> 00:35:49,205
righteousness

978
00:35:49,978 --> 00:35:51,808
and in forgiving sin.

979
00:35:52,778 --> 00:35:53,994
By faith in Christ

980
00:35:54,688 --> 00:35:55,585
through his death

981
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,097
and resurrection

982
00:35:57,869 --> 00:35:58,585
and ascension,

983
00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:01,780
by canceling the record of debt that stood

984
00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:03,530
against us with its legal demands. What were

985
00:36:03,530 --> 00:36:04,324
those legal demands?

986
00:36:05,278 --> 00:36:08,140
Well, the the legal demands were were were

987
00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:08,776
were were debt.

988
00:36:09,427 --> 00:36:09,666
Death.

989
00:36:10,779 --> 00:36:12,846
The the record of debt are our sin,

990
00:36:13,721 --> 00:36:15,708
that see... We understand that it was it

991
00:36:15,708 --> 00:36:16,265
was a debt,

992
00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:18,332
he's using accounting language.

993
00:36:18,983 --> 00:36:20,969
It was a debt, that that then we

994
00:36:20,969 --> 00:36:24,148
can understand that our our... That that was

995
00:36:24,148 --> 00:36:26,769
purged that debt from our account taken on

996
00:36:26,769 --> 00:36:27,246
by Christ.

997
00:36:28,619 --> 00:36:29,739
On the on the cross.

998
00:36:31,340 --> 00:36:32,880
And and then righteousness

999
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,353
was was credited to our account because of

1000
00:36:37,353 --> 00:36:37,512
him.

1001
00:36:39,028 --> 00:36:41,101
It it's it's really an accounting term. By

1002
00:36:41,101 --> 00:36:42,856
canceling the record of death that's stood against

1003
00:36:42,856 --> 00:36:45,807
us with its legal demands. Its legal demands

1004
00:36:45,807 --> 00:36:46,206
were death.

1005
00:36:47,416 --> 00:36:49,327
This this reminds me of Romans 8 1.

1006
00:36:49,486 --> 00:36:52,193
There's therefore now no condemnation to those are

1007
00:36:52,193 --> 00:36:54,501
in christ. Jesus. That's condemnation of reference to

1008
00:36:54,501 --> 00:36:56,819
the to the pen phase, the punishment phase

1009
00:36:56,819 --> 00:36:57,454
of the trial.

1010
00:36:58,248 --> 00:37:01,344
The the yes. Yes, we had debt built

1011
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,400
up by sin

1012
00:37:02,867 --> 00:37:04,610
that... And its legal demand was death,

1013
00:37:06,037 --> 00:37:09,128
but he... This, he set aside, Paul says

1014
00:37:09,128 --> 00:37:09,286
here,

1015
00:37:10,492 --> 00:37:11,789
nailing it to

1016
00:37:12,165 --> 00:37:13,360
the cross. Our debt,

1017
00:37:14,475 --> 00:37:17,581
sinful debt, debt because of our sin was

1018
00:37:17,581 --> 00:37:18,081
nailed

1019
00:37:18,458 --> 00:37:18,958
to

1020
00:37:19,507 --> 00:37:19,984
the cross.

1021
00:37:22,286 --> 00:37:24,270
He took on our debt. It was nailed

1022
00:37:24,270 --> 00:37:25,484
to the cross in the person

1023
00:37:25,937 --> 00:37:27,365
of Jesus Christ the sun,

1024
00:37:28,334 --> 00:37:28,813
of God.

1025
00:37:30,170 --> 00:37:30,888
God in flesh.

1026
00:37:32,085 --> 00:37:34,341
Then verse 15, he disarmed the rulers

1027
00:37:35,198 --> 00:37:37,605
that the disarmed is to to put off

1028
00:37:37,605 --> 00:37:38,661
or away from

1029
00:37:39,036 --> 00:37:41,183
the rulers and and authorities.

1030
00:37:42,057 --> 00:37:45,715
Again, ephesians 02:14 and 15 are good references

1031
00:37:45,715 --> 00:37:45,954
there.

1032
00:37:47,164 --> 00:37:49,960
Ephesians 02:14 and 15 and put them to

1033
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:50,860
open shame

1034
00:37:51,558 --> 00:37:53,235
by triumph over them.

1035
00:37:54,287 --> 00:37:56,293
In him. He put them

1036
00:37:56,744 --> 00:37:59,859
to shame, Christ canceled the debt of humankind

1037
00:38:00,548 --> 00:38:01,182
to the law,

1038
00:38:01,754 --> 00:38:02,973
His death covered

1039
00:38:03,432 --> 00:38:05,110
all tres passes past,

1040
00:38:05,829 --> 00:38:06,329
present

1041
00:38:07,108 --> 00:38:08,067
and and future.

1042
00:38:10,797 --> 00:38:13,591
That is just a beautiful picture. There's so

1043
00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:15,747
much because we get so confused about the

1044
00:38:15,747 --> 00:38:17,285
law and Christ

1045
00:38:17,663 --> 00:38:18,860
relationship to the law we'll talk.

1046
00:38:19,752 --> 00:38:22,139
More about that next time. But the beauty

1047
00:38:22,139 --> 00:38:22,798
of this

1048
00:38:23,332 --> 00:38:25,798
is that Christ canceled the dead of humankind

1049
00:38:25,798 --> 00:38:26,276
to the law,

1050
00:38:27,089 --> 00:38:29,507
is his death covered all tres passes

1051
00:38:30,126 --> 00:38:30,445
past,

1052
00:38:31,085 --> 00:38:32,283
present and future.

1053
00:38:33,402 --> 00:38:35,295
I struggle to read this without

1054
00:38:36,129 --> 00:38:36,844
just sobbing.

1055
00:38:38,115 --> 00:38:39,864
When I read by canceling the record of

1056
00:38:39,864 --> 00:38:41,692
death that stood against us with its legal

1057
00:38:41,692 --> 00:38:43,758
demands. This, he set aside,

1058
00:38:44,647 --> 00:38:46,237
nailing it to the cross.

1059
00:38:47,192 --> 00:38:49,577
What love for us our Lord has.

1060
00:38:50,769 --> 00:38:53,393
Nailing my sin all of my sin to

1061
00:38:53,393 --> 00:38:54,442
the cross, past,

1062
00:38:55,318 --> 00:38:56,672
present and future.

1063
00:38:58,902 --> 00:39:00,416
He put away from or disarmed,

1064
00:39:01,053 --> 00:39:02,668
the rulers and

1065
00:39:03,297 --> 00:39:05,229
authorities and put them to open shame

1066
00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:06,661
by triumph

1067
00:39:07,036 --> 00:39:07,934
over them

1068
00:39:08,627 --> 00:39:09,104
in him.

1069
00:39:11,830 --> 00:39:15,442
What what beautiful words these are in paul's

1070
00:39:15,501 --> 00:39:17,496
epi to the C church.

1071
00:39:18,309 --> 00:39:20,621
I hope this study is as much a

1072
00:39:20,621 --> 00:39:21,121
blessing

1073
00:39:21,657 --> 00:39:23,251
to you as it is to me.

1074
00:39:24,208 --> 00:39:25,164
Next week, we're gonna...

1075
00:39:26,613 --> 00:39:29,237
Gonna look at another hard subject to, all

1076
00:39:29,237 --> 00:39:30,055
all of this,

1077
00:39:30,509 --> 00:39:33,871
this completeness in Christ is is is beautiful,

1078
00:39:34,485 --> 00:39:37,690
but but but seems to be challenging for

1079
00:39:37,690 --> 00:39:38,969
us when we live it out.

1080
00:39:39,849 --> 00:39:42,109
And and we'll we'll talk about

1081
00:39:42,650 --> 00:39:44,569
we'll talk about the rest as we'll start

1082
00:39:44,569 --> 00:39:45,309
in verse

1083
00:39:45,943 --> 00:39:48,734
16 of a chapter 2 next week and

1084
00:39:48,734 --> 00:39:50,648
we'll work our way through the the end

1085
00:39:50,648 --> 00:39:52,483
of the chapter. We're gonna... We're gonna talk

1086
00:39:52,483 --> 00:39:54,099
about legal again in as

1087
00:39:54,716 --> 00:39:54,876
again,

1088
00:39:56,087 --> 00:39:58,242
it's it's very important and if you're if

1089
00:39:58,242 --> 00:40:01,195
you're just starting on this journey, this Christ

1090
00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:03,031
following journey. You've just put your trust in

1091
00:40:03,031 --> 00:40:05,268
him. I I want to encourage you to

1092
00:40:05,268 --> 00:40:07,012
read these words and understand them.

1093
00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,628
Get yourself an English standard version of the

1094
00:40:09,628 --> 00:40:10,499
bible or similar.

1095
00:40:11,229 --> 00:40:13,947
And, new King James is fine. There some

1096
00:40:13,947 --> 00:40:15,225
others that are that are okay.

1097
00:40:16,104 --> 00:40:19,780
N iv, even is alright. New American standard

1098
00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:21,715
version is fine. Some of the more modern

1099
00:40:21,715 --> 00:40:23,394
ones lose some of the rich content.

1100
00:40:23,875 --> 00:40:25,315
Some of the modern para phrases,

1101
00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:27,954
like the message bible and others I'd I'd

1102
00:40:27,954 --> 00:40:29,555
kinda stay away from for this study,

1103
00:40:30,129 --> 00:40:32,541
But if you you can study this scripture

1104
00:40:32,677 --> 00:40:35,146
and and by filling in just a few

1105
00:40:35,146 --> 00:40:35,465
gaps,

1106
00:40:36,023 --> 00:40:38,412
Yeah, you you you can you can get

1107
00:40:38,412 --> 00:40:38,651
this.

1108
00:40:39,222 --> 00:40:40,492
And you'll see that,

1109
00:40:41,207 --> 00:40:43,215
the beauty of Christ's love

1110
00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:47,398
for us even in the way that we

1111
00:40:47,398 --> 00:40:49,508
live the Christian life

1112
00:40:49,967 --> 00:40:52,523
that when we look at the gospel of

1113
00:40:52,683 --> 00:40:54,681
Jesus Christ, the good news of Jesus Christ,

1114
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,324
it is it is good for us for

1115
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living day to day.

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Salvation is not just a transaction. It has

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it has multiple facets. This,

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san justification are walking by faith, or following

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Christ making disciples, being a disciple of his

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and making disciples,

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is just so incredibly

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important in scripture.

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Paul spends a lot of time writing here

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about how to do that. Who Christ is

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what he accomplished when he says, this he

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set aside

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nailing it to the cross. I've talked before

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about the fact that I don't. I I,

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you know, I like it. I guess that

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him that old him, he could have called

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10000 angels.

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But Christ gave himself. He emptied himself and

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gave himself. We talked about that back in

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Philippians. He gave himself. He didn't wanna call

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me. He First of all if he had

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wanted to. He didn't need to

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because of his deity because of his sovereignty

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because of his his his power.

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He he he didn't need any angels.

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But but could he have called thousands of

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them or or or multitudes of the course

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he could have.

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But the but gave himself. He he... This

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he set aside nailing and nailing our sin

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to the cross. He took on sin,

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himself. If you go read Romans 03:20

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and following, you'll see that he was our

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appropriation. On the day of atonement, the arc

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of the covenant would have the blood of

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the spot less spot less lamb,

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sprinkled on it. He was our lamb who

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was slain our spot less perfect lamb who

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was slain on our behalf, and that's what

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Paul is talking about here. This, he set

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aside

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nailing it to the cross.

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Well, thank you for listening to this beautiful

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truth from C.

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I hope it's helpful next week, as I

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said, we'll start in verse 16 of chapter

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2. Well, God willing will finish chapter 2,

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and we can move a little quicker through

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the rest of the book. It'll take us

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just a few more weeks. I look forward

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