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The strong in faith have an obligation to be tolerant of the weak and also to help them gain in strength. We don't gather (go to church) for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole body, to build each other up. So then how do we do that? Through education, relationship, compassion, and patience.  Just remember that those who are weak in faith are not the obedient, but the disobedient and the legalistic who add to God's commandments out of fear or pride.  How We Got the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoQnP3lYQ9g&list=PLJVup1isOKCkNL_cVcD7-OiKc5sJ1KQX1  From Jay Carper at Common Sense Bible Study (https://CommonSenseBibleStudy.com) and American Torah (https://www.AmericanTorah.com).  This content is free, but I accept contributions via Paypal at https://jaycarper.com/paypal.  Follow me on X: https://jaycarper.com/twitter Follow me on Facebook: https://jaycarper.com/fbat Follow me on Whole Bible Community: https://jaycarper.com/ttn

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00:00:02we are just beginning the book of romans chapter fifteen something happened to the fonts on my computer so the

00:00:09fonts on my slides all changed but they should still be pretty easy to read might even be better i

00:00:14don't know

00:00:15so romans fifteen verse one we who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak

00:00:21and not to please ourselves let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up for

00:00:26christ did not please himself but as it is written

00:00:29the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me for whatever was written in former days was written for

00:00:36our instruction that through endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope

00:00:41may the god of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another in accord with

00:00:46christ jesus that together you may with one voice glorify the god and father of our lord jesus christ

00:00:52therefore welcome one another as christ has welcomed you for the glory of god all right so just going to

00:00:59read the first seven verses i doubt that we're going to get past those tonight

00:01:03so let's go back to verses one to three in verse one who are we who are strong okay but

00:01:11who are the strong and we talked about this last week because this was a

00:01:15this is how chapter 14 began also talking about the strong and the faith in the weak and my own

00:01:23opinion is that

00:01:24the strong are those who are well established in the faith have confidence they understand god's commandments they understand how

00:01:32to live it

00:01:32they understand especially where the boundaries are between sin and not sin clean and unclean

00:01:40and they're able to navigate those questions without a lot of self-doubt

00:01:47the meat that was sacrificed to a pagan idol the meat itself is still just meat as long as it's

00:01:55an animal

00:01:56that god says you can eat as long as it was bled properly and you are not participating in the

00:02:01sacrifice

00:02:02or in the ritual in any way then it's just meat for you it's you're not worshiping those gods you're

00:02:07not honoring

00:02:08them in any way but if you are unsure of yourself if you are when you eat the meat that

00:02:15was sacrificed to

00:02:16a pagan god and you can't help but remember how you grew up how this was all part of this

00:02:24pagan

00:02:24celebration and sacrifice and you feel like you're honoring this god and eating it then you should stay

00:02:29away from it because you haven't developed that faith and that confidence in your understanding of the

00:02:35difference between clean and unclean yet and it's not that it's sin or not sin but doing something

00:02:43that bothers your conscience is going to weaken your conscience over time and eventually you won't

00:02:49even be able to hear it anymore so it's better to wait until you have a better understanding and

00:02:55things that are closer to those gray areas and not sin no longer bother your conscience or for whatever

00:03:02reason god leads you in the other direction because sometimes the one who believes that he is stronger

00:03:07really isn't he just he doesn't understand what he thinks he does so we always have to recognize

00:03:13that's a possibility no matter how much we know and think we understand we can still be wrong

00:03:20so that's one of the big reasons that we have to give each other some space let people develop on

00:03:26their own let them study the scriptures encourage teach correct when necessary but don't force people

00:03:33to move beyond what their conscience will allow because you're only going to do them harm so this is

00:03:39the difference really between the strong and the weak and already probably talked about a lot of what

00:03:45we need to talk about here but when it says we who are strong have an obligation to bear with

00:03:52the

00:03:52failings of the weak does anybody have a different idea of what that might mean or anything to add to

00:04:00what i just said you know in psalm 36 7 and 8 is that what it is uh be not

00:04:10like the mule who who needs

00:04:13to be guided with brit bit and bridle i'll look it up and then think about it it's i know

00:04:20but the first

00:04:20time i heard it i was in my dispensational church long ago in 32 9 can you read that yeah

00:04:28do not be

00:04:29as the horse or as the mule have no understanding whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them

00:04:34in check otherwise they will not come near to you and then what's the next part many are the sorrows

00:04:40of the wicked but he who trusts in the lord loving kindness shall surround him yeah because

00:04:45somewhere in that thing is is that yahweh wants to guide you with his eye the weaker someone is

00:04:54the more regulation they need now we could go back to the exodus situation and the and the when yahweh

00:05:01realized that israel is no not by any stretch ready to be a bride and a nation of priests they

00:05:07were just

00:05:08nothing and he had to rebuild them through childhood and so the torah is a handbook right and it's designed

00:05:16to obviously be obeyed and not be transgressed but that is base level thinking that's why i get

00:05:24frustrated when people are arguing the torah because you're like because i'm like dude that's not even

00:05:29nothing i want to be special forces where god just sends me somewhere and to crush and i need to

00:05:37be

00:05:37thinking the way he would think considering the way he would consider and letting him guide me with

00:05:43his eye his eye of course being the spirit right and our conviction and that we would have a sense

00:05:49if you're walking through the market and you're like the tourist says i could eat this the guy next

00:05:55to you who has a weak point and really struggles with something is is relying on you to be a

00:06:02mentor

00:06:03and stuff so are you going to put your belly over your friend right and so you would say you

00:06:10know

00:06:10what i could eat that or i could have that shot of extremely delicious aged whiskey but my friend's

00:06:17an alcoholic and he really has a hard time with it so he comes over i'm hiding all the bottles

00:06:22so that's where i go is yeah you can have a drink or you can have some meat but if

00:06:28you're with people

00:06:28that are weak and are struggling with something you want to have the love of your neighbor the love

00:06:32of your brother way ahead of your own personal stuff and then yahweh's going to take care of you

00:06:38one way or the other that's in my mind where i go there yeah yeah that's a good perspective and

00:06:45that

00:06:45reminds me there there are a couple of verses actually there's a bunch of them for verse one i think

00:06:49four four passages that i put up in the chat if somebody wants to each one of you grab one

00:06:55of those

00:06:55passages and look it up so timothy's got leviticus somebody wants to grab ezekiel and genesis and

00:07:02luke go ahead and read it leviticus 10 9 through 11 when you're ready okay i'll take genesis okay thank

00:07:11you do not drink wine or intoxicating drink you nor your sons with you when you go into the tabernacle

00:07:18of meeting lest you die it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations that you may

00:07:23distinguish between holy and unholy between clean and unclean and that you may teach the children of

00:07:29israel all the statutes which the lord has spoken to them by the hand of moses so there is it's

00:07:37not

00:07:37just that the strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak to make allowances for

00:07:43them and to shelter them a little bit we also have a responsibility to guide them to help them become

00:07:49stronger and one of the reasons that god is telling them not to have alcohol when they're going to

00:07:56serve in the tabernacle i think the context shows this it doesn't say it explicitly so i'm reading

00:08:01between the lines here is that alcohol impairs your judgment and he's saying you are you the priests are

00:08:08the people who are required to make a distinction between the holy and the profane between the clean

00:08:14and unclean and teach the people and if your judgment is impaired when you are serving as priest

00:08:21you are not going to have a clear mind about how to be an example for these things let alone

00:08:25to teach

00:08:26them and so those who are more mature i'm not saying that the more mature are like levitical priests

00:08:32and that they're mediators for the people who are less mature but they are in that role as teachers

00:08:39and especially as exemplars and so we do have a responsibility to help people move from that

00:08:47weak state to a strong state we just can't force them to do it there's we'll read on to some

00:08:54of

00:08:54these other passages and i think it's going to make it clear if somebody have ezekiel i can read it

00:08:59okay thank you ezekiel 3 16 to 21 right at the end of seven days the word of the lord

00:09:08came

00:09:08to me son of man i have made you a watchman for the house of israel so hear the word

00:09:15i speak and give

00:09:16them warning from me when i say to a wicked man you will surely die and you do not warn

00:09:23him or speak

00:09:25out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life that wicked man will die for

00:09:34his sin

00:09:35and i will hold you accountable for his blood but if you do want the wicked man and he does

00:09:41not turn

00:09:42from his wickedness or from his evil ways he will die for his sin but you will have saved yourself

00:09:50again when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil and i put a stumbling

00:09:57block before him he will die since you did not warn him he will die for his sin the righteous

00:10:04things

00:10:05he did will not be remembered and i will hold you accountable for his blood but if you do want

00:10:12the

00:10:12righteous man not to sin and he does not sin he will surely live because he took warning and you

00:10:19will

00:10:20have saved yourself good thank you and this shows that we do have a responsibility to those around us

00:10:26that if we do know better we have a responsibility to warn people away from things that are going to

00:10:32harm them that doesn't mean that we need to correct everybody and make everybody be perfectly righteous

00:10:38on day one but it does mean that we can't just let things slide especially not forever in

00:10:48in acts 15 the apostles at the jerusalem council the real the original conflict was this group of

00:10:56jewish believers wanted to force all of the new gentile believers to conform to all the jewish

00:11:03traditions be circumcised become a jew in order to be part of the commonwealth of israel

00:11:11and the jerusalem council refuted this said we can't even keep all of these traditions so how are we

00:11:17supposed to make anybody else do it but then they went a step beyond that not in relaxing or removing

00:11:23any of god's commandments but in saying here's the starting point get rid of these things that are

00:11:29associated with idolatry the sexual immorality the eating of blood and then you can go to the synagogue

00:11:36and hear moses taught from there so in in no case did they ever tolerate wickedness they didn't

00:11:43tolerate sin but what they did was say we don't expect every sinner to become perfect we expect

00:11:50people to learn over time and not to disregard god's commandments but they have to learn from somebody

00:11:58and the stronger in the faith the people with greater understanding are the ones that they have

00:12:03to learn from and we're all supposed to be we are all disciples but we are all supposed to be

00:12:09discipling at the same time yeshua is the master of all of us we are trying to become like him

00:12:16and in trying

00:12:16to become like him we make more disciples for him and teach them to become like him but nobody's going

00:12:23to

00:12:23get there overnight we have to make allowances for people over time and as long as they're not in rebellion

00:12:29and they're not committing some flagrant sin because they just don't care what god's law says

00:12:34then we can bear with them be gentle there are some sins that are going to be worse than others

00:12:40of course and some of that's going to be culturally dependent in in the ancient roman world idolatry was

00:12:49a huge thing going to the pagan temple and making sacrifices and temple prostitution and all these

00:12:56kinds of things we have our own versions of that there are certain segments even of christianity

00:13:02that are full of idolatry but the big things in our culture the things that are really hard for

00:13:09people to give up are different and in today's culture maybe it would just be sexual immorality

00:13:16in general fornication and adultery or something like that and maybe the disciples or the jerusalem

00:13:23council would have given a different starting point for people if they had been dealing with people

00:13:29today instead of in the rome the roman world of the first century yeah so these other two passages

00:13:37i think this is going to give a a counterbalance to ezekiel sounds like it's a hard line but you

00:13:45better warn these people or their blood is going to be on your head and if you do warn them

00:13:50and then

00:13:51they screw up the blood's on their head and all of that is true it sounds pretty harsh and maybe

00:13:55it is

00:13:56but there's a counterpoint here so timothy if you wouldn't mind reading genesis 33 12 to 24

00:14:03genesis 33 12 to 24 12 to 14 sorry not 24 dang it okay so we've got esau

00:14:15then esau said let us take our journey let us go and i will go before you but jacob

00:14:22said to him my lord knows what the children that the children are weak and the flocks and herds

00:14:28which are nursing are with me and if the men should drive them hard one day all the flock will

00:14:34die

00:14:34please let my lord go on before his servant i will lead on slowly at a pace which livestock that

00:14:41go

00:14:41before me and the children are able to endure until i come to my lord in seir and by the

00:14:47way if that's

00:14:48new king james i apologize that's the one i have right here no that's fine new king james a lot

00:14:53of lord going a lot of landlord there what's that new king james is better than some thank you and

00:14:59this sounds like jacob is just making an excuse he's trying to get out from underneath esau and

00:15:04that's true he doesn't want to go with esau because that's going to be bad for him in his house

00:15:09and so he's making some excuses but the excuse he uses is valid if it wasn't valid esau probably

00:15:16would have pushed back on this one so in there are some jewish traditions around what jacob is saying

00:15:23here but really what he's saying is that i've got women and children in flocks and some of my flocks

00:15:29have young and i can't push everybody at the same speed my my servants and my sons and some of

00:15:39the

00:15:39cattle or horses or whatever they can keep up with you just fine but these other ones can't so we're

00:15:44all

00:15:44going to hang back and we're going to move in in waves kind of like they were before and making

00:15:49sure that these weak ones are protected and that we're not pushing them too hard harder than they

00:15:54can bear but if you're pushing the young cattle at the same speed you're pushing the older ones and

00:16:01the young ones are dying then you're going to have problems with the older ones and you're just going

00:16:06to have problems all over the place and the rabbis take a life lesson out of this about families and

00:16:13leadership in general is that you can only change people at a certain speed you can only push them

00:16:19into a new ideology or worldview at a certain pace and i don't know if you've ever heard the concept

00:16:26of

00:16:27the overton window and this is the idea that you can change a culture over time and the way that

00:16:34they do

00:16:34it is they and this is actually a nefarious thing this is not a good thing that happens with the

00:16:39overton window but it can be used it can be used in a good way the same principle but what

00:16:45they do is

00:16:46they will take an extreme stance on something that shocks everybody and they say this is what we ought

00:16:52to be doing and everybody's no let's calm down a little bit and they back off a little bit and

00:16:57they

00:16:57say okay we'll do this a little bit instead now the little bit is acceptable because of this really

00:17:02extreme thing shocked everybody and they say okay we'll settle for this little change instead of this

00:17:07big one next year they shock everybody a little bit more and move things a little bit more in that

00:17:14direction there when they suggest a really big change that shocks people they don't expect anybody to go

00:17:22along with it that's not the goal the goal is to move people a lesser degree so you say something

00:17:29really shocking and try to get everybody to move just a little bit in that direction and over time

00:17:35you actually move the entire culture well beyond what people were shocked by 10 20 years ago and we see

00:17:42that all around us today the trans ideology is totally insane nobody would have believed the craziness

00:17:50that goes on in the world today just 30 years ago if you could take a time machine and go

00:17:57back to

00:17:57the 90s or the 80s and tell somebody yeah in the 2020s everybody believes that men can become women

00:18:06and that men have periods and can have babies and when women can be fathers and all this crazy stuff

00:18:16they would just think you're totally off your rocker the problem is that they have shifted this

00:18:21overton window slowly and slowly over time until now we accept the most absurd ideas it's not really

00:18:28where i wanted to go with the jacob and esau thing but the same principle is at work with what

00:18:33jacob is

00:18:33saying here he's telling esau i can't go very fast i got to go really slow to to protect these

00:18:42little

00:18:42weak ones and really he's going to move them faster than he's implying he's just going to move

00:18:48in a different direction because he doesn't want to go with esau yeah i'm still going off on a

00:18:53different tangent than what i intended the reason that this verse is relevant is because jacob is

00:18:58going easy on the weaker members of his household and not pushing them faster than they can adapt to

00:19:05the changes that he's trying to move them into the overton window and we need to move slowly even in

00:19:10the right direction luke 23 verse 34 but jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know

00:19:18what they are doing and they cast lots dividing up his garments among themselves everybody knows what's

00:19:24happening here this is yeshua on the cross the jewish religious leaders have conspired with the romans

00:19:31to crucify him he never harmed anybody he harmed people's pride he harmed he threatened people's

00:19:40power but he never actually harmed anyone and here they are killing him torturing him to death and he's

00:19:47saying father forgive them for they don't know what they're doing so although we have a responsibility

00:19:53to teach and to lead people in the right direction which is what yeshua did throughout his life

00:19:58we also have a responsibility to be gentle and understanding with them not to push them faster

00:20:04than they are capable of going obviously that rate of change is going to be different for every

00:20:10individual and this is one reason why it's so important to be part of a local community

00:20:15where you can know each other be part of each other's lives and grow together because you will

00:20:21never know what somebody's weaknesses are or how fast somebody can move in their understanding of the

00:20:27word and becoming more like yeshua if you don't know them and you can't know somebody that well

00:20:34unless you've been with them spent significant time with them meaningful time for years and you can't do

00:20:43that if you're not a regular part of a local community looking like you wanted to add something

00:20:47there timothy no oh okay just look like there were some wheels turning oh there's always wheels

00:20:54turning but the just if we could circle back for just a hot second it's psalm 32 8 it was

00:21:01that it was

00:21:01the verse prior to nine okay that i was i was talking about in that he said that it was

00:21:07a juxtaposition

00:21:08i want to guide you with my eye don't be like a horse okay yeah i will counsel you with

00:21:13my eye upon you

00:21:14yeah but no i'm tracking i like yeah and that that verse shows that it's also the weak have a

00:21:22responsibility to be teachable obviously the strong do too but if you would not be the strong if you did

00:21:29not consider yourself teachable because people who don't think that they can learn anything that they

00:21:34already know everything they are the weak and they will never be strong as long as they maintain that

00:21:41attitude so if you want to become the strong if you want to become like yeshua you have to be

00:21:47willing to hear advice and to learn from people new data what good would your software be if you

00:21:54couldn't update it depends on the software my solitaire works great it doesn't actually do anything useful

00:22:02but yeah stuff with complex tasks and purposes would definitely need updating

00:22:08that's got to adapt to changing circumstances in the world and in the realm of software that means

00:22:13hardware and technology and all of that i was doing the application i think kind of in images and

00:22:24applications and what is the familiarity to this person or that person and to bring because some of

00:22:30this stuff can can some of this stuff can land pretty heavy on people and then they're like oh great

00:22:39thank

00:22:39you mr five dollar word and greek whatever exegesis how do i do this when i'm holding a two-year

00:22:48-old in

00:22:48one hand and on the phone with a client in another hand and like how do i or and then

00:22:52trying to teach

00:22:53my employee with on a text it's like how do i make this application and meet people where they are

00:23:02taken because that's another thing about that when you're when when when you're uh back to the market

00:23:12when you're walking with someone who or you're dealing with someone who is weaker in the faith than you

00:23:17if you can't you know bring that person's i hate to use this word but bring that person's spirit or

00:23:25thinking into your mind and and get that where here where they're at where so that you can

00:23:34lower yourself to humble yourself and then to enable yourself to lift them up carefully

00:23:39and bring them to that next notch and level or inner closer ring to the character and conduct of

00:23:49our creator then then there's a clanging symbol i'm probably on the rabbit trail but anyways

00:23:59relationship you can't build a relationship unless you're willing to make adjustments and you can't

00:24:03make adjustments unless you're willing to take correction and get new data evolve if you will

00:24:09yeah thinking about yeshua and his ministry and how he worked with his disciples not just the 12 but

00:24:15all of the people around him he was always encouraging people to learn to become wiser

00:24:21and sometimes he spoke harshly to people but the purpose was never just to make people feel bad

00:24:29it was always corrective and he didn't chase people off because they weren't perfect

00:24:34the eating with tax collectors and sinners all that kind of thing he wasn't afraid to go and

00:24:41spend time with people who were really imperfect because what's the point of discipling perfect people

00:24:47if we're supposed to make disciples of all men that means we have to go out and find the ones

00:24:52who need

00:24:52to be discipled and the only people that yeshua really rejected were the ones who refused to be

00:24:59discipled we don't want anything to do with you because we already know better than you

00:25:05those are the people that he rejected not the people who were slow to learn or imperfect

00:25:12or confused scared hurt whatever those are the people that he wanted to attract because they needed

00:25:18his healing some of them were pharisees and sadducees too the end of verse one in the beginning of verse

00:25:25two not to please ourselves let us each let each of us please his neighbor for his good

00:25:31what do you think please here means benefit yeah benefit this one reads let each of us be benefiting

00:25:41his neighbor for his good to his edification yeah that's not bad i want to see what young's literal

00:25:48has to say there 15 to young i got some words with him yeah yeah he uses the word please

00:25:58too and in

00:25:59modern english i think just has that has the wrong connotation it seems like to make you happy to make

00:26:05you feel good and certainly yeshua wanted people to be happy he wants people to be happy today but that

00:26:12wasn't his mission he wasn't just trying to make people feel good about where they are and to go off

00:26:20on a potentially another tangent one of the problems that we have with modern psychology and therapy is that

00:26:27the goal is almost never to make people healthy we they say it is but really the goal is almost

00:26:33always to

00:26:33make people happy and well adjusted in their current circumstances rather than help them change their

00:26:41circumstances and their reactions to it to a healthier better way and obviously they do that to a

00:26:50certain extent they do help people adjust in their relationships and respond to the world around them in a

00:26:56healthier way but they rarely say this thing in your life this thing that you identify with

00:27:02that's a really bad thing and that's what's causing your problems you need to stop doing that

00:27:08to get that kind of advice you need to find a coach or a personal mentor somebody who will tell

00:27:15you the

00:27:15really hard things obviously there are good i don't know about obviously i don't know what your

00:27:20experience is in my experience there are good therapists there are good psychologists out there

00:27:25people who will give you good advice i'm speaking in generalities the industry as a whole not necessarily

00:27:31about all therapists or all psychologists i think what timothy is saying about this being about people's

00:27:39benefit i think that's closer to what paul is talking about that could be misunderstood also in the sense

00:27:47that of material benefit that's not really what it's talking about it's really talking about spiritual

00:27:52benefit you're not your purpose in gathering together look at the last phrase in verse two

00:27:59to build him up over and over again in paul's letters when he talks about gathering together as believers

00:28:06he says your purpose in doing this is to build each other up and he doesn't mean a pep talk

00:28:13he doesn't

00:28:14mean to give each other a sermon what's the word i'm looking for no i can't remember the term

00:28:21essentially saying you're great you're all right that's not what that means either it means literally

00:28:28building you up into something better creating a new man turning the person who needs to be

00:28:36discipled into a disciple who is then capable of discipling somebody else that's what it means to

00:28:41build someone up and to be of spiritual benefit to them if you're going to church or synagogue or

00:28:48whatever it is you go to to be fed or to experience something then you're going for all the wrong

00:28:57reasons it's not about that it's about you being there to be of benefit to the rest of the body

00:29:03go ahead timothy this one reads to his edification

00:29:08so the so if you were to finish that sentence let each of us be benefiting his neighbor for his

00:29:14good

00:29:14to his edification and the word edification literally means what you're just saying

00:29:18from the latin word that i can't pronounce which means the act or process of building

00:29:23or a building to improve spiritually etc yeah like an edifice the front of a building listen to you

00:29:34that's a good word it is good word i like that yeah i said front of a building but that's

00:29:40not really

00:29:40it either that's the facade the front of an edifice is the structure of a building a large structure

00:29:46so yeah it is about building people up constructing something not just making them feel good but making

00:29:55them good facade yeah and i've got a verse in the chat about this one too somebody wants to read

00:30:03ecclesiastes 4 12 anybody got it if not i can read it all right if one can overpower him who

00:30:11is alone

00:30:12two can resist him a cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart strands isn't really in the hebrew

00:30:18so a cord of three is not quickly torn apart it means the same thing and we don't gather together

00:30:26just we're not we're not there to be entertained we're not there to get a pep talk we're not there

00:30:32to have an emotional experience we are there to become a body to become active useful healthy parts

00:30:41of the body of christ and what that means is developing each other helping each other understand the

00:30:49scriptures become better people through obedience through understanding the nature of god and

00:30:56ourselves and our relationship with him and frequently that's going to involve some uncomfortable

00:31:02conversations about what somebody is doing or not doing that they should be this bearing with the

00:31:09failings of the week that doesn't mean that you just let things slide sometimes bearing with the

00:31:15failings of the week means gently correcting somebody sometimes it means not gently correcting them

00:31:22some people need a harsh word now and then that's part of building each other up you have to know

00:31:29you have to know the person you're talking to and you have to know when those things are appropriate

00:31:34most of the time confrontation is usually the wrong way to go but not always sometimes it's necessary

00:31:42and that's all part of pleasing your neighbor for his good that makes me think of trying to think

00:31:48it was one of two there were a couple of instances where Yeshua healed somebody and involved mud or spit

00:31:54and things like that not necessarily what you would think of as a pleasant thing to do you know

00:32:01here's mud in your eye literally but it's what that person needed and that's the thing that enabled them

00:32:08to become a wiser stronger person they were able to see not just physically but spiritually and this

00:32:17healing is was literal this person is literally able to see or hear I don't remember which one was

00:32:22the mud but it's also a metaphor for a spiritual reality sometimes you have to have a hard dirty

00:32:30conversation with somebody and I don't mean dirty in the usual English sense but messy a messy

00:32:36conversation with somebody in order to get them to where they need to be spiritually or mentally to

00:32:43understand their situation in life so that they can overcome it anybody have any and maybe any

00:32:50experiences or some practical examples in the real world of where trying to think of doing good for

00:32:58people in the body to help them become who they are supposed to be whether it's a positive kind of

00:33:03experience or whether it was confrontational or whatever as long as the outcome was positive

00:33:08that's what I'm looking for I do if no one else has something I got some stuff you can go

00:33:15ahead and

00:33:15prime the pump maybe somebody else will have a story anybody anybody no ever seen ferris bueller's day

00:33:21yeah yeah many times okay might watch it tomorrow I have I have what I would say are I've got

00:33:33two

00:33:34very close disciples and two that are a little a little bit looser but the two that are very close

00:33:42I talk with every day sometimes we do a conference and sometimes it's individual just talking and it's

00:33:50iron sharpens iron situation so I'm not like I'm the discipler or whatever but these in the process of

00:33:59counseling one of them is a young college student who's got just a ton of brain power and extremely

00:34:09charismatic and eloquent in the scriptures and but he's also very insecure and struggles with a lot of

00:34:14anxiety and stuff I spend a lot of time helping him work through just even today he's he was struggling

00:34:24because he's supposed to he's going to this Christian college and of course being Torah observant he sees

00:34:31things as with a completely different biblical worldview and so he's trying to jump through the hoops of the

00:34:39institution maintaining his grades with their biblical worldview while still holding the line and

00:34:50doing some stuff like that and today he was struggling because he wasn't getting credit for something and

00:34:55so I was talking with him and working with him about how

00:35:01Yahweh often uses these times of anxiety to remind us that there's going to be times of anxiety and that

00:35:08we can repent from that position meaning change our mind from that position

00:35:13and just go to him just confess the anxiety and and understand that to gain wisdom we have to go

00:35:22through these trials and some of these tests and some of these temptations whether it's of the flesh or

00:35:27of the world or whatever in order to again bring in new bring in the data and being able to

00:35:35process it out

00:35:36and then use it later in life and stuff like that so we're talking about that today the other one

00:35:45he just finished a 31 day fast and which was yeah spectacular right I did 15 and I don't know

00:35:54if I'll ever be

00:35:55able to do a 31 thankfully he doesn't have a real physical situation but regardless it was brutal and so

00:36:05I was

00:36:05counseling him almost every day because every at day 10 day 12 you are really at the end of your

00:36:14flesh strength you're it's gone and so now you're all it's you have to make a choice every minute to

00:36:23kind of not lose

00:36:24it and so we process a lot of stuff but interestingly enough he started processing things like the last couple

00:36:43churches and proclaims God's commandments and goes to these Bible studies and these men's studies

00:36:51and all this other stuff and these guys are totally against them and he stands in the face of all

00:36:57of them

00:36:58and all that stuff and but of course it's incredibly draining so then he'll call me after these studies

00:37:04and we'll go through a debrief and I'll basically

00:37:07we'll just kind of do all that but those are my most recent experiences is just working with these

00:37:13guys that one lives on the east coast one lives on the west coast they have completely different

00:37:18lifestyles and experiences but we get together and I and do the just do it so but they're all both

00:37:29growing my point is that I'm helping them through the process and bringing them biblical worldviews

00:37:36and showing them in the scriptures and we talk about the things and make applications and grow in

00:37:42maturity and I get ministered I think I get ministered more than they do because I'm learning a ton every

00:37:50time we talk that's cool thank you I was privy to an interaction one time where a husband and wife

00:37:59were

00:37:59having a an issue and the pastor intervened at that moment and said essentially said to the wife

00:38:10you are not being a wife so you don't have a lot of room to complain that he's not doing

00:38:15his job

00:38:16and turned to the husband and said you are being an idiot stop it right now and they're nice people

00:38:24for the

00:38:24most part but they were being stupid and they needed somebody to point it out because sometimes you just

00:38:30need to be shocked out of your stupidity and this was building them up whether they knew it at that

00:38:37moment or not yeah sometimes tough love is in order not always but sometimes absolutely I am not gonna

00:38:48make reference to personal experience I'm gonna make reference in in Luke 9 don't answer master

00:38:59we saw someone casting out demons in your name and we forbid him because he doesn't follow with us

00:39:09and I just like how Yeshua responded to him he said don't forget don't forbid him for he who is

00:39:20not

00:39:21against us is for us the gentleness in which he responded to John John was one of those hot-headed

00:39:33he

00:39:33wanted to call down fire in Samaria and Yeshua he learned how to deal with his disciples in a gentle

00:39:45way

00:39:45and it's an example that we should follow how to deal with people even when they're doing things that

00:39:56are wrong we must have that gentleness about us and not to ignore probably their ignorance

00:40:13because a lot of time we respond to situations because we are ignorant of the fact and as the word

00:40:23says my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge when you don't have the knowledge of something

00:40:28you're ignorant of it but you who have wisdom will know how to react to that person without hurting that

00:40:39person's feelings and a lot of time in in assembly and ministry people don't have tact in dealing with

00:40:50others and we just say things not even realizing that it's things that we say we hurting people

00:41:01yep very true but if we approach the situation in a wise way as or we see examples of Yeshua

00:41:12that person would realize that hey I was thinking wrong and within themselves

00:41:19they would they would they wouldn't feel embarrassed they wouldn't feel hurt but they will search

00:41:27themselves within to say I need to make an adjustment here because the way how I'm thinking

00:41:36is wrong so you got to change your perception change the way you conceive things

00:41:45and look at it in a positive way so you can get positive results that's my little contribution

00:41:56yeah and that's true I was talking about how sometimes you need to be harsh with people but

00:42:01there's no virtue in being harsh for harshness sake if you're if just shocking people into good

00:42:09behavior is your normal mode then that's problem because your normal mode should not be confrontational

00:42:16that's something that you should reserve only for those situations that require it most of the time

00:42:23corrections of other people should be tactful and gentle like June is saying a gentle answer turns

00:42:29away wrath if you start by confronting people and being harsh with them you're likely to get them to dig

00:42:36in

00:42:37their heels and so you start by being gentle and asking questions leading people to the correct

00:42:46behavior the correct answer rather than shoving their noses in it only when you really know them

00:42:52and you know the specific circumstances warrant it then you shove their nose into the dirt

00:42:59whatever it is that needs to happen for that particular person that takes a lot of discernment I think

00:43:05you have to really know people well to be able to do that how would you know them if you

00:43:09don't

00:43:10interact with them yeah you have to interact with them and not just once lots over a long period

00:43:16continually continually that's how Yeshua knew his disciples apart from him being God or Elohim

00:43:31or the everlasting father he interacted with his disciples to get to have a personal relationship

00:43:41with them and I think it's not for him alone I think it's for them because they did not really

00:43:49know him

00:43:50but he knew them so for them to get to know him he interacted with them saw their strength saw

00:43:59their

00:44:00way to reprove them encourage them when he needed to encourage them he was constantly interacting with

00:44:08them and that's how you know people or people get to know you by interacting with them there was this

00:44:15particular girl and we ended up communicating I have been sending up prayers and today she told me she

00:44:27she said she calls me Mama J now she says you know what since I met you my whole life

00:44:37just turned around she said for the past three years I can sleep without fear

00:44:46her and she got her and she got a job now she's saying look there are so many things that

00:44:52needed fixing in her house because she lives on 10 acres of land up in Fort Bend by Fort Bend

00:44:59yes and she said so much has happened within this week and she said she is so amazed and I

00:45:11just messaged her I said press down shaking together and running over Sharia we put in your bosom

00:45:20that was it so it's how you respond to people because I could have condemned her but I don't believe

00:45:32in thrashing people I prefer to walk away I don't like confrontation I prefer to walk away and most times

00:45:41I give people scripture and if they don't understand it and they come back to me to my understanding I

00:45:48would explain it to them

00:45:49and that's it I don't believe in that's it I don't believe in that's good thank you yeah sometimes it

00:45:57just takes time and persistence and people do get burnt out if they keep hearing the same thing and they

00:46:03resist it eventually they can't hear that anymore so

00:46:08sometimes just a new angle can get through to somebody when you're persistent and you're friendly and gentle with them

00:46:16last week I had meant I think I mentioned how I have a tendency to be pretty harsh with people

00:46:23online about certain topics and I was going to try not to do that

00:46:29so there was a particular conversation going on on Facebook that somebody was in my opinion just being completely ridiculous

00:46:38so I went back to that conversation and I said look I really just dismissed this whole thing out of

00:46:45hand

00:46:45and because I just thought it was ridiculous and you haven't convinced me of anything but I will at least

00:46:51give you a fair hearing

00:46:52and so I asked for okay what is your case no Socratic method no talking around the bush just what

00:47:01is your best argument for this idea

00:47:05and he said that's great thank you I appreciate that and I never heard from him again

00:47:11I don't know what to do with that except that either at least he walked away without being angry about

00:47:20it

00:47:20I don't know that he's ever going to come back and actually engage and try to have a dialogue

00:47:26but at least my me being willing to listen to somebody's idea even when I thought it was stupid

00:47:34it changed their response to me too

00:47:38and just another part of building relationships with people is being willing to entertain whatever idea

00:47:45they're they want to share within certain boundaries of course

00:47:50you can't always listen to everybody forever

00:47:55but dismissing people out of hand on something that they really believe strongly about

00:48:00usually doesn't go well

00:48:03unless they are completely entrenched in their ideas and unwilling to listen to anybody else

00:48:11and then sometimes you just have to dismiss them there's no point in arguing with people like that anyways

00:48:16let's move on to verse 3

00:48:18I think we spent enough time on verses 1 and 2

00:48:21it's really the same topic

00:48:22for Christ did not please himself but as it is written

00:48:25the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me

00:48:29now we already talked about how

00:48:32Yeshua

00:48:34came to teach people

00:48:35to disciple them and even to give up his life

00:48:38to allow people who hated him to kill him

00:48:41so that he could turn around and save them

00:48:44that's

00:48:44definitely putting somebody else's needs ahead of your own

00:48:47and I don't know if I would ever be willing to do that

00:48:50probably not

00:48:51I can't even imagine that

00:48:54but I'd like to look at this quote here

00:48:56the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me

00:48:59and this is from Psalm 69

00:49:02actually I put it in the notes of Psalm 59 verse

00:49:04and then I went back and edited it

00:49:07but I already have it up on my screen

00:49:09so I'm going to go ahead and read that

00:49:11unless somebody else had it already

00:49:13okay

00:49:14for zeal for your house has consumed me

00:49:17and the reproaches of those who reproach you

00:49:19have fallen on me

00:49:20this is a Psalm of David

00:49:22and he's talking about people who are

00:49:25persecuting him

00:49:27those who sit in the gate talk about me

00:49:29I am the song of the drunkards

00:49:31I have become estranged from my brothers

00:49:33and an alien to my mother's sons

00:49:36I don't know exactly when this

00:49:38when David wrote this

00:49:39but I suspect that this is when he was on the run from Saul

00:49:42and he had become an outlaw from all of Israel

00:49:46everybody's hand was against him

00:49:47he was being falsely accused of crimes

00:49:50and really

00:49:51he was really being persecuted

00:49:53because God had anointed him

00:49:55and it wasn't David necessarily that anybody hated

00:49:59it was God and God's choice of David

00:50:04so

00:50:05Saul was threatened by that

00:50:06he hated David

00:50:07because he hated what God chose

00:50:09and this is like what Yeshua said

00:50:12that they will hate you

00:50:13because they hated me first

00:50:14if you're going to be like Yeshua

00:50:16the world is going to hate you

00:50:19Paul isn't really talking about persecution

00:50:21in Romans 15

00:50:22but he is saying

00:50:24he's pointing at a Psalm

00:50:25where David is talking about being persecuted

00:50:28for the sake of God

00:50:29for the sake of his faith in God

00:50:32as

00:50:34a bit of hyperbole

00:50:35hyperbole might not be the right word

00:50:37I'm not sure what is though

00:50:38he's saying

00:50:40if

00:50:41David was willing to endure through persecution

00:50:45surely

00:50:45you can endure

00:50:46through a disagreement

00:50:48through a difference of opinion

00:50:50it's

00:50:51David was not willing to abandon everything

00:50:54to cut and run from Israel

00:50:55despite being persecuted by Israel

00:50:58he was still serving Israel

00:51:00during all that time

00:51:01he

00:51:02pretended to work for the Philistines

00:51:04while he was

00:51:05raiding Philistine

00:51:06allies

00:51:06he was

00:51:08wandering around

00:51:09the borders of Israel

00:51:10patrolling

00:51:11and protecting

00:51:12the people of Israel

00:51:13even while

00:51:14Saul

00:51:15and Saul's men

00:51:16were trying to kill him

00:51:17he

00:51:19that's how he responded

00:51:20to persecution

00:51:21by serving the people

00:51:22even better

00:51:23so if David

00:51:25can endure

00:51:26and maintain

00:51:27his obedience

00:51:28despite active

00:51:29persecution against him

00:51:30for the sake of his God

00:51:31why can't we

00:51:34handle

00:51:35disagreement

00:51:36among ourselves

00:51:36without becoming

00:51:38angry

00:51:38and bitter

00:51:39and accusing

00:51:40each other of things

00:51:41and dividing

00:51:42over

00:51:43inconsequential

00:51:44silly things

00:51:45a lot of the things

00:51:47that Paul is talking about

00:51:48here are important

00:51:49he talks about

00:51:50days of fasting

00:51:52and

00:51:53some

00:51:54eat

00:51:54meat

00:51:55and some

00:51:56only eat

00:51:56vegetables

00:51:56he's talking about

00:51:57people who are worried

00:51:58about accidentally

00:51:59eating meat

00:52:00sacrificed

00:52:00to idols

00:52:01and we know

00:52:02from Revelation

00:52:02that eating meat

00:52:03sacrificed

00:52:04to idols

00:52:04is a serious

00:52:05issue

00:52:06but it depends

00:52:07on why you're

00:52:07eating it

00:52:08there's some

00:52:09nuance there

00:52:09as much as I hate

00:52:11that word

00:52:12sometimes

00:52:13these are

00:52:14important issues

00:52:15they're not

00:52:15necessarily trivial

00:52:17it's

00:52:18the gray areas

00:52:19that we like

00:52:20to argue about

00:52:22does the Sabbath

00:52:23begin

00:52:24at

00:52:25when this

00:52:26last piece

00:52:27of the sun

00:52:27goes down

00:52:28over the horizon

00:52:29or does

00:52:30the Sabbath

00:52:30begin when

00:52:31it's dark out

00:52:32or does it

00:52:32begin when

00:52:33the sun

00:52:33is halfway

00:52:34over the horizon

00:52:34people will

00:52:35actually argue

00:52:36about this

00:52:38you make up

00:52:38your own mind

00:52:40God doesn't

00:52:41define it

00:52:41precisely in

00:52:42scripture

00:52:42so I think

00:52:43we should give

00:52:44each other

00:52:44some room

00:52:45to

00:52:46when the sun

00:52:47is fully

00:52:47down

00:52:47okay

00:52:48Sabbath

00:52:49has begun

00:52:49we can all

00:52:50agree on that

00:52:50there are some

00:52:51people who disagree

00:52:51on that too

00:52:52but

00:52:53some of the

00:52:54calendar issues

00:52:54that people

00:52:55argue about

00:52:56the pronunciation

00:52:57of God's name

00:52:58things that

00:52:58nobody could

00:52:59possibly know

00:53:00because scripture

00:53:01is unclear

00:53:02and you can't

00:53:02go back

00:53:03in a time

00:53:03machine

00:53:04to find out

00:53:05from people

00:53:05exactly

00:53:07how things

00:53:08were done

00:53:09they're just

00:53:09not worth

00:53:10arguing over

00:53:10and

00:53:12then

00:53:12deciding

00:53:14I can't

00:53:14fellowship

00:53:14with you

00:53:15because you

00:53:16believe this

00:53:16thing

00:53:17that has

00:53:18no impact

00:53:19on

00:53:21how you're

00:53:22going to

00:53:22live your

00:53:22life

00:53:22or very

00:53:23little

00:53:23impact

00:53:24it certainly

00:53:24doesn't

00:53:25impact

00:53:25me

00:53:25if you

00:53:26keep

00:53:26this

00:53:27if you

00:53:27start

00:53:27your

00:53:27Sabbath

00:53:28at

00:53:28615

00:53:29and I

00:53:29start

00:53:30mine

00:53:30at

00:53:30645

00:53:32how does

00:53:33that hurt

00:53:33how does

00:53:34it hurt

00:53:34you

00:53:34that I

00:53:35start my

00:53:36Sabbath

00:53:36at 645

00:53:37how does

00:53:37it hurt

00:53:37me

00:53:38that you

00:53:38start

00:53:38yours

00:53:39at

00:53:39615

00:53:39why are

00:53:40we even

00:53:40arguing

00:53:41about this

00:53:41you do

00:53:42your thing

00:53:43I'll do

00:53:43my thing

00:53:43in my

00:53:43house

00:53:44and we'll

00:53:44come together

00:53:45at 7 o'clock

00:53:46we argue

00:53:47we love to

00:53:48fight over

00:53:49silly little

00:53:49things

00:53:50we love to

00:53:51be right

00:53:51it really

00:53:52makes people

00:53:53feel special

00:53:54if they

00:53:54believe that

00:53:55they are

00:53:55right and

00:53:56somebody else

00:53:56is wrong

00:53:57and this

00:53:57is something

00:53:58that we

00:53:58need to

00:53:59get out

00:53:59of our

00:54:00mindset

00:54:00in the

00:54:01body

00:54:01of Christ

00:54:02there are

00:54:03things that

00:54:03are right

00:54:03there are

00:54:04things that

00:54:04are wrong

00:54:05and there

00:54:05are a lot

00:54:06of things

00:54:06that just

00:54:07don't matter

00:54:07whether you

00:54:08have it

00:54:08right or

00:54:08wrong

00:54:10it's

00:54:10much more

00:54:11important that

00:54:11we are in

00:54:12unity

00:54:13and that

00:54:13we are all

00:54:14working towards

00:54:15obedience to

00:54:15God's commandments

00:54:16the best we

00:54:16can

00:54:17and we help

00:54:18each other along

00:54:19with that

00:54:19and we can

00:54:20have discussions

00:54:20about these

00:54:21things that we

00:54:21disagree with

00:54:22as long as we

00:54:23don't let it

00:54:24divide us

00:54:26and turn us

00:54:27into enemies

00:54:27of each other

00:54:29that all make

00:54:29sense

00:54:31anybody have

00:54:31anything to

00:54:32want to add

00:54:32to that

00:54:33I would

00:54:34but I

00:54:34don't want

00:54:34to start

00:54:34a fight

00:54:35I appreciate

00:54:36that

00:54:37all right

00:54:38let's go

00:54:38to verse

00:54:38four

00:54:39for whatever

00:54:40was written

00:54:41in former

00:54:41days was

00:54:42written for

00:54:42our instruction

00:54:43that through

00:54:44endurance and

00:54:45through the

00:54:45encouragement of

00:54:46the scriptures

00:54:46we might have

00:54:47hope

00:54:48one thing I

00:54:49want to mention

00:54:49here is

00:54:50whatever was

00:54:51written in

00:54:52former days

00:54:52obviously Paul

00:54:53doesn't mean

00:54:54anything and

00:54:55everything that

00:54:55was written

00:54:56before he

00:54:57wrote this

00:54:57letter

00:54:58because there

00:54:59was a lot

00:54:59of nonsense

00:55:00written

00:55:00a lot of

00:55:02pagan religions

00:55:03had their

00:55:03own things

00:55:04the Egyptians

00:55:05have the

00:55:06book of the

00:55:06dead and

00:55:07so many

00:55:07other ancient

00:55:09writings that

00:55:09we shouldn't

00:55:10have anything

00:55:10to do with

00:55:10so do the

00:55:11Romans and

00:55:12the Greeks

00:55:12and even

00:55:13the Hebrews

00:55:14wrote things

00:55:15that were

00:55:16nonsense

00:55:18so Paul

00:55:19is certainly

00:55:20talking about

00:55:21those writings

00:55:22that honor

00:55:23God

00:55:23specifically

00:55:24the scriptures

00:55:25what the Jews

00:55:26in the first

00:55:27century called

00:55:28the law

00:55:29in the prophets

00:55:30sometimes called

00:55:32the law

00:55:32of the prophets

00:55:32and the

00:55:33writings

00:55:33or the

00:55:33Tanakh

00:55:35that's the

00:55:35acronym

00:55:36Torah

00:55:37Nevim

00:55:37and Ketuvim

00:55:38means the

00:55:39law of the

00:55:39writings

00:55:40and the

00:55:40prophets

00:55:41or the

00:55:42law of the

00:55:42prophets

00:55:42and the

00:55:42writings

00:55:43sorry I

00:55:43got those

00:55:43last two

00:55:43backwards

00:55:45now there

00:55:46is probably

00:55:4890% agreement

00:55:49on the

00:55:51core of

00:55:52writings

00:55:52that everybody

00:55:55in the first

00:55:55century recognized

00:55:56made up

00:55:57these scriptures

00:55:58there are some

00:55:59around the

00:55:59edges that not

00:56:00everybody agreed

00:56:01on and

00:56:02when you

00:56:03look at

00:56:03the

00:56:05commonly

00:56:05accepted

00:56:06biblical

00:56:06canon

00:56:07what's in

00:56:08the

00:56:08Protestant

00:56:08Bible

00:56:10at least

00:56:10in the

00:56:10Old Testament

00:56:11all of the

00:56:12Old Testament

00:56:13that we have

00:56:13now except

00:56:14for maybe

00:56:15two books

00:56:16were accepted

00:56:17by 90% or

00:56:18more of all

00:56:19Jews in the

00:56:19first century

00:56:20they said yes

00:56:21these are divinely

00:56:22inspired scripture

00:56:22there were a

00:56:23couple of

00:56:23exceptions

00:56:25Esther

00:56:26and I can't

00:56:28remember what the

00:56:28other book is

00:56:29right now

00:56:30there was

00:56:31another book

00:56:31maybe Song

00:56:32of Solomon

00:56:32I don't

00:56:32really remember

00:56:33exactly

00:56:34but they had

00:56:35some disagreements

00:56:36about exactly

00:56:36which books

00:56:37and there were

00:56:38some other

00:56:38books some

00:56:39Jews believed

00:56:41that what

00:56:42Ecclesiasticus

00:56:43or one or

00:56:44another books

00:56:45should be

00:56:46considered divinely

00:56:47inspired

00:56:49most Jews

00:56:49would say

00:56:50that oh yeah

00:56:50all these other

00:56:51books they're

00:56:51worth reading

00:56:52they're good

00:56:52stuff they're

00:56:53edifying

00:56:53but maybe

00:56:55not as

00:56:56reliable as

00:56:56these

00:56:57so

00:56:58eventually

00:57:00Christians did

00:57:01the same

00:57:01thing

00:57:01there were

00:57:03a core

00:57:03of books

00:57:05most of

00:57:06the 27

00:57:06books that

00:57:07we have

00:57:07now

00:57:07with the

00:57:09possible

00:57:09exception

00:57:09of Hebrews

00:57:112nd Peter

00:57:12and Revelation

00:57:13that everybody

00:57:14agreed on

00:57:14these are the

00:57:16books that

00:57:16we accept

00:57:17all these

00:57:17and probably

00:57:1990% of

00:57:20Christians

00:57:21accepted

00:57:22Hebrews 2nd Peter

00:57:23and Revelation

00:57:23too there

00:57:24were just

00:57:24some

00:57:25disagreement

00:57:25about those

00:57:26and then

00:57:27there were

00:57:27a few

00:57:27other books

00:57:28that people

00:57:28wanted to

00:57:30include

00:57:30some people

00:57:31believe that

00:57:31Barnabas

00:57:32should be

00:57:33considered

00:57:33divinely

00:57:34inspired

00:57:35and most

00:57:36early Christians

00:57:37believe that

00:57:39Barnabas the

00:57:39first letter

00:57:40of Clement

00:57:41the Didache

00:57:42for some

00:57:43of them

00:57:44that these

00:57:45books were

00:57:46edifying

00:57:47and worth

00:57:48reading

00:57:48worth studying

00:57:49just like the

00:57:49Jews thought

00:57:50of some of

00:57:51their ancient

00:57:51writings

00:57:52they just

00:57:53didn't believe

00:57:54that they

00:57:54measured up

00:57:55to the

00:57:55same

00:57:55standard

00:57:55so

00:57:57by the

00:57:58middle

00:57:58of the

00:57:58second

00:57:58century

00:58:00the list

00:58:00that we

00:58:01have now

00:58:01of 27

00:58:01books

00:58:02was mostly

00:58:03the list

00:58:04of accepted

00:58:04works

00:58:06with a few

00:58:06disagreements

00:58:07and

00:58:09we came to

00:58:09this idea

00:58:10that we call

00:58:11a canon

00:58:12and canon

00:58:13literally means

00:58:13a measuring

00:58:14rod

00:58:14it's something

00:58:15that you

00:58:15can use

00:58:16to measure

00:58:16other things

00:58:18so

00:58:19they took

00:58:20all of the

00:58:20books

00:58:21that everybody

00:58:22could agree

00:58:22on

00:58:22or 90%

00:58:23of everybody

00:58:24could agree

00:58:24on

00:58:24and said

00:58:25okay

00:58:26these are

00:58:26the ones

00:58:27that we're

00:58:27going to

00:58:27consider

00:58:28canonical

00:58:29or

00:58:30these are

00:58:31the ones

00:58:31that we

00:58:31can all

00:58:32agree

00:58:32are divinely

00:58:33inspired

00:58:33and we

00:58:34can use

00:58:34these

00:58:35to measure

00:58:36other books

00:58:37that doesn't

00:58:38mean that there

00:58:38aren't other

00:58:39books that God

00:58:39inspires people

00:58:40to write

00:58:40the Bible

00:58:41is full

00:58:42of stories

00:58:43of prophets

00:58:44whose writings

00:58:45we don't

00:58:45have

00:58:46we know

00:58:47that some

00:58:47of them

00:58:47wrote things

00:58:48down

00:58:48the Bible

00:58:49mentions

00:58:50like a dozen

00:58:51a dozen

00:58:51different books

00:58:52that we

00:58:53don't have

00:58:53today

00:58:54there are

00:58:55some books

00:58:55that claim

00:58:55to be

00:58:56those books

00:58:56but they're

00:58:57not

00:58:58and if

00:58:59someday

00:58:59we were

00:58:59to find

00:59:00those books

00:59:00we can

00:59:01judge

00:59:02whether

00:59:02they are

00:59:02legitimate

00:59:03by measuring

00:59:04them against

00:59:04the books

00:59:05that we

00:59:05can all

00:59:05agree on

00:59:06Genesis

00:59:07through

00:59:07Revelation

00:59:07we can

00:59:08all agree

00:59:08that these

00:59:09are divinely

00:59:10inspired books

00:59:10we use

00:59:11these as a

00:59:12measuring rod

00:59:13to decide

00:59:13whether

00:59:14this other

00:59:14book

00:59:16measures up

00:59:17to that

00:59:17standard

00:59:18and

00:59:19that's

00:59:19what

00:59:20a canon

00:59:21is for

00:59:22and the

00:59:23existence

00:59:23of a canon

00:59:24implies

00:59:24that there

00:59:25must be

00:59:25other

00:59:25writings

00:59:26or other

00:59:27claims

00:59:27to divine

00:59:28inspiration

00:59:30because

00:59:30if there

00:59:31weren't

00:59:32there wouldn't

00:59:33be any

00:59:33purpose

00:59:33in a

00:59:34measuring

00:59:34rod

00:59:34if you're

00:59:35going to

00:59:36have a

00:59:36measuring

00:59:37rod

00:59:37that means

00:59:38you must

00:59:38have

00:59:38expect to

00:59:39have

00:59:39other

00:59:40things

00:59:40to

00:59:40measure

00:59:41so

00:59:43the idea

00:59:43of having

00:59:44this one

00:59:44collection

00:59:45that we

00:59:45know

00:59:45this has

00:59:46we know

00:59:47these are

00:59:47inspired

00:59:49means that

00:59:50you're going

00:59:50to use

00:59:50that collection

00:59:52to judge

00:59:53other writings

00:59:54that may

00:59:54or may

00:59:55not be

00:59:55inspired

00:59:56so I

00:59:57think

00:59:57people

00:59:58would like

00:59:58to say

00:59:59that the

00:59:59Bible

00:59:59is a

00:59:59closed

01:00:00canon

01:00:01when

01:00:02John

01:00:02finished

01:00:03the book

01:00:03of

01:00:03Revelation

01:00:04all

01:00:05Revelation

01:00:05stopped

01:00:06the Bible

01:00:07doesn't say

01:00:08that anywhere

01:00:08that's

01:00:09adding

01:00:09to

01:00:10scripture

01:00:11and in

01:00:12fact

01:00:12having

01:00:12a canon

01:00:13implies

01:00:14that

01:00:14there

01:00:14will

01:00:14be

01:00:15more

01:00:15revelation

01:00:15and

01:00:16we

01:00:16have

01:00:16to

01:00:16use

01:00:17the

01:00:17existing

01:00:18scriptures

01:00:18to judge

01:00:19these

01:00:19new

01:00:19claims

01:00:20to

01:00:20revelation

01:00:21but I

01:00:22think

01:00:22that we

01:00:22need

01:00:22to be

01:00:22really

01:00:22strict

01:00:23if

01:00:24something

01:00:24comes

01:00:25along

01:00:25and

01:00:25says

01:00:25this

01:00:26was

01:00:26written

01:00:27by

01:00:27prophet

01:00:27so

01:00:27and

01:00:27if

01:00:28it

01:00:28goes

01:00:28counter

01:00:29to

01:00:29any

01:00:29of

01:00:29the

01:00:29established

01:00:30canonical

01:00:30scriptures

01:00:31we

01:00:32throw

01:00:32it

01:00:32out

01:00:32it

01:00:33might

01:00:33be

01:00:34good

01:00:34for

01:00:34historical

01:00:34reference

01:00:36might

01:00:37have

01:00:37some

01:00:37interesting

01:00:37perspectives

01:00:39but

01:00:39it's

01:00:39no

01:00:39better

01:00:40than

01:00:40commentary

01:00:41if

01:00:42something

01:00:42does

01:00:42measure

01:00:43up

01:00:43then

01:00:44I

01:00:44think

01:00:44we

01:00:44hold

01:00:44it

01:00:46maybe

01:00:46hold

01:00:47it

01:00:47at

01:00:47arm's

01:00:47length

01:00:47we'll

01:00:48sit

01:00:48on

01:00:49this

01:00:49for

01:00:49a

01:00:49while

01:00:49we'll

01:00:49pray

01:00:49about

01:00:50this

01:00:50we'll

01:00:50read

01:00:50it

01:00:51we'll

01:00:51consider

01:00:52it

01:00:52and

01:00:52you

01:00:52never

01:00:53add

01:00:53it

01:00:53to

01:00:53the

01:00:53canon

01:00:54because

01:00:54that

01:00:54defeats

01:00:55the

01:00:55purpose

01:00:55of

01:00:56the

01:00:56canon

01:00:57if

01:00:57you

01:00:57have

01:00:57a

01:00:57yard

01:00:58stick

01:00:59and

01:00:59you

01:00:59say

01:01:00okay

01:01:00I

01:01:00measured

01:01:00this

01:01:01other

01:01:01thing

01:01:01and

01:01:01it's

01:01:01exactly

01:01:02a

01:01:02yard

01:01:02long

01:01:02do

01:01:03you

01:01:03now

01:01:03add

01:01:03that

01:01:03other

01:01:04thing

01:01:04to

01:01:04the

01:01:04yard

01:01:04and

01:01:05change

01:01:05the

01:01:05definition

01:01:05of

01:01:06a

01:01:06yard

01:01:07that

01:01:07doesn't

01:01:07make

01:01:07any

01:01:07sense

01:01:08you

01:01:08keep

01:01:09using

01:01:09the

01:01:09same

01:01:09yard

01:01:10stick

01:01:10to

01:01:11measure

01:01:11everything

01:01:12else

01:01:13obviously

01:01:13we didn't

01:01:14always

01:01:14have

01:01:14the

01:01:15same

01:01:15yard

01:01:15stick

01:01:16at

01:01:17one

01:01:17time

01:01:17we

01:01:17only

01:01:17had

01:01:17the

01:01:18Torah

01:01:18and

01:01:18then

01:01:18we

01:01:19only

01:01:19had

01:01:19the

01:01:19Torah

01:01:20and

01:01:20Joshua

01:01:20and

01:01:20Judges

01:01:21and

01:01:21Samuel

01:01:21so

01:01:22this

01:01:23is a

01:01:24very

01:01:24fuzzy

01:01:25idea

01:01:25that

01:01:25did

01:01:26evolve

01:01:26over

01:01:26time

01:01:28but

01:01:28once

01:01:28we

01:01:29do

01:01:29have

01:01:29this

01:01:29measuring

01:01:29rod

01:01:30I

01:01:30think

01:01:30we

01:01:31just

01:01:31keep

01:01:31the

01:01:31measuring

01:01:31rod

01:01:32the

01:01:32way

01:01:32it

01:01:32is

01:01:32and

01:01:33if

01:01:33there

01:01:33are

01:01:34other

01:01:34scriptures

01:01:35or

01:01:36other

01:01:36prophecies

01:01:36or

01:01:37revelations

01:01:38then

01:01:40if

01:01:41they

01:01:41measure

01:01:41up

01:01:41great

01:01:42we'll

01:01:43read

01:01:43them

01:01:43and

01:01:44study

01:01:44them

01:01:44alongside

01:01:44the

01:01:45canon

01:01:46and

01:01:48honor

01:01:48those

01:01:49and

01:01:49maybe

01:01:49we can

01:01:50learn

01:01:50them

01:01:50we

01:01:50just

01:01:50don't

01:01:51call

01:01:51them

01:01:51the

01:01:51canon

01:01:51because

01:01:53that

01:01:53just

01:01:53doesn't

01:01:54make

01:01:54any

01:01:54sense

01:01:54to

01:01:55keep

01:01:55changing

01:01:55the

01:01:55canon

01:01:56there

01:01:57were

01:01:57a

01:01:57couple

01:01:57of

01:01:57verses

01:01:58that

01:01:58I

01:01:58wanted

01:01:58to

01:01:59reference

01:01:59where

01:01:59we

01:02:00can

01:02:00see

01:02:00that

01:02:00Yeshua

01:02:02was

01:02:02following

01:02:02essentially

01:02:03the

01:02:03same

01:02:04Jewish

01:02:04canon

01:02:05they

01:02:05didn't

01:02:05really

01:02:05have

01:02:06the

01:02:06concept

01:02:06of

01:02:06the

01:02:06canon

01:02:06at

01:02:07the

01:02:07time

01:02:07but

01:02:07they

01:02:08did

01:02:08have

01:02:08the

01:02:09collection

01:02:09that

01:02:09they

01:02:09called

01:02:10the

01:02:10writings

01:02:11of

01:02:11the

01:02:11prophets

01:02:12and

01:02:13like

01:02:13I

01:02:21this

01:02:21famous

01:02:22one

01:02:22that

01:02:22I'm

01:02:22sure

01:02:23you're

01:02:23all

01:02:23familiar

01:02:23with

01:02:24do

01:02:25not

01:02:25think

01:02:25that

01:02:25I

01:02:25have

01:02:25come

01:02:25to

01:02:26abolish

01:02:26the

01:02:26law

01:02:26or

01:02:27the

01:02:27prophets

01:02:27this

01:02:28is

01:02:28Yeshua

01:02:28using

01:02:29this

01:02:29phrase

01:02:30the

01:02:30law

01:02:30and

01:02:30the

01:02:30prophets

01:02:31or

01:02:31the

01:02:31law

01:02:31in

01:02:32this

01:02:32case

01:02:32he

01:02:32says

01:02:32or

01:02:33because

01:02:33it

01:02:34only

01:02:34makes

01:02:34sense

01:02:34in

01:02:35what

01:02:35he's

01:02:35saying

01:02:35the

01:02:36law

01:02:36and

01:02:36the

01:02:36prophets

01:02:37was

01:02:37a

01:02:37very

01:02:37common

01:02:38phrase

01:02:38used

01:02:39it's

01:02:40found

01:02:40in

01:02:40the

01:02:41Talmud

01:02:41it's

01:02:44found

01:02:45over

01:02:45the

01:02:45New

01:02:45Testament

01:02:46it's

01:02:47a

01:02:47common

01:02:47phrase

01:02:48used

01:02:49to

01:02:49refer

01:02:49to

01:02:49this

01:02:49collection

01:02:50of

01:02:50works

01:02:50that

01:02:51the

01:02:51Jews

01:02:51considered

01:02:51divinely

01:02:52inspired

01:02:52scripture

01:02:53and

01:02:54whether

01:02:55they

01:02:55had

01:02:56exactly

01:02:56the

01:02:56same

01:02:56view

01:02:57of

01:02:57what

01:02:57divinely

01:02:58inspired

01:02:58meant

01:02:59that

01:02:59we

01:02:59do

01:02:59today

01:02:59isn't

01:03:00really

01:03:01the

01:03:01point

01:03:02the

01:03:02point

01:03:02is

01:03:02that

01:03:03Yeshua

01:03:03quoted

01:03:03from

01:03:04these

01:03:04things

01:03:04said

01:03:05that

01:03:05they

01:03:05were

01:03:05prophets

01:03:07and

01:03:07written

01:03:07by

01:03:07prophets

01:03:09and

01:03:09he

01:03:10gave

01:03:10them

01:03:10credence

01:03:11by

01:03:12continually

01:03:12saying

01:03:13that

01:03:13he

01:03:13did

01:03:13not

01:03:13come

01:03:14to

01:03:14abolish

01:03:14the

01:03:14law

01:03:14of

01:03:15the

01:03:15prophets

01:03:15but

01:03:15to

01:03:15fulfill

01:03:16them

01:03:17and

01:03:17then

01:03:17in

01:03:18Matthew

01:03:187

01:03:1912

01:03:19he

01:03:20says

01:03:21in

01:03:22everything

01:03:22therefore

01:03:22treat

01:03:23people

01:03:23the

01:03:24same

01:03:24way

01:03:24you

01:03:24want

01:03:24them

01:03:24to

01:03:25treat

01:03:25you

01:03:25for

01:03:25this

01:03:26is

01:03:26the

01:03:26law

01:03:26in

01:03:26the

01:03:26prophets

01:03:27again

01:03:28giving

01:03:28his

01:03:28tacit

01:03:29approval

01:03:29to

01:03:30that

01:03:30collection

01:03:30of

01:03:30works

01:03:31and

01:03:32I

01:03:32think

01:03:32he

01:03:32uses

01:03:32the

01:03:32same

01:03:33phrase

01:03:33maybe

01:03:33six

01:03:34or

01:03:34seven

01:03:34times

01:03:34in

01:03:35the

01:03:35Gospels

01:03:36multiple

01:03:36times

01:03:37in

01:03:37Luke

01:03:39chapter

01:03:3912

01:03:41I

01:03:41think

01:03:41I

01:03:42got that

01:03:43written

01:03:43down

01:03:43somewhere

01:03:44Luke

01:03:4516

01:03:45sorry

01:03:45we

01:03:46don't

01:03:46really

01:03:46have

01:03:46time

01:03:47to

01:03:47go

01:03:47through

01:03:47all

01:03:48of

01:03:48the

01:03:48reasons

01:03:48for

01:03:50all

01:03:50of

01:03:50the

01:03:50books

01:03:51that are

01:03:51in

01:03:51the

01:03:51Bible

01:03:51right

01:03:51now

01:03:52that's

01:03:52part

01:03:52of

01:03:52what I'm

01:03:52doing

01:03:53who wrote

01:03:53the

01:03:53Bible

01:03:53series

01:03:54for

01:03:55and

01:03:55I

01:03:55have

01:03:55several

01:03:56articles

01:03:56on it

01:03:56on

01:03:57the

01:03:57American

01:03:58Torah

01:03:58website

01:03:58if you

01:03:58want

01:03:59to

01:03:59check

01:03:59those

01:03:59out

01:03:59I'll

01:03:59post

01:04:00a

01:04:00link

01:04:00to

01:04:00those

01:04:00in

01:04:01the

01:04:01comments

01:04:01when I

01:04:02upload

01:04:02this

01:04:02video

01:04:03but

01:04:03there

01:04:04I

01:04:05don't

01:04:05have

01:04:05any

01:04:05problem

01:04:06with

01:04:06somebody

01:04:06believing

01:04:07that

01:04:07a

01:04:07book

01:04:07that's

01:04:08not

01:04:08in

01:04:08the

01:04:08Bible

01:04:08is

01:04:09divinely

01:04:09inspired

01:04:10as long

01:04:11as

01:04:11that

01:04:11book

01:04:11doesn't

01:04:11contradict

01:04:12the

01:04:13Bible

01:04:14I

01:04:14just

01:04:15hold

01:04:15a

01:04:15pretty

01:04:15strict

01:04:15view

01:04:16of

01:04:16it

01:04:17better

01:04:18measure

01:04:18up

01:04:19really

01:04:19well

01:04:20because

01:04:20if

01:04:21it

01:04:21doesn't

01:04:21then

01:04:22it's

01:04:23simply

01:04:23not

01:04:24divinely

01:04:24inspired

01:04:25it's

01:04:26just

01:04:26commentary

01:04:28that's

01:04:28how I

01:04:29treat

01:04:29everything

01:04:29that's

01:04:30not in

01:04:30the

01:04:30Bible

01:04:30anyways

01:04:31okay

01:04:32anyways

01:04:33since

01:04:34Paul was

01:04:34talking

01:04:34about

01:04:35things

01:04:35written

01:04:35in

01:04:35former

01:04:35days

01:04:36I

01:04:36thought

01:04:36it

01:04:36was

01:04:36worth

01:04:36talking

01:04:37about

01:04:37that

01:04:37for

01:04:37a

01:04:37little

01:04:37bit

01:04:38but

01:04:38then

01:04:39he

01:04:39goes

01:04:39on

01:04:39to

01:04:39say

01:04:39those

01:04:40things

01:04:40were

01:04:40written

01:04:41for

01:04:41our

01:04:41instruction

01:04:43elsewhere

01:04:43in

01:04:44scripture

01:04:44Paul

01:04:44says

01:04:45that

01:04:45the

01:04:45law

01:04:45was

01:04:46given

01:04:46to

01:04:47it

01:04:48was

01:04:48given

01:04:48because

01:04:48of

01:04:49transgression

01:04:50or

01:04:51there

01:04:52are

01:04:52places

01:04:52where

01:04:52it

01:04:52says

01:04:53the

01:04:53law

01:04:53is

01:04:53a

01:04:53witness

01:04:54against

01:04:54us

01:04:55the

01:04:56law

01:04:56was

01:04:56given

01:04:56only

01:04:56for

01:04:57sinners

01:04:58we're

01:04:58all

01:04:58starting

01:04:59out

01:04:59as

01:04:59sinners

01:05:00we're

01:05:01all

01:05:01starting

01:05:01out

01:05:02ignorant

01:05:02we

01:05:03all

01:05:03need

01:05:03instruction

01:05:03and

01:05:04we

01:05:04always

01:05:04will

01:05:05for

01:05:05our

01:05:05entire

01:05:06lives

01:05:07I

01:05:07don't

01:05:07think

01:05:07there's

01:05:08a

01:05:08single

01:05:08person

01:05:08except

01:05:09for

01:05:09Yeshua

01:05:09who

01:05:10will

01:05:10ever

01:05:10manage

01:05:11to be

01:05:11perfectly

01:05:11sinless

01:05:12before

01:05:12he

01:05:12dies

01:05:13I

01:05:15maybe

01:05:15Enoch

01:05:16made

01:05:16it

01:05:16because

01:05:17he

01:05:18was

01:05:18he

01:05:19walked

01:05:19with

01:05:19God

01:05:19and

01:05:19God

01:05:20took

01:05:20him

01:05:21maybe

01:05:21that

01:05:21means

01:05:22he

01:05:22finally

01:05:22reached

01:05:22that

01:05:23stage

01:05:23where

01:05:23he

01:05:23never

01:05:23sinned

01:05:24anymore

01:05:24I

01:05:24doubt

01:05:25it

01:05:25he

01:05:27was

01:05:27probably

01:05:27just

01:05:27a

01:05:28really

01:05:28great

01:05:28guy

01:05:28God

01:05:29wanted

01:05:29to

01:05:29hang

01:05:29out

01:05:29with

01:05:29him

01:05:29I

01:05:30don't

01:05:30know

01:05:30I'm

01:05:31joking

01:05:32there

01:05:32but

01:05:33anyways

01:05:33I

01:05:34don't

01:05:34have

01:05:34any

01:05:34confidence

01:05:34that

01:05:35anybody

01:05:35who

01:05:35doesn't

01:05:36live

01:05:36a few

01:05:36hundred

01:05:36years

01:05:37at

01:05:37least

01:05:37like

01:05:38Enoch

01:05:38did

01:05:38is

01:05:39ever

01:05:39going

01:05:39to

01:05:39reach

01:05:40that

01:05:40level

01:05:40of

01:05:40perfection

01:05:41where

01:05:41he

01:05:41can

01:05:42go

01:05:42through

01:05:43days

01:05:43after

01:05:43days

01:05:44without

01:05:44ever

01:05:44sinning

01:05:44so

01:05:46we

01:05:47all

01:05:47will

01:05:47continue

01:05:48to

01:05:48need

01:05:48instruction

01:05:49throughout

01:05:49our

01:05:50lives

01:05:51we

01:05:51are

01:05:52having

01:05:52the

01:05:52law

01:05:52written

01:05:53on

01:05:53our

01:05:53hearts

01:05:53is

01:05:54a

01:05:54long

01:05:54process

01:05:56it's

01:05:56not

01:05:57something

01:05:57that

01:05:57just

01:05:57happens

01:05:58instantly

01:05:58and

01:05:59we

01:05:59now

01:05:59we

01:05:59just

01:05:59know

01:06:00all

01:06:00of

01:06:00God's

01:06:00commands

01:06:01and

01:06:01we

01:06:02never

01:06:02need

01:06:02anybody

01:06:02to

01:06:02teach

01:06:03us

01:06:03this

01:06:04is

01:06:04something

01:06:04that

01:06:04God

01:06:04has

01:06:05promised

01:06:05as

01:06:05part

01:06:05of

01:06:05the

01:06:06new

01:06:06covenant

01:06:07but

01:06:07we

01:06:07don't

01:06:08have

01:06:08that

01:06:08yet

01:06:08we're

01:06:09all

01:06:09still

01:06:09sitting

01:06:09here

01:06:09in

01:06:10this

01:06:10virtual

01:06:10room

01:06:11teaching

01:06:11each

01:06:12other

01:06:12about

01:06:13God

01:06:13and

01:06:13his

01:06:13commandments

01:06:14so

01:06:16the

01:06:16law

01:06:17being

01:06:17written

01:06:17on

01:06:18our

01:06:18hearts

01:06:18is

01:06:18still

01:06:19something

01:06:19that

01:06:19is

01:06:19in

01:06:20progress

01:06:21the

01:06:21new

01:06:22covenant

01:06:22was

01:06:22established

01:06:23when

01:06:23Yeshua's

01:06:24blood

01:06:24was

01:06:24shed

01:06:24at

01:06:25the

01:06:25cross

01:06:26but

01:06:27it

01:06:27is

01:06:27still

01:06:27being

01:06:28established

01:06:28in

01:06:29us

01:06:29and

01:06:29will

01:06:30be

01:06:30finally

01:06:30established

01:06:32when

01:06:32that

01:06:33law

01:06:33is

01:06:33completely

01:06:33written

01:06:34on

01:06:34our

01:06:34hearts

01:06:34we

01:06:35have

01:06:35been

01:06:35resurrected

01:06:36into

01:06:37life

01:06:37in

01:06:38the

01:06:38new

01:06:38heaven

01:06:38and new

01:06:38earth

01:06:39and

01:06:39nobody

01:06:40needs

01:06:40to

01:06:40teach

01:06:40each

01:06:41other

01:06:41about

01:06:41God

01:06:41anymore

01:06:42because

01:06:42we

01:06:42all

01:06:42know

01:06:42him

01:06:43and

01:06:43we

01:06:43can

01:06:43all

01:06:43see

01:06:44him

01:06:45that's

01:06:45all

01:06:45that's

01:06:46based

01:06:46on

01:06:47Jeremiah

01:06:4731

01:06:47it

01:06:48essentially

01:06:48says

01:06:49that

01:06:49this

01:06:50is

01:06:50the

01:06:50new

01:06:50covenant

01:06:51and

01:06:51God

01:06:51will

01:06:51write

01:06:51his

01:06:52law

01:06:52in

01:06:52our

01:06:52hearts

01:06:52and

01:06:53no

01:06:54no

01:06:54one

01:06:54will

01:06:55have

01:06:55to

01:06:55tell

01:06:55anybody

01:06:55else

01:06:56no

01:06:56God

01:06:56because

01:06:57we

01:06:57will

01:06:57all

01:06:57know

01:06:57him

01:06:59and

01:07:00that

01:07:01will

01:07:01be

01:07:01a

01:07:01great

01:07:01day

01:07:02but

01:07:02it's

01:07:02not

01:07:03here

01:07:03yet

01:07:04so

01:07:06anyways

01:07:07all

01:07:07that

01:07:07to

01:07:08say

01:07:08that

01:07:08there

01:07:08are

01:07:08lots

01:07:08of

01:07:08reasons

01:07:09why

01:07:10the

01:07:11scriptures

01:07:11are

01:07:11given

01:07:12ultimately

01:07:13they're

01:07:13given

01:07:13for

01:07:13our

01:07:14instruction

01:07:14but

01:07:14our

01:07:14instruction

01:07:15in

01:07:15what

01:07:15in

01:07:16how

01:07:16to

01:07:16behave

01:07:17in

01:07:17our

01:07:18relationship

01:07:19with

01:07:19God

01:07:19who

01:07:19God

01:07:20is

01:07:20and

01:07:20who

01:07:21he

01:07:21is

01:07:21to

01:07:21us

01:07:22what

01:07:22we're

01:07:23supposed

01:07:23to

01:07:23be

01:07:24like

01:07:24if

01:07:24we're

01:07:24supposed

01:07:25to

01:07:25be

01:07:25like

01:07:25Yeshua

01:07:25how

01:07:26do

01:07:26we

01:07:26even

01:07:26know

01:07:27what

01:07:27that

01:07:27is

01:07:27without

01:07:27the

01:07:28scriptures

01:07:29so

01:07:30all

01:07:31of

01:07:31the

01:07:31scriptures

01:07:32all

01:07:32of

01:07:33these

01:07:33things

01:07:34and

01:07:35even

01:07:35some

01:07:36extra

01:07:36biblical

01:07:36commentary

01:07:37there's

01:07:37a lot

01:07:37of

01:07:37good

01:07:38really

01:07:38inspiring

01:07:38work

01:07:39out

01:07:39there

01:07:39notice

01:07:40I

01:07:40didn't

01:07:40necessarily

01:07:41say

01:07:41inspired

01:07:42I

01:07:42said

01:07:42inspiring

01:07:43that's

01:07:44worth

01:07:44reading

01:07:45you just

01:07:46have to

01:07:46make

01:07:46sure

01:07:46that

01:07:46you're

01:07:47always

01:07:47measuring

01:07:47it

01:07:48against

01:07:49the

01:07:50Bible

01:07:50the

01:07:50canonical

01:07:51scriptures

01:07:51to make

01:07:52sure

01:07:52that it's

01:07:52aligning

01:07:53if

01:07:54there's

01:07:54anything

01:07:54contradictory

01:07:55it's

01:07:56possible

01:07:56that you're

01:07:56misunderstanding

01:07:57it or

01:07:57it's

01:07:57possible

01:07:58that

01:07:58work

01:07:59has

01:07:59been

01:08:00corrupted

01:08:00or

01:08:01it's

01:08:02just

01:08:02not

01:08:02what

01:08:02it

01:08:02claims

01:08:02to

01:08:02be

01:08:03you

01:08:03have

01:08:04to

01:08:04use

01:08:04some

01:08:04discernment

01:08:04there

01:08:05and

01:08:05you

01:08:05have

01:08:05to

01:08:05know

01:08:05the

01:08:06scriptures

01:08:06in

01:08:06order

01:08:07to

01:08:08know

01:08:08that

01:08:08so

01:08:09this

01:08:09is

01:08:09one

01:08:10thing

01:08:10that

01:08:10I

01:08:10definitely

01:08:11recommend

01:08:11for

01:08:11people

01:08:12I

01:08:13recommend

01:08:13that

01:08:14until

01:08:15you

01:08:15have

01:08:16mastered

01:08:16the

01:08:17canonical

01:08:18scriptures

01:08:18that

01:08:19you

01:08:19treat

01:08:20everything

01:08:20outside

01:08:20of

01:08:21it

01:08:21as

01:08:21nothing

01:08:22more

01:08:22than

01:08:22commentary

01:08:24may

01:08:24be

01:08:24great

01:08:25it may

01:08:25be

01:08:25edifying

01:08:25you

01:08:26might

01:08:26be

01:08:26able

01:08:26to

01:08:26learn

01:08:26about

01:08:27God

01:08:27through

01:08:27it

01:08:28might

01:08:28give

01:08:28you

01:08:28really

01:08:28good

01:08:29advice

01:08:29and

01:08:29good

01:08:29instruction

01:08:31but

01:08:31it's

01:08:32still

01:08:32just

01:08:32commentary

01:08:33I

01:08:34don't

01:08:34think

01:08:34you

01:08:34can

01:08:34go

01:08:34wrong

01:08:35treating

01:08:35it

01:08:35that

01:08:35way

01:08:36but

01:08:37and

01:08:37it

01:08:37can

01:08:37save

01:08:37you

01:08:38a

01:08:38whole

01:08:38lot

01:08:38of

01:08:38trouble

01:08:39when

01:08:40people

01:08:40start

01:08:40putting

01:08:42holding

01:08:42extra

01:08:43biblical

01:08:43works

01:08:43to a

01:08:44higher

01:08:44level

01:08:45than

01:08:45the

01:08:45Bible

01:08:46itself

01:08:46and

01:08:46saying

01:08:46the

01:08:47Bible

01:08:47is

01:08:47wrong

01:08:47because

01:08:48this

01:08:48other

01:08:48book

01:08:49whatever

01:08:50it is

01:08:52says

01:08:52this

01:08:52other

01:08:53thing

01:08:53so

01:08:53that

01:08:54means

01:08:54the

01:08:54Bible

01:08:54is

01:08:54all

01:08:55corrupted

01:08:55and

01:08:56whatever

01:08:56now

01:08:57then

01:08:57you're

01:08:57just

01:08:57getting

01:08:58into

01:08:58trouble

01:08:58you're

01:08:58just

01:08:59trying

01:08:59to be

01:08:59extra

01:08:59special

01:09:00and

01:09:01I

01:09:01know

01:09:01it

01:09:01makes

01:09:01everybody

01:09:01feel

01:09:02good

01:09:02to be

01:09:02special

01:09:03but

01:09:04it's

01:09:04not

01:09:04really

01:09:04going

01:09:04to be

01:09:05edifying

01:09:05in the

01:09:05long

01:09:05run

01:09:06it's

01:09:06just

01:09:06going

01:09:06to

01:09:06create

01:09:07division

01:09:07and

01:09:08problems

01:09:09and

01:09:09you're

01:09:10going

01:09:10to

01:09:10get

01:09:10tangled

01:09:10up

01:09:10in

01:09:11a

01:09:11whole

01:09:11lot

01:09:11of

01:09:11confusion

01:09:11so

01:09:13master

01:09:13the

01:09:14canonical

01:09:14scriptures

01:09:14and

01:09:15treat

01:09:15everything

01:09:16else

01:09:16as

01:09:16commentary

01:09:16thank

01:09:18you

01:09:18you're

01:09:19welcome

01:09:19that's

01:09:20ranch

01:09:21number

01:09:21five

01:09:21for

01:09:22tonight

01:09:23I

01:09:23noticed

01:09:24it

01:09:25is

01:09:25840

01:09:26yeah

01:09:28actually

01:09:29people

01:09:30have been

01:09:30pushing

01:09:31my

01:09:31buttons

01:09:31all

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01:11:21time

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01:12:08the

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01:12:31the

01:12:31book

01:12:31of

01:12:31Revelation

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01:12:33to

01:12:33the

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01:12:33will

01:12:33be

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01:12:37and

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01:12:38commandments

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01:12:40means

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01:12:50the

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01:12:51and

01:12:52rejecting

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01:12:55allegiance

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01:12:57him

01:12:57throughout

01:12:58your

01:12:58life

01:12:59anyone

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01:13:00to add

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01:13:16because a

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01:13:22mean

01:13:22flawless

01:13:23that's

01:13:24all

01:13:24I

01:13:24yeah

01:13:25I was

01:13:25just

01:13:25using

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01:13:26term

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01:13:26the

01:13:26common

01:13:26English

01:13:27sense

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01:13:28necessarily

01:13:28in the

01:13:28way

01:13:29it's

01:13:29used

01:13:29in

01:13:29the

01:13:29Bible

01:13:30I

01:13:31was

01:13:31just

01:13:31saying

01:13:31that

01:13:31because

01:13:32a lot

01:13:32of

01:13:33people

01:13:33get

01:13:34discouraged

01:13:35because

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01:13:37perfect

01:13:37is preached

01:13:38wrong

01:13:38and then

01:13:39you use

01:13:40it as

01:13:41an

01:13:41excuse

01:13:41to

01:13:42have

01:13:43a

01:13:43habitual

01:13:43case

01:13:44of

01:13:44rebellion

01:13:44yeah

01:13:45that's

01:13:46good

01:13:46context

01:13:50next

Romans 15:1-4 - We who are strong

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