Jan. 21, 2025
Biblical Criticism, Evolution, and Humanism: antichrist in a New Form - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 3 - From Islam to Azusa) – Episode 34
Send us a text Embark on a historical journey that will change your perception of the forces shaping Christian civilization. Learn how strategic victories in Europe set the stage for monumental transformations like the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. Fast forward many decades, where we draw connections between biblical events and historical milestones such as Thomas Jefferson's fight against the Barbary pirates. Discover how these actions led to the establishment of the modern US ...
Embark on a historical journey that will change your perception of the forces shaping Christian civilization. Learn how strategic victories in Europe set the stage for monumental transformations like the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation. Fast forward many decades, where we draw connections between biblical events and historical milestones such as Thomas Jefferson's fight against the Barbary pirates. Discover how these actions led to the establishment of the modern US Navy and Marine Corps. We promise you'll never look at history the same way again.
Explore the complexities surrounding the Bible's authorship and the challenges to its authenticity. We examine the impact of German academics who questioned Moses' authorship of the first five books, and how figures like Darwin added fuel to the debate by challenging religious foundations. These intellectual shifts not only influenced theological education but also sparked a broader societal movement towards scientific explanations. Experience the struggles faced by those defending the Bible amid modern skepticism, drawing compelling parallels to contemporary issues like climate change.
Uncover the intricate connections between spiritual movements and political events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the rise of an international prayer movement in America to the fragmentation of Pentecostal movements and the spiritual awakening symbolized by the Azusa Street Revival, history unfolds with surprising twists. We also reflect on the profound impact of McKinley's assassination on American politics and the creation of the Federal Reserve System. As Europe faces declining church presence and rising Islamic immigration, this episode provides an eye-opening analysis of the lasting influences on both spiritual and political realms.
00:00 - Christian Civilization's Struggle Against Antichrist
13:45 - Debate Over the Bible's Authorship
25:57 - Revival and Righteousness in America
36:23 - Impact of Assassination on American History
41:03 - Wilson's Presidency and the Federal Reserve
56:26 - Pentecostal Movement's Strategic Challenges
01:05:10 - European Churches
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Glory to God, hallelujah, glory to Jesus.
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Last few times we've been how the Antichrist has been pursuing and attempting at various ways, up through the southern part of Europe, up on the western part of Europe and then, last time, through the Eastern part of Europe, of getting into the central part of Europe and then pushing Christianity completely out of Europe so that Antichrist could take over and keep.
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These things were happening, you know, seven, eight hundred years ago or even longer, and we are trying to keep what happened from happening.
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What happened was that Christian civilization established a strong base of operation in Western Europe, actually in all of Europe, and because of that, because of that, all kinds of things happened that would not have otherwise happened.
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The things that we study in school and take for granted is this progress of things from the Greek civilization through the Roman civilization, through the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, through the Protestant Reformation and the rise of England as a power and all.
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We kind of just take that as a de facto.
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You know it was bound to have happened and that's history and you can't change it.
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Well, you know it was bound to have happened and that's history and you can't change it.
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Well, you can change it.
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If it hadn't been for a handful of battles that we've been studying, it could have very easily been very different.
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That's not one of those, you know, alternative history kind of thing, although it is kind of that way, but I mean when you can pinpoint it down to a handful of battles and how they change.
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I mean, look at Waterloo.
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If Waterloo is any way different, and why on earth the French fought like they fought at Waterloo when they hadn't fought like that in any battle up until that point, is a great mystery.
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But they did, and if that hadn't, if they hadn't hadn't gone that way, european history would be different.
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But it's not as significant as what we're talking about, because the battles that we've been looking at have been battles that kept the anti-Christian forces away from the center of Christianity, and that's no matter how you cut it.
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That's a big thing.
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Okay, so we're going to fast forward a little bit, because if I keep on doing the same thing, you're going to hear the same.
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Those weren't the last battles.
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I mean there were attacks on the Eastern Front by Muslim forces for several centuries before they finally broke through.
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There were other things that went on.
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There were the Crusades.
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We could talk about that for hours.
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All of those things happened, but basically we get the same result that something, something dramatic happened.
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God stepped in, raised up a standard, kept, kept the, the armies at bay and allowed the Christian way of life to go forward Amen.
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So what I want to look at now is jump forward to the 20th century and I want to look at what happened as a result of not necessarily taking care of business when you had to take care of business.
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Okay, for example, joshua did not take care of business and kill all of the Amorites, so consequently, they rose up in the form of Philistines and David had to deal with it.
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But since David made a deal with them to save his own skin, he couldn't deal with all the Amorites and Philistines, and so they just grew up to be a thorn in the side of Israel for the next 3,000 years.
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Go do the math If you don't take care of business the way you're supposed to take care of business and you leave a sore spot behind.
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I'll give you another case of point.
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In the early 1800s, thomas jefferson.
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Like him or don't like him, it doesn't really matter, but he's one of the biggest, one of the most educated people in America.
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He has his own private library that he would at one day bequeath to the University of Virginia that he helped to found and started a university's library from his own private library.
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He was probably the only person in the northern hemisphere that had ever read the Koran and he knew from reading it that they were after us, that we did not take care of that.
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Western civilization did not take care of business the way they should have taken care of business in the Crusades and in the years following.
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Just because of fragmentation and things like that, they didn't take care of business and they left them on the field.
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Well, you can't do that, because they're going to come after you.
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They're going to keep coming after you.
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They got memories like you can't even believe.
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You know things that we've forgotten a long time ago.
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They remember like it happened yesterday, and so they were attacking our merchant vessels and imprisoning our sailors and selling people into slavery or holding them into ransom, and this was business as usual.
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They did this against all of the states of Europe France, spain, england and they just paid the tribute.
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Okay, you got this ship's captain and 47 crew.
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Okay, we'll pay you X amount of bags of gold.
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And they were doing this time after time after time after time and the Europeans figured it was cheaper to pay the ransom than it was to go to war.
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And Jefferson said we're not doing that.
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And so this was really the beginning of the modern US Navy and was definitely the beginning of the Marine Corps, because the Marine Corps was designed to be land-based operation that got there by sea.
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Most of the time people just march.
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That's how infantry gets to someplace, they march.
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But the Marines were designed to be an attack force that got left off the ship, got to shore real quick and established US presence off of a ship.
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All those things came to be when we decided we were going to declare war on what's known as the Barbary pirates.
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But they weren't pirates, they were the military arm of Islam terrorizing the Mediterranean Sea.
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And Jefferson said not on my watch For two centuries, not on my watch for two centuries, they didn't bother us, took care of business, took care of business, and we weren't anybody.
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I mean, we couldn't whip anybody, we didn't.
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You know, we certainly couldn't whip britain or france or anybody like that.
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And we didn't go into, and we didn't go into north africa with a very big force.
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But they were.
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They were serious people and they took care of business.
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Praise god, anyway.
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Western civilization did not take care of business the way they should have because of the fragmentation of the church.
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The church was too fragmented to have a unified position on anything.
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You know, you had one country that was predominantly Catholic, maybe in France, and another country that was Catholic one time and Protestant another time, over in Britain, and one time they were working together with the French, another time they'd be fighting with them, and then there were the German Lutherans and then there was all this people you know, and there was all this going on and it kept the, the States, the, the the States of Europe, from being unified against a real threat.
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They were more concerned with fighting among themselves than they were concerned fighting against the enemy that was constantly at the gate.
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I mean, you can't imagine, in terms of the scale of things, how small the Mediterranean Ocean is.
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You know, you think of it as being this big thing and it goes from this end of Europe to the other end of Europe, but in turn, if you put the Mediterranean Ocean in the Pacific, it's not even a pond, it doesn't even count.
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I mean, it's just so small.
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I mean, it's like this and it's like this Same way in Atlantic.
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If you put it in the Atlantic, it wouldn't matter.
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Matter of fact, when you think about it, it's just an arm of the Atlantic, you know, pinched off by the Strait of Gibraltar, that's all it is.
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And Islam sat on the other side of the Mediterranean, on at least two-thirds of its border, and it was just waiting for the opportunity to get into Europe, and Europe paid it no mind.
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And, in fact, when they started to raise their head again and attack their shipping lanes and haul off their people as hostages, they paid them off rather than deal with them.
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It took the United States to deal with them, and Europe still didn't deal with them.
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They still paid them.
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They didn't learn the lesson.
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So I'm saying all this to say because the church was too busy fighting among itself and with itself to do anything serious.
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They let some things slide on a lot of different fronts, and that's where we're going to open up the discussion today.
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We're actually going to go back before the beginning of the 20th century, about 50 years or so, to a movement that was happening in Germany, and that was what's called a critical analysis or a critical look.
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What it basically amounted to was that they were going to apply a scientific analysis to how the Bible was constructed so that they could come up with an argument for why the Bible could not be the Word of God.
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The attack, at this point, on what?
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Well, I'm not talking about any denomination, I'm not talking about any religion.
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I'm talking about the attack on the heart of what is Christianity, as pushed forward by Luther and seconded by Wesley that it is scripture, and only scripture, that establishes what is the ground of our faith, what we believe in, what we're going to believe in, how we're going to conduct business.
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What came out of the Reformation?
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If anything came out of the Reformation, it was this that we're going to rely on the Bible and that's basically it.
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Okay, if that's how you're going to play it, then the one thing that we can do is attack the Bible as the Word of God, because if it's not the Word of God, then you don't have a leg to stand on.
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If it's just the accumulated writings of a bunch of old quacks in the desert, then why are we paying any attention?
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If it is the word of God, then it gives Christianity a stand to take that others do not have.
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It's that kind of decisive battle.
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So they started.
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These academics in universities in Germany began to do this analysis.
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They would analyze how the things were written, what they said.
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So the first thing that happened was that Moses couldn't have written the first five books of the Bible.
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Different styles, different, this different, that you know all of this, and I mean they wrote volumes.
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I mean we're not talking about just a couple of pamphlets that went out.
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There is no such thing as Moses, like you know, virginia.
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There is no such thing as Moses, like you know, virginia.
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There's no such thing as Santa Claus.
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You know, it was just, it wasn't that.
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I mean they filled up libraries with it, taught courses on it, but the most important thing was they taught a new generation of preachers.
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First of all, it started in a couple little isolated places here and there, but it started to build, it started to build, it started to build.
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It started in a couple little isolated places here and there.
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It started to build and started to build and started to build and started to build.
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More people pitched in, more people had opinions.
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They went from the first five books of the Bible, you know, through the books of Samuel, through the Kings, through the.
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You know all the prophets and all of you know they got to Daniel and they finally said Daniel couldn't possibly have been written by Daniel.
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It's too precise in its prophecies.
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It had to be written after the fact.
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See these guys, not only were they not filled with the Holy Ghost, they weren't even saved, they were academic people.
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I say this all the time and people get really angry.
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I've had people just up and quit me on this.
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I said you know the people that you know.
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You think John the Baptist wrote the King James Version?
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I said but the people that translated the King James Version weren't even saved.
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They were just Greek, latin and Hebrew scholars.
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They had access to a few manuscripts that they could compare notes on, but they weren't.
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You know.
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They weren't people who tried to understand God, they just tried to understand the consistency of the scriptures.
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And then, if it came to a question about theology, they kept leaning back on the history of Catholicism because it wasn't all that far away.
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Amen.
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So 1850, 1870, these people are busy at it.
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At the same time that that's going on, you've got people like Darwin.
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You've got other people that are attacking other, uh, other pedestals of the of the thing, of that God is the center of what we do.
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If we can attack his word, if we can attack creation, if we can say that you know it's not possible that that God created man, that he evolved over this long period of time, that you know it's not possible that that God created man, that he evolved over this long period of time.
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Well, you know, if you can get people to buy that I mean people buy.
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You know climate change.
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You know like it's it.
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It was just, you know, handed down from.
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You know you can just see Moses or God sticking out his finger to Adam.
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You know, and you know you will believe in to Adam.
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You know and you will believe in climate change.
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Adam going okay, everybody says yay and amen.
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I mean people will believe all kinds of vacuous stuff if you just say it over and over again and you don't give them a choice to hear anything else.
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So as soon as they started putting this stuff out about, you know that God didn't write the Bible.
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As soon as somebody comes along like you or me and says, wait a minute, god did write the Bible, they said well, what's your proof?
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And see, as soon as you quote the Bible, to defend the Bible, which in fact is a good thing to do if God wrote it.
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If somebody else wrote it, that's not a good thing to do.
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But if God did write it, then when he says all scripture is God breathed, then that settles the issue.
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Doesn't say that you know well, excluding the first five books of the Bible, which are questionable because you know Moses may have written this part and this part, but who knows?
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You know, nobody was there.
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Anyway, this is a lot of stuff to write while you're leading 5 million people through the wilderness, and all this kind of stuff.
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When did all this happen anyway?
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Okay, so we'll exclude that.
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But the rest of it is God-breathed.
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It doesn't say that.
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It says all Scripture is God breathed and that's the end of the discussion.
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And there's several places in the Bible that the Bible testifies to itself.
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You know, peter testified that the things that Paul wrote were difficult to understand and some people twisted them.
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You can see that that still happens.
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But the fact of the matter is that Peter was calling him, our dear brother Paul, and testified to the veracity of the things that he was writing.
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So they may be difficult to understand, but that doesn't change the fact that they're still from God.
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Amen.
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Jesus testified over and over and, over and over again to the veracity of scriptures just by quoting them.
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So you know, it's hard to get away from the fact that the Bible consistently defends itself that it is the Word of God.
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But you can't use that argument against people that are trying to attack that point.
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So they'll make you look like an idiot.
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They'll make you look like an old-timey fogey.
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You're just one of those people that believe fairy tales and they'll start talking all that kind of stuff, and pretty soon.
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If you want to keep your job like if you're a weatherman and you want to be on the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace for being a weatherman, and you get up one Monday morning because you're not feeling pretty good, and you go.
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I think all this weather change stuff is a bunch of hooey.
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I think it's just variations in the sun cycles you won't be able to get a job in Miamisburg, ohio.
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You know, just forget it.
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I mean, you're done, you're toast.
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They will ostracize you in a heartbeat.
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It's the same thing.
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The same thing happened in Central Europe.
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You either got on board or you were no longer welcome in universities.
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You were no longer welcome in churches, because as soon as they taught one generation of pastors, then that became the new standard for what the pastors taught their people, and you can see that it wouldn't take very long and this stuff all got all the way over to the seminaries in the United States and all around the world.
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You could argue that the missionaries that went out of Europe and went out of the United States in large part took a gospel that doubted the word of God.
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So they had this method of how they interpreted Bible authorship and questioning the divine inspiration of scriptures, which is the cornerstone of what we believe.
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If we don't believe that, we're toast If we cannot believe Now.
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Now, do translators make errors?
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Yes, has.
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Do copyists make errors?
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Yes, are the?
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Are the?
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Are the additions and the and the text that we have 100 percent without error?
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I'm not sure.
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I can't tell you that, but I can tell you this that when Jeremiah received the book of Jeremiah from the Lord, the king threw it in the fire and Jeremiah went back and wrote word for word what the Lord had given him, because the Lord gave it to him again and the book of Jeremiah that we have today, if it's not a hundred percent, god, it's pretty close.
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It's close enough for me to believe in it that God gave it to him twice.
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I believe that when Isaiah received the book of Isaiah from the Lord amen.
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I believe it when it says that in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and lifted up in his train, filled the temple.
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I believe he had that vision and I believe he wrote it down.
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And I believe he wrote it down because the Lord told him to write it down and if he started to write something that was not quite what the Lord wanted him to write, the Lord would have changed it and told him what to write.
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I believe that I believe all scripture is God-breathed.
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I believe that holy men of old spake as they were moved on by the Holy Ghost.
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I believe that I believe that the book of Romans is pure Holy Ghost.
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I believe the book of Ephesians is pure Holy Ghost.
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I definitely believe the book of Hebrews is pure Holy Ghost.
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Nobody could write that.
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I believe the book of John.
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It took John almost 60 years of walking in the Holy Ghost to have enough of God to write that book and there wasn't another person on the planet, probably that has ever lived that could have written the book of Revelation.
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I mean, paul got different kinds of revelation, but John got the kind of revelation that just turns things upside down.
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You know, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void and everybody goes yay and amen, but John said that's not the beginning.
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Do you realize that in John 1.1, there is a new beginning to things?
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In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.
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He was in the beginning with God and all things were made by him and there was nothing made that was not made by him.
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So Genesis tells you what happened, but John tells you who did it and gives him a name Glory to God, hallelujah.
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So this, this movement, happened all throughout the latter part of the 18th century or 19th century, in the 1800s, and it kind of stealthily moved in and took over the key academic centers of most denominations.
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Okay, however, what we're going to look at the way we're going to look at this, what we're going to look at the way we're going to look at this, is we're going to look at what was happening in the world and what was happening in the body.
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At the same time, you can watch a lot of Westerns and you can think that the main reason for building a national railroad system was to move cattle around.
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I mean, if you watch enough episodes of Gunsmoke or Rawhide or whatever you want to watch, you know you'll think that the whole world revolves around cattle and getting them to a railhead.
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You know, so we don't have to ship them, we don't have to drive, we don't have to have to cattle drive all the way through Illinois and up to Chicago, which was, you know that never happened.
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You know they kind of waited until the railroad got out.
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You would think that that was the reason all that happened.
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But God had a plan for the railroad system.
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Everybody say God had a plan.
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God always has a plan for the railroad system.
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Everybody say God had a plan, god always has a plan.
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With the advent of the national railroad system, something happened that nobody foresaw and that was an international prayer movement and they started having prayer conventions.
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They could call a national prayer convention.
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I don't know if you remember this.
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Back in the 80s they would have these national Holy Ghost conventions.
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Remember they had one down in New Orleans one year in, I don't know, it was 85, 86.
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They had them all over the place.
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Well, they were doing this a hundred years before.
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They would have a mountain Los Angeles, san Francisco, you know, dallas, you know, anywhere that's any size that the trains came through and people could just get out, go to their, their little town, go down to the train station, get on a train, go to the next big hub change trains, go to the next big hub change trains and go out to Los Angeles, and they would figure out how to do room and board and all that kind of stuff, and people would just come out there by the thousands and pray there by the thousands and pray.
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This happened for the last third of the 19th century.
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From the end of the Civil War and the time that the Transcontinental Railroad got finished, people started moving all over the country, going to these prayer conventions, and some of them were denominational and some of them weren't, but they had a a common theme, and that common theme was holiness and world evangelism.
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They were, they were adamant about sets, setting themselves apart under God, in their dress, in their habits, and this is all this really came.
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This is all, both of these things, world evangelism and this personal sanctification were all things that came out of Wesley's Methodist movement, which happened a hundred years before that, which happened 100 years before that.
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You cannot estimate the impact that Wesley had on the history of the United States, even though he only came here once, his brother came here once and he had another associate named Whitefield that came here once.
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But because of their ministry, the two great awakenings that happened, one before the American Revolution and another before the Civil War are both attributable to their work.
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I mean I've forgotten the statistics.
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I mean it's said that he rode hundreds of thousands of miles on horseback, preached I don't know how many tens of thousands of sermons.
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Most of his adult life he preached at least three times a day, fasted two days a week.
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Just you know extreme dedications and sanctification under the Lord.
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And this movement into holiness and separation and preparing for world evangelism was a mighty move of God.
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You won't read about it in any history book, you won't read about it in anything like that, you don't see it on television, you don't hear anybody talking about it.
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But it was like a national cleansing after the horrors of the Civil War.
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Over a million people died in four years and that doesn't even count disease and sicknesses.
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Who are you talking about In the United States?
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Wesley, john Wesley, although he was dead and gone by this time, but the movement that he started, the Methodist Church, lived on.
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It's said of him that when he died he left a well-used library, a very well-used preacher's gown and the Methodist Church.
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So, praise God, this was going on.
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But, like I was saying, this was almost like a national call to repentance for what had happened in the Civil War and what led up to the Civil War and all of those kinds of things.
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There needed to be a cleansing, there needed to be a dealing with this by the church itself, because the church itself was in large part responsible.
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I'm not going to get into all that because it's not really the point, but the church in this country responded to that call.
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Church in this country responded to that call and what they didn't know was really what they were praying for.
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They thought they were praying for this and they thought they were praying for this and they thought they were praying for this, but what they were really praying for happened in April of 1906.
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We'll get to that in a minute.
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