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Dude, thank you guys for being 
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Oh man, well, that was a crazy 
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The Hope Center is right there 
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And I just want to say on the 
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know somebody needs help or may 
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or moving stuff or anything at 
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How many guys were affected by a
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Had some limbs down, weird stuff
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I know I'm connected to a few of
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ripped off, all sorts of stuff. 
But Friday night they came right

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behind the Hope Center in that 
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contract. 
So I drove out there and I was 

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like, well, they're still 
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Just your pastor going. 
Is it still here? 

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I know Holly drove out too, but 
there's so many people who need 

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some help. 
So I just want to make ourselves

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available as a church for 
anybody who needs that. 

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So if you know somebody, just 
let us know. 

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We'd love to send out e-mail, 
get our team together. 

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I know you guys got some 
chainsaws. 

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Amen. 
This is Cass County, come on 

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with somebody, right? 
But we'll get out there and and 

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do we can and make our budget 
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just whatever we can do to help 
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I know there's like a tourist 
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We're talking to people that are
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and it's just endless cars every
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it's just thankfully it's not 
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and 0 people, 0 fatalities. 
So thank you, Jesus. 

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Amen. 
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Who would have thought that 
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right? 
So anyway, I'm excited for what 

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God's doing in our church right 
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God's been on the move last 
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Just an incredible, there was 
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way, Amen. 
Do you guys feel it? 

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Just as we started entering a 
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Cinema Aid and we had people 
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come. 
I appreciate you guys being here

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and I know God's going to use 
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But last week I'm going to 
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thing to celebrate. 
We had three people commit their

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life to Jesus last week. 
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So good, that big. 
That's why we do it. 

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I love it, man, people going to 
heaven. 

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And I remember it was like not 
knowing Jesus. 

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I remember like taking that step
and you know what in the world I

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get into actually brought my 
very first Bible today. 

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And we're going to talk through 
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some history of the Bible and 
what it is. 

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But man, there's nothing more 
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So thank you guys for bringing, 
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welcoming. 
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came out and she said it's been 
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So I've been to church and I've 
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church. 
That's that's good. 

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Amen. 
I know if you're like me, 

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there's some seasons where I 
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like, just drag yourself to it. 
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part of a life giving church, a 
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church that welcomes people and 
a church that preaches from the 

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Bible, Amen. 
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doing. 
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Wednesday night over at the Hope
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tornado right there and they had
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nights ever. 
Had they actually used all the 

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chairs in the building with all 
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And I'll share with you a text 
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our youth sent to me. 
They celebrated with Donuts. 

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Remember we had a lot of Donuts 
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They got the leftovers. 
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It's a youth group. 
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for it. 
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But here's what Logan said. 
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night. 
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He said the Donuts were a 
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at a cost. 
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Someone from the youth clogged 
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I'm like plural. 
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Probably not the same person, 
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deep. 
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I'm laying in bed going perfect.
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plunge it. 
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When I plunge it, I hear the 
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because I'm sorry, I tried to 
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So he must have just walked out 
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But without a drain snake or or 
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really do a whole lot more. 
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much more water will overflow 
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make things worse. 
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unlimited, but the the plumbing 
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somebody right. 
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say there was there. 
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Jesus, it came at a cost, but we
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So oh, man. 
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How many guys decide about the 
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guys excited about that? 
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of situation. 
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at the table and having this 
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appointments all around it. 
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September 15th. 
We're in the middle really the 

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said middle about 11 days in not
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I know these things right now 
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And So what that means is we got
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lot. 
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belt and some made at all little
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OK. 
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bit of updates, right? 
Bring it back to excellence, not

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extravagance, come on somebody, 
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don't know how many people have 
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coming out and all different 
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Amen. 
And so just be praying for 

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divine appointments. 
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there's so much that needs to be
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this is a thing that God's put 
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Amen And so we're just trusting 
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who, who loves Jesus that could 
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And there's there's so many 
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I got a huge vision for this 
space that well exceeds our 

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resources. 
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I mean, it should I I mean, I 
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have. 
Your vision always should go 

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further right? 
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a pastor, as a leader to really 
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And I'm just really excited. 
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no less than a dozen times, 
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I've been on the roof. 
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out there. 
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You know, the roof needs some 
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If you've been there, you know, 
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favor, divine appointment and 
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He is very excited what God's 
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and it's just exciting season 
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Amen And so we'll just be 
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and figure out what phases will 
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exciting stuff. 
So today dive in the Bible. 

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Amen. 
I want to, I want to dive in the

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word of God today. 
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you know, you might see this 
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done a dumb it down. 
No, I don't, I don't think so at

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all. 
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I I think actually God wrote the
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everyday people. 
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I don't think the Bible is 
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scholars or 4 point O's or 
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Hebrew and Aramaic. 
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I think God wrote for everyday 
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Do is just help you guys along 
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Maybe you're new to church. 
Maybe you, you haven't read the 

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Bible in a long time, or maybe 
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Some of y'all just our 
relationship with Jesus. 

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Some of you made me come for a 
long time and you show up, you 

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listen and you're like, oh, 
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you're not in the Bible. 
You just get a little confused 

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like what's this about? 
How does this work and what's 

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going on? 
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sorts of doubts when I first 
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how do you know this is true? 
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We'll talk about that. 
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And I was like, I don't know, 
this is is a sure thing, but I'm

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trusting you, Lord. 
And so there's room for all 

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that. 
So what you want to do is just 

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help you understand what the 
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today for you. 
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That's the goal. 
So today, just big picture, what

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is the Bible? 
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And so we're just going to start
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just going to walk through like,
what exactly is the Bible? 

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Here's the reality. 
The Bible itself has survived 

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empires. 
It's it survived centuries, it 

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survived critics, Amen. 
It's it survived all sorts of 

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leadership that hate it. 
There's people who, who've 

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burned every Bible in their 
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exists, Amen, because it, it's a
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And, and when you know this, 
then I'm just going to skip 

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ahead because I know this, this 
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truth. 
Can we just start right there? 

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And you may not believe that 
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You'll be like, hmm, that's, 
that's pretty bold. 

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And when I, when I first 
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would have not made that 
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I would have said, well, maybe. 
But now that I know the Bible, I

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know the God of the Bible 
instead of the Bible, There's 

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not a shadow of the doubt that 
this is the only source of 

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absolute truth. 
And there's not a shadow of 

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doubt that my faith is fully put
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And for me personally, I'm just 
going to share my story a little

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bit. 
It would take more faith for me 

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not to believe the Bible and to 
believe the Bible. 

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Like it would take more faith to
be an atheist. 

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It would take more faith to 
believe in all the I'm trying to

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think of a positive word that 
the world is telling us, right? 

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Counterfeits, we'll sum it up 
like that it it takes more faith

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to believe in the string theory 
and believe in evolution and 

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believe in all the other things 
we come up with to get God out 

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of our culture. 
It just take more faith for me. 

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That's where I'm at personally, 
but we'll say this, God loves 

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your questions. 
Amen. 

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If you're doubting, you're like,
well, I'm not so sure about you 

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have a thing in mind or like, I 
can't believe this or how this 

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came about or all these 
questions or you think it's 

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fabricated. 
That's OK to just have an open 

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mind and take it to God. 
If your heart is open, you could

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be a skeptic. 
God is good at taking critics 

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and turn them into converts. 
I'm one of them. 

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Amen. 
He's really good at taking 

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people. 
They're like, I'm not so sure. 

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Like that's just made-up. 
That's for weak people. 

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That makes no sense. 
Science and reasoning are 

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against the Bible, which is 
absolutely not true. 

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I, I love it when science 
finally catches up to the Bible,

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you know, Did you guys read the 
story the, the, the captain that

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Artemis 2 that we talked about a
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That's the spacecraft, right? 
Remember, right. 

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And the captain got back and he,
he's not a believer, but he 

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actually met with a chaplain 
because you're so moved. 

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But what do you saw in space? 
And there's a guy up there you 

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saw he was doing DeVos and he 
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chaplain because he said he saw 
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moon and the sun go behind the 
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just happened by chance. 
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I bet the science is always 
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Like people try to say, oh, that
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It's like God did this in six 
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out what happened. 
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Amen, Amen. 
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with here, second Timothy 215. 
How many guys went to Iwana 

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growing up? 
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Maybe a little bit. 
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the baddest circles on who runs 
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are not ashamed is what it 
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It comes out of second team to 
2:15. 

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I'll do NIV. 
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because I didn't memorize NIV on
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So it's like man, you don't 
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I remember all my verses in KJV 
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brother, you know, worker indeed
not be ashamed, right, but says 

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this do your what help me out, 
do your what? 

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Do your what? 
Somebody said worse. 

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Somebody said worse. 
I heard it out there, right? 

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Do do do halfway, right? 
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Like this is a full effort, full
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halfway, not just try until it's
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difficult or it's your first 
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You don't follow through, but it
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yourself to God as one. 
How approved? 

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what is he talking about? 
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are approved in a position like 
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Amen. 
Like when he looks at you didn't

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see your sin, he is wiped away 
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over hit each other. 
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you're chosen by God and you're 
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What does this mean that you're 
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says, a worker who does not need
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Ashamed. 
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word of truth? 
Be approved in your work and be 

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approved in your handling of the
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And it's interesting because you
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in our life, like because God is
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our life, we should be changed 
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we think, how we act, where we 
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surrender to, what we dream 
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different because of Jesus, 
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different and God should approve
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you're like me and I started out
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had a big family Bible at my 
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it sat in the long bookshelf as 
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That's what we did back in 1990.
Big bookshelves. 

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Remember the Encyclopedia 
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You guys remember that? 
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played online, we had a search 
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so that we can answer the 
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That was the game, you know what
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It's like, yeah, we're living it
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Dial up. 
You don't know what that is. 

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That's great. 
It was great, man. 

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But I I opened the Bible. 
I saw the pictures and I'm like,

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it was like a Precious moments 
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You know, like, what is this? 
Pictures and stuff? 

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But can you open the Bible and 
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Testament and you know what that
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You know the way that God worked
in the Old Testament or you open

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up and it's like New Testament, 
like this is how God worked in 

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the New Testament. 
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pasam. 
I mean, you're like, man, I 

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don't understand any of that, 
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Or Malachi, right. 
I mean, no joke, when I first 

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became a Christian, I opened the
book of Job and I thought it 

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would help me get a job. 
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Dead serious. 
Come on, somebody, it's Job if 

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you don't know, OK, They're just
like, oh, what are you talking 

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about? 
Right? 

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I, I had no idea about anything 
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right, and had to start 
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And so there's this desire, 
like, can you correctly handle 

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the word of God? 
And it's not just, you know, the

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Bible, but OK, let's say you go 
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there's these roofs ripped off, 
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And you're, you're walking down 
the street and you're talking to

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somebody and they're like, man, 
my whole house is destroyed. 

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My life's destroyed. 
There's babies, there's kids, 

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there's families being 
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Like, why, why is bad things 
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That, that, that that's what it 
means when you collected by the 

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word, you, you have an answer to
people in need. 

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Amen. 
Like do you know how to answer 

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somebody that's walking through 
a miscarriage? 

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Like do you know to help 
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season? 
Like is it, is it deep enough to

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handle your pain or is just good
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Like, because that's where 
people like walk away because oh

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God, they're they're suffering 
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It's like, yeah, in this life 
there will be trouble. 

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There's not a person place in 
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going to be easy until you go to
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But, but sometimes the theology 
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it's comfortable, it's easy, 
it's good. 

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And if not, then I'm walking 
away and Satan is good at 

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twisting that scripture. 
But can you correctly divide the

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word of truth? 
Like, and what does that look 

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like? 
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through a day like, how can you 
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this idea of not being ashamed 

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and so being ashamed of, of, of 
our works and our, our division 

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of the Bible, there's 
inspections in a, in about every

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trade, right? 
Like in construction, there's an

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inspection. 
Anybody hasn't built anything, 

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had an inspector come out that 
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We all love the building 
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Amen. 
Right. 

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Like nobody wants the building 
inspector, right? 

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But we do, we do like the food 
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Come on, somebody you ever been 
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see, they have to post the 
violation. 

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Do you know this by the way, 
every restaurant has to post 

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their last violations on the 
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Do you guys know that? 
And and if you're standing in 

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line, you start reading the 
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not sure I want to drink that 
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You know, the didn't clean that,
you know, and just you start 

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reading it right. 
There's inspections that come in

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and they see, is this work 
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Does it meet expectation? 
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And in one day our lives, we are
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to not be ashamed of our life. 
Amen. 

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We lived a life worthy of Jesus 
death. 

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We lived a life worthy of the 
call of God. 

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We followed the Holy Spirit, 
we're submitted to him and we 

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walked with wisdom things of 
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It was yes, name in and then we 
knew the Bible. 

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We correctly divided the word of
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It's as if when you present 
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the Bible in your life, you're a
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You guys ever met a skilled 
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of guys are like rough end guys.
You know what I mean within 1/4 

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inch. 
They don't know what the the 

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Latin lines mean on the tape 
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You know what I'm talking about,
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Just works and you need a lot of
roughing guys, right? 

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But you got the Carpenter that 
come in. 

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Is Bruce in this room? 
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to bear some say this Bruce is a
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comes to wood. 
I'm telling come on, give it up 

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for, you know, Bruce. 
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I've just seen a handful of 
projects and every time he does 

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something it's like, wow, how 
did you do that? 

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You know, there's skills 
involved, there's experience, 

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there's time. 
We did a little project up at 

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church for corners years ago and
we built this wall and this half

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wall and all this stuff. 
And he trimmed it out at the end

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and he put it together and I, I 
wasn't there when he trimmed it 

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out. 
I missed that day and I came 

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back. 
I'm looking at staying like, 

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man, where's the seam? 
It's just like 40 feet. 

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Like where? 
How Bruce, you're so good, man. 

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Yes, Bruce, man, it's it's just 
amazing. 

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That was probably like he's 
like, oh, dude, that was that 

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was bad work. 
You know, see, see my best 

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stuff, right. 
But there's there's something to

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saying to get around a true 
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It's just they're professional. 
They do. 

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I'm not saying we have to be at 
that level with Scripture, but 

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we should try. 
We should try, we should try. 

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We should we should open the 
Bible and do our best. 

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Amen. 
Not like, well, I'm busy. 

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It's too hard. 
I don't understand it. 

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Well, it's interesting. 
If you don't try, you never 

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will. 
And I don't think God's trying 

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to play a sick game, hide and 
seek. 

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By the way, I don't think he's 
like, well, when you get 

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spiritual enough, I'll I'll let 
you know. 

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I think he wants to reveal 
himself. 

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He the New Testament. 
He reveals the messages of God, 

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like if we just get, and Satan 
is really good at keeping us 

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away from Scripture. 
He's good at keeping Scripture 

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out of languages and out of 
people. 

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It's his goal. 
But this Bible is not meant to 

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sit on a shelf. 
It's meant to live in our 

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hearts. 
It's with your newer minds and 

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it's meant to transform our 
lives. 

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And so we're let's walk through 
the Bible list. 

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So we're just going to just big 
overview. 

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OK, you may not know this, but 
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book, not one book. 
OK, There's actually 66 books 

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inside the Bible. 
So Old Testament has 39 books. 

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The New Testament has, who 
knows, 27. 

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That's word. 
Man has 27 books. 

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And so it's real interesting. 
The word Bible, when you look, 

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it says Holy Bible. 
Every one of your Bibles 

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probably says Bible on the 
cover. 

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There's a lot of different, you 
know, versions, translations, 

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different people have wrote 
different things. 

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But you all have the word Bible 
on there, right? 

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What's the word Bible even mean?
Everybody knows what the Bible 

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means. 
It comes from the word Biblia. 

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You know what that means? 
Yeah. 

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So some people, well, it means 
book. 

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And for a long time I thought it
meant book. 

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It actually means books means 
books. 

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So it means a collection of 
writings. 

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It means a library of writings. 
So you're going to say open your

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Bible. 
You're really saying open the 

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books. 
Come on, somebody open the 

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collection of writings. 
Open your God inspired library. 

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Amen. 
So, so if you open this, like 

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when I first became a Christian,
I was like, this is all one book

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and I read it like everything 
else. 

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And I'm going to start in a left
and it's going to come to, you 

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know, the, the tension, the 
conflict, the, the, you know, 

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the Dana Moi, you don't, you 
don't talk about, right? 

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No writing classes for anybody 
here. 

452
00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,480
Perfect, right? 
And you have the whole, you know

453
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,320
how it goes. 
Now it's like, this is going to 

454
00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,880
make no sense to me, man. 
But it's a collection of 

455
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,120
writings. 
Here's the thing. 

456
00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,680
The Bible's not a random story. 
It's even though it's 66 

457
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,400
different books, it's one 
unified story. 

458
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,720
Amen. 
So we're in #1400 years. 

459
00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:28,760
There's approximately 40 
authors. 

460
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,360
We don't know. 
All of the authors know, most of

461
00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,280
them approximately or 40 riders 
I should say. 

462
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,720
And it's just about these 
riders. 

463
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,920
They're like all over the place.
You've got kings and you've got 

464
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,160
fishermen, Amen. 
I mean, you've got prophets, 

465
00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,560
someone who speaks to the people
on behalf of God. 

466
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,040
You've got disciples, you've got
the half brother of Jesus you, 

467
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,440
you've got all sorts of people. 
You've got a man that has 

468
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,160
suffered you. 
You have so many different 

469
00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,720
leaders and people that makes no
sense how their stuff would ever

470
00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,120
survive except for God. 
Amen. 

471
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,640
If you think about this, this 
thing about authors in the 

472
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,520
Bible, that the first five books
of the Bible actually written by

473
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,400
a murderer. 
Did you guys know that Moses 

474
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,680
murdered somebody? 
You guys have heard that story. 

475
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,600
If you don't know it, you've got
to read it, right? 

476
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,840
And he, God used ten of the 
first five books. 

477
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,200
Then you get the New Testament 
and a third of the New Testament

478
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,480
over 1/3 is written by murderer 
as well named Paul. 

479
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,680
Isn't that crazy to think about?
It's like the law of God. 

480
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,480
The Old Testament way was 
written by murder in the New 

481
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,200
Testament. 
That that's moving force is it's

482
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,960
like God could use anybody. 
Amen. 

483
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,720
You'd be like, Oh, I'm 
disqualified. 

484
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,400
What did who did you kill last 
week? 

485
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,360
You know what I'm saying? 
Like, and if you did, hello, 

486
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,040
it's crazy, right? 
But my original Bible, this 

487
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,880
thing is, is, is just torn to 
threads. 

488
00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,080
I mean, I got my tape on here, 
all sorts of stuff and I made 

489
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,680
the the just the air of like, 
hmm, Genesis 1 one in the 

490
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,480
beginning, God created the 
heavens and the earth and I 

491
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,600
started going right. 
And I was so confused. 

492
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,480
I got to the I got to the flood 
and the tower of Babel and then 

493
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,120
all the Huba got who and the 
Shem, the ham, the all the 

494
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,680
things, you know, and I was 
like, what in the world? 

495
00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,240
And at 15 I was just confused. 
So I want to just walk through 

496
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,560
like a big picture, like how's 
the Bible organized? 

497
00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,960
Like what is actually happening?
What is the Bible? 

498
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,320
So I got this got this picture, 
which I guess is art on the 

499
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,280
screen. 
They beat me to it. 

500
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,040
Just kidding. 
It's so small. 

501
00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,520
Can't read it down here. 
It's perfect. 

502
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,280
But the the first five books. 
All right now this is 

503
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,360
interesting because the picture 
is kind of deceptive because you

504
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:37,400
lead it just Old Testament. 
Come on somebody law and then it

505
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,240
goes to history, but didn't fill
in the shelf. 

506
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,680
So they put poetry up top. 
So this thing is confusing just 

507
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:43,840
the way it is. 
You know what I'm saying? 

508
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,880
So it goes from law to history 
to poetry and prophets. 

509
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,440
But let's just talk through like
it's organized by what? 

510
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:55,600
What what do you see in length? 
No, no, but what genre? 

511
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,760
Come on somebody type of 
literature. 

512
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,800
So the Bible's organized by type
of literature. 

513
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,520
So what type is it determines 
where it's placed. 

514
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,680
Now you're like, OK, this is 
less confusing because now I 

515
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,720
know there's some, some rhythm 
to it. 

516
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,680
And so this kind of walk through
what this looks like. 

517
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,360
So the law, this is the very 
beginning. 

518
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,000
So you got Genesis, Exodus, 
Leviticus, Numbers and 

519
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,200
Deuteronomy, first five books. 
This is the murder, right? 

520
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,200
This is Moses wrote these and 
you go all the way through these

521
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,760
patriarchs. 
You got Abraham, got Isaac, you 

522
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,200
got Jacob, you got Joseph. 
These are big names of the 

523
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,440
Bible. 
And you can read these, You can 

524
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,880
go to Genesis and you can read 
all these people and their 

525
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,560
stories. 
By the way, they're amazing. 

526
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,360
Amen. 
You, you should teach these to 

527
00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:35,520
your kids. 
You should internalize them. 

528
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,600
This is where the Bible becomes 
real. 

529
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,960
When you start seeing these 
amazing stories, you go from 

530
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,040
creation to them being nomadic 
to a, to a, to a nation being 

531
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,760
created that doesn't have a 
king. 

532
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,920
It's just a group that God's 
create a nation. 

533
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,040
And then then they they go into 
Egypt and slavery and they're 

534
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,800
set free. 
You have all these stories. 

535
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,480
They're so foundational to our 
faith. 

536
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,760
The law is given to Moses. 
And so this is how it's put 

537
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:58,760
together. 
The first five books. 

538
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,640
Then you go to history boring 
those kids. 

539
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,480
It's amazing, Amen. 
These history books are awesome 

540
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,800
and it really is. 
This is the chronology putting 

541
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,640
together the the acts of God 
through through the nation of 

542
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,760
Israel and God's power. 
And you start out and you got 

543
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,280
Joshua. 
And by the way, I did went to 

544
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,040
that second show. 
If you saw that, I don't know 

545
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,720
why it's put that on that 
whatever. 

546
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,240
So Joshua Joshua's an animal, by
the way, Amen. 

547
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,440
He wasn't perfect. 
You're going to see some of that

548
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,400
later. 
But but Josh was just just a 

549
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,320
man. 
Just the bold confidence, be 

550
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,160
strong and very courageous and 
just stepped out in faith and I 

551
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,640
just live on that. 
Judges, how many guys read the 

552
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,160
book of judges by the way, book 
of Amy read the book of judges. 

553
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,840
Oh man, dude, this is awesome, 
right? 

554
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,280
I mean, Judges is this amazing 
book where they they have 

555
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,520
freedom and then they have 
excess and they they walk away 

556
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,840
from God, they start worshiping 
other things and they go into 

557
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,080
captivity and they're just 
persecuted and oppressed and the

558
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,240
God raised up a judge. 
And then then there's a miracle 

559
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,640
that happens. 
And then God sets them free and 

560
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,680
they all worship. 
And then a cycle repeats over 

561
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,880
and over and over. 
Any of these judges, right? 

562
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,200
Yeah. 
Deborah, you, you've got Gideon,

563
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,440
you know. 
Oh, you warrior. 

564
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,760
He's in a threshing floor, 
right? 

565
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,360
You got Barrack, You got Samson,
You got the Lady Yael. 

566
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,560
You guys remember Yael? 
The steak? 

567
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,360
You don't talk. 
Anybody know what talking about?

568
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,000
Do what? 
Yeah, right. 

569
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,320
She she in the temple. 
Holly knew where to put the 

570
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,120
steak. 
He's sleeping. 

571
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,160
Drew. 
Better watch out where you're 

572
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:31,600
sleeping, brother. 
There's some awesome bug with 

573
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,960
her on there. 
If you've seen the mug. 

574
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,080
We need to pass those out on 
Sunday, Right. 

575
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,080
But anyway, just to make Ruth. 
First and Second Samuel. 1st St.

576
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,680
Kings, 1st St. 
Chronicles Yeah, Ezra and 

577
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,560
Nehemiah, Esther. 
These are all like history, but 

578
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,160
they're infinite purposes, 
right? 

579
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,520
I mean first take Samuel, you 
get this prophet that arises 

580
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,400
hands and praying Samuels born 
he annoyance David. 

581
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,280
If you hear the stories of 
David, just start bringing 

582
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,840
through Samuel. 
Absolutely amazing. 

583
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,080
First thing, Kings are Chronicle
chronologically putting together

584
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,000
the kings and all the stories of
the kings. 

585
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,200
And then Chronicles is written 
way out by Ezra, and he's 

586
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,080
looking back because they've 
lost their way. 

587
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,360
And so he rewrites the history 
of Israel so they could actually

588
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,480
follow it. 
And here it is put back. 

589
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,800
So you read Chronicles, you got 
to know where it's written. 

590
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,360
And Ezra, Ezra's a priest, he 
came to 2nd remnant back from 

591
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,080
Babylon and he re established 
the temple. 

592
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,400
And he said, man, I can't sit 
here. 

593
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,360
Your walls are built. 
But this temple's in the ruins, 

594
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,440
right? 
And I want this to be rebuilt 

595
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,480
and brought back to his full 
glory. 

596
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,600
Not just the temple, but the 
practice of the temple. 

597
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,760
Nehemiah all know Nehemiah, 
right, built the walls. 

598
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,920
We all love to hear the stories,
you know, stored in one hand, 

599
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,520
you know, laying bricks and the 
other kind of thing. 

600
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,880
Esther saves the nation with 
Mordecai. 

601
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,320
I mean, these are all great 
stories. 

602
00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:40,280
Amen. 
And they're true. 

603
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,320
And these are kind of stories. 
You can pick one of these books 

604
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,800
up and be like, Lord, just show 
me, and you can study why it's 

605
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,400
written. 
I'm not saying you use ChatGPT, 

606
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,920
but you can right now, it seems 
to work decently. 

607
00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:51,240
You can be like, what's the 
story? 

608
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,600
How does this work? 
Who wrote it, blah, blah, blah. 

609
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,000
You're going to get some decent 
answers. 

610
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,520
I'm not saying you should always
trust it. 

611
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760
Amen. 
It's kind of weird sometimes, 

612
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,280
right? 
But with the rise and fall, the 

613
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,520
struggles of God's people, then 
you got poetry, which at the 

614
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,200
end, OK, it's top shelf, top 
shelf poetry right here, right? 

615
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,280
Perfect poetry and wisdom. 
So you got Job, Psalms, 

616
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,320
Proverbs, you got Ecclesiastes 
and Psalm, Solomon Job. 

617
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,560
OK, man. 
I mean, you guys read Job. 

618
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,000
By the way, this is what if 
you're, if you're going to see 

619
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,440
the South Korea man, Job is for 
you. 

620
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:24,000
But this, this job is probably 
the oldest piece of literature 

621
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,800
that we have in humanity right 
now. 

622
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,800
So it's it's worth the read. 
Amen. 

623
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,200
I mean, I think they should 
teach it in school. 

624
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,760
I think they should teach the 
Bible in school because it's 

625
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,600
true. 
Need no, nothing else to know. 

626
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,520
I mean, even if you thought of 
history, these are writings of 

627
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,080
history. 
They're more proof for this 

628
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,720
existence than Alexander the 
Great. 

629
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,520
So it's incredible. 
But Job would have written 

630
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,440
before Moses wrote the 
Pentateuch. 

631
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,800
The first five books of the 
Bible, Job would have been 

632
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,800
written. 
So this makes it the oldest 

633
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,040
piece of literature we have. 
So we're three. 

634
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,320
See, now I've got to read Job 
when you get home. 

635
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,520
Amen. 
Like I read the oldest piece of 

636
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,120
literature in the history of 
humanity today. 

637
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,800
That's pretty cool. 
It's pretty amazing. 

638
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,400
But Job's story, you get into 
it, but it's amazing. 

639
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,920
Psalms. 
Psalms is like the hymn book of 

640
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,560
the Old Testament. 
They're meant to be sung. 

641
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,440
So when you read it, like 
there's a meter and a rhythm and

642
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,560
there's certain pieces, a lot of
them written by, most of them 

643
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,680
written by David, sons of Kora. 
There's this dude that turned 

644
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,960
his back on Moses. 
It was a crazy deal and 

645
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,560
eventually got some things right
down the road and they wrote 

646
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,320
some psalms. 
You'll see Correlator in Jude. 

647
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,280
They got some punishment there, 
but Moses wrote some of the 

648
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,840
Psalms when they crossed the Red
Sea. 

649
00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:34,400
It's just pretty amazing. 
So it's worth reading some of 

650
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,360
you guys. 
How many guys are in the way 

651
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,840
right now? 
The way groups, the Salman 

652
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,560
groups, some of y'all reading 
Psalms right now walking 

653
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,920
through, if you're in that, it's
just amazing, right? 

654
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,080
Proverbs, book of wisdom written
by the wisest person ever lived.

655
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,280
God give a gift to Solomon, 
David's son, Ecclesiastes, 

656
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:49,680
Vandy, Vandy, all is Vandy, 
right? 

657
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,800
At the end of the day, it's like
know God and follow him, follow 

658
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,000
his wisdom. 
Song of Songs. 

659
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,880
That's a good devotion with your
spouse every night. 

660
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,400
Come on, somebody. 
If you know what it is, it's 

661
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,760
like a romantic book put 
together. 

662
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,280
Her teeth are like the teeth of 
goats. 

663
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,080
Come on, somebody. 
Her hair is like the hair of 

664
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600
sheeps, right? 
Her breasts are like coconuts 

665
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,360
and her necks are like palm 
trees. 

666
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,560
I mean, nothing more sensual 
than this book. 

667
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,160
It's amazing. 
Quite the devotion. 

668
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Well, we'll move on. 
Let's go to the prophets. 

669
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,080
All right, so you got major 
prophets and minor prophets. 

670
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,520
This is interesting. 
It's not about like, are they 

671
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,280
important or not? 
Like it's not major because 

672
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,240
they're like these guys made a 
huge difference and they're 

673
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,000
minor because it's leftovers. 
It's the length of the books. 

674
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,240
The major prophets are the 
longer prophets. 

675
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,560
OK. 
And it's amazing about the major

676
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,240
prophets. 
They're actually in order of 

677
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,280
length. 
So if so, if you start reading 

678
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,320
it like Isaiah is the longest 
major prophet. 

679
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,760
So you got Isaiah, Jeremiah, 
Lamentations, Ezekiel, the 

680
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,760
missing 1, Daniel, Ezekiel, 
Daniel. 

681
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,760
So these are the so these are 
just major problems that they're

682
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,160
long and they're over in a 
different reason. 

683
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,560
So a prophet is somebody that 
God gives to speak on behalf of 

684
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,680
God to people. 
And oh, that was close. 

685
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,520
Jordan, what are you doing, man?
Our compass monitors like this. 

686
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,960
It's brand new. 
By the way, Logan, I love you. 

687
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:20,880
He dropped it the day it was 
great. 

688
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,160
Anyway, that'll been a that'll 
been a minor problem. 

689
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,800
Not a minute. 
I'll stop anyway. 

690
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,480
So the, the, the, the major 
profits, they're written to 

691
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,640
specific groups of people at 
different times. 

692
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,880
So you got to study on a little 
bit. 

693
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,880
Once you know the history and 
who it's written to and when it 

694
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,080
becomes alive. 
Amen. 

695
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,080
You do a little bit of study and
all of a sudden, like the, the 

696
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,000
the book of Isaiah is, is 
probably the greatest 

697
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,800
masterpiece of writing maybe in 
the history of the world, like 

698
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,400
Isaiah itself. 
It, it's just so well put 

699
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,640
together and there's so much 
prophecy. 

700
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,440
It, it, it's just one of the 
things like if you're going to 

701
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,800
start somewhere, just study this
book. 

702
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,080
It is so good. 
Everything kind of hangs on 

703
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Isaiah. 
But anyway, there's reasons that

704
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,600
they they're right, each of 
these and there's full of 

705
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,160
amazing stories, minor profits, 
like I said this, because 

706
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,640
they're shorter and they're 
they're not organized by length,

707
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,960
although they're kind of close. 
They're actually organized by 

708
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,120
pre exile. 
I'll talk about in a second 

709
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,960
exile and post exile. 
So let me explain what that is 

710
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,520
just a little bit. 
So when you read these books, 

711
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,800
you can understand when when 
David Saul was the first king 

712
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,760
and he got all selfish and 
started touching glory. 

713
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,680
And then and then David stepped 
in and then he had too much 

714
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,760
blood on his hands and he 
couldn't build the temple, but 

715
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,200
he designed it. 
And then he had his son Solomon,

716
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,640
who took over for him. 
And then his Solomon had two 

717
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,960
sons, Jeroboam, Rehoboam. 
And this they could, they're 

718
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,080
fighting. 
And so the Kingdom was split 

719
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,240
between two groups of people, 
OK. 

720
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,720
And so these prophets, they're 
speaking to the northern Kingdom

721
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,440
or southern Kingdom primarily. 
And you got to know who they're 

722
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,080
talking to because they're 
different histories. 

723
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,120
Amen. 
Anybody, anybody have a Johnny 

724
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,000
Mack Bible? 
John MacArthur, Johnny Mack, all

725
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,680
right back in the he's got an 
amazing he's got an amazing 

726
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,080
timeline if you can look this 
up. 

727
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,320
But like, here's the Pharaohs, 
here's the kingdoms, Reboam, 

728
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,120
Jeroboam. 
Here's the prophets are talking 

729
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,160
to who and when, but they're 
lined up both these kingdoms, 

730
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,960
they follow God. 
They have good kings and bad 

731
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,880
kings and God sends prophets to 
them. 

732
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,080
They're telling them like you 
need to turn from your sin. 

733
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,640
They don't Northern Kingdom goes
Assyria and the southern Kingdom

734
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,880
goes the Babylon in captivity. 
So then there's prophets that 

735
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,880
line up with them in captivity 
and then they come back from 

736
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,200
captivity and there's more 
prophets that are written to 

737
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,560
each of these kingdoms after 
that. 

738
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,360
That makes sense. 
That was like a 30,000 foot 

739
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,200
view. 
But you have to kind of put your

740
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,640
head around that when you pick 
the book up. 

741
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,760
You can't be like, this isn't 
making any sense for me today. 

742
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,160
Like you got to know what you're
reading. 

743
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,640
So the in the Old Testament ends
with Malachi. 

744
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,480
I said Malachi earlier, but it's
Malachi. 

745
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,520
And after Malachi, there's 400 
years of what they say is 

746
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,680
silence, but God is not silent. 
He is definitely not silent. 

747
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,760
Matter of fact says in 
Galatians, when the fullest of 

748
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,800
time has come, God set forth his
son like he's weaving together 

749
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,400
kingdoms right now of the Greek 
Empire at the end of the Old 

750
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Testament, Alexander the Great 
has just conquered the world. 

751
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,680
The Roman Empire is coming in 
and the perfecting crucifixion 

752
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,040
and all the different kings. 
And when since this is are 

753
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,200
happening, prophecies are coming
true, God's moving. 

754
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,160
But there's something really 
special that happens in this 

755
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,720
silent period, this 
intertestinal period that God 

756
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,920
does, and he puts together 
something called the Septuagint.

757
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,280
So somebody say Septuagint. 
All right, it's a big word that 

758
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,760
means 70. 
OK. 

759
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,320
And I'll, I'll explain what it 
means, what it is. 

760
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,720
But Alison the Great took over 
his conquest and the language 

761
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,240
changed from really Hebrew was 
the main spoken language for 

762
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,720
those lights, and it changed to 
Greek. 

763
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880
And so with these 70s scholars 
set out that they would 

764
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,280
translate all the Hebrew and 
some of the Aramaic, because 

765
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,880
Daniel's written Aramaic and 
they translate it into the 

766
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,280
common language of the people of
Coen Greek. 

767
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,760
And they would take that and 
they wrote it and they put 

768
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,480
together into the Septuagint, 
which is the complete Old 

769
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,960
Testament. 
And what's really cool about 

770
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,280
this is that when Jesus shows up
on earth as a as a, as a baby, 

771
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,760
OK, because you understand, 
Jesus already existed, Amen. 

772
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,080
He's eternal. 
He wasn't just born and there 

773
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,840
was Jesus, OK, he came to earth.
But when Jesus shows up to 

774
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,800
earth, he shows up and he has 
the entire Old Testament put 

775
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,800
together. 
Did you guys know that? 

776
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,280
Like he literally, he's like the
MOT baby, right? 

777
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,360
He's got the Septuagint, Amen. 
Then you might say, well, why is

778
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,880
that significant? 
It is so, so significant. 

779
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,360
By the way, I'll say it's 
significant that that God 

780
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,120
translated all this into Greek 
because we're talking about 

781
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,360
theology for the rest of us. 
It actually started about 200 BC

782
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,720
when they said, you know what? 
We need to get the Bible into 

783
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,120
everybody's language. 
That's theology for the rest of 

784
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,240
us, Amen. 
Like, why would I show up when 

785
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,880
they're speaking Hebrew, but I 
only speak Greek? 

786
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,800
I get tickled to death when I 
show up to some masses and 

787
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,040
random places and nobody speaks 
Latin, but they do it in Latin. 

788
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,760
I'm like, you do not care about 
people. 

789
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,120
That's all it tells me, Amen. 
I mean, why in the world would 

790
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,040
you not just tell them what the 
Bible says? 

791
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,440
And there's been so many people 
have been killed for getting the

792
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,880
Bible into every person's 
language over all the centuries.

793
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,320
But thank you, Jesus, we have 
it, Amen. 

794
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,520
We have in our language. 
There's people today that still 

795
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,800
don't have the Bible in 
language. 

796
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,520
There's still people who cannot 
read the Bible in a native 

797
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,040
tongue. 
And, and, and, and Satan has 

798
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,239
been really, really good at 
keeping people illiterate or in 

799
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,040
the dark ages. 
Satan is really good at keeping 

800
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,600
the Bible away from people. 
And that's maybe just the only 

801
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,520
reason why you should read it, 
because your enemy doesn't want 

802
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,199
you to. 
Amen. 

803
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,679
And so the silence, right? 
There's this Septuagint that God

804
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:43,199
put together and Jesus had it. 
And this is what Jesus says 

805
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,120
about this Septuagint, about the
Old Testament. 

806
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,080
You find this in Matthew 518 
says for truly I tell you, until

807
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,239
heaven and earth disappear, not 
the smallest letter and not a 

808
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,080
stroke, not the least stroke of 
a pen will by any means 

809
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,440
disappear from the law until 
everything is accomplished. 

810
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,800
Now, if you go back like, you 
know, on this verse, right, but 

811
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:13,280
not a jot or title, that's a 
weird word, but but not a jot or

812
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,480
title will pass the law until 
all of this is accomplished. 

813
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,640
And this is really interesting. 
Like, what does that even mean? 

814
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,960
And so if you think about what 
what a jot is and it says the 

815
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,960
smallest letter. 
And so a jot is in reference to 

816
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,000
an iota. 
An iota is the smallest letter 

817
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,720
in the Greek alphabet. 
So what you're saying is even 

818
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,760
the smallest letter is inspired 
by God and put an exact place 

819
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,360
where it should be. 
So so when Jesus came, he's 

820
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,560
like, well, you guys are pretty 
close on this Old Testament 

821
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,720
here, but there are some issues.
Come on, somebody, somebody 

822
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,640
asked me a few weeks ago, how do
you know the Bible, Bible's 

823
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:46,800
true? 
Like, how do you know, like 

824
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,160
people didn't change it and 
stuff like that? 

825
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,800
Do you think the God, the 
universe has the ability to 

826
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,200
preserve his word? 
Do you think he can do that? 

827
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,840
Do you think he's like, oh, 
these people mess it up? 

828
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,200
Are you crazy? 
He can split the Red Sea, but he

829
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,920
can't make his word, his word. 
This isn't a man's word. 

830
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,560
So he even goes back. 
So he's got the Septuagint and 

831
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,680
he's got hey, every every iota 
of this Septuagint, every time 

832
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,520
you see the letter I the 
smallest letter in the Greek 

833
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,880
alphabet, every iota I put 
there. 

834
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,720
That's amazing. 
And he says title. 

835
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,640
This is an interesting like 
what's a title, right? 

836
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,600
And in Hebrew, it's like the 
you'd have AI don't know, like 

837
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:29,360
the the little accent mark on 
the words in in Hebrew, that's a

838
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,200
title. 
Matter of fact, even in the 

839
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,080
English language today, you 
still have a title is a dot of 

840
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,400
an I is a title. 
The dot of AJ is called a title.

841
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,920
Isn't that crazy? 
And So what Jesus saying is not 

842
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,560
every, not just the smallest 
letter is an exact place, but 

843
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,680
the exact stroke of the pen is 
an exact place. 

844
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,720
Amen. 
It just was crazy to me. 

845
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,360
There's something like people 
like, well, I don't know if I 

846
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:52,480
believe all this Old Testament 
stories. 

847
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,840
There's some crazy stories. 
I'm like, brother, if you 

848
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,640
believe in Jesus, you have no 
choice but to believe everything

849
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,920
that is said in the Old 
Testament because he did not 

850
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,120
correct it. 
He matter of fact, he confirmed 

851
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,560
it, Amen. 
And then just confirm it. 

852
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,880
He actually fulfills it because 
he's not going to. 

853
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,480
Nothing's going to disappear 
until Jesus fulfills every 

854
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,600
single part of this. 
And So what he's saying is every

855
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,560
detail of God word actually 
matters. 

856
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,080
And then you start thinking 
about what Jesus didn't correct 

857
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,000
in the Old Testament because 
there's some crazy stuff in the 

858
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,080
Old Testament. 
I know people don't follow Jesus

859
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,320
because the story's Old 
Testament. 

860
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,440
I'm like everything hangs hinges
on the resurrection of Jesus, By

861
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,240
the way, like if you believe 
that a man could have raised 

862
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:36,680
from the dead, you have nothing 
else to say about creation. 

863
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,680
Like when it when it when it 
says that God created 6 days and

864
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,680
then he rested on the 7th. 
We should take no further 

865
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,680
thought to say, well, we'll put 
evolution into that or, or these

866
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:48,600
are eras. 
Is your God so small? 

867
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,840
You have to come up with human 
reasons for God's doing his 

868
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,240
work. 
I'm just going to say it. 

869
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,000
It's it's like, what are you 
trying to do here? 

870
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,360
Like he he's not rewriting the 
word of God because we think we 

871
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,040
know something or he created 
male and female. 

872
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,840
There's 2026 in a nutshell. 
So we put that in the clip so we

873
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,280
can be blacklisted somehow, 
right? 

874
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,360
Like male and female. 
Do we have to create that 

875
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,400
differently? 
There was God like, oh man, I 

876
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:13,680
forgot to wall that down for 
you. 

877
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,880
Let's get rid of all the you've 
just versions of the Bible. 

878
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,360
You're a God being he. 
This is like a neutral Bible, 

879
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,200
right? 
That is so weak. 

880
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,760
You know, like the word's the 
word, Amen. 

881
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,000
He just put together or says he 
should leave his mother and 

882
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,600
father and cleave to his wife. 
Like, are we going to redefine 

883
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,440
marriage in, in 2026? 
Because the culture and I'm, I'm

884
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,720
sorry, like, I know there's a 
lot of struggles. 

885
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,080
I know the world's putting a lot
of counterfeits out there. 

886
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,880
I know a lot of people run a lot
of directions. 

887
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,920
We love you, Amen. 
But like, I'm not going to like 

888
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,080
if, if, if I don't have this to 
stand on, I'm going to go do 

889
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,800
something else in my life. 
Amen. 

890
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,760
I can find a lot of ways to have
fun, brother, right? 

891
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,680
I, I can find a lot of things to
do with my Sundays. 

892
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,040
I can do a lot of things. 
But if this is real, it, it 

893
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,840
comes at a, at a, at a price. 
Amen. 

894
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,400
Is it comes with obedience or 
you think about the wars and 

895
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,120
the, and if you, the death and 
the fighting and all these 

896
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,040
people being killed, like, oh 
man, it's just crazy. 

897
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,000
And it's like, it is crazy. 
Like you see the power of God 

898
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,640
and, and then the darkness of 
sin, like you see the all of God

899
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,840
and all these different pieces. 
How about Jonah? 

900
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,400
Maybe some people actually can't
believe in Jonah. 

901
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,920
I believe about the Bible. 
I can't believe in Jonah. 

902
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,400
It's like how many guys know 
that Jonah's actually a type of 

903
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,360
Christ? 
Do you guys know that? 

904
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,240
Like when Jesus in the New 
Testament, he goes, I'm going to

905
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:32,600
race him dead in three days, 
just like Jonah come out of the 

906
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,160
belly of the whale. 
What he's saying is just as 

907
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,120
Jonah, and it might be an 
argument that Jonah died just 

908
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,200
going to put out there, but just
as Jonah was in the whale, I'm 

909
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,720
going to be in the dirt for 
three days. 

910
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,000
So if you want to delete Jonah, 
you could just delete Jesus 

911
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,800
because that's just what you 
did. 

912
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,440
Amen. 
But like there's all these 

913
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,920
stories like all can't be true. 
It's like, no, it's true every, 

914
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,800
every jot, every title, every 
stroke, every letter was 

915
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,560
perfectly placed by Jesus. 
Jesus in the New Testament, he 

916
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,280
quotes the Old Testament over 60
times. 

917
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,160
It's it's quoted so much and 
then he confirms it. 

918
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,840
He actually relates to it, if 
you want to call it references 

919
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,800
it more than 100 times. 
Matter of fact, the first thing 

920
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,400
Jesus did when he opened his 
public ministry, this is the 

921
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,600
very first thing he did. 
Luke chapter 4 verse 16. 

922
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Look at this. 
He went being Jesus to Nazareth.

923
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160
When he had been brought up, so 
he gets to the where he'd been 

924
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,040
brought up, so his hometown. 
And on the Sabbath day, so this 

925
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,640
is Saturday, it's when they had 
the synagogues and they met. 

926
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,480
He went to the synagogue as was 
his custom. 

927
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,400
So every Saturday, Jesus didn't 
skip. 

928
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Come on, somebody just saying he
stood up to read because that's 

929
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,000
what you did in the scroll of 
the prophet who? 

930
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,080
Yeah, I remember. 
It's still up there. 

931
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,280
Oh, no, we got the screen. 
But the prophet Isaiah. 

932
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,280
So he finds that major prophet 
Isaiah told you so much on 

933
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,920
Isaiah was handed to him. 
You think that's an accident? 

934
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,920
Nope. 
Unrolling the scroll, he found 

935
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,120
the place where it was written. 
It's you know, he's like, where 

936
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,800
did I write this at? 
You know, verse 18. 

937
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,240
This is a direct quote. 
He said the spirit of the Lord 

938
00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:03,200
is on me and I don't know what 
he's doing. 

939
00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:06,000
Maybe he's doing this the spirit
of the Lord's on me because he's

940
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,440
annoying me to play him good 
news to the poor. 

941
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,240
He has sent me to proclaim 
freedom to the prisoners, to 

942
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,080
recover sights of the blind, to 
set the oppressed free and to 

943
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,400
proclaim the year of the Lord's 
favor. 

944
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,240
And they took the he rolled up 
the scroll. 

945
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:23,480
I just see him like, you know, 
just I'm in charge here, right? 

946
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:25,480
And he gave it back to the 
attendant. 

947
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,960
And then he walked through 
whatever he sat at the front and

948
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,040
all the eyes, the eyes of 
everyone that's saying God was 

949
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,640
fastened on him. 
That's how he knows a good 

950
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,880
sermon. 
By the way, they're like, what 

951
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,400
did this guy just say? 
And he began by saying to them, 

952
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:46,400
today, this scripture is 
fulfilled in your hearing. 

953
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,240
Is that crazy? 
And so you look at the Old 

954
00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:51,720
Testament like, oh, it can't be 
true. 

955
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:57,040
Jesus confirmed and fulfilled 
the Old Testament, the beginning

956
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,400
of his public ministry. 
He just quotes what he already 

957
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,000
wrote in the future or in the 
past about the future. 

958
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,680
He's writing about himself. 
And then he repeats like, and 

959
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:08,160
again, just so you know, I'm 
doing what I already told you is

960
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,720
going to do. 
And so that's the Old Testament,

961
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:13,920
Amen. 
And I'm going to run out of 

962
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:19,520
time, so I'm just going to make 
this this take good notes. 

963
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:24,400
Come on somebody New Testament, 
we're going to roll gospels. 

964
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,400
So the Gospel means story. 
OK, So you got Matthew, Mark, 

965
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,720
Luke and John. 
The three early ones, Matthew, 

966
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,320
Mark and Luke, they're written 
early on close to when Jesus 

967
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,920
resurrected, like with within 20
years. 

968
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,480
Now you've got John, which is 
written 900 or 90 AD. 

969
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,520
So you've got, you know, 6055 
years after. 

970
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,920
So, so the first they're called 
the Synoptic Gospels and the 

971
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,400
last one kind of stands on its 
own. 

972
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:48,160
And John is writing to make sure
everybody knows that Jesus was 

973
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:49,360
God. 
He's writing by the deity. 

974
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,360
He has like 7 or 8 I am 
statements, you know, and he 

975
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,520
just nails it out. 
And so master of Gospel story, 

976
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,360
it's the story of Jesus, Amen. 
But it's not just the story, 

977
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,080
It's the story of Jesus on earth
in the story of Jesus 

978
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:06,600
resurrection in almost a third 
or a fourth of those 4 gospels 

979
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,960
is dedicated to Jesus last week,
his death, burial, resurrection,

980
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,560
sighting, because it wanted you 
to know that for sure. 

981
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,200
So if you know who Jesus is, I 
was starting the book of John. 

982
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,360
I just read the book of John. 
If you're like, I'm not sure. 

983
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,120
I don't believe any of this. 
Read the book of John. 

984
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,840
And then Matthew, Mark and Luke.
They, they, they're different 

985
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,640
written, different people and 
different types of groups, but 

986
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,320
they all have the same story of 
Jesus. 

987
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,920
Now Jesus existed before the 
gospels. 

988
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,320
Amen. 
In the Old Testament, this was 

989
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,120
somebody told me a few weeks 
ago, man, you know, Jesus was in

990
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,360
the Old Testament. 
Like, Yep, Yep, he's eternal. 

991
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,600
Before there was time, there was
Jesus. 

992
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:43,240
He's always been and always will
be the alpha, the Omega, the 

993
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:44,880
beginning, the end. 
He's timeless. 

994
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,680
He's not bound by time, space 
and matter. 

995
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,400
He's not bind by the Trinity of 
our, our world, time, space that

996
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,560
matter. 
He's bound by something else. 

997
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,520
And so, so Jesus seem boundless,
I should say, but there's 

998
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,000
Christophany. 
He's like when Christ in the Old

999
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,360
Testament, you heard another in 
the fire, you sing the song, 

1000
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:00,760
right? 
And there's no other fire. 

1001
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,720
That's Jesus, right? 
When you see in the Old 

1002
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:05,560
Testament when somebody worships
somebody and they take their 

1003
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,000
shoes off, that's Jesus. 
There's Christophanes, there's 

1004
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,800
somebody who wrestled somebody 
named Jacob, that's called 

1005
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,640
Jesus. 
Amen. 

1006
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,880
So when you read the stories, 
you're about the stories of 

1007
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Jesus when he came as a human, 
the incarnation to earth. 

1008
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,720
All right, I'm moving faster 
history. 

1009
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,360
This is the book of Acts. 
OK, we got the it's back up. 

1010
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,800
Perfect. 
They did a better job on this 

1011
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:26,400
one. 
Perfect. 

1012
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,040
So the book of Acts, it's just 
history. 

1013
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,480
It's really called like Acts of 
the Holy Spirit, Acts of the 

1014
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:32,960
early disciples. 
I like the acts of the Holy 

1015
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,680
Spirit, just what God was doing.
And it moved from like just a, 

1016
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,600
a, a, a little movement in the 
upper room. 

1017
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,600
Jesus sins and and the, the 
Pentecost comes a few days 

1018
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,160
later. 
They speak in tongues. 

1019
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,440
It appears on language and the 
gospels preached and many come 

1020
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,120
to Christ and there's missionary
journeys. 

1021
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,440
Paul goes on three of them. 
He brings the gospel to all 

1022
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,640
these places. 
You're going to see the letters 

1023
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,120
in a second and the gospel goes 
out into the world. 

1024
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,560
That's the story of Acts. 
Great book. 

1025
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:56,560
By the way. 
Haven't you read the book of 

1026
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,120
Acts before? 
I mean that'll, that will change

1027
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,320
your faith right there. 
Amen. 

1028
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,600
Then you got these letters. 
Some people call them epistles. 

1029
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,560
That's the old name for it. 
But letters, and all these 

1030
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,520
letters right here, Paul's 
letters and the general letters,

1031
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,800
those are all letters written to
either churches or to groups of 

1032
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,720
people or to individual people. 
And it was really cool in the 

1033
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:15,960
New Testament, all of Paul's 
letters are actually put 

1034
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,080
together. 
How many guys knew that? 

1035
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:19,960
Right? 
And they're back-to-back to 

1036
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,040
back-to-back. 
And so Paul, he starts out with 

1037
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,920
Romans. 
So he's writing the Church of 

1038
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,480
yeah, Church of Rome, Right. 
And then first St. 

1039
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,600
Corinthians Church of Corinth 
and then and then he has 

1040
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,440
Galatians, the Church of Galatia
and the and then the letter to 

1041
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,440
Ephesians written to Ephesus. 
And then Colossians is written 

1042
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,680
to Colossae, and then 
Philippians are written to 

1043
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,440
Philippi. 
And then he goes into the First 

1044
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,480
Thessalonians, which is written 
to the Church of Thessalonica. 

1045
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,960
And then he changes gears a 
little bit. 

1046
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,400
He starts writing individuals. 
So he writes to his protege 

1047
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,360
Timothy first, Second Timothy. 
And then he writes to Titus. 

1048
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,920
And then he writes to a guy that
he's appealing to him to take 

1049
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,440
back somebody that once was his 
slave but adopted with his son. 

1050
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,320
And he writes to Philemon. 
This is good news, Amen. 

1051
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,840
So why are they there? 
Well, these are churches that 

1052
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,080
he's established on his 
missionary journeys and you can 

1053
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,280
read the history between Acts 
and those you put them together.

1054
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,080
You got amazing little piece of 
text going there and then you 

1055
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,480
got journal letters. 
OK, so Hebrews, we do not know 

1056
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,840
really what Hebrews. 
I don't think it's Paul, but 

1057
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:22,080
yeah, James. 
James half wrote to Jesus. 

1058
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,240
He's very practical. 
It's a great practical book. 

1059
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,280
First time. 
Peter's written by Peter himself

1060
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,920
to the Church of Rome. 
It's an underground church. 

1061
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,440
His name is Babylon. 
So don't know who's writing to 

1062
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:33,120
make sure you get this next one 
right. 

1063
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,040
Oh, yeah. 
First, second and third John and

1064
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,600
then Jude. 
So first, second, third John. 

1065
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,680
If you don't know, they're 
written by the same John who 

1066
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,120
wrote the book of John, the 
Gospel of John, and also the 

1067
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,040
person who wrote Revelation. 
But we had this happen a few 

1068
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,920
weeks ago. 
We got some some guys can do to 

1069
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,280
their faith in our way groups. 
And remember, I was in Scripture

1070
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,320
and it was first John 19 and 
they memorized John 19. 

1071
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,440
They didn't know there were 
different books, but now you 

1072
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,680
know. 
Amen So the basics here, right? 

1073
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,720
And then and then Jude and 
Jude's a fire fire book, right? 

1074
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,560
And then Revelation, different 
type. 

1075
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,000
It's not a letter. 
It's really a kind of 

1076
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,360
apocalyptic. 
John is getting this, he's 

1077
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,800
getting this vision from heaven 
and he's with Jesus and he sees 

1078
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,040
these churches and all these 
beasts and it's end times. 

1079
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,440
It become really relevant one 
day. 

1080
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,960
Amen. 
But this is called the 

1081
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,680
collection. 
So you say open your Bible. 

1082
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,200
This is the collection. 
Amen And you got to get really 

1083
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,560
good. 
Like you open it like do you 

1084
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,400
know what you're reading? 
And I'll just say this is in 

1085
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,800
with this verse. 
But Hebrews 412. 

1086
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:37,440
It says for the word of God is 
what living and active. 

1087
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:42,240
The Bible is not an A book with 
old writings and fables and good

1088
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:46,240
teaching. 
It is an active living book. 

1089
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,920
Amen. 
It says sharper than any double 

1090
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,920
edged sword. 
It is an offensive weapon, like 

1091
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,640
when when Peter put away his 
physical sword, he actually 

1092
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,960
picked up the real sword. 
You know what talking about? 

1093
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,200
And he preached this because 
this is life and it's so sharp. 

1094
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,560
It says it pierces into the 
dividing soul and spirit joints 

1095
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,480
and marrow. 
How how deep and how sharp is 

1096
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,320
the word of God? 
That would actually divide 

1097
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:19,280
marrow from joint like the very 
fabric of your soul to actually 

1098
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,400
dichotomize and split your soul 
from spirit. 

1099
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,880
It's only the word of God can do
that. 

1100
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,840
Amen. 
Like, yeah, that's how deep it 

1101
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,880
penetrates. 
And so when you're like giving 

1102
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,120
somebody advice and to me 
struggling or whatever The thing

1103
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,480
is, you share the word of God, 
Amen, Because it's what they 

1104
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:34,800
need. 
And it's it divides. 

1105
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,560
And what's a dividing good, bad 
and ugly? 

1106
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:42,000
Amen, old man Newman, Sean. 
And God, it's it's dividing 

1107
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,600
those pieces every time you hear
it and it says it judges the 

1108
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,480
thoughts and intentions of the 
heart. 

1109
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,560
It doesn't even judges your 
thoughts, it judges the motives 

1110
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,120
of your thoughts. 
Is that incredible? 

1111
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,200
And you go back to Genesis 
chapter 6. 

1112
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,160
And the flood came because every
thought and intention of the 

1113
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,000
heart was wicked beyond all 
deceit. 

1114
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,400
And it goes on to say nothing in
all creation is hidden from 

1115
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,040
God's sight. 
Everything is uncovered and 

1116
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:12,920
exposed before the eyes of him 
being Jesus, to whom we must 

1117
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,680
give what an account. 
Yes, we know Jesus. 

1118
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,280
Yes, we love Jesus. 
Yes, we're forgiven. 

1119
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,320
But we should be careful how we 
live because one day you have to

1120
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,960
give an account. 
Did you live the way I asked you

1121
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,440
to live? 
Was your life full of yes and 

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Amen? 
Was your life a position of 

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surrender? 
You guys saying today I'm 

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available, do what you want, 
take what you want. 

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Like everything I have is yours.
You saying this earlier and is 

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built on the word of God. 
I was 18 years old, I had this 

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Bible and I knelt down by this 
tree at a youth camp and I 

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surrendered my life to Jesus. 
It was like a blank sheet of 

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paper. 
And I just signed it and said, 

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God, whatever you write, 
wherever you ask me to go, 

1131
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,760
wherever you lead me, it is just
already a yes, Amen. 

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It's built on the word of God. 
And so this Bible isn't just any

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book. 
It's not there to collect dust. 

1134
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It's there because it's living 
and active and transformative 

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and pierces our soul and divides
our thoughts. 

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And when you look into it, you 
have nothing left but to be 

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transformed because the Holy 
Spirit working in you, Amen. 

1138
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And so my challenge today is how
many guys need to get into the 

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Bible, Like how many need to 
make this a daily habit? 

1140
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I mean, you don't have to know 
everything. 

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Come on somebody, you just learn
one thing a day, just learn the 

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next thing. 
You open the toolbox, You're 

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like, man, that's a Phillips. 
OK, cool, that's a Phillips. 

1144
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:36,960
Some of you are going to learn 
some advanced tools, somebody 

1145
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,840
going to learn some new tools, 
but you're all learning. 

1146
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,880
Amen. 
And you have to get the word of 

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God into your life every single 
day. 

1148
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,400
That's the challenge, that's the
goal. 

1149
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And that's not for the next 
week. 

1150
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It's for your whole life is 
built on this. 

1151
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,440
And so Father, we come before 
you God, we ask God, you just 

1152
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,080
give us the confidence. 
God give us the courage to do 

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drastic things and as simple as 
just picking the Bible up and 

1154
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:00,840
your word would just strip us of
ourselves. 

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00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,640
We grow into the image of your 
son. 

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00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,720
You'll be transformed. 
You got to renew our minds. 

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00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,800
We studied the real thing. 
So we know when we see a 

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counterfeit hope. 
Our church should be so counter 

1159
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:11,840
cultural because it's just built
on you. 

1160
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,320
The culture is not going to 
understand to God your word is 

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00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:16,840
true. 
We trust it. 

1162
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,160
We trust every single word, 
every single letter is perfectly

1163
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:23,080
placed, every stroke of the pen,
every dot of the I and so God, 

1164
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,640
we trust you. 
I'll pray for one more group of 

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00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,320
people in the house and that's 
those you say I just don't not 

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00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,480
only need to get in the word of 
God, I need the word of God to 

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00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,520
get in me. 
The Bible says that in the 

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beginning was the word and word.
Word was with God and the word 

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00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,160
was with God and the word is God
because on verse 14 says the 

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00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,080
word became flesh and dwelt 
among us be on the glory, the 

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00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,520
glory of the only God of the 
Father, all of grace and truth. 

1172
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,880
It's about Jesus and some of you
guys need the word himself, 

1173
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,520
Jesus to come into your life to 
save you from your sin, to 

1174
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,720
recognize you're a Sinner and 
need of a savior that this book 

1175
00:51:55,720 --> 00:51:58,240
is not just some fable, but 
today you surrender your life 

1176
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:02,520
just like we sang already and 
said Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I need

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00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,360
you God for the first time in 
life, I surrender myself. 

1178
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,960
I surrender to your way. 
I believe you died on the cross,

1179
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,960
my sin 2000. 
You got resurrected for me and 

1180
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,280
so today if you need Jesus, the 
Bible says today is the day of 

1181
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,400
salvation. 
If you call on him and confetch 

1182
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,640
him out that he is the Son of 
God and raise him dead and 

1183
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:19,960
believe in your heart that 
you'll be saved. 

1184
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:22,760
So today if you need Jesus, they
might get weird then call you 

1185
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:24,440
out, but if you need Jesus, we 
just raise your united place. 

1186
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,600
I need Jesus. 
I think the word of God to get 

1187
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,840
in me for the very first time to
be transformed by the power of 

1188
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,240
the Holy Spirit. 
If you raise your hand, just 

1189
00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:34,560
praise prayer. 
The prayer is not save you but 

1190
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,480
your belief in him and say 
Father God thanks so much to 

1191
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:41,600
Jesus at your word I am changed 
the word of Jesus. 

1192
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,040
You died on the cross through my
sins. 

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00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,440
Lord, I surrender myself. 
God, I trust you God, I obey 

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00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:50,440
from now on. 
God, it's yesterday, Amen. 

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00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,240
God draw close to me. 
I draw close to you, Father, 

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00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:57,120
forgive me God make me whole. 
That's through my life God use 

1197
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,880
it how you see fit. 
I'm available for you. 

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00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,200
I pray this and the church said 
Amen. 

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Give some glory to God today. 
Amen.