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Hey everybody, this is Pastor 
John Ewart from Inglewood 

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Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, 
NC. 

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Thank you so much for tuning in 
to our podcast. 

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You're going to hear from God 
today as we share from His Word 

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about important issues facing 
your life that can guide you 

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according to the Bible. 
So, so glad to see you all here 

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tonight. 
For those who are joining and 

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listening online, we're thankful
for that. 

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I really do want to encourage 
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There are some parallel podcasts
that go along with this Engaging

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the Bible series. 
Doctor Aiken is joining me for 

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one. 
Doctor Allen Mosley and I are 

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recording one tomorrow. 
And how do I study the Old 

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Testament in the best way I 
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I will be doing a New Testament 
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So some detailed stuff and some 
of these podcasts. 

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You'll really enjoy that. 
It'll dovetail well with what we

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talked about in this series as 
we talked about engaging the 

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Bible with a a humble and 
teachable spirit. 

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But then part of what we want to
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lessons in a sense are these are
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So for the next few 234 weeks, 
can't remember it before 

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probably 4 weeks, they really do
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So I'm going to show you step by
step by step in your personal 

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Bible study. 
How do I get the most I can 

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possibly get out of a personal 
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So each week we're going to take
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to take. 
So we're going to talk about how

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do we observe the text tonight? 
That may sound weird to you, but

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it'll make sense in a minute. 
And then how do I interpret the 

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How would I share that text with
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So it's going to be kind of a 
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comoletic kind of study, but we 
won't use those words too often.

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And so it's going to be very 
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In fact, tonight we're going to 
work through some passages of 

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Scripture as examples to help 
you say, oh, OK, I see how that 

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is some of these things you 
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these things you might already 
do, but but I'm sure before the 

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whole thing is over, there'll be
some oh, that's a good idea kind

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of moment for you. 
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my, my, our goal is real simple.
We want to make disciples. 

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And one of the key essentials of
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engaging God's Word. 
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it's going to be really hard for
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And that's got to be more than 
just what you get in your 

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connect group and just what you 
get in a worship service or even

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what you just get on midweek. 
You need on a personal time as 

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well to to really reinforce that
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personally and individually. 
So all those pieces together are

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going to make a good healthy 
diet for you as well. 

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So Teresa and I went to an all 
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night, which is not a habit of 
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It used to be something that I 
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I felt like I just, it was a, it
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competition event for me in, in 
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Now not so much, but went to an 
all you can eat buffet the other

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night and it was so crowded. 
You know, you know, it's just 

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getting beat up and getting beat
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trying to get the food. 
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I, I didn't fit what I told 
Teresa as we left is I didn't 

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fit in that restaurant. 
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sitting, I felt like I was just 
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there trying to get the food off
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And, and that's not a knock on 
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They were just busy because 
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But anyway, and I thought it was
funny because they had all these

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things to eat and I probably ate
three dishes, you know what I'm 

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saying? 
So to figure out your diet and 

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figure out that balanced diet 
that you need is a big part of 

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this. 
I, I am curious, I always have 

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been curious when snow and ice 
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this is being done tonight. 
I am fascinated why people buy 

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bread and milk. 
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I, I don't know, you know, there
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one time we got sitting in his 
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making French toast. 
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Bread pudding. 
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eat in a week? 
So let's dive in. 

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All right, so you have a 
listening guide. 

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You'll also notice that toward 
the end of your listening guide,

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you have some some blanks to 
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You'll need those later, so just
hang in there with me. 

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Psalm 19 helps us. 
It says this Psalm 19, seven and

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eight says the law of the Lord 
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Reviving the soul, the testimony
of the Lord is sure. 

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Making wise the simple, the 
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Rejoicing the heart, the 
commandment of the Lord is pure.

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Enlightening the eyes. 
So we see how healthy the Word 

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of God is for us in a very 
holistic way. 

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It touches many aspects of our 
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The Word of God must be our 
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It must be our definitions. 
It must be our drive. 

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And so we recognize how 
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If you haven't listened to any 
of these things or been here for

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the last couple of weeks, been 
trying to show you kind of how 

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we got the Bible, how it came 
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I am assuming at this point for 
tonight and moving forward in 

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these lessons that we love the 
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We want the Bible. 
We believe the Bible is the word

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of God. 
I'm not going to, we're not 

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going to debate about the 
inspiration revelation part for 

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the next couple of weeks. 
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But we need to be spiritually 
prepared to best and to rightly 

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handle the word of God. 
And so I've said this before, 

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I'll say it 100 more times 
probably before you dive into 

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the Bible, I would ask God in 
prayer to, to show, to reveal to

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you, to help your heart, your 
mind to be ready to receive what

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he has for you. 
This is more than a book. 

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It's the number one best selling
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That is not going to change. 
In fact, Bible sales have risen 

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by over 20% in the last six 
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America. 
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there's been a new surge of 
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few months, but it's interesting
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receptive to the wisdom and to 
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who's going to help us as we 
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practical steps. 
This isn't some kind of 

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mathematical formula. 
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positioning, I pray to where 
you're putting yourself in the 

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best spot to receive from God 
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And so by doing A+B does not 
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It's not that, you know, may not
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I can't but, but if we're doing 
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in the best position to as a as 
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the wind, but we have to raise 
the sails and so to catch the 

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Holy Spirit. 
Jeremiah reminds us in Jeremiah 

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9. 
Thus says the Lord, let not the 

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wise man boast in his wisdom, 
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his might, let not the rich man 
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who boasts boast in this that he
understands and knows me, that I

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am the Lord who pranks the 
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righteousness in the earth. 
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declares the Lord. 
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The ultimate goal, this ultimate
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goal of discipleship is so that 
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relationship with him, an 
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of him, and he's going to reveal
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his will that we're supposed to 
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So a prime way, a primary way of
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studying his word. 
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can reach our, our, our destiny,
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I don't think we can reach our 
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I don't think we're going to 
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become if we, we're not going to
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anybody else. 
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God in this way. 
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continuous walk of true 
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So one of the things that we are
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we will continue to repeat 
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is that one of the greatest 
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engage the Bible with this 
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So if I don't come with that 
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important to just pause for a 
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descriptors, if I really am not 
humbling myself before God and I

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really don't come with an 
openness to learn, it's going to

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be difficult for me to receive 
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receive from his word. 
It's kind of like when I'm 

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teaching classes sometimes in 
the past, you know, where I've 

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had students who, who, who kind 
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everything they needed to know 
and they didn't really need me 

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to teach them anything. 
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And so I'm the guy who'll kind 
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you think you already know 
everything that I'm supposed to 

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teach you in this class, then 
please leave. 

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Drop the class and go, go bother
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Frankly, you know, I'm looking 
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learn something, especially in 
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So God leads us along the way. 
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God also sanctifies us. 
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Before we dive into some of the 
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to remember that God leads us in
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In fact, First Thessalonians 5 
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himself sanctify you completely,
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soul and body be kept blameless 
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Christ. 
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God, God has to save us. 
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frankly, I can't grow myself 
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I need Him to help me with the 
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But there's also this 
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that we share in obedience that 
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and to share the word of God. 
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Scripture. 
There could be a lot of verses, 

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but just remember what Paul 
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ever wrote second Timothy and 
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verse 15. 
Do your best to present yourself

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to God as one approved a worker 
who has no need to be ashamed, 

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rightly handling the word of 
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So we know how to rightly handle
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We know what to do with it and 
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How do I interpret that 
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How do I apply that properly? 
How do I not read things into 

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the Bible, but I draw things out
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How do we actually learn that 
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How do we actually do that? 
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back in that chapter, he talks 
about sharing and he says, and 

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what you have heard from me in 
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in trust to faithful men who 
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So you see this multi 
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want to do. 
So if you ever wonder why I harp

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on you about connect groups, why
I harp on you about midweek 

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about 100% participation in the 
core, it's because we, we're 

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supposed to not only learn this,
but we've got to learn how to 

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share this with generation after
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So Timothy was supposed to take 
what Paul shared with him, share

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it with others. 
You kind of see, God is primary,

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Paul is secondary, Timothy is 
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following. 
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is a cycle that just never, ever
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So that's what we want to do. 
We want to make disciples who 

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make disciples who make 
disciples who make disciples, 

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fruit producing, multiplying 
disciples that never, ever stop.

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So it's a message of this divine
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It's got to be passed on. 
So how do we do that? 

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That's what we're going to talk 
about in these next several 

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sessions together. 
How do we rightly handle the 

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word of truth? 
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And there are a lot of models, 
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In fact, someone came up to me 
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what books I might be using as 
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I'm going to bring a few next 
week as it was a great question.

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Let me bring a couple of them if
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A lot of this is an original 
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principles and, and have friends
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helpful if you want to read 
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primary topic observation. 
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be less familiar to you in the 
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How do I properly observe the 
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what does it say? 
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does it mean yet. 
We'll talk about that next time.

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interpret properly. 
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and, and I hope you'll get into 
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recognize this is really true, 
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misinterpretation or taking 
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this very practical initial 
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closely and honestly at the 
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studying, right. 
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talked about this over the last 
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Each book of the Bible is 
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years ago or a lot more, some of
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specific questions. 
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original authors standing right 
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to tell us exactly how they saw 
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We don't have the Galatians 
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the Holy Spirit to be honest 
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upon Him to help us implement 
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practices I could use for my 
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Now, let me just stop right 
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statement that I think will be 
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If you do everything that I'm 
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next few sessions together, 
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Bible study probably needs to be
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It, you know this. 
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that little devotional book and 
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that devotional book, reading 
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Now, if that's all you can do 
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do, please do that. 
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far better than nothing. 
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kind of almost a crude way to 
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minute. 
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disciplines that we're going to 
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we talked about, you're also 
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You'll be faster at it. 
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where I'm not necessarily 
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time on each step because it's 
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Don't give up because the enemy 
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You don't have time for this. 
Satan does not want you to 

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listen to me right now. 
Satan does not want you to pay 

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attention to these next lessons.
Satan does not want you to 

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implement these best practices. 
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become a better student of the 
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defeats him. 
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Satan says, look, you can have 
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You can do this, you can be 
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here's what God said. 
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twisted, it's because she 
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misinterpreted it. 
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rests right here. 
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to me and they'll talk about how
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They need to recommit their life
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or whatever. 
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And they admit I'm really not 
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I'm really not studying my 
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I'm really not spending. 
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theological term for that. 
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I mean, it's, it's not that 
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will complicate it. 
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So, so depend upon the Holy 
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understand it, but also to help 
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through these things. 
Yogi Berra, those of you who are

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a certain age have no idea who 
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That is not the cartoon 
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That is not a cartoon character 
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Yogi Berra was a baseball 
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his twisting of the English 
language and he, he simply said,

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you can see a lot just by 
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So here's what I want us to do. 
I want you, you have a list of a

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few passages right there on your
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And you can choose one or if you
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and you're currently like some 
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James right now. 
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Use what you're in, in your 
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select one of these passages. 
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tonight in this session, or if 
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three other people and talk 
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you, but some of you might want 
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But I these are just examples. 
These are just samples. 

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Now. 
These are samples of different 

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kind of scripture. 
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John 4, you have Pauline 
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Colossians. 
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poetry literature in a very 
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And so just I need you to be in 
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So I actually need you to open 
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screens and actually get to one 
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what we're getting ready to walk
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OK, It won't it won't go as well
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at a passage of Scripture. 
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answers along the way as well. 
So again, if you want to do this

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a group, you can do that. 
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yourself, I should just force 
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So let's walk through a few of 
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understand what it is that we're
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obvious, but don't take it for 
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You'd need to read the entire 
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So in other words, read the 
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Read the whole chapter. 
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book sometimes to understand a 
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Sometimes you have to understand
even how a book fits into the 

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whole Bible. 
Next session, we're going to 

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talk a whole lot about context 
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important when it comes to 
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You'll misinterpret scripture 
many times if you don't 

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understand the context. 
But right here you're trying to 

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understand what the actual 
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And I know some of you know, 
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Justin, it's interesting in it. 
And so we're trying to figure 

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out a dead spot. 
It's probably, you know, 

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something up here, reflecting 
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I mean, after all, I did lick a 
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So too much, too much iron in my
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So those of you who are 
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road, you'll say, what is he 
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But but one of the things that's
really important that we got to 

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understand is, and I know you 
should know this, you probably 

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know this, but it's it's time to
remember it. 

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The numbers were added later. 
So those verse numbers and those

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chapter numbers are not 
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infallible, and they are not 
inerrant. 

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They were added much later by 
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monks. 
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the one who did It was a monk 
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he did. 
It was a verse. 

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Now, that's not true, but 
sometimes the numbers aren't 

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right. 
Sometimes the end of a chapter 

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is not the end of the passage. 
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In fact, I've preached that here
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Matthew, Chapter 9 and 10. 
Chapter 9 does not end that 

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It's all the it's a continuation
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And so be careful when you're 
reading that you're actually 

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getting the context. 
I've mentioned to you last time 

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that sometimes in my personal 
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subheadings to help me divide up
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It's a good guideline, but 
sometimes those are not right. 

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And So what is the actual 
passage that I need to study do?

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And, and it's often helpful to 
read beyond what you're going to

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actually study. 
I'm going to read this whole 

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chapter, then I'm going to go 
back and I'm really try to 

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dissect these verses at the 
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something like that. 
But so read the whole thing and,

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and, and I don't know, I, I 
don't have a better way to teach

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you than to suggest that you're 
making notes along the way. 

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And so as you read the text, 
you're writing down 

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observations. 
I do a lot of journaling. 

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I'm, I can't force that on 
anybody. 

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It's, it's not for everybody, 
but I, I, I would find it hard 

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to not keep track of things if 
I'm not making notes. 

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So write down your observations 
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So you want to note and list the
details, the relationships that 

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you think you're going to need 
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So you're just reading the text 
now the next step gets a lot 

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more detailed. 
So secondly, you want to focus 

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your reading and your 
observations on the six basic 

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questions. 
Rudger, Rudger Kipling say his 

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name once wrote, I have 6. 
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they taught me all I knew. 
Another version says, they're 

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always with me and their names 
are what and why and when and 

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how and where and who, right? 
And so this is where we're going

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to slow down for a few minutes 
because when you go to your 

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sample passage that I told you 
to pick one of those that, that 

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you see there, who, who's the 
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Who wrote this, right? 
And to whom is he writing? 

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And again, I'm going to list 
all, list all the people 

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involved, list anything that 
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Who is this? 
Who wrote this passage and to 

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whom is he writing? 
Now, sometimes that's not going 

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to be obvious from reading the 
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This is where study Bibles and 
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where you can look at the 
background of a book to read. 

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A lot of your study Bibles will 
have a book intro at the 

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beginning of the book. 
And so this is who this who we 

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think wrote this and and who to 
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But this can be a big deal when 
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Laodiceans about being hot or 
cold, and you go to Laodicea and

447
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,120
see Laodicea, it makes a whole 
lot more sense to you. 

448
00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:33,000
And I'll come back to Laodicea 
in a minute. 

449
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,600
I'm going to pick on Laodicea 
more often than not tonight. 

450
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,880
And so who wrote the Gospel of 
John? 

451
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,160
And you can say, well, John, all
right, well, who is that? 

452
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,400
Who is that? 
John, Right. 

453
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,560
What might have been more 
interesting if I'd have given 

454
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,720
you the Gospel of Mark. 
Who wrote the Gospel of Mark? 

455
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,000
Well, I know Mark, but who's 
who's Mark? 

456
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,000
Anybody know? 
Anybody remember? 

457
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,240
Who's Mark? 
John. 

458
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,800
Mark. 
What'd John Mark do? 

459
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,280
What's he known for in the book 
of Acts? 

460
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,000
Yeah. 
Abandoning the mission, causing 

461
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,760
a fight between Barnabas and 
Paul. 

462
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,480
But later on, when you continue 
to read about it, you'll see 

463
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,160
Paul commends him and Paul 
actually recommends him for 

464
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,000
ministry. 
Now, tradition would say that 

465
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,320
John Mark's writing the account 
of Peter, Mark shorter than the 

466
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,120
other gospels. 
Many believe it's earlier than 

467
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,440
the other gospels, so that it 
might have been a help to the 

468
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,560
other gospel writers. 
They may have already had that 

469
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,160
when they're writing the other 
gospel. 

470
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,760
But to think about who this is. 
But sometimes it's to whom 

471
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,000
they're writing that really 
becomes important. 

472
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,440
So I'm trying to use passages 
that aren't yours. 

473
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,000
So I'm making you work on your 
own. 

474
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,880
But, but for example, Paul 
writes 2 letters, really writes 

475
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,280
3 letters at least to the we 
have two in the Bible. 

476
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,720
He mentions another one. 
So who are these people? 

477
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:09,560
Who are the Corinthians, right? 
And, and, and why is he writing 

478
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:10,920
to them? 
These are these questions. 

479
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,440
All these questions are going to
be thrown together. 

480
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,920
So who is this? 
Then you go to win. 

481
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,560
When did the events in the text 
take place? 

482
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,880
This is where a lot of, to be 
honest with you, 

483
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,040
misinterpretation comes in. 
When did they occur in relation 

484
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,800
to other events in scripture and
history? 

485
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:31,760
When was the writer writing? 
So at what point in history are 

486
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,160
they writing? 
When are they writing? 

487
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,680
And that that's going to help 
you frame some of the context. 

488
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,760
So again, I might have to go to 
my study Bible or, or go online.

489
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,040
Listen, you, you can go and 
search online for any Bible book

490
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,800
introduction you want. 
And, and I would read a couple 

491
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,080
of them online to make sure that
they're consistent with each 

492
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,880
other because I don't know if 
you know this or not. 

493
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,840
And not everything online is 
accurate. 

494
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,680
I don't know if you know that 
y'all sitting down. 

495
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,880
Not everything on the interwebs 
is true. 

496
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:04,720
I don't know if you know that or
not. 

497
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,440
So, but but when is this? 
Who is this? 

498
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,680
And then where becomes a big 
deal. 

499
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,000
Where is this? 
All right, so let me pick on 

500
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,360
Laodicea again for a minute. 
Laodicea is in Turkey. 

501
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,040
You go to Turkey and you go to 
Laodicea. 

502
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,040
One of the one of the most 
interesting things about 

503
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,040
Laodicea is you, you see it long
before you're there. 

504
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,360
There's a White Mountain in 
Laodicea. 

505
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,240
It's a it's a, it's a mountain 
where Warm Springs are dropping 

506
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,360
mineral deposits down this 
entire hillside. 

507
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,400
In fact, tourists come from all 
around the world to bathe, soak,

508
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:43,240
splash around in the mineral 
pools of Laodicea and it's hot 

509
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,600
water, it's Hot Springs coming 
out of the top of that mountain.

510
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,320
What the bottom of that mountain
is a cold lake. 

511
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:55,920
And so you are neither hot nor 
cold if you're a Laodicean has a

512
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,640
whole contextual meaning for 
you. 

513
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,520
You he's, he could have been 
pointing to the mountain in a 

514
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,640
sense, everybody who lived there
would have known about that 

515
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,400
mountain. 
Everybody who was there would 

516
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,840
have known of those springs. 
Everybody there would have 

517
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,360
easily understood what he's 
talking about. 

518
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:13,280
This is a real example. 
I'm neither at the top or the 

519
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,400
bottom. 
I'm sliding in between right And

520
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,720
so where is this? 
Where did this take place? 

521
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,520
What are the characteristics of 
the geographic setting? 

522
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,240
This can be a big deal. 
Some of the countryside that 

523
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,200
they went through was very hard 
and dangerous and rough. 

524
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:33,800
And you wonder how you know how 
persevering to get there. 

525
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,040
You you, you walk through a 
narrative like Acts or the 

526
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,880
Gospels and they walked from one
place to the other and it just 

527
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,600
seems like a verse or half a 
verse where they went from one 

528
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,920
place to the other. 
Well, you'd have been exhausted 

529
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,120
if you made that journey. 
Some of those places were very 

530
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,120
dangerous, depending upon when 
it was. 

531
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,480
Was that during the Roman time? 
Was that pre Roman time? 

532
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,640
Listen, 100 years, but but you 
know, before the Romans took 

533
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,920
over the roadways of the 
Mediterranean were incredibly 

534
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,640
dangerous, full of full of 
thieves and robbers and and 

535
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:11,440
pirates on the seas and roam for
all it's horror also stabilized 

536
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,720
the Mediterranean world in a 
way. 

537
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,160
So this is where a study map 
your Bible's got them in the 

538
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,680
back. 
And often we don't pay a lot of 

539
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,160
attention to them, I don't think
anymore. 

540
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,200
But where was that? 
Look up those places, search out

541
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,880
those places. 
Information will come alive when

542
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,640
you do that. 
And then where are the 

543
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,800
recipients? 
Not only is where is this being 

544
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,560
written as Paul in prison when 
he's writing it, that changes 

545
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,240
everything. 
If I realize that Paul's chained

546
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,880
to a guard while he's writing 
this letter, it changes the 

547
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,680
whole tone of everything. 
And then who's he writing to 

548
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,280
when he writes the book of 
Romans, which is what I'm going 

549
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,600
to preach after Nehemiah and 
I'll be done with Nehemiah one 

550
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,000
day. 
But you all need Nehemiah. 

551
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,880
Trust me, you need Nehemiah. 
I'm going to preach through the 

552
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,280
whole book of Romans. 
Going to take about 14 years 

553
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,600
now. 
It's not going to be that bad. 

554
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,440
It takes a minute, but anyway, 
but you think about that, Paul 

555
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,400
wrote to the church at Rome. 
That's a huge thing. 

556
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,560
Paul didn't start the church at 
Rome. 

557
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,760
He didn't plant that church. 
And so he's acknowledging the 

558
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,480
existing body of Christ, the 
existing body of Christ in the 

559
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,360
capital of the world, and 
writing to them and encouraging 

560
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,080
them and challenging them, even 
though he didn't start the 

561
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,720
church. 
That, that, that that has a lot 

562
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,720
to do with how he wrote it and 
what he wrote. 

563
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,800
All right. 
So how then, how are things 

564
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,800
accomplished? 
How well, by what method, right?

565
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,640
What's going on? 
How's it happening? 

566
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,640
And then why, why does a 
particular person do or say 

567
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,440
something? 
And we recognize the inspiration

568
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,040
of the Holy Spirit. 
We're not discounting any of 

569
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,920
that. 
But in the context of what he's 

570
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,240
saying, why are they talking 
about that? 

571
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,320
When you read anything by John, 
whether it's his gospel or his 

572
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,800
epistles, he's fighting 
Gnosticism. 

573
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,000
He's fighting false teaching 
every step of the way because 

574
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,920
it's already apparent by the 
time he's writing, and he has to

575
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,640
fight this false teaching. 
When you read first, second and 

576
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,440
Third John, that's the major 
theme of first, second and third

577
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,720
John, a heresy called Gnosticism
and this false teaching and 

578
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,400
these false teachers that he's 
trying to protect the church 

579
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,680
from, right? 
And so why is a person writing? 

580
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,920
And then what's happening? 
What's actually happening, in 

581
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,800
what order, What ideas are being
presented? 

582
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,600
So what's actually taking place 
in the passage? 

583
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:31,760
Now, here's what I want you to 
do. 

584
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,680
I'm going to give you a couple 
of moments. 

585
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,720
Those of you listening online, 
you'll have a couple of moments 

586
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,840
where it's going to seem quiet. 
You'll hear my heavy breathing 

587
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,560
because I licked the flagpole 
earlier today and probably have 

588
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,400
a disease now. 
But I want you to take a minute 

589
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,920
and pick one of those passages 
or the passage that you studied 

590
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,080
this morning in your personal 
quiet time or something. 

591
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,200
And I want you to just think 
about these six questions. 

592
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,640
Now. 
Listen and I, and you'll see 

593
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,880
this on your sheet later and 
you'll see me hear me say this 

594
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,160
later. 
Not all six questions apply as 

595
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,360
easily to certain kinds of 
passages as others. 

596
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,880
Certain kinds of literature, 
certain kinds of writing are 

597
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,080
easier than others. 
You get into a narrative. 

598
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,200
These are a lot easier. 
Who, what, when, where, and how 

599
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,960
are you know, it makes more 
sense when you're in a gospel or

600
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,720
book of Acts or history book or 
something like that in the Old 

601
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,920
Testament. 
Sometimes it's harder if you're 

602
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,920
in a Psalm, you know, or, or if 
you're an appalling doctrinal 

603
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,160
teaching. 
But I want you to take one of 

604
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,520
those passages. 
I want you to just think through

605
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,680
one or two of these questions 
and and I'm going to ask it's 

606
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,320
going to be quiz in a minute. 
It'd be open book. 

607
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,480
You'll be OK, but it's it's it's
50% of your grade. 

608
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,360
So just do your best. 
So take a couple minutes. 

609
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,960
Seriously answer a few of these 
questions with a passage of 

610
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,800
scripture. 
You want to do that with 

611
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,160
somebody else to do it. 
If you want to do it all by 

612
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,960
yourself, that's fine. 
Those of you listening to this 

613
00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:03,840
online later, take your Bible 
and look at either John 4, 

614
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:09,720
Colossians 3, Psalm 23, 
Deuteronomy 6, or a passage that

615
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,280
might be a part of your normal 
quiet time schedule. 

616
00:33:15,880 --> 00:35:00,160
Just take a moment. 
I'm going to give you like one 

617
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,080
more minute. 
I know it's not enough just to 

618
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,400
answer a couple of those 
questions, get some feedback 

619
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:58,690
from you. 
I also hope that you would 

620
00:35:58,690 --> 00:36:01,890
notice that if you're teaching 
the Bible to someone that the 

621
00:36:01,890 --> 00:36:04,570
same, these same practices can 
be used in a group. 

622
00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:09,130
Some of you, I'm sure, are doing
that as connect group leaders, 

623
00:36:09,850 --> 00:36:15,250
Bible study leaders, some of the
deductive inductive studies you 

624
00:36:15,250 --> 00:36:18,330
might be a part of. 
Who's got a who? 

625
00:36:18,770 --> 00:36:20,890
Anybody got a who? 
You got to speak loudly. 

626
00:36:20,890 --> 00:36:25,000
Raise your hand if you got a 
who, what? 

627
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,480
What book are you in? 
Deuteronomy. 

628
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,080
So who wrote Deuteronomy? 
Moses, right. 

629
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,000
To whom was he writing 
Deuteronomy? 

630
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,000
Yeah. 
The Hebrews, the Israelites. 

631
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,400
You know, this is a very Jewish 
passage. 

632
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,200
In fact, Deuteronomy 6 is one of
the most Jewish passages you're 

633
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,440
ever going to come across. 
A Jewish male would say this 

634
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:51,040
prayer every day. 
And so this is a very, very 

635
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,600
thing. 
So when somebody give me a win, 

636
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,360
maybe not Deuteronomy 6, 
somebody else got. 

637
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,080
Anybody else got a win? 
Looking for a win, Got a little 

638
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:57,400
win. 
Win. 

639
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:03,920
Yes. 
Uh huh. 

640
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,600
That's great. 
So you're actually an Exodus. 

641
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,720
That's interesting. 
So you're talking about the 

642
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:17,960
timing of the plagues and timing
of the whole experience, the 

643
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,160
Exodus itself. 
Yeah. 

644
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,160
So when it happens, when it fits
in, that's great. 

645
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,320
Anybody else got a win? 
A win, a win? 

646
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,760
I'm from Oklahoma. 
It's that win. 

647
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,280
It's WINWHENI don't know if 
there's is there a difference 

648
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,960
between those two words? 
When you know where I'm from, a 

649
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,960
pitcher is, is something you 
hang on a wall, is something you

650
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,600
draw, is a guy who throws a ball
and it's something you pour 

651
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,960
water out of. 
They're all pitchers. 

652
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,200
That's no joke. 
I don't know why you all waste 

653
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,680
time spelling things 
differently. 

654
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,240
Who's that Webster guy anyway? 
Who gave him the authority to 

655
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,520
decide all that? 
Who's got a when? 

656
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,520
Any other wins? 
Say it again. 

657
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,240
Yeah, that's good because you're
looking that up. 

658
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,040
That's good. 
And you can do that. 

659
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,320
Or maybe you had it. 
You might have had a chance. 

660
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,400
You may have that memorized 
because she studies. 

661
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,040
So. 
So what about a where? 

662
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:19,960
Where, where, where is this 
happening? 

663
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,000
Where? 
Where's somebody writing from? 

664
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,160
Where's somebody writing to 
where? 

665
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,800
Who's got to where? 
Colossians. 

666
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,360
Yep. 
Paul and Tim 3 in prison. 

667
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,920
You got a group of people who 
are in the middle of paganism. 

668
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,480
I mean, if you go through all, 
most of Paul's letters, 

669
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,120
Ephesians, Colossians, 
Corinthians, these folks are in 

670
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,720
the middle of rank paganism all 
around temple after temple after

671
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,360
temple after temple after 
temple. 

672
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,200
And they're, they're coming out 
of that background, many of 

673
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,840
them. 
And so Christianity is a radical

674
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,720
departure of the, of their 
entire existence before that. 

675
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,240
So you got a who and a win. 
They're tied together, right? 

676
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,000
Anybody got a how or a why or a 
what? 

677
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,560
One of those last three? 
Give me a how or a why or a 

678
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:18,960
what. 
Yep, Yep. 

679
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,640
So Paul's writing them to unite 
them and to correct them. 

680
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,520
That's a that's a good 
combination. 

681
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,720
That's a good description of 
that because they they're under 

682
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:32,520
such attack. 
The early church was under such 

683
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:37,560
massive attack from day was 0 
that their unity, their 

684
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,520
correction, their doctrinal 
sense, everything had to be so 

685
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:47,240
carefully managed and and 
directed, so easy. 

686
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,440
Heresies came from day one. 
Anybody else? 

687
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,280
Yeah. 
Moses is telling them what 

688
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,080
commands to fall. 
I mean, if you're in Deuteronomy

689
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,640
6, you got to think about the 
the overall lesson of this whole

690
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,760
thing is teaching. 
Your entire life. 

691
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Your entire life is teaching. 
Whether I'm at home or I'm 

692
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,520
walking or everywhere I'm going,
I'm teaching, I'm sharing, I'm 

693
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,800
focusing upon the word of God 
and and a powerful passage. 

694
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,160
Anybody else got any one of 
those from their passage? 

695
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,440
Will that power be looking 
towards Christ right. 

696
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,840
You have to keep your out of 
Labor just teaching them 

697
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:43,090
to keep that focus. 
Yeah, that's good. 

698
00:40:43,290 --> 00:40:46,290
So in Colossians 3, that focus 
upon Christ all the time. 

699
00:40:46,410 --> 00:40:50,120
You got to take the focus off of
where you are the earthly and 

700
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,320
the and the the past, frankly, 
because the whole context 

701
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,160
Colossians 3 can't exist without
the previous passages. 

702
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,760
And so you got to read 
understand Colossians 3. 

703
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,600
You got to read before 
Colossians 3 because Paul's 

704
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,400
describing this new life in 
Christ. 

705
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,480
Here's what this looks like. 
And here's some things you have 

706
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,960
to have to do so that so make 
sure you're reading the whole 

707
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,960
passage. 
And again, next week we're going

708
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,680
to re emphasize this. 
Now I want to spend a little 

709
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,600
time on this next week. 
This is really good important, 

710
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,560
especially for a guy like me who
likes who likes original 

711
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,400
language. 
So after you're asking these 

712
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,640
questions, you got to note key 
terms, and this is a big deal. 

713
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:36,440
For example, the word believe 
occurs 79 times in the Gospel of

714
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,600
John. 
It's critical to understanding 

715
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,680
the whole purpose of the Gospel 
of John. 

716
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,560
And the word believe is a verb 
form. 

717
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,280
It's pisto. 
It's the verb form of the noun 

718
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,360
for faith. 
So whenever you see the word 

719
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,640
believe in the New Testament, I 
wish we would just say faith, 

720
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,200
make faith a verb. 
You're faith in something 

721
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:59,440
because that's what it really 
means. 

722
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:04,640
It's it's literally the noun or 
the verb form of the same word 

723
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,320
that means faith. 
See Greek does that and changes 

724
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,760
stuff like that. 
And so 79 times he's saying 

725
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,600
you've got to faith this, you 
got to faith this. 

726
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,840
It's critical to understanding 
his gospel message because he's 

727
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,000
you imagine when you read the 
Gospel of John, it's different 

728
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,960
than the other Gospels, much 
more theologically driven, much 

729
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,200
more crystal logically. 
You know, driven in the 

730
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,160
beginning was the Word and the 
Word was with God and the Word 

731
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,000
was God. 
So it's very much driven about 

732
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,160
Christ and who he really is and 
how we have to believe in him. 

733
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,880
And so at the end of the gospel,
he talks about how those who 

734
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,560
believe in the name of the Son 
of God, This is why I've written

735
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,120
these things. 
This is why all these things are

736
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,640
written in this gospel. 
Many other things that weren't 

737
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,240
written that he did too. 
But the reason, the ones that 

738
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,920
were written in this gospel, so 
that you might believe that he 

739
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:57,520
is the Son of God, it's crucial.
So as you read your passage, and

740
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,400
you might think this is going to
take an hour and a half, well, 

741
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,360
great, it won't. 
But what's wrong with that? 

742
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,000
But it won't, I know you say I 
don't have an hour and a half. 

743
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,680
I understand you'll, you'll 
understand how to get this down 

744
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,600
to a time frame that makes sense
for you. 

745
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,320
But what are the key terms? 
Observe the words that are 

746
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,400
actually used in your English 
translation. 

747
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,720
So you, you and, and I'll talk a
little bit more about this next 

748
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:20,680
time too. 
But you got to understand in 

749
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,000
biblical language, this is 
really true in the Old 

750
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,520
Testament. 
Hebrew depends upon this, but 

751
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,960
it's also true in Greek that 
when a word is repeated, that 

752
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,280
means there's emphasis there. 
So if, if the author actually 

753
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:39,800
repeats a word in, in that 
language system as emphasis, 

754
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,200
it's like exclamation points. 
Pay attention to what I'm about 

755
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,000
to say to you. 
And so we're looking for those 

756
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,880
words that seem to be the most 
important to, for understanding 

757
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,960
the passage, right. 
And so any repetition of a term 

758
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,000
or a phrase or a clause is 
really this clue. 

759
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,480
This is what they ought. 
This is a main point or I 

760
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,640
wouldn't say that again. 
Rejoice always. 

761
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:08,400
And again I say, yeah, why? 
Because you need to rejoice. 

762
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,440
And you got to think about who 
he's writing. 

763
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,800
See. 
And so we've got to understand 

764
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,200
that these, you know, note these
key terms. 

765
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,520
So as you're walking through 
this, I'm reading the passage, 

766
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:23,680
I'm trying to note a few of 
these things. 

767
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,560
All this gets mixed up. 
You're not necessarily doing 

768
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,240
this step one, Step 2, Step 3. 
But as I'm answering these 

769
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,840
questions, thinking through 
these questions might need my 

770
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,200
study, but I don't know what 
that is. 

771
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,040
What when was that? 
I mean, for example, and, and 

772
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,960
I'll talk to, I'm going to talk 
to Alan Mosley about this 

773
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,480
tomorrow in the podcast. 
How in the world do you keep up 

774
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,320
with the Old Testament prophets?
You know, because our English 

775
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,160
Bible doesn't write, doesn't 
present them in chronological 

776
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,000
fashion. 
So when you get to the minor 

777
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,960
prophets, the reason they're in 
the order that they're in, in 

778
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,400
their Old Testament is just 
length. 

779
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,400
So you got the longest to the 
shortest. 

780
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,960
That's how they're arranged, 
which I never thought was a good

781
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,480
idea. 
You can actually buy a 

782
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,920
chronological Bible, but it's 
not very common, not very often.

783
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,920
We done, but you, so you got to 
figure out, so when was Malachi,

784
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,240
when was Zephaniah, when was 
Jonah, when was, you know, 

785
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,840
Zechariah, when was Haggai? 
And you've heard me talk about 

786
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:24,160
with Nehemiah, the association 
of Ezra, Haggai and Zechariah to

787
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,160
the Nehemiah story. 
But you, you got to look that 

788
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,680
up. 
And so to recognize. 

789
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,880
And so when you're reading 
through and you recognize, oh, 

790
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,200
well, that then that means 
that's probably tied to this 

791
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,680
over here. 
See, now you're getting that 

792
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,480
context piece again, because if 
I just read them independently, 

793
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,440
I may not ever really understand
the full meaning of the passage.

794
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,520
And here's something that we're 
going to learn next week. 

795
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,680
A passage cannot mean what it 
never meant. 

796
00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,520
And so we often our, our 
greatest sin of 

797
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,040
misinterpretation, which I'm not
going to get ahead of myself, is

798
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,440
that we apply everything to me 
today and we don't pay any 

799
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,680
attention to what it has meant 
throughout the ages. 

800
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,240
And sometimes that'll change 
what it means for you today. 

801
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,400
And so we, we need to be careful
that we're honest about the way 

802
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,160
we approach Scripture. 
So noticing these words is a 

803
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:19,040
big, big deal. 
So if you turn to the 23rd Psalm

804
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:26,040
or quote it for me, right? 
What's the opening line of the 

805
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,880
23rd Psalm? 
Somebody say it out loud. 

806
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,480
Keep going, OK, Just stop. 
The Lord is my shepherd. 

807
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,240
I shall not want. 
What are what are the most 

808
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:41,800
important words there Lord give 
me another one shepherd or it's 

809
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:50,640
another one want try or not want
right and to begin to diagram in

810
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,120
your head. 
I'm not you know I'm not you 

811
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,040
know I mean missus McIntosh 
would make me do it on paper in 

812
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,920
8th grade. 
But but but but in my mind to 

813
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,560
understand this is the most 
important part of this. 

814
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,960
This is the emphasis that's 
being placed here because 

815
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,600
sometimes I've I'm going to be 
nice. 

816
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,280
I'll be nice. 
No, I'm never nice. 

817
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,920
All right, So I've been in small
group studies, sometimes sitting

818
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,680
in the back of the room, right. 
I'm in between some place in my 

819
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,400
old life our at our home church.
I'll be honest with you, if I 

820
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,400
wasn't doing an interim or I was
the, the one week out of six 

821
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,200
months I was home or something, 
and I'd actually, I'd go to Ken 

822
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,760
Coley Sunday School class, 
right? 

823
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,600
And I'd sit in the back of the 
back row in the corner of Ken 

824
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,040
Coley Sunday School. 
And I did that simply because I 

825
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,880
used to be the interim pastor of
this church. 

826
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,920
And every time Doctor Ewart 
walks in a room, sometimes it's 

827
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,160
like I, you know, I have no 
intentions of being up there 

828
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,240
answering all the questions, 
talking all the time and 

829
00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:45,880
dominating the room, right? 
I just want to sit back there, 

830
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,560
let you all have a good study. 
I'm there for support because I 

831
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,920
believe in small groups. 
I'm going to attend small groups

832
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,120
no matter what, right? 
And I sit back there and 

833
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,520
sometimes I go crazy. 
Teresa, I'll tell you, I go 

834
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,640
crazy because I'm listening to 
people self interpret the Bible 

835
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,280
for themselves and it becomes 
kind of group therapy rather 

836
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,200
than Bible interpretation. 
I'll leave that alone. 

837
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,120
Let's be honest about what the 
Bible really says. 

838
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,080
All right, so #4 then, and this 
gets a little technical, so bear

839
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,840
with me for a minute, but we 
need to identify the structure. 

840
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,280
So this really does help us 
understand a passage. 

841
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,760
What's the structural 
relationship or patterns? 

842
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,080
For example, is there comparison
and contrast going on? 

843
00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:38,560
So in Colossians 3, what are you
doing? 

844
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:44,160
You are taking what off and 
putting on. 

845
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,840
So you have this contrast in the
Beatitudes, what you've heard it

846
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,680
said blank, and I'm telling you 
blank. 

847
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:55,240
You have compare and contrast 
and and that's a very common way

848
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,960
of teaching and speaking in 
biblical literature. 

849
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,200
Some of that's cultural, some of
that's time frame. 

850
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,200
It's a way way the rabbi's would
teach. 

851
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,400
So you're going to compare 
something. 

852
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,240
The Kingdom of heaven is like 
you'll have some kind of 

853
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:10,200
comparison and contrast right 
going on. 

854
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:15,160
And so is that what's going on? 
Do you have repetition, not just

855
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,920
the word, but an idea? 
Well, he says that again. 

856
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,920
And sometimes, especially in 
some of the poetic literature of

857
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,920
the Old Testament, you have a 
lot of redundancy and you have a

858
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,320
lot of repetition. 
Don't miss that. 

859
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,120
Don't get bored with that 
saying. 

860
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,840
That's a point. 
That's a big point. 

861
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,360
He's trying to make a point. 
He's trying to drive it home 

862
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,040
when he says that. 
Or the idea of proportion is 

863
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,080
that, what does that mean? 
That's how many verses did they 

864
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:46,360
take to tell you something. 
The more verses, the more words 

865
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,080
they had to use to tell you 
something. 

866
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,040
Odds are this was important. 
You pay attention to proportion,

867
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,400
you know, So you got to 
understand that when you're, for

868
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,360
example, Paul, Paul's notorious 
for this. 

869
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:03,680
When you begin reading some of 
Paul's letters, he might go 5 

870
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:08,280
verses before there's a period 
and, and you'll notice that 

871
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:13,000
sometimes it's comma, comma, 
comma, comma, comma, comma it, 

872
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,360
you know, and, and when you're 
translating Paul, it's sometimes

873
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,760
it gets that way to where the 
sentence just goes on forever 

874
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:23,160
and ever and ever. 
Well, that's because he's, he's 

875
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:27,080
trying to finish a point and 
he's trying to get it home to 

876
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,040
you. 
And so this literary structure 

877
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,920
can actually make sense. 
Howard Hendricks, who's one of 

878
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:37,520
the guys who's written a very 
well known classic book on Bible

879
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,880
study and interpretation called 
Living by the Book, he says 

880
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,760
there are at least five 
different kinds of literary 

881
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,640
structure in the Bible. 
So you have biological structure

882
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:52,120
where it focuses on people. 
Genesis is like this to a large 

883
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,800
degree. 
Genesis is following the stories

884
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,240
of Adam and Eve. 
You get Cain and Abel. 

885
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,160
Eventually you'll get to know 
and you get to the patriarchs. 

886
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,600
So you're kind of following one 
character after another 

887
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,880
character after another 
character after another 

888
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,880
character. 
Now the main character is God 

889
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,880
and his plan. 
But but the stories that are 

890
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,520
being told are very people 
oriented, right? 

891
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,240
And so when, if that's the case,
or if I'm going to study kings 

892
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:21,320
or Samuel in the Old Testament, 
I better know who Samuel is. 

893
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,840
I better know who David is. 
I better know who Saul is, you 

894
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,440
know, and I better have some 
understanding of these people 

895
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,240
and where they're from and when 
they are. 

896
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,000
And then you start getting into 
the sons of David or Solomon, 

897
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,440
and it gets really confusing. 
You get divided kingdoms and 

898
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,400
this king and that king and 
who's from Judah, who's from 

899
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,160
Israel. 
Again, very confusing, right? 

900
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,680
So you have biological 
structures, but you can also 

901
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,040
have geographical structure. 
It's focused on a place. 

902
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,160
So it's very much writing about 
a location or a place, 

903
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,960
historical structure where they 
focus on key events, 

904
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:01,360
chronological structure that 
focuses on time or ideological 

905
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,920
structure that focuses on key 
ideas and concepts. 

906
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,480
And some of these will mix up. 
And, and I'm not saying every 

907
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,320
single time you open your Bible,
every single morning, I'm 

908
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,440
listening to go, what kind of 
literary structure is this? 

909
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,840
But I am saying to have an 
awareness as you begin this 

910
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,400
process, this is step one. 
Remember, this is not step last.

911
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,600
We're on step one. 
We've got interpretation coming 

912
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,480
up, We've got application coming
up, which is what you all will 

913
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,840
really be interested in. 
But I need, but I need this step

914
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,280
to help set the stage for good 
interpretation. 

915
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,760
So the more I'm thinking through
it and, and, and some of them 

916
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,560
are going to be easier to say, I
don't, you know, but sometimes I

917
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,200
go, gosh, that doesn't make 
sense. 

918
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,440
But if I begin to ask, well, 
what is this or what is this, 

919
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,040
then sometimes it would come to 
light as the Holy Spirit helps 

920
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,080
me and I study and I research 
the passage, right. 

921
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,960
And then in a very similar way, 
you'll have different literary 

922
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,200
forms. 
And so you have narrative 

923
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,760
history sometimes is also called
that. 

924
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,640
So what, what are narrative 
books? 

925
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,320
What are if I say if I like, I 
like preaching out of narrative.

926
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,080
I always have. 
I like stories And so I like 

927
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:09,800
preaching out of narrative. 
Doesn't mean that's the only 

928
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,760
thing I'm ever going to preach 
out of, but I just enjoy it. 

929
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,200
What is that? 
What's narrative? 

930
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,640
What's an what's an example of a
narrative passage or a narrative

931
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,960
book? 
Huh. 

932
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,440
Esther, that was good. 
I was Old Testament. 

933
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,000
I wouldn't expect to know. 
Testament is good. 

934
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:29,080
Esther. 
Ruth, what about New Testament? 

935
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:34,400
What's a narrative? 
Gospels. 

936
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,960
That's interesting. 
Book of Acts, really the primary

937
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,080
ones. 
Yeah. 

938
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,000
So you think about these 
stories, Jonah in different 

939
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,840
stories, these narrative books, 
and then you think about what 

940
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,280
would be poetry, sometimes 
called wisdom literature, 

941
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,680
sometimes called poetry. 
What what are the common ones? 

942
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,520
Psalms and Proverbs, Song of 
Solomon. 

943
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,360
Yeah, usually. 
And what Ecclesiastes. 

944
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,680
Yeah, sometimes I'll preach 
through Ecclesiastes hard book 

945
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:09,560
sometimes to grab a hold of. 
And what the hall, the meanings 

946
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,640
that the the big meaning of 
Ecclesiastes is easy. 

947
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,560
Walking through the individual 
verses and passages of 

948
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:20,160
Ecclesiastes, not so easy if you
don't understand who it is and 

949
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,280
what he's doing. 
Who's writing Ecclesiastes? 

950
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,160
Yeah, it's King Solomon. 
You got to always remember that.

951
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,280
Every single verse. 
This is Solomon's perspective. 

952
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:30,880
It won't make sense. 
It's if it doesn't make sense, 

953
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,440
if it's a common person's 
perspective. 

954
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,160
Sometimes this is the king of 
all kings who has every single 

955
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,280
thing in the whole world 400 
times over, and he's moaning 

956
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,400
about life. 
And you just got to always 

957
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,840
remember that, you know? 
You always got to remember that.

958
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,680
All right. 
Another type of literature would

959
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,440
be doctrinal. 
What are the primary examples of

960
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,160
doctrine? 
Yeah. 

961
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:00,120
Romans, Pauline, epistles as a 
whole, usually, you know, and 

962
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:04,840
then any in the Old Testament 
say that again. 

963
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:06,800
Leviticus. 
Yeah. 

964
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,120
I'd say I'd be there. 
Parts of Deuteronomy, Leviticus,

965
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,720
the law. 
Yeah, yeah, that's right. 

966
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,120
And to think about. 
So when I'm reading like I, you 

967
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,240
know, one time I took a yeah, 
I'll share it. 

968
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,080
So. 
So I took a bunch of inner city 

969
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,920
Dallas kids to Glorieta one 
time, which is a Baptist camp in

970
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,440
New Mexico. 
You either know that you don't, 

971
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:26,920
didn't matter. 
So we're out in New Mexico. 

972
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:28,080
They'd never been to camp in 
their life. 

973
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,200
They destroy a cabin. 
I'm banned from Glorieta for a 

974
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,680
year. 
That's no joke. 

975
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,520
And so after the kids had 
destroyed the cabin at 

976
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Glorietta, these were urban kids
who'd never been anywhere and 

977
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,960
didn't know how to behave. 
Half of them are lost. 

978
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,320
And so they literally destroy a 
cabin. 

979
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:51,360
And so I so punishment that 
afternoon was an afternoon verse

980
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:57,640
by verse study of Leviticus. 
I sat down with those boys for 

981
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,360
four hours going verse by verse 
by verse. 

982
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,640
Should have done Lamentations. 
Should have done Lamentations. 

983
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,640
Interesting, isn't it? 
And yet important. 

984
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,920
Why would it be important to 
study Leviticus? 

985
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,080
Boring rule after rule after 
rule? 

986
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:19,320
But why was that so important to
be thankful we don't have to do 

987
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:20,040
it. 
That's good. 

988
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:21,800
That's good. 
But what else? 

989
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:26,760
Contextually? 
Got to understand what they're 

990
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,440
going through it. 
We got to understand the law. 

991
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:34,400
We need to understand what was 
expected of them and why, why 

992
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,480
Leviticus is an important 
question. 

993
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,840
Why did you have all these 
rules? 

994
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,080
Why were you done that? 
You know, and, and a lot of it 

995
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,560
was to protect them. 
They didn't always see it that 

996
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:45,680
way. 
And of course, the rabbi's come 

997
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,560
along later and add to it and 
mess it all up at times. 

998
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,600
But, but these are just 
examples. 

999
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,360
And again, I'm not suggesting 
that every time you open your 

1000
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,600
Bible, you're going to process 
through every single one of 

1001
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,560
these steps. 
But these are steps I want you 

1002
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,080
to be aware of because they'll 
help you get to the meaning, 

1003
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,680
which we talk about next time, 
because you're not going to see 

1004
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,720
things in poetry necessarily 
that you would see in history 

1005
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,200
passages. 
So some of the six questions 

1006
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:12,280
just aren't going to apply. 
They're not going to work the 

1007
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:16,840
same way, you know, and, and so,
but to think still about who, 

1008
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,840
who was that song written for in
the Psalms? 

1009
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,080
This summer, we're going to 
spend some time in some worship 

1010
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:25,600
conversations. 
We're going to talk about the 

1011
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,440
Psalms a little bit. 
These are the original praise 

1012
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,960
courses. 
And so who is that praise course

1013
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,400
written to and why? 
And some of them are a lot 

1014
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,240
easier to identify. 
Psalm 51 is easy to identify. 

1015
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,960
Psalm 51 is a is a a prayer of 
confession by David after he 

1016
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,040
sins with Bathsheba. 
And so, you know, you can see 

1017
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,360
certain, but sometimes the 
Psalms, just like, you know, 

1018
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,360
you'll see the for the choir 
master, you know, or such and 

1019
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:51,600
such. 
It's like, who's that? 

1020
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:56,520
You know, what's that for? 
And so these six questions may 

1021
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,520
not all work as well on some, 
but these various methods of 

1022
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,360
observation are going to help 
you. 

1023
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,400
And you might sit there and say,
well, I, I didn't, I didn't get 

1024
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,720
much out of that. 
Well, you need to read, you need

1025
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,160
to study because you need to 
prepare yourself because I'm 

1026
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:19,480
telling you, the more time that 
you spend in this step, the 

1027
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,480
better your interpretation is 
going to be. 

1028
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:25,080
I can, I can almost the next 
week, I'll give some examples. 

1029
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,840
I can almost, oh not always, but
I can almost always go back when

1030
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,840
I know that somebody, even 
denominations who have 

1031
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,400
misinterpreted scripture and 
created doctrines that we would 

1032
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,160
not agree with. 
One of the reasons is they're 

1033
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,080
not doing their homework. 
They're not. 

1034
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:44,760
They're not going beyond a an 
inch deep level in trying to 

1035
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,720
understand what the Word of God 
really is and to recognize the 

1036
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:53,400
supernatural, mystical, 
wonderful, spiritual part of the

1037
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,400
Word of God. 
This is more than a book. 

1038
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,520
This is more than a record of 
events. 

1039
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,320
This is more than record of 
people. 

1040
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,280
And this is a Holy Spirit 
inspired and He's going to help 

1041
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,760
you understand it. 
But the more I can put myself in

1042
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,040
the right place to be able to 
ask Him the right questions and 

1043
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,320
to research what He is in, what 
He has helped other people to 

1044
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:16,920
write for me and study Bibles 
and commentaries and resources 

1045
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,640
for me to say, oh, that that's 
what that means. 

1046
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,000
See. 
And so these questions will be 

1047
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,160
helpful. 
But in the end, we're still 

1048
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,320
dependent. 
Now, next week when we get to 

1049
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,400
interpretation, we're going to 
talk about the massive 

1050
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,760
difference between isagesis and 
exegesis. 

1051
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,600
And, and I'm telling you, it's a
sin in the American church. 

1052
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:41,120
I, I said Jesus is a sin that I 
see in Baptist churches all the 

1053
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:45,080
time where I'm reading into 
scripture what I wanted to say, 

1054
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,240
rather than honestly drilling 
down and taking out of Scripture

1055
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,640
what it actually says because 
people are all the time. 

1056
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,560
We live in an individualistic, 
autonomous culture where it's 

1057
00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:59,920
all about me. 
And so I'm I'm even going to 

1058
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:03,280
make scripture about me. 
Right, I'm going to make it all 

1059
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,720
about what I wanted to be about 
what I my agenda and my and and 

1060
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,480
what I want my blessing to be. 
It's almost a name it and claim 

1061
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:15,320
it prosperity gospel Bible study
when I really need to just be 

1062
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,560
honest laid bare before the word
of God. 

1063
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:23,080
What does this actually say? 
Which often times does not agree

1064
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,840
with what I want or what I wish 
or what I claim. 

1065
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,520
And so it's going to be really 
important for us to be honest 

1066
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,160
about it. 
Psalm 119 verse 18 thought was a

1067
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:38,520
perfect verse for tonight. 
Open my eyes. 

1068
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:43,080
I mean, this is a prayer to God.
You know the Psalm 119 if you 

1069
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,000
don't know Psalm 119 long Psalm 
read it sometime all about the 

1070
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:51,800
word of God. 
But Psalm 119, open my eyes that

1071
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:56,160
I may behold wondrous things out
of your wall. 

1072
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,240
So you might sit there and 
think, I don't want to study the

1073
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,440
law, I don't want to study 
Leviticus. 

1074
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:03,360
I don't hear about all these 
rules. 

1075
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:09,200
And yet you can see him singing.
Show me the wondrous things 

1076
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,560
about your law. 
This is why you created this for

1077
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:13,800
us. 
You're putting a hedge of 

1078
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,480
protection around us. 
You're you're helping to drive 

1079
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,600
us to show us. 
We're supposed to be examples. 

1080
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,400
This is the whole Old Testament.
The Hebrews were supposed to be 

1081
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,880
examples. 
They were supposed to be 

1082
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,400
testimonies. 
This is what it means for a man 

1083
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:30,200
to walk with Yahweh. 
This is what it looks like for 

1084
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:34,440
humanity to dwell with Jehovah. 
And they were to be the light to

1085
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,440
the Gentiles. 
They were to be a testimony to 

1086
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,880
the world. 
I wrote a chapter for a book 

1087
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:42,120
that Lifeway sells on Old 
Testament prayers where I wrote 

1088
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:45,120
out of first Kings about 
Solomon's prayer of dedication 

1089
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:48,120
of the temple and part of his 
prayers that the the foreigners 

1090
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:52,600
would come and see this and 
experience this and and God. 

1091
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,280
And he even says God hear their 
prayers when they pray to you, 

1092
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:59,120
which was it would be. 
It would be crazy for a lot of 

1093
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,560
Hebrew thought who wanted to 
isolate and insulate and 

1094
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,680
separate and that's all. 
But at the same time, they were 

1095
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:09,880
to build a hedge of protection 
of doctrine and lifestyle and 

1096
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:14,320
morality and ethic based upon 
the word of God. 

1097
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:20,320
Nothing's changed. 
Nothing's changed Today. 

1098
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:22,920
We are supposed to be 
testimonies. 

1099
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:27,320
We are supposed to be This is 
what it looks like for man and 

1100
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:33,200
woman to walk with Yahweh. 
This, this church, this is. 

1101
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:35,960
This is what it's supposed to 
look like for humanity to dwell 

1102
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:41,440
with Jehovah, to abide in 
Christ, and for Christ to abide 

1103
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,480
in them so that they can bear 
much fruit. 

1104
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,600
Look at the fruit. 
Look at what's being borne out. 

1105
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:49,920
Why? 
Because we're people of the 

1106
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,800
Word. 
We're letting it define us. 

1107
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,120
I don't get to self define 
myself. 

1108
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:56,880
I don't get to self define my 
truth. 

1109
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,240
I don't get to be true to 
myself. 

1110
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,680
You make any sense? 
I'm an idiot. 

1111
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,880
I don't want to be true to that.
I licked A flagpole today. 

1112
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:15,080
I need to be true and abiding in
his truth, the truth. 

1113
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:20,600
Then then maybe people will 
understand that I licked A 

1114
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:27,160
flagpole to encourage you to, to
make you laugh a little, to be 

1115
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:32,560
encouraged. 
So let's be that people, people 

1116
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:36,360
of the word, right? 
So it's going to get really good

1117
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,240
next couple of sessions. 
Don't miss any of that. 

1118
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:39,720
You got to come back, bring all 
your friends. 

1119
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How do I actually interpret the 
Bible? 

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Because I'm telling you, I run 
into lost people and they'll 

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01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,840
actually say to me, I don't 
know, I read this thing and I 

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read this thing, I don't know 
what it means. 

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I can't understand it. 
So we got to talk about how to 

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set that loose so we can have 
understanding. 

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All right, let's pray together. 
Father, Your word is a blessing 

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to us. 
What a gift. 

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And Father, I know at times this
might seem mathematical or 

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mechanical, and that's not the 
intent. 

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Father, the intent here is to 
give us the best way to depend 

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upon you for us to come to you 
with questions, to come to you 

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to seek the answers so that we 
can really fully understand what

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your word is saying to us. 
That I won't just flippantly run

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through the pages. 
I won't just skim over the 

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01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:33,280
verses without really 
understanding what they say. 

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01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,120
Their Father, when I read a 
verse and it doesn't make sense 

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01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:40,040
to me that I'll stop, I'll stop,
I'll pause and and do what I can

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01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,840
to say, this is what it this is 
what it means. 

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This is what it says. 
So Father, I pray that we'll be 

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students of the word, but 
Father, we won't just be 

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01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:55,520
hearers. 
We won't just be listeners, we 

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01:04:55,520 --> 01:05:00,440
won't just study, but the Father
will do, will be doers of the 

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Word. 
Then, Father, our world will see

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01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,640
a testimony. 
They'll see a testimony that 

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01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:10,000
will draw them as you use that 
to draw them to you. 

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01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:13,800
So, Father, help us as we study 
your work together in Christ's 

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01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,880
name, Amen. 
Thank you so much for listening 

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01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:19,480
today. 
And I also hope that you'll go 

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to 
ourwebsite@englewoodbaptist.com 

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as well as our app and find many
other resources that will bless 

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you and your families. 
Thank you once again.