Sermon
The Issues About Woman's Liberty pt. 8
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Let's dive right in.
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That you might proclaim the virtues, that's the word praise is there, the virtues of Him.
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What are His virtues and what He did on the cross?
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What are those things we will proclaim?
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And those things He accomplished on Calvary.
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That you might proclaim the praises of Him, of Him, of Him.
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Who did what?
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He said, who called you out of darkness into His own marvelous light?
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He said, you are His own special people.
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He said, you are a chosen generation.
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He said, you are a royal priesthood.
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He said, you are a holy, holy nation.
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How have you seen yourself?
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He said, you are holy, holy, holy.
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He said, holy nations, holy nation, His own special.
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You know, some people said, we have come to the world to accompany others.
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It's an error in the mouth of a believer.
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He said, His own special.
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You know, in the military that's what we call special forces.
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Are we together?
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It's for special purpose.
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Are we together?
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He says, His own special people, special people.
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Into someone you have looked down upon yourself.
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I'm talking to someone.
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You have not seen yourself in the light of what God has made of you.
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You have not seen yourself in that light of Him who has called you out of darkness.
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You are still as if you are living in the darkness.
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He said, He has called you out of darkness into His own marvelous light.
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Into His own marvelous light.
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Into His marvelous light.
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About that you are a male.
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You are the firstborn of your family.
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Sometimes we emphasize, please help me with this.
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Help me with this.
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We have talked about the issue of those who are firstborn are the special ones.
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We even have prayer time for them.
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Those who are firstborn sometimes suffer.
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Sometimes they say they have a problem.
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If you are firstborn you have to come here.
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We have to pray for you.
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No, you don't have a problem.
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Whether you are last in between or below, if there's anything like that.
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He said, you are among His special people.
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Are we together?
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Hallelujah.
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He didn't say you are a man or you are a woman.
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He said you are among His special people.
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There is no identity.
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Listen, this identity is not gender based.
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And that's what we're going to continue on.
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Years back I started a message, a series on what I titled issues around women's liberty.
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Issues around women's liberty.
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And we discussed some few things because we have had a lot of challenges in the church.
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We are still as if in the wall.
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We still judge ourselves by the physical.
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But our identity is in Christ, is not in our physical appearance.
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Paul said we no longer consider, see any man after the flesh.
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He said before we also saw Christ in that light, 2 Corinthians 5.16.
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And that's why 17 came and said therefore.
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That means there is something he said before that.
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If any man, that man is not male.
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Tell your neighbor that man is not male.
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That is the man in Christ.
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And it is you.
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He said if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation.
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Give me that 16 again.
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He said therefore from now on we regard no man according to the flesh, mean by physical,
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by worldly point of view.
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He said even though we have known Christ according to the flesh.
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Right now, that's before we used to see Christ as one who is an Israelite.
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But Peter identified him correctly.
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He said who do men say that I am?
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Peter said you are the Christ, the son of the living God.
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And Jesus turned and said Peter, he said flesh and blood did not reveal this.
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The revelation of God, the revelation of Christ is a gift to humanity.
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The revelation of Christ is what God gives.
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It's not what you receive by experience.
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It's not what you receive by watching, by seeing, by testing.
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That's why you can see your identity based on flesh.
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Where you're coming from.
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You'll be in trouble when you continue to look at your physique.
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Or I am black.
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Or that's why he's treating me racist.
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That's why you are bothered about all these words.
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Because you are seeing yourself wrongly.
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Do you know what I'm saying?
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I was teaching, I was telling my medical student and I told them, I said before they deceive
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black people, you are not good looking.
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And they invented and then create bleaching cream.
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And they begin to bleach themselves and brought about Jerry coil and all those kind of relaxers
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and all that.
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And then because they want to see their distinct coil, after so many times they ate their money,
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they deceived them.
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And then now they turn to the white.
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They say you are not good looking, you need to look chocolate.
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And then they begin to invent tanning beds and put them inside and after some time they
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begin to develop cancer and all kinds of things.
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You see them roaming around beaches, say they are buffing themselves with the sun.
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You are buffing yourself.
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Do you understand what I'm saying?
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All that now they are being deceived.
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There are a lot of things that now they are begin to apply because they want to look chocolate.
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The black they rejected, now they are receiving it.
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You go for those criminals that are chopping your money, you understand?
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Deceiving you.
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No!
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Your identity is not from the outside.
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Our identity is defined in Christ.
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And so we looked at two things.
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I don't know how many parts we had, I lost count with it.
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Anyway, the media team would actually help us with that.
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What we looked at is it scriptural for a woman to speak in the church?
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You know we lived one scripture in the sun that women are not permitted to speak.
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You know if you have been in this church we have taught you that you study the Bible contextually
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not by words.
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Are we together?
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That the Bible is not a place, every word.
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Listen to me.
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Every word in the Bible has its meaning in the context.
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You understand?
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There is no blanket meaning for words.
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If you see wall here it does not mean wall in another place.
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If you see flesh here, now I just quoted a scripture now, you understand?
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It said not according to flesh.
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You understand?
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Another place will say now that you are not in the flesh if the Spirit of God dwells in
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you.
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What is the difference between flesh here and the flesh in Romans chapter 8?
Romans 8 chapter mention
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So there is no blanket meaning of words.
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And then we studied that.
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Then we went to the next step and asked a question again and we answered it.
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That is, is a woman permitted to lead a church or to pastor a church?
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Because we also pick a particular verse and now made it a doctrine because we think the
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calling of God is a gender based calling.
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That is what lack of proper interpretation brings.
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How on earth will you manifest the kingdom when you are walking in error?
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Not possible.
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Today we will begin a journey again.
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Hallelujah.
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And we want to answer this question and it will be some journey.
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And I want you to be patient with me.
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And that is, what is God's original plan for creating a woman?
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What is God's original plan for creating a woman?
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Let's begin from where my sister helped me to reach.
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And I think that's a good place to start.
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And I am aware that some of us are coming today for the first time and some of you are
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just new into the church.
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So I want to just do some little things to, because the love of God is inside me.
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Hallelujah.
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And that's why I want to carry you along.
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Amen.
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So that when you begin to see us doing some deep things, you understand, you will not
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be lost.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen.
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Matthew chapter 22.
Matthew 22 chapter mention
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Matthew 22.
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You know, the Bible is wonderful.
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And I want to read that again because where she read, you know, to get the Bible, I mean
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the message of the Bible, you have to read and read and read.
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You understand?
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There is no overdose of reading.
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Amen.
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Can you go to 23?
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That's Matthew 22, 23.
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The same day the Sadducees who say, I want you to underline that if your Bible was not
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borrowed, who say there is no resurrection.
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So I want you to underline the identity of the word, the Sadducees.
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Who say there is no resurrection?
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Came to him and asked him.
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Now if you read, I mean some verses before that verses, you will see that the the Pharisees
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came to Jesus with another question and they were dismantled.
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That same day the Sadducees came and said, okay, let's come to him again.
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You know, all of them, the difference between Pharisees is that they believe there is resurrection
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and this one do not believe.
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Even though they have their own confusion also.
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Verse 24, saying, teacher, Moses said that even man dies having no children, his brother
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shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now they are aware with all seven brothers, the first died after he had married and having
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no offspring left his wife to his brother.
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Verse 26, likewise the second also and the third and even the seventh.
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Last of all, the woman died also.
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Verse 28, therefore in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be?
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For they all had her.
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I want you to see that question on 28.
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He says what?
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He said in the resurrection.
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He didn't believe there is resurrection.
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Why are you asking that in the resurrection again?
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In the resurrection, whose wives of the seven will she be?
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For they all had her.
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Look at Jesus answered.
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Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken.
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You are what?
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Mistaken.
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Please don't be looking at me.
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When I'm reading Bible, read your Bible.
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That's why I will stop these people from, okay, media team, don't put this one.
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I want you to read your Bible.
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This is a training ground.
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We are not asking you to read from here.
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Read from your Bible.
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If you are boring the Bible for the first time, go and buy your own.
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Are we together?
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Amen.
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I want you to learn to read the Bible.
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I'm rereading it.
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I would have just moved to the verses, but I'm still reading what my sister have read
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because I want you to learn how to read.
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It's not true that this generation have a low...
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No, I don't believe you are the one.
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That's why I'm trying to go by this way.
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I believe you have a long...
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If there's anything like that.
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Long attention span, amen.
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Okay, please accept if you want me to call you.
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Amen.
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I love you so much.
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So Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken.
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Not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
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I want you to know that word, mistaken, in verse 29.
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It is the word in Greek, plana o, is P-L-A-N-A-O.
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And if you're not writing, actually you are not doing yourself good if you have been in
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this church for a long time.
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It is plana o, is o plana o.
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Just bear with my pronunciation of Greek.
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Understand?
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It's P-L-A-N-A-O.
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It means to lead astray.
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It means to lead astray, or to be deceived, to be deceived, or to be led into error.
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To be deceived, to be led into error, or to be led astray.
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That means there is someone responsible for the deception.
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Do you understand what I'm saying?
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So how were the Sadducees led astray or mistaken?
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Because Jesus said, you are mistaken.
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Understand?
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Or King James says, you are.
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Are we together?
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Hallelujah.
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How were they?
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Jesus said in that verse 29, he said, because they did not know the what?
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The scriptures.
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They did not know the scriptures.
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Know the power of God.
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Of course, it's expected that if you don't know the scriptures, how can you know the
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power of God?
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Paul says in Romans 1, 16, that I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
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Right?
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For it is what?
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The power of God unto what? salvation to those who do what?
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Who believe first to the Jews and also to what?
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To the Gentiles.
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Where do you find the gospel?
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In the scriptures.
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You search the scriptures?
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For in them you think you have eternal life.
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But they are they that testify of me.
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You search the scriptures.
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So you find Jesus in where?
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The scriptures.
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John chapter 5, verse 39.
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That's where you find Jesus.
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That's where you find the gospel.
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The scriptures points to Jesus.
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That's why he said, not knowing the scriptures, know the power of God.
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If you don't know the scriptures, how can you have contact with the power of God?
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Never.
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Hallelujah.
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So the Sadducees were led astray.
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That means Jesus was saying that the Sadducees were deceived into believing that there is
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no resurrection.
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So what they were saying in verse 23, because they did not know the scriptures, look at
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it.
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He said, the same day the Sadducees who say?
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That means what they are saying was a product of deception.
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That means what they were saying, what they came to conclusion that there is no resurrection,
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it means was a product of what?
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Deception.
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And why were they deceived?
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They do not know the what?
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The scriptures.
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So we can quickly learn, and you have learned it already, that ignorance of the scriptures
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can make a people or a person or even a believer a candidate of deception.
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Ignorance of the scriptures can make a believer or a person or a people candidate of what?
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Deception.
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Let me point to you a word from the epistles that says something very close to that.
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Are we together?
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Ephesians chapter 4.
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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Ephesians chapter 4.
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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You remember I told you I love you, so those of us, just follow me.
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That's how we come to the understanding of scriptures.
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I'm trying to lay foundation on the very important where there is, that's the problem.
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In many of the Christian cycle, you know some women are banned and not permitted, you understand,
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to be ministers of God.
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And I'm showing you the reason why they have come to that.
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Because they see the call of God within the lenses of gender instead of the calling of
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God within the circumference or within Christ's identity.
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Are we together?
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Hallelujah.
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Are you there?
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Look at verse 11.
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Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11.
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Oh, thank you, media team.
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Now everybody have to look at his Bible now.
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Amen.
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Verse 11.
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And he himself gave some to be apostles.
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Now we have already done a study in this, that what some is not talking about quantity
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is the word in Greek ho, H-O, ho.
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It actually not referring to quantity at all.
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Are we together?
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So he's talking about that in the church, God set these offices.
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And he said, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, teachers, verse 12, what for?
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He said, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for edifying
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of the what?
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The body of Christ.
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Look at verse 13.
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That's the end game.
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Till we all come to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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Now the unity of faith here is talking about the doctrine of Christ, the knowledge of Christ.
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It's not talking about that every church have to come together, you understand, in one place.
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No, no, no, no.
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That's not what he's talking about.
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He's talking about in the knowledge of Christ.
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Till we all, what will bring such a unity of the understanding of Christ is teaching,
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equipping.
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Are we together?
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In our said, the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the status
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of, to the measure of the status of the fullness of Christ.
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Look at verse 14, that we should no longer.
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That's the essence of the knowledge of Christ.
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We should no longer be what?
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Children, tossed to and fro and carry about with every wind of doctrine.
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By what?
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By the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of what?
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Deceitful plot.
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Again, he's trying to say that when you have knowledge of Christ, you will not be like
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a pendulum.
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You will not be like a child.
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You will not be at the mercy of men, cunning crafty men.
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Those who are for your pockets, those who are for your bodies, those who are there for
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their sake.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Are we together?
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That is the thing.
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So what that means that you will not be led astray to believe something that is not of
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God.
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You will not be led astray like the Sadducees to believe that there is no resurrection.
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They were led astray because they did not know the scriptures nor the power of God.
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Hallelujah.
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Now go back to that Matthew again.
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Go back to that Matthew 22.
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Look at verse 30.
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Want you to look at verse 30.
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For in the resurrection, Jesus continued to actually explain.
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Jesus continued.
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He said, for in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like
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angels of God in heaven.
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Where did you think Jesus got this explanation?
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Where did you think Jesus got this explanation he's giving to them?
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Look at verse 33.
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Just verse 31.
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I think that's, let's start from there.
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But start one.
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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, he said, have you not what?
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Oh, talk to me.
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Have you not what?
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Read what was spoken to you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
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the God of Jacob.
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God is not the living God of the dead, but the what?
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God of the living.
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Where did Jesus got the information that in the resurrection, there is no marrying and
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there's no giving of marriage?
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He point them to the scripture because he say you were in error.
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You were let astray because you did not know the scripture.
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He now said, have you not read?
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Have you not read?
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Are we together?
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In Hebrews 10, the Bible says, no, talking about Jesus, I come in the volume of the books
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that is written concerning me.
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Are we together?
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Jesus in teaching, he did not just was moving like some of us.
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If Jesus was, did not walk without the scripture, how can you convince me that you are his follower
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and you are walking all around without the Bible?
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Because whom the entire scripture is about, but to explain himself, he always point to
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scriptures.
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He never said anything on his own.
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He always points them is to explain.
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He will told them.
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Remember I called that verse before.
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Are we together?
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John 5 39, he say, you search the scriptures and in them you think you have eternal life.
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He said, but there are day that did what?
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That testify of me.
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Are we together?
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He said, have you not read?
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Have you not read?
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Look at that word.
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Have you not read?
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Read where?
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The scriptures.
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What is he saying?
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Is he saying they have never seen the scriptures?
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Not at all.
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Not at all.
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That word read there is not just casual browsing.
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And just checking into document as a duty, as a routine.
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You just like some of us, we are forcing, as if we are forcing you, you are reading
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the Bible in one year.
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You just say, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and I'll be God, and
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be God.
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Okay.
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No, it's James Begat.
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Okay.
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You understand?
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You are doing as if you are sleeping, and after you finish, today I think Pasekosi will
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see the mactique.
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No, it's not just casual reading that you're just reading as a duty, as a routine.
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No, that's not what he's saying.
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And in our cell groups, we have done the first part of the book, and the major thing is what
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is that word read?
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Now I want to come to some of us who have been there.
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I will cut some for us.
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What is that word?
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I told you, even in this church, you're supposed to know some Greek word because we use them
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always by now.
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Are we together?
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What is that word read in Greek?
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Let me see somebody and ask the person.
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What I tell is we should know because it's common.
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We just finished it last time.
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What is that word in Greek?
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Anaginosko.
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Yes.
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Don't worry about the pronunciation.
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At least you have said it.
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You understand what I'm saying?
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Anaginosko.
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So he's not talking about casual reading.
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Anaginosko is not just talking about casual reading.
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No, it's from the two words, ana and ginosko.
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Ana means properly.
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Ana means that is A-N, A-N-A, that's ana in the sign.
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A-N-A.
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He's talking about properly, through, every, complete.
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That's what it means.
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Properly or each or through or every or complete.
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That's what ana means.
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So when you bring ginosko, G-I-N-O-S-K-O, G-I-N-O-S-K-O, ginosko, which means to know,
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to know or to understand.
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Meaning, now when you combine them, it means to know through.
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Are we together?
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Or to know complete or to know every.
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Are we together?
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Oh, are you with me?
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That means any subject you will pick in scriptures, prayer, whatever, before you will say anything,
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what should you do?
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Oh, talk to me, what should you do?
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You read through completely.
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So no passage of scripture should be interpreted outside the context of the Bible.
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Even if you are reading in Genesis, and that is what we did for some of us that are just
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coming newly, that's what we did to answer the question, is it scriptural for a woman
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to speak in church or is it forbidden?
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Is it also scriptural for a woman to lead a church or forbidden?
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We read through from Genesis all on through the epistles to answer that question.
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If you stay in one place, you will be in error.
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That is not read.
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That is not ana ginosko.
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That's why Jesus will always ask them this question.
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Both the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he will ask them, have you not read Matthew 19, 4?
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When they ask him concerning divorce, he asks them, have you not read in the beginning?
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Did you understand what I'm saying?
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Are we together?
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The scribe asks him a question.
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He asks them, have you not read?
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He's talking about you didn't read through.
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You are reading carelessly.
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You didn't read everything, not complete, not properly.
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And that's what we want you to do.
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So in this study, also to understand the, I mean the ghost plan for creating a woman,
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we will have to read from Genesis up to epistles.
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That's why I say we're going to go a journey.
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This is how doctrine is done.
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You can't be deceived this way.
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We will start from Genesis and start reading and studying up to epistles, connecting all
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the scriptures together to come to an understanding.
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What is God's original plan of making a woman?
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So before we jump on that, let me show you, because when Jesus was asking them, have you
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not read, that is his pattern.
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So we're not just saying that he's asking, no.
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That is what he did.
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Are we together?
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In discussing scriptures, that's what Christ did.
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Look 24.
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Look at look 24.
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Look 24.
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Look at 25.
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We have studied that verse again and again, and we will go back again and again until
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it enters you and subconsciously anything you are discussing, anything you are finding
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and you are reading, you must go through the Bible to see and to come to a full and complete
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understanding.
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That is how we read the Bible.
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Tell your neighbor that's how we read the Bible.
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That is how we read the Bible.
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We do not read the Bible selectively, but we read the Bible through the entire book.
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Amen.
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That is how we read the Bible.
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Let's learn from Jesus quickly.
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Look at verse 25.
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So this man were confused, his disciples, because they crucified him because they were
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expecting that Jesus came to deliver Israel onto them.
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They are thinking of political power while Jesus is talking about the kingdom power.
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Are we together?
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And then they were confused when Jesus was crucified.
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Look at verse 25.
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Then he said to them, all foolish ones and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophet
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have what?
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Have spoken, but not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter his glory.
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Now look at what he did.
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Verse 27, I'm beginning at Moses and all the prophet, he did what?
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He expounded to them in how many scripture?
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Oh, talk to me.
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In how many scripture?
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All the scriptures, the things concerning himself.
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Jesus would have just stopped in one verse and said, this is what Isaiah said of me in
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the son, unto you a child, a son is given, a child is born and da da da da da da.
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Or he just quote one scripture in Isaiah 53, by my strife, you are healed and so on and
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just stop there.
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No.
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He said beginning from what?
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From Moses.
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That is all the books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and the prophet.
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Look at 44.
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Look at 44.
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Then he said to them, these are the words which I have spoken to you while I was still
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with you, that all things must be what?
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Fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, the prophet and what?
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The Psalms concerning me.
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Now media team put me that picture I gave to you please, you understand?
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Now this is what Jesus did.
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What we call, because what we call our Old Testament today is the Jewish Tanakh because
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in the days of Jesus, that's what he had.
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Are we together?
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And what we have as a Jewish Tanakh is exactly our Old Testament today.
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It's just some differences in the way the books were arranged.
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So I just show you this, we have done that before.
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I just show you this to just show you how the scriptures were organized differently
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in the Jewish Tanakh and that of our own today.
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But it's the same.
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It's the same.
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For example, what we call the minor prophets is just one book.
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What we call the minor prophets, all these books, now Hosea, Joel, to Malachi, is one
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book, is one.
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First and second king is one book.
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First and second chronicle is one book.
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So if you look at it, while we have 39, they just have about 24.
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So what we call the Psalms is not just only the book of Psalms.
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When you hear Psalms here, note that in your mind from today.
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When you hear Psalms, he said, so that you will not be thinking, ah, so where did the
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other ones go?
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Since it's all say the prophet and Psalms.
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No, it doesn't mean just only Psalms.
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Are we together?
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They call it the writings.
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And you can see all these books are called the writings or the Psalms.
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Amen.
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So I want you to have that at the back of your mind.
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When you read that, don't think that the other part of the books, we don't have them.
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No.
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Amen.
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This is what Jesus did to explain to his disciples, he did what?
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He started from Moses and quote that scripture and quote this one and say, this is what this
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is talking about me.
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He moved to this one.
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This is what you're talking about me.
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He moved to this one.
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This is what he's talking about me.
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Da da da da up to the end of it.
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And then told them, did you see?
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And let me tell you, this is how he taught.
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It's not just after he resurrected.
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Look at what he told them.
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He said, these are the words which I have done what?
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That means he has spoken to them before about these things he's saying now.
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Are we together?
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So Jesus taught Genesis to Malachi to bring an understanding.
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And that's what we will do in this study.
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That's what we will do.
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And I want to just note to you some things, certain things.
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Now since that is scriptures, what do we call the gospels and then the epistles?
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Because in the days of Jesus, when they say scriptures, even the apostles, when they say
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scriptures, they just mean Genesis to Malachi.
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We see here there is no, there is no Ephesians here.
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Are we together?
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There is no book of John here.
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So when the Bible says in all the scriptures and he mentioned that that's what he means.
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So how did we arrive?
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That's just what I will just clarify and then we'll pray.
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You understand?
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Amen.
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So let me clarify the gospels.
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Now the gospels, first and foremost, I want you to note something that already scriptures
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have told us that all scriptures are inspired of the Holy Spirit.
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Second computer, chapter one, verse 20 and 21.
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Second computer, chapter one, verse 20 and 21.
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That means the Old Testament are authored or are inspired by the Spirit.
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Now when Jesus arrived, we saw that Jesus, all his teaching taught from where?
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Oh, are you with me?
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Taught from where?
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He taught from the scripture, Genesis to Malachi.
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That means all his life and teaching recorded in the gospels were a teaching or product
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of the already the, what we call the Old Testament text.
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Look at how Luke put it.
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Act chapter one, act chapter one, verse one, act chapter one, verse one.
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The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to both to do and to
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do what?
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And to teach unto the day in which he was taken up after he through the Holy Spirit
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had given commandment to the apostles whom he had chosen.
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So Jesus taught, remember what account is he talking about?
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Former account is talking about Luke because he's the same writer.
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Go to Luke, Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one.
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So act chapter one is referring to Luke chapter one.
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As many have taken in hand to set in order the narrative of those things which have been
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fulfilled among us.
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Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitness and ministers of the world delivered
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them to us.
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It seems good to me also having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
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first to write to you an orderly account, most excellent who?
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To your fellows.
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That you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.
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That means what Luke wrote here, he obtained it from eyewitness.
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So what did he do, he documented the teaching of Jesus, again, where did Jesus taught from?
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The scriptures.
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Because Jesus, all the teachings were teachings from scriptures.
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That means the entire gospel of the records of Jesus teachings and life, they are also
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what?
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Scriptures.
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Because these are scriptures.
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Now I want you to note something.
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That means, listen, Jesus is behind the words that the prophet wrote.
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Did you understand what I'm saying?
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Jesus is the one that inspires the writings of the prophets.
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Jesus is the one that also taught the teachings of the gospels.
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Are we together?
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Now Jesus is also the one behind the writings of the apostles.
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Let me show you something.
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John chapter 16.
John 16 chapter mention
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John chapter 16.
John 16 chapter mention
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John chapter 16.
John 16 chapter mention
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Look at verse 12.
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I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear.
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Now stop.
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That means after Jesus used the scriptures, the text of the Old Testament, what we call
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the Old Testament, we are coming to that because we have been trying to say Old Testament is
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not a book.
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You understand?
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It's not a book.
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Actually that division is not inspired.
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That is not to discredit the effort of the men of God who did that, that is the publishers.
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Are we together?
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What is not inspired?
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Are we together?
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Because Old Testament, New Testament is not a book.
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It's not books.
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So it's wrong to divide the Bible into what we call Old Testament and New Testament.
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Because Jesus taught from where?
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How can you call what Jesus used to teach Old Testament?
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And if you read through the gospel, you see all quotations of what you call the Old Testament.
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That's a contradiction.
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When you go to the epistles, it's also all quotation because that was their textbook.
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Jesus never called that portion Genesis to Malachi Old Testament because that was what
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they were using to preach.
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The apostles never call it because that was what they were using to teach.
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Are we together?
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We shall come to that to explain that more.
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But look at what I'm saying here.
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That means Jesus taught as we saw in Luke 24, beginning at Moses.
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He told them these are the things, verse 44, which I have taught you or have told you,
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which means that he has told them a lot of things which have been recorded.
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However, he now said at the end of his life before his death.
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He said, I have many things to do.
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What?
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Oh, talk to me.
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I have what?
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Many things to talk to you.
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That means all that we have, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, are not all that Jesus had wanted
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to say.
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Did you understand what I'm saying?
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He had so much to say more, but why did he not say them?
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Because they could not bear it.
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But look at verse 13.
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He said, however, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into what?
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Into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority.
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For whatsoever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you all things to come.
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Now these all things to come, listen to me carefully.
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When the spirit of truth is come, that means that which Jesus have not said because of
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the limitations of the disciples.
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He continued with it when the spirit came.
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Did you hear what I'm saying to say?
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That means when the spirit came, the apostolic teachings were a continuation of Jesus teachings.
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So Jesus was the man behind the Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, meaning he
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inspired Genesis to revelation.
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In the gospel, he taught it, but there remain as others that he has not taught.
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He said when the spirit come, he will continue.
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Now when he said things to come, he will not be referring to something now in the future
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because to the disciples before he died is something to come.
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So his death, burial, resurrection and ascension are things to come to the disciples.
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He said there are things I have not said, but when he comes, he will tell you.
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Now when we read all the scriptures and the Bible says Christ in you, where did you see
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that in the gospel?
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Tell me one verse that say that.
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Are we together?
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That is the epistles, what Jesus was to explain to them, but you couldn't bear it.
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Are we together?
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So you could see that the Old, what we call the Old, is actually both there, the New and
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the Old is still there.
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Genesis to Malachi, the gospels and the epistles were all writings of Jesus.
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Did you hear what I'm saying?
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They are all writings of Jesus.
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He uses the prophets in the path, in the gospel, he taught by himself when he was on earth,
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after he resurrected, he taught in the spirit through the apostles.
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Are we together?
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So that's why today when we say scriptures, it all combines the whole Bible.
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Did you understand what I'm trying to say?
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Did you understand what I'm trying to say?
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So that is why when we say scriptures, we mean the entire text of the Bible now, Genesis
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to Revelation, because it is Christ in the Holy Spirit through the apostles that he wrote
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those texts.
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Are we together?
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When we come next, I will further show you those things.
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When you hear the apostles talks about the mystery, they are actually talking about the
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writings of the prophets that is actually concealed, but now explaining Christ, you
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understand?
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And through them, we have what we call the New Testament today.
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They are all writings of Jesus.
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So we will go, don't ever said that the writings of the apostles, they are not the writings
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of Jesus.
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You are ignorant.
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Don't say that.
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No, no, no.
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I am following Jesus.
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I'm not following the apostle.
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Okay.
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When Jesus came, where did he read from?
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He read from what men wrote.
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Did you understand what I'm saying?
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Because even the one you are saying that I believe in the Old Testament, they are men
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that wrote it.
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Who inspired them?
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The same person who taught in the gospel and the same person who through the apostles
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also wrote.
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Did you understand what I'm trying to say?
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That is how you will see the scriptures.
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And that's why we will go through the scriptures to come to the answer of everything, every
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subject in the Christendom.
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I believe what God is doing in your life.
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We believe what God is doing in your life.
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And we know that God is working things in your life.
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Don't look down on yourself because God is in you.
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You must see yourself as he sees you.
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Oh my God, he is the one who made you, not just made you, nor that he lives in you.
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There is no greater blessing than to have him united with you.
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That's the greatest of blessings.
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And I want you to see that, that you are holy, that you are called to say the praises of
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him who has called you from darkness into his own marvelous light, to tell of his virtues.
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That's what that praises means.
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To say of his goodness.
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That is what it is.
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And to preach of his word with confidence, knowing he is the man behind Genesis to Revelation.
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He is the one behind the teachings we have in the apostle and he's the one who taught
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the gospels.
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Let's appreciate him and say thank you Jesus.
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What a glory to have revelation of your words.
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We appreciate you being here today.
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We hope you carried this word with you throughout your week.
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