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Good morning, afternoon, or evening
Grace House Church listeners,

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whenever this episode is finding you.

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Just a quick editor's note before
you listen to this episode.

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There was a baby in the room while
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love having the children sitting in
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enrich the environment in person,
he does provide a lot of, let's say,

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background praise in this episode.

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So fair warning.

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Thank you for joining him and
listening in, and we will try to

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ensure he is imprisoned somewhere
far away during future recordings.

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Just kidding.

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But truly, thank you for your
understanding and enjoy the sermon.

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Joshua Kehler: In John 1837 to
38, famous place of scripture,

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Jesus is before Pilate.

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You remember,  he's about to be
crucified and here's what it says.

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Then Pilate said to him, so.

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You are a king.

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Question mark.

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Jesus answered.

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You say that, I am king for this purpose.

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I was born and for this purpose,
I have come into the world

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to bear witness to the truth.

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Everyone who is of the
truth listens to my voice.

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And pilot said to him what is truth?

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What is truth?

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Now that was 2000 years ago and
it held significant relevance

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for that historic moment.

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But honestly, it holds just as much
significance for our historic moment.

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I've seen in the span of my lifetime,
which is really short and young, just a

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few number of years, just kidding,    46.

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But I have seen.

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,  the dissolving of believing
in absolute truth.

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It's eroding.

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And even a Barna and the statistics,
those who claim and identify with

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Christian, evangelical Christian,
75% don't believe in absolute truth.

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Which is bonkers.

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It's what our whole thing's
based on  is a historic truth.

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An objective reality that
interprets everything else.

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And so, as the foundation Paul is
saying at the start of the armor,

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you need to put on the belt of truth.

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And there's so many people
nowadays saying, what is truth?

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What is truth?

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How can you truly know what is true?

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and they say, respect my truth.

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I have to be true to my truth.

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I have to lean into my truth.

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I have to live my truth.

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And so all of a sudden truth has
become this subjective thing,

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like, flavors of ice cream.

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I could prove to you with all my might
and every bit of evidence that I could

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muster that, a dark chocolate and
peanut butter ice cream from Baskin

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Robbins is the best, but my kids will
just as vigorously to my utter horror.

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I kid you not, I'm horrified.

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Say vanilla as the best.

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And I'm like, how?

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It doesn't have a flavor.

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I don't understand.

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So anyways, those are subjective things.

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But what's crazy is people are
battling over subjective things

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like their objective reality.

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And really to be tolerant in
this day and age, you have to

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believe my subjective truth.

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And you have to embrace it,
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it like it is objective truth.

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Our world is filled with opinions and
now everybody's a professional because

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of the access we have to information.

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And so many in our world
is saying, what is truth?

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So Christians can be struggling
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What is truth?

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What is truth?

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What is truly true?

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I wanna look at today, ready, set, go.

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Truth and truthfulness and Jesus the hero.

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So, ready, set, go.

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Let's go to verse 14 and 15.

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Ephesians chapter six.

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Stand, therefore now he said stand
quite a few times having fastened on

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the belt of truth, having put on the
breastplate of righteousness and as

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shoes for your feet, having put on
the readiness given by the gospel.

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Guys, I'm not gonna dive into
the whole spiritual warfare.

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Again, we've talked the past couple
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reminder, we're in a battle constantly.

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Number two, it's not against flesh
and blood, People are the occasion for

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our sin, but they're never the cause
of it, Heat comes into our life and

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our response to the heat can either be
one from the cross or one of thorns,

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So, traffic, when I'm in traffic and
this is something the Lord's working

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with me on, I mostly stay in the right
lane cuz I'm like, oh, get there.

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It's cool.

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I just chill and it's so good.

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The drive's so good.

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I follow a semi and I just I just kick it
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and I'll get over on the left and then all
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world,  the difference between the right
lane and the left lane is astronomical.

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I kid you not, now people are cutting in
front of you, weaving in, out, slamming

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on their brakes, break checking you.

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And then I find myself, I'm
like, oh, no, you don't.

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And I'm, and then I'll make
sure somebody can't pass.

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He gets behind me, then I'll slow down.

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You like that, and then pretty
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What am I participating in?

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And so often, what's happening,
God allows the heat, right?

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God allows the occasions for our response,
and we can respond in grace, right?

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Or we can respond in a sinful way, right?

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With the thorns.

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And so we wrestle not
against flesh and blood.

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Ultimately there's another,
there's an enemy behind people.

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And so it's not that they make me do
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and it's often revealing what my heart
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So we wrestle not against flesh
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constantly, and it's a fierce battle.

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Paul gives the image of the
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using two different metaphors.

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My son wrestled at the Stockton
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I don't really have a point to that,
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anyways, but the idea of wrestling is he
doesn't take one image, soldiers fighting

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and then two wrestlers at the Olympics.

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No, he's saying, The battle is
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to that hand in hand combat,
that's how desperate it is.

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Where arrows don't work.

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You're too close.

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Where you are in the mud, in
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and pouncing, on one another.

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That's the image he wants
to strike in her minds.

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That's how,  ever present
the battle is, right?

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That's how ever present.

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And what is the goal of the battle
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and destroy, What is the battle?

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Why does God allow the
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that we have life, right?

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That we have victory, that we stand in
that victory, that we see his glory,

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that we see his strength, that we
see his might as we lean into him.

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That we stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord on a daily basis.

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We see him do the impossible, which
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my own heart toward people.

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So this thing is in tense, The
reality of the battle on the victory.

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Remember what we said?

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You don't concentrate on what the
devil's doing, but what you're doing.

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Remember, there's,  it's not about,
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It's about standing in the
strength of the lord's mind.

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It's on being strong in the
Lord and the power of his mind.

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It's on you abiding and appropriating
what Jesus Christ has done for you.

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That's where the victory is.

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Amen.

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Not going out in our own strength.

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Amen.

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And trying to tackle him ourself.

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It is appropriating and
standing in Christ's full work.

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It doesn't matter what
tack the enemy takes.

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Amen.

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What path?

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If he's crawling on his belly like
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a bird trying to snatch the seed.

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Stand.

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Are you ready?

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If the armor is on, you can handle it.

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Stand in the day.

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If you are appropriating Christ, then
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be able to stand in the evil day.

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the belt is different than all
the other pieces of armor,  than

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the breast plate, the helmet, the
shoes, the shield of the sword.

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, the belt wasn't something you
used to defend yourself with.

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It wasn't a piece of
armor like the others.

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The belt of truth is the
foundation of the armor.

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It's what held everything else together.

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Belt brings order to the attire, right?

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It holds things in place.

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Most of us men have belts in here, right?

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We're wearing them, perhaps as we
celebrate more birthdays, those belts

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become more of a necessary thing.

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I don't know,  is for me, Now, the belt
that he's talking about, he's not just

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talking about, keeping your pants up.

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He's talking about keeping
everything together.

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And keeping you clutter free.

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So in those days,  the soldiers would
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have seen Gladiator, what they would
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they were going to battle, is that
they would then take up their tunic.

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They would take up their rope, and
they'd tuck it into their belt.

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Because what that meant is it
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don't want it to catch on anything.

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One of the fascinating things, and
this is a point about wrestling,

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is how tight those uniforms are.

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, holy smokes, you can
snap somebody really bad.

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Those things are why, because they
don't want somebody to get a hold of me.

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It's different than jiu-jitsu, right?

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You have the big GH and you're
grabbing hold of their GH and

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you're doing the moves and putting
'em in the arm bar and stuff.

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The wrestling that is
don't grab any part of me.

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I don't want you to be able to grab
anything, but to use,  the technique.

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So it holds things in place.

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It brings order to the attire  paul is
using a, the physical body, the idea of a

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soldier to communicate a spiritual truth.

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When the belt is there, I'm ready to move.

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You never leave home without it.

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It will hold things together.

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The reason you need a belt, the
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rope and then he, when he would get
ready for action, would tuck it in.

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It means to move unencumbered
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No stumbling or falling.

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The other armor was attached to it
and it held everything together.

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Now, that's the soldiers, and
that's something practical.

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As they went to war, they would
do that all through scripture.

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This metaphor is coming back
and back again and again.

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Remember where it says, I think
it's king James or New King James?

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Peter says, GERD up
the loins of your mind.

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That's the idea.

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It means tuck it in.

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Get ready, right?

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I'm gonna read a couple verses for you.

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Exodus 1211,  it says, and this
is on the night of the Passover.

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This is where they're
getting ready to leave Egypt.

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Then start the Exodus out.

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Moses says to them, and thus, shall you
eat with your loins, gerd, your shoes

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on your feet and your staff in your
hand, and you shall eat it in haste.

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It is the Lord's Passover.

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So the night they were going to
eat, they were to take those robes

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and they were to tuck them in.

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and They were to eat with their
shoes on their feet, which

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remember dirty in those days.

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Dusty, that was unusual because
the table was super low, lower

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than this table right here.

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And you'd recline and you would, lean
on your elbow to eat and everybody

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would be laying around each other.

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So it was very unusual to not
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the door, wash your feet, anoint
them with oil,  scented oil.

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And so he was saying, be ready to go.

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Okay.

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Luke 1235.

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Keep your shirts on.

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This is the message.

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So he's saying the same thing.

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Gerd up your loins, but
he's speaking to servants.

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Keep your shirts on, keep the lights on.

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Be like house servants waiting
for their master to come back from

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his honeymoon awake and ready to
open the door when he arrives.

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And.

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Lucky the servants whom the master finds
on, watch, he'll put on an apron, sit

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them at the table and serve them a meal,
sharing his wedding feast with him.

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It doesn't matter what time of night he
arrives, they're awake and so blessed.

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So he is saying about the second coming.

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Remember the whole point of the second
coming in scripture, there's a lot of

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obsession about the end times, but the
point in scripture, the main thrust of

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it is not how to find the second coming,
but how the second coming finds you

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watching, waiting, ready, sober, vigilant.

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Jeremiah one 17, when Jeremiah's being
commissioned, remember he's a kid and

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he's like, I'm a youth, I can't speak.

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God says, don't say that.

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And he tells Jeremiah, thou therefore
gerd up th loins and arise in speaking

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to them all that I command me.

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Be not dismayed of their faces left.

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I confound the before then.

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And then Peter chapter
one, verse 13 and 16.

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So, roll up your sleeves.

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Get your head in the game.

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Doesn't he sound like a coach?

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It's like halftime, right?

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Be totally ready to receive the gift
that's coming when Jesus arrives, don't

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lazily slip back into those old grooves of
evil doing just what you feel like doing.

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You didn't know any better than you
do now, as obedient children, let

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yourselves be pulled into a way of
life shaped by God's life, a life

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energetic and blazing with holiness.

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God said, I am holy.

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You be holy.

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And so the whole first point of
this, take up the belt of truth.

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Gerding your loins, putting that
belt, tucking that thing in.

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Being ready for battle
is that we are sober.

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And aware and ready, unencumbered
by the affairs of this life.

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In fact, second Timothy chapter two,
verse four, speaking of this warfare,

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Paul writes, no soldier gets entangled
in civilian pursuits since his aim is

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to please the one who enlisted them.

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Point number one as,  talking
about the belt of truth.

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Gering it up as he saying,
we are here for a reason.

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That his kingdom would come, that people
would see the reality that he's our

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treasure, that everything else would
be filtered through that one pursuit.

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Paul says in one Corinthians nine,
they do it for an imperishable crown.

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They'll go for it.

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They'll just, for something that's
gonna wither and die a reef that's gone.

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We do it for an imperishable.

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He's saying, number one, as you're talking
about greeting up our loins and in this

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battle is he's saying, the thing that
entangles us so often is the affairs of

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this life is that we make God a pie and
we have a pie chart, and here's work.

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Here's marriage, here's family, here's
vacation, here's hobby time, and

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here's Jesus time hall saying, no.

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You see all of life through
your relationship with Christ,

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everything is filtered.

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he is your worldview.

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You remember in the story of
the soar and the seeds, right?

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That, soar  went out
and he scattered seeds.

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Some were stolen away
by the birds of the air.

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What about the ones that grew up?

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But then were choked out?

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So immediately they had root.

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when the disciples ask
Jesus,  what does this mean?

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He said, it's the cares of this
world that choked out the good seed.

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You remember in Hebrews 12, since
we're surrounded by so great a cloud

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of witnesses, let us run the race
that is set before us, like laying

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aside every weight in the sin, which
so easily snares us or entangles us.

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The idea there is being tripped up, is
having something out, It's not being

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gerd up, it's not being single minded.

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It's being tossed to and fro
by the cares of this world.

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Jesus says in the sermon
on the mountain, right?

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Don't say, what am I
going to eat tomorrow?

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Or What are we gonna have?

303
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What am I gonna wear?

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he's saying, that can take all our
energy and time that we are obsessed on.

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How many of you have thought.

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I'm gonna be generous when I have enough.

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classic, right?

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Or I just have to get this,
or I just need to do this.

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The cares of this world.

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So, GERD up, put on the belt of truth.

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Be ready, be sober, be unencumbered.

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So let's just ask ourselves a question.

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Are there things right now happening in
this world, in your life where you feel

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entangled, where you feel keep you back
or strip you away from what is primary?

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Let the Holy Spirit search that.

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So back to take up the belt of truth.

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Now in Greek, the word is,  a
Lithia and it can be translated

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truth or truthfulness.

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And commentators go back and
forth on what does it mean?

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Is he talking about like truth
as far as objective truth?

321
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Truth or is he talking about
truth as far as integrity?

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Truth is content, truth
as opposed to falsehood.

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Truth is defined as the revelation of God.

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Or it can be defined as an attitude
of truthfulness or non hypocrisy,

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sincerity or honesty or integrity.

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And honestly, I think
the ambiguity is planned.

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I love planned ambiguity because
I think it means both, right?

328
00:18:00,305 --> 00:18:01,535
So we're gonna hit both.

329
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Number one, objective truth.

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truth.

331
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Is what is true in any,
matter under consideration.

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It's reality not what I feel is real
or what circumstances tell me is

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real, or what culture says is true,
But what God declares and his word is

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true and real truth is an objective
standard by which reality is measured.

335
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Truth is a fixed standard.

336
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Truth is,  reality in its
original norm and it's origin.

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Something that doesn't change.

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Plane pilots, if you got on the
plane and they left their mic on

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and you're in the air and they're
like, George, what are you doing?

340
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It's this way.

341
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He's like, ah, I really
think it's this way.

342
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He'd be like, what?

343
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don't think.

344
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He's like, but I really feel this
is the way we should go today.

345
00:19:01,125 --> 00:19:03,405
No, don't.

346
00:19:03,815 --> 00:19:04,805
That would be terrible.

347
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You'd be like, did
anybody pack a parachute?

348
00:19:07,670 --> 00:19:08,960
I don't want to be here.

349
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Pilots are taught to go by their
instruments, not their feelings.

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Not what's popular.

351
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Why?

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Because those instruments are
objective measurements of what is

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true, of gravity, of barometric
pressure, of all these things.

354
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The instruments tell them what is true and
inform the way that the pilot should go.

355
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Not what I think, not the, here's
what I feel like we should view today.

356
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Let's take 'em around this way.

357
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The control tower, most of them, the
control towers have been in the news.

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Yikes.

359
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Planes have almost crashed into
one another cuz someone fell

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asleep in the control tower.

361
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Thank the Lord.

362
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The control tower of
heaven never misses a beat.

363
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But the control tower gives
you an objective perspective

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because your sight is limited.

365
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You are a finite, limited human
being, and you need objective

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reality from someone who can see.

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We are children, right?

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Children in the kingdom.

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We need that objective perspective from
our father in heaven who sees it all.

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Who can see when that plane's
come in or tells you what is truly

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true even if you can't see it.

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That's where faith starts again.

373
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Do I trust the control tower?

374
00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:28,190
Do I trust that they have a perspective?

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I don't.

376
00:20:30,140 --> 00:20:32,150
Electricity is objective, right?

377
00:20:33,740 --> 00:20:39,350
I have been blown off an eight foot
ladder like the kid in Jurassic Park,

378
00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:41,060
not as, my hair didn't stand up.

379
00:20:41,060 --> 00:20:46,095
On my arms it did, but I have grabbed
the electricity and I have flown off.

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00:20:46,395 --> 00:20:49,275
I've been under a switch gear where
all the power comes into a building

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and I've lifted my arm a little too
high, holding onto a ground rod.

382
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And I've had it slam me on the
ground, like I was dropped from

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10 feet and I was literally laying
on the ground, couldn't move.

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They had to pull me out.

385
00:21:01,310 --> 00:21:04,400
now, I don't care what it's working on.

386
00:21:05,270 --> 00:21:08,570
I check with every instrument, is it on?

387
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:09,290
I treat.

388
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,220
Even I was telling somebody, they're
like, why are you doing that?

389
00:21:13,220 --> 00:21:15,410
Why are you using your strippers
that way to strip the wire?

390
00:21:15,410 --> 00:21:17,090
There's no power in the building.

391
00:21:17,570 --> 00:21:23,950
I said, train like there's power
everywhere, Because you know because

392
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there is an objective reality, and
when you run headlong into it, it

393
00:21:28,270 --> 00:21:32,560
doesn't matter how you feel that day,
what she ate for breakfast, how many

394
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friends you have, how many people
believe it with you, it's dead.

395
00:21:36,010 --> 00:21:37,030
There's no power.

396
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,495
It will bite you, It will bite you.

397
00:21:39,505 --> 00:21:40,465
objective, truth.

398
00:21:40,465 --> 00:21:41,875
Objective, reality.

399
00:21:42,580 --> 00:21:46,472
I think one of the problems with
objective truth is we don't like it.

400
00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:52,220
I went to the doctor,  a couple
weeks ago and I kept asking her about

401
00:21:52,225 --> 00:21:53,810
all these things I found online.

402
00:21:54,180 --> 00:21:55,320
I'm like, what about this pill?

403
00:21:55,890 --> 00:21:59,100
And she's all,  don't
even bother with that.

404
00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:00,030
That's ridiculous.

405
00:22:00,030 --> 00:22:01,050
And I was like, oh, okay.

406
00:22:01,050 --> 00:22:01,860
That kind of hurt my feelings.

407
00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:05,850
I did a lot of research, . I could
be a doctor too, and she was just

408
00:22:05,855 --> 00:22:09,240
like, put me in my place a couple
times on a couple different things

409
00:22:09,245 --> 00:22:12,350
and I got out of there and I started
looking up like other doctors.

410
00:22:12,350 --> 00:22:13,840
I'm like, I don't need this.

411
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:16,030
and I was like, wait, what am I doing?

412
00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:22,720
Isn't that how so often we are with
truth sometimes that we're like, I

413
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,980
don't like, I don't like the truth.

414
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,230
Let's just find another,
let's find another truth.

415
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,720
Let's find a truth that
agrees with our truth.

416
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,760
. And that's the culture of
the day that's ever present.

417
00:22:32,090 --> 00:22:33,500
People leave churches over that.

418
00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:34,680
We don't like that truth.

419
00:22:35,230 --> 00:22:35,890
Was it true?

420
00:22:35,890 --> 00:22:37,240
Was it glorifying to Jesus?

421
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,590
Was it Jesus centered?

422
00:22:39,310 --> 00:22:40,450
Maybe it's not.

423
00:22:40,450 --> 00:22:41,560
Jesus isn't the problem.

424
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,920
Maybe it's our hearts didn't
like what Jesus was calling

425
00:22:44,925 --> 00:22:46,570
us to what he was saying.

426
00:22:47,180 --> 00:22:47,510
I know.

427
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:49,640
I have kids that struggle.

428
00:22:49,690 --> 00:22:50,440
I have seen it.

429
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,150
I've struggled in my own heart.

430
00:22:52,510 --> 00:22:54,660
Culture is saying this is true.

431
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,960
And Jesus is saying, no, I am
the way, the truth in the life.

432
00:22:58,350 --> 00:23:01,140
No man comes to the Father except by me.

433
00:23:02,070 --> 00:23:03,330
That's not popular.

434
00:23:03,420 --> 00:23:07,800
It goes against the grain, it goes
against what's popular in spirituality.

435
00:23:08,610 --> 00:23:12,390
You say No one comes to the
father except through mean.

436
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,510
The enemy takes ground through lies.

437
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,340
Satan will come with his wildes, right?

438
00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:19,630
His schemes.

439
00:23:19,630 --> 00:23:20,560
I love that word, wildes.

440
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:21,760
We don't really use that anymore.

441
00:23:22,270 --> 00:23:23,680
Ah, he's so wily, right?

442
00:23:23,710 --> 00:23:27,040
But that's why we named
the character Wily Coyote,

443
00:23:27,090 --> 00:23:32,100
He's the scheming coyote, So he
comes with his schemes, which is

444
00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:36,700
the same word, translated cunning
craftiness in chapter four verse 14.

445
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,750
Here it is, so that we may no longer
be children tossed to and fro.

446
00:23:41,110 --> 00:23:46,390
By the waves and carried about by every
wind of doctrine, by human cunning,

447
00:23:46,570 --> 00:23:50,170
by craftiness, in deceitful schemes.

448
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:56,055
The same idea And the point there
is that doctrine, that false

449
00:23:56,085 --> 00:23:59,985
doctrine, the wrong ideas about God.

450
00:24:00,945 --> 00:24:06,585
The enemy loves to tell
us wrong ideas about God.

451
00:24:07,695 --> 00:24:08,955
It goes back to the garden.

452
00:24:09,615 --> 00:24:11,055
Has God really said?

453
00:24:12,036 --> 00:24:15,701
. There's so much in that, Did he really?

454
00:24:16,601 --> 00:24:17,771
Did you mishear him?

455
00:24:17,771 --> 00:24:19,361
Was he not clear enough?

456
00:24:19,661 --> 00:24:23,531
Man, I thought a God of all power
would be really clear for you.

457
00:24:24,031 --> 00:24:25,561
That he'd be understanding.

458
00:24:25,561 --> 00:24:29,151
It seems like he doesn't trust you.

459
00:24:29,461 --> 00:24:31,406
Why is he putting the border around this?

460
00:24:31,436 --> 00:24:33,236
He wants this to himself.

461
00:24:33,896 --> 00:24:39,081
He wants the best for himself, Is
he really looking out for your best?

462
00:24:39,111 --> 00:24:40,401
Can you really trust him?

463
00:24:41,091 --> 00:24:48,201
Why is he holding this back so
much in that wrong ideas about God?

464
00:24:48,501 --> 00:24:57,471
Chiefly, The idea that you can, in your
own strength, appease God, that in your

465
00:24:57,471 --> 00:25:03,621
own might and in your own trying, you
can draw yourself and make yourself

466
00:25:03,621 --> 00:25:06,501
righteous enough to be pleasing to him.

467
00:25:06,891 --> 00:25:09,291
That is the falses doctrine.

468
00:25:09,691 --> 00:25:12,541
That of all, that is carried about.

469
00:25:12,541 --> 00:25:13,561
It's Kain Abel.

470
00:25:13,981 --> 00:25:20,601
Remember,  Abel approached the presence
of God through a substitute, a sacrifice.

471
00:25:21,291 --> 00:25:26,561
But Kane the inventor of religion, He's
like, no, I will grow the best vegetables

472
00:25:26,611 --> 00:25:28,651
I will grow the best produce.

473
00:25:28,891 --> 00:25:29,401
Yeah.

474
00:25:29,406 --> 00:25:32,401
My dad, mom told me stories
about the Garden of Eden and

475
00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:33,811
how great the food was there.

476
00:25:34,471 --> 00:25:40,491
I'm gonna even better that, And he
comes to God on his own efforts thinking

477
00:25:40,851 --> 00:25:44,901
his best will make him acceptable
in the presence of a holy God.

478
00:25:45,001 --> 00:25:48,991
it's every single religion
that you do something to make

479
00:25:48,991 --> 00:25:51,961
yourself acceptable to God.

480
00:25:52,021 --> 00:25:56,881
It's through your own effort, your
own willpower, your own ingenuity,

481
00:25:56,881 --> 00:26:02,761
your own wisdom, your own strength,
your own might that you are saved.

482
00:26:03,241 --> 00:26:04,471
That is false.

483
00:26:04,981 --> 00:26:05,701
That is false.

484
00:26:05,701 --> 00:26:12,901
Beyond false, we cannot, in the presence
of a holy God, remember, God is holy.

485
00:26:13,591 --> 00:26:14,341
He's other.

486
00:26:14,371 --> 00:26:16,021
He's not like us a little better.

487
00:26:16,111 --> 00:26:17,641
He's other.

488
00:26:18,181 --> 00:26:24,521
You remember just his presence like,
like just the presence of God, whatever

489
00:26:24,526 --> 00:26:29,191
dimension that heaven is the fourth
or fifth dimension interacting with

490
00:26:29,191 --> 00:26:31,921
the atoms and the molecules at Sinai.

491
00:26:32,191 --> 00:26:41,021
The rocks could not handle it and shook
like the electrical charges in the sky.

492
00:26:41,021 --> 00:26:43,631
It says there were
thunderings and lightnings.

493
00:26:43,751 --> 00:26:49,231
They all bowed to his omnipresence omnis.

494
00:26:49,271 --> 00:26:51,581
Remember, he's not just
a little better than us.

495
00:26:52,691 --> 00:26:56,231
And to think that we can make
ourselves pleasing to a holy

496
00:26:56,231 --> 00:26:58,611
God is buying the ultimate life.

497
00:26:59,691 --> 00:27:00,891
That's why Jesus came.

498
00:27:01,341 --> 00:27:02,991
That's why we have to be rescued.

499
00:27:03,664 --> 00:27:06,454
That's why we needed to be saved.

500
00:27:07,984 --> 00:27:13,534
It would be like if you're drowning and
you don't know how to swim, you fall

501
00:27:13,534 --> 00:27:17,824
over the side of a boat and somebody
throws you a manual on how to swim

502
00:27:19,094 --> 00:27:21,344
that's like insult to injury, right?

503
00:27:21,494 --> 00:27:22,244
That's horrible.

504
00:27:22,514 --> 00:27:25,874
Paul is saying the only way for you
to escape the deception of the enemy.

505
00:27:26,504 --> 00:27:29,984
Is to let the word of God
interpret reality for you.

506
00:27:31,934 --> 00:27:35,324
Satan will bombard you constantly
with lies From the very beginning,

507
00:27:35,744 --> 00:27:39,164
Satan's strategy has been to get
people to discard the word of God.

508
00:27:39,704 --> 00:27:42,074
His first question was,
has God really said this?

509
00:27:42,584 --> 00:27:47,954
Or number two, he'll make
you try to neglect it, number

510
00:27:47,959 --> 00:27:49,124
one, to doubt God's word.

511
00:27:49,124 --> 00:27:51,404
Number two, he'll try
to make you neglect it.

512
00:27:52,424 --> 00:27:53,984
And that's really a challenge.

513
00:27:54,534 --> 00:27:59,374
We have so many versions of the Bible
and so much access to it that it

514
00:27:59,374 --> 00:28:01,984
can almost be like, I'll get to it.

515
00:28:02,824 --> 00:28:03,814
Yeah, I'll get to it.

516
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:08,544
Not that you doubt the word of God,
that's not the issue or the problem, but

517
00:28:08,544 --> 00:28:10,134
maybe it's that we just don't know it.

518
00:28:11,354 --> 00:28:14,774
Have you ever prayed with somebody where
they're praying and all of a sudden

519
00:28:14,774 --> 00:28:16,064
you're like, I think that's a scripture.

520
00:28:16,214 --> 00:28:17,234
I think that's a scripture.

521
00:28:17,324 --> 00:28:18,344
I think that's a scripture.

522
00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:22,114
I think that's a scripture, and
it's just So powerful just knowing

523
00:28:22,114 --> 00:28:25,594
the word of God and the word of
God, knowing you're searching it

524
00:28:25,594 --> 00:28:28,174
out and knowing it to be students.

525
00:28:28,367 --> 00:28:35,357
the best sermon can do for you is tide
you over, You know what is a sermon?

526
00:28:36,467 --> 00:28:39,667
Because you need meat, That's an
image given that we need to eat meat.

527
00:28:39,697 --> 00:28:41,137
The meat of God's word.

528
00:28:41,317 --> 00:28:42,637
What is a sermon?

529
00:28:43,057 --> 00:28:46,537
It is meat that is passed through
the digestion of somebody else.

530
00:28:46,567 --> 00:28:47,287
It's milk.

531
00:28:47,857 --> 00:28:52,307
It's milk, In fact,  Matt, what did
you eat three weeks ago for lunch?

532
00:28:52,637 --> 00:28:54,117
Yeah, you don't know.

533
00:28:54,122 --> 00:28:55,317
That's like sermons, right?

534
00:28:55,317 --> 00:28:58,407
You don't know what you ate three weeks
ago, but you know at the time you needed

535
00:28:58,407 --> 00:29:02,105
it, But the point is that you have to
get into the word You have to study it,

536
00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:07,495
you have to know it, you have to let it
know you, you have to let it search you.

537
00:29:07,855 --> 00:29:10,165
You have to let it contradict you.

538
00:29:10,435 --> 00:29:12,725
You have to let it like, wound you.

539
00:29:12,725 --> 00:29:15,935
When it talks about that sword
that cuts deep, it often cuts deep

540
00:29:15,935 --> 00:29:20,195
into us, man, to my absolute shame.

541
00:29:22,035 --> 00:29:25,965
I I used to listen to radio on my
way to work that really cemented

542
00:29:25,965 --> 00:29:34,875
me in my leanings that weren't
necessarily in line with Jesus.

543
00:29:34,875 --> 00:29:37,575
And I say necessarily with air
quotes because they weren't

544
00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:39,135
at all in, line with Jesus.

545
00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:40,785
And I remember.

546
00:29:41,370 --> 00:29:48,535
being so angry at like immigration and
like just taking jobs and, just this and

547
00:29:48,540 --> 00:29:50,895
caricaturing an entire group of people.

548
00:29:50,895 --> 00:29:55,375
And then reading the scripture that
says, be kind to the foreigner because

549
00:29:56,215 --> 00:29:59,335
you were foreigners, you were exiles.

550
00:30:00,295 --> 00:30:02,185
And I can't tell you what
that did to my heart.

551
00:30:02,185 --> 00:30:03,140
it destroyed me.

552
00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:04,980
It was like, oh wait, I am.

553
00:30:05,765 --> 00:30:08,735
In mcg, grand, I'm a pilgrim
on this earth passing through.

554
00:30:08,735 --> 00:30:09,005
Like

555
00:30:09,055 --> 00:30:11,395
I wasn't part of Abraham's family.

556
00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:12,295
I wasn't part of this.

557
00:30:12,385 --> 00:30:16,765
I've been grafted in, I'm a gentile,
that God has pursued and reached out and

558
00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:18,835
said, and all of a sudden it transformed.

559
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,325
But it cut, it wounded,
it started cutting off.

560
00:30:21,375 --> 00:30:25,960
These things, these foundations, these
weird things that I built in my life.

561
00:30:26,030 --> 00:30:31,334
it pruned my worldview and how I saw
the world, how I looked at the world.

562
00:30:31,964 --> 00:30:36,794
And scripture will do that as you let it
search you, as you let it transform you.

563
00:30:37,454 --> 00:30:42,444
And then, that becomes a foundation is
word is the rock,  that we build it on.

564
00:30:42,444 --> 00:30:46,794
Now, when I make future decisions, it's
through the lens of scripture and not

565
00:30:46,794 --> 00:30:51,294
through my own bias, not through my own
experience, not through what's happened to

566
00:30:51,294 --> 00:30:53,594
me or this experience or that experience.

567
00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:58,654
I let scripture and form
my worldview and who I am.

568
00:30:59,834 --> 00:31:04,034
. You can find any church who will
tell you what you want to hear.

569
00:31:04,894 --> 00:31:06,154
And that's what a lot of us want.

570
00:31:06,154 --> 00:31:09,934
We want just somebody to say back to
us what we want, cuz we want to make

571
00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:12,154
sure we're believing the right thing.

572
00:31:12,784 --> 00:31:14,974
It's so good to be
challenged in those things.

573
00:31:15,454 --> 00:31:17,854
It's so good to hear other perspectives.

574
00:31:18,124 --> 00:31:22,164
To not sit in one camp
To see something greater.

575
00:31:22,174 --> 00:31:24,794
to see a bigger, picture.

576
00:31:25,484 --> 00:31:31,114
Thomas Quais, he wrote a 38 volume
set on, he was gonna give an answer to

577
00:31:31,934 --> 00:31:35,384
every question that a man could ask.

578
00:31:36,784 --> 00:31:41,077
And he was set to it, and then he
went to a worship service and this one

579
00:31:41,077 --> 00:31:43,447
was different and he stopped writing.

580
00:31:43,447 --> 00:31:44,347
He never wrote again.

581
00:31:45,802 --> 00:31:49,282
. And his guy who was taking his
notes for him said, aren't you gonna

582
00:31:49,282 --> 00:31:50,302
write or aren't you gonna finish?

583
00:31:50,302 --> 00:31:52,102
And he said, I've glimpsed eternity.

584
00:31:53,632 --> 00:31:58,272
And I feel like what I've
written is so much straw, God's

585
00:31:58,277 --> 00:32:00,912
so big and transcendent, right?

586
00:32:01,762 --> 00:32:06,072
That he's so great, he's so infinite.

587
00:32:06,772 --> 00:32:08,092
We are not, we're finite.

588
00:32:08,662 --> 00:32:10,282
And so he's constantly growing us.

589
00:32:10,282 --> 00:32:10,642
Every day.

590
00:32:10,642 --> 00:32:14,032
He's constantly conforming
us to his truth.

591
00:32:14,032 --> 00:32:16,102
He's saint the fine us in his truth.

592
00:32:16,222 --> 00:32:20,242
We have to grow until glory.

593
00:32:20,932 --> 00:32:21,532
And then guess what?

594
00:32:21,532 --> 00:32:23,662
We get to keep growing in glory.

595
00:32:24,262 --> 00:32:25,972
But without all that curse.

596
00:32:26,552 --> 00:32:27,932
So objective truth.

597
00:32:28,862 --> 00:32:31,442
The way to resist is with truth.

598
00:32:32,147 --> 00:32:34,367
He is a liar and the
father of lies our enemy.

599
00:32:34,367 --> 00:32:37,127
The one of the main things the
enemy does is come with lies.

600
00:32:37,127 --> 00:32:39,767
So we must know truth.

601
00:32:40,747 --> 00:32:45,787
So he either makes us doubt God's word,
or he wants to make us neglect God's word.

602
00:32:46,137 --> 00:32:47,097
Now this is amazing.

603
00:32:47,107 --> 00:32:50,557
Listen to how this works in two
Corinthians 10, verse four and five,

604
00:32:51,547 --> 00:32:55,507
for though we walk in the flesh,
we are not waging war according to

605
00:32:55,507 --> 00:33:00,337
the flesh for the weapons of our
warfare or not of the flesh, but have

606
00:33:00,337 --> 00:33:04,517
divine power to destroy strongholds.

607
00:33:05,947 --> 00:33:12,487
We destroy arguments and every
lofty opinion raised against the

608
00:33:12,487 --> 00:33:19,867
knowledge of God and take every
thought captive to obey Christ.

609
00:33:21,367 --> 00:33:24,457
I've heard that verse so many times
and I've never really sat with it.

610
00:33:25,057 --> 00:33:27,307
Let me just sit with you
for like two minutes.

611
00:33:28,307 --> 00:33:36,457
The idea when it says that we destroyed
strongholds, is that the enemy?

612
00:33:37,607 --> 00:33:41,327
Wants to put something in your way.

613
00:33:42,197 --> 00:33:46,997
In fact, the word destroy
every lofty thing is the word.

614
00:33:46,997 --> 00:33:49,157
We get our word for partition.

615
00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:52,067
Have you ever partitioned a hard drive?

616
00:33:52,337 --> 00:33:53,597
I know I'm nerding out a little bit.

617
00:33:54,137 --> 00:33:56,887
partitioned a memory card.

618
00:33:57,307 --> 00:33:58,357
What does that do?

619
00:33:58,627 --> 00:34:03,307
You are keeping data in one place and
not allowing it to go to the other.

620
00:34:03,637 --> 00:34:04,657
You've partitioned it.

621
00:34:04,667 --> 00:34:07,547
I mean that what a picture of
what the enemy tries to do.

622
00:34:07,937 --> 00:34:10,667
He tries to partition you
from the truth of God.

623
00:34:10,996 --> 00:34:14,837
He doesn't want the truth of God
getting through to your head.

624
00:34:15,107 --> 00:34:17,027
He wants to wall it off.

625
00:34:17,027 --> 00:34:20,117
He wants to build a
fortress there of lies.

626
00:34:20,121 --> 00:34:21,887
He doesn't want the light getting in.

627
00:34:21,887 --> 00:34:24,556
He wants to keep you partition.

628
00:34:24,976 --> 00:34:27,857
He says, we dismantle speculations.

629
00:34:28,397 --> 00:34:33,827
The idea is that you're like destroying,
you're laying siege to speculations.

630
00:34:33,827 --> 00:34:35,087
What are speculations?

631
00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:36,667
Assumptions?

632
00:34:36,667 --> 00:34:41,917
there's this part of Nehemiah where at
one point as they're building the wall,

633
00:34:41,947 --> 00:34:46,266
there's people from the east, the west,
the north and the south, and they all

634
00:34:46,327 --> 00:34:49,867
run, and they all tell Nehemiah, the
enemy's coming, the enemy's coming.

635
00:34:50,857 --> 00:34:52,077
And he's like, tell me more about it.

636
00:34:52,077 --> 00:34:52,556
Did you see him?

637
00:34:52,556 --> 00:34:56,117
And he's like, no, somebody
told me It's speculation.

638
00:34:56,167 --> 00:35:01,057
It's this thing that's urgent that feels
like the truth, but isn't the truth.

639
00:35:02,057 --> 00:35:07,497
How often does God's timing not line up
with your timing I've witnessed it myself.

640
00:35:07,777 --> 00:35:10,267
We were getting ready to
move out of our house.

641
00:35:10,272 --> 00:35:10,867
I was a kid.

642
00:35:11,167 --> 00:35:15,597
And,  there's one house we looked at
and we're like, this is the one, the

643
00:35:15,597 --> 00:35:17,007
owner of the house, we're gonna rent it.

644
00:35:17,037 --> 00:35:23,207
He went on vacation to Mexico and
then the people said, you've gotta

645
00:35:23,207 --> 00:35:25,727
be out of the house tomorrow.

646
00:35:25,917 --> 00:35:26,787
somebody else is moving in.

647
00:35:27,987 --> 00:35:30,982
So my dad being the man of
faith that he is,  amazing.

648
00:35:31,352 --> 00:35:32,492
He said, get a truck.

649
00:35:32,492 --> 00:35:34,172
God's gonna provide us a house.

650
00:35:34,227 --> 00:35:34,737
Wait a minute.

651
00:35:34,742 --> 00:35:35,907
That's out of order.

652
00:35:35,907 --> 00:35:37,407
That's not how that works.

653
00:35:37,407 --> 00:35:40,222
You don't get a truck, we
have to have somewhere to go.

654
00:35:40,462 --> 00:35:43,372
we loaded the truck
halfway nowhere to move to.

655
00:35:43,432 --> 00:35:44,932
We're gonna sleep at a friend's house.

656
00:35:44,932 --> 00:35:48,817
We keep our truck loaded up and it's not
that we like, didn't look anywhere else.

657
00:35:48,817 --> 00:35:49,927
There was nowhere else.

658
00:35:49,927 --> 00:35:52,687
Everything was, we could not find a place.

659
00:35:54,127 --> 00:35:58,717
As we're loading the truck, the
owner of that other house and

660
00:35:58,717 --> 00:36:03,287
his wife drive by, they found the
address on the rental application.

661
00:36:04,187 --> 00:36:09,077
They see the truck, they're loading
it up and they say, you got the house?

662
00:36:09,677 --> 00:36:13,067
And my dad was like, Hey, I didn't think
you were supposed to come home yet.

663
00:36:13,067 --> 00:36:14,267
I thought you had another week.

664
00:36:14,537 --> 00:36:18,527
He said, my wife had a dream two
nights ago that you were in trouble.

665
00:36:18,827 --> 00:36:22,697
So we quit our vacation early and
came up to see what's happening.

666
00:36:23,657 --> 00:36:28,637
God's timing is not our timing, but
often what we do is we lean into

667
00:36:28,637 --> 00:36:34,037
speculation because we only see
from our perspective and what we

668
00:36:34,037 --> 00:36:36,947
see is we see God doesn't love us.

669
00:36:38,102 --> 00:36:40,142
God, you haven't paid my billing time.

670
00:36:40,322 --> 00:36:42,782
God, you haven't provided,
you haven't done this.

671
00:36:42,842 --> 00:36:44,342
You haven't met my needs.

672
00:36:44,552 --> 00:36:48,932
All the while He's
pulling a million strings.

673
00:36:49,432 --> 00:36:52,462
To provide in a way that will blow your
mind, that you'll never forget that will

674
00:36:52,462 --> 00:36:58,972
be etched into your brain because the
Lord knows that as much as we needed

675
00:36:58,972 --> 00:37:07,222
to know what house we are moving into
us, kids needed to learn that he's

676
00:37:07,222 --> 00:37:11,842
a miracle worker and that he can be
dependent on, and that he can be trusted.

677
00:37:12,032 --> 00:37:14,852
When God moves, he's, we
think He's playing checkers.

678
00:37:14,912 --> 00:37:19,862
He's playing fifth dimensional chess,
like he's doing a thousand things

679
00:37:19,862 --> 00:37:26,912
at once to graft into your heart,
to etch it into your memory that he

680
00:37:26,912 --> 00:37:31,412
can be trusted, that the steadfast
love of the Lord never ceases.

681
00:37:32,512 --> 00:37:41,782
That is promises are yay and amen So
guys,  I just think what a picture

682
00:37:42,082 --> 00:37:46,222
of what the enemy does that he tries
to partition you from God's truth.

683
00:37:47,042 --> 00:37:52,442
and God is saying, use truth to
dismantle everything that exalts

684
00:37:52,442 --> 00:37:55,622
itself against the knowledge of Christ.

685
00:37:55,622 --> 00:38:02,652
He even says,  and this is amazing, guys,
take every thought captive to obey Christ.

686
00:38:02,652 --> 00:38:03,582
Do you know what that means?

687
00:38:03,642 --> 00:38:09,942
It means your thoughts are people
you need to capture and interrogate.

688
00:38:12,252 --> 00:38:13,692
You need to interrogate them.

689
00:38:13,962 --> 00:38:16,392
And you need to say, why are you here?

690
00:38:16,512 --> 00:38:17,712
What are you trying to do?

691
00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:21,857
Are you smuggling anything
across, that I need to know about?

692
00:38:22,517 --> 00:38:24,947
That's what we're supposed
to do with our thoughts.

693
00:38:25,007 --> 00:38:26,477
Is this obeying Christ?

694
00:38:26,482 --> 00:38:27,947
Is it glorifying Christ?

695
00:38:28,037 --> 00:38:28,877
That's insane.

696
00:38:28,907 --> 00:38:29,687
That's amazing.

697
00:38:29,687 --> 00:38:33,637
In another way, in Philippians, he
says, whatever's true, whatever's

698
00:38:33,642 --> 00:38:34,997
lovely, whatever's a good report.

699
00:38:34,997 --> 00:38:36,647
thank on those things.

700
00:38:36,797 --> 00:38:38,807
Those are the ones you let through.

701
00:38:39,077 --> 00:38:44,267
Let the praise and the thanksgiving,
let the adoration, let the wonderment

702
00:38:44,297 --> 00:38:49,727
at his works and his words, let
them through and keep at bay.

703
00:38:49,847 --> 00:38:54,767
Those who bring speculation, those
who bring that doubt, those who

704
00:38:54,767 --> 00:39:00,797
bring that thing that wants Del lures
into its spell to put us to sleep.

705
00:39:01,187 --> 00:39:04,337
Get rid of anything that blocks God's
point of view from getting through

706
00:39:04,967 --> 00:39:09,497
your point of view, your parents'
point of view, your friend's point

707
00:39:09,502 --> 00:39:14,887
of view, like only God's point
of view is what we let through,

708
00:39:14,997 --> 00:39:17,977
And , man, Paul is saying
that this is the foundation.

709
00:39:17,977 --> 00:39:20,317
The belt of truth is a little
different than the sword of the

710
00:39:20,317 --> 00:39:22,027
spirit, which is the word of God.

711
00:39:22,417 --> 00:39:28,167
The truth of the Bible used offensively,
not offensively , although there are

712
00:39:28,167 --> 00:39:30,087
people who do that and need to repent.

713
00:39:30,537 --> 00:39:34,317
But the belt of truth is the
objective truth used subjectively.

714
00:39:34,317 --> 00:39:37,767
And so now we just turn
briefly to use it inwardly.

715
00:39:38,127 --> 00:39:42,782
So truthfulness,  to take the truth
and apply it to the n-word parts.

716
00:39:43,022 --> 00:39:47,102
Unless you take the truth of the word of
God and take it deep inside you, the most

717
00:39:47,107 --> 00:39:51,332
private, intimate parts of your soul,
you can't put on the armor of God to take

718
00:39:51,562 --> 00:39:55,802
the truth of God and to embrace it, to
digest it, to make it part of yourself.

719
00:39:56,132 --> 00:39:59,372
Embraced, believed, used in daily life.

720
00:39:59,672 --> 00:40:02,132
This belt of truth must
encompass our whole life.

721
00:40:02,132 --> 00:40:05,462
That should encircle us leaving no gaps.

722
00:40:05,462 --> 00:40:08,282
Remember, we're standing in
Christ in what he has done.

723
00:40:08,942 --> 00:40:10,262
We're standing in his truth.

724
00:40:10,262 --> 00:40:12,662
What he says is truly true about reality.

725
00:40:12,992 --> 00:40:17,852
What he says is true about your
identity, not what you feel is true.

726
00:40:18,272 --> 00:40:20,852
Think of anxiety and worry in Matthew six.

727
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:24,152
Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious
about your life, what you will eat, what

728
00:40:24,152 --> 00:40:25,442
you will drink, nor about your body.

729
00:40:25,447 --> 00:40:28,922
What you will put on is not life more
than food in the body, more than clothing.

730
00:40:28,922 --> 00:40:30,332
Look at the birds of the air.

731
00:40:30,452 --> 00:40:32,912
They neither sewn nor reap,
nor gather into Barnes, and yet

732
00:40:32,917 --> 00:40:34,592
your heavenly Father feeds them.

733
00:40:35,012 --> 00:40:37,262
Are you not of more value than they?

734
00:40:37,532 --> 00:40:41,342
And which of you by being anxious can
add a single hour to his lifespan?

735
00:40:41,462 --> 00:40:43,172
And why are you anxious about clothing?

736
00:40:43,172 --> 00:40:45,452
Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow.

737
00:40:45,452 --> 00:40:46,592
They need their toil in their span.

738
00:40:46,592 --> 00:40:49,682
And I, I tell you, even
Solomon and all his glory was

739
00:40:49,682 --> 00:40:51,032
not a raid like one of these.

740
00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:56,372
But if God so close the grass of
the field, which is today alive and

741
00:40:56,662 --> 00:41:00,842
tomorrow's thrown into the oven,
will he not much more Clothe you,

742
00:41:00,842 --> 00:41:05,852
owe you of little faith suffering.

743
00:41:06,872 --> 00:41:11,072
Romans eight 18 for, I
consider he's accounting.

744
00:41:11,372 --> 00:41:13,262
He's taking account, he's taking stock.

745
00:41:13,562 --> 00:41:18,752
He's weighing things, putting it in
the balances for, I consider that the

746
00:41:18,757 --> 00:41:22,052
sufferings of this present time are
not worth comparing with the glory

747
00:41:22,052 --> 00:41:25,832
that is to be revealed to us suffering.

748
00:41:25,837 --> 00:41:28,952
So Paul looks and he
goes, yeah, it's hard.

749
00:41:29,822 --> 00:41:30,572
It's brutal.

750
00:41:32,462 --> 00:41:33,002
I'm hungry.

751
00:41:33,007 --> 00:41:35,132
Sometimes I'm shipwrecked.

752
00:41:35,132 --> 00:41:38,102
Sometimes I get stoned and left for dead.

753
00:41:38,102 --> 00:41:40,952
Sometimes I get beaten with rods.

754
00:41:41,252 --> 00:41:42,362
I get lashed.

755
00:41:42,689 --> 00:41:43,469
I'm naked.

756
00:41:43,469 --> 00:41:46,139
I'm in constant peril
and constant threats.

757
00:41:46,319 --> 00:41:47,849
That's hard.

758
00:41:49,409 --> 00:41:50,789
But what's coming?

759
00:41:52,319 --> 00:41:54,269
What's coming is insane.

760
00:41:54,689 --> 00:41:55,919
It's amazing.

761
00:41:56,069 --> 00:42:00,589
It's gonna make all
that look like an ampi.

762
00:42:02,459 --> 00:42:08,009
, I consider, I weigh it in the moment of
my struggle and the moment of my turmoil,

763
00:42:08,399 --> 00:42:11,189
I consider I take hold of that thought.

764
00:42:11,399 --> 00:42:16,289
I take it captive and
I make it obey Christ.

765
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:17,369
Focus yourself.

766
00:42:17,369 --> 00:42:18,689
Talk to yourself about the truth.

767
00:42:18,689 --> 00:42:21,539
Your mind is running in a
hundred different directions.

768
00:42:21,929 --> 00:42:22,799
Focus your mind.

769
00:42:23,129 --> 00:42:24,689
Gerd up the loins of your mind.

770
00:42:24,689 --> 00:42:30,179
Think nothing has changed, but
you have a new perspective and now

771
00:42:30,179 --> 00:42:31,829
you have rearranged your thinking.

772
00:42:31,829 --> 00:42:36,569
The truth has come in, take the armor and
look at the world through these things.

773
00:42:36,569 --> 00:42:40,159
Go up to the watch tower of the
gospel,  and look at true reality.

774
00:42:40,369 --> 00:42:45,409
The belt of Truth makes us able to
use all the other pieces of armor

775
00:42:45,409 --> 00:42:50,059
that holds it together, an objective
truth thing, and then that inward

776
00:42:50,059 --> 00:42:52,549
reality sanctify them in your truth.

777
00:42:52,554 --> 00:42:53,509
Your word is truth.

778
00:42:53,509 --> 00:42:54,969
John seven 17.

779
00:42:54,979 --> 00:42:55,699
17.

780
00:42:56,389 --> 00:42:59,299
honesty and integrity and reality.

781
00:42:59,449 --> 00:43:05,119
Inwardly, Psalm 51, 6 says, behold you
delight in truth in the inward being.

782
00:43:06,409 --> 00:43:12,199
So it's not just what I believe,
it's also in my heart how I live.

783
00:43:13,189 --> 00:43:14,114
It's who I am.

784
00:43:14,114 --> 00:43:19,934
It's letting the objective truth permeate
me till it has an impact and shapes me.

785
00:43:20,774 --> 00:43:22,394
First John 1, 5 7.

786
00:43:22,394 --> 00:43:25,184
This is the message we have heard from
him and proclaim to you that God is

787
00:43:25,189 --> 00:43:27,074
light and in him is no darkness at all.

788
00:43:27,254 --> 00:43:29,924
If we say we have fellowship with
them while we walk in darkness, we

789
00:43:29,924 --> 00:43:31,964
lie and do not practice the truth.

790
00:43:33,194 --> 00:43:35,924
But if we walk in the light as he is
in the light, we have fellowship with

791
00:43:35,924 --> 00:43:40,034
one another and the blood of Jesus,
his son cleanses us from all sin.

792
00:43:40,214 --> 00:43:46,994
He's saying that the truth of the good
news impacts and changes the truth of

793
00:43:46,994 --> 00:43:52,904
your character, who you are being who
you really are, walking in the light.

794
00:43:55,079 --> 00:43:55,829
be real.

795
00:43:55,859 --> 00:43:56,729
Don't pretend.

796
00:43:56,969 --> 00:43:58,079
No hypocrisy.

797
00:43:58,859 --> 00:44:02,479
The old,  word, sincere I heard,
I think it's Latin, comes from

798
00:44:02,479 --> 00:44:04,699
the word meaning without lax.

799
00:44:05,409 --> 00:44:09,619
And the idea behind that was
when they would carve,  statues

800
00:44:09,619 --> 00:44:11,119
outta marble and stone.

801
00:44:11,639 --> 00:44:13,859
You'd work for days and months on that.

802
00:44:13,859 --> 00:44:17,249
As somebody commissioned you to do that,
you're down to the nose, you're doing

803
00:44:17,254 --> 00:44:21,359
the flare of the nostril, and you hit
the chisel just a little too hard and the

804
00:44:21,364 --> 00:44:23,439
whole nose clumps off and you're like, no.

805
00:44:25,049 --> 00:44:28,859
And so what you do instead of being,
forthcoming and truthful and saying,

806
00:44:28,859 --> 00:44:29,999
Hey, what do you think about the

807
00:44:30,049 --> 00:44:31,454
The sinks, that's pretty cool.

808
00:44:31,754 --> 00:44:35,614
Is you would ground up some,  granite
or ground up some rock and mix it

809
00:44:35,614 --> 00:44:37,324
with wax, and then you'd put it on.

810
00:44:38,314 --> 00:44:41,134
. And,  and then, they'd see it
and they'd be like, oh, sweet.

811
00:44:41,134 --> 00:44:41,644
It's done.

812
00:44:41,644 --> 00:44:45,994
But in the heat of the day, a month, as
it's sitting in the atrium or whatever,

813
00:44:46,234 --> 00:44:50,584
the sun would beat on it, and that nose
would just start to slide down that face.

814
00:44:50,734 --> 00:44:56,344
And so the stone masons would
advertise sincere statues without wax.

815
00:44:57,034 --> 00:44:57,994
Without wax.

816
00:44:58,894 --> 00:45:03,844
And so Paul is saying, don't, he's
saying We need to be without wax.

817
00:45:04,774 --> 00:45:08,584
That idea of sincere and integrity,
that idea of what is what you get.

818
00:45:09,584 --> 00:45:15,314
That's why it's so important that
church is a hospital and not a

819
00:45:15,314 --> 00:45:18,974
museum where we display works of art.

820
00:45:19,974 --> 00:45:22,674
We need rescue every day.

821
00:45:22,674 --> 00:45:23,844
I need rescue every day.

822
00:45:24,264 --> 00:45:26,004
I need your prayers every day.

823
00:45:27,204 --> 00:45:28,374
I struggle every day.

824
00:45:29,754 --> 00:45:32,664
I don't think, I don't know how
all of us have done this last week.

825
00:45:32,664 --> 00:45:37,104
Did any of us make it without
stumbling, falling flat on our face?

826
00:45:39,564 --> 00:45:50,184
But what begins to happen is we feel
like we can't be sincere because we have

827
00:45:50,189 --> 00:45:53,454
something to prove to one another or
worst of all, something to prove to God

828
00:45:55,254 --> 00:45:58,914
that, oh God, I'm really not like that.

829
00:46:00,434 --> 00:46:04,374
God desires to rescue you every day.

830
00:46:04,374 --> 00:46:05,214
It's his business.

831
00:46:05,214 --> 00:46:08,234
Like he said, he came
for those who were sick.

832
00:46:08,384 --> 00:46:13,394
They needed rescue, And so it's so
important that we continue to cultivate

833
00:46:13,394 --> 00:46:15,374
that in this culture brokenness.

834
00:46:17,024 --> 00:46:19,994
ongoing brokenness about our
marriages, about our friendships,

835
00:46:19,994 --> 00:46:22,934
about our struggle with forgiveness.

836
00:46:23,494 --> 00:46:27,754
Man, I still wrestle with the
struggle to forgive so hard guys.

837
00:46:28,314 --> 00:46:29,304
And I know it.

838
00:46:29,354 --> 00:46:33,014
and it gets rescued a little bit, but man,
somebody said something to me this last

839
00:46:33,014 --> 00:46:39,834
week on a phone call, and it brought back
this whole wave, like every feeling I've

840
00:46:39,834 --> 00:46:45,064
ever had, every tear that had been poured.

841
00:46:45,124 --> 00:46:45,694
I couldn't take it.

842
00:46:45,774 --> 00:46:47,064
I was so overwhelmed.

843
00:46:47,554 --> 00:46:51,909
And I literally, it was like
I got punched in the stomach

844
00:46:51,969 --> 00:46:53,019
and I didn't know it was there.

845
00:46:53,019 --> 00:46:54,039
I thought I'd moved on.

846
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:54,939
I thought I'm good.

847
00:46:55,179 --> 00:46:58,299
And it was like this one thing, and
it was like everything was back.

848
00:46:58,539 --> 00:46:59,469
The struggle's back.

849
00:46:59,519 --> 00:47:00,999
and,  I need his rescue.

850
00:47:00,999 --> 00:47:04,469
I need that on a daily basis.

851
00:47:04,499 --> 00:47:07,264
we need to be a culture where we're
encouraging one another, where

852
00:47:07,269 --> 00:47:09,034
we're holding up each other's arms.

853
00:47:09,084 --> 00:47:12,714
And not weighing each other's
arms down by some perfectionism

854
00:47:12,714 --> 00:47:14,244
And then, you'll be okay.

855
00:47:14,294 --> 00:47:16,544
There was a pastor, my son
actually showed me this video.

856
00:47:16,544 --> 00:47:17,954
He said, dad, this really made me think.

857
00:47:18,824 --> 00:47:23,859
And this pastor, asked if this
person lived this life, would you

858
00:47:23,889 --> 00:47:26,169
let them, in, into church, basically?

859
00:47:26,169 --> 00:47:27,279
And the pastor said, yeah.

860
00:47:27,499 --> 00:47:28,939
And the guy was like, what?

861
00:47:28,999 --> 00:47:34,069
And so the pastor asked him,  do you clean
yourself up before you get in the shower?

862
00:47:35,449 --> 00:47:36,379
He's like, no.

863
00:47:37,339 --> 00:47:41,089
Why should we expect people to clean
themselves up before they get to Christ?

864
00:47:42,754 --> 00:47:45,184
Who's our rescuer, who changes things.

865
00:47:45,184 --> 00:47:47,224
It's not us, it's not
church that changes things.

866
00:47:47,374 --> 00:47:49,564
Is Jesus Christ the head
of the church that does it.

867
00:47:49,894 --> 00:47:53,644
He's the only one who can raise
the dead right in that way.

868
00:47:53,794 --> 00:47:58,954
So man,  a real honest look
at the death of sin and then

869
00:47:58,954 --> 00:48:00,334
Elong gazing at the Savior.

870
00:48:00,574 --> 00:48:04,444
I was reading through Psalm one
19 a little bit and in Psalm one

871
00:48:04,444 --> 00:48:07,499
19, it's all about the word and
it's all it starts off when I was

872
00:48:07,499 --> 00:48:09,809
first like getting grace and stuff.

873
00:48:09,809 --> 00:48:13,289
I read Psalm one 19 and it tripped me
up cuz it's God, you favor those who are

874
00:48:13,294 --> 00:48:17,039
clean and of a pure heart who have kept
themselves this and kept themselves that.

875
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:21,929
And I was like, ah, but if you keep
reading in verse 1 76, it took a

876
00:48:21,929 --> 00:48:25,739
while, and this is my, his, this
is my testimony it takes a while,

877
00:48:26,999 --> 00:48:30,989
is the psalmist writes and says, I
have gone astray like a lost sheep.

878
00:48:31,019 --> 00:48:34,769
Seek your servant for I do
not forget your commandments.

879
00:48:34,769 --> 00:48:37,889
He's saying, I don't mean
these, I don't match up to them.

880
00:48:37,889 --> 00:48:40,379
I need to be rescued like
a sheep that's gone astray.

881
00:48:40,409 --> 00:48:41,459
I'm just a sheep.

882
00:48:41,489 --> 00:48:44,019
What am I need a shepherd in my life.

883
00:48:44,709 --> 00:48:45,609
Who are we really?

884
00:48:45,609 --> 00:48:48,729
The Bible declares that we're broken
individuals who need God every

885
00:48:48,729 --> 00:48:54,279
step of the way, but we can so
often pretend we can play church.

886
00:48:54,939 --> 00:48:58,449
And, but when we're in a battle that
doesn't work, God asks us to be real.

887
00:48:58,449 --> 00:49:02,139
Some of the hardest persons to be honest
with for some of us is God himself.

888
00:49:03,139 --> 00:49:04,999
Some of us just need to
say, God, I'm broken.

889
00:49:04,999 --> 00:49:05,869
I need you.

890
00:49:07,099 --> 00:49:10,729
Hypocrisy will destroy a church,
creates a whole false culture.

891
00:49:10,734 --> 00:49:12,979
We can never be real, never be weak.

892
00:49:13,279 --> 00:49:15,979
And if you can't be those
things, you can't be healed.

893
00:49:16,489 --> 00:49:20,779
Jesus spits everyone who is weak and we
are and tired to come hi to him for a rest

894
00:49:20,869 --> 00:49:22,909
if you're heavy laden and have burdens.

895
00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:26,349
So let me just,  finish this.

896
00:49:26,349 --> 00:49:26,999
Truth is not.

897
00:49:27,609 --> 00:49:29,049
To be an abstract thing.

898
00:49:29,949 --> 00:49:34,509
The most important dimension of the
belt of truth is the truth about Jesus.

899
00:49:35,049 --> 00:49:36,999
Jesus said, I am the truth.

900
00:49:37,269 --> 00:49:41,559
To know me as to know truth, to not
know me as to be totally deceived about

901
00:49:41,559 --> 00:49:45,549
life, Jesus is to be our worldview.

902
00:49:45,819 --> 00:49:48,129
Even as we read other
scripture, we lead it.

903
00:49:48,129 --> 00:49:49,839
Read it through the lens of Jesus.

904
00:49:49,839 --> 00:49:53,439
Paul repeated that in Ephesians
4 21, assuming that you've heard

905
00:49:53,439 --> 00:49:57,439
about him, and were taught in
Him as the truth is in Jesus.

906
00:49:58,629 --> 00:50:01,539
In Jesus, you see the truth about
yourself, that we were created for

907
00:50:01,539 --> 00:50:05,739
God, and that's why nothing in the
world could ever satisfy us because we

908
00:50:05,739 --> 00:50:07,449
were created to know him and love him.

909
00:50:07,449 --> 00:50:12,279
And in the cross of Jesus, we see that we
are sinners who have separated ourselves

910
00:50:12,459 --> 00:50:17,649
from God and stood condemned, and in
the cross of Jesus, you see the truth

911
00:50:17,649 --> 00:50:21,879
about God, that he loved us so much,
that he took that punishment for us.

912
00:50:21,879 --> 00:50:21,969
Yes.

913
00:50:23,169 --> 00:50:27,069
And so Paul praise in Ephesians one,
verse 16 to 17, I do not cease to give

914
00:50:27,069 --> 00:50:30,309
thanks for you remembering you and
my prayers that the God of our Lord

915
00:50:30,314 --> 00:50:34,629
Jesus Christ, the father of glory,
may give you the spirit of wisdom and

916
00:50:34,629 --> 00:50:39,009
revelation and the knowledge of Him.

917
00:50:40,009 --> 00:50:43,999
Not just truth, but the
truth as it is in Jesus.

918
00:50:45,169 --> 00:50:50,029
Paul is praying that we might know him
who is truth, personally and intimately,

919
00:50:50,539 --> 00:50:54,259
and Ephesians three 14 to 17, for this
reason, I bow my knees before the Father

920
00:50:54,259 --> 00:50:58,129
from whom every family in heaven on Earth
is named, that according to the riches

921
00:50:58,129 --> 00:51:01,729
of his glory, he may grant you to be
strengthened with power through his spirit

922
00:51:01,729 --> 00:51:07,939
and your inner being, so that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith that

923
00:51:07,939 --> 00:51:10,579
you being rooted and grounded and loved.

924
00:51:11,929 --> 00:51:13,739
So he's praying that
they might have strength.

925
00:51:14,119 --> 00:51:14,509
Why?

926
00:51:14,989 --> 00:51:18,799
To go out and to know everything,
to go out and to conquer every lie.

927
00:51:19,774 --> 00:51:24,814
He's praying that they might be rude
and in grounded in his love, that Christ

928
00:51:24,814 --> 00:51:31,024
may dwell in their hearts and that he is
true, might be at home and our hearts.

929
00:51:31,029 --> 00:51:35,764
He who is truth encompasses our
whole being, making every part true.

930
00:51:37,544 --> 00:51:37,809
Dr.

931
00:51:37,809 --> 00:51:40,089
Martin, Lori Jones tells a
story that he was on a train.

932
00:51:40,089 --> 00:51:40,329
Dr.

933
00:51:40,329 --> 00:51:45,019
Martin Lou Jones, before he was a pastor,
was a doctor and a really good doctor.

934
00:51:46,109 --> 00:51:50,399
Somebody on the train,  turned blue
in the face, started frothing at the

935
00:51:50,399 --> 00:51:52,019
mouth and fell down in the aisle.

936
00:51:52,739 --> 00:51:53,879
Everybody got up and panicked.

937
00:51:53,879 --> 00:51:54,719
They said, stop the train.

938
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:55,319
Stop the train.

939
00:51:55,319 --> 00:51:56,549
Somebody called a doctor.

940
00:51:57,219 --> 00:51:57,519
Dr.

941
00:51:57,519 --> 00:51:58,719
Martin Lloyd Jones was a doctor.

942
00:51:59,049 --> 00:52:04,089
He got up and he said, stop, this
man is having an epi epileptic fit.

943
00:52:04,569 --> 00:52:05,649
Look at this.

944
00:52:05,889 --> 00:52:06,969
Look at this.

945
00:52:07,209 --> 00:52:08,559
These are the symptoms.

946
00:52:08,589 --> 00:52:09,879
Look at this and this.

947
00:52:10,269 --> 00:52:12,519
All you have to do is this.

948
00:52:12,669 --> 00:52:13,449
Don't panic.

949
00:52:13,479 --> 00:52:14,499
Do this and this.

950
00:52:14,619 --> 00:52:15,939
It'll be over pretty soon.

951
00:52:16,854 --> 00:52:18,924
We probably don't even need
to take him to the hospital.

952
00:52:18,924 --> 00:52:20,034
Just do this and this.

953
00:52:20,034 --> 00:52:21,054
What happened in the car?

954
00:52:22,224 --> 00:52:27,384
When that authority spoke,
the panic turned to peace.

955
00:52:28,314 --> 00:52:29,604
It turned to cooperation.

956
00:52:29,604 --> 00:52:30,564
It turned teamwork.

957
00:52:30,954 --> 00:52:32,304
Everybody calmed down why?

958
00:52:32,304 --> 00:52:34,554
Somebody had the truth.

959
00:52:34,914 --> 00:52:36,594
Somebody knew the truth.

960
00:52:36,924 --> 00:52:40,014
As soon as he began to tell the
truth, everybody instantly knew it

961
00:52:40,014 --> 00:52:44,514
was the truth, information, insight
into the real nature of things.

962
00:52:44,964 --> 00:52:46,974
That's what's in the word of God.

963
00:52:47,424 --> 00:52:51,174
And that kind of note of
clarity and authority needs

964
00:52:51,174 --> 00:52:53,874
to be operating in our lives.

965
00:52:53,874 --> 00:52:58,464
Jesus is the authority in our lives,
or we talked about it last week.

966
00:52:58,704 --> 00:52:59,694
I delight in your law.

967
00:52:59,699 --> 00:53:00,864
I meditate on it day and night.

968
00:53:00,864 --> 00:53:01,344
What does he say?

969
00:53:01,344 --> 00:53:03,354
And he's saying, you are my authority.

970
00:53:04,164 --> 00:53:08,424
I thrive and flourish when you
are my authority and I'm not.

971
00:53:09,624 --> 00:53:11,904
That's what I was made for.

972
00:53:12,899 --> 00:53:15,939
The truth is more than
information and facts, John eight.

973
00:53:16,419 --> 00:53:21,039
And you shall know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.

974
00:53:22,749 --> 00:53:26,679
Doesn't matter how many people voted
for it, if it disagrees with the

975
00:53:26,679 --> 00:53:29,349
divine point of view, it isn't truth.

976
00:53:29,354 --> 00:53:33,039
The truth that's revealed in
Jesus is what we're after.

977
00:53:33,459 --> 00:53:34,359
God's truth.

978
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,359
Jesus' truth, not man's truth.

979
00:53:37,749 --> 00:53:41,379
And the enemy can't handle that truth.

980
00:53:42,669 --> 00:53:43,539
You see that right?

981
00:53:44,049 --> 00:53:47,349
When Jesus is being tempted,
you said over and over.

982
00:53:47,354 --> 00:53:47,859
It's written.

983
00:53:48,129 --> 00:53:48,579
It's written.

984
00:53:48,584 --> 00:53:49,389
I written this on the way it's written.

985
00:53:49,389 --> 00:53:50,259
Thank you Siri.

986
00:53:50,289 --> 00:53:50,769
That's awesome.

987
00:53:51,429 --> 00:53:51,699
Okay.

988
00:53:51,699 --> 00:53:52,719
She found it for me.

989
00:53:52,869 --> 00:53:53,379
Wow.

990
00:53:53,819 --> 00:53:56,619
She found truth, she
found,  Matthew chapter four.

991
00:53:57,549 --> 00:54:00,849
The enemy had to leave in
the face of that truth.

992
00:54:01,849 --> 00:54:04,459
Stand on what he's done, what he says.

993
00:54:04,459 --> 00:54:06,769
You are your new identity.

994
00:54:07,429 --> 00:54:12,109
that you are hidden him and as the
father adores him, because you're

995
00:54:12,109 --> 00:54:14,419
hidden Christ, the Father adores you.

996
00:54:14,959 --> 00:54:19,519
The Father celebrates you as if you've
obeyed as perfectly as Jesus, as if

997
00:54:19,519 --> 00:54:23,029
you've done everything as right as Jesus.

998
00:54:23,359 --> 00:54:24,989
That is crazy.

999
00:54:25,429 --> 00:54:28,639
Could you imagine if you faced
the world with that truth, that

1000
00:54:28,639 --> 00:54:32,119
reality that is incredible.

1001
00:54:32,339 --> 00:54:33,479
so how did this come about?

1002
00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:40,229
How could a holy God come to sinful
man and exchange his righteousness

1003
00:54:40,234 --> 00:54:44,159
for a sinfulness and Haus in him?

1004
00:54:45,669 --> 00:54:49,719
The story of,  Joshua and Jericho,
you remember, as they are planning

1005
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:54,299
out their strategy, Joshua, goes
to,  the captain of the Lord of Host.

1006
00:54:54,299 --> 00:55:01,049
He sees a pre-incarnate appearance,  a
theophany of Jesus as a soldier, right?

1007
00:55:01,659 --> 00:55:07,359
and,  and Jo,  Joshua asked him, he says,
are you for us or for your, for our enemy?

1008
00:55:08,289 --> 00:55:11,319
And that it's the best answer in the
world cuz it's only one God would give.

1009
00:55:11,529 --> 00:55:18,499
He says, neither , it's so good because
what he's saying, no, I'm not a God.

1010
00:55:18,499 --> 00:55:23,389
You sprinkle onto, your
divine,  plate like salt.

1011
00:55:24,559 --> 00:55:26,539
You're either for me or you're against me.

1012
00:55:27,019 --> 00:55:29,959
I'm the captain of the Lord of Host.

1013
00:55:30,319 --> 00:55:31,969
You remember, he gives
them the plan, right?

1014
00:55:31,969 --> 00:55:35,129
And they march around Jericho,
seven ti or for seven days.

1015
00:55:35,129 --> 00:55:38,829
And then they march around on the seventh
day, the seventh time, and then they

1016
00:55:38,834 --> 00:55:44,189
all blow a trumpet and shout, and the
whole walls come crumbling down, right?

1017
00:55:44,189 --> 00:55:45,449
And the enemy's defeated, right?

1018
00:55:45,449 --> 00:55:49,059
Not one of,  the Israel lights perished.

1019
00:55:49,059 --> 00:55:53,169
Now, early in Stockton, I went on a
prayer retreat with a bunch of different

1020
00:55:53,169 --> 00:55:56,199
pastors who know it was amazing, but
they actually taped out on the ground.

1021
00:55:56,589 --> 00:55:58,329
The city of Stockton, like on a map.

1022
00:55:58,629 --> 00:56:02,179
And at one point we all marched
around,  seven times and I felt a

1023
00:56:02,179 --> 00:56:05,449
little,  out of place, but it was
amazing to be with my brothers.

1024
00:56:05,989 --> 00:56:11,359
But the point of the story is in Jericho
and the walls that came crumbling down

1025
00:56:11,359 --> 00:56:17,359
and the enemy that perished that day
is who we are in the story that the

1026
00:56:17,359 --> 00:56:21,859
captain of the Lord of Host had every
right to put us to death with his

1027
00:56:21,979 --> 00:56:24,469
just wrath at the edge of his sword.

1028
00:56:25,909 --> 00:56:34,809
That we have not only been
misguided,  deceived, but that

1029
00:56:34,809 --> 00:56:37,059
we are actually enemies of God.

1030
00:56:38,349 --> 00:56:43,509
You see when two kingdoms try to
occupy the same space, there's war.

1031
00:56:45,309 --> 00:56:48,189
God says, all creations mine.

1032
00:56:48,669 --> 00:56:51,369
And we said, not me.

1033
00:56:52,359 --> 00:56:53,109
, this is mine.

1034
00:56:53,289 --> 00:56:54,279
This is my world.

1035
00:56:54,549 --> 00:56:58,539
So there was war, there was
conflict, there was entity guys.

1036
00:56:58,929 --> 00:57:03,449
Our biggest problem in life was not
how are we gonna, make it or will I

1037
00:57:03,449 --> 00:57:09,659
be recognized or will I ever stop this
bad habit That is so far down the list.

1038
00:57:09,659 --> 00:57:13,619
Your greatest problem in life, and
don't ever forget it, was that the

1039
00:57:13,619 --> 00:57:19,349
God of the universe stood opposed to
you and you had nothing to stand on

1040
00:57:20,339 --> 00:57:28,349
because your righteousness the best
was a filthy rack in his holy sight.

1041
00:57:30,179 --> 00:57:31,349
So who were we in the story?

1042
00:57:33,059 --> 00:57:35,129
We're definitely not the
captain of the Lord Host.

1043
00:57:35,189 --> 00:57:36,449
We're not Joshua.

1044
00:57:36,789 --> 00:57:40,179
As much as I'd love, you'd love
the namesake, guess who we were,

1045
00:57:40,184 --> 00:57:41,289
we're the ones in the city.

1046
00:57:42,289 --> 00:57:44,749
We're the ones that the wrath
of God is coming against.

1047
00:57:45,649 --> 00:57:45,829
No hope.

1048
00:57:47,854 --> 00:57:52,174
And this circle of God's
judgment is growing, inc.

1049
00:57:52,534 --> 00:57:56,264
Increasingly more near till
we start to feel the ground.

1050
00:57:56,269 --> 00:57:58,184
And some of you remember your testimony.

1051
00:57:58,544 --> 00:58:02,704
The ground beneath us was shaking and hell
of itself is ready to swallow us up, up.

1052
00:58:03,704 --> 00:58:10,074
But our God is so good that he
let the wall fall on him to save

1053
00:58:10,074 --> 00:58:11,544
everyone in the city, his enemy.

1054
00:58:13,554 --> 00:58:20,724
He was crushed, he was bruised,
he was crushed for our sins.

1055
00:58:20,844 --> 00:58:26,304
And in our place, the righteous
judgment that was far greater and

1056
00:58:26,304 --> 00:58:28,034
those walls were thick and Jericho.

1057
00:58:28,034 --> 00:58:31,794
You could write two chariots,
archeologists say on top of the wall.

1058
00:58:31,799 --> 00:58:35,344
That's how thick it was to bring those
walls down is nothing comparative.

1059
00:58:35,344 --> 00:58:38,659
As Jesus looked into the cup that
he was gonna drink, The wrath

1060
00:58:38,659 --> 00:58:40,759
that I deserved coming upon him.

1061
00:58:40,909 --> 00:58:44,659
The sinless lamb of God who
took away the sin of the world.

1062
00:58:45,109 --> 00:58:46,669
Guys, he loves you.

1063
00:58:47,209 --> 00:58:48,949
He went for his enemies.

1064
00:58:48,949 --> 00:58:51,829
He didn't just say, love your
enemies to his disciples.

1065
00:58:51,919 --> 00:58:57,499
He did it, and he reconciled
this to him, and he made peace

1066
00:58:57,499 --> 00:58:58,969
where there was no peace.

1067
00:58:59,329 --> 00:59:00,889
He brought us back to the Father.

1068
00:59:00,889 --> 00:59:05,059
He brought us back to the garden,
walking with God in the cool of the day.

1069
00:59:05,389 --> 00:59:06,649
He said, that's not enough.

1070
00:59:06,649 --> 00:59:08,209
Just walking side by side.

1071
00:59:08,389 --> 00:59:09,889
I want to come and live inside you.

1072
00:59:09,889 --> 00:59:11,689
I don't make my home with you.

1073
00:59:11,899 --> 00:59:17,689
I want to indwell you by my very presence,
the spirit of the living God lives in you.

1074
00:59:17,929 --> 00:59:19,279
I don't want to just live in you.

1075
00:59:19,279 --> 00:59:21,889
I want to give you a new
heart, a heart made of flesh.

1076
00:59:22,009 --> 00:59:24,079
I want to inscribe my law on it.

1077
00:59:24,109 --> 00:59:25,369
I want to decorate it.

1078
00:59:25,519 --> 00:59:28,819
I want to make it into something
far greater than you could ever ma

1079
00:59:28,879 --> 00:59:34,729
imagine, guys, the greatness of the
gospel says that we were his enemies

1080
00:59:34,849 --> 00:59:36,769
and now he's made us his friend.

1081
00:59:37,769 --> 00:59:40,379
At least made us part of his own body.

1082
00:59:41,909 --> 00:59:42,839
That's the truth.

1083
00:59:43,409 --> 00:59:44,609
That's the objective truth.

1084
00:59:44,609 --> 00:59:46,589
That's the objective
from historical truth.

1085
00:59:47,309 --> 00:59:48,959
Jesus is our truth.

1086
00:59:49,019 --> 00:59:50,609
Jesus is truth.

1087
00:59:51,719 --> 00:59:57,319
And and so we don't wanna be entangled
with anything that's keeping us

1088
00:59:57,319 --> 00:59:58,909
away from looking under Jesus.

1089
00:59:58,909 --> 01:00:00,319
The author and perfective faith.

1090
01:00:02,269 --> 01:00:03,589
We look to him, we run to him.

1091
01:00:04,369 --> 01:00:05,839
We don't take our eyes off of him.

1092
01:00:06,739 --> 01:00:10,159
We see another brother and sister
who have their eyes off of Jesus.

1093
01:00:10,159 --> 01:00:11,689
We do not go.

1094
01:00:11,839 --> 01:00:14,209
I can't believe so-and-so
has their eyes off of.

1095
01:00:14,309 --> 01:00:16,639
But Jesus, we come alongside them.

1096
01:00:16,639 --> 01:00:18,229
We say, look at Jesus.

1097
01:00:18,319 --> 01:00:19,339
Look at what he's done.

1098
01:00:19,339 --> 01:00:20,449
Look how great he is.

1099
01:00:20,449 --> 01:00:23,179
Isn't He's so worthy of our praise isn't.

1100
01:00:23,179 --> 01:00:23,899
He's so good.

1101
01:00:24,309 --> 01:00:25,099
Remember your story.

1102
01:00:25,549 --> 01:00:26,599
Remember what he's done.

1103
01:00:27,709 --> 01:00:28,879
and we're healed a little more.

1104
01:00:28,879 --> 01:00:32,179
We're changed from one degree of
splendor a little more, and we're

1105
01:00:32,179 --> 01:00:36,319
able to stand against the fortress
and the lies and the doubt and the

1106
01:00:36,319 --> 01:00:41,969
speculation,  of the enemy as we keep
locked, focus on Jesus and what he's done.

1107
01:00:42,339 --> 01:00:42,639
Jesus.

1108
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:43,569
Thank you for your word.

1109
01:00:43,569 --> 01:00:44,919
Thank you for your truth.

1110
01:00:45,549 --> 01:00:46,509
God, we do.

1111
01:00:47,899 --> 01:00:51,349
There's so many things to
be students of nowadays.

1112
01:00:52,129 --> 01:00:53,659
We don't wanna leave
off the primary thing,

1113
01:00:54,659 --> 01:00:55,849
Lord, rescue our hearts.

1114
01:00:56,849 --> 01:01:00,139
Glorify yourself right now in this
time, Lord, as we break the bread,

1115
01:01:00,859 --> 01:01:06,709
your body broken, like those walls
that fell your blood poured out.

1116
01:01:08,419 --> 01:01:09,289
For our forgiveness.

1117
01:01:09,289 --> 01:01:11,689
A life exchange for a life
absolutely incredible.

1118
01:01:11,689 --> 01:01:17,929
Lord, may that truth anchor and have
its home, Lord, may everything be

1119
01:01:17,929 --> 01:01:21,049
held together by that in our lives.

1120
01:01:21,979 --> 01:01:28,609
So Lord,  bless this time now as we
celebrate,  you and what you've done.

1121
01:01:28,939 --> 01:01:30,049
We love you Jesus.

1122
01:01:30,049 --> 01:01:34,339
Thank you for loving us
first when we are far off.

1123
01:01:34,699 --> 01:01:36,079
Thank you Jesus and Jesus name.

1124
01:01:36,349 --> 01:01:36,739
Amen.