(245) “Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law”

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Jesus was going deeper in the meaning of what was given in the law.

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It's not just a matter of keeping it on the outside.

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You got to keep these laws on the inside because this is how you show that you love God.

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Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.

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It's about keeping commandments according to our heart by the Spirit.

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So get in agreement with the Holy Spirit.

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Yes, that's it.

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Because as you walk in the Spirit, you're going to be fulfilling the law of love.

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God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to global outpouring.

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Will we contend for that promised outpouring?

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We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss.

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And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We are going to have a great time discussing some things that are kind of like weaving

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together the last couple of podcasts that we did.

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The one that we did with Dean Braxton in our last episode about the love of God from heaven's

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perspective and the one we did before that, episode 243.

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What about the law?

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Because really, when it comes down to the bottom line, love is the fulfilling of the law.

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So today we're going to talk about love is the fulfilling of the law.

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Do you remember what Dean was talking about last time about how in heaven, love is the

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atmosphere and how every time he would look at the Lord and just be overwhelmed with the

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love that was coming for him as he was comprehending how much love there was in the next moment

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that God was creating more love for him and that every single person all at once.

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It's kind of like going from glory to glory.

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Yes, going from love to love and he talked about the glory being the love of God.

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So in order for us to operate on earth as it is in heaven, we need to understand more

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about this law of love and how sometimes we get a little bit overwhelmed with keeping

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the rules.

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We talked about how Torah, keeping Torah, keeping the Word of the Old Testament, how

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it was not designed to be something that you do only on the outside, but that it was designed

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to be a picture of what it looks like when you love the Lord your God with all your heart,

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with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength and you love your neighbor

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as yourself.

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Jesus showed us, told us that these are the two most important commandments and he said

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all of the law and the prophets hang on these two things.

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And I think if I'm not mistaken, I think that the great rabbi teacher before Jesus even

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came to earth, Hillel, I think he said something about if you could have the Torah standing

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on one foot.

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I think that's how the question was put to him.

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Can you do the Torah standing on one foot?

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In other words, distill it down to the simplest version.

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This is it.

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This is it.

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Love God and love your neighbor.

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And how many laws and things were put into practice since Hillel?

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Oh yeah, well, absolutely.

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And it's not like our Congress, they keep creating them all the time.

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That's all they do all day.

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Right.

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And I think we talked about that a couple of episodes ago, where in the years that we've

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had a Congress, it's like over 300,000 laws have been enacted and that doesn't even count

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your local ones and your state ones.

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So you know, there are lots and lots of laws.

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But if you are walking in love with God, you're probably just going to do naturally the right

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things.

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What did Jesus say about the laws?

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You strain it in that and you swallow a camel.

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You're right.

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Well, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that laws were added.

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They talk about oral law as though God gave two different sets of law at Mount Sinai and

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one of them was written down and one of them was handed down orally.

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Well, that is a fable.

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And also, I remember in psychology class, the teacher took everybody in the front of

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each row and whispered a story to them and they tell it to the one behind them.

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Then the one tells them to the one behind them.

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And so the last person in line, in the end of the row, they come up and tell their interpretation.

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And you got all different stories.

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So what happens in an oral law?

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Exactly.

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You know, and that's one class, one hour.

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So now you've got hundreds of years.

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Exactly.

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Even thousands of thousands of years.

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You think it's going to be the same?

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Right.

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I don't think so.

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So at one point it was decided we better write this down.

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All these oral traditions.

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Well, part of the problem with traditions is that if you do something enough times in

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a row, it becomes a habit and you view it as though it's law.

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It's very good.

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And that is one of the teachings in Judaism that you have these laws that are enacted

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because of tradition.

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But this is stuff that's been added.

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And God said over and over, don't add anything.

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Don't add it and don't take it away.

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But there's a thing called Takkanot.

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The word Takkanot, it actually means improvement.

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And these are added laws.

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They're laws that are added by tradition.

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And then there's adjustments to fit the changes of culture or life situation.

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And it got to the point where they felt like whatever the rabbi said was more important

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than what God said.

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That's pretty scary.

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It's very scary.

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And look at the result of that today.

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Right.

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And in Judaism, you have this group that is totally wrapped up in the traditions of men

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and rabbinical teachings and twisting of scriptures, interpreting things and adding and adding

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and even taking away.

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There are a lot of things that the rabbis put into place that take away from what the

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scriptures say.

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And that's like the ultra-orthodox.

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Well, I don't...

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Orthodox, yes.

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I guess it covers the whole spectrum of Judaism.

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I mean, the kosher law especially, Shabbat laws.

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All the kosher laws that they've built for dietary things, they built them on the scripture

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that says, you shall not see the kid in its mother's milk.

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What does the Hebrew say?

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So it actually says that.

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You shall not see the boy or the baby goat in its mother's milk.

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But what that means is not what was interpreted in the Middle Ages when these rabbis decided

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to write down what it means and create this whole idea of you can't eat dairy and meat

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in the same meal.

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What it actually means is that you shouldn't boil a kid in its mother's milk because that

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was a tradition of idolatry.

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It was something that was done in celebration of some kind of idol worship.

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So God was just saying, don't participate in those things that the heathen do, that

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the Gentiles do in their worship of idols.

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So look how complicated it is today in an orthodox home.

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You have to have two sinks.

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Oh, yeah.

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You have to have two refrigerators.

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Right, one for dairy and one for meat.

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It just gets more and more complicated.

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It's more just the way, the wrong way that it was interpreted.

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Right.

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So here's the thing.

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I love the Hebrew scriptures.

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You know, I've said it a gazillion times.

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Well, maybe that's exaggerating.

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Probably not a gazillion, but I've said it many times that I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe.

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I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but I love the things that you get out of the Hebrew scriptures.

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And many of the traditions that come with Judaism have wonderful meanings, but we're

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not required to keep all of those things.

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And the folks that are teaching Hebrew roots with a godly, loving heart, okay, I don't

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want to be down on this.

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I want us to be able to walk in balance that, first of all, that we not be pharisaical with

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each other and being law police, okay?

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If you are inclined to keep these laws, do it for the right reason because you have a

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heart of love for God.

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But there are lots of things that are taught by the rabbis that have nothing to do with

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the scriptures except interpretations of the scriptures.

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Yeah, it's like, well, with Jesus and the disciples, he was forever breaking their laws.

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Exactly.

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But you know, Jesus is God on earth.

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So if God on earth says you don't have to do this, why are people wanting to do it?

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Right.

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And then Jesus also in the Sermon on the Mount, and we said this before in the previous podcast,

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but just to reiterate, Jesus was going deeper in the meaning of what was given in the law,

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like about don't commit adultery.

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And Jesus says if you're looking at a woman to lust after her as though in your mind you're

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committing adultery with her, it's the same as if you were committing adultery.

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In other words, and that's if you're undressing her in your mind.

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Yeah, that kind of stuff.

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Exactly the same thing.

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Same thing.

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So what he's saying is that it's not just a matter of keeping it on the outside.

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You got to keep these laws on the inside because this is how you show that you love God.

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Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.

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So it's about keeping commandments according to our heart by the spirit.

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Okay?

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I want to touch a couple of things anyway, of things that we have some disagreements

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about in the body of Christ that I want to bring some balance to, to bring some tolerance

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to.

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And so why is this important?

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Why is it, if this is really important that I explained why this is important, because

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in this outpouring, in this outpouring that we are fully expecting, it's going to require

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all hands on deck.

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And we need to have mature people that can rightly divide the word of truth, that know

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the word of God, they've studied the word of God, but not just to do things by the letter

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of the law or by even by the letter of the New Testament.

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Okay?

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It's about doing it from the heart by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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Okay?

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For instance, for instance, when the spirit of God fell on Cornelius's house, Peter and

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the Jews that were with him did not know what to do.

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Yeah, that was totally contrary.

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Yeah, it was contrary to their understanding of the law.

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Because they'd been so programmed, don't have anything to do with the Gentiles.

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But here you have a Gentile that's a, that is a high rank and he's commanded you to come.

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Right?

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Well, not only that, it has to do with the Holy Spirit told Peter, go with them and don't

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be afraid.

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The point being that as we move forward into the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that we

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be so in tune with the Holy Spirit.

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I think there's going to be increase in knowledge of the Holy Spirit when this happens.

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Yes.

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You know, as far as that meeting people and organizing things, the Holy Spirit is just

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going to, you know, accelerate people getting saved.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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And I love what it says in Galatians 5, 13 to 18.

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It says, brethren, you've been called to liberty.

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Only don't use liberty as an occasion to flesh, but by love serve one another.

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Remember Dean Braxton told us in a few podcasts back about serving, about how heaven is all

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about serving and that you greet one another by saying, how can I serve you?

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Because we serve by love.

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Okay.

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By love serve one another.

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And then it says in verse 14, for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this, you

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shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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And then it goes on to say, if you're led of the spirit, you are not under the law.

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It's the law of love that God wants us to get.

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In the Old Testament or the Hebrew scriptures, in Joshua 22, 5, it says in the New King James,

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but take careful heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses, the servant of the

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Lord commanded you to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments,

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to hold fast to him, then to serve him with all your heart, with all your soul.

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So even under the law itself was the admonition to serve the Lord and keep his law because

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you love him.

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and four different times he talks about, oh, how I love your law.

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It's my meditation all the day.

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And verse 165, great peace.

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Have those who love your law and nothing causes them to stumble.

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Then Romans 13, 8 and 10 says, Oh, no one, anything except to love one another for he

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who loves has fulfilled the law.

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Therefore love is the fulfillment or the King James says, fulfilling of the law.

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shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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You do well.

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So there's these wonderful scriptures, scripture after scripture about love fulfills the law

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and love is the atmosphere of heaven.

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the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as

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it is in heaven.

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So his will in heaven is obviously that we walk in love.

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So in Colossians chapter two, starting with verse 16, it says, let no man therefore judge

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you in meat or in drink or in respect of unholy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath

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days, which are a shadow of things to come.

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This is where sometimes even today we get into issues over keeping rules and regulations.

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So like what you eat and how you observe holy days.

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Verse 17 says, these are a shadow of things to come.

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Yeah, that's very, it lightens it up.

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Let's put it that way.

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So even, and you see this in the book of Hebrews very clearly.

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If you understand the scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures, okay, let me back up and say this.

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In my younger days, we tried to study the book of Hebrews and I didn't get a bit of

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It was like, what, what is this?

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I don't understand this.

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Cause it was written to the Jews.

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That's why there was this controversy who really wrote the book of Hebrews.

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You know, cause it doesn't follow Paul's, but Paul's not writing to Gentiles, which

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all the other books of the new Testament that he wrote, it was specifically for, and he's

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a master of it because, but it doesn't say that he wrote it either.

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It doesn't say he wrote it.

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So there's a lot of speculation on who really wrote it.

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So let's not divide over that either.

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We're not moving right along.

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I mean, some folks even think that Priscilla wrote it and, and it doesn't matter.

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We'll find out when we get to heaven who wrote it.

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It's not important.

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And again, the point is let's not divide over questions.

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Let's love one another and tolerate one another.

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Not that we're loving and tolerating things that will lead to heresy.

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We don't want anyone to get led off into some kind of cultish stuff.

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We don't want anybody to get led away into something that's going to be destructive to

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them.

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But at the same time, there's a time and a place for bringing correction in love.

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And there's a time and a place where you just let the Holy Spirit teach.

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This is where prayer is so important, that we pray for one another, that we love one

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another enough that we let the Holy Spirit lead.

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Now, let me give you an example.

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There's a wonderful book that I love.

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There are some books that I read over and over and a lot of books that I start and never

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finish.

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One of the books that I love to read over and over is called The Grace Outpouring by

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Roy Godwin.

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It's a story of a Christian retreat in Wales and how God led them, the Holy Spirit led

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them into doing things in prayer and just obeying the Holy Spirit that created such

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an atmosphere of the presence of God that people would be driving by and just be drawn

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to come to the place.

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And they have no idea why they're drawn there.

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They get there, they say, what is this place?

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Why would I be drawn here?

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And Roy Godwin would give them a cup of tea and explain what it was.

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This is a Christian retreat and then give them a tour and end up in the chapel and then

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just bless them in the chapel and let the Holy Spirit do his thing.

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He would just leave.

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He'd just walk away and let the Holy Spirit do his thing in their lives and change their

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lives.

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And even atheists come in and they feel the presence of God and they, he's real.

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They would say, how do I get to know Jesus?

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The answer was, the person who brought them there, well, I thought you didn't believe

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in Jesus.

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And the answer was, well, he's here, isn't he?

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Because he can feel the presence.

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Okay.

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So it's the atmosphere of love, the atmosphere of the presence of God, his presence is love.

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So in one of these instances, there was this couple that came and the man was so filthy

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mouthed and telling horrible, dirty stories, one after another, after another, after another,

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while Roy was giving them this tour around the place.

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He was so embarrassed, Roy was so embarrassed and so put out.

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Because there's people around, you know, you think sometimes somebody comes into a room

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and spoils the atmosphere of the room.

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And this was what Roy was concerned about, that this filth was going to destroy the light

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that was in the place.

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However, the Holy Spirit said, don't you dare rebuke him.

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And it was very strong.

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So you know, the man's just pouring out this profanity and dirty stories.

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And when they got to the chapel, the man got on the threshold and fell on his face and

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said, Oh my God, I'm sorry.

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I'm so sorry.

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I didn't know you were real.

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I didn't think you were real.

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Please forgive me.

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And he just poured out in repentance.

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Because see, if you follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, God is going to do things

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in this outpouring that's beyond our understanding, beyond what we can even dream.

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So here's one instance of a story where God went beyond what the man could dream.

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And if you think of every story you've heard of how a person got saved supernaturally or

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this or that, multiply that times what's going to happen.

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Exponential multiplication.

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It's going to be so powerful.

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Yes.

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It's just, I can't wait.

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But that's why I want to just talk about some of these things that we have divisions over

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in the body so that we can learn to flow in the Holy Spirit and be tolerant that these

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are not things we have to solve.

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We can have differences of opinion.

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For instance, the word in Colossians, let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink

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and respect of a holy day.

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So here's Shabbat, keeping the Sabbath.

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So we know that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week.

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In Hebrew, you have first day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day,

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Shabbat.

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So as such thing as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, those are actually all named after gods.

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It's what we have to work with.

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And Sunday was named after the sun god.

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And Monday was named after the moon god and so on.

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Saturday was named after Saturn.

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So it doesn't compute to someone who's trying to keep the law to call it by those days.

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And we can get real religious.

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But it doesn't mean that to us.

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That's like people say Easter Sunday.

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Oh, yeah.

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But Easter is Eshtar, which is the goddess of lust and forget what Phoenician, I think

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it was.

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And so we say Resurrection Sunday.

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Happy Resurrection Sunday.

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Right.

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Because we don't want to honor or even Happy Resurrection Day.

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Happy Resurrection Day.

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So we don't have to say sun.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It was the first day of the week.

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The point here is that we have people that are being moved to stop their congregation

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meeting on Sunday and go on Saturday or Shabbat.

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Call it Shabbat.

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We're not celebrating Saturday.

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So there's this contention in the body.

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But if you go back to the Torah, the only thing that's commanded is that you rest and

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that you keep this day as separated or holy unto God.

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It's not telling you that you have to go to your congregation on that day because there's

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nothing in the Old Testament that says that you have to congregate on any day of the week.

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Oops.

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Oops.

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So that is something that came in through rabbinic teaching.

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Okay, let's just boil this down a little bit.

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So when the children of Israel were expelled from the land because they had not been keeping

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the law, they were sentenced to go into Babylon.

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They didn't let the land rest.

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That was one of the things.

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That was one of the things.

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And they were into idolatry and they were into doing stuff that they weren't supposed

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to do.

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A whole lot of bad stuff.

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So that's a shadow of what happens to us if we don't stay connected to our heavenly father.

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And you can find all that in Ezekiel.

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Right.

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Although there was bad stuff going on.

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You can read all that in Ezekiel.

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But here's what happened.

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In order to maintain their Jewishness or in order to maintain in a foreign land, they

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began practicing keeping Shabbat by meeting together in congregations in wherever they

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were.

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They had to keep it together in order to not be assimilated into among the Gentiles.

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The society.

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Into the society of the Gentiles.

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So that's when they began having synagogues.

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The word synagogue is a Greek word.

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That even comes from when the Greeks were in rulership over the promised land.

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The Jews had come back.

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But when they came back under Ezra and Nehemiah, they began becoming really, really strong

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about keeping the law so this doesn't happen again.

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And that's where Phariseeism began, as I understand it.

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Okay.

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And I'm open to correction.

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If you know something different about this, send me a word at feedback at globaloutpouring.org.

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And, you know, I want to listen to it.

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But as I understand it, Phariseeism began as a result of the deportation into Babylon

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and coming back and becoming very zealous about keeping the law.

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But the problem was that they began to be zealous on the outside without having that

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love for God on the inside.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And you know, I remember when Jesus came, the Pharisees and really the Sadducees, too,

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didn't recognize him because they were busy trying to keep the law on the outside.

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But Jesus talked about inside their hearts.

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It's like whitewashed sepulchers, whitewashed tombs.

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And watching miracles they could not deny on Sabbath and saying that's blasphemy.

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You know, and he would tell them this daughter of Abraham, you know, would not God heal on

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the Sabbath.

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On the Sabbath, yeah.

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And he did it in front of their eyes.

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And what do they do?

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They go tell the chief priests.

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Right.

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Instead of rejoicing that this lady got healed.

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We couldn't do that.

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Right.

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You know, they tried to kill him.

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Well, it's also because it was a corrupt priesthood.

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Yeah.

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But it required that there be a corrupt priesthood in order that the sacrifice lamb of God that

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would take away the sins of the world would be sacrificed because of the priesthood.

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And that's one of these things where it's just like the ways of God are not the ways

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of man.

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They're higher than our ways.

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Much higher because we can't see the end.

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You know, we only see like the here and now.

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Right.

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But, you know, God's got the big plan.

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And if he showed us everything at once, we just mess it up.

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Probably so.

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And I think it's in 1 Samuel where Samuel says that man looks on the outward appearance,

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but God looks on the heart.

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And that's how we're going to be judged by our hearts, not about how well we kept the

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law.

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And this idea of you've got to keep Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday, the seventh day or

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the first day.

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You know, the first day of the week was when Jesus rose from the dead.

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So it's okay for us to meet on that day.

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We're celebrating his resurrection.

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It's okay for us to meet on Shabbat on the seventh day.

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Jesus kept Shabbat.

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He went to their synagogues.

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He went to their synagogues on that day because that was the tradition that had come up.

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That's where he's going to teach people.

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But he also taught them every other day of the week, wherever he went, whatever he did.

482
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:02,200
He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.

483
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,360
Every single day.

484
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:11,440
And if you look in the book of Acts, it says that in Acts 2, 46, it says, so continuing

485
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:17,720
daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their

486
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,720
food with gladness and simplicity of heart.

487
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,120
In other words, they met together every single day.

488
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,120
Daily.

489
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,120
Daily.

490
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,580
And Acts 5, 42 says, and daily in the temple and in every house, they did not cease teaching

491
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:31,840
and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

492
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,960
They met every single day.

493
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,800
So it wasn't a pattern.

494
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,800
It doesn't matter what day you meet.

495
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,240
If you have your day off as Wednesday and your church has a Wednesday night service,

496
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,960
that can be your day that you keep holy unto the Lord.

497
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,320
But for heaven's sakes, rest.

498
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,280
We don't rest enough.

499
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,280
We don't.

500
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,880
It's like our founder, you know, she had heard the song earlier, Lord, let me burn out for

501
00:30:58,880 --> 00:30:59,880
you.

502
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:00,880
Yes, yes.

503
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:06,760
You know, she did burn out and she about she burnt almost us out with her.

504
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:12,720
I remember going on a we were doing a six week road trip in the spring and hardly a

505
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,720
break.

506
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,960
And the day you didn't have a meeting was the day you drove.

507
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960
Right.

508
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,640
You know, it was like a six week continual.

509
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,640
Yeah.

510
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:20,640
Minutes.

511
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,520
There was no real you didn't have a day off.

512
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,520
Really?

513
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,560
You might have an afternoon or something.

514
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,800
And I remember we got to one place and it was a real prophetic lady.

515
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,440
And I thought, I hope she doesn't have a word for me.

516
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,560
It's just like I burned the candles so bad at both ends.

517
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,240
There's no wax left in the middle.

518
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,120
The flame be ready to go out.

519
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,120
Yeah.

520
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,240
But, you know, the point is, God gave us the grace to do it at the time.

521
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,240
We were younger, too.

522
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,960
We were younger and he gave us the grace to stretch.

523
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,560
And so we can still do it today.

524
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:57,760
So when we go in nations today, when we were in Argentina on our last trip, how many meetings

525
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:58,760
did we have?

526
00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,760
I don't remember.

527
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,760
It was a lot.

528
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,000
It was a lot of meetings and we didn't have a day of rest there.

529
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,000
No.

530
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,840
But under the circumstances, it's just like when your ox is in the ditch, you do what

531
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:09,960
you got to do.

532
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,960
It's true.

533
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,960
Because it's for the kingdom.

534
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:12,960
Right.

535
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:13,960
Exactly.

536
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,480
But just to go back to this, you know, what day should we worship?

537
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,720
A lot of people quote Hebrews 10 25.

538
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:26,120
And I suggest that everyone should go back and read it in context because it doesn't

539
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:33,120
really in context say what we've made it to say, where it says, do not forsake the assembling

540
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,640
of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much

541
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,440
the more as you see the day approaching, just assemble.

542
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,240
It doesn't matter what day you assemble, just relationships.

543
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,720
It's about maintaining relationships.

544
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:53,000
It's about meeting together and talking about the things of God, studying the word together.

545
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Let iron sharpen iron.

546
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,200
Just compare scripture with scripture.

547
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,680
Let's have the Holy Spirit moving on us.

548
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:06,760
It's not important which day that you observe, whether you observe the feasts.

549
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,480
I love the feasts.

550
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:13,880
I'm particularly drawn to Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles, because that's the one that

551
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,920
the Hebrew scriptures say that the Gentiles will participate in.

552
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,240
And that's amazing because that's when Jesus was born.

553
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:27,400
Yes, I really think he was born on the first day of Sukkot and that his circumcision would

554
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,680
have been on the eighth day, the great day of the feast, Shemini Yatzerit.

555
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,640
So the point is that let's work together.

556
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,160
Let's worship together.

557
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,620
Let's open the word together.

558
00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:44,060
Let's have home Bible studies any day of the week, but let's don't forsake the assembling

559
00:33:44,060 --> 00:33:47,280
of yourselves together any day of the week.

560
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:52,680
Yeah, and many have to break out of the pattern of watching the service online.

561
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:53,680
Yes.

562
00:33:53,680 --> 00:34:00,000
You know, unless you have a problem, you don't have a car or you're not able to do it, meet

563
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,880
together, you know, because it's not the same online as it is being there.

564
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,880
That's true.

565
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,680
You can't form a relationship online.

566
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,000
Yeah, that's right.

567
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,040
I mean, it's scary to me seeing people get married because they met online.

568
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,840
Anyway, enough of that.

569
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:22,400
I remember we've had one friend of ours that she would call us for prayer, but she loved

570
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:28,080
the messianic teachings of the teachings of this messianic congregation.

571
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:33,920
But when she'd call them for prayer, they would forbid her to call anybody for prayer

572
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,680
that met on Sunday.

573
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,000
Don't you associate with those Sunday people because they're wrong.

574
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Wow.

575
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Wow.

576
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000
See, that's that's Phariseeism.

577
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Yeah.

578
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,160
Yeah, even though they're they're believers in Yeshua.

579
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,160
Right.

580
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,160
It's still Phariseeism.

581
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,160
Right.

582
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,760
And and they their teachings tended toward rabbinic teachings as well.

583
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,000
So I love the teachings of Nehemiah Gordon.

584
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,700
We had him on episode 200 and he is a Karaite Jew.

585
00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,120
He was raised under rabbinic teachings.

586
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:12,960
He came from a long line of rabbis, in fact, but he became a Karaite, which means a scripturalist.

587
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:19,520
They go by the scripture and not by all of those takanot, those added teachings.

588
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:24,280
So you're responsible as you read the scripture to figure it out for yourself.

589
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,840
And here's here's a quote from him.

590
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:31,400
Work it out for yourself in fear and trembling with prayer and study before the creator of

591
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,320
the universe.

592
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:42,500
This needs to be how we function in settling these issues that are questions that we study

593
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:47,560
and we pray and we work it out before the Lord.

594
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:52,960
You work it out until you get that piece of the Holy Spirit inside of you.

595
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:59,800
That piece that passes all understanding, you know, you've got what works for you and

596
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:07,160
not be so trying to sort other people out according to what works for you.

597
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,160
You know what I mean?

598
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,720
It's not fair.

599
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,400
It's not fair to become.

600
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,440
It's not right to become the law police.

601
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,440
Yeah.

602
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,440
OK, it's about learning how to walk in love, being led by the Holy Spirit.

603
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,440
Now, what about foods?

604
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:26,560
Yeah, I was just going to ask you, you know, because that's a big that's a big one.

605
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,040
And there's a lot of a lot of believers, you know, following the tradition.

606
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,000
No, I don't eat pork.

607
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,520
You know, pork is not a kosher animal.

608
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,520
Right.

609
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,560
You know, it's and it's not a clean animal.

610
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:39,560
Not clean.

611
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,560
Neither is catfish.

612
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:45,880
You know, they the catfish has a has a fat that is harder for the body to digest.

613
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,880
Yeah.

614
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:47,880
And the same with pork.

615
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880
Right.

616
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,880
Yeah.

617
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,440
God told the people not to eat those things because they're really not good for you.

618
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,560
So what happened?

619
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,160
So you go to Cornelius's house.

620
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,160
Yeah.

621
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,960
I'm sure they ate a few meals while they were there.

622
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:00,960
Right.

623
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:01,960
So what do you do?

624
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:09,880
Paul gets into this in First Corinthians 10 and he says, if any of you, if any of them,

625
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:15,440
in other words, if you're if you're among Gentiles or actually he's writing to the Corinthians,

626
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:16,440
so they're Gentiles.

627
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:17,440
Yeah.

628
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:23,760
If any if any of them that believe not, any of them that believe not bid you to a feast

629
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:30,760
and you be inclined or disposed to go, whatever is set before you eat, asking no questions

630
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,640
for conscience sake.

631
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,440
But if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to idols.

632
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,880
Now that was one of the things in Acts 15 that they said, no, don't eat anything sacrificed

633
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,280
to idols and don't eat anything, any blood.

634
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,480
Don't eat anything strangled.

635
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:46,480
Yeah.

636
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:52,800
So if any man says to you, this is offered in sacrifice to idols, don't eat it for his

637
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,440
sake that showed it.

638
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,480
And for conscience sake, for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

639
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,040
Conscience I say, not your own, but the other for why is my liberty judged of another man's

640
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,040
conscience?

641
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,240
If they serve you pork.

642
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:09,560
OK, we've been to China.

643
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:15,120
We've been lots of places where they don't have any kind of laws against that.

644
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,560
You go to an island nation, they're going to feed you some seafood.

645
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:24,120
OK, and don't is one of the fastest growing animals that there is.

646
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,120
Right.

647
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,960
And that's why it's a lot cheaper in the stores.

648
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:27,960
And yeah.

649
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,360
And like I remember in Romania, we were there in the wintertime and they slaughter a pig

650
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:33,360
right on the street.

651
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,040
And there was this big bloody mess in the snow.

652
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,160
You know, we don't do this at home like this.

653
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,160
No, we sure don't.

654
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,680
But I didn't see any cows running around.

655
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:44,680
Right.

656
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,800
Well, they had to wait until it was cold enough because they might not have had any refrigeration.

657
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,520
That's true.

658
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,560
So they do what they have to do.

659
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,760
So if you're served these things, don't ask what you're eating.

660
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,080
Especially if you're in a nation, it's just mystery meat.

661
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,000
You don't want to know what you're eating.

662
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Right.

663
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:12,440
So I remember hearing the story of my pastor, Papa Dorn, Robert Dorn, when he went to one

664
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,240
of the island nations in the Caribbean.

665
00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:16,840
I don't remember just which one it was.

666
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:24,440
And they were invited to attend a feast that was being thrown by a Hindu family.

667
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:29,320
I don't know if it was a wedding or if it was some kind of celebration of a Hindu god.

668
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:30,780
I don't know what it was.

669
00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:32,920
But they were invited to this feast.

670
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:41,040
And the host comes to him with this honor and says, I'm bringing to you as my honored

671
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:47,360
guest, I'm bringing to you this food that was offered to the idol.

672
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,200
These are died in the Hindu's.

673
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,200
Okay.

674
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,680
And Papa Dorn says, Oh, I'm so sorry.

675
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,640
My religion forbids me to eat anything that's been offered to another god.

676
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,280
He says, Oh, oh, really?

677
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,400
Well, I don't want to offend you.

678
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,640
Let me go get some other food for you.

679
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:12,200
And this opened the door for Papa Dorn to be able to preach about his religion, preach

680
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,800
Jesus to the entire group of people that were there.

681
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,640
And I don't remember all about the story, but I'm pretty sure that there were folks

682
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:27,640
that got saved under those circumstances because he refused just according to the scripture.

683
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:34,720
You ask, but if they tell you that it was offered to an idol, you say, no, I can't do

684
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:35,720
that.

685
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,280
And what do we do when we when we're in these places?

686
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:43,200
We say, you know, the scripture, if you eat anything deadly, it will not harm you because

687
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,320
we speak the blood of Jesus over it.

688
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,320
Right.

689
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:51,560
So if it is offered to an idol, you know, and you don't know it, but you've covered

690
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,920
with the blood of Jesus, that would break any curse that is on it.

691
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:56,920
That's true.

692
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:57,920
Absolutely, it will.

693
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,560
Absolutely, it will.

694
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:04,560
So just to wrap this up, you know, there's a time and a place to bring correction.

695
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,860
But when you do bring correction, you speak the truth and love and love.

696
00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:16,820
And there are times when you simply wait and let the Holy Spirit deal with the person.

697
00:41:16,820 --> 00:41:24,300
But we have to walk by the spirit because walking in the spirit has to be our guide.

698
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,140
You're not going to learn the ways of God without walking with him.

699
00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:35,080
And you walk with him and you you study his word and you gain maturity by studying the

700
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,600
word and walking with him and listening to him in prayer.

701
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,600
Yeah.

702
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:45,300
And even the scripture, I will keep him in perfect peace, perfect shalom, whose mind

703
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,320
is stayed on him.

704
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,560
So if we can just keep our mind on Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

705
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,560
That's big.

706
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:54,560
That's hard to do.

707
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:55,560
Yeah.

708
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,440
You know, there's a lot of folks running around talking about church hurt.

709
00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,760
Oh, yeah.

710
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,840
Because they were probably accosted about something that they weren't doing right.

711
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,320
And the way that it was handled was not done in love.

712
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,320
And so they walked away.

713
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:17,360
I love the scripture where Paul is talking about travailing for you until Christ be born

714
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,400
in you.

715
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:26,760
Learning the prayer life of the mature ones, bring people into maturity to teach them how

716
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,720
to walk with God and being gentle.

717
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:30,720
Right.

718
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:37,400
I'm reminded of folks that we've heard of that came to Jesus and especially like during

719
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,340
the Jesus movement back in the early 70s.

720
00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:42,340
And they were hippies.

721
00:42:42,340 --> 00:42:43,760
Hippies, yeah.

722
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,360
And they were smoking pot all the time.

723
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,840
And finally, you know, at some point, the Holy Spirit began to convict them that this

724
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,120
was not right, that this is not the way we do things.

725
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,960
You don't get a word from the Lord because you're high.

726
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:03,320
You know, you get the wrong word.

727
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You can get some wrong words that way because you're opening yourself up to the spiritual

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realm when you smoke stuff like that.

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So drinking like it's not an evil thing to drink a glass of wine with your meal.

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Sometimes like we were raised that you just simply don't have one drop of alcohol ever.

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But Paul told Timothy, take a little wine for your stomach sake and you're often infirmities.

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And Jesus made some pretty good wine.

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He saved.

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They saved it till the end.

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Right.

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His first miracle.

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But it does say don't be drunk with wine.

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Right.

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OK.

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Don't be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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There's so much better things that you get by being filled with the Holy Spirit.

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I think what people get drunk or on marijuana or something like that, when you lose control

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of your conscience, you know, you're not able to function.

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That's right.

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Things can happen.

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That's when things can go wrong.

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So and then we know about couples that were living together.

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OK.

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So you leave them alone until the Holy Spirit deals with them, unless you get a word from

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the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit might say, OK, now is the time to speak to them.

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It's because the Holy Spirit knows that he's already been dealing with them in their hearts.

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They just need a confirmation.

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They need a confirmation.

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So it's about walking in the spirit.

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It's about walking in love because love is the fulfilling of the law.

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And what did Jesus say?

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I don't condemn you going to go and sin.

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Go and sin.

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No, no, no.

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That's Jesus is our example.

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So if you got caught by the prophet or something like that, just you know, because it's the

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Holy Spirit going through them.

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Yeah, of course, it's better to deal with stuff before you get cornered by a prophet,

765
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actually.

766
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:53,840
Very true.

767
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You know, very true.

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But let's get in agreement with the Holy Spirit.

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Yes, that's it.

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Because as you walk in the spirit, you're going to be fulfilling the law of love.

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This is all a walk by faith.

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Amen.

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So, Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask you to temper us by your spirit.

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Lord, cause us to walk with you more closely, walking in love, looking on people in love.

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Let your love eyes shine through our eyes that will cause your spirit to change lives,

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Lord, as we interact with people, as you are pouring out your spirit today and tomorrow

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and the days to come.

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In the name of Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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