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Amen.

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Amen.

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We're here in Ephesians chapter two verse one

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is as in you,

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happy quickened,

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who were dead in trespasses and sins.

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And so of course the you here is referring to the church

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at Ephesus and to all the faithful

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which are in Christ Jesus.

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That's who the letter was addressed to

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in chapter number one.

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And he's saying that they have been quote quickened

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which means to be made alive,

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to make something quick

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or to use quick in this context means

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to make alive and look the contrast

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who were dead.

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So notice it even is a self-explanatory

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that the quickening is changing their state of being.

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They were dead, but they've been quickened.

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So we see that quicken is meaning

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they're no longer dead.

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They are made alive.

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It's similar.

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Keep your finger and go to first Peter chapter number four

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and I'll show you another reference

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to the quick being contrasted with dead

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just to show you how that word, what that word means.

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The Bible talks about the word of God being quick.

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And of course that is also to describe

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how the word of God is living.

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There's a living aspect to the word of God.

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It's not just another textbook.

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It's not just another thing that's been written

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but rather it's a living document.

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And there's something that transcends

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just the mere words on the page.

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Now, when we look at first Peter chapter four

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this is a similar concept that's being taught

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in the book of Ephesians chapter two.

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It says in verse one for as much as Christ

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hath suffered for us in the flesh,

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arm yourselves likewise with the same mind

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for you that hath suffered in the flesh,

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hath ceased from sin,

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that he no longer should live the rest of his time

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in the flesh the lust of men but the will of God.

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For the time pass of our life may suffice

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as to have wrought the will of the Gentiles

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when we walked in lasciviousness, lust, excess of wine,

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revelings, banquettings and abominable idolatries

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wherein they think it's strange

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that you run not with them to the same excess

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of riot speaking evil of you

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who shall give account to him that is ready to judge

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the quick and the dead.

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So here we have the same comparison

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of the quick versus the dead

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and it describes what the dead were like.

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What were they like?

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Well, they're walking in lasciviousness, lust,

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excess of wine, revelings, banquettings

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and abominable idolatries.

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You say, what does that sound like?

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It sounds like the Roman Catholic church.

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In fact, it even sounds like their parties.

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You can go to events at a Roman Catholic church

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and they will have literal kegs of alcohol,

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literal kegs of beer where people are getting drunk,

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people are getting wasted.

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They of course have abominable idolatry

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in their institutions.

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And it's not just the Roman Catholics.

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Of course in the first century

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we just have a lot of paganism.

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The Greek culture has a pantheon of gods

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that they're worshiping

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and so they're going to feast

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where there's idolatry, false gods,

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they're drinking, partying.

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And notice that the Bible says they think it's strange

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that you're not participating

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in the same activities with them.

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And of course the Roman Catholic today

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would say it's strange that you're not Roman Catholic

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and you're not performing all their same rituals

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and worshiping their Mary statues

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and doing all these things,

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but they're dead.

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They're dead, they don't understand.

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They don't really have the enlightenment

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of the word of God.

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In chapter one of Ephesians

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it's talking about how he wants them

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to be enlightened and they've already been

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somewhat enlightened through salvation.

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But go back to the Word of Ephesians chapter two.

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The whole point of first Peter four

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and showing this is to show you that quick means alive

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and dead means dead.

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In Ephesians two verse one

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and you have he quickened

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who are dead, dead notices in trespasses and sins.

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So he's making kind of a similar comparison here

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to what the life was like before getting saved.

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They are just constantly

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in this state of committing trespass and sin.

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Verse two, wearing in time past

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he walked according to the course of this world.

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According to the prince of the power of the ear,

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the spirit that now work in the children of disobedience

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among whom also we had our conversation

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in times past and less of our flesh

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fulfilling desires of the flesh and of the mind

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and we're by nature the children of wrath,

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even as others.

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So he makes the statement of course

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it's very true like in a literal sense

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here in Ephesians chapter two

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because this church is a newly formed church

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and the Gentiles were a hundred percent pagans.

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They were a hundred percent idolaters.

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There wasn't, you know, the Gentiles were not saved.

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They weren't interested in the things of God.

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So when he came into this area,

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you know, basically no one's saved

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and just getting everyone saved.

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And a lot of these people, they're all adults.

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So they're not like raised Christian

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and he's like preaching to a raised Christian audience.

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He's preaching to a vast majority converted audience.

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You know, those that were in pagan idolatry

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or just unsaved just living their lives,

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how they see fit.

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And notice again, he says in verse number three

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among whom also we all had our conversation

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in time past meaning everyone's a sinner.

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Everyone was participating in just the lust of the flesh.

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Obviously if you got saved at a young age or as a child

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you have a lot shorter period of time

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where this is true for you.

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But we all have had our conversation in times past.

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Some people have gotten saved as adult

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and so they may have indulged the flesh even more

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than others.

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But the point is that, hey, when you got saved

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you should no longer continue

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doing the will of the Gentiles.

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Which notice is not necessarily just the will of the Gentiles.

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It's also the prince of the power of the air.

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It's according to his will.

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Notice according to the course of this world

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according to the prince of the power of the air

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the spirit that now work within the children of disobedience.

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So really what the world is doing is the devil's will.

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The Bible is basically teaching that the devil

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is the one inspiring and influencing man to sin.

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And isn't that true from the very beginning?

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I mean, who was enticing Eve to partake

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in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

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It was the serpent.

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It was the serpent, it was the devil.

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Now, the devil can't force you to sin.

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The devil is not literally demon possessing

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every single person, not everybody's demon possessed,

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but there's just demonic forces at work in this world.

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And they've influenced the main course of this world

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and the main attitudes of this world

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and all of the false religion of this world.

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And so when people are doing what they do,

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they think in a sense it's like,

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oh, I'm just doing what I want

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or I'm exploring for myself.

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But really they're just doing the devil's will

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and they don't know it.

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They're being influenced by Satan, by other people

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and they're just parroting what the world wants them to do.

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People think that they have unique ideas

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and I have a unique path for my life

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that's apart from the word of God.

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But look, you're just doing whatever

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the devil wants you to do.

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No, I don't need to wait to get married.

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I'll go out and commit fornication.

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Well, that's exactly what the devil wants you to do.

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Well, I don't need church.

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I'll just go have fun and party.

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I don't need to be sober.

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I'll go drink.

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I'll do drugs.

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I'll just spend my life chasing money.

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I'll go and worship some graven image.

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That's what the devil wants you to do.

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The devil has set up all of these things

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to get you to just get away from the things of God.

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It's not like you coming up with some unique, cool idea.

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You're an inventor of new ideas.

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You're just gonna be doing what the devil wants you to do.

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And the Bible has its course of action.

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It's walk of life that it wants you to go down.

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And of course, being saved,

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we now should choose to walk down that course,

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not walk down this course that we had been on.

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And it's important for him to explain this to this audience

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because, hey, after you got saved,

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hey, you're going to heaven.

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No, Matt, like your fate has been sealed.

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You're sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.

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You have that earnest of the inheritance.

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You can't not go to heaven.

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But he also wants you to realize,

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like, you're supposed to live differently, though.

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God not only is going to take you to heaven,

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but now he also wants you to act differently.

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He wants you to be different.

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And the way that you were walking before

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was not a godly way.

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You weren't walking a godly conversation, a godly life.

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You were just doing what the devil wanted you to do.

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And so now God wants you to be different.

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God wants you to come out from among them

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and be separate, sayeth the Lord.

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God wants us to walk according to his path

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and his commandments and his instructions for life.

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And look, there is a burden, but his burden is light.

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There is a yoke, but his yoke is easy.

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But the Bible says the way of transgressors is hard.

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And so you might think like,

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oh, going to church is difficult.

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And having kids is difficult.

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And being married is difficult.

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You know what's difficult?

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Getting divorced.

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You know what's difficult?

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Committing a life of fornication

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and having STDs and bastard children

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and paying alimony or just burning in lust

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with no healthy outlet.

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That is way worse than getting married and that burden.

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You know, not working hard and having to pay bills

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and not following a Christian ethic.

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Boy, it's going to be really difficult.

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There's going to be a lot of temptation

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to take shortcuts, to get into nefarious ways

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of making money.

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I mean, you think like, oh, the Christian path is hard.

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No, the other path is much harder.

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It's much more difficult.

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But of course, Satan wants you to believe

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that it's an easier path, it's a fun path,

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it's a cool path, it's edgy.

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You're going to be this bad boy.

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You're going to be this bad girl or something.

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But you know what, it's a way that sucks.

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It's a way that's hard, it's a way that's difficult,

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it's a way that has severe consequences.

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Yeah, there could be a little bit of pleasure and sin,

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but boy, it's just a pound of headache with it.

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It's a pound of headache with it and it's never worth it.

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You're always going to regret it.

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You're going to despise that you've made these decisions

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and you as a young person,

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it's very difficult for you to realize this.

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It's very difficult for you to realize this,

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but of course, for the Gentiles,

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it could be difficult for them to realize

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this is a better life for you.

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You need to change and not be like the children of wrath,

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not be like the children of disobedience,

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not continue to walk in the course of Satan.

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And of course, God desired for them to have a better life.

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But you really can't do it unless you get saved.

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The Bible makes this clear in other chapters

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and other passages of scripture,

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but you're really not going to walk in God's commandments

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without the power of the Spirit, without the Holy Ghost.

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It's not going to make sense to you.

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You're not going to be able to walk by faith

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and so it's going to be very difficult.

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So that's why you need to be saved.

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Now once you're saved, you're enabled

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to basically walk the Christian life

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and so that's why it's important.

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And it's being explained to a Gentile audience here.

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He says here in verse number four,

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but God who is rich in mercy for his great love

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wherewith he loved us,

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even when we were dead in sins,

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that quickened us together with Christ,

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by grace ye are saved.

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And hath raised us up together

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and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus

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that in the ages to come,

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he might show the exceeding riches of his grace

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and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

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Now again, I think it's important to think about

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the audience.

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The intended audience is a primarily Gentile audience

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in the first century who has walking

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according to the course of Satan.

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And now he's saying, hey, we were all like that.

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We all had this lifestyle.

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We all had this attitude,

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but God who's noticed this is rich in mercy.

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He loved us enough that even because we were dead in sins,

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he's made us alive together in Christ

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and he's raised us up together

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and he's gonna make us sit together

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in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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And then in the ages to come,

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you might show the exceeding riches of his grace

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and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

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So what I believe is mainly trying to be communicated

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in this section here is that God,

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even though we were bad as Gentiles

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and even though the Ephesians were living

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a wicked and sinful life,

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God still wanted to redeem them.

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He wanted to take them out of that, okay?

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Not only does he want to take them out of that,

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he wants them to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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What is this picturing?

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This is picturing status.

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Because think about it.

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Okay, Gentiles got saved,

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but you're always gonna be a subclass in heaven.

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You're always gonna be second class citizens

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or none of you can achieve anything

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like a communist style government or something

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where no matter how hard you work, there's no reward

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or you're already limited to the lower deck of the Titanic,

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you can't get into the higher elevation.

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Well, it could cause you to feel like

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I don't really wanna serve or do anything,

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but he's saying no, no, no, no.

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No, he's raised us up together too

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and made us sit together in heavenly places

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in Christ Jesus, meaning that there will be Gentiles

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sitting in some of the highest positions

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of authority in heaven.

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And not just right now that in ages to come,

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he might show the exceeding riches of his grace

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and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus,

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meaning that if we go into the third century in time,

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300 years or 200 years after the time of Christ,

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there would already be great Gentiles

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sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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There would be Timothy and there would be Titus

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and there'd be different Gentiles

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that are up there in those places

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along with the next thousand years of Christian history

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and the next thousand years of Christian history,

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meaning that Gentiles aren't limited to,

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hey, you're second class citizens, no,

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he's also gonna let us sit in heavenly places

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in Christ Jesus and we can have the ability

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to be in high positions of authority in heaven

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and in heavenly places and these great places

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and then it shows the exceeding riches of his grace

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because he then, the Gentiles for 4,000 years

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had nothing to do with God.

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Isn't that showing a lot of grace?

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It's similar to that parable, if you think about it,

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where there's a guy going out and hiring day laborers

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and some guys are hired early

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and then like a few guys are hired late

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but then they all get the same amount of pay

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and it's just like, hey, it doesn't matter

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that the Gentiles are latecomers,

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it doesn't matter that the prodigal is returning,

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we're still gonna have a feast for him

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and he's still a son

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and so in the same way the Gentiles,

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while they're latecomers and for the last 4,000 years,

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they've just been trash by and large,

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well, they still have an opportunity

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to come back into the kingdom of God

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and not be second classed,

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but rather be mightily used by God

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and sit in heavenly places

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so that God could show the riches of his grace,

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meaning it's not as much grace to just give out,

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all the good places go to only the Hebrews or something.

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No, it shows that he had even more riches in his grace

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by allowing some Gentiles to come in

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and showing people that were not of deserving

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or not the same pedigree or not the same heritage

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they can come in and so we get to see

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the exceeding riches of his grace

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and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

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So why are the Gentiles getting to come in?

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Are the Gentiles getting to come in

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because, well, they really changed their lives,

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they really cleaned up their act,

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they started doing right.

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No, verse 8, for by grace are you saved through faith

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and that not of yourselves,

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it is the gift of God not of works

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as any man should boast.

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So why is it that the Gentiles get to be reconciled with God?

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It's not because they did anything special,

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it's not because of their heritage or history,

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it's not for any works that they did,

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but it was by God's grace through their faith

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in Jesus Christ that they are saved.

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The church at Ephesus is saved

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because of their faith in God, in Jesus Christ

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and that's clear from many passages that we've already read.

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Verse 10, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus

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under good works which God hath before ordained

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that we should walk in them.

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Again, we gotta think about verse 10

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in the context that we've been building

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because we're talking about Gentiles

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and he's saying, look, you are his workmanship.

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God's workmanship is not limited to the Jews,

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it's not limited to just that group of Hebrews,

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no, you Gentiles are his workmanship.

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And it's not like, well, I ran out of people,

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so now I just have to find some new ones.

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You know, I was gonna use these guys,

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but they didn't pan out,

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so now I have to pick someone else

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as a second rate option.

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You know, I wanted to marry her,

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but she said, no, so now I'm on my second option.

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That's not what it is because notice what it says.

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He says, for we are his workmanship created

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in Christ Jesus under good works

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which God had before ordained that we should walk in them.

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God already knew that the Gentiles we brought in

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and they weren't a second option,

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they weren't plan B, they were plan A.

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They were always the plan, they were always the answer,

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they were always created to do good works

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and God always knew, hey, I'm gonna bring

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a mass group of Gentiles into the kingdom of God

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in this time, in this age,

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and they are ordained to do what?

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Do good works, and we end up seeing Christianity

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thriving and exploding through the Gentiles.

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I mean, when we read the Bible,

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it's to the church at Rome,

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it's to the church at Corinth,

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it's to the church at Ephesus,

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it's to these Gentile churches

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that are the ones doing the good works

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and getting people saved and forming Christianity,

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and of course, Christianity now is

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the most popular religion in the world.

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Albeit, I'm including everybody that's fake too

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and I get that, but I'm just saying,

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you know, it's not like everybody in Islam's real,

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they're all fake too.

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Okay, so if we're just categorizing religion by sincerity,

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well, we're the only real religion anyways.

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If we're categorizing it by just what people claim

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or give lip service to,

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Christianity is the number one religion in the world.

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It wasn't the number one religion in the first century.

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Paganism, heathenism was way more popular.

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The Greek culture and that influence

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was way more popular by sheer volume and number.

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And it was through the efforts of the apostle Paul

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preaching to the Gentiles,

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which turned the world upside down

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and caused this gospel to be preached

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into all the world to everyone.

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And it was like a little leaven

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that leavened the whole lump

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and that Christianity spread throughout the whole world

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and we see Gentiles doing really good works

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and getting a lot of people saved

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and preaching the gospel and laying down their lives.

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I mean, we have in the book of Revelation,

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the seven churches which are in Asia,

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you know, one of the churches is talking

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about people being faithful unto death.

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It's talking about people being in prison

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for the cause of Christ.

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We have all kinds of great Gentiles

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doing great works for God.

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And that's what he's saying here.

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This is the essence of what's being communicated.

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So, you know, we don't want to lose,

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I love how people are always like,

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you got to read things in context

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but then they never actually put things in context.

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Because what they'll say is they'll say things

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like verse 10 means that

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if you don't have the works, you're not saved.

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That's not really the context

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of any of this passage at all.

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This context is not about that

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and I'm going to come back to this section.

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I just want to get through the whole chapter

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so we remembered the whole context

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and then we'll kind of dig into a few of these verses.

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But think about it, verse 11,

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where for remember?

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Don't you think this verse is tied

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to the previous verses?

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Where for remember that ye being in time past

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Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision

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by that which is called the circumcision

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in the flesh made by hands

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that at that time ye were without Christ

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being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel

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and strangers from the covenants of promise

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having no hope and without God in the world.

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He doesn't really paint a positive picture

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about them, does he?

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You think that I was being harsh.

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What is the apostle Paul saying what they were like, right?

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Verse 13, but now in Christ Jesus,

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ye who sometimes were far off

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are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

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So what's the whole picture?

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What's the sandwich that we've been building?

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Well, he's talking to a Gentile audience

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that was dead in trespasses and sins

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but they've now been quickened.

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They were saved by grace and they were preordained.

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They were foreordained.

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They were predestined.

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They were elect to do the good works

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and to be God's people and to be the church.

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And even though in times past they were Gentiles,

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even though in times past they had nothing to do with Christ,

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even though in times past they were aliens

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from the commonwealth of Israel,

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even though in times past they were strangers,

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even though in times past they had no hope,

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even though in times past they were without God,

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they're now what?

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They've been made nigh by the blood of Jesus Christ.

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That's the whole picture.

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That's what we've been talking about.

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That's the context of this passage.

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He's trying to say, hey, I know that you weren't

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the nation of Israel because we're making a huge jump.

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Old Testament's all about the physical nation of Israel

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and the physical nation of heathen,

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the physical nations of the Gentiles.

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The Gentile means nations.

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So if you think about Gentiles, it means nations

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because it was literally everybody else and then Israel.

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And it was like, well, Israel,

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if you worship the God of Israel,

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you're an Israel.

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If you don't, you're heathen, you're Gentiles,

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you're the nations, you're everybody else.

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And at the times of this ignorance, God winked at,

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but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent.

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And so all the Gentiles are demanded

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to get on this program and we're now no longer

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talking about a physical nation of Israel,

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but a spiritual nation of all believers.

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And he's trying to say, you guys are now part of that.

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And this is a mystery that's been revealed

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that the nation of Israel is no longer a physical nation,

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but it's a spiritual nation.

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And you guys are now citizens

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and you guys are now adopted in the family

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and you guys now have the inheritance

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and you now have the earnest of the Holy Spirit.

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You've been made a son of God and a child of God.

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Why?

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By grace.

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By grace, through your faith and Jesus Christ,

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that's why you are, but you're not plan B.

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You're not the second rate citizens.

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You're not the servant class.

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You're sons.

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You're adopted.

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You're family.

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You're in.

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There's no more enmity.

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Okay?

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He says in verse 14,

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for he is our peace who have made both one

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and broken down the middle wall of partition between us

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having abolished in his flesh the enmity,

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even the law of commandments contained in ordinances

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for to make in himself of twain one new man

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so making peace and that he might reconcile both

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unto God in one body by the cross

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having slain the enmity thereby

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and came and preached peace to you

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which were far off into them that were nigh.

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So notice he repeats this in verse 15.

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He's saying he's abolished the,

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in his flesh the enmity

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and then in verse number 16,

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having slain the enmity.

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Okay?

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What is the enmity?

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The enmity is basically the opposition.

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There's conflict between Israel and Gentiles.

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There's enmity.

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They're at war.

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They're at battle.

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They're at disagreement.

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There's some conflict between them.

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What conflict?

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Well, let's keep our finger here

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and go to, I don't know, Deuteronomy chapter seven

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for a moment.

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Go to Deuteronomy chapter number seven

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and let's just think about passages in the Bible.

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How about Peter?

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Whenever he's told to eat certain unclean beasts,

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he says like, Nay, Lord,

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he's like, I've never eaten anything unclean.

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And the whole point was to go preach into Gentiles

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and he's hesitant to even want to do that.

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He doesn't even want to talk to those people,

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be around those people,

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let alone fellowship with them.

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In the book of Galatians,

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when James and his group or men from James

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are coming to Peter,

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he gets away from all the Gentiles

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and he pretends like he can't sit with them

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and eat with them because it's just perceived

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that there's this enmity.

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There's this wall.

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There's some division here.

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Like we can't have fellowship with these type of people.

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We can't hang out with these people.

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They're lower class citizens.

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But again, it's not based on nothing.

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It's not like, oh, well,

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the Israelites are just racist cuss or something

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or they're just prejudiced cuss.

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It is prescribed in the Old Testament law.

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Look what it says in Deuteronomy 7 verse one.

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When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land

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where thou goest to possess it

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and have cast out many nations before thee,

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the Hittites and the Gurgashites

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and the Amorites and the Canaanites

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and the Parasites and the Hivites and the Jebusites,

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seven nations greater and mighter than thou.

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And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee,

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thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them.

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Thou shalt make no covenant with them

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nor show mercy unto them.

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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, thy daughter,

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thou shalt not give unto a son, nor his daughter,

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shalt thou take unto thy son,

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for they will turn away thy son from following me,

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that they may serve other God,

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so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you

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and destroy thee suddenly.

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So the Hiva nations were treated with extreme hostility

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in the Old Testament law.

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In fact, so much so, you make no covenant with them.

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You were to destroy and kill all of them.

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You were never allowed to marry them.

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So now we've entered in the New Testament.

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Is it okay for a Jew to marry someone of a Hivan nation?

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Marry a potential Canaanite?

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Yes, if they're saved.

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Because that physical boundary, that physical law,

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was to illustrate the spiritual truth in the New Testament

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that you weren't supposed to marry an unbeliever.

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And even in other passages of the Old Testament law,

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they were prescribed to marry only within their tribe.

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Like they were only supposed to be marrying

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within their tribes.

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And of course, that is to illustrate again,

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a spiritual truth of marrying a believer.

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Because of course, at this time,

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you're not gonna be finding heathen believers by and large.

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Of course, we still have little foreshadowings,

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things like Ruth the Moabitis,

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and we have other groups, Reab the Harlet,

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which are even in the lineage of Jesus Christ,

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which is illustrating God already knew

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who's gonna be bringing the heathen in at some point.

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But again, this is just a general rule

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of the Old Testament law.

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And there was an obvious enmity.

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There was an obvious just conflict

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between Jew and Gentile in the Old Testament.

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And he's saying, hey, through Christ, this has been slain.

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Through Christ, this has been abolished.

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Through Christ, what's been abolished?

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Old Testament laws creating a difference

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between the physical nation of Israel and Gentiles.

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Saying that you don't have fellowship with these people

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and you stay away from these people

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and you can't have covenants with these people

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and you can't marry them anymore.

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All that's been abolished in the New Testament.

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And now we make sure when we get married,

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it's because they're saved,

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not because, well, of their physical ancestry

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or their lineage or something like that.

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But in the Old Testament, that was a provision.

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In the Old Testament, that was something

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that was supposed to be in effect.

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So all that's been slain, all that's been done away with.

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Go back to Ephesians chapter number two.

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Go back to Ephesians chapter two.

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That's what he's bringing up.

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That's what he's describing.

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And it's necessary because think about it.

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Hey, you're now Israel.

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Well, but they won't even marry me.

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They won't make any agreement with me.

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They think I'm trash.

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And it's like, no, no, no, all that has been slain

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by Christ so you can be part of Israel.

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In fact, you are Israel.

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Whether you like it or not, you are Israel.

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You've been adopted.

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You've been brought in the family.

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You're now part of the tribe.

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And again, in the Old Testament,

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he then could have converted.

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He could have sojourned in the land and converted

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and become part of the tribe.

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And that's kind of what was the picture anyways, okay?

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But they did have a kind of a physical boundary

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and a lot of them didn't understand this spiritual truth.

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And so he's saying this is a mystery that's being revealed

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about how this is gonna be abolished

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and there's no longer this physical nation

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as a spiritual nation.

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And he's saying in verse number 17

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and talking about, well, let's do verse, I'm sorry, 18.

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For through him talking about Jesus Christ,

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we both have accessed by one spirit unto the Father.

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Now therefore, you're no more strangers and foreigners

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but fellow citizens with the saints

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and of the household of God

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and are built upon the foundation

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of the apostles and prophets,

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Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.

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And in all the building, fitly framed together,

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growth unto an holy temple in the Lord

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and whom he also are built together

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for an habitation of God through the spirit.

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So if we think about this, they're now fellow citizens.

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In the Old Testament, okay, I wanna seek God

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and I'm a Gentile, you'd have to come

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to the physical nation of Israel

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and convert and get circumcised physically.

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In the New Testament, I don't have to move to Israel

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and I don't have to get physically circumcised

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because the circumcision is that of the heart,

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it's not of the letter.

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And I don't have to physically be there.

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I'm already a fellow citizen

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even though I'm living in Ephesus,

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even though I'm living in Corinth,

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even though I'm living in Rome.

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Doesn't matter where I live

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and I'm no longer a stranger, I'm a citizen

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even though I don't even physically live there.

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He's trying to basically help them understand

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all of these points because in times past,

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it's not how it was.

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In times past, I would have to be a physical citizen

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and have to physically live there

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and have to get physically circumcised

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to worship the God of the Bible.

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But now, all of that's been eliminated

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because again, notice in the previous verses,

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in verse 11, wherefore remember

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that even in times past, Gentiles noticed this

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in the flesh who are called uncircumcision.

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What is a Gentile in the flesh?

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Well, of course, you can talk about ancestry

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but it's also meaning you're not circumcised.

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You're uncircumcised.

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So what would be a Israel in the flesh?

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You're circumcised.

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But you know what?

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That is not the real Jew.

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The real Jew is not the one that's physically circumcised

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because in the first century, there's hundreds of thousands

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of not millions of physically circumcised people

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on the planet and they're not of Christ

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because they're not all Israel, which are of Israel.

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Meaning that there was a lot of circumcision

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and so the Bible's saying beware of the circumcision.

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Why?

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Because 99% of them are false prophets

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and they don't believe the gospel

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and they don't believe in Jesus Christ at this time.

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And then it's like, okay, well, what about these Gentiles?

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They're not circumcised.

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Well, guess what?

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They're circumcised in their heart

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so therefore they are the true circumcision.

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They're the true Israel.

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They've been brought in.

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We've abolished all of the enmity.

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Now Peter can sit and eat with an uncircumcised Gentile

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and have fellowship with an uncircumcised Gentile

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because it's been, we've had peace

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through Jesus Christ, through his blood.

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And now as a collective, we are the temple.

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We don't need to go to the physical temple.

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We, and individually the Bible talks about us

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being a temple where the Holy Ghost is dwelling in us

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but the temple is us being gathered together

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and Christ being with us in the midst

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and the Holy Spirit abiding in us.

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That's the new temple, the New Testament temple.

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We don't need the physical temple anymore.

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That's been abandoned.

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That's been abolished.

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That's been replaced.

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And that's what I call replacement theology.

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The physical nation is replaced with the spiritual nation.

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The physical temple has been replaced

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with a spiritual temple.

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The physical circumcision has been replaced

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by a spiritual circumcision.

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And so no longer, the physical citizen

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has been replaced by a spiritual citizen.

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And so that's why I don't mind the labeling

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of replacement theology

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because yes, a lot of things have been replaced.

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Now, some people would get mad about this label

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because they would say,

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well, the church didn't replace Israel.

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And it's like, it depends on how we're defining these words

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and it depends on what we mean by this

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because I believe the church is the spiritual nation

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that replaced the physical nation.

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But obviously we're not starting something new.

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We're just being grafted in to what was already there.

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Okay, we're part of the, we've been adopted in, okay?

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And so some things have been replaced.

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Some things have been adoption.

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Some things have been grafted in.

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Some things have been brought into the vine.

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And so there's different ways of wording this

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or looking at it.

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But notice again, in verse number 20,

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we're built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

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So we have the same heritage as those physical Jews.

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We can say our Father Abraham and all those prophets,

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hey, there are prophets and there are apostles

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and they're our foundation too.

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And they're what led us to Jesus Christ.

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And of course, Jesus Christ is our foundation.

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He's the chief cornerstone of this building,

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of the New Testament, of the kingdom of God,

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of what we have now spiritually.

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And we're also building together with him.

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So we're part of that construction.

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And of course, Jesus Christ is the quote chief cornerstone

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because that's typically what you think of as the first stone

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laid in a building construction project.

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So like the New Testament, the first stone laid Jesus Christ.

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Of course, the first risen from the dead.

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He's the first born from the dead.

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He's the first resurrection.

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He's the first fruits.

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He's that first chief cornerstone.

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And of course, we're part of his building.

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Isn't it interesting?

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The God of the Bible, the Lord of lords,

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the king of kings, when he describes himself,

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he describes himself as a chief cornerstone

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like the foundation, the bottom,

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and everything's built on.

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You know, the God of this world,

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he always wants to be the capstone.

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He always wants to be that top all-seeing eye

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and elevate himself.

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But you know what?

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Our God was willing to humble himself

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and be at the very bottom, lower himself

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so that we could be built upon him

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and we could inherit with his promises.

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So he's willing to condescend to men of low estate,

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whereas of course, Satan always wants to be at the top

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in the pyramid scheme, okay?

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And so, you know, Satan's just a pyramid schemer.

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He's that first multi-level marketing agent out there.

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And yes, multi-level marketing's of Satan, okay?

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And he's just trying to, he's trying to get ministers.

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He has little Jew ministers out there

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trying to have a little house parties

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to get you into his movement or whatever.

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Which is called synagogue parties or something like that.

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And of course, you know, Christianity

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is people laying down their lives,

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not trying to stack people underneath them

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and try to elevate themselves.

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Christianity is a humble religion

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where we sacrifice and we lift other people up

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and we love other people.

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And of course, you know, the good works

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that we're supposed to walk in in verse 10,

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we have to be honest with the text.

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This is talking to a collective.

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Notice for we are his workmanship

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created in Christ Jesus under good works.

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Does that say every single person that gets saved

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is just gonna have infinite good works?

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No, it's not what this passage is bringing up.

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It's not, that's not the context of this passage.

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Yet there's a lot of false doctrine

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taught around Ephesians two, eight and nine

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and even verse 10 because they're so clear.

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Because they're just such clear verses in the Bible

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and they explain salvation by faith alone.

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And of course, the Calvinists really screw up

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and butcher these verses.

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So the Calvinists, when they get to Ephesians two, eight

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and nine, they will say, oh, this is teaching

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that the gift of God is the faith.

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So they say that God gave you the faith

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and that was the gift.

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And this is kind of like one of their proof texts

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to try and explain irresistible grace

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and to explain how those who get saved,

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they're given the gift of faith.

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And a Calvinist mindset and people that are raised

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in the Calvinist church, they're all hoping

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that they themselves and their children

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that God will give them the faith.

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But the problem is is for them,

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their idea of faith is in many cases

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following all the commandments.

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And then of course they'll use verse 10

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to illustrate, see, they're gonna do good works.

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So someone raised in a Calvinist church

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or going to a Calvinist church for a period of time,

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their assurance of salvation is often in

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how much good works they do on a regular basis,

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how much they want to do good works

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and how little they want to sin.

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And so if they start struggling

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with the thoughts of temptation or backsliding,

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then they truly believe they're not elect

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and they're not saved.

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And they'll think, oh well, you know,

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I don't really want to go to church right now

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or I'm kind of wanting to go out and party

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or I'm kind of, and if I want to go out and party,

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then I guess God didn't give me the faith

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and God didn't give me the grace

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and God didn't really elect me

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because why would I have all these desires

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and why would I have all these wants

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that are a contour to the things of God

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if I was really elect?

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And so they become disillusioned with Christianity.

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They become disillusioned with religion

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and they end up turning to something else.

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And you'll see a lot of Presbyterians,

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you'll see a lot of Calvinists,

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a lot of Reformed turning to the Roman Catholic Church even.

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And you say, how could they turn

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to the Roman Catholic Church?

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Like, it doesn't even make sense.

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But see, in their mind, they think that,

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okay, if I'm saved, I won't desire sin

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and I have perfect faith because it's just a gift

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and it's irresistible grace.

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How could I ever deny that?

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And because of perseverance of the saints,

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I'll continue in that grace no matter what.

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And so anybody that struggles with sin,

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anybody that is honest with the temptation level

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that's going on in their life,

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anyone that's honest with the fact

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that they're not doing good works

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is gonna realize, I guess I'm not saved.

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So they look somewhere else for salvation.

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They look somewhere else to have assurance.

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And what the Catholic Church offers

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is they offer a opportunity to feel like you're saved

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through works.

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And they'll say, well, you didn't really feel it

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through these irresistible grace feelings.

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So if you come to our church

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and you just say, sorry for all your sins

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and you eat that cracker,

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you're gonna be in a state of grace

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and God's gonna be good with you.

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And then if you don't screw up too much this week,

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you can continue staying in that state of grace.

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But if you screw up, come back,

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say sorry again, eat the cracker and you're good.

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And then you screw up.

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And so they just think salvation is a vicious cycle.

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And what gives them assurance

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is that they've repented of their sins recently,

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they've performed Eucharist.

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And so you ask, I remember my neighbor,

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I had an extra neighbor,

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when I grew up in Canaan, Texas,

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he was an archbishop of a Catholic Church.

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So he was not only over the church in our area,

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he was like a regional guy over all kinds of churches.

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And I remember asking him like

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if he was for sure gonna go to heaven.

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And he said, yeah, I feel really good about it.

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He's like, I had a good confession today.

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And so like in his mind,

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because he confessed all of his sins that day,

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he was like good.

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He's good right now.

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But boy, if they commit a mortal sin.

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And again, you're like wondering like,

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how do they convince themselves that they don't sin?

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Because in their mind,

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as long as you don't commit a mortal sin,

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you're still in the state of grace.

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And their mortal sins, they have like the seven deadly sins.

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Which this guy should have realized

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that one of those is gluttony

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and I think he was venturing into that realm, all right?

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But of course, the seven deadly sins

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is things like murder and adultery and greed.

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That's kind of scary one.

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How greedy is a mortal sin or not.

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Lust, that's a pretty scary one.

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Okay, but at the end of the day,

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they kind of feel like as long as they do something

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really bad, they're still in a state of grace.

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And if they died,

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maybe they might have to spend a few minutes

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interrogatory or whatever,

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but they're gonna ultimately make it happen.

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As long as they don't die, having committed a mortal sin.

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But if you think about it again,

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here, let's go back to this Calvinist mindset for a moment.

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Why would the guy graze and Calvinism turn away?

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Because he was struggling with sin

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and he wasn't feeling like he was saved.

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So how does he get that assurance?

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By the Roman Catholics lying to him and saying,

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hey, if you come confess that to me, your priest,

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and take this cracker,

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then you can actually feel like you're saved

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because of what you did, not because of what you believe.

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And so Roman Catholics believe they're saved

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because of their works.

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The Calvinist thinks he's saved because he's prideful

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and thinks he's better than other men.

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But both are unsaved.

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And that's why you see a lot of people

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turning into Roman Catholicism.

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And of course, they'll sit here and brag like,

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you know, we'll get up and say,

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hey, I got a Catholic saved.

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We get thousands of Catholics saved every year or whatever.

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And we're like, where are your converts?

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And they're like, oh, we're getting Protestants saved

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all the time.

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But you think you're not getting fundamental Baptist

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to convert to Roman Catholicism.

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You're getting these Protestants or whatever.

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And I'm not saying that a fundamental Baptist

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has never turned to Roman Catholicism

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because it happens, but it's super rare.

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It's not the common experience.

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I remember, because I've got a lot of arguments

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and stuff and attention to these things.

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There's all these Catholics like,

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oh, your people are leaving in droves

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for the Roman Catholic Church.

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And I'm thinking like, no.

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They're like, they're gonna become orthodox

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after this conversation.

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So it's like, not really worried about that, okay?

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Because once you've seen the truth,

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you're not gonna go back to believing in Santa Claus, okay?

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Once you've seen building seven,

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what else do you need to say?

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You know what I mean?

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I mean, sometimes when you just see it,

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it's like when you see them covering the windows

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of the election in Philadelphia,

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you're like, I already know it's fake.

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When you see them pull out the suitcases from underneath

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and they're just shoving ballots into the machine

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while everyone's else is gone due to a leak.

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It's like, yeah, in Arizona,

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they claim that there was a leak in the building

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so everyone's evacuated except for four people

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that pull out suitcases immediately

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and start just shoving ballots into the machine

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and then they grab the same ballots

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and shove them in the machine and shove them in the machine

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and they have the video of it and they have hearings

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and then they did nothing about it.

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You're like, yeah, I think it was fake.

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Yeah, I know that Trump was winning

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by hundreds of thousands of votes

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when we all went to sleep

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and then it woke up and magically Biden's winning

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and the military voted 150% in his favor

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and we have video of them pulling out ballots

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from a suitcase.

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It's just like, but I believe the official narrative.

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You know, it's just like,

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no, once you see it, you can't go back, okay?

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And someone that goes back,

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you kind of wonder like, are they sincere?

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Are they real?

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Like, what's going on with this person?

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Because it's like, hey, someone that knows the truth

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of the gospel has been in a church like ours

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and then becomes Roman Catholic?

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Like that person never got it.

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It's just like, what could I do

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to convince you two plus two equals five?

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I mean, I could torture you

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and look, the Roman Catholic Church did that.

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Look, that's not a method that they didn't use.

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That's a method they didn't use.

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They would say, hey, become Catholic

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and it's just like, no.

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And they're like, all right, we're gonna hook you

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up to this machine and you're gonna become Catholic.

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And look, under torture, you will say or do anything.

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So as strong and brave as you think you are,

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it's a lie, okay?

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You know, and it's just like,

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whenever you're under tense pain,

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you'll go back on your strongest convictions

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in many cases, okay?

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And so it's just, you have to realize

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that many people are becoming Roman Catholic

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because there's many Protestant churches

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that are lying to them and teaching false doctrine.

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And that Calvinism does not have,

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it's not a victimless heresy.

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Calvinism is disillusioning people

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because they don't realize they had to make a choice

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to believe in the gospel

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and that their faith in the gospels would save them.

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And so then they have to,

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well, where are we gonna find that in the Bible?

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You're not.

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So then they have to lie about Ephesians 2, 8, and 9.

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But let's pay attention to that for by grace,

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are you saved through faith?

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Now here's the thing, and not of yourselves,

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it is the gift of God, not of works.

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What's being contrasted here?

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It's not saying one group God gave faith to

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and the other group didn't get faith.

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What's contrasted is faith versus their works.

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That's what's being contrasted.

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He doesn't say, oh, these people are saved

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by grace through faith and this other group

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God didn't give the grace of faith to.

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It says, no, they're saved by faith,

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not of yourselves, not of works.

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Meaning there was nothing you did to earn the salvation

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or work for it or accumulate it through effort,

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human effort, but you got it through your faith.

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That's why you're saved

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and it was by God's grace that you were saved.

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And again, it says it's the gift of God.

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I mean, typically, not always,

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but typically when we're bringing up the gift,

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isn't a gift eternal life like Romans 6-23?

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Show me another place in the Bible

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in the context of salvation where it says the gift is faith.

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They don't have that.

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I can show you many places where the gift

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is eternal life or everlasting life.

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And where does faith even come from?

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Let's ask that question.

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Where does faith come from?

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Let's go to Romans chapter 10 and ask the question

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because they would say God just gives you the faith.

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But is that what the Bible says?

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Where does the Bible say that?

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The Bible says in Romans chapter 10 verse 17,

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so then faith cometh by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God.

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And what's the context of Romans chapter number 10?

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It's someone being sent to preach

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and when they preach someone hears

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and when someone hears they believe

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and when they believe they call

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and that's how they get saved.

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It never says God just randomly,

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just laser beam of faith to someone

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and they just believe

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when they didn't want anything to do with God.

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And that's what they'll say.

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They'll say, well, how could a dead man believe?

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I don't know.

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I mean, how can a dead man walk?

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I mean, why are we gonna attribute things to a dead man

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when we're not dead physically?

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It was dead spiritually, okay?

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It's like, oh, how could a dead man believe?

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Well, I believe all kinds of things.

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Don't say people believe all kinds.

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How can a dead man believe in Hinduism?

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I mean, it's not saying we don't have free will.

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Now I could get it.

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If there was someone on the ground, not conscious

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and someone was like, how can this guy believe?

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I'd be like, I don't know.

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I don't think he can.

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But guess what?

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I am conscious and I can walk around

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and I can choose to put my faith

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in all kinds of different things.

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And yes, dead people can believe

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in Jesus Christ and get saved.

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Nowhere in the Bible does it say they can't.

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That's again, human logic and it's a category issue.

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It's a category error that they make another mistake in.

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Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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Go to John chapter 20.

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Go to John chapter 20.

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If we compare scripture with scripture,

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we don't see clear verses saying anything like,

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oh, and God just gave these people faith.

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Oh, and God made them believe.

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We see places where God makes people not believe, I guess.

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I don't see anywhere where it's just like,

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hey, here's a bunch of people

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that want nothing new with God

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and God just shot them with a lightning bolt of faith

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and God just shot this person with belief.

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No, what happens is a preacher comes into them

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and preaches the word of God

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and then that word of God through the Holy Spirit

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conviction causes them to believe in Jesus Christ

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and that's how they get saved.

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What does John 20 say in verse 30?

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And many other signs truly to Jesus

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and the presence of disciples

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which are not written in this book, but these are written,

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that you might believe that Jesus of the Christ,

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the Son of God and that believing

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he might have life through his name.

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Now think about this verse.

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From a Calvinistic perspective,

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they believe in irresistible grace.

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Okay, why would it be might?

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Why is there even uncertainty in the equation?

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Because for them, you either get shot with it

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or you don't.

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And why would this need to be written?

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You know why it needs to be written?

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Because faith comes by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God

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and you might choose to believe in that

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and you might choose not to.

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But Calvinism is a lie from hell.

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And it causes people to put their trust

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and their works and think, am I good enough

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or am I doing good enough to have been elect

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and they become completely disillusioned with the gospel,

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completely disillusioned with the Bible actually teaches

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and they don't realize that they have to choose

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to put their faith in Jesus Christ to be saved.

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And so many people just grow up hearing about all the works

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and they think, I'm a teenager,

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I don't really want to serve God

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because teenagers are just rebellious punks

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that don't want to do anything.

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And it's just like, I mean,

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how many of them are gonna walk away from the faith?

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They're just like, yep, I know mom and dad said that

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but I don't want to do it.

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Why?

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Because mom and dad said it, you know.

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It's just like, there's just this attitude

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with so many of them.

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And so why do we see them just in mass walking away?

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I've seen people that were teenagers

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or young adults committing fornication

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that are Calvinists and then saying,

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oh, well, obviously God just wanted me to do that.

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What?

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Like they just know accountability for their actions

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whatsoever.

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And of course it's a religion for the prideful only

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because only a prideful person would think

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that their life models an irresistible grace

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of perfect works that they can't stop doing no matter what.

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I mean, what person is so prideful to think

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that they don't sin anymore

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and they're on this perfect trajectory,

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only fakers holier than thou's and prideful people.

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And so of course when you meet Calvinists,

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by and large they're proud, fake, holier than thou's

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that think they're better than everybody

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and they really don't accomplish very much works.

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And you know, the humble people that are going out there

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doing the work are gonna be the ones

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that realize salvation is truly a free gift

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and that they didn't do anything to deserve it.

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They didn't do anything to earn it.

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Go back to Ephesians chapter two.

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I want to address that

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because this is a major, major issue.

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Let's think about other verses in Ephesians too.

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I'm sorry, in Ephesians also in this idea.

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Did they just get this laser beam of faith?

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Well, what does it say in verse 12 of chapter one

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that we should be to the praise of his glory

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who first trusted in Christ?

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Does it say who God just gave us the gift of faith

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or does it say we first trusted in Christ?

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That sounds like we're doing something.

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Let's read verse 13 in whom he also trusted

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after that he heard the word of truth,

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the gospel of his salvation

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and whom also after that he believed

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he were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.

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So here's a question.

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Did the faith precede the Holy Ghost

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or did the Holy Ghost precede the faith?

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Because the Bible is saying that it was after I believe

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that I was sealed to the Holy Spirit.

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So no, it is not that I just get this gift

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of the Holy Spirit and faith and all this stuff.

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No, no, no.

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I heard the gospel, I believed,

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then I got the Holy Ghost.

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Then I get salvation, then I get eternal life

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and that of course is a gift unto me.

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It wasn't of my works

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and of course it wasn't for the Gentiles or the Jews,

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they're both saved by faith or through faith.

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Some people argue that those meet two different things

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and you're crazy, okay?

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But of course in this text, it's crystal clear.

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I wanna point out one other thing

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that I think is important

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a little bit further in this chapter.

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It said in verse number,

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I wanna look at verse 18.

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For through him we both have access

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by one spirit unto the Father.

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And again, in thinking about Roman Catholicism

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which praise God, most of us probably

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don't even know much about it.

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Who has actually raised Catholic at some point

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or went to Catholic services ever?

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Yeah, okay.

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I mean a handful of people.

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I honestly grew up not knowing anything

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about Catholicism or much about it.

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So I think it's still important

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to learn some of the things that they believe

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but in Roman Catholicism,

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they will teach that the saints

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are gonna make intercession for you to God.

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And really, if you kind of think about it,

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a lot of times what they're trying to do

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is they're trying to create this layer hierarchy

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where the saints are gonna make intercession

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to you, to Jesus.

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And again, this is why Mary is so important to them

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because they say, well, Mary is the mother of God

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and so therefore he listens to her

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and he wants to do her will

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and he wants to like obey her

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and he wants to make her happy.

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So if we pray to Mary,

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then Mary will kind of like whisper in Jesus ear

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whatever or she'll bring up us to Jesus

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and then Jesus will hear our prayers.

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But here's the thing that Catholics

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constantly are missing and screwing up about the Bible

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is that we're supposed to be praying to God the Father.

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And it's not to put down Jesus,

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it's just that the structure of the Bible

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is that we pray to God or we pray to the Father

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through Jesus Christ, that he's the intercessor,

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that he's the one that's the advocate,

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that he's the one.

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Like I don't need to pray in Mary's ear

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to get to Jesus, I pray to the Father through Jesus.

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I'm trying to get to God the Father through Jesus Christ

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not through Mary to Jesus.

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So they're like totally just screwing up the entire picture

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and they don't really seem to care about God the Father.

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I mean, you go into a Roman Catholic church

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and it's a crucifix, it's a Mary statue.

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It's like they don't really talk about God the Father

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or they don't really bring that up

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because again they also believe in divine simplicity

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and they have a weird view of the Trinity

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and they have a weird view of God

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and so what you'll notice in Roman Catholicism

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is they really downplay God the Father

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and they don't really care about God the Father

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and not bringing up God the Father very much.

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And again it's not to say,

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I'm not trying to say you could like

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emphasize Jesus too much

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but at the same time

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they're not really bringing up the Father.

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They're not really emphasizing the Father

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and I think it is possible to overemphasize things.

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Like some people emphasize the cross so much

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they're like taking away from the resurrection.

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And again that is a problem

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because in 1 Corinthians chapter number 15

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you can believe in the death all you want

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and if you don't believe in the resurrection

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your belief is in vain and you're not even saved.

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So we can't just emphasize the one thing that we like.

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It's like well Mary was a virgin, amen

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but she's not a virgin anymore

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and so they emphasize this virginity

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over above like reality

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they'll even get to the point where they say

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Mary never sinned.

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And it's just like how do you improve that?

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And they'll go to Luke chapter one

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where it says that thou art highly favored

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and they'll be like well if we go back to the Greek

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this means grace.

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And if you understood the Greek

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then you understand grace means sinless.

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And you're just like that was a big stretch, okay.

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Like really?

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So now Mary is sinless

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and of course then Mary can't have any more children

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and then of course Mary ascended into heaven

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which it's just like no man has ascended up to heaven

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except for Mary, you know.

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And it's like why smash a Mary statue?

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It's like the beliefs they have on Mary

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are just demonic, false doctrine, blasphemy.

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They have nothing to do with the Bible.

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They've created a physical idol

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and a spiritual idol in their heart

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and needs to be shattered.

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And look the Catholic religion is very fragile

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that's why they get nervous

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when you smash their little statues

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because just as fragile is that little ceramic thing

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is how fragile their doctrine is.

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And how fragile the religion is

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and how easy it is to pull people away from it.

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Today I got two young men that were Catholics saved today.

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And I made it clear I said

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this is not what the Catholic Church Jesus,

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they do not believe this.

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And I said do you believe what they believe

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or what this book says the Bible?

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And they said we believe the Bible.

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And you know what?

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When you listen to people that say like,

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hey I used to be Catholic and now I'm a Baptist.

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You know why they say they are a Baptist?

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Because of what the Bible says.

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And when you listen to one of these people say

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oh I converted from being Baptist to a Catholic.

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You know what they'll say?

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Oh the feeling I got when I went

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to the Roman Catholic Church

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it was just such a peaceful feeling.

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It just felt so good.

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Whenever they go to the Orthodox Church

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it's like oh I just saw the beautiful images

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and it just looked so beautiful.

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And I just had to kiss all the images.

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And you know what people are not saying?

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Well I read the Bible and then I was like

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Roman Catholicism is obviously true.

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That doesn't happen.

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Why?

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Because you read the Bible and you're like

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hey none of this mads up, none of this makes sense.

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And they're like submit to Rome.

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I'm like whoa, where did that come from?

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Submit, submit to Rome.

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And of course the same people that scream.

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I mean I don't care where you go online.

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If you're talking with a Catholic

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they'll put in all caps submit to Rome,

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submit to Rome, submit to Rome.

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And then you're like we think that wives

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that submit to their husbands are like you're abusive.

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Okay, yeah that's funny isn't it?

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Of course you have to submit to Mary.

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I wonder why, I wonder if they're screwed up

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on feminism when they're bowing down

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to a female statue and carrying it around

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and have all this unhealthy view

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of marriage and relationships and procreation and pleasure.

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And of course Roman Catholics are just,

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they're demonic folks, I'm sorry.

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It's just a demonic religion.

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They abstain from meats which are supposed to be received.

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I mean like basically all the pleasures

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that God gave you.

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It's like they're taking away.

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The pleasures of marriage, the pleasures of meat,

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just the pleasures of just all the things

01:00:00.140 --> 01:00:02.640
that God gave us to enjoy they just wanna take away

01:00:03.080 --> 01:00:06.140
and then they wanna replace it with grievous burdens

01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:09.080
and then not the knowledge that you're saved

01:00:09.520 --> 01:00:10.960
and giving all your money to them.

01:00:11.740 --> 01:00:13.560
But look we're supposed to pray to God the Father

01:00:14.080 --> 01:00:17.060
and we all have access by one spirit of the Father.

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And I wanna go to one more place,

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go to 1 Timothy chapter number two,

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go to 1 Timothy chapter number two

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and we'll see, look when we pray

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there's no praying to someone else.

01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:30.780
And think about this, okay.

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:37.900
If they're right, why is it that nowhere in Acts,

01:00:38.720 --> 01:00:42.880
nowhere in any epistle does anybody ever say,

01:00:43.460 --> 01:00:46.380
hey let's go talk to Mary and ask her to pray for us.

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I mean you have Mary in the flesh.

01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:54.060
I mean you have John the beloved disciple

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who Jesus Christ looks down to

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and says behold thy mother,

01:00:57.840 --> 01:00:59.680
when do we ever see John?

01:00:59.860 --> 01:01:01.440
And he writes the Gospel of John.

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He writes 1st, 2nd, 3rd John.

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He's writing Revelation.

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When is he ever like, hey guys,

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let's ask Mary to pray for us.

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Hey, Peter's in prison.

01:01:13.460 --> 01:01:15.720
Let's get Mary in on this prayer.

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I mean she's like, we don't know when she died

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but at no point do we see,

01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:23.940
I mean Revelation's a pretty late book.

01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:25.220
John's really old.

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It stands to reason.

01:01:26.380 --> 01:01:27.960
Mary's probably dead at that point.

01:01:28.540 --> 01:01:31.920
Why isn't he like, hey guys, let's pray to Mary.

01:01:32.680 --> 01:01:36.040
Hey guys, let's carry Mary statues around.

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It's like, that's interesting.

01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:40.360
It's never found in the Bible.

01:01:41.660 --> 01:01:43.020
I wonder why.

01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.620
Maybe it's because no Christian ever did that.

01:01:46.780 --> 01:01:48.200
Because it's nonsense.

01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:51.560
What is the actual instruction in the Bible?

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1st Timothy chapter two, verse five,

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for there is one God and one mediator

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between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

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There's only one way to get to God.

01:02:05.220 --> 01:02:06.700
That's the person we pray to.

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And there's only one mediator, it's Jesus Christ.

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And Jesus makes it clear in John chapter number 17,

01:02:14.060 --> 01:02:16.540
hey, we pray to the heavenly Father in Jesus name.

01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:18.940
He's like saying, hey, you know,

01:02:19.240 --> 01:02:21.100
you haven't asked for these things in my name yet,

01:02:21.240 --> 01:02:22.080
but now you are.

01:02:22.380 --> 01:02:23.760
And so when you pray to God the Father,

01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:25.260
when you're praying to the heavenly Father,

01:02:25.680 --> 01:02:28.780
you've got to pray through my name, ask it in my name.

01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.740
And whatever you ask in my name, it shall be received.

01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:33.160
Why does he keep saying that?

01:02:33.420 --> 01:02:35.140
Because we're supposed to pray to God the Father

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in Jesus name.

01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.460
And we get access to the Father through Jesus,

01:02:40.120 --> 01:02:44.820
not by being Hebrew, not by being of the tribes of Israel,

01:02:45.200 --> 01:02:47.160
but we get it through the blood of Jesus Christ.

01:02:47.340 --> 01:02:50.920
He's our intercessor, he's our mediator,

01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:53.620
he's our advocate, he's our high priest,

01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:55.380
he's the one that gives us peace,

01:02:55.580 --> 01:02:56.800
he's the one that gives us the access.

01:02:57.320 --> 01:02:59.520
There's no such thing as Mary or the saints.

01:03:00.020 --> 01:03:02.920
And it's so funny, Catholics will pray to everyone but God.

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I mean, you just, I found saints so-and-so over here,

01:03:08.620 --> 01:03:10.100
you can pray to him too.

01:03:10.660 --> 01:03:13.060
And here's a dead foot, pray to that too.

01:03:13.340 --> 01:03:13.840
You know, it's just like,

01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:16.140
it's like, but they can't pray to God the Father.

01:03:18.900 --> 01:03:19.780
It's nonsense.

01:03:19.780 --> 01:03:21.860
It's nonsense, it's pagan.

01:03:22.820 --> 01:03:24.520
It has nothing to do with the Bible.

01:03:25.240 --> 01:03:26.580
They don't have verses for the Bible.

01:03:26.620 --> 01:03:27.920
That's why their religion is so fragile.

01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:32.020
That's why they're so nervous about people having Bibles.

01:03:32.240 --> 01:03:34.900
Why did they kill Christians for translating the Bible?

01:03:35.180 --> 01:03:37.260
Why did they hunt people down for memorizing scripture?

01:03:37.560 --> 01:03:39.180
Because it was so fragile.

01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:41.100
It's such a fragile religion.

01:03:41.220 --> 01:03:43.500
And of course, now they can't hide.

01:03:43.780 --> 01:03:45.760
So they've had to come up with explanations,

01:03:46.200 --> 01:03:47.580
they've had to come up with excuses.

01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:49.820
Well, you're just not interpreting it right.

01:03:50.160 --> 01:03:52.460
And you don't have the infallible interpreter.

01:03:53.680 --> 01:03:56.640
Our popes and stuff are infallible interpreters and stuff.

01:03:56.960 --> 01:03:58.340
And it's just nonsense.

01:03:58.860 --> 01:04:00.240
It's false argumentation.

01:04:00.900 --> 01:04:01.780
And look, we need to just,

01:04:02.300 --> 01:04:03.920
we need to have confidence in the Bible.

01:04:05.220 --> 01:04:06.640
We need to have our faith in the Bible.

01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:08.200
We need to realize we are God's people.

01:04:08.660 --> 01:04:10.260
We're the ones chosen to do good works.

01:04:10.680 --> 01:04:12.600
And if we're the ones that are gonna do the good works,

01:04:12.660 --> 01:04:13.900
then we ought to be the ones doing the good works.

01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:16.240
They're not gonna do them.

01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:18.080
Catholics are not doing the good works.

01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:20.080
Don't get confused and think like,

01:04:20.180 --> 01:04:22.820
no, I saw Catholics, they're giving out food or something,

01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:24.480
or they're giving out clothes one day,

01:04:24.700 --> 01:04:26.840
or the Roman Catholics, they're so nice.

01:04:27.260 --> 01:04:28.740
They're the ones, God's loving them.

01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:29.520
God's pleased with them.

01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:30.600
No, they're without God.

01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:32.240
They're without hope.

01:04:32.720 --> 01:04:33.640
They're not saved.

01:04:34.560 --> 01:04:35.480
And if our gospel be hid,

01:04:35.540 --> 01:04:36.620
it's hid to them that are lost.

01:04:37.140 --> 01:04:39.560
If we just allow the Catholics to take over our nation,

01:04:39.740 --> 01:04:41.000
it'll become the Dark Ages again.

01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:44.280
If we let Orthodox take over our nation,

01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:45.680
we won't have beef anymore.

01:04:47.240 --> 01:04:48.560
We need to have steak.

01:04:50.140 --> 01:04:55.000
We'll have 3D printed steak that's free of animal products.

01:04:57.320 --> 01:04:59.360
Which at that point I'll become vegan, I guess.

01:04:59.540 --> 01:05:00.140
I don't even know.

01:05:00.640 --> 01:05:02.900
I'd rather eat real plants and vegetables

01:05:02.900 --> 01:05:05.320
than 3D printed meat, okay?

01:05:05.720 --> 01:05:07.520
I don't know what the heck that is.

01:05:07.840 --> 01:05:08.580
That's weird.

01:05:09.180 --> 01:05:10.040
But it's out there.

01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:11.720
Have you seen the 3D printed salmon?

01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:13.960
I'm like, I don't even want fish already.

01:05:14.260 --> 01:05:15.720
Let alone 3D printed.

01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:20.680
But boy, hey, if you let false religion come in,

01:05:20.860 --> 01:05:21.400
it ruins everything.

01:05:21.520 --> 01:05:22.000
It ruins marriage.

01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:24.020
It ruins the food.

01:05:24.920 --> 01:05:25.640
It ruins the culture.

01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:27.100
It ruins sanitation.

01:05:28.720 --> 01:05:30.320
I mean, just everything is destroyed

01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:31.100
through false religion.

01:05:31.680 --> 01:05:34.440
You have Indian foot washing stations at the airport.

01:05:35.980 --> 01:05:37.520
I mean, I'm not joking.

01:05:38.040 --> 01:05:39.120
False religion ruins everything.

01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:40.580
Pluralism ruins everything.

01:05:40.580 --> 01:05:42.440
We need Christians to be bold and say,

01:05:42.460 --> 01:05:43.360
I want a Christian nation.

01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:45.820
I don't want a heathen pagan nation.

01:05:46.380 --> 01:05:48.080
I mean, think, we let the Catholics

01:05:48.080 --> 01:05:49.100
come in with their idolatry.

01:05:49.220 --> 01:05:52.440
Now we have 90-foot statues to whatever,

01:05:52.600 --> 01:05:53.580
Water Goo Goo or something.

01:05:54.300 --> 01:05:55.920
Sorry, it's not the real one, but who cares?

01:05:56.260 --> 01:05:59.700
Just insert false name, something in Houston or whatever.

01:06:00.200 --> 01:06:01.140
I don't want this nonsense.

01:06:01.300 --> 01:06:02.520
They want to build a Mecca here

01:06:02.520 --> 01:06:03.520
in the Dallas, Fort Worth area.

01:06:04.380 --> 01:06:08.540
A Mecca-type city, some kind of Muslim area or whatever.

01:06:08.540 --> 01:06:11.300
They want to build their own little commune.

01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:11.740
You know what?

01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:13.460
We need to drive these heathen out

01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:15.060
and preach the gospel.

01:06:16.340 --> 01:06:18.100
And God's not pleased with the Catholic.

01:06:18.260 --> 01:06:19.260
He's not pleased with the Orthodox.

01:06:19.580 --> 01:06:20.960
He's not pleased with these false religions.

01:06:21.540 --> 01:06:22.920
You know, we're the ones that do the good works,

01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:23.640
then we ought to do them.

01:06:24.340 --> 01:06:25.960
We ought not to be embarrassed of the Bible

01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:27.600
or embarrassed of our religion.

01:06:28.220 --> 01:06:30.040
It doesn't matter how much of a minority we are.

01:06:31.080 --> 01:06:32.300
I mean, they were a minority in the first.

01:06:32.420 --> 01:06:34.220
You think the church at Ephesus is the majority?

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You think the majority is in these Christian churches?

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But yet they turned the whole world upside down in the gospel.

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They're the ones going viral.

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They're the ones that everybody's getting mad at

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and losing their mind at and always talking about.

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But you know what?

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They were because they were bold for their faith.

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Actually believe the Bible and they're making a difference.

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They're burning books and they were getting rid

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of their idolatry and all the idolaters were getting mad.

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They're like, oh no, all of our silver

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and all of our gains are going to be gone.

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You know, I was just interested in finding

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an Orthodox icon for free or something somewhere,

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but it's hard to find because you go on Facebook Marketplace,

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they're all for sale.

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And these third grade art projects, I'm telling you,

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they're charging $200, $300 for these things or whatever.

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Like it must be big business.

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Like they're just, they're selling like a lot of money

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for these really crude drawings.

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And I'll just be honest, they're not all the same.

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Like Jesus doesn't have the same skin tone or eyes

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or ears or whatever, he's just like,

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how can this all be Jesus?

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You know?

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I mean, if you just get your kids,

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just drawing random pictures of dudes,

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like you could start selling them

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to the Orthodox or whatever, because it's just,

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but again, you know, why do they get all so triggered

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about their images and stuff

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because they're making money off of this stuff?

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Someone's making money off of this junk,

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this third grade art project and it's trash.

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And you know what, I want nothing to do with it.

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I'm not interested in it.

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I never have been interested in it.

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And I'll continue to smash those things.

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You know, some people are like, oh, how dare you go,

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you know, give money to these people?

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Look, I went to Goodwill.

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Goodwill is not where they're manufacturing these things.

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This is where people that didn't want them gave them.

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And it's just like, okay, well,

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I'll help you dispose of them.

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Is it really?

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Like God's mad at me for taking 10 bucks

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to buy some image that's been used and discarded

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and trashing it?

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Like, why would God be mad at me for doing that?

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Doesn't the Bible say buy the truth and sell it not?

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Like, hey, I'm trying to cleanse my nation.

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Yeah, it might cost a little bit of money

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to cleanse our nation, but you know what?

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I'll buy the dynamite to blow up the giant Hindu statue.

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Oh, you think God is pleasing to using money?

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Yes.

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Yeah, it costs them money to go out

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and destroy the pagan idolatry of their nation

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and to enter into these heathen lands

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and to destroy their things.

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I mean, think about Jihu.

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He's telling people like, hey, I'm gonna serve bail much.

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Wink, wink.

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And then he kills all of them.

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And then God's like, hey, I'm so glad

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you did everything according to my will.

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Oh, you think that God was pleased with Jihu

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telling all those prophets of bail

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he's gonna serve him?

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Yeah, he was serving him up a cold dish.

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Right?

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I mean, look, it's stupid.

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It's just people just don't wanna believe the Bible.

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Just they hate Christianity.

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They hate me.

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They hate the word of God.

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And they're looking for an excuse to be lazy.

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Don't look for excuses to be lazy like the Calvinist.

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Hey, serving God's gonna cost you something.

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But you know what?

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It's a lot cheaper than just letting it go.

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10 bucks is a lot less than just allowing

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the idolatry in our nation to go unchecked.

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And it's a lot less than was gonna ruin a lot

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of people's lives with these lies.

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Let's close in prayer.

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Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word.

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Thank you so much for giving us access

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to you Heavenly Father through your son Jesus Christ.

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I pray that none of us would be hoodwinked

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into thinking that these false religions

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have anything to do with you,

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but that we would need to preach them the gospel,

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that we wouldn't allow lies to go unchecked

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and uncontested, but we would earnestly

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contend for the faith.

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I pray that you would help us to reach the Catholic

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and the Orthodox and the Hindu and the Muslim

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and the atheist and the Protestant

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and all of these people that we could preach

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the gospel to them and by hearing the gospel,

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they could have faith and believe and become saved.

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I pray that you would help us to be those good works

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that you foreordained that we would walk in them,

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that we'd not be lazy and slothful,

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that we would not continue to do the will of the Gentiles,

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that we'd no longer live in dead trespasses and sins,

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but rather become alive, that we could serve you

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and we could be faithful and we could be a good dwelling place

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for the habitation of God.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.