101 Bible Questions: And the Surprising Answers You May Not Hear in Church

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Radio. Well, welcome, good
to have you with us. I'm Bill

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Martinez, and we've got a great
topic. We're going to be talking about

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one hundred and one Bible questions and
the surprising answers you may not here in

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church because sometimes, you know,
I think most churches want to maintain,

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as it says in the Bible,
that all things should be done decently and

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in order. And sometimes I'll tell
you some of these questions need to be

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asked in maybe a smaller group discussion, but that's okay. But the fact

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of the matter is is that many
in the pews today have these questions,

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and these questions should be answered as
I say, in church, there may

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be many questions about Christianity. Some
say you're not supposed to ask. But

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Andrew Farley, the pastor and best
selling author of this new book, one

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hundred and one Bible Questions and Surprising
Answers you may not hear in church,

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ask the hard, forbidden and taboo
questions about our faith and offer surprising biblical

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answers you may never hear in church
from questions can I lose my salvation?

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Are there any sins that are unforgivable? Are divorce and remarriage wrong for a

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Christian? But of course there are
many more one hundred and one To be

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exact, and Andrew Farley joins us
now, Andrew, welcome, Michelle.

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Good to have you with us.
Hey, thank you, Bill, great

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to be here. How bold of
you too? One hundred and one Bible

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questions. But of course these are
questions that you have been asked, either

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in church or after church, or
maybe in a meeting with a congregant.

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Right, yes, absolutely, I
mean these are the questions that maybe you're

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not allowed to ask at the Thanksgiving
dinner table. You know, after a

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sermon, you've got a few questions
you wish you could ask the pastor to

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clear some things up. And maybe
you're a little bit too bashful or you

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don't feel safe. So there's a
lot of controversial questions and important questions in

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this book. Well, without a
doubt. Well, the thing is,

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first of all, the challenge we
have is is humanoids. We know in

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part, we prophesy in part,
and this in part thing sometimes is hard

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for us to understand because some personalities
just have to know and they're they're pretty

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pretty determined in their form and their
beliefs, right yeah, I mean,

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you know, we got a lot
of unleft answers. There, unleft questions

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that need answers. I mean,
you look at you know, if I'm

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supposed to turn from every sin and
confess every sin? What if I forget

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one? What if I leave one
out? What if Jesus returns and I've

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got, you know, thirty eight
hundred unconfessed sins. Where am I with

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God? What's the final judgment look
like? Am I going to be okay?

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I mean that's probably Bill, That's
probably the number one question we get

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on our radio program. It's basically, did I mess this up? Have

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I gone too far? What does
God think of me? You know?

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All of these big questions are in
the book well, and the answer is,

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yes, we messed it up.
If we didn't, we wouldn't need

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Jesus, right, that's right.
And then he fixed it, and he

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fixed it all the way, yes, exactly was the perfect sacrifice, the

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Bible says. And it required,
you know, someone like Jesus, but

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had to be Jesus because this is
who God appointed, who had sanctified and

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set for this time in order that
we would be redeemed. And there's no

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other solution to our sin problem,
is there? Right? I mean,

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Jesus is pretty exclusive. He calls
himself the narrow gate. He says,

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I'm the only way to the Father. So we got a lot of world

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religions. I think what they all
have in common is basically, you're supposed

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to wake up and improve yourself and
fix yourself, and you try to perform

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enough and hope that you well,
hope that God grades on a curve or

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something. But what is unique about
the Gospel is we just admit, right

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at the beginning, there's no way
I can do this. You know,

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if you think of Mount Sinai and
law based living, it's like we're sitting

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down at the base of the mountain
at base camp. There's no way we're

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going to reach the peak of the
mountain, and we just need to admit

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it. And then Jesus hikes up
the mountain, earns a gold medal,

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hangs it around our neck, and
then says, stay off that mountain.

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It'll kill you, and the law
kills but Jesus gives life. Amen.

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Well, and that's the deal.
The law came to demonstrate and make it

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real clear that we couldn't do it
ourselves. It's kind of like you know,

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Andrew, you know, you know
when the highway patrol put up speed

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signs, right, and I remember
when we had to make the adjustment because

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of you know, because of oil
and the oil and Barty was going on

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in the seventies, probably before you
were you were driving, I'm sure,

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but the fact that, take my
word for it, all of a sudden,

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this speed limit signs went from sixty
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matter because people were still driving seventy
miles an hour anyway. So all the

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speed sign did was tell everybody,
hey, you're breaking the law like everybody

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else. But we needed that sign
to tell us what the law was and

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you know, demonstrate to us if
you wanted to look at it from a

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spiritual standpoint. You know, we
didn't you know, we didn't care about

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the law. We didn't care to
follow the law. Law, right,

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Yeah, I mean, you know, it's six hundred and thirteen commands staring

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you in the face. There's no
way you're going to do it. It's

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like, you know, the old
analogy is that it's like a mirror.

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The law is like a mirror.
It's going to show you the dirt on

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your face, but it's not going
to clean you. And then you turn

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to Christ and He cleanses you once
for all. So Jesus does what the

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law could not do. And yet
today I'd say, Bill, there's a

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lot of people mixing law and grace
and they're not not really understanding that grace

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is more than saving us. I
mean, grace is not just for salvation.

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We also grow in the grace of
God, and the grace of God

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teaches us to say no to sin. Yeah, exactly. Well, and

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like you say, you know,
in some cases, grace is understated.

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Grace is overstated, and you know, and it's it's it's unfortunate because the

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fact of the matter is is God
doesn't want us to be walking around,

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you know, without knowledge, right
exactly. I mean, you know,

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there's a whole lot that happened by
grace. Grace is more than just getting

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out of jail free. Grace is
more than going to heaven. Grace is

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more than getting your sins forgiven.
A big part of grace is that,

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hey, by God's grace, you
got your heart ripped out and replaced.

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You got a new heart, you
got a new spirit, you got God's

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spirit living in you, out with
the old, in with the new,

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crucified with Christ, buried and raised
to newness of life. That's part of

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what grace did for us as well. So we need to kind of blow

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up our view of grace and realize
that by grace we got a new heart,

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we got a new nature, we
got a whole new set of desires

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too. Yeah. One of the
things that I keep running into, Andrew,

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is the lack of understanding of who
God is. And we're just talking

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about God, Father God. You
know, still a lot of confusion over

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Jesus. Certainly, you know,
bring in the Holy Spirit and you've got

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a whole nother you know, bucket
of confusion and misunderstanding here. And I

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think the challenge we have is,
first of all, let's start with first

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principles. You know, the Bible
opens up within the beginning. God,

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to me, that is just so
profound that this is where it all starts,

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the beginning of all knowledge and wisdom, the beginning of understanding why we're

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here, what we're supposed to do, what my identity is? Right?

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Yeah, I mean, so you
have an issue in your life and you

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go to the world and you say, give me your best counsel, and

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you go to this person and that
part you end up going to the creation

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rather than the creator first. And
you know, I think what you pointed

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out there basically reminds us. You
know, God's our designer, he's our

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architect. He knows what makes us
tick, and he also knows how to

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meet our needs. So whether we're
feeling lonely or we don't know, you

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know, what is our identity.
We're trying to get our identity from our

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work, or we're trying to get
identity from our marriage. You know,

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we're sucking the life out of our
spouse trying to get our needs met,

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and they're doing the same with us. And you just have to hit a

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point where you say, wait a
minute, they're the creation, just like

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me. I need to be looking
to the creator, not the creation.

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So that happens in your household too. I thought it was just mine.

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Andrew actually coincidentally mine too. Bill. We're talking with Andrew Farley, the

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pastor and best selling author is new
book one hundred and one Bible Question Surprising

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answers you may not hear in church, you know, bring it to you

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know, current news for example.
And we're just having this discussion this morning

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Andrew that you know, there's you
know, and you pause for just a

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moment, what's happening in Israel?
I want to bring that into focus here

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for just a moment. Is that
there's a lot of secular opinion and ideas

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about what's going on, which I
think is most amazing because here is we're

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talking the Holy Land. We're talking
where God placed his name. We're talking

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where he had sanctified and set the
land apart specifically for his chosen people.

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And here we have a you know, what's become you know, Israel has

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become a secularist nation. And I
got to tell I was shocked because when

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I went to Israel probably about five
six years ago. I had this expectation.

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It was like wow, I mean
you talk about Mount Sinai. I

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mean you're on Hallowed Ground, all
this that you go and you walk into

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and you think, oh my gosh. You know, this is not anything

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like I expected it to be.
You know, it just seemed just so,

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I don't know, so consumeristic,
so you know, so modernized in

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a way that they've lost its sense
of origin. Yes, you could go

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to the you know, to the
wall and you see Hasidic Jews and and

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I'll tell you I was blessed so
much on you know, when the Sabbath

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opened up, and how the Jews
would come down, you know, arm

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and arm, you know, praising
God. You could hear them from a

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distance, and the build up of
their praising with just as they got closer

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and closer to the Western Wall.
There. It was just it was real

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special. But it was all mixed
into this increasing level of secularism. And

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so you have that, then you
have the United States of America, you

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know, offering some advice and counsel, and we come with our secularistic ideas

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and answers, and I'm thinking,
what are they missing here. I mean

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we're talking fifty years ago you had
the Yam Kipper wars, okay, and

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in the pattern of the Jubilee,
fifty years later to the date, you

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have this new war that breaks out, and nobody is talking Andrew about the

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spiritual implication of the significance of this
war taking place in Israel right now?

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Yeah, Well, you know you
talked about a lot there. I would

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say, as believers in Christ,
I mean, we're in a sense really

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excited about the return of the Lord. Obviously, we want the message to

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permeate the world and get all over
the place. And so as believers in

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Christ, we wake up every day
and we say, you know, this

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war could be it. That war
could be it. This could be closer

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to the end. It obviously is
closer to the end than we were a

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year ago or ten years now.
Every day is closer. So our job

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doesn't change. I mean, our
role is still the same, and that

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is to proclaim the death and resurrection
of Christ. And you talked about Israel.

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You know, Paul being an Israelite, Paul being a Jew, his

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heart went out to the Jews and
he said, Gosh, I would do

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anything, even stir them to jealousy
if I need to, because I want

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them to know that Jesus Christ is
a Messiah. And so I think we

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are playing a pivotal, pivotal role
here as believers. And uh so,

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yeah, we're we need to be
protecting Israel and really extending love to anybody

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that's in harm's way. We can't
afford to consumerize Christianity, and we also

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cannot afford uh to do anything except
walk in love and walk by the spirit

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and proclaim the gospel. Well,
who's to say that this has been orchestrated

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by God? Because his number one
job is a redemption. Right, whether

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you're Muslim, Christian, Jew,
whatever, it doesn't it doesn't matter.

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He created you. And right now, just like that's you know that speed

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sign up in the road. This
is a sign that gives us an opportunity,

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as you say, to demonstrate the
Gospel, to demonstrate the love of

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God in such a way, regardless
of how horrific what occurred there. I'm

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not saying it needs to be we
need to put it under the carpet.

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I think that this is an opportune
time, Like everything that comes with God,

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it is an appointed time to come
in alignment with what God is doing

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on earth as he is in heaven. Right, Yeah, So, I

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mean the Bible really urges us to
trust that everything that's happening, I mean

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God's allowing it. People try to
figure this thing of what's God causing,

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what's God allowing? Well, we
could tell you that God is allowing everything

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that's happening. So clearly he allowed
Satan to rebel, he allowed Adam and

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Eve to rebel, He allowed the
fallen world to take place. So now

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we've got wars and violence. I
like to say planet Earth is coming at

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you, but Christ is working in
you. And those are two different things.

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You know, I might be tempted
to think, well, something horrible

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happened. God did that to me. Well, God doesn't abuse his children

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and he doesn't hurl disaster at us. Instead, he's our comforter and counselor

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and guide, And right now I
would say he's guiding us into making sound

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decisions about Israel and about anyone who
really needs to receive love and hear the

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truth of the Gospel. Well,
I think it comes back to those first

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principles, Andrew, does it not
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that there is a difference between good
and evil. You know, we are

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warned in the Bible that there will
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good, good would be called evil
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in many ways we see that being
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Evil is right smack dab in our
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getting it. I pray that more
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sign, it's there to warn us
that there is danger. There are things

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that we you know, in and
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this is why we need God,
why we need the blood of Christ,

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so that you know that we as
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closer and closer to the return of
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laboring and in alignment with God's purposes
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I mean, the scripture says God
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wants all to believe. He wants
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not ending lives early. At this
point, you know, the son of

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Man has been lifted up. He's
drawing all people unto himself. He wants

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anybody and everybody to believe. Obviously, there are rejectors of the gospel.

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There are people that don't receive the
truth. But God's heart is that anybody

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and everybody call upon the Lord and
be saved. Amen. Amen, Well

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again, we continue to pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. Getting back to

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your book one hundred one Bible questions, probably one of the top questions,

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because once you've had salvation. I
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David had a moment where he knew
he had messed up so badly said God,

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please don't take your holy Spirit from
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thought that he would lose his relationship
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him, wasn't it. Yeah,
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you brought that up because here we
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mean, there's a reason that Jesus
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and took away our sins forever,
and there's a reason that he was so

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emphatic about the eternal life he would
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David saying, you know, creating
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spirit in me, Please don't take
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never see Paul worried about that.
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Their New Testament message was that you're
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and you're going to have eternal life, and you're going to have all your

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sins taken away, and I'm never
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forsake you, and nothing separates you
from the love of Christ. So we've

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got a beautiful message today, Bill, I mean, as great as it

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was for David to relate to God, David was a man after God's own

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heart. I mean, I mean
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have something better in the New Testament, we have something better because of the

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death and resurrection of Christ. Well, and don't you love it the testimony

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of the apostles who knew Jesus firsthand, that saw this playing out. And

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of course then Jesus sanctifies Paul on
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because here there is a learned man
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Jesus says, hey, I'm going
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to connect the dots for you.
I'm first I'm going to make you blind.

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But then I'm going to open up
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and all of a sudden, all
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going to come into clarity. Could
you imagine? Yeah, I mean he

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had his world rocked, and he
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of Christians to being the apostle that
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you know, if we're on that
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Moses. So Moses wrote the first
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rage, and then David wrote the
Psalms, and he put a guy on

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the front lines of his army so
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could take his wife. And then
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So I think God's trying to tell
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by a a few murderers there,
and maybe that means that God's grace is

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a lot bigger than we thought.
So if you ever think you're too far

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gone, if you ever think you've
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grace has run out, please remember
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on us. Well, amen,
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to demonstrate that his grace never runs
out, I mean, this always blows

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me away, Andrew, when I
contemplate a father surrendering his son for a

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bunch of knuckleheads, a bunch of
stiff necked knuckleheads that just you know won't

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get it. They almost I mean, this side of heaven, they'll never

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get it. You know, we
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glimpses of it. But regardless of
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the line to be that sacrifice so
that we can come home because God knew,

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God knew from the very beginning where
we belong, right, Yeah,

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and look what He's done for us. So he sends his son and he's

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crucified, buried, and raised.
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dwell within our hearts. And so
twenty four to seven, without interruption,

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we now have this beautiful presence of
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And you know, when you're a
kid, the way that you can spell

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love is that your parents spend time
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his spirit that he never revokes.
So you know, I mean, Jesus

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is not just our savior and our
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very life, and he lives with
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And when you think about the implications
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have a unique personality and be yourself
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fruit of the Spirit at the exact
same time. How cool is that?

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Huh? Yeah, awesome? I
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the spirit, you know, we
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will forgive you know, just about
everything except for you know, grieving the

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spirit. Yeah, and maybe you
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go, you know what sin?
What is the ultimate sin that I could

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do that could keep me from heaven? Yeah, So the blasphemy of the

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Holy Spirit is what Jesus is talking
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Satan. I mean they were looking
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and they were saying, this is
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So that's what the unpardonable or unforgivable
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the work of Christ. So if
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a sin that you're committing. But
if you reject the Gospel bill, then

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obviously you're not going to find forgiveness
anywhere else if you reject the forgiveness of

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Jesus, and you're not going to
find eternal life anywhere else if you reject

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the eternal life given by Jesus.
So it's very simple. I love the

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Gospel. It is plain and clear
that we are either going to accept or

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reject. And he who believes in
the Son of God has life, and

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he who does not believe does not
have life. And there you have it.

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So once you've got life, that
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an unpardonable sin because Jesus has already
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as far as the east is from
the west. Yeah, And and how

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do you you know, once you've
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sense at the spiritual banquet table yep, enjoying the goodness of the Lord,

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and and we all mess up,
and we all can step away from the

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banquet table and we realize that go
what happened. The smells aren't the same,

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the food doesn't taste the same.
There's something off. And but again

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that's God's grace and it's the Holy
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to the banquet table, right.
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like, to take your analogy,
imagine the enemy offers us some garbage out

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of the dumpster, and we just
finished a fabulous meal with the King of

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Kings, and so yeah, we're
we're at I mean, we're seated with

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Christ in heavenly places. We're at
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food in the universe, spiritually speaking. And then the enemy says, hey,

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maybe you'd prefer this just like just
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the same thing. I mean,
and Eve were enjoying perfection. Everything was

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fine, and then Satan says,
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bit. Maybe you need to try
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what he offered them, ironically,
what he offered them was the knowledge of

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good and evil. So he offered
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He offered them the knowledge of good
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And so today we've got a morality
out there, and people think they're fine

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if they're living morally, if they're
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of conduct, they think they're okay. But we got to remember that that

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was the first sin. I mean, the first sin was eating from that

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tree of the knowledge of good and
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Adam and Eve's plan was, you
know what, I'm going to eat of

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this tree and then I'll be more
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So just think about that, because
that's what world religion says, if you

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will obey this code of conduct,
you can become more Godly. What we

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really need to do as believers is
say, no, I'm complete in Christ.

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I have everything I need for life
and godliness. He's made me righteous,

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holy, and blameless, and so
I'm gonna walk in a manner that

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is worthy of my calling exactly well, And this is why it's so important

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for us, as we walk in
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that God has given us, that
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You know, here it is Adam
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of someone who had already raised his
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than God himself, and that's what
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paradise. And here it is his
message, his his his narrative is now

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spread on you know, God's first
creation, Adam and Eve. Yeah,

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so you know, you think about
your companionship and who you choose to hang

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with. I mean, basically,
you're either fueling up on God's goodness and

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God's grace and the Gospel, or
you're fueling up on something else. And

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you're going to fill that computer of
yours, your mind. You're going to

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fill that with something because it's meant
to fuel up either on truth or error.

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And that's the beauty of a healthy
community where people are pointing you back

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to the Gospel over and over and
over. The Gospel's not just for getting

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saved. The Gospel is actually the
most encouraging message on the planet. I

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mean, think about it, Bill, what's not to like here? We

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got a God who takes away our
sins. We got a God who accepts

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us and loves us unconditionally. We
got a God who lives in us and

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says he'll never leave us, and
he just so happens to be our designer

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and our architect. So he knows
what makes us tick and what fulfills us

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exactly, and what is that right
hole that we're supposed to fit in.

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Right to have a sense of fulfillment
and above fulfillment, liberty, you know,

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free to be all that you can
be because of the way God created

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you. Because that's part of the
struggle that we have here is where like

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round pegs looking for square holes,
and and that's creating more and more conflict

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and consternation as opposed to you know, freedom and peace. Right. Yeah,

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I mean you're different than the guy
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or the guy across the street.
I mean he's laying awake nights and

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he's dreaming of new ways to sin, and then here you and I are

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talking about how to not sin.
So it's pretty clear that we are aliens

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in this world. We're different than
the guy next door. Were made for

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so much more. And if we
would just remember that in the moment of

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temptation, then we can say,
you know what, that thought, that

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thought did not come from me.
I'm dead to that thought. I'm alive

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to God, and I'm not going
to go there because I remember how miserable.

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I was the last time. So
I'm going to save time and effort

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and energy, and I'm going to
fix my eyes on Jesus. And that's

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where true happiness is. Well.
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writes in the Book of Ephesians.
God has given us weapons of our

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warfare, you know. And and
part of the weapons is the shield of

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faith. That shield of faith is
that fiery dart, that idea that Satan

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throws your way to tempt you and
test you out. And that that,

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you know, shield of faith,
as you as you say, will cause

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us to pause and it'll quench that
dart right away. And the other thing

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is it will cause us to ponder
on that, like where where did that

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come from? Is that going to
add or take away from the liberty that

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God has given me? Right?
Yeah? And I mean you talked about

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the armor of God there. Every
piece of the armor really brings us back

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to who Jesus is. So you
got the breastplate of righteousness, Well,

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what does that tell you? It
tells you two things. The enemy is

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going to be attacking your heart,
yes, you know, right there at

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the chest area, so to speak. The enemy is going to be attacking

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your heart, and the answer to
that attack is no, No, I'm

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the righteousness of God. Jesus has
made me righteous and I have a new

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heart. And then the enemy is
going to attack your head about your salvation.

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Well, the answer to that is
the helmet of salvation, remembering that

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Jesus is your salvation. So we
could go through every piece of the armor,

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whether it's the sword of the spirit, the shield of faith, the

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belt of truth, the truth about
who, the truth about Jesus. So

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really that armor of God is wake
up every day and just saying I'm going

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to put on Christ and he is
my defense against any accusation and any condemnation.

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Exactly. You know, Andrew Farley, it's amazing, you know,

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ponscious Pilot asked Jesus. He's standing
right in front of the truth and he

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asking me what, so what is
the truth? It is amazing how through

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the millennia that is the question.
And here we are in this information age

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in which we live in where in
the palm of your hand you've got all

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this information, and the Bible says
that there will be that period of time

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when we're running to and fro looking
to know more and really understanding less and

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if we are not discerners of the
truth, if that is not the vanguard

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of our inquiry, we're going to
be duped. Yeah. Absolutely, I

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mean Jesus says the truth will set
us free. So if we don't get

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to know the truth, we're going
to be bound up and confused. And

417
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you got you know, you mentioned
the Romans and truth, and then there

418
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was the Greeks and truth. You
got Plato and Socrates and Aristotle, and

419
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:15.160
they're you know, debating whether we're
here by accident and fate and free will,

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and everybody's trying to find their own
version of truth. Today we've got

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relativism, and you know, if
it's okay for me, then it's the

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00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:28.400
truth for me. And you have
your truth and I have mine. Well,

423
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you know, the universe doesn't really
work that way. Let's let's take

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oxygen for example. There's a simple
truth that you and I both need oxygen.

425
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.640
You could disagree with me on that, but one way or another,

426
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we better have our oxygen or we're
out of here. Likewise, you know,

427
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:51.000
Jesus spiritually is our oxygen. He's
our life. And so it's not

428
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:57.200
optional theology here that Jesus is the
way. It's also not God being cruel

429
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.920
or rude to us. I mean, you know, it's not cruel that

430
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we need oxygen. It's just a
fact exactly. And likewise, we need

431
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Jesus because he happens to be God, he happens to be life, and

432
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so therefore he is the way and
the truth. And it doesn't matter what

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our opinions are, the nature of
our creator remains the same exactly. Well,

434
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one of the things that God had
opened my heart to several years ago

435
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especially was I started admiring God's infrastructure, you know, as the creator.

436
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And it stemmed from a conversation that
I read that was between God and Cain.

437
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And this was after Cain had offered
a worship that was less than acceptable

438
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to God. And basically God summed
it up pretty clearly, just said,

439
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look at you know, if you
do well, will it not go right

440
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.839
for you? I mean, what
a powerful, powerful statement. And the

441
00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:58.440
thing is is that what does that
right mean? You know, it's the

442
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:01.960
righteousness of God. It is living
in a way that is consistent with the

443
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infrastructure, the design that God has
created. You know, just like you

444
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.480
said, oxygen, go ahead and
defy you know, the law of oxygen

445
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:14.960
and hold your breath first like you
can, or even be so silly as

446
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.000
to defy gravity. Yeah, I
mean it is and is, you know,

447
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.599
and you defy it at your own
injury until you finally wake up to

448
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.199
your senses and maybe you check that
off and say, well, I check

449
00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:28.880
that box, not going I don't
need to defy gravity. Well, how

450
00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.480
many other things like gravity you're holding
your breath are we ignoring that are just

451
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:38.639
so endemic to the infrastructure that when
we're true to that infrastructure that God long

452
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:43.800
established, it goes well for us, you know, even even in this

453
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:50.679
earthly plane that we're in. And
again, it's going well as God would

454
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:55.280
define going well, because you know, Andrew is life is a believer.

455
00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:00.440
It's not all roses and rainbows and
unicorns. We have peaks and valleys.

456
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It can be really rough that,
you know. And I look back in

457
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.559
those valleys and I think, oh, thank god, he was there,

458
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.880
thank god he was there, right, yes, yes, And you talked

459
00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:15.800
about canaan Abel, you know,
you talked about doing what is right.

460
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Ironically, you know, those guys
offered a sacrifice, and one of them

461
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.320
offered a sacrifice that was acceptable and
the other did not, and I see

462
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:29.920
that as a beautiful picture today.
You know, if some of our listeners

463
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:35.519
and viewers are feeling guilty about their
past, they're feeling guilty about their sins,

464
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.719
and they're wondering how do I fix
that, they might be tempted to

465
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offer God some sort of sacrifice.
You know, God, I promised never

466
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.760
to do it again, or God, you know nobody really got hurt too

467
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:50.880
bad, or God, you know
I didn't do it that many times.

468
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.440
God, you know, And so
we start offering our sacrifice of a good

469
00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:59.239
excuse, and really, you know, what God is pleased with is the

470
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blood of ges this. So you
know, if someone's feeling that right now,

471
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.960
I would just encourage them to say, you know, I don't I

472
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.639
don't have a good excuse here.
I don't have an explanation. I'm just

473
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:15.280
going to admit that I need Jesus
Christ and his blood sacrifice is enough,

474
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and he has taken away all my
sins forever through his death, and that

475
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.400
is good enough for God. So
it's good it's good enough for me.

476
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:30.440
Yeah, you can't answer that proposition
without the spirit and truth, right Because

477
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:34.599
as Jesus was talking to Nicodemus says, hey, look at you. You've

478
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.840
got to be born again. And
Nicodemus here he is, I mean,

479
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.719
you know, he's he's one of
the top rabbis in town. And uh.

480
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.000
And Jesus had to, you know, brought him a little bit and

481
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.440
go, how how do you not
understand? And and he was just thinking

482
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:53.159
that it was all about entering his
mother's womb again again, trying to use

483
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.880
something, you know, to your
point here andrew something of our own creation,

484
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:05.199
not of God's creation and God's solution. And so we must again.

485
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.239
If you're not born of the spirit
a lot that we're talking about, you

486
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:13.639
know this is goblegook, It's meaningless
to you. But the thing is is

487
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:16.280
that at this very moment, the
fact that you're even hearing it, I

488
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:21.559
say, is you're a pointed time
for you to ponder and think about this

489
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:28.360
and decide. Okay, am I
am I ready to accept the gift of

490
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.559
God? Am I ready to be
you know, born again? So that

491
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:38.880
I can understand that I can be
I can be welcomed into the kingdom and

492
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:45.360
be where I'm going to truly be
free and fulfilled? Or am I going

493
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:50.760
to be stiff? Necked and postpone
it. But I would say that the

494
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:55.320
danger of missing your appointed time.
It's one of the reasons why Jesus wept

495
00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:01.119
over Jerusalem because they missed their appointed
time. Right. Yeah, you don't

496
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:04.719
want to wait, you don't want
to think, Well, I guess I'll

497
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.800
clean myself up first. Please don't
go there. You could never clean yourself

498
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.639
up, you could never fix yourself
enough. So the whole point of the

499
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:16.599
gospel is I can't save myself,
and only Jesus can save me, and

500
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:20.800
I'm going to let him. So
I call upon the Lord, I open

501
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:22.840
the door of my heart. I
invite him in to save me. And

502
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:28.880
you know, Bill, I think
that you made a great point about the

503
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:34.119
born again experience. You got Nicodemus, who's a scholar, and he didn't

504
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:38.000
know how good this thing really is. And you know, the disciples didn't

505
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:43.320
even realize it at first because they
were told to wait for power from on

506
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:46.880
high. So this was a new
thing. I mean, Pentecost was quite

507
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:52.800
an experience, being born of the
spirit, born again, born from above.

508
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:58.000
When the Holy Spirit gives birth to
a person, they look very different

509
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:02.360
on the inside. And that's what
we're saying real Christianity is. I mean,

510
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.719
I can't tell you how many times
Bill people have called into my radio

511
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.639
broadcast and I'll say, now,
are you a believer? And they say,

512
00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:13.559
well, I've been baptized. And
I say, are you a believer

513
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.760
though? And they say, well, I grew up in a Christian home

514
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.400
And I say no, no,
are you a believer? And they say,

515
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:22.239
well, you know, I went
to a Christian school and I started

516
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.960
reading the Bible when I was young. And then finally, I just say,

517
00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:32.079
does Christ live in you? Because
that is the core of the matter

518
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.920
right there. And it's interesting because
that'll stop them dead in their tracks.

519
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.199
And they got to confront that the
important question that Paul asked, does Jesus

520
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:46.760
Christ live in you? Because that
is the most important test of all.

521
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.039
You see, they've bought into the
lie of the culture. Says well,

522
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.079
you know, I'm done pretty good
with the ten Commandments, you know,

523
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:59.719
right. And their idea of doing
pretty good with the ten Commandments is maybe

524
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:04.679
they kill anybody, you know,
the way they would define killing somebody.

525
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.079
But then if you drill down a
little bit deeper and say, okay,

526
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.039
we didn't kill anybody, but let's
let me ask you. Have you ever

527
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:14.880
spoke ill of anyone? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I mean the law

528
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.480
kills The Bible tells us that.
So it's if it's not the Nine Commandments,

529
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it's the ten. And if it's
not the ten, then it's the

530
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.639
six hundred and thirteen. And so
you can you can delete your favorite one

531
00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:30.360
and try to act like you're fine. But the law is an all or

532
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:35.480
nothing proposition. James says, if
you keep the whole law and stumble in

533
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:39.320
one point, you're guilty of all
of it. So that's the truth.

534
00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:45.119
Jesus comes along in the Sermon on
the Mount and he basically raises the bar.

535
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He says, you think it's good
enough to avoid murder, I tell

536
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:52.280
you anger is the same thing as
murder. You think it's good enough to

537
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.639
avoid adultery? I tell you looking
with lust is the same thing. His

538
00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:00.519
point is nobody can do this,
So how about we just admit it and

539
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.480
receive the grace of God. Yeah, this is something worse than dealing with

540
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.480
the irs. Let me tell you. If you've ever gone through an audit,

541
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:14.519
yeah, it's you know, you're
you're guilty first, that's it,

542
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:17.119
you know, and you go through
the battle. But you know, such

543
00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:22.599
as you know, such are the
things of this world. When you are

544
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.199
living in the spirit, you can
kind of laugh about the silliness of it

545
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.400
all. I wanted to address some
more of the questions. We've got about

546
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:35.239
nine minutes left here, Andrew,
and again, I cannot thank you enough,

547
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:37.639
you know, for coming on and
talking about this new book, one

548
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:43.119
hundred and one Bible Questions and the
surprising answers you may not here in church,

549
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.039
you know, because I like the
way you lay this out is that

550
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.920
you lay out a question and you
take it further and then then it's a

551
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:55.679
deep dive and it's going to cause
people to do something that they're not necessarily

552
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.920
used to doing, and that is
to really meditate and chew on you know,

553
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:06.239
the questions and answers to the degree
that you know, like we like

554
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.320
to say on our show, is
that you need to own your own knowledge.

555
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:14.800
You know, you are responsible for
the things that you know, and

556
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:17.960
that you should not just take Bill
and Andrew's word for it, you know,

557
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.639
check it out for yourself. And
because how God may talk to you

558
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.920
and talk to Andrew or myself maybe
a different way. There may be different

559
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:34.480
words, but the answer is always
consistent, isn't it. Yes? And

560
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.599
so you know, in this book
one hundred and one Bible Questions, we

561
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.760
offer discussion questions for people to be
kicking around in a group setting, if

562
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.880
you have a home Bible study or
a home group, or meet with friends

563
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.760
in a coffee shop or whatever,
that's an opportunity to dive deeper and to

564
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:55.119
read passages from God's Word and say, okay, how does this speak into

565
00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:00.519
the issue. And there's controversial issues
in this book, Bill, I mean,

566
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:06.480
there are people that divide over spiritual
gifts like tongues and prophecy. There

567
00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:10.360
are people that divide over the role
of women in the church. There are

568
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:16.239
people that divide over all kinds of
important questions. Today We've got the issues

569
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:22.280
of gender and homosexuality, and you
know, all of that is in this

570
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.880
book, one hundred and one Bible
Questions. And I'm just excited to bring

571
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:31.639
the questions to the table and let
everybody chew on God's word and decide what

572
00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:36.920
they believe for themselves. Well,
and to your point, we've got schisms

573
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:43.880
going on in the church today over
you know, the sexual identity issues and

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00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:50.280
whether or not women should be pastors
of church. Homosexuality, how much you

575
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.599
know, you know, should they
be in leadership in your church? You

576
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:58.440
know these are you know, these
are the questions of the culture. But

577
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:02.960
again we're told to be in the
world, not of the world. Yes,

578
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.440
exactly. So you know, my
identity, your identity, anyone who's

579
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:12.840
in Christ, we're We don't get
our identity from our gender. We get

580
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.199
it from being in Christ. It's
great that we serve a role on this

581
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:20.719
planet. You know, we be
a husband or a wife, or a

582
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:22.800
friend or a you know, we
get we have a job, and we

583
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.719
go to school, and so we
play different roles. But our identity is

584
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:32.400
deeper than any of those roles.
And when we realize that, you know,

585
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:38.599
things like marriage and relationships and communication
go a whole lot better. If

586
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:44.000
I'm not trying to again suck the
life out of another person, or get

587
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:49.679
my identity from my role on this
planet. And you know, you look,

588
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.480
you go back to the design of
that God has given us, and

589
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:58.679
He's shown us how to function.
He's shown us where to get our worth

590
00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:04.719
and value. And and it doesn't
matter what today's culture is prescribing, we

591
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.320
still have the same designer and the
same architect. Well, it's all about

592
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:15.039
it's almost like again an extension of
that blessing that God gave to Abraham.

593
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.320
So so I'm gonna bless you.
I'm gonna bless all nations through you.

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Those who bless I will bless you. Know, those who bless you,

595
00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.199
I will bless. Those who curse
you, I will curse you. In

596
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:28.760
God's rules, you know, like
the law, gravity are to bless us

597
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.880
so that we can be a blessing. One of the issues I hear,

598
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:37.159
you know, even now and too
often still frankly, is you know,

599
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.679
why does God want my money?
You know, God has all the money

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00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:43.840
in the world. Why am I
supposed to give ten percent? Right?

601
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:50.119
Uh huh yeah. So it's interesting
the book addresses that tithing, and you

602
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.280
know, you got two camps on
that. You got the Christians who are

603
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:57.719
saying, well, God does require
an exact percentage, and then you got

604
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.599
believers who and this is where I
fall, who would say, well,

605
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.320
you know, the Old Testament had
a standard for the levites and supporting those

606
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:12.199
priests. But today we get to
give freely from the heart, not under

607
00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:15.920
pressure, not under compulsion. And
God loves a cheerful giver. So you

608
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.559
know, bill. You got all
kinds in the Christian world. You got

609
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.960
some people who are pressuring believers.
You got some believers who are teaching the

610
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:29.360
health wealth nonsense where you know,
if you pay your money then you'll be

611
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.280
healed. You got a lot of
crazy stuff out there, and that's why

612
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I wrote this book to kind of
cut through the clutter and make sure that

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people have an opportunity to believe healthy
Christianity. And maybe what should happen is

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instead of just throwing an opinion out
there, do what this book is offering

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and giving you a model to Hey, do a deep dive on it.

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Ask the questions. You know God
can answer. Handle the question and see

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what God tells you to do.
And I look at it from a standpoint

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that God blesses us to be a
blessing. We're not to hold it back.

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It's kind of like, you know, when I went to Israel again.

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You know it's the dead sea.
The reason it's dead is because it

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only you only got water coming in
and it stagnates there there's no outflow.

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And this can happen to us spiritually
if it's all about being a consumer and

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just holding it to ourself and not
letting it flow out, because that's what

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keeps us fresh and keeps things moving
and living as well. Right, Yeah,

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I mean we are by nature now
givers. You know, Paul says

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give from the heart. I think
he means, look at your heart.

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You've got a generous heart, you've
got a good heart. You've got a

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new heart. Jesus gave you that
heart. But also it's not just giving,

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Bill, it's everything. The whole
Christian life can be lived from the

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heart. And I think that's you
know, we got a guy standing up

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on stage maybe somewhere on Sunday morning, and they said, you got wicked

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hearts, and your heart's not right, and you got an evil heart and

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a deceitful heart. We need to
hit the pause button and say, wait

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a minute. Now, that's the
Old Testament speaking to those who were not

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born of the spirit. But I
have this new heart and it's a generous

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heart, and it's a loving heart
and a forgiving heart. So I have

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Christ in my heart, and I'm
going to do marriage from the heart.

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I'm going to do communication from the
heart. I'm going to do living from

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this new heart that God gave me. Well, we need that today.

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Don't we. I mean, here
it is the obvious. You know,

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we touched on, you know,
what's going on with the war in the

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Middle East. I was looking the
other day, Andrew, there's something like

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two hundred and thirty two wars happening
right now. Wow, I did not

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know that. That's stunning. I
mean that's a huge number. I mean,

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you know, because we're told in
the Bible that there will be wars

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and rumors of wars. I mean, I don't know. I mean,

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you know, you only got so
many, you know, countries, and

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we've got war is all over and
in some areas they're not happy with one.

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They've got you know, multiple wars
happening in the same zip code.

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That's so crazy, it is,
Yeah, I mean you know, and

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I get emails every day from people
that are afraid. They're fearful. They

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see what's happening in the Ukraine and
in Israel and Gaza. They see all

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of this all over the planet,
with the hatred and the division, and

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they're scared. And I would just
say, wait a minute. You know,

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our hope was never in world peace. Our hope was never in Washington,

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d C. Politics hope. Our
hope was never in anything except Christ,

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and that's never going to change.
So there is a way to be

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stable and find peace and joy even
in the midst of everything that planet Earth

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throws our way. Well, Andrew, we got to wrap things up.

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Would you do us a favor?
Prays to close? Would you absolutely?

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Father. We just thank you for
your love and your grace and your forgiveness.

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We thank you for Jesus, that
we have life in you and that

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you will never leave us. And
people may abandon us, the world may

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disappoint us, and it's so painful
at times, whether it's financial or physical,

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it can be really, really painful. But we thank you that you

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never ditch us, you never desert
us. We can trust you to be

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our life every day. We thank
you and Jesus' name, Amen, and

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Father, we thank you that you've
not given us a spirit of fear,

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but the power of love and a
sound mind. And thank you also,

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Father that you've given us Andrew Farley
and his book one hundred and one Bible

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questions and surprising answers you may not
hear in church. Andrew, God,

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bless you. Thank you so much
for being with us. Appreciate you,

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Thank you, Bill, Thank you
so much. Hey, our thanks to

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Andrew Farley for being with us today
for more information and to be a part

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of this mighty movement to return to
God, because that is the answer.

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You've got to return to God save
our country. Check it out Bill Martinez

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Show dot com. May God bless
you and keep you, make His face

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shine upon you. May He be
gracious unto you and give you his peace.

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Go and be blessed. Thank you
so much for being with us.

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Take care,