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We pray, amen.

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Amen.

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Okay, we're in Matthew chapter 23 this evening.

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And the title of my sermon tonight is The Scribes.

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I'm going to preach on the subject of The Scribes.

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Now, Matthew chapter 23 is a very familiar portion of Scripture for us

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because we often associate it with Jesus' condemnation on the Pharisees.

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It's a very popular sermon that he preached against the Pharisees.

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And when we often read it, we focus on the Pharisees and rightfully so.

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But sometimes we forget that he's also addressing the scribes, right?

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He actually says, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees.

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In other words, the Pharisees were very much guilty of all the things that Jesus was saying here in Matthew 23.

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But we also see that the scribes were equally guilty of that as well.

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And we're going to go through this chapter and just kind of highlight some of the sins and hypocrisy of the scribes

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as highlighted here in Matthew 23.

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Now, hold your place there. Let's go to Jeremiah chapter 36, if you would.

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Jeremiah chapter 36.

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Before we get started on Matthew 23, let's talk about the office of a scribe.

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What is that referring to?

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What did these men do in the Bible?

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Because it's an office that we see not just in the New Testament,

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but we see also pretty prevalent in the old.

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Now, by the time we get to the 1st century AD, when dealing with the scribes,

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they're actually pretty wicked. They have a really negative connotation attached to them.

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They are false prophets. They're being preached against.

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They are often conspiring with the Pharisees and the chief priests against Jesus.

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And when we look at what the scribes or who the scribes are referring to in the Noom,

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it's often used interchangeably to describe the lawyers, right?

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The lawyers who have the scribes and then you have the Pharisees.

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But here's the thing. When it comes to the scribes as compared to the Pharisees,

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the scribes was actually somewhat of a legitimate office

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that had somewhat of a practical function behind it.

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The Pharisees did it. There's no need for Pharisees in the Bible at all.

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There was no practical functionality when it came to the office of a Pharisee.

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In fact, you could scour the Old Testament.

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You'll never find a mention of Pharisees, right?

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You'll never find a mention of God's sanctioning Pharisees or deigning Pharisees.

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Now, you do find the office of a Sadducee because the Sadducee

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were essentially the ones responsible for the tasks of the temple.

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They're the sons of Zadok and they're the ones who are essentially carrying out the duties of the temple.

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So that is a legitimate office.

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That was a legitimate responsibility that they were supposed to uphold.

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Now, obviously, we can see the Sadducees in the New Testament and they're apostate.

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So even though it's a legitimate office, even though God sanctioned it in the Old Testament,

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by the time we get to the New, they've already gone apostate.

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How do we know that?

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Because they're denying angels and demons. They're denying the resurrection.

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So even though God sanctioned for that specific office to be held in Israel

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to oversee the duties of the temple,

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by the time we get to the 1st century A.D., they've already transgressed the doctrines of Christ.

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They've rejected the Lord. They're super apostate.

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And at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter.

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Why? Because by the time Jesus Christ dies, the Old Testament transfers into the New.

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There's no longer a need for a physical temple where the Sadducees are serving

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because we are the temple of the Holy Ghost, which you have of God in your and not your own.

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We are that priesthood, that holy nation and so forth.

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So the Sadducees, though sanctioned in the Old Testament, it's kind of null and void in the New.

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Pharisees, on the other hand, you won't find that mention.

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Now what does Pharisee mean? It actually means the separated ones.

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And when you look at it from a historical perspective because you actually have to go to history

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to find the origins of a Pharisee because you're not going to find it in the Bible.

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It's like you're reading throughout the entire Bible.

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You get to the book of Matthew and you just hear Pharisees like, where do these guys come from?

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These guys are in charge. They're in charge of the synagogues.

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They have a lot of authority. They have a lot of power.

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They can excommunicate people. People hold them in high regard.

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And you kind of just want to go back in time and say, excuse me, sir, where'd you come from?

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Like, apparently you're like really important in the nation of Israel.

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But how did you gain this influence and importance to the point where, you know,

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people look to you as being a legitimate religious authority in the nation of Israel?

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Well, when you look throughout history, you see that they actually arose

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after what's referred to as the Maccabean Revolt.

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They're the second temple institution of religious zealots of Jews

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who are essentially trying to preserve Jewish identity.

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So they're trying to preserve it from Hellenization.

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Hellenization meaning that they didn't want Greek culture to infiltrate

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and they didn't want to lose their ethnic identity

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and essentially become obsolete as a Jewish people.

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So what they did is they formed this group known as the Pharisees, the separated ones,

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in order to preserve that.

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And you can think to yourself, well, that's kind of legitimate.

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They're trying to preserve their ethnic identity.

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They're in Babylon.

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And they're just trying to preserve what their forefathers were,

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what they did, their customs and so forth.

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And, you know, arguments can be made as to why,

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if it was legitimate for them to be an actual group of people

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that were needed in the nation of Israel.

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The problem is this, is that after that group arose to prominence,

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somewhere along the way, by the time we get to the 1st century AD,

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they somehow seized power over the synagogues.

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And the synagogues, again, are not institutions that are sanctioned by God.

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They're just kind of like a necessary evil.

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And the reason I say necessary evil is because it's really for people

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who can't make it to the temple.

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So they have these groups where they get together,

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they read the scriptures, they pray, they sing hymns.

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And so it's like a chapel, so to speak, right?

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You ever heard of a chapel service?

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It's like, those are like chapels.

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And so somehow the Pharisees ended up seizing power over these synagogues.

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And then by the time you get to the 1st century AD,

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the culture of synagogues and Pharisees is so embedded

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into the history of Israel, no one really questions

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whether it should be a legitimate institution.

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Okay?

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It's just kind of like accepted, these are the guys in charge.

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These are the ones we need to look to.

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We want to be a part of the synagogues,

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even though there's already a temple there.

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Because keep in mind, the synagogues were an alternative to the temple.

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Not a replacement for the temple,

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an alternative if the person could not physically make it to the temple.

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So it's just like, oh, we live too far to make our pilgrimage to the temple.

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We'll let's join the synagogue.

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We can hear the law of Moses and so forth.

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And this is why when you read the Book of Acts, for example,

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you'll hear about synagogues in Asia Minor

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and a lot of different Greek-speaking areas

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because these synagogues were started as an alternative

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for the temple if people couldn't make the pilgrimage to that temple.

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And so 1st century AD, you have the Pharisees.

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They are in charge of it.

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They have political power.

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They have religious power.

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And they're the ones who essentially spearheaded the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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Now here's the thing though,

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but they have no practical functionality.

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There's no need for them at all within Israel.

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There's a need for the Sadducees,

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even though they suck and they're apostate,

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but it's okay.

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They're going to go away soon.

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But there is some sort of need for them

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because God needed someone.

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He sanctioned people to oversee the temple, you understand?

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Whereas the Pharisees are like, you guys are here

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and all you guys are doing is just lording over the flock of God.

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You're just kind of, you know,

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just kind of usurping authority, hating on Christ,

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trying to undermine biblical authority,

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teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men,

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just perverting scripture.

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You hate God's people, you know?

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And at the end of the day,

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the Pharisees ended up being the progenitors to modern-day rabbinic Judaism.

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Okay?

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So, you know, you have the Sadducees

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and once the temple was destroyed in 70 AD,

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they're out of a job.

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Like there's no more temple, right?

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So either get with the program, become a Christian,

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or just join the Pharisees.

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Because the Pharisees didn't really need the temple

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in order to function as a group of religious Pharisees, right?

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Judaism doesn't really need the temple.

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Because after the temple was destroyed,

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they can simply go into what?

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Their synagogues and just continue with their authority,

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ruling over the people.

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And that's why Judaism ended up evolving into what we have today

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because of the Pharisees.

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Okay?

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So they have no practical, you know, functionality to them.

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There's no need for them whatsoever

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other than what they did after, you know,

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the Second Temple and the Maccabean Revolt

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to preserve Jewish identity.

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But after that, there's no need for them.

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Now, the scribes, it could be said the same thing

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of the scribes that it wasn't an office

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that was instituted by God,

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but it did serve some sort of practical functionality.

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Why?

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Because a scribe, and we're just talking about generally

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what a scribe is.

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A scribe is someone who is a copyist, okay?

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They are a recorder.

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They're like a secretary.

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And not even in religious matters.

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It could be for, you know, governments

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and magistrates if they need to copy documents,

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genealogies.

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These are people who are very skilled in writing

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because you've got to keep in mind,

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you know, a lot of people back in those days

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didn't know how to read or write.

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Now, I'm not going to ask for a raise of hands,

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but I'm assuming a lot of you know how to read and write,

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at least, you know, read the Bible, okay?

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You know, I can read, I can write.

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Now, I do write like a doctor

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and you can't really understand my penmanship

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and I'm working on that.

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But, you know, the ability to read and write

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wasn't as prevalent back then as it is now.

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So, you have these scribes who were very skilled

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in reading, writing, and copying accurately.

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Very important, right?

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They didn't have a copy machine.

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They didn't have a printer.

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They needed literal people to get the scriptures

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and they would just copy it over and over again.

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It's a very functional office, very needed, right?

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Now, transfer that over to the Bible.

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It's very needed when it comes to the scriptures, okay?

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So, you have these scribes

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who are assigned to governments and magistrates

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in order to copy documents, legal things and such,

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but then you also have scribes

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who serve the purpose of dictating

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or writing down what the prophet is dictating.

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So, the prophet who is inspired by God

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to preach the word of God, he's ripping face

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and the scribe is just like, you know,

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all right, oh man, whore, okay?

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All right, you know, okay, whoa, you know?

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And he's pending that down.

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He's transcribing what the prophet is saying.

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Very much needed, right?

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So, you could even say that, you know,

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some scribes are providentially inspired by God

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because they've got to be accurate in their,

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you know, preservation of the words of the prophet

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that is coming from God, okay?

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But then, you also have other scribes

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who are simply responsible for copying the Bible,

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okay, which is also important.

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So, you have the prophet, he preaches the word of God,

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the scribe pens it down, and then you have

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another scribe whose responsibility

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is just to copy that thing over and over again

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so that people can have copies of the word of God, okay?

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You think of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8

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when he leaves Jerusalem, he has a copy

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of a chapter of the book of Isaiah.

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How did he get that?

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I'll tell you how.

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There was a scribe who penned that down

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and then sold that copy, you understand?

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So, you can see how important that is

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in the nation of Israel.

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So, yeah, it's not necessarily an office

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that was sanctioned by God,

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but it was very much a necessary function

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in the nation of Israel because we need the word of God,

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people want a copy of the scriptures,

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and it's important to just be accurate

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when you're copying them down.

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So, you know, there's a lot of good scribes in the Bible.

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Now, if we were to just have the New Testament

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and be like, man, all scribes are bad,

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like these guys are just conspiring against Christ

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or against Christianity,

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but they didn't start off that way, okay?

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Now, the first time a scribe is mentioned in the Bible

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is actually in 2 Samuel chapter 8, all right?

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Sarah Aya is a scribe under the rule of King David.

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That is the first time a scribe is mentioned.

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It doesn't mean that that's the first scribe there is.

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It's just the first scribe that is talked about in the Bible.

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Because, again, you have people in the Old Testament

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who probably have this job.

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They're copying the word of God and so forth.

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Look at Jeremiah chapter 36, if you would,

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and verse 13, it says,

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then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard

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when Beirut read the book in the ears of the people.

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Therefore, all the princes sent Jehudai,

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the son of Nathanaim, the son of Shalamaya,

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the son of Kushai, unto Beirut saying,

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take in thine hand the role wherein that has read

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in the ears of the people and come.

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So Beirut, the son of Nathanaim,

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took the role in his hand and came unto them.

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So we see that Beirut is not only responsible

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for penning down the Scriptures,

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he also has the skill of reading the Scriptures, right?

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Skip down to verse number 16.

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It says, now it came to pass when they had heard all the words.

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They were afraid both one and another

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and said unto Beirut, we will surely tell the king

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of all these words.

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And they asked Beirut saying, tell us now,

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how does thou write all these words at his mouth?

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So they're like, so tell us.

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You know, you're reading the words of Jeremiah the prophet,

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how did you do that?

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How did you get this?

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All right, you guys ready for the process here?

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Verse number 17 or verse 18,

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then Beirut answered them,

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he pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth

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and I wrote them down in the ink of the book.

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Now, I don't know if he's just being facetious

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or whatever, he's just like, well, get this.

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He spoke it and I just wrote it down.

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Big wow, right?

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But this is showing us the responsibility

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of this important scribe here

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is that Jeremiah is preaching the word of God

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and he's penning them down.

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Now, there are instances in the Bible

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where the Scriptures were recorded as such,

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meaning that a prophet preached

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and there was a scribe there alongside that prophet,

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such as Beirut, who actually penned down what was being said.

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But not all the time, okay?

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Because, you know, sometimes people think,

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well, you know, someone was following Matthew around

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and Mark and Luke and as they were, you know,

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as Jesus was, or excuse me, not following Matthew,

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Matthew was following Jesus around,

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Luke was following Jesus around,

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and as he was preaching,

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they're just painting this down from around the corner.

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You see, do people really believe that?

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I mean, that's what that stupid show is showing.

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The chosen shows, like Matthew around the corner or John,

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he's like in some dark corner

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as Jesus is preaching to Nicodemus

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and he's just like, oh, this is good, you know?

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But no, that's not what happened.

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And in the minds of these scholars, modern-day scholars,

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they think that's how it had to happen

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because in their minds, like, well,

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in order to have an accurate translation,

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in order to have an accurate depiction of what's being said,

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the person had to be present.

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Well, no, because at the end of the day,

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all scripture is given by inspiration of God,

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meaning that holy men of God is fake

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as they're removed by the Holy Ghost,

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meaning that someone can preach a sermon

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and then years later,

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God can supernaturally impose the content of that sermon

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in the mind of the person who's writing it down

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and he can be accurate when he writes it.

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Well, I don't know if John really wrote John.

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Who cares?

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Now, I do believe that John wrote John.

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I believe Matthew wrote Matthew, you know,

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but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter

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because at the end of the day,

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the actual person itself doesn't matter.

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Now, to the unsaved scholar

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who knows more Bible than you and me, apparently,

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because they're resting their faith upon history,

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that is important because what?

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Because they want to make sure that the apostles

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were the only ones responsible for writing down scripture,

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but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter

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because who's the author, Scott?

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And you know what?

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God can supernaturally take the content

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that he places in the mind of a prophet

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and then supernaturally place it in the heart

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and in the mind of a writer who's unknown,

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unnamed and be accurate in his transcription.

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Obviously, he's going to write it with his personality,

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his writing style, but whatever it is that God says

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is going to go down on that, you know,

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that piece of paper, not paper, but you know,

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that animal skin or whatever, that parchment.

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The point being here is that we have an example of Beirut

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who, yeah, you know, he did pen down the scriptures,

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but let me just remind you later on,

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those scriptures are thrown into the fire.

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But it doesn't mean those scriptures are not preserved

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because they're rewritten again, you know,

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and so forth.

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And so it's important for us to realize that Scribes,

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you know, they did play an important role,

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as noted here, that, you know,

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he is following the prophet,

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he's writing down the scriptures,

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he's accurately depicting what is being said,

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and even though Beirut is a sinner like everyone else,

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you know, God is supernaturally leading him

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to write down what needs to be put in the Word of God.

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Okay?

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Now go to Ezra chapter 7, if you would.

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Ezra chapter 7.

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Ezra chapter 7.

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So in the Old Testament, Scribes played a functional role.

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They were godly people.

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They were righteous individuals.

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They played a necessary role.

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Even though it wasn't an office that was sanctioned by God,

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you know, they did a lot of great works.

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God used them in a great way.

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And in fact, if you remember back in Matthew 23,

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what does Jesus say?

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I sentence you wise men and Scribes.

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So keep in mind that a scribe, you know, in the Bible,

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even in the Old Testament,

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is not just someone who just writes down the Bible

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and does nothing else.

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Because we have an example here of Ezra,

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who is a scribe, but he's also a priest.

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So this is showing us that just about anybody

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who can read and write can be a scribe,

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whether it's a priest, maybe it's a high priest,

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it's a prophet, it's just some regular Joe Shmo in the Old Testament.

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If they have this capability, they can do so.

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But Ezra is an example of someone who actually knew how to read.

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He knew how to write, but he was also a high priest.

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Look at verse 7, or verse 6, excuse me, of Ezra 7.

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It says, this Ezra went up from Babylon

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and he was already scribe in the law of Moses,

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which the Lord God of Israel had given

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and the king granted him all his requests according to the hand

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of the Lord his God that was upon him.

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So here we see that Ezra, though he's a high priest,

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though he's a priest, he is a ready scribe.

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Now what does that mean?

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It doesn't mean that he's just ready to write things down.

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This is referring to the fact that although he's a scribe

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who copies, he writes things down with accuracy,

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he's also someone who's ready to describe and teach

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what's in the Word of God.

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So we see here that this became, you know,

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the scribe ended up being a transitional office

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where they're not just penning down the scriptures,

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but they're also teaching them.

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And this is just the natural flow of things, is it not?

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If you're constantly writing something down,

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you're constantly writing that down over and over again,

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you're eventually going to memorize what's being written down,

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you're eventually going to internalize that which is being written down,

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and you're going to end up studying that which is being written down.

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Because folks, you know, the more you write something down

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over and over and over again,

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the more it's just going to be internalized

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and you're going to think about it.

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That's why I don't remember any phone number anymore.

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I literally just started memorizing

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my wife's phone number recently, you know what I mean?

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Just because, you know, I think I just needed to for some reason.

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I'm like, do I know my wife's number?

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I'm like, I don't think I know her, you know?

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Just because I'm so accustomed to just calling someone on the phone.

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But let me tell you something,

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when I was eight years old though, you know,

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my memory was keen.

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I had a lot of phone numbers memorized,

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you know, because we'd write them down,

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we'd mark them on the phone all the time.

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Now we don't mark numbers, what do we do?

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We just like call so, we don't even like dial,

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we don't even press a button to, you know,

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we just say, hey Siri, call so and so, you know,

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and it just calls them, right?

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And so, you know, the more you mark down those numbers,

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the more you write it down, the more you're constantly,

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it's before you, the more it's just going to be internalized.

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And if you ask my wife right now, like,

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hey, what was your phone number as a child?

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She'll be able to tell you what the phone number was.

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She remembers that.

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And I'm sure some of you can probably do so the same.

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Same thing with addresses, right?

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You know, some addresses, they just kind of stay in your mind.

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You know, but nowadays people don't really know addresses,

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you know, because of GPS.

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You know, some of you, if your phone was removed

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from your pocket, you wouldn't be able to make it to church.

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No joke, you know that's true.

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If there was, if you had no phone

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and you were expected to be in church,

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you'd freak out.

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You're like, I don't know where I'm going.

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You know, just because you require GPS,

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you just mark it in and you just follow that blue line,

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it can lead you off a cliff and you would go off a cliff.

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It can lead you to a liberal church

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and you would freaking go to that liberal church

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because you're so reliant upon that.

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You know, if I were to just place you anywhere

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in Southern California without a phone,

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you probably wouldn't be able to find your way home.

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You probably don't know your freeways.

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You know, you're like, what's a 7-10?

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You know, what's a 22?

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I don't know what that is.

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But it's because of the fact that technology

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obviously has done that to us.

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When, you know, in times past,

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analog was more of an important thing

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and people would write things down.

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I mean, I remember like my mom, for example,

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would give me an address

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and she'd just write it down on an envelope

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and she'd be like, just go here.

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You know, this is this street right here.

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Or if she couldn't remember the street,

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like there's a tree, there's a store that says this

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and you're like a pirate, you know, just looking for treasure.

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You know, and I remember just like

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in the early 2010s, okay, using MapQuest.

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You know, printing out MapQuest

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and being in an old IP church

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having to visit new people

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and I have like 10 sheets of MapQuest

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and I'm just like, you know, where am I going here?

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You know, and just trying to find the address or whatnot.

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And so obviously a lot of people are spoiled now

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because of GPS.

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But the point that I'm making here

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is the more you use something,

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the more it becomes internalized.

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So you have these scribes

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whose job is it to just write down the Old Testament,

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write down the Book of Leviticus,

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write down Deuteronomy

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over and over and over again,

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what's going to happen?

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They're going to end up internalizing that.

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Why? Because they're constantly reading it.

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Side note here, this is why it's important

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to constantly read the Bible.

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You don't have to write down the Bible,

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though it would help to write down scriptures

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on a three by five

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and keep it with yourself

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and read it over and over again.

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But just reading the scriptures

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every single day,

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reading the Bible every single day

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helps you to internalize the truths of God's Word.

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When the Bible says,

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let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,

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we could apply it to just reading the Bible

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every single day.

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Give attendance to reading,

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to exhortation, to doctrine,

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making sure that the Word of God

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is being hidden in our heart,

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making sure that we're thinking about the Word of God.

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That's so hard.

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Not if you read it every single day at all.

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And not if you read large quantities

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of the Bible throughout the year.

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On a daily basis,

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you end up internalizing the truths of God's Word.

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The Bible says,

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if any man speak,

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let him speak as the oracles of God.

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You're like,

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how can I speak about the Bible so naturally

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and with fluid power?

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How do I do that?

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By just reading the Bible every single day.

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Because as you're reading it,

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yeah, you're not writing it down

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because it's already written down for you.

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It's printed for you.

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But as you read it more and more and more,

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you end up embedding the content

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of the Bible into your heart.

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And so that's important.

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And you have Ezra here

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who the Bible says is a ready scribe.

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It doesn't mean that he's ready to pin it down.

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He's ready to talk about and teach

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what's already been pinned down.

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Skip down to verse number 10.

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It says,

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for Ezra had prepared his heart

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to seek the law of the Lord

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and to do it

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and to teach in Israel

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statutes and judgments.

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So this is a very spiritual man.

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He's a very spirit-filled man.

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Ezra is not just your run-of-the-mill scribe.

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He knows how to read.

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He knows how to write.

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But he also knows how to seek the Lord.

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He also knows how to prepare his heart

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to seek the Lord, right?

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To teach the statutes and judgments.

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So we have the example of Sarah Aya

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as being the first scribe mentioned

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in 2 Samuel chapter 8.

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You have Baruch,

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who is in Jeremiah,

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particularly in chapter 36.

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We have him describing the process

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by which he would pin down

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what the prophet is saying.

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But then we also have Ezra,

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who's a ready scribe,

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meaning that he not only knows

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how to keep track and records

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of the genealogies,

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keep track of all the documents

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of those who went into exile,

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but he can also get the Word of God

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and preach it as well.

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Go to Nehemiah chapter 8.

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Nehemiah chapter 8, if you would.

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Nehemiah chapter 8.

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Nehemiah chapter 8

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in verse number 1 says,

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And all the people gather themselves together

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as one man into the street

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that was before the water gate,

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and they spaken to Ezra the scribe

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to bring the book of the law of Moses

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which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

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And Ezra the priest brought the law

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before the congregation,

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both of men and women,

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and all that could hear with understanding

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upon the first day of the seventh month.

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It goes on to say in verse number 4,

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And Ezra the scribe stood upon

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a pulpit of wood which they

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had made for the purpose.

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Beside him stood Mattathiah and so forth.

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So we see here that when Israel

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wanted to hear the Word of God,

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who did they call? They called the ready scribe.

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And how can we apply this?

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Well, we need to make sure

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that we're ready scribes as well.

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Not necessary to pen down the scriptures

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because we already got it,

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but just be ready to teach

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what the Bible actually says.

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Meaning that you should be ready

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to preach the gospel at any given moment.

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No matter where you are,

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no matter who asks you,

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you're not like, well, let me get my tab Bible

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real quick. Let me make sure I get my

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which, you know, if you're a brand new soul winner,

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that's what you got to do. That's what you got to do, amen.

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But you want to get to the point where you

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use the Bible so much

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preaching the gospel that

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your Bible already kind of works with you.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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We're like, you have that soul winning Bible

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and you use it so much that right when you open it,

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it already goes to Romans 3.

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You know what I'm talking about? It's just like kind of already

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accustomed to go into

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Romans 3-23, Romans 6-23,

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Romans 5-8, it goes to Revelation 21-8,

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it goes to Acts 16,

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it goes to John 3,

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it's kind of like an extension of you, right?

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It's like already,

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you're like a ready scribe

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ready to preach the Word of God at any given moment.

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But you know what? That also indicates that

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you should be ready to preach the gospel

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even if you didn't have a physical Bible.

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Right?

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Be ready to give an answer

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always of those who are asking

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the faith that is in you with meekness and fear.

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Meaning that, you know,

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if you are presented

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with an opportunity to preach

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the gospel to someone, maybe not in church

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in a different type of atmosphere

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but you don't have the Word of God,

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you should be able to quote scripture.

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So yeah, you want to know how you can go to heaven

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when you die? I can show you, I can quote the scriptures to you.

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You know, this is what the Bible says

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and preach with confidence. That is a ready scribe.

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Okay?

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So these people are asking

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for the understanding

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of the Word of God. Look at verse 8 if you would.

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It says,

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So they read in the book

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in the law of God distinctly

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and gave the sense

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and caused them to understand

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the reading. Ezra played an important role

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in teaching those

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who came back from exile the Word of God.

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He was responsible

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for being a skilled writer,

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a copyist of the genealogies

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making sure he's checking everything

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to make sure it's accurate,

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but on top of that he was just accurate

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in his explanation of the Word of God

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and so forth. Go back to

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Matthew chapter 23.

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Matthew chapter 23.

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So you can see why

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the office of a scribe

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though not sanctioned by God

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is an important office.

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These are the printers

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of the

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Old Testament. These are the individuals

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who are making

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sure the Word of God is

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abounding in the synagogues.

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These are the reasons

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why the law of Moses

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is being read in Thessalonica.

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They're being read in Asia Minor.

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They're being read in various parts

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of the world outside of Israel

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because there was a ready scribe,

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a very skilled writer and copyist

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who was pinning these things down.

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Here you go. Here's a copy

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of the Word of God and so forth.

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So they were very much important, but here's the problem though.

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You have these scribes.

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They're pinning down the scriptures

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and because they're pinning them down so much

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they're intaking the Word of God.

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They're internalizing it.

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Now look folks, the more you read the Bible

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the more your faith has increased

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in the Bible.

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Faith coming

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by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.

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But what if you give the Word of God

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to someone who's just not saved?

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What if you're just giving

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the Word of God to someone

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and they're just writing it down

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they're pinning it down

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they're copying it over and over

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and over again, but they're just

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completely rejecting what's being written down.

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What's the danger there?

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Apostasy is what's the danger

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because this person is supposed to be a ready scribe

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they're internalizing the Word of God

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they're giving it to other people

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but they themselves are rejecting the Word of God.

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Well this is what happens

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by the time we get to the New Testament

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because by the time we get to the New Testament

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the office of a scribe

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is no longer some sort of

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a humble lowly position

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of an individual who's just skilled

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in reading and writing

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so that others may have the Word of God

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now they're like the upper class

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of scholars

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because by the time we get to the New Testament

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you hear scribes

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but they're not necessarily pinning anything down

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they're just interpreting the law for you

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but hold on a second

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you're writing the Scriptures down over and over again

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so why aren't you believing on Christ?

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You're like

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you're writing it down

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you're writing the prophecies

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it's right before you

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but then Jesus the Word of God

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in the flesh comes to you

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and now you're conspiring to kill him

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this is an example

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of someone who has the Word of God

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they possess the Word of God

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but they don't possess salvation

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so the point that I want to make

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aside from what we're going to look at

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here in Matthew 23

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is that just because God uses

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a group of people

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to preserve the Bible

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to pass it down

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to generations

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it doesn't lend veracity to the righteousness

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of that group of people

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look scribes

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thank God for the scribes amen

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scribes of the Old Testament

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great job, thank you for preserving the Old Testament

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thank you for doing a good job

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for being spear filled

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great job

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but hold on a second

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once you begin to deviate from the Bible

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that you've copied

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that you have accurately interpreted

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or accurately copied

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and then you actually reject the Gospel

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I have no need for you anymore

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because now a printer

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can do exactly what you're doing

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and just because

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they were used to preserve it

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just because they copied it a hundred times over

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doesn't mean anything if you rejected the Christ

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now

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how do we interpret this

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how can we apply this today

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well Matthew 23

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is a major condemnation

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of both scribes and Pharisees

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and if we were to compare

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who the Pharisees were

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to people today

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we would say the Pharisees are like Catholics

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because they teach for doctrines

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the commandments of men

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they wear the long robes

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they have to be called father

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we're going to go through these passages

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here in chapter 23

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and it's just like man

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that's like a picture perfect example

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of Roman Catholicism

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scribes are a perfect picture

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of Eastern Orthodoxy

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of the Orthodox Church

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so just as the Pharisees

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fit the description of Catholics

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the scribes fit the description of Orthodox people

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okay

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and when you read this you're like

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well they're kind of one of the same

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yeah amen

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Orthodoxy is kind of the same

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I know you guys are at war with one another

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one has a Pope one doesn't

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you both are heretics

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you both are not saved

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okay

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and you know what

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both of you have been used by God

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yes for positive things

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but the positive things that you've done

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doesn't lend veracity

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to your beliefs

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because think about Catholics for example

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and you know I don't hate Catholics

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I absolutely

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abhor Catholicism for sure

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and I'm not ashamed of that

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but I don't hate Catholics

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we win Catholics for the Lord every single week

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but you know

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they've done some good things though

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you know for example

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if you've ever been to a hospital

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it's likely that it was started by a Catholic

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so how do you know

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St. Mary's

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St. Jude's

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a lot of these hospitals

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were started by Catholics

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did you guys know that? I hope you know that

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unless you're illiterate or something

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that's an interesting name for a hospital

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I want to

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you know

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no it's part of you know

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they give to charity

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they start these hospitals

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you know as a kid I was stitched up

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in a Catholic hospital

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a lot of babies were born in Catholic hospitals

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now I was born in a Presbyterian hospital

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so at least I have that going for me

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in that regard you know

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but you know they started a lot of hospitals

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and you know that's something Catholics like to point to

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you know how many hospitals we started

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you know

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Catholics are responsible for

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giving you know

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millions of dollars to charity

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and starting hundreds of hospitals

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and it's like oh so that just

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automatically lends veracity to your institution

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no it doesn't

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because we don't look at what they've done

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to demonstrate whether they're saved or not

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we look at what they believe

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because it doesn't really matter

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how many good works they've done

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it doesn't really matter

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how many good institutions they've started

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if they rejected the biblical gospel

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they're not saved

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because they're still teaching for doctrines

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the commandments of men

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and look maybe we could look at the Pharisees

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in the Bible and say hey but you know

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they kind of helped start these synagogues

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where people have gone to

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they've heard the law of Moses

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they're worshiping God

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and make no mistake about it

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there are people in the synagogues

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during this time that were saved

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we can point to people

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and instances in the book of Acts

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and throughout the Bible

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where people were saved

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and they were in the synagogues

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they were attending the synagogues

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because this is just an institution

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where they were going to

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where they were hearing the law of Moses

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a scribe came

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a wise man

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an evangelist came and won them over

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and they just kept attending the synagogue

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but here's the thing

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just because that happened

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it doesn't lend legitimacy

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to the Pharisee

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because bro is still a flaming heretic

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because he rejects the gospel

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and we need to make sure

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we're not respecter of people

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in that regard

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yes synagogues were started

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it was a great alternative in case people could

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make it to the temple

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but you know what Jesus Christ is here now

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the churches have been started

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it's time to throw out the synagogue

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it's time to throw out the Judaism

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it's time to get with the program

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and get with first century Christianity now

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I think I'm going to stick with the synagogue

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because that's the original

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that's where it all started

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you know

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but hold on a second

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the New Testament supersedes that though

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and at the end of the day

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upon this rock I will build

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my church

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not my synagogue

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okay

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and so

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you have Catholics of course

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they've done good things

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but guess what just because they've done good things

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means nothing

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because you know what the false prophet in Matthew 7

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did many wonderful works

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right

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he cast out devils

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he prophesied in his name

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he did many wonderful works

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and the Lord wasn't like oh man why didn't you mention that

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why didn't you say so

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I didn't know that

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get out of the way guys let him in

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this guy did many wonderful works

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he's just like and

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and

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depart from me, ye that work iniquity

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I never knew you

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because your works don't justify you

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in the eyes of God

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as demonstrated clearly by

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Matthew chapter 7

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which is funny because people use Matthew 7

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as a way to prove oh see

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belief is not enough

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that guy never even mentioned belief

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the one thing

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necessary to be saved is the one thing he just left out

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let's talk about

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how great he was

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what do we see from Matthew 7

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he's just a self righteous person which is exactly

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what the Pharisees are

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what does it mean to be self righteous

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it means that you believe you married eternal life

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based upon your own righteousness

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it's just like the guy

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who went down to the temple

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and he's praying

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and he's just like I thank God

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that I'm not as other sinners

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you know I fast twice in a day

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and you know he talks about

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all his exploits that he's done

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and the other guy went home justified

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rather than the other guy

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the other guy is in hell right now

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so he

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talk about tithing and fasting

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twice in a week

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that really didn't do him any good

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because works can't save you

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but here's the thing

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is that you know Orthodox they did some good things too

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and if we were to look at this

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in a carnal perspective

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I would even say

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that the Orthodox Church

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Eastern Orthodox probably did more good

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than Roman Catholicism

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believe it or not

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you're like how so

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well in 330 AD

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you know you have the Byzantine empire

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and they had

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what was called the scriptoriums

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in what's referred to as

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Constantinople

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and these scriptoriums existed

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for a thousand one hundred years

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up until 1453

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when the Ottoman Empire took over

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and destroyed them

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but you say well what's the deal with that

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well for those thousand one hundred years

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in these scriptoriums

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these Eastern Orthodox

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scribes what are they doing

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they're just copying the Greek New Testament

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over and over again

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just making tons of copies

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of the Greek New Testament

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and not just of the Greek New Testament

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also of other Greek literature

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sermons

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liturgy

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just all types of things

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hymns just whatever

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content that was out there during that time

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they were doing that in the scriptoriums

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but the most important thing that they were copying

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was the Greek New Testament

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so

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during this particular time

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they're copying this and they're very accurate

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because not only are they

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copying the Greek New Testament

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they're speaking the language of the Greek New Testament too

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so it's not like

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so and so down the road

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that pronounces Kini Koine

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I'm copying

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Koine Greek or something

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no like they're actually speaking the language

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they're living the language

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they're communing with people

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in Kini Greek

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like they're very much

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involved in the language of that day

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so that when they're copying

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the Greek New Testament in these scriptoriums

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it's accurate

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and they have a thousand one hundred years

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of just constantly

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copying constantly copying

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and you know what? Praise God for that

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right

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now let me tell you something though

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it doesn't lend veracity to orthodoxy at all

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because God uses evil people

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for his own purpose

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he does

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he used the diligence

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the hard work

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the intelligence

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the scholarship of orthodox

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for a thousand one hundred years

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so that when they were taken over by the Ottoman Empire

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they would eventually take those scriptures

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go to Italy

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it would go into the hands of Erasmus

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and then we would have the underlying

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Greek text that makes up the texas receptors

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which is why we have the King James Bible today

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and you know, riddle me this

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you know, if orthodoxy

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was so favored by God

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then why did God allow him to be taken over?

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the Ottoman Empire

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just destroyed them

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took it over, ran them out

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well it doesn't look like you have God's favor

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on your life

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doesn't look like God is with you

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because you got ran out

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even though you were faithfully

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transcribing the New Testament

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over and over again

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you know what it was, it was basically God saying

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alright, I think we have enough copies here

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right?

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I think that's enough

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got the Ottoman Empire

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and just destroyed them

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and ran them out

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because you know what, God uses evil people

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for the good

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sometimes of the world

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or just to help us

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because you know, Bible-believing Christians

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probably didn't have those resources to do that

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right?

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they don't really have the resources for that

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you know, and so

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the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just

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so God will often use evil people

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in order to carry out his will

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and his will was that

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the Greek New Testament would be copied

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over and over again

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by these orthodox scribes

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accurately because he knew one day

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we would need

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a

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Greek New Testament

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the textual receptors that would make up

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what we have today for our King James Bible

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okay?

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and you know what, it's just like oh man

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they were used in such a great way

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God providentially used them

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to preserve the scriptures

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but once he was done with them

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he was done with them

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once he used the wisdom

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and the knowledge

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the diligence and the hard work

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of those orthodox scribes

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he's like alright, you guys are done

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so the point that I'm making here

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is that you know what, the scribes in the Old Testament

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they had their place, they had their role

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but you know we don't really need that anymore

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and just because they played

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an important role in the Old Testament

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doesn't lend legitimacy to their position

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in the New

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oh no, these are the scribes though

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these are the ones who are responsible

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for penning down the scriptures

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and copying the scriptures and preserving the scriptures

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yeah but they're heretics

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we don't got no beef with what they pen down

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we don't have beef with

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the scriptures that they pen down

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we got beef with them

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it's them

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and you know what, if they're

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so selected by God

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if God is so pleased with them

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then why are they so heretical even though they copy the Bible over and over

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and over again

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same thing with the orthodox

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you know

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the orthos had a thousand one hundred years

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of just

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penning down the scriptures

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hearing about believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

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and thou shalt be saved

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writing down John 3

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16 over and over and over again

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penning down he that believeth on the sun

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hath everlasting life

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just over and over and over

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for over a thousand years

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folks, think about that for a second

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when you're

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when you're penning down Ephesians 2

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obviously they didn't have those references

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but I'm talking about the actual passages

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within these references

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when you're penning down Ephesians 2 verse 8 through 9 over and over again

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and you're just still unsaved

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right?

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when you're just penning down John 3 16 over and over again

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you think God's not mad at that

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it's like wow

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a thousand one hundred years

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and you guys can't seem to get your doctrine right about my son

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you can't seem to believe

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in the right salvation

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you're still worshiped

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you know a thousand

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one hundred years listen to this

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little children keep yourselves

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from idols

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and then you're just like

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kissing the icons

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right?

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a thousand one hundred years of saying

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keep yourselves from idols, flee from idolatry

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and they're just like

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what the heck

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it's like it's insanity

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oh man it was just the tragedy

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what happened in Constantinople

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no actually maybe God was trying to get a hold

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of you know these eastern

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orthodox people

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and you know obviously he's working all things together

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for good he knows that he's going to use

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their hard work to eventually preserve

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the scriptures so we can have it in our

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English King James Bible

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but you know he's also giving him a lot of time to just

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hey you know did you think about

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what you wrote down

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what do you think about that verse

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that says you know not to

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not to have idols

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what do you think about the verse about not

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baptizing babies

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you know hey those

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times that you guys pen down the scriptures over and over again

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did you see any babies getting

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did you write about any babies getting baptized

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and they're just like

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you know

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they write down the thief on the cross

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they write down Roman 7

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they write down

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Matthew 28 and they're just like

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because they do it like three times right

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so it's just like

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what in the world

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so it doesn't really matter how they were used

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because obviously they didn't

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you know what they were used to do

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didn't affect their belief system much

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just like the scribes here

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so the scribes they were prominent figures

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in the New Testament

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people respected them

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they were well learned

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they had wisdom

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they were skilled in reading

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and understanding

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and so the Jews are just like wow these guys are just

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these are the guys here

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what does the Bible mean about this

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you know you have King Herod calling over the scribes

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to figure out information

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about the Messiah

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you know you have these people

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just claiming to know the Word of God

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understanding neither what they say

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nor where they affirm

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they're desiring to be teachers of the law

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they don't know what they're talking about

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and so they're held to a higher standard

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because it's not that they were ignorant

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of the scriptures they possessed them

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but they never possessed salvation

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you know what the same goes for

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the Orthodox from

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330 A.D. in Constantinople

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to 1453 when they were taken over

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by the Ottoman Empire

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they were given a lot of time

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I mean thousands and thousands and thousands of copies

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of the scriptures are being penned down

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and boom you know

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it just didn't affect them at all

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and so this is why he's preaching against them

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so look at verse 1 if you would

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that was all introduction

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so let's get into the crux of the brass tax here

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some of you chuckled nervously right now

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then spake Jesus to the multitude

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into his disciples saying the scribes and the Pharisees

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sit in Moses' seat

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all therefore whatever they bid you observe

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that observe and do

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but do not ye after their works

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for they say and do not

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now compare that

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with Ezra the scribe

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who he sought the word of God

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and he sought to do it

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whereas these scribes

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we're not talking about the Pharisees

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they're telling other people to do things

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that they are not willing to do

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you know what they call that? a hypocrite

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they're talking about

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the law of Moses says

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they're talking about believing on the Messiah

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and they don't believe it

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hypocrites he says in verse 4

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for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born

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and lay them on men's shoulders

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but they themselves will not move them

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with one of their fingers

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now specifically this is addressing the fact

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that they're telling people

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you need to keep the law of Moses

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but they don't keep the law of Moses

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you can't be a thief but they're stealing from the widows

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you know oh covetousness

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is a sin but yet they're

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some of the most covetous people

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in the New Testament

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so what they're saying is not bad

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what they're saying is actually true

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right?

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they're actually sitting in Moses' seat

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meaning they're coming in the authority of Moses

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they're telling people what Moses said

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but they don't really believe what Moses said

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and it's not because they're confused about it

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it's because inwardly they're trying to deceive people

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you know they

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hold to their traditions

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more than they hold to the word of God

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okay

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it's essentially they're masquerading

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is what they're doing

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as righteous people

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and why are they doing this

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look at verse five but all their works they do

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for it to be seen of men

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they make brothel phylacteries

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and enlarge the borders of their garments

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love the uppermost rooms at the feast

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and the chief seats and the synagogues

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so why are they doing this

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well because of the fact that they want other people

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to esteem them as being righteous people

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now look folks

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we all to a certain degree want that

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let your life so shine before men

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we want to make a good impression before people

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we want to be a good testimony

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but here's the thing is that inwardly

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we also want to please the Lord too

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we love the Lord

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we want to please the Lord

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these are two things that we want to accomplish

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we want to do right because we love the Lord

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we also want to do right because

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it's an example unto others as well

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right

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here's the difference between us and the Pharisees

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they only want to do right before people

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not because they want to help people

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because they're just self-righteous

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Pharisees

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who want the admiration

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of the multitudes

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and so this is why they make

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broader phylacteries they enlarge the borders

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of their garments they wear the dresses

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because they want to portray themselves

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as being righteous people

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this is what 2 Timothy 3 means when it says

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that they have a form of godliness

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but they deny the power they're of

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meaning from the outside it's like

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oh okay you got a long dress

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got the wizard dress

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or whatever seems like a righteous person

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but they're only

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outwardly appear such

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in order to deter attention from the fact

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that they're actual wolves

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and in fact look at

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go down to verse number

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25

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it says

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which is within the cup and platter

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that the outside of them may be clean

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also won't you scribes and Pharisees

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hypocrites for you're like unto

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whited sepulchers

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which indeed appear beautiful outward

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but are within full of dead men's

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bones and of all uncleanness

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so what is he saying you know you guys

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with your broad phylacteries

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and your robes and your outward

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appearance you're just like a really beautiful

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sepulcher a casket

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but inwardly you're just dead

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and in fact they're twice dead

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plucked up by the roots

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oh Jesus Christ you're going to get across

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you look alive on the outside

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but you're actually dead on the inside

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not even saved and they're more concerned

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with portraying themselves

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to be alive

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trying to look like they're super spiritual

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trying to have the garments of a spiritual

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person but there's

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no life inside

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go back to

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the beginning here

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it says in verse seven

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and greetings in the

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markets and to be called of men rabbi rabbi

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but

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be naive called rabbi for one is your master

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even Christ and all you are brethren

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and call no man your father which is upon the earth

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for one is your father which is

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in heaven neither be called masters

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for one is your master even Christ

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but he that is greatest among you shall be your servant

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so what is the motive

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that these scribes have as to why

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they're doing this well it says

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here that they basically

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love to have

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the acclimations of the public

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meaning that they want to have the titles

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and they want to be called

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rabbi they want to be called master

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they want to be called father

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now look folks

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this is not prohibiting

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these titles from people

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who actually deserve them

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for example

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my dad deserves to be called father

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because he's my dad

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and in the bible

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master is synonymous

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with what boss

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so it's not prohibiting

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employees calling

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their employer master

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because we actually see in Colossians

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chapter three to obey

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your masters paul what are you doing

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man hey what do you mean hey

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didn't you read Matthew 23

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so is this a contradiction

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no it's just that you're too stupid to interpret

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to understand is to know

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that when Jesus says call no man

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master rabbi or father

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he's addressing spiritual leaders

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not biological fathers

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not employees

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or employers excuse me

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he's referring to spiritual leaders

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who want these titles

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this is why we should not go for

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our masters of divinity degree

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you know and we should not

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be called father and so

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you quote this to a catholic

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you quote this to an orthodox

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and they just like

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I guess what do you call your dad

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well I don't call him father because

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I'm just you know that's just

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2026 I was just like father

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you know call him dad

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or I call him pops

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but this is referring

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to spiritual leaders and you know

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they'll they will up and down

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quote verses from the bible

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of people using the term father

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but they'll never actually tell you what this verse actually

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is

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they'll never tell you like well okay

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so what did Jesus mean by that then

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what did he mean

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they can't tell you

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because they want to continue in their traditions

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okay

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skip down to verse number 13

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it says

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what is the same

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so this essentially separates

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the wickedness of a scribe

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from the wickedness of just

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your regular unsafe person

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because an unsafe person

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is wicked in the eyes of the lord

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in the sense that he's unregenerated

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he's walking according to the

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course of this world

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he's fulfilling the lust of the flesh

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and of the mind right

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he's just an unsafe person

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the scribe on the other hand

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not only has that

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but they add on top of that

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perverting the gospel

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and hindering those

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from hearing the gospel

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or hindering people who already believe in the gospel

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from going further into

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their Christian growth

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because when it says they're hindering those

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who are entering in

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it means that they're intentionally

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trying to stop people who are saved

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from doing the work of God

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that's what it means

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so make no mistake about it

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if you are a person

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who

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you're attacking men of God

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you're trying to stop people from preaching

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the word of God

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you're trying to stop people from preaching the gospel

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you're wicked

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you're a godless individual

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who according to the Bible

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you kind of fit the description of a scribe in a Pharisee

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who was not saved

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because look folks there's a lot of false prophets out there

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that I don't like and I call out

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but I don't spend my life

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trying to stop their ministries right

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I don't just spend my life trying to stop their ministries

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you know you call them out

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and then we just go with the program as usual

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but there's people out there that do

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there's people out there who think that we're false prophets

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and they will do everything

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humanly possible to try to stop the message of God

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what are they

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they're the ones who are not

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entering into the kingdom of heaven

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and are hindering those who are going in

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from doing so

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so they're trying to hinder the work of God

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they're trying to turn

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they're trying to turn the truth

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of God into a lie and so forth

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he says in verse 14

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woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites

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for you devour widows houses

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and for a pretense

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make long prayer

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therefore you shall receive the greater damnation

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what does it mean when it says pretense make long prayer

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it means these Pharisees like we gotta look real spiritual here

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so in order to look real spiritual

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we just gotta pray for a really long time

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in public

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in order to demonstrate how spiritual we are

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pretense means like as excuse

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is like as a way to just

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deceive people

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they pray long

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in order to make it look like they're actual righteous people

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all the while

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they're robbing widows

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bless you

58:32.540 --> 58:35.100
verse 15 says woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites

58:35.100 --> 58:36.680
for you can pass see and land

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to make one proselyte and when he is made

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you make him two fold more the child of hell

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than yourself

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so aside from the fact that they're hindering people

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from those who are entering into the kingdom of God

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they're also

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you know converting people

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to become reprobates

58:53.360 --> 58:55.060
so they're actively

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trying to damn people to hell

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so these are like the Mormons

58:59.620 --> 59:00.740
right

59:00.740 --> 59:02.760
oh they're so nice though

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you know they're just so nice

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and you know I just you know

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they're not really rude about anything

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yeah but they're dandle heretics though

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they teach a false gospel

59:13.260 --> 59:14.220
okay

59:14.220 --> 59:15.720
no applause please

59:15.720 --> 59:17.760
you know they're

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dandle heretics that teach a false gospel

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they teach in a cursed gospel

59:21.860 --> 59:24.220
okay so it doesn't really matter how

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nice they look

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you know it doesn't really matter

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how white they are

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how blue their eyes are or whatever

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you know how geeky

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they look on their 10 speeder and innocent they look

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the Bible says that they're actually

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the workers of iniquity

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you know these are the ministers

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of Satan according to the Bible

59:44.000 --> 59:45.920
because if they convert people to Mormonism

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they're essentially making them two fold more child of hell

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than themselves

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okay

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let's skip a couple parts here

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go down to verse number

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29

59:59.160 --> 01:00:00.020
this is won't you

01:00:00.020 --> 01:00:01.560
scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because

01:00:01.560 --> 01:00:03.660
you build the tombs of the prophets

01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:06.020
and garnish the sepulchers of the

01:00:06.020 --> 01:00:08.040
righteous and say if we had been in the days

01:00:08.040 --> 01:00:09.960
of our fathers we would have not

01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:11.980
been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets

01:00:12.600 --> 01:00:13.960
so this is always a funny

01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:15.960
funny passage of scripture when I read this

01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:18.020
because what it demonstrates is like

01:00:18.020 --> 01:00:19.900
false prophets will just tell you

01:00:19.900 --> 01:00:20.680
what they actually believe

01:00:21.680 --> 01:00:23.460
you just got to pay attention to what they're saying

01:00:25.060 --> 01:00:25.920
you say what do you mean

01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.160
well they're garnishing the

01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:30.000
sepulchers of the righteous meaning they're trying to make everything

01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.880
you know they're honoring

01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:33.880
the prophets of the Old Testament they go to the

01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:36.160
tombs and the sepulchers of the Old Testament prophets

01:00:36.160 --> 01:00:37.960
and they honor them

01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.220
and they put flowers there

01:00:40.220 --> 01:00:41.900
and they honor them with their lips

01:00:41.900 --> 01:00:44.160
and then they say this if we were there

01:00:44.160 --> 01:00:45.140
in the days of our fathers

01:00:45.780 --> 01:00:47.620
we would have not been partakers in the blood

01:00:47.620 --> 01:00:49.920
of the prophets so basically

01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:52.320
they are divulging

01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:52.920
admitting

01:00:53.540 --> 01:00:55.140
that they're related to

01:00:55.850 --> 01:00:57.320
the dudes who kill the prophets

01:00:59.060 --> 01:01:00.260
it's like so are you

01:01:00.260 --> 01:01:01.620
saying that you're spiritually

01:01:02.160 --> 01:01:03.760
like related to

01:01:04.560 --> 01:01:06.220
these false prophets who killed

01:01:06.220 --> 01:01:08.220
the righteous prophets that's basically what they're saying

01:01:08.720 --> 01:01:10.020
they're a generation

01:01:10.020 --> 01:01:10.940
of vipers

01:01:10.940 --> 01:01:14.040
and look folks sometimes you just need to pay attention

01:01:14.040 --> 01:01:14.920
to what people say

01:01:16.140 --> 01:01:17.760
because out of the abundance of the heart

01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:18.880
the mouth speaketh

01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:21.600
a good man out of the good treasure of his heart

01:01:21.600 --> 01:01:23.960
bringeth forth good things and evil man out of the evil treasure

01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:26.140
of his heart bringeth forth evil things

01:01:26.140 --> 01:01:27.640
by their words thou shalt be justified

01:01:28.040 --> 01:01:29.900
by their words thou shalt be condemned

01:01:30.940 --> 01:01:32.500
you know what that's why I'm not afraid

01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:34.260
to just get up here and preach the word

01:01:34.260 --> 01:01:36.500
of God with no notes because I know

01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:37.520
that I believe the truth

01:01:38.080 --> 01:01:40.060
and I'm not just have to read through a script

01:01:40.060 --> 01:01:42.280
here just to make sure I don't say anything weird

01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.320
or something because I'm just going to preach

01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:44.860
to you the Bible

01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:47.560
I'm just going to preach you what the word of God says

01:01:47.560 --> 01:01:49.440
I'm going to speak as the oracles of God

01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:52.020
but you know what these false prophets they have to have

01:01:52.020 --> 01:01:53.880
like an entire script available for you

01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:56.000
you know and obviously I have

01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:58.100
notes sometimes and just to kind of help me

01:01:58.100 --> 01:02:00.120
not deviate from you know the structure

01:02:00.120 --> 01:02:02.220
of the sermon that's completely

01:02:02.220 --> 01:02:04.300
normal and I'm not telling the new preachers to do

01:02:04.300 --> 01:02:06.200
what I'm doing right now you need to be preaching

01:02:06.200 --> 01:02:07.920
for another 10 years before you start doing that

01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:10.020
but you know have notes but I'm talking

01:02:10.020 --> 01:02:12.100
about people who literally will have notes

01:02:12.100 --> 01:02:14.100
and they just read word for word everything

01:02:14.100 --> 01:02:16.140
that's on those notes because

01:02:16.140 --> 01:02:18.160
they don't want to give away to their false prophets

01:02:18.160 --> 01:02:20.100
because you know what you know what's going to happen

01:02:20.100 --> 01:02:22.200
they're going to eventually say something they're not

01:02:22.200 --> 01:02:24.060
supposed to say they're going to preach

01:02:24.060 --> 01:02:26.520
dandable heresy they're going to deny

01:02:26.520 --> 01:02:28.260
the doctrines of Christ because

01:02:28.260 --> 01:02:30.120
that's exactly who they are oh if we had been

01:02:30.120 --> 01:02:32.020
the days of our fathers we would have not been partakers

01:02:32.020 --> 01:02:32.880
of the blood of the prophets

01:02:33.860 --> 01:02:35.920
and look what he says in verse number

01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:38.980
31 wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves

01:02:38.980 --> 01:02:40.680
that ye are the children of them

01:02:40.680 --> 01:02:41.340
which kill the prophets

01:02:42.200 --> 01:02:43.880
fill ye up the measure of your fathers

01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.020
he's like fill up the shoes of your

01:02:46.020 --> 01:02:48.080
dads you know if these are your

01:02:48.080 --> 01:02:50.340
fathers if these are the people you associate

01:02:50.340 --> 01:02:52.040
with then fill up the measure

01:02:52.040 --> 01:02:54.160
of your progenitors

01:02:55.380 --> 01:02:56.180
you serpents

01:02:56.180 --> 01:02:58.140
you generation of vipers how can

01:02:58.140 --> 01:02:59.720
ye escape the damnation

01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:02.140
of hell this is why sometimes you need

01:03:02.140 --> 01:03:03.240
listen to these pastors

01:03:04.220 --> 01:03:05.920
and they preach something and it's just like

01:03:05.920 --> 01:03:06.800
what did he say?

01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.280
what did he say? you know he's just like

01:03:10.740 --> 01:03:12.360
what? that's literally what they believe

01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:14.100
and I'm not saying that sometimes

01:03:14.100 --> 01:03:16.060
you know you're going to be up here if you're preaching

01:03:16.060 --> 01:03:18.100
you might have a slip of the tongue

01:03:18.100 --> 01:03:19.840
you might say something inaccurate I'm talking about like

01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.160
weird stuff dandable heresy

01:03:22.740 --> 01:03:23.620
that you know

01:03:23.980 --> 01:03:26.100
essentially demonstrates that you are a wicked person

01:03:26.100 --> 01:03:26.940
ok

01:03:28.100 --> 01:03:29.740
you know this is what they do

01:03:29.740 --> 01:03:31.960
verse 34 says wherefore behold I send unto you

01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:34.120
prophets and wise men and scribes

01:03:34.120 --> 01:03:36.080
and some of them ye shall kill and crucify

01:03:36.080 --> 01:03:38.060
and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues

01:03:38.060 --> 01:03:40.660
and persecute them from city to city

01:03:40.660 --> 01:03:42.260
so what we have here

01:03:42.260 --> 01:03:44.000
is the fact that

01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:45.960
scribes played an

01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:47.000
important role in Israel

01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:49.500
but you know

01:03:50.100 --> 01:03:52.020
because they didn't obey

01:03:52.020 --> 01:03:52.880
or believe

01:03:53.720 --> 01:03:54.980
the words that they were

01:03:54.980 --> 01:03:56.140
penning down for others

01:03:56.760 --> 01:03:58.720
they received the greater damnation

01:03:59.460 --> 01:04:00.180
you understand

01:04:00.180 --> 01:04:02.420
and this is showing us to whomsoever much is given

01:04:02.420 --> 01:04:03.720
of him shall be much required

01:04:03.720 --> 01:04:06.280
ok go to Jeremiah chapter 8 we'll finish off

01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:08.500
in Jeremiah chapter 8

01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:10.840
Jeremiah chapter 8

01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:11.460
if you would

01:04:15.660 --> 01:04:16.840
Jeremiah chapter 8

01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:18.880
and you know if you walk away from the sermon

01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:20.580
learning anything just learn just know this

01:04:20.580 --> 01:04:23.380
just because an institution does something good

01:04:23.380 --> 01:04:25.100
doesn't lend veracity to that institution

01:04:25.100 --> 01:04:26.700
you know what

01:04:26.700 --> 01:04:28.540
it lends legitimacy what do they believe

01:04:29.600 --> 01:04:31.700
now if you get someone who believes right

01:04:31.700 --> 01:04:33.620
and does right and does great works

01:04:33.620 --> 01:04:34.700
it's a great combination

01:04:35.560 --> 01:04:36.120
right

01:04:36.120 --> 01:04:38.000
if someone believes the right gospel

01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:39.420
they believe the right doctrine

01:04:39.420 --> 01:04:42.160
and they're doing righteous works praise God for that

01:04:42.160 --> 01:04:44.700
I'm just saying if there's an institution

01:04:44.700 --> 01:04:46.360
who expects for you

01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:49.720
to believe that their righteous based upon their works

01:04:49.720 --> 01:04:51.580
but they believe something completely different

01:04:51.580 --> 01:04:53.200
from the gospel of Christ

01:04:54.220 --> 01:04:55.720
they are idolaters

01:04:57.300 --> 01:04:58.180
they are

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godless people and their doctrine

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then you know what it doesn't matter what they do

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they're unto every good work reprobate

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yeah

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because their works do not justify them

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in the eyes of God

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you know what it doesn't justify them in our eyes either

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because at the end of the day

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what you believe is actually the most important thing

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look at Jeremiah 8

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and verse 8

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and let's see how this fits

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this sermon about the scribes it says in verse 8

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how do you say we are wise

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and the law of the lord is with us

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low

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certainly in vain

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made he it

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the pen of the scribe

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is in vain

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so this is like oh man we're the scribes

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we have the law

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we know what the bible says we spent so much time

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copying it

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distributing it

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but you don't believe it so it's in vain

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those thousand

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100 years of copying

01:05:52.540 --> 01:05:55.200
the Greek New Testament in the Byzantine Empire

01:05:55.200 --> 01:05:56.220
in vain

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not in vain for us

01:05:58.280 --> 01:05:59.800
we benefited from it

01:06:00.780 --> 01:06:03.160
like thanks for doing the work for us

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right

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that's what it was

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we'll go ahead and just take all that

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and benefit from it

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and look keep in mind in the bible

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God does this all the time

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he literally

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just he's like Robin Hood

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to a certain degree

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he takes from the wicked

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and he gives to us poor

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really yeah look at Canaan land

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he's like wipe them all out

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and you guys take the houses that you did not build

01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:32.840
wells that you did not dig

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vineyards that you did not plant and just enjoy it

01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:36.580
that's what he did

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is that Canaan land it's yours

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we'll call it Israel

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right

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does it all the time

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what do you do with the lepers

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you know he chased out

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the army the camp there

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and then just were able to go in and just eat all the food and just use it

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gold, silver, everything

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and by the way same thing in the millennial reign

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the third temple

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fourth temple whatever temple is going to be

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that the anti that these

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Zionists are making for the Antichrist

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you know when Jesus comes

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he's going to be like I'll take this

01:07:07.180 --> 01:07:07.880
he's just like

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flicks him into like a fire

01:07:10.060 --> 01:07:10.840
and he's like

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that's the temple of the Antichrist

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that was the temple of the Antichrist

01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:17.680
now it's now it belongs to the Lord

01:07:18.580 --> 01:07:20.280
and so you know we're going to be able

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also inherit things in this world

01:07:22.940 --> 01:07:24.100
like you know whatever

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mansions or whatever it's going to be ours

01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:27.540
we just take over

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you know it's just going to be ours

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why because the Lord a principle in the Bible

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is that he uses the wicked

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now hopefully you know the wicked

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when they are being productive

01:07:38.140 --> 01:07:39.980
in these areas hopefully it moves them

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to seek out the Lord

01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:43.800
and then eventually get saved

01:07:44.820 --> 01:07:45.520
that's the goal

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but at the end of the day most of them will not

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and so God's like okay

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I'll you know I'll kill two birds

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with one stone

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I'll use this to try to reach you

01:07:56.160 --> 01:07:57.060
but if it doesn't reach you

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either way the product is going to be used for my people

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as noted with what took place

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in Constantinople in 1453

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you know it

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the pen of the scribes was

01:08:07.980 --> 01:08:09.360
in vain

01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:11.400
there was righteous scribes in the Old Testament

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but unfortunately they didn't believe the words

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that they were writing and therefore they went apostate

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let's pray Father we thank you so much for your word

01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.080
and we're thankful for the ready

01:08:20.080 --> 01:08:21.220
scribes such as Ezra

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righteous scribes and obviously

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Beirut wasn't perfect but

01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:28.060
he was used of the Lord

01:08:28.060 --> 01:08:29.860
to pen down the words of the prophet

01:08:30.660 --> 01:08:31.680
and Lord we're thankful

01:08:32.120 --> 01:08:33.960
for how you use the wicked Lord

01:08:34.480 --> 01:08:35.960
we're not to envy the sinners

01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:37.660
because the sinners will be used by you

01:08:37.660 --> 01:08:38.740
to accomplish your will

01:08:39.440 --> 01:08:41.820
and Lord we're thankful for what took place

01:08:41.820 --> 01:08:44.080
in Constantinople in 1453

01:08:44.080 --> 01:08:46.200
were it not for it the scriptures wouldn't have gone

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out and we would have

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not had the underlying

01:08:49.780 --> 01:08:51.920
Greek texts that makes up

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the King James Bible

01:08:52.860 --> 01:08:54.980
and so we're thankful for that Lord

01:08:54.980 --> 01:08:57.260
I pray that you'd help us to be a ready scribe

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to be ready to just not just

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read the word of God on a daily basis

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in order to internalize the truths of God's word

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but also to expound upon it

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when it calls for it Lord

01:09:07.240 --> 01:09:08.640
and I pray you bless us as we go on our way

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we love you we thank you pray these things in Jesus name

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Amen