Jan. 9, 2025

From Legalism to Liberation: Living with an Unveiled Face (Spirit of Ministry - Part 1, Episode 07)

Send us a text Are you ready to unravel the complexities of faith, law, and liberty? Discover how the ministry of the Holy Ghost serves as a beacon of glory contrasted against the historical missteps of the Israelites, who clung to the letter of the law while missing the divine message it carried. We dissect the symbolism of Moses' veiling, drawing parallels to today's resistance to change despite divine truths, and emphasize the crucial role of faith and grace in truly embracing the eternal ...

Send us a text

Are you ready to unravel the complexities of faith, law, and liberty? Discover how the ministry of the Holy Ghost serves as a beacon of glory contrasted against the historical missteps of the Israelites, who clung to the letter of the law while missing the divine message it carried. We dissect the symbolism of Moses' veiling, drawing parallels to today's resistance to change despite divine truths, and emphasize the crucial role of faith and grace in truly embracing the eternal life offered through Jesus.

In an era rife with confusion and overwhelming opinions, the transformative power of faith shines through. We explore Romans 8:1, understanding the limitations of the law and the freedom offered by Christ, who transcended and fulfilled the law. This conversation highlights the liberation from sin-consciousness, urging believers to focus on the spirit of life in Christ. We'll touch on the critical integration of the written word and God's voice for a complete faith experience, warning against the dangers of legalism and tradition that lead to spiritual stagnation.

As we navigate through history, from Martin Luther's era to today’s tech-dominated world, we reflect on the persistent challenges of faith amidst societal noise. Amidst the chaos, we celebrate the resilience of those who seek the gospel's truth, giving thanks for the enduring strength found in faith. Join us in acknowledging the power of faith throughout history and expressing gratitude for the teachings that encourage unwavering belief and steadfastness in Jesus' name.

00:00 - Ministry, Law, and Belief

11:31 - Law's Power in Human Form

21:53 - The Veil of Legalism and Tradition

37:02 - God of Confusion in Modern Ages

49:23 - Age of Confusion

55:36 - Power of Faith Throughout History

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Praise God.

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Let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 4.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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We've been talking in this chapter in chapter 3, about the spirit of ministry.

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One of the names of the Holy Ghost is the spirit of ministry and the ministry that he has and ministers, the unique ministry, is the ministry of glory, and that's what we've been talking about in this context of chapter 3 and chapter 4.

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We talked last time about the type of ministry.

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It is in verse 4.

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Hallelujah, or in verses 1 through 4.

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Praise God.

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Or in verses 1 through 4, praise God.

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About how Paul talked about not handling the Word of God deceitfully, not hiding behind the veil of the law and not using deceit and manipulation to move people around and get them to do things that seem to be spiritual but are not.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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Here's the point that I want to make early, because it's really the core of what we want to talk about tonight, and that is that the people of Israel made this fundamental error from the very beginning, and that is that they believed more of the letter of the law that was written than in the one who spoke, the law from Sinai.

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I want to say that again, the foundational error that Israel made and their great sin was that they believed the letter written in stone more than they believed the voice who spoke it.

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They rejected the voice but accepted the letter.

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If you read what the Jews say about that great day, they will say that the law was given to them from Sinai as a blessing.

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But in fact the law was given to the people of Israel written in stone as a curse for their disobedience to hearing the voice.

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And yet they believed in the curse with greater fervor than the voice that they rejected because otherwise they would have to confront the sin that they committed, and they never would confront that.

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And listen, I could go on about this for a couple of days and I'm not going to do that, but there are movements all over the planet I'm not picking out anyone, they're all the same that can't listen.

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Listen to me carefully.

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If Jesus came to them this afternoon and said thus saith the Lord, what you're believing is not exactly what I'm believing.

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What you're teaching is not exactly who I am, and what you're teaching these people is really not real.

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There's not a man, jack one of them, that would change their ways because they have too much vested in it.

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They've got books, they've got seminaries, they've got denominations, they've got professional positions, you know, because, hey, as soon as one of them said I heard Jesus say this, the rest of them would go, and even if he spoke to them all collectively, they would all collectively have a committee meeting afterwards and say that really didn't happen.

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Next Tuesday we will have the same meeting that we had planned for every Tuesday, you know, and we're just going to continue on doing the same thing we've been doing for centuries, decades, however long it's been, because the great sin of apostasy is to believe the written word, the letter of the written word, at a higher level than the one who spoke it into existence.

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You separate the written word and make it the exclusive verbal expression of God.

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We're going to talk about this more later, but I want to get that thought into you because that's going to be the core of what we talk about tonight.

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Verse 5 says this but even if our gospel is blinded, paul's been talking about the fact that the law, when Moses came down the mountain and was reflecting the glory of God upon his body, it blinded the children of Israel, so that Moses had to put a veil on his face and not be seen.

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And that was the shame of what Paul talked about in verse 2, that we have renounced the hidden things of shame.

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That was the shame that God was felt by having people having to reject His glory.

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It's a terrible thing when God manifests His glory and people have to run from it, reject it.

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They have to hide the glory bearer away.

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Will you please get what I'm talking about?

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This is Moses.

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Moses had to wear a bag over his head and go hide when he had the glory on him.

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Will you please get that into your head?

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What kind of dealing with God is that when the man of God goes into the presence of God, comes out shining with the glory of the God-like Son and all of a sudden Aaron's right there backing up to him so he doesn't see it, putting a veil on him and tell Moses go hide someplace until this is gone.

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It was basically Aaron's idea.

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It was somebody's idea I don't know whose it was, but I'd have to research that it doesn't matter but it was the body of Israel that rejected the glory Totally.

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Then Paul said this.

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He said even because of that there is no understanding among the Jews of what the Old Testament is, because the revelation of it is hidden from them until they come to Christ, until they're in Christ actually Not just coming to Him, but in Him.

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Now Paul says it's possible that even the gospel is hidden.

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The same way, it's possible that you can be blinded to the gospel even after you've read it.

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You know there are a whole lot of people who have read the Bible and they didn't quite cross the finish line.

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Just reading it doesn't do anything for you.

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You not only have to read it, you have to believe it.

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These things are written that you might believe.

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They're not written that you might know some facts, but these things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Son of God and, by believing, have life in His name.

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Praise God.

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These things are written that you might believe.

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These things are not written so that you can believe that that's the only thing God's ever going to say, but these because Jesus, paul, john said this look, you couldn't even find enough books to write all the things that Jesus said.

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We don't even know, we don't have a clue what Jesus did, but I guarantee you folks that you know people start popping up out of the ground.

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When he just walked by, when he called Lazarus out, he called Lazarus out.

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He called Lazarus out with such authority because he was calling him back from heaven.

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He called him out with such authority that he had to call him by name or else he'd cause a riot.

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David would have come out.

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Holy to God.

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I better quit while I'm ahead.

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The gospel can be blinded.

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I better quit while I'm ahead.

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The gospel can be blinded.

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Paul says it right here Even if our gospel is blinded, it doesn't mean it's not blinded.

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It means it is blinded In spite of it being blinded.

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It's blinded because there is a law in your flesh, amen.

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The law of sin and death is in your flesh and the law of Moses is written in your mind.

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It's the realm of the soul.

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Those two laws are in you.

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Romans 8 tells us that.

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Romans 8 tells us this.

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I'm going to use these two scriptures tonight.

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Romans 8, 1 says Therefore, there is now no condemnation for them which are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, for what the law could not do, in that it was made weak in the flesh.

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So where's the law?

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It's in your flesh and the law was made weak in the flesh Glory to God.

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Weak in the fact that it could not save.

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It had no power, it had no redemption, it had no ability for illumination, because it was a curse and not a blessing.

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Now, was the law perfect?

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Yes, it was perfect.

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Was it right and just?

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Yes, it was.

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Did it have the power to redeem?

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No, it did not.

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Paul said it was powerless.

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In fact, it was so powerless that God rendered it obsolete.

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He rendered it obsolete because it had no power.

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Now, if it had no power when the book of Hebrews was written and Paul said that, did it have power in the day that it was given?

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No, it did not.

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It never had power that it was given?

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No, it did not.

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It never had power.

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Now, let me tell you this is why I can say this and not be afraid of contradiction If it was a blessing, it would have power.

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But since it had no blessing and it was a curse, it had no power.

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It only had the power of death associated with it.

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But that's a no-brainer.

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If it's in your flesh, what's going to happen to your flesh?

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It's going to die.

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So this is not.

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I can't find.

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I never have been able to find the words to express this.

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But here's the essence of the thought.

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What God did with the law was he took the sin that was in your flesh and put it into words, and he put the incapacity of your flesh to obey into a structure of commandments that you couldn't follow because of the sin in your flesh, but it was already there.

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That's why there's a commonality of law and good, bad, evil and good throughout all of creation, because what was in your flesh because of death and because of sin found expression all over the world.

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Hello, because it's in your flesh.

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It got there when Adam sinned.

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When Adam sinned, what God brought out at Sinai was the expression of that sin into words.

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There's just not.

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I don't have the vocabulary to express this Because nobody ever teaches this, but it has to be that way, because the Bible says that the law was in your flesh.

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In fact, the law was in Jesus' flesh, but because Jesus had no sin amen he condemned sin in the flesh.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Because the law was made weak through the flesh.

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God did in sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and condemned sin in the flesh.

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Now see, you can't possibly understand what that means, unless you just take it apart word by word, bounce it off of other scriptures that apply amen, and try to get some revelation on this that Jesus, in the days of his flesh, walked under the law for 30 years.

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In the 30 years that he walked under the law, he walked under the law of the law was in his flesh, but it did not produce death in him because he did not sin.

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He did not have to sin.

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He was not born with sin in the flesh like we are, because we are of the seed of Adam.

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He was born without sin in his flesh as the Son of God, but he had still had the law there.

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Oh, yes, it did, or else there was no purpose for him to be born in the flesh.

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When he was born in the flesh, the law that was in the flesh came upon him, but it had no power and in fact he took that law.

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I wish I could preach this.

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He took that law in his flesh and nailed it to the cross.

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You think, when Paul says that the law was nailed to the cross, you think that somebody's got a book and they put it up on the cross and they nailed it to the cross with Jesus?

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No, that law was in Jesus' flesh when he went there.

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It just had no power to kill him.

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You getting any of this Now?

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If that's the case, when Jesus took that law and nailed it to the cross, amen, he could do that because when he came up out of John's baptism, he came up under a different law.

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He left the power of that law behind and took on a different power, which was the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which enabled him to condemn sin in his own flesh.

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He turned around and said the devil's got nothing on me.

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He condemned the sin of the law in his own flesh because his flesh was perfect.

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Are we getting any of this Now?

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The reason that people are blinded to the law or blinded to the gospel is because they still are sin conscious in their flesh.

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They are still worried about sin in their flesh and they have no victory.

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They're still under the condemnation of the law because they have not come into the freedom from condemnation that is law, because they have not come into the freedom from condemnation that is in Christ Jesus.

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See, when you come into the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, there is therefore now, how much condemnation.

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How much is none?

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That could be minus 20.

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I mean, you know, there's just not any.

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I was talking to this guy the other day.

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He said I've got a lot of condemnation.

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I said you know what?

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He said no.

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What I said there is none.

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He said glory to God.

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I said none.

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Can you say none?

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He said none.

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I said that's how much you want to put it on, put it on, but there is none.

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I said this stuff is really simple.

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If you just read the word, there is none.

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Now, if you want to wear it, wear it, I don't care, not my business, but I'm not going to.

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Not my business, but I'm not going to.

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You start worrying more about sin than being free of condemnation.

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You're always going to be under condemnation, under guilt, under shame, and you're not going to get any illumination from the Word of God, because the Word will be dead to you.

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You will be blinded to it.

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You can read it a hundred times, you're still going to be blinded to it, because all you're going to find in there is sin and death and condemnation.

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You know those people, those people that that you know well, bless God.

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If you just backslide one time, you're going to hell.

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That has no mercy of God in it whatsoever.

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That's just law wrapped up in Jesus talk.

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Really, what did the law say?

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Commit one sin, you're guilty of the whole law.

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You find that anywhere in the gospel that Jesus talked about the gospel that way.

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My Bible says that if how many times Peter went to him and said how many times do I have to forgive my brother?

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Seven times, because the law said what?

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Three times.

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So Peter said well, I'm going to double that and add one.

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That's pretty good.

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Seven times, you know, peter.

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Jesus said no, not seven.

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Seven times 70.

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In other words, just keep on counting, keep on forgiving, keep on restoring, keep on bringing them back.

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A church doesn't do that.

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A church, that one sin, you're out, you're hell bound.

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Boy, boy, get out of my church.

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You know that's just the law with Jesus talk.

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Because they're sin minded, they're always looking for somebody to condemn, somebody, to persecute somebody to to ostracize hallelujah, praise God.

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Somebody to ostracize, hallelujah, praise God.

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They're blinded by the death.

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That is in the letter of the law.

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Now I want you to understand this real carefully.

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I want to take a couple of minutes to make sure you understand this, because I say a lot of things and it's easy to misunderstand what I say.

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Okay, there are people who only know the letter of the New Testament because they have not been taught yet to hear the voice of God, or they don't know the voice of God very well.

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They hear it every once in a while and so they need the letter of the gospel.

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We all need the letter of the gospel, but it has to be a letter that is taught to us by the Spirit, amen.

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So if all you know is the letter of the gospel, that doesn't mean the letter is bringing you to death.

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That just means you haven't heard the voice yet and you haven't learned to incorporate both the letter and the voice into this communion with God.

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Are you hearing me?

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God's never going to tell you not to read your Bible.

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You know, because in that the Bible says is life the teachings of life?

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You know not going to do that, but he is going to encourage you to hear his voice so that the two walk together and complement.

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However, the letter of the gospel can kill if you believe that that's the only thing and the only way God speaks.

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Now you've done exactly what the Jews did.

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You've made the letter of the gospel, a higher authority than the word who preceded it, authority than the word who preceded it and the word who spoke it.

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And the word, who is it?

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If he chose to express himself, from Matthew to Revelation, in a certain way that is suitable for every age, every tribe, every language, every people, every tongue, man, woman, boy, girl, to lead them to the reality of Jesus and the reality of his body?

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If that's, in his wisdom, the words that he spoke for those books, then who are we to debate that?

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For those books, then who are we to debate that?

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But that's not the only thing.

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Jesus speaks.

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I know that because the Bible says so.

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Hello, are you hearing any of this?

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There are entire denominations, folks that would roast me on a spit for saying that there are other words that God speaks other than what's in the Bible.

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They would have me out.

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I mean, they wouldn't even care if they went to jail, they'd crucify me out on the front yard.

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They wouldn't even care if they went to jail, they'd crucify me out on the front yard.

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But listen to this.

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But John said, it's written in your Bible that if all the things that Jesus said and did were written in a book, there would not be enough room on the planet to store all the books.

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That means there's words that have never been recorded, that Jesus spoke in the days of his flesh.

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What do you think?

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Jesus has been silent for 2,000 years.

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He hadn't said anything.

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He's up there with a gag on his mouth.

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He can't even get the sword out of his mouth because somebody's got a gag on him that he can't talk.

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Once we got finished dictating the New Testament, that was it.

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Jesus ain't talking, no more.

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What are you going to do with that sword that comes out of his mouth?

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What are you going to do with that name that's across his sash, the word of God?

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What are you going to do about all that?

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Well, john said this.

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He said when I turned and heard that voice, saw the voice.

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It was like the voice of many waters.

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Well see, we just got seven letters dictated.

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That's not many waters.

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That was just a stream out of those waters.

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Oh, praise God.

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So people can be blinded because they're so sin-conscious, because of the law of sin that is in their flesh, that they can't get past it and all they see is sin.

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Well, all they see is the bad things that people do and they want to bring them under condemnation for that.

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But that's just the law, wrapped up in Jesus' language and listen, folks, I've been through this with you before.

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Wrapped up in Jesus language, and listen, folks, I've been through this with you before.

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We talked about this for weeks that it was one of the great conspiracies that nobody ever talks about, that the Jews infiltrated the church in the second century and turned it into a Jewish expression of Christianity, which became the Catholic Church, expression of Christianity, which became the Catholic Church.

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They knew what they were doing.

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It was a plot that was laid for a thousand years, falls right at the feet of Solomon.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Even before that.

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Praise God, this gospel, because you can be blinded by the attention to sin in your flesh or by restricting how God speaks to only the words that are written in the Bible.

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I have a friend of mine that he finally had to quit.

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He had to finally quit talking to his family because his family was dead set against hearing the voice of God, for whatever reason, whatever situation, that God only speaks through his written word.

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That's the only way he speaks.

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He said I finally had to get away from them.

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They were just bugging me and bothering me to no end.

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I finally had to leave them.

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But the letter of the law will kill.

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The letter of the gospel will kill, if that's all you believe that God speaks, because you have now elevated the written word above the one who speaks it, and God won't allow that to happen Anytime that happens, that movement, that denomination is dead.

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It is dead.

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It is useless anymore.

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They can continue on, actually grow, build big churches, have big conferences, do all kinds of things, but they're dead.

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Most denominations, most things that have come out of whatever you call a denomination, most of them are dead in the second generation.

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They continue for centuries, but most of them are dead in the second generation.

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They continue for centuries, but most of them are dead in the second generation Because they start to worship what is written by the founder rather than what is written and spoken by the Word.

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So Paul goes on to say this that the gospel is veiled to them.

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That are perishing, perishing because of what I just said.

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They're perishing because they are fixated on the sin that's in the flesh or they're fixated on only the Word of God, is the expression of God.

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Hallelujah.

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Now you've got to have the Word of God.

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You can't have listen.

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It would be chaotic to have a church where everybody was hearing the Word of God and all you did is sit around and wonder, you know, and talk about whose revelation was the right revelation?

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You got to have something to measure it by, you know.

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I mean you can have somebody say, come in and say, you know, well, God told me that instead of doing fish dinners, we're going to rob banks.

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And uh, and we're going to, we're going to get this church built a whole lot faster by robbing banks and we will sell in fish dinners.

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And you don't need to have a prophet stand up and say thus saith the Lord.

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The Lord says that's not correct, because if everybody's just got a word, everybody's right, you got to have a standard.

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You know, everybody's right, you got to have a standard.

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You know.

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And in my Bible the thief got hung.

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The thief went out and hung himself and his entails fell all over the ground because he made a profession out of stealing out of the money box.

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Well, praise the Lord, out of the money box.

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Where would it have gone?

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Well, praise the Lord, it's veiled to those that are perishing because they've got their flesh, conscience, sin conscience or word-only conscience?

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That'll keep the veil on you.

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Now watch this.

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These scriptures are extremely important because it tells you some of the mechanics of how all this works.

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I've told the guys in Costa Rica this all the time because in Costa Rica if you're not Catholic, you're okay.

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So if you're not Catholic, I don't care what you are on the other side of the fence, as long as you're not.

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You know Mormon or Jehovah's witnesses or something you know some Jesus denying faith.

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I mean, if you got, if you can say Jesus is Lord, you're my friend and and we're going to Kumbaya and have dinner.

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And I said listen folks.

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I said don't you remember how many radio stations we've been kicked out of?

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Don't you remember how many times we've been invited off the platform?

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Don't you remember these things?

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These people are not your friends.

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These people won't have anything to do with you if you upset their apple cart.

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How many times have they gotten up and walked out of our meetings?

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So these people are not your friends.

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Quit trying to make everybody your friend and be understood.

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They're not your friends.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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They're blinded, even though it looks like they know what they're talking about.

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They don't know what they're talking about.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah, verse 4 says this, or verse, I don't know what verse.

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I'm in Verse 4.

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Whose minds the God of this age has blinded?

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Now I want you to see this.

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That's not necessarily talking about the devil, okay, because there are many gods and there are many gods and there are many ages, there are many times and there are many different gods that reign during those times.

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I'm not saying that they're bigger than our God, I'm just saying the forces of the enemy has many gods that can rule and reign.

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Let me give you an example.

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For roughly 1,500 years, 1,300 years until the time of Luther, there was a spirit of ignorance and a spirit of witchcraft that worked together to keep what was called the Christian church in bondage to gross ignorance.

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I mean gross ignorance.

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The only reason that the Reformation of Luther and others took off in the early 1500s is that there was a Reformation of learning that preceded that, and Greek and other texts became available and people started to read them, people started to discuss them, but for centuries there was a spirit of ignorance and, associated with that, a spirit of witchcraft that was on the church.

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So that you know, I mean you could, lord have mercy.

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I mean, they would pray to saints.

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Some of the saints were people that you know shouldn't be saints.

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They weren't saints, you know, they would use saints as talismans.

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They would almost speak charms on people.

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I mean, it was just this crazy mixture of witchcraft and local kind of Satanism and the ignorance of the church.

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The priests were ignorant.

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The priests couldn't read.

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They were taught to memorize the Mass in Latin.

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They couldn't read it.

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They weren't taught to read.

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The only people that could read were at the universities, where they taught other people who could read, but most of the people could not read.

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You understand, there was a spirit of ignorance that came upon the church and the people relished in it.

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Well, you know, we don't have to learn this stuff.

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The priest knows, the other guys know, they know, and so the church was just in this state.

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I mean, listen, folks, you've heard me say this before.

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In Luther's day, there was this monk that went around working for the Pope, went around Germany and other European places and had this song For every coin that in the coffer rings a soul from purgatory springs.

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And in order to finance St Peter's Cathedral in Rome, they were selling indulgences.

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Now, an indulgence is a ticket out of hell.

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Could somebody help me here?

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You could have a father that was a drunk, a womanizer, beat his kids, stole money, did everything bad, a person never darkened a church house door and died and you bought one of these pieces of paper from this monk, signed by the Pope, and you could just walk out the door in your ignorance because you don't know what a single word of God says.

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You can walk right out the door and say my dad's going to heaven now why?

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Because I put a little bit of money in this guy's money box and he gave me a paper signed by the Pope and so he's going to heaven now.

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Lord, have mercy.

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I wish it was that easy.

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Glory, glory.

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All of Europe was doing that.

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That's how they financed that monstrosity that's called St Peter's Cathedral.

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It was all sold, and I won't tell you this today.

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But that was all sold by selling people false hope that their deceased loved ones were going to heaven, when it didn't matter how they lived or anything else, just as long as they made a contribution.

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That was the state of the church that Luther came to.

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That was the state of the church that Luther came to.

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Witchcraft, ignorance, the God of ignorance and the God of witchcraft and the God of manipulation ruled that age.

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We live in an age amen that's never been seen before.

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We live in an age of such technological wonder that it would just befuddle people.

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If you were transported back into time with the gadgets that you have in your wallet and your purse and things like that, people would just.

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You know, if you ever read a book by Mark Twain, it's called a Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's court.

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It's about a guy who time travels and he doesn't have gadgets with him, but he does does remember how to predict solar or lunar eclipses and he can predict an eclipse that gets him out of trouble, and blah, blah, blah, just because he had some knowledge.

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Well, what of all the stuff that we've got?

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We live in an age that is unlike any other.

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I'm trying to get you to see that there's difference of ages and difference of times.

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There's been times when kings ruled.

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We don't have times when kings rule anymore.

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Kings don't rule anymore.

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That time is over.

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That age was closed with much blood, much revolution, and out of it came a different age.

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Now we live in an age when everybody has an opinion.

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We also live in an age when technology rules everything that we do.

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Folks, if the plug was pulled on this nation, there'd be very few people that would know how to live, there'd be riots, it'd be just a disaster.

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Because nobody knows how to live, because this age is dominated by a different God, and the manifestation of the God of this age is now how this next new generation cannot do anything without being socially connected.

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I mean, you know, listen, it wasn't too long ago.

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I mean just two generations In my life.

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It's two generations my grandparents' generation where it took 40 to 80 acres to support a family of 10 people.

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So you didn't have neighbors that were right up next to you and you certainly didn't know what they were doing all the time, and you didn't really care what they were doing all the time because you didn't want them to know what you were doing all the time.

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And the only time you ever got together was on Sundays at church, and maybe Saturdays every once in a while, at market, when they'd have a market, and then every year when they'd have a fair.

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I'm talking about people that didn't even have lights, they didn't have water in the house they had.

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You know, you fast forward to my parents' generation.

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The only way my dad had electricity in his house was because of a windmill that generated, and in the barn there was this great big bank I'm talking, 30, 40 feet long and five, six feet wide of batteries, and that windmill charged those batteries and that's the only way they had electricity.

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My mom had electricity, but she didn't have a bathroom bathroom and I guarantee you that in their high school they didn't have kids buried in their phones all day long.

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They actually learned things, you know.

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They learned algebra, they learned history, they learned to read Glory to God, they learned to talk in sentences that were longer than 160 characters long.

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The God of this age has turned this world into this connected entity where everybody has an opinion and everybody's right.

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Unless you don't have the opinion that is shared by the majority, then your opinion is valueless and your person is worthless.

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You cannot judge the effect that that has on people coming to the Lord, because what that means is that everybody's opinion has weight and God's opinion does not, and God's opinion does not.

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In a world where opinions are weighted by such things as education, by such things as you've got something to say, by such things as you really know what you're talking about, and there was a value placed on God that God knew everything and God knew things that we didn't know.

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Now everybody knows everything, or so they say.

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You see, people say things all the time, and they don't have to be high schoolers.

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They can be people running for the highest levels of office saying things that don't make any sense, because they can fill the room with words and those words have weight just because they speak them.

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That's the kind of God of this age that we live in.

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The end result of that, if Jesus doesn't intervene, is going to be a disaster of unmitigated proportions, because you can't have people that have everybody's opinion is right.

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There has to be some place where opinions are weighted by evidence, reality, or else you're going to have a world where everybody's opinion is right and a lot of the opinions are just nonsense.

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Well, forget that.

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Who cares about that?

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Where they contradict themselves you know we've already passed that point who cares whether we have any integrity in what we say?

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We say the same thing over and over and over again.

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Who cares about that?

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But when you've got a world where pink is green and green is blue and dogs are cats and cats are giraffes, I mean, the whole thing about being human is that our sense expression gives us a way to have common expression to common reality.

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I'm going to use a case in point on this.

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A lot of you have probably seen the movie the Windtalkers.

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During World War II they found out that they could use Navajo soldiers, who were bilingual, spoke Navajo and English, and use them to communicate things over the radio in Navajo from one Navajo speaker to another and the even if the Japanese interpreted it or intercepted it, they wouldn't be able to understand it.

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They did it.

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They in fact in, in, in, intercepted it and in fact realized it was Navajo, but they didn't know how to understand it.

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Okay, now, in the Southwest Indian languages their way of perceiving is different than ours.

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For example, they'll say they have a word that says man running.

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They have a word that says man sitting.

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They have a word that says man talking, but they don't have the concept that you separate the man from what he's doing.

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So you don't say there is a man and he is talking.

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That would be a foreign concept to them.

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The fact that you're sitting is one perceptive quantity.

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You sitting is an entirely different perception event than you walking Like wolves can detect whether there's a man in the forest or there's a man with a rifle in the forest and they will communicate with their sounds.

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The difference.

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Same way with these Indian groups.

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They communicate.

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Their sense of perception is different, but it works for them as long as they are a closed society.

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This is the point I'm trying to get to.

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As long as they're a closed society, however, they want to see things works for them.

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But you can't bring that into an open society that has more points of view and have that work, because it may be entirely crazy.

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Are you following what I'm saying?

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You cannot have people just Because the god of this age at the root of it is a God of confusion.

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