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Christ is risen, where shall his praise begin?

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Taking away my burden, setting my spirit free,

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For the wonderful grace of Jesus, he preaches me.

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Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus,

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Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,

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Farther than the narrow tailed spree,

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Like a thousand bays and streams,

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For ever deep and deep.

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Prouder than the scope of my entrenched healing,

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Greater more than all my sin and shame,

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Oh, magnified the precious name of Jesus, praise his name.

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Wonderful the grace of Jesus,

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Preaching to all the laws,

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God is a happy target,

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Say to the other gods,

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They've got victory or not,

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Giving me liberty,

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For the wonderful grace of Jesus,

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Preaches me.

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Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus,

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Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,

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Farther than the narrow tailed spree,

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Like a thousand bays and streams,

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For ever deep and deep.

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Prouder than the scope of my entrenched healing,

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Greater more than all my sin and shame,

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Oh, magnified the precious name of Jesus,

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Praise his name.

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Let's sing the last with me now.

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Wonderful the grace of Jesus,

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Preaching the most divine,

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By his sublime power,

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Make me with God's dear child,

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Virtues in peace and peace,

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For all eternity.

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And the wonderful grace of Jesus,

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Preaches me.

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Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus,

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Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,

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Farther than the mountains,

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For he like a fountain,

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Falls in his deep trace for ever deep.

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Prouder than the scope of my entrenched healing,

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Greater more than all my sin and shame,

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Oh, magnified the precious name of Jesus,

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Praise his name.

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Alas, and did my Savior bleed,

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And did my Sovereign die,

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Would He decode that sacred hill,

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For such a worm as I?

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He loves me, He loves me,

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He loves me, this I know.

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He gave Himself to die for me,

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Because He loves me so.

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Was it for crimes that I have done,

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He roamed upon the tree.

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Amazing, pretty, praise unknown,

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And love beyond degree.

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He loves me, He loves me,

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He loves me, this I know.

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He gave Himself to die for me,

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Because He loves me so.

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Well, might the Son in darkness,

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And shud His glories in,

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When Christ the mighty Maker,

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Died more than the creature sinned.

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He loves me, He loves me,

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He loves me, this I know.

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He gave Himself to die for me,

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Because He loves me so.

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Thus might I lie my blushing face,

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While His dear cross appears,

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Dissolved by heart in painfulness,

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And melt my eyes to tears.

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He loves me, He loves me,

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He loves me, this I know.

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He gave Himself to die for me,

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Because He loves me so.

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But drops of grief can ne'er repay,

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The debt of love I owe.

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Dear Lord, I give myself away,

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Tis all that I can do.

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He loves me, He loves me,

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He loves me, this I know.

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He gave Himself to die for me,

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Because He loves me so.

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I serve a risen Savior,

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He's in the world today.

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I know that He is living,

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Whatever men may say.

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I see His hand of mercy,

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I hear His voice so clear,

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And just the time I need Him.

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Good morning everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.

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Thank you for coming this morning, it's good to see you all.

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Let's all find our seats and turn in our hymn books to song number 194.

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Song 194, let's find our seats and open your hymn books.

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Since Jesus came into my heart, page 194.

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Since Jesus came into my heart,

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sing it out to the Lord this morning on the 1st now.

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What a wonderful life in my life has been wrought,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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I have light in my soul for which long I have sought,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Lots of joy, oh my soul, on the way to the Father.

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Since Jesus came into my heart,

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On the second I have ceased from my wandering and going astray,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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And my sins with so many are all washed away,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Lots of joy, oh my soul, like the sea billows roll,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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I possess the behold that is steadfast and sure,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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And no dark clouds are down, now my pathway is sure,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Lots of joy, oh my soul, like the sea billows roll,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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There's a light in the valley of death before me,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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In the gates of the city beyond I can see,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Lots of joy, oh my soul, like the sea billows roll,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Sing it on the last.

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I shall go there to dwell in that city I know,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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And I'm happy, so happy, at homeward I go,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Lots of joy, oh my soul, like the sea billows roll,

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Since Jesus came into my heart.

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Amen. Great singing this morning. Let's open up with a word of prayer.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for this morning and for Stiff Vast Baptist Church.

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Thank you for keeping us all safe through that storm last night and getting us here safely this morning.

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We pray, Lord, that you bless the services, the soul winning and the fellowship,

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and that you'd strengthen our hearts and minds through your word this morning.

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Please fill Pastor Shelley with their Holy Spirit and that you would bless today.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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Our second song would be page 253.

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This is going to be a new song for most of you.

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Ye Must Be Born Again, page 253 in your song books.

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Ye Must Be Born Again.

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Page 253, Ye Must Be Born Again.

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Fall along best you can on that verse.

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The ruler once came to Jesus by night,

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To ask him the way of salvation and life.

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The master made answer in words true and plain,

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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I barely, barely say unto thee,

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye children of man, attend to the word,

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So solemnly honored by Jesus the Lord,

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And let not the message to you be in vain.

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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I barely, barely say unto thee,

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Ye must be born again.

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O ye who would enter that glorious rest,

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And sing with the branch of the song of the blest,

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The life everlasting if ye would obtain,

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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I barely, barely say unto thee,

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Ye must be born again.

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On the last, a dear one in heaven,

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Thine all yorks do see,

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That the beautiful day may be watching for thee,

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And list to the note of this solemn refrain,

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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Ye must be born again.

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I barely, barely say unto thee,

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Ye must be born again.

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I barely, barely say unto thee,

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Ye must be born again.

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In our ladies chat, there is a sign up sheet out here in our foyer

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on our welcome table, and so please make sure to sign up.

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All ladies are invited, so even if you want to also bring a guest, your mother

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or a friend, you of course can please welcome them. Just make sure to help sign

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up so that way we can anticipate and prepare accordingly, but of course

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you're all welcome to attend. We have several events in here that are

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listed. Some are just in other parts of the country. In Sacramento, California

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there's going to be a Red Hot Preaching Conference,

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and then there's our conference. It's going to be May 20th through the 24th, the

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Anti-Israel Conference. It's going to be,

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every day is going to have preaching actually, so

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there's going to be a service Wednesday night at 7, Thursday at 7,

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Friday at 7, and then Saturday we're going to have a morning service. So it'll

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be a 10 30 a.m. service. Our Sunday schedule will be the same

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service times, but we're going to be having guest

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preachers come to our event, and so it's going to be a lot of fun.

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We have a Germany Soul Winning Conference that's going to be happening in the

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summer. I'm going to be going out there and preaching for them.

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It's my first time to go to Europe. I'm pretty excited about it. There's Father's

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Day, June 21st, Fiji Missions Trip over on the other side of the world.

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Mesquite Soul Winning Marathon August 22nd, Barbados Missions Trip September 7th

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through the 12th. Heritage of the Lord Conference October 9th

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through the 11th. There was the annual Chili Cook-Off

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October 31st, and then Faithful Word Preaching Boot Camp

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out Phoenix, Arizona November 12th. So a lot of different events there.

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On the back is our prayer list, and then at the bottom we had

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some QR codes. If you'd like to register, you can register online for some of our

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events. And so that's pretty much all I have as

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far as announcements. Go ahead and just sing

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our third song for this morning. I'm not sure what it is.

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Thou Shall Be Saved.

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That's going to be page number 37 in your special binder

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in the seat in front of you. It's going to be Thou Shall Be Saved,

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page number 37 in the binder.

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Page number 37, Thou Shall Be Saved.

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Sing it out on that verse.

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I don't travel

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Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

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and thou shall be saved.

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False prophets out there in this world

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have been cunning out to DC.

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But Jesus has shown us the way to God.

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Be not afraid, only believe.

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Many deceivers have come.

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They're trying to lead you astray.

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Just call on the name of the Lord

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and thou shall be saved.

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If you don't look for the Lord,

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your labor here is in vain.

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Whatever you do for the praise of men,

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in heaven you cannot retain.

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What hay and stubble you build,

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the Christ Foundation is laying.

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You'll suffer a loss of reward,

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but thou shall be saved.

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On the last, you've brought nothing into this world.

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You'll take nothing out by immei.

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But when you do works that are pure and true,

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you're laying up treasures on high.

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Gold, silver, and precious stones

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cannot for eternal life change.

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It's thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ

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and thou shall be saved.

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Amen. Great singing this morning. At this time the offering plates are going to be

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passed around. You can turn your bibles to Matthew chapter 16 to follow along

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in God's reading. Matthew chapter 16.

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Matthew 16. The Bible reads,

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The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he

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would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them,

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When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red.

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And in the morning it will be foul weather today, for the sky is red

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and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky,

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but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous

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generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall be no sign,

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and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet

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and he left them and departed. And when his disciples were come to the

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other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them,

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Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no

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bread. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them,

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O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no

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bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember

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the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets ye took up?

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Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets ye took

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up? How is it that ye do not understand

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that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven

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of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that he bade

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them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and

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of the Sadducees. When Jesus came into the coasts of

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Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say

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that I the Son of Man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John

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the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

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He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

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And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ,

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the Son of the Living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him,

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Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it

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unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

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And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my

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church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou

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shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,

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and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

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Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the

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Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to show

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unto his disciples how that he must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of

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the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed

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and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him and began to rebuke

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him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord, this shall not

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be unto thee. But he turned and said unto Peter, Get

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thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offense unto me, for thou

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savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

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Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me,

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let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life

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for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited if he shall

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gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels, and

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then he shall reward every man according to his works.

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Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here

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which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his

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kingdom. Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

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Father in heaven, we thank you for our church services today. I pray that you

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bless the sermon this morning and help pastor Shelley to deliver it

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to us and enable us, Lord God, to apply this sermon to our lives and pay close

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attention to it. And please bless our soul winning time

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later this afternoon. We love you and in Jesus name I pray.

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Amen. Amen. I want to look at verse 17. The Bible says in Jesus answered and said,

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And I'm blessed art thou Simon Barjona for flesh and blood

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hath not revealed it unto thee but my father which is in heaven.

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And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my

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church and the gates of hell shall not prevail

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against it. And I'll give unto thee the keys of the

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kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth

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shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth

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shall be loose in heaven. Now this is a very

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important passage of scripture and it really

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is central to understanding the different views of Christianity. How you

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would interpret this particular section of scripture. When we look at

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quote Christianity as a whole to the world including

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anything and everything that you could think of. We talk about

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the Catholic Church specifically the Roman Catholic Church. We think about

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the Orthodox Church. We think about what many people just clumped together as

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all Protestants. So basically anything that's just not Catholic.

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Then this specific passage is very important to understanding

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how we operate as a church. And so I want to preach a sermon this morning on

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local versus universal church. Local versus universal church. And this is a

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very important fundamental doctrine that we hold to and we hold to the

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local church belief. The local church doctrine.

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Whereas the Orthodox and the Catholic and some other

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flavors of that all hold to a quote universal church doctrine.

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Surprisingly enough the nom the noms almost hold to this type of view too and

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I'll get to that in a minute. But in our belief we believe in the local

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church. The local New Testament church. And when we talk about this specific

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passage what is it saying? Because it's not always necessarily

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important to tell what it's not saying. It's important to say what it really is

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saying. Obviously the Lord Jesus Christ is talking to Peter.

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Notice in verse 17 blessed art thou Simon bar Jonah. Then he says in verse 18

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that thou art Peter. Did you notice that's not the same name?

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Because Jesus Christ renames Simon Peter. And when we think about why well the

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root of his particular name means a stone or a rock in essence.

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Okay so it makes sense that he's going to say here that thou art Peter and upon

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this rock I will build my church. Okay so you know I think that in some cases

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extreme views are always the wrong view. Okay you have the Catholic church which

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will make this entire passage only about Peter. Then you have some landmark style

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Baptist that will make this view only about Jesus. And I think what we have to

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do and again the Bible typically has is carnal truths that also mean spiritual

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truths. The carnal truth here is that Peter really is this rock and that Peter

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really was the first instrumental leader in the church and that God really did

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give to Peter keys of the kingdom of heaven. Now the Catholics will take this

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so far as to make him a pope. This is not legitimate because the ultimate authority

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still relies and is coming from Christ. And so Christ in a sense is also the rock

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upon which the church is built. And of course that key fundamental truth that

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Jesus Christ is the son of God is a foundational idea as to why the church

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and an important doctrine that the church is built upon. So if we take this

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passage there's a lot of different truths we can get out of it. We can get out the

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truth that hey Jesus is the son of God. That's an important foundational

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doctrine. We can get that Jesus Christ is the rock upon which the church is built

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because without Jesus we would have no church. Of course the church was

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purchased with his blood as the Bible describes. But we also don't want to get

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away from the reality that Peter was clearly the first leader of the church

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and that the church is given authority from God from the Lord Jesus Christ and

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that authority is respected by God in heaven. OK so we want to make sure that we

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keep a balanced view and we accept all of the teachings that are being given to us

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from this particular passage. However this is what the Catholics will

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essentially give lip service to to then teach that we have a quote universal church.

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Now again why is this an important doctrine? Well number one we have to

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understand what the word church even means. Church in the New Testament is

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synonymous for the word congregation in the Old Testament. OK now let's prove

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this for a moment. Go if you would to Hebrews chapter number two. Go to Hebrews

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chapter number two. But here's a specific clear example. In Acts chapter seven

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verse 38 the Bible describes Moses and the children of Israel as being the

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church in the wilderness. Now did they have a New Testament church in the

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wilderness? No. But were they congregated all together in the wilderness? Absolutely.

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And so that gives us an understanding of what church means. It's a congregation

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or an assembly. It's where you're physically coming together into one group. That is what a

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church is. That is what a congregation is. That's what an assembly is. And so you'll even

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see these words used in names of churches today. You have churches that will use the

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word congregation literally in the name of their church. You'll have churches called

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first assembly. They'll use that terminology in their name. We use the word church. It's a New

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Testament doctrine and so we're steadfast Baptist church. We're not steadfast Baptist congregation.

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We're not steadfast Baptist assembly. Now again are those synonyms? Yes. But in the New Testament

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we use the word church. In the Old Testament we use congregation. So we use the word church

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when we identify ourselves as steadfast Baptist church. And so we understand that hey this is a

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specific local congregation. We are not a universal congregation. That idea is an oxymoron.

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It's an oxymoron that there would be a universal church on earth because we are not gathered

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together with all believers right now. And we will never be gathered together with all believers

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until we get to heaven or some future state. So the idea of a quote universal church is just

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not a New Testament doctrine that we're going to observe on earth anytime prior to Christ's return,

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prior to us being in heaven. So it really is a false doctrine and why they teach this is because

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they want to take the power of church and give it all to one man. They want all of the churches

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to give all of their power to one particular individual and that's the pope. Again there's

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nothing wrong with having one leader. I'm not saying that it's bad to have one leader but it is

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bad to try and teach that all the churches are united under one particular person which would

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be the pope. This is foreign to scripture. Now I turned in Hebrews chapter number two. I want us

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to look at verse number 12. I'm going to prove this one more time and again we're going to be

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proving a lot of doctrine this morning. It says in verse number 12, and this is like kind of a

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prophecy about the Lord Jesus Christ saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst

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of the church will I sing praise unto thee. So in the New Testament we have Jesus quoting here about

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He is going to declare the name of God unto his brethren in the midst of the church will I sing

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praise unto thee. Now keep your finger and go to Psalm 22. Go back in the Old Testament to Psalm

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22 and we're going to see that this is actually a quotation of Psalm 22 verse 22 and you know one

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thing that you have to understand is when the New Testament is quoting the Old Testament

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we have to understand there's two possible scenarios here. One could be that we're using

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synonyms and so it is a it is really a direct quote. It's just using synonyms and there's no

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problem with using synonyms. Secondly, the New Testament sometimes isn't going to necessarily

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give a verbatim quote a word for a word match. It'll sometimes alter the language to fit the

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context of what's being described. Maybe switching pronouns or switching the the exact wording

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because you're just trying to use this passage to prove a particular point. That does not mean that

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it's not that the Bible itself is like an error or that it's not accurate. So sometimes what people

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do is they'll come along and they'll try to fix that and they'll try to like basically twist both

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passages to try and make them sound identical. This is kind of a Rukmanite type mentality. Okay

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and we don't need to have a Rukmanite type mentality when it comes to the Old Testament

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and Testament. We want it to be faithful to what was actually recorded and received and recognized

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by God's Word and is clearly evidenced in the extent manuscripts that we have. Okay we don't

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have we don't we don't need to like fix the Bible. Then you also have later documents that'll come

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along and they'll try to put exact New Testament quotes so then it'll seem like oh well they're

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actually quoting this. So this is where you get a lot of argumentation for what's happening.

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So they'll come along and they'll say, oh well the New Testament's quoting the Septuagint.

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It's like how do you know that they weren't just coming alongside and trying to steal like a New

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Testament version to try and make it seem like oh well they're really quoting the New Testament,

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not the Old Testament. And again the the oldest Septuagint copy we have is from the fourth century.

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This is Sinaiticus which was found in some Alexandrian monastery or some Egyptian monastery

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by a questionable person who claimed it was in a wastebasket that it was destined for the flames.

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He also made this statement that the Epistle of Barnabas is the is the greatest biblical treasure

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that he's ever discovered. So it's just like this is pretty spurious and then again we have like no

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other Septuagint's that even match it. All the Septuagint's have variances. All the Septuagint's

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have different readings. So it's just like oh we magically found the one manuscript that doesn't

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agree with any other manuscript and just because it happens to phrase a particular part of the New

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Testament a certain way now oh Jesus was quoting the Septuagint. And look you'll hear this all the

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time people like oh Jesus quoted the Septuagint. It's like how do you quote a document that's 300

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years in the future? Okay so again there's a lot of arguments that people throw around and if you

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don't know the specifics you can get easily confused about history or documentation. It's okay

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for the New Testament and the Old Testament not be a verbatim word for word match.

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Do not allow that to confuse you about the inerrant preservation of God's word. Do not allow

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that to confuse you about why you have a King James Bible in your lap. And if you need to watch the

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Preserve Bible a couple more times all right because it'll explain to you very clearly why

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we have a King James Bible. Okay it's it's it's it is the Word of God and it is the document we

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should all be using. Now in Hebrews I'm sorry, in Psalm 22 verse 22 let's get this quote. He says,

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I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise them thee.

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So is that a verbatim quote? No but at the end of the day it's saying the same thing. Congregation

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and church are synonyms and if you even understand the process by which our our King James Bible is

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translated they just made the conscious decision to say anytime we come across this idea we're

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going to use the word church in the New Testament and in the Old Testament we're going to use

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congregation just from a stylistic perspective. And again same word same meaning in essence but

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we got to understand what a real church is. It's a congregation. It's congregating. It's assembling.

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It's coming together. This universal church idea does not match reality. There's no place upon which

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all churches, all Christians are all able to just gather together and have church services together.

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It's an unrealistic impractical situation that has never occurred and will never occur. The only

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way you could even argue this is that maybe the first time there was ever a church service well

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they're all in unity that one time but they still weren't even gathered with every single saved

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person either. Okay so this is just not the right doctrine the universal church doctrine. We're going

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to talk about that more but I want to go to Hebrews chapter 10. Go to Hebrews chapter number 10.

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This is important doctrine. You knock on a lot of doors today and you talk to people

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and you say like hey do you go to church and they'll say this we're having church right now.

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Or I hear this a lot. I knock on someone's door I say hey do you go to church and say

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we are the church. Oh okay so you just you just are a church walking around.

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Like how does that work? You're just always a church? Now think about this if you're always a

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church then then how does Hebrews chapter 10 even make any sense? Okay let's read Hebrews chapter

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number 10 verse number 25. The Bible says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together

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as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

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How can you forsake the assembling of yourself?

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Did you chop your body into different parts and send them in different parts of the world or

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something? It's like you're already assembled okay and if you're not assembled you need to go to the

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hospital. If you've got disassembly seek medical attention immediately. So therefore this can't be

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what they're referring to that quote we're the church. Now if that's true okay show me the verse.

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Show me the verse that says quote we're the church because if we actually let's let's be

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careful if we go through and I'm not going to go through every single mention because there's a lot

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but if we go through every single mention of the New Testament word church you'll find that it

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means one of two things. It either refers to the institution as as an idea basically what a church

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would look like or it's referring to a specific institution a specific congregation a specific

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assembly of that institution. So we think about it would be like saying you know McDonald's we

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could be just referring to the concept or institution of McDonald's or we could be talking

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about a specific McDonald's right. We could just say like hey McDonald's sells french fries

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then we can say hey that McDonald's over there serves bad french fries right. These are two

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ways to use the word McDonald's but what we couldn't say is that there's the universal McDonald's

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where just literally every single McDonald's is meeting together and eating together right now

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because you'd say where is that this doesn't exist. It'd also be weird if you ran into somebody

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and you're like have you ever been to McDonald's and say I am McDonald's

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and you're like what do you mean it's like just I am I am McDonald's we are McDonald's

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we're having McDonald's right now. You're like what do you mean you're having McDonald's right now

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where show me the fries right show me the burger where's the where's the golden arch

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where's Ronald you know I'm like if at least it was coming from Ronald you'd be like okay there's

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a little bit of truth here right if there's a clown walking around saying he is McDonald's I'll

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give him some grace but you know what isn't that silly and again you hear this word church so much

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so he gets confused it sounds less crazy for some reason when someone says I am the church

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but it's just as crazy just saying I am McDonald's we are McDonald's we're having McDonald's right now

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no bro there's no Big Mac there's there's nothing here the ice cream machine is broken okay

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so in the same way we don't want to get this bad mentality and look I think for from my perspective

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I never really grew up Catholic I never really grew up Orthodox I didn't know a lot about that

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stuff so when I hear some of this language I'm not necessarily as like triggered or I'm not

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necessarily as identifying this is a problem but it is a problem this is bad language it's false

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doctrine it's not something that we should give ear to we shouldn't be using phrases like this

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because it's confusing it's not legitimate okay a congregation is meeting together a church is

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meeting together you can't say like we are the church because you're just not meeting together

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in the New Testament church and what you're really doing is you're downgrading what God actually

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died for you're downgrading what Jesus actually purchased and you're lowering and devaluing what

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a real church even is and you're making it something that it's not okay and so we don't

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want to devalue the institution of church we want to keep it in high regard and we want to have it

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in its proper role proper place I want to go to Acts chapter 14 go to Acts chapter number 14

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also we do not see in the New Testament a lot of things pretty much anything that the Roman

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Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church does is not in the Bible anywhere

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including this universal church we do not see all the churches ever meeting together we do not see

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the New Testament a pope at any point at any point we do not see all the elders or all the bishops

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all the churches meeting together in some council or in some synod or in some ecumenical group where

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they decide or rule over other churches we never see this okay we don't even really see you know

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a guy who's just like I'm the regional bishop for this group of churches okay what we do see

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is we see a bishop over a church we see elders plural being meaning they have multiple staff

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for a church and we see the apostles ruling from afar in a situation where they don't have an elder

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where they don't have elders we see apostles ruling over we see bishops going to ordain a bishop in a

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church that doesn't have a bishop okay so this is what we actually see in the text so what what

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can we draw from this particular conclusion well if we actually stick to the text if we stick to

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what God's word says then we would see a hierarchy structure that once a church has the appropriate

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leadership there is nothing above that leadership except for the word of God itself this is the

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example the apostle Paul sent of course in the formation of a church in the early church in the

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beginning stages of a church it may not have a bishop that's directly over that local assembly

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local congregation I believe you see this you know indirectly or reading between the lines in

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churches like the church at Corinth we don't see the church at Corinth like hey you know you need

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to get your congregation order elder so-and-so we don't see this bishop or so-and-so I think you see

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a lot of churches in these epistles are kind of leaderless because they're in those early stages

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early formations okay now when we talk about revelation we have an epistle written to the

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to the seven churches of eastern asia but it's written to an angel it's written to an angel and

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again you know when we hear the word angel sometimes we think of an angelic being or some kind of a

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supernatural creature but an angel can also simply be a messenger or the person that's basically

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giving a message well if you think about it the shepherd or the bishop is supposed to deliver God's

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word as the messenger of God and so I believe it could be euphemistically describing the leader of

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that church or the bishop or the elder of that church that makes the most sense practically

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speaking okay that the elder or the angel or the messenger is there to deliver God's word and to

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is really being corrected I mean if you really think about it while the church is being corrected

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it's really kind of the angel that's being taken the task on making sure that his church is

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legitimate and following the instructions given in the book of revelation coming from Jesus Christ

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so you know from our perspective we believe that the hierarchy in the Bible is God Christ

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and then of course we have God's word which I would put on par with Christ okay it's the same

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and then we'd have the elder of the church the bishop of the church the leader of the church

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in the apostolic era you do have apostles in there and we have a hierarchy of apostles being

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mentioned in the Bible as well today we don't have that but in Acts chapter number 14 we see

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the apostle Paul forming lots he goes into an area gets a bunch of people saved they start meeting

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now they have a church problem is he's got to go he goes to another place gets a bunch of people

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saved they start meeting it's a church then he goes to another area gets a bunch of people saved

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they start meeting having a church then he comes back when he comes back now that they've been

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there for a while now that they've grown now that they're maybe in a position where they have some

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people that are eligible he then ordains elders in these churches once he does that though according

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to the Bible he commends them under the Lord let's see what the text actually says Acts chapter 14

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verse 23 and when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with fasting they

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commended them to the Lord on whom they believed notice they didn't say all right now you report

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to the regional archbishop now you're subject to this council now you're subject to this pope

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now this guy's in charge and in fact when the apostle Paul comes to meet with the elders at

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Ephesus in Acts chapter number 20 he doesn't say okay now that I'm going to be gone here's your pope

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here's your regional leader here's your council here's your god he's just he's basically saying

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you guys are the overseers so that means what they're in charge the elders of Ephesus are the

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overseers they're the ones in charge of the church now again are they the final authority

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absolutely not man is not the final authority over god god is over man god is the authority

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structure in the new testament church let's go to colossians chapter number one and see that

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clearly proven in the bible colossians chapter number one we're going to see this a very important

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fundamental doctrine and belief in the bible

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Colossians 1 verse 18 and he talking about Jesus Christ is the head of the body the church who is

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the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence so who's

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in charge of every single church Jesus Christ Jesus Christ started the church and Jesus Christ

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is the head of the church and he gets the preeminence in everything so then you have to

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ask the practical question what does that mean logistically what does that mean in reality how

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does that practically work well it practically works because Christ gave us his word and if we

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have an infallible god then we have an infallible word of god and if we have an infallible word of

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god then we must adhere to what the bible says therefore who is the head of this church it is

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this book right here it is god's word that is in charge of this church so from a hierarchy

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perspective we have god christ go to first corinthians 11 i'll prove this to you god christ

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which is equivalent to his word and then we have the elder that is submitted unto christ submitted

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unto his word from an authority perspective okay first corinthians chapter number 11

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we have the authority being laid out of god and christ it says in verse 3 but i would have you

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know that the head of every man is christ and the head of the woman is the man and the head of christ

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is god now in first corinthians 11 we're talking about a slightly different institution we have to

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understand that all institutions derive the exact same top-down hierarchy god christ or his word

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and then in the family it's the man it's the husband in the church it's going to go god christ

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and then it would go the elder in the in the new testament apostolic era when the apostles were

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alive you technically had apostles above bishops you had apostles first according to the bible

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but since all the apostles have died apostle paul said that he was the last of all of them

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then we no longer have that in the hierarchy structure they no longer are there in that

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particular situation so obviously if today we had apostles and we had apostle come and visit our

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church and he was saying hey pastor shelly needs to fix this then i would say yeah we need to do

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what he's saying right technically there could be someone over a bishop which would be apostle

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but here's the problem they don't exist they're in heaven okay now let me explain to you though

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this still happens we are corrected by the apostles you know how the book of romans the

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book of galatians the book of ephesians we have the apostle paul we have the apostle john we have

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their writings we have the apostle peter and hey if the apostle is correcting pastor shelly we're

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going to go with the apostle because it's god's word so practically speaking yes we are corrected

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by christ we are corrected by the apostles and then we have elders and bishops in our churches

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that help us to identify how we are to practice our worship towards god and of course we always

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obey the higher power the higher power is always right we always appeal to that which is superior

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not to that which is inferior whenever you're trying to prove anything you always appeal to

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that which is greater to that which is more authoritative so you the less is blessed of the

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better is what the bible says in the book of hebraeus and so whenever there's a controversy or strife

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that's why men appeal to a higher authority so whenever you ask like where do you get your

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authority whatever they appeal to is a higher authority so if you're saying like hey why is

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your church legitimate if they read a bible verse that proves that the bible is the authority

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so of course we understand that hey we believe that the bible is our final authority

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in all matters of faith and practice this would be one of the ideas that came out of the protestant

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reformation called sola scriptura some people will falsely accuse us of claiming that means that we

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can't use any information outside the bible i don't think anybody really believes that genuinely

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but we do believe that everything should be tested with scripture and that scripture is the final

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authority scripture is always our final authority and it settles the dispute we point to that which

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is greater and we appeal to that which is greater and what gives the church its authority scripture

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the church does not give authority to the scripture the the scripture gives authority to the church

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why because christ is the one that's the head of the body if you say the church tells you

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which bible is there is the right bible or if you say the church is telling you what scripture

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or if you tell you tell me that the church is the authority then you know what you've done you put

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man as the head of the body and you put christ underneath man we must say that the scripture

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is our final authority we must believe that why because then christ is our final authority

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if you don't then you don't actually have jesus christ ruling your church in any meaningful way

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you can sit here and say hey christ is the one ruling our church but if you don't allow

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scripture to be the final authority then you don't actually mean that you don't actually believe that

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that'd be the same as someone saying i believe in jesus for salvation but then they say but

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actually i have to do works to be saved well now they're appealing to their works and not actually

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christ you can say you believe in jesus and not mean it you can say that christ is the head of

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your church and not mean it and the catholics and the orthodox do not believe do not believe

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that the scripture is above their church they believe their church is above scripture

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and even even so much so that in their doctrinal statements the orthodox church will say

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we cannot make a mistake we are infallible we have never aired we have never gotten anything wrong

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we are on the same level as scripture but even more so we created the bible and gave you the

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bible and we will tell you what the bible says this is why you have things called like the dark

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ages this is why it's a cult okay and you say like oh man uh how do you know who's right or who's

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wrong well the one that lets you actually use your brain is the one that's right and the one that

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says turn it off and just trust me bro is not right this is important this is an important idea

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and again they would say well all of our churches together are the quote church

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but again at the same time they don't all meet together they've never met together so what do

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they really remember that well all of our bishops met together and then that's not even true because

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the orthodox and the catholic didn't like each other and they both just kicked each other out

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so then they didn't have to meet with each other and then they were like y'all aren't really the

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church anymore but it's like how does how does this work and then it's just again it's just

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cherry picking just who's right well we said we're right so therefore we're right okay this is a

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circular argument and it does not appeal to the highest authority at any point in time if you have

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something that's called faith it will be a circular argument don't let pseudo-intellectuals fool you

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with philosophical language and say oh your your religion is a is a circular logical

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religion you just circular logic every religion that's faith-based is circular the question is

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what's at the top of your circle not so much if it's circular or not because you cannot have

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faith without it being circular we say hey we believe the bible because the bible

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but they say we believe the church because the church it's the same argument it's just where are

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they putting their final authority they put their final authority in a group of men as opposed to

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the bible now the catholics their final authority is the pope one man when we talk about the

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orthodox they're like oh that's so bad bad bad bad ours is in five guys you know ours is just basically

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in all the bishops or whatever but again it's still man i don't care if it's one five or a trillion

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let god be true in every man a liar this is the final authority will always be the final authority

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and this is the only thing that's infallible is the word of god isn't it funny that no church in

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the new testament is even close to infallible yet now they're magically infallible i mean which

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church in the new testament is infallible is it is it the one at corth the one that has incest

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the one that has people denying the resurrection the one that has lawsuits the one that has weird

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fornication and strife and carnality and division and they're doing the lord's supper wrong and

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people are dying and it's just a train wreck i mean is is that the infallible church oh well

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it's at ethesus okay the church at ethesus is in danger of losing its candlestick how is that

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infallible like it's it's silly what these people actually believe when you understand what they're

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really saying at the end of the day we believe that church is a local assembly with a qualified

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bishop overhead and that they are submitted to the scripture this is what a church is and that's why

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the bible calls church is because there's church is this is the institution that god has ordained

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it's meaningful and purposeful so let's prove this let's go to some proof texts go to ephesians chapter

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one for the universal church okay because of course they're going to have verses that they

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want to appeal to so let's go to all of their verses that they would say no he's wrong universal

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church universal church let's just go to these and see if my understanding of what i've said so far

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could be applied could we be referring to just the institution or a specific congregation in

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these particular examples ephesians chapter one verse 22 here is their proof text talk about christ

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and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church which

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is his body the fullest of him that filleth all in all so they would say oh see it's talking about

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church singular body singular therefore it has to be universal church but again the term itself

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would be oxymoronical in the sense that we're not all gathered together okay so i believe it's still

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obvious that this could be referred to a body what let's just let's just apply it to our institution

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is christ the head of our church yes we believe that the that the word of god the king james

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bible is our final authority all matters of dispute would be settled with this so he is the

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head of this specific body and there's nothing in his passage that contradicts what we're practicing

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what we believe how we understand a local church but that doesn't mean there's only one body in

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the sense that there's multiple bodies of christ all over this world and all of them christ is the

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head of okay and we're going to prove that in other passages but there's nothing in this that

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says that there couldn't be multiple bodies ephesians chapter four ephesians chapter four

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look at verse three here's where they're going to use this language and like this they're going to

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say oh no no there is one body let me i'll prove it there's only one body ephesians chapter four

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verse three endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace there is one body

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and one spirit even as you're all called and won't hope of your calling one lord one faith one

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baptism let me ask you this question if there's only one baptism does that mean there was only

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one person that was ever baptized because if you're going to say there's only one body meaning there

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can't be multiple bodies then you would have to believe that there's only one baptism meaning

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there was only one baptism that ever happened we don't believe that so what does this mean what

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does it mean that there's only one baptism what does it mean that there's only one faith it means

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that there's only one legitimate way to heaven there's only one belief system that gets you in

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heaven there's one faith there's not multiple religions that get you in heaven there's one

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faith and you know what there's not multiple baptisms there's one baptism you either have

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believed in christ prior to you put your faith in him and then you're baptized in the name of the

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father son holy ghost you go down to the water you come out we're not doing different style

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baptisms we don't have different sayings we're not using water sometimes and kool-aid other times

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we're not doing sprinkling and then sometimes immersion and then sometimes we just pretend

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like we did it no no there's just one baptism we have the same type of baptism we all got baptized

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the same way it's the same process it's the same concepts it's the same ideas it's done in the same

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manner there's one baptism in the same way there should be one church meaning if i go to africa

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church should be the same as this church that if i go to asia asia should be the same way what is

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the same way it's the same book it's the same god it's the same salvation plan and we're having

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service the same way and they're submitted under the book they're submitted under the word of god

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and they have ordained leadership the same way that we would have ordained leadership that there's

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one body there's not different options here okay just like you go to mcdonald's you expect there

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to be a big mac on the menu there's one mcdonald's now i get it that you go to foreign countries and

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they they're like well actually we don't have burgers we have soy burgers or something or if

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you go to the vegan parts of the world or they have imported beef or they don't or they use local

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or whatever i get there's some there's some flavor differences but at the end of the day they have a

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big mac on the menu at the end of the day they have fries on the menu and you kind of have to

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say there's kind of one mcdonald's i get that there's flavor differences and look in christianity

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there's flavor differences and that's okay but we're not talking about flavor differences we're

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not talking about ingredients we're talking about hey there's a golden arch on the building

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and we're talking about hey they got the word of god yeah there's a flavor difference between

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the king james bible and the reign of alerigel is 2010 there's a difference between this and a

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greek bible or a different foreign language bible but at the end of the day it should say the same

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thing yeah and maybe the ingredients maybe the people who crafted it are some are more skilled

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than others you know you're kind of like i kind of prefer the king james it seems to be you know

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the best way to make it and and at the end of the day hey i get it i'm king james only but hey if i

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only speak a foreign language i could still have the word of god in that language it's still

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possible it's still potential we still have the word of god in many different languages

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but at the end of the day hey there's one body does this prove that there's literally only one

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church no not in any way and again people that are using that particular point well now you'd

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have to prove that there's only one baptism and so they're not consistent in their logic here

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they're just cherry picking that phrase because it sounds like what they want it to say it sounds

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like it doesn't i mean i'll admit that sounds like what they're saying there's really only one body

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but at the end of the day that's not really what we're meaning that's not the context upon which

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this is actually being described here okay so let's go to another proof text they have oh before we

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go there i'm going to prove this even further keep your keep this in your mind go to first

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corinthians 12 let me just prove what i actually said with just even clearer verses okay that's not

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what one body means look one body means that we don't have a jewish church and a gentile church

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we have one body we're not separating and look i've been a part of churches in in my bringing up

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upbringing where they had jewish services and they had gentile services okay specifically gateway

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did this i think it was like monday's or something or tuesday's they would have

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a messianic service and i'm thinking like well jesus is my messiah yeah i know he's not sam

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gibbs but he's my messiah okay and so like why would i be i don't want to miss out on a messianic

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service i mean jesus is my messiah but you know i do want to miss out on their messianic service

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because it's like 99.9 jew and about 0.01 christ okay and it should be 100 christ and 0 jew all

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right especially what they mean by jew with the shofar and the funny hats and the prayer shawls

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and all the other nonsense but in first cremation chapter number 12 let me just prove

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beyond a shadow doubt what i'm saying is what the bible says for as the body is one

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sounds like the same language doesn't it and have many members and all the members of that one body

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being many are one body so also is christ for by one spirit we're all baptized into one body whether

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we be jews or gentiles whether we bond or free and have been all made to drink into one spirit

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so is this saying hey it doesn't matter if you're jew or gentile we're in the same body same church

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we congregate together it's not saying hey there's literally only one church the universal church

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trust me bro what it's saying is that those that are saved we all come together in one congregation

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we don't separate poor and and rich we don't separate slave and non-slave we don't separate

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jew and gentile and look these beliefs are very important for our historical understanding

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i mean in the south you had literal slaves and those that were practicing badness would not

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separate the congregation they would bring the slaves into the same congregation and have church

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with their slaves because the bible is clearly teaching that whether you're bond or free you

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have one body and we are worshiping god together and that hey there's no difference between us

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no matter what our status is again i'm not justifying slavery slavery is wrong but at least

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some people were still recognizing hey there's not a church for them and a church for us hey we

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should all come together whereas you have in the north a lot of congregations where these missionary

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baptist churches where they were literally segregating and they had the black church and

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then they have the white church and look even today you have churches that are like this where

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they're they're kind of like a black church and look i've had a lot of people come to me and

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they're mad because i get them saved and they're like am i even welcome at your church and i'm just

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thinking like bro yeah anybody's welcome anybody that's saved is welcome we have one body we don't

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separate on skin color it's meaningless it's superfluous it means nothing to me as my dad

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always said black is beautiful baby that's what my dad always says okay and again it's we don't

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have an asian church we don't have a mexican church now we have a spanish service but you know

01:07:03.600 --> 01:07:08.880
what there's gringos showing up okay hey there's red yellow black and white showing up at the

01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:14.880
spanish service that's a language difference that's not a skin color difference and unfortunately you

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have churches today that are are basically race based it's the korean church it's the it's the

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it's the mexican church or whatever and look we're not supposed to be divided on race we're

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supposed to be divided on grace do you believe it or not hey if you're if you're saved by grace

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you're welcome here right if you want to be saved by race you're not welcome here because we're not

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a racial group god is supposed to be the god of the whole earth that we're supposed to be the house

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of prayer for all nations there is there's no segregating based on external factors and isn't

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it interesting that the catholic and the orthodox are geographic race-based religions folks

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isn't it convenient that your church just all happens to be right and in the same area and all

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geographically greek and then all of your church just seems you're right because you're geographically

01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:10.080
roman that is not christ church and then you'll notice that the orthodox church doesn't really

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exist everywhere in the world because it's a geographic cult folks it is not god's institution

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that's why you see baptist everywhere because it's based on faith not on geography and it's not based

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on race it's based on one faith one body one christ one baptism that's what that means it's

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not a universal church and isn't it funny that you have a universal church and you don't actually

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exist everywhere if you live in which stuff falls you have to drive over two hours to go

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to a greek orthodox church how does that work

01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:51.840
you know i heard this guy made this argument he's like oh protestants don't exercise church

01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:58.400
discipline and i'm like ever heard of the new i.b in fact a lot of the videos are from the church

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discipline specifically okay it's all the haters making their little crybaby videos about it all

01:09:03.280 --> 01:09:10.320
right but he's like oh we we orthodox you know exercise church discipline because you know someone

01:09:10.320 --> 01:09:14.480
gets kicked out we'll put their name in the log and then they visit another church then you know

01:09:14.480 --> 01:09:20.400
they'll not be able to be welcome or something like that and it's like in the protestants you

01:09:20.400 --> 01:09:24.000
get out of church you just go to the church down the street and i'm like you know why they don't

01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:29.840
do that in the greek orthodox because there's not one down the street it's like oh you want to sit

01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:35.120
here and pretend like y'all are so much better at church discipline when i see online consistently

01:09:35.120 --> 01:09:40.560
people that are getting drunk going to the club committing open adultery fornication doing drugs

01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:44.880
and then on sunday morning posting pictures at their orthodox assembly and then they want to

01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:52.000
lecture us on how they exercise church discipline it's a joke and it's fake folks oh well we have

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.000
the universal church so we actually exercise church discipline your church discipline was

01:09:56.080 --> 01:10:01.280
hey i don't like the roman so we're going to excommunicate literally every single person in

01:10:01.280 --> 01:10:09.040
the western european continent from our church in one day that's vindictive and then they're like oh

01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:13.200
we're going to do the same to y'all over here in the eastern side isn't it interesting you can

01:10:13.200 --> 01:10:20.880
literally excommunicate like a hundred million people in one day just just like that it's like

01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.760
you used to be the universal church five minutes ago now you all don't you all disappeared you

01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:30.880
don't even exist it's just like this is this is interesting church discipline and then it's all

01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:36.880
based on geography not on faith that's real convenient isn't it look this is this is just

01:10:37.520 --> 01:10:43.120
territory wars this is just the crips versus the bloods or something you know like this isn't

01:10:43.120 --> 01:10:44.800
this isn't spiritual faith here

01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:51.200
these people they say like oh man if you understood history you'd be catholic it's like no

01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:59.280
you you guys are hunting us down and killing us it's like oh you you have understood church

01:10:59.280 --> 01:11:05.200
history you'd be orthodox it's like orthodox okay they supposedly have been infallible

01:11:05.840 --> 01:11:11.280
infallible okay so the orthodox church of course they all tie back and they claim that they're

01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:15.440
coming from the apostles and they're coming from that first early church setting where you have

01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:19.200
multiple churches being formed by the apostles and they're claiming they have apostolic succession

01:11:19.200 --> 01:11:25.520
right well fast forward five six hundred years they have all these people that have created these

01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:31.760
quote icons their pictures or drawings of jesus and just other spiritual things and they're

01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:35.440
claiming that you know we need to hang these up in the church you need to come by you need to kiss

01:11:35.440 --> 01:11:41.600
them so in 754 ad they had their council they got all their leaders from all their churches together

01:11:42.400 --> 01:11:49.200
and they said icons are unbiblical and they're not allowed in any church then fast forward to

01:11:49.200 --> 01:11:55.120
787 ad they said that council that we had was completely fake and didn't really happen ignore

01:11:55.120 --> 01:12:02.000
it icons are awesome and they said because we can't make a mistake we've never made a mistake

01:12:02.160 --> 01:12:06.800
and they said because we can't make a mistake we've never made a mistake we've never said

01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:12.560
anything wrong and i'm just like this is like arguing with a woman okay it's just like i've

01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:18.320
never been wrong i've never contradict myself you know it's just like what in the world you know

01:12:18.320 --> 01:12:23.120
it's like oh if you understood church history you'd be orthodox no and i'm not going to kiss

01:12:23.120 --> 01:12:30.560
your weird-eyed jesus when i walk in you know they they claim that this is a literal picture of jesus

01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:36.320
500 years after he showed up i mean if i just told you like hey draw me a picture of christopher

01:12:36.320 --> 01:12:46.240
columbus right now how good are you going to do draw me jone of arc right now it is interesting

01:12:46.240 --> 01:12:50.880
you go to different continents you go to a dark continent jesus is black you go to an asian

01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:57.040
continent his eyes are really wide right you go i mean you go wherever it looks exactly like them

01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:04.400
hey you go to a white nation he's like snow white with long hair no that was the vikings

01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:10.000
they need to get a haircut all right that wasn't jesus and look i'm going to tell you what this big

01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:17.680
goofy-eyed jesus is not jesus either all right that they go in and kiss it's a demon it's a demon

01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:22.240
and you know what what they're doing is satanic you're not getting closer to christ you're getting

01:13:22.240 --> 01:13:26.480
closer to the devil and and i was arguing with somebody because i was kind of mad and they were

01:13:26.480 --> 01:13:33.600
telling me you know the orthodox believe that muslims also worship the same god and i was just

01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:39.040
like this is just so a historical no they don't and then i was like wait a minute he's right

01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:44.160
because they both worship satan so i mean i guess he's right that they don't have the they have the

01:13:44.160 --> 01:13:49.840
same god in essence go to athens chapter five we're pretty much right there or go back to athens

01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:54.400
chapter number five let's look at more of these proof texts i'm becoming less catholic and and

01:13:55.280 --> 01:14:01.680
orthodox every day of my life so you know i the more i learn about them the less i like them

01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:05.120
it's it's funny they act like if you knew more about us you would like us and it's like no

01:14:09.120 --> 01:14:12.480
here's another cool fact about what the orthodox did the orthodox said

01:14:13.200 --> 01:14:18.720
some later counts i think in like the 500s don't quote me on the date somewhere in that range they

01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:23.200
said if you're a bishop and you're married that you had to literally put away your wife

01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:29.280
because it was giving it was it was a scandal to the church for you to live with your wife

01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:38.400
what i thought the bishop must be the husband of one wife and then they literally said that the

01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:45.040
bishop must not be married and must not have children facial doctrine of the orthodox church

01:14:45.040 --> 01:14:49.680
is that their bishops have to be unmarried and celibate and then they claim that they can't make

01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:55.600
an error how do you read first timothy chapter three you know again their doctrines are bizarre

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trust me bro we've never made a mistake feces chapter five look at verse 23 for the husband

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is the head of the wife even as christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body

01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:11.680
therefore as the church is subject unto christ so let the wise be to their own husbands at everything

01:15:12.400 --> 01:15:17.360
husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church and gave himself for it that he might

01:15:17.360 --> 01:15:23.440
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water notice this by the word so how does jesus christ

01:15:23.440 --> 01:15:32.400
clean up the church by the word of god not by a council not by a pope not by some other group he

01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:38.560
doesn't clean up the church with the church he cleans up the church with the word he washes it

01:15:38.560 --> 01:15:44.560
with the word that's how he cleans it up again none of this is proving a universal church it's

01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:48.880
simply the institution of church right every church is supposed to be subject under christ

01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:54.880
and we're all this our church is constantly cleaned up and washed and kept hygienic by the word of god

01:15:55.520 --> 01:16:01.360
kept without leaven kept without problems just like a wife is supposed to be chastened and without

01:16:01.360 --> 01:16:06.960
spot and without blemish why because her husband is keeping her in check yes husbands tell their

01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:13.680
wives what to do yes husbands are responsible for how clean their wives are honey take a shower you

01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:19.760
know sometimes she needs you know a proverbs 31 shower sometimes she needs a first corinthians

01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:23.840
chapter 11 shower okay sorry if you don't like what i'm saying it's the word of god

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go be catholic where you worship mary all right but in this church we worship christ

01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:33.120
and christ is the head of the man and the man is the head of the woman and you know what in this

01:16:33.120 --> 01:16:38.800
church the bible rules this church and look the churches without this in charge are disgusting

01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:47.200
and feminine they're effeminate they teach feminism and a church that's submitted to christ

01:16:47.200 --> 01:16:52.000
is you know what going to be more masculine is going to be in its proper role it's going to have

01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:58.880
men leading the church and look that is right that is the god-ordained structure this is not teaching

01:16:59.440 --> 01:17:03.600
that there's literally only one church because then you would say there's only one husband and

01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:10.320
one wife is there only one husband and one wife in the world no so again every time they take this

01:17:10.320 --> 01:17:14.800
logic they don't actually apply it to the real context of what it's saying and they just try to

01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:21.920
confuse you with the singular language but we're talking about the institution there's one mcdonald's

01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:27.600
and ronald is his clown okay that doesn't mean that there's literally only one mcdonald's there's

01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:34.080
only one institution that we recognize in mcdonald's and ronald is its representative

01:17:34.080 --> 01:17:38.960
in the same way that there's one family and it's represented as the husband there's no other valid

01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:44.160
structure there's not two dads there's not two moms there's not a thropel or whatever nonsense

01:17:44.160 --> 01:17:51.600
that is it is one man one woman one family and this is the institutional idea but we see many

01:17:51.600 --> 01:17:57.360
instances of that institution just like there's one body there's one church but there's many

01:17:57.360 --> 01:18:03.840
instances of that body of that particular church so we're not proving a universal church at any

01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:07.920
point so far go to first corinthians 12 oh no we already went there go to hebrews 12 this last one

01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:15.360
we go to what else do i have to say at this point we can look at every single mention of the church

01:18:15.360 --> 01:18:22.960
and it's not bro we are the church it's not we're having church right now it is the institution

01:18:22.960 --> 01:18:30.160
the idea and then there's specifically instances of that idea there's real local assemblies that

01:18:30.160 --> 01:18:33.280
are meeting this criterion okay and we're going to talk about the criterion for a second

01:18:35.200 --> 01:18:44.560
after i prove this point hebrews 12 look at verse 22 the bible says nay much more those members of

01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:48.000
the body which seem to be feeble are necessary and those members of the body which we think to

01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:53.200
be less honorable upon these we bestow more abundant honor and our uncomely parts have more

01:18:53.200 --> 01:18:58.160
abundant comeliness again now now they're just really stretching that teach the universal church

01:18:58.160 --> 01:19:04.000
again it's just using a body language we've already understood that there's no text at all

01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:08.640
that even kind of remotely supports the universal church doesn't exist it's an oxymoron it's a

01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:15.120
fiction taught to you by liars who want to control you and want to exercise a cult-like

01:19:15.120 --> 01:19:19.200
mentality upon you where you can't actually read the bible and understand it for yourself

01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:25.440
now i want to go to uh revelation chapter 2 let's go to revelation chapter 2 and i've said this point

01:19:25.440 --> 01:19:30.960
but i'm going to prove it again let's just let's just think high level what we've we've discussed

01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:34.480
so far what we've learned number one we've learned what the meaning of a church is it's a local

01:19:34.480 --> 01:19:40.400
congregation sometimes the word church in your bible simply refers to that as an institution

01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:45.360
and the idea of that to talk about what it should look like and it's not saying just this specific

01:19:45.360 --> 01:19:50.080
congregation is saying all the congregation should look like this because this is what a church looks

01:19:50.080 --> 01:19:57.840
like but for the most part churches are just being identified as a specific local instance a specific

01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:03.360
congregation a specific assembly the church at ethesus is a specific church in ethesus that's

01:20:03.360 --> 01:20:08.320
why a lot of times you'll literally see the bible just simply say the church at jerusalem the church

01:20:08.320 --> 01:20:14.480
at corith the church at ethesus the church at smirna because we're identifying which body

01:20:14.480 --> 01:20:20.960
which institution which instance of the church that we're describing the body that's meeting there

01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:27.280
not all bodies in the world are similar though right is everybody the same height the same weight

01:20:27.360 --> 01:20:34.560
the same age the same health status the same skill level the same intelligence that's a tricky one

01:20:34.560 --> 01:20:40.080
the answer is no all right and in the same way churches are the same many churches are different

01:20:40.080 --> 01:20:48.080
ages different sizes different weights different skill levels different intelligences okay florida

01:20:48.080 --> 01:20:53.280
all right and so you have to understand that hey there are differences between churches some

01:20:53.280 --> 01:21:01.280
churches are better than others oh yes it's real there really are better congregations you would

01:21:01.280 --> 01:21:06.160
say like i don't know if i agree with that yes some churches are better than others some churches

01:21:06.160 --> 01:21:11.200
are healthier than others okay well how can you identify a better church well they have a better

01:21:11.200 --> 01:21:16.400
bishop they have better works and they have better doctrine that's just there's just fact

01:21:17.680 --> 01:21:21.680
you want to say how do we evaluate well they have a better bishop they have better

01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:27.440
works and they have better doctrine now some might argue that better bishop's pretty subjective

01:21:27.440 --> 01:21:32.880
okay but as we go down this chain it gets less subjective better bishop somewhat subjective

01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:37.600
better works is less subjective it's a combination of subjective and objective because you can kind of

01:21:37.600 --> 01:21:41.120
see like okay well they're getting this many people saved and they're doing this many missions

01:21:41.120 --> 01:21:46.160
trips and blah blah you can argue about the quality and value of those but it's becoming less but then

01:21:46.160 --> 01:21:50.480
when you get to doctrine well now it's pretty much just objective because hey they've got this

01:21:50.480 --> 01:21:54.880
correct doctrine they've got this false doctrine and so you can just recognize hey this congregation

01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:59.840
this body is just literally better because it has better doctrine it is adhering to what the bible

01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:06.400
says and you know what you should do you should go to the best church in your area again what at

01:22:06.400 --> 01:22:11.440
the end of the day we're going to walk away here in a few minutes i say that don't test me we're

01:22:11.440 --> 01:22:16.160
going to walk away eventually and what do you really need to learn from this particular point

01:22:16.160 --> 01:22:22.400
go to the best church in your area you are not the church you're not having church when you just

01:22:22.400 --> 01:22:26.800
are at home and some other christian shows up you're not having church when you eat dinner with your

01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:34.240
family that's called family you need to go to the best church in your area and you know the catholics

01:22:34.240 --> 01:22:37.360
with this quote universal church they don't have that much pressure to go to church because they

01:22:37.360 --> 01:22:41.200
are the church or there's just this universal church or which church they go to they don't

01:22:41.200 --> 01:22:45.600
even necessarily have to care because it's all the same to them it's just one church

01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:48.640
whereas we don't believe that in the new testament we believe there are better

01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:50.800
churches better congregations than others

01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:58.240
this is how the bible describes it whether you like it or not revelation chapter 2 and 3 explains

01:22:58.240 --> 01:23:03.920
this this this point look at verse 1 under the angel the church of ethos is right so again who

01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:09.520
are we writing to if we're going to be honest we're writing to the angel we're writing to the guy

01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:15.040
in charge and he's going to explain to them verse 2 i know thy works and thy labor and thy patience

01:23:15.040 --> 01:23:19.200
and now thou canst not bear them which are evil and thou has tried them which say they're apostles

01:23:19.200 --> 01:23:24.800
and are not and has found them liars and has born and has patience and for my name's sake has labored

01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:29.360
and is not fainted nevertheless i have somewhat against thee because thou has left thy first love

01:23:30.400 --> 01:23:34.000
there where remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works

01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:37.520
or else i'll come to thee quickly and remove thy candlestick out of its place except i repent

01:23:37.520 --> 01:23:42.960
so what if this church didn't repent and they've lost their candlestick do you want to go to that

01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:48.720
particular church no i don't want to go to a church where it's lost its candlestick and why

01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:53.040
because they're not doing the first work so church is not doing the first works is not as good as a

01:23:53.040 --> 01:23:58.800
church is doing the first works and he says i know thy works and he's commending them on their

01:23:58.800 --> 01:24:01.840
particular works you go through and we're not going to read the whole passage we're not going

01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:06.560
to read all these chapters but we can tell some church have good work some churches have less work

01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:12.800
some are doing good in some areas some are doing bad in some areas so you know from my perspective

01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:16.560
you're going to go to the best church in your area that's just that's just always the logical

01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:22.960
conclusion if we talk about what makes a good church or what even just makes a church not

01:24:22.960 --> 01:24:28.240
necessarily a good church but just what makes a church because i think that this is important

01:24:28.240 --> 01:24:35.920
to talk about well number one it has a visible gathered assembly it's not an idea it's a real

01:24:35.920 --> 01:24:41.440
they're actually meeting if you're not actually meeting then i do not believe that you could call

01:24:41.440 --> 01:24:47.600
that a church you have to be physically assembled you have to be physically congregating you have to

01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:56.480
show up you're not part of a church that you don't show up to we have we kind of have like an automatic

01:24:56.480 --> 01:25:01.760
membership idea you you come here multiple times you're you're part of this church whether you like

01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:06.080
it or not it's just like a growth on your arm or something it's like it's part of you whether you

01:25:06.080 --> 01:25:12.320
like it or not and the only time it's not part of you is when it gets cut off right your hair is part

01:25:12.320 --> 01:25:16.800
of you until you get a haircut and then it's no longer part of you in the same way that someone

01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:20.480
is coming you know it's so funny how churches will exercise church discipline by marking their name

01:25:20.480 --> 01:25:26.080
off a list i can't just i can't just get a piece of paper and say right arm is no longer part of me

01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:32.160
and then claim it's not part of me it's part of me because it's attached to me someone coming to

01:25:32.160 --> 01:25:36.400
your church is part of your church whether you like it or not and so there's so many churches

01:25:36.400 --> 01:25:41.360
that will let pedophiles into the church people that have been convicted child molesters they

01:25:41.360 --> 01:25:44.880
will let come into the church and they'll say but they're not on the membership log bro they're part

01:25:44.880 --> 01:25:49.360
of your building that's like genital warts warts or herpes or something

01:25:52.320 --> 01:25:55.040
well but i don't consider it part of me it doesn't matter it's on you

01:25:55.680 --> 01:26:00.400
and it's gross and i don't like it what if whatever you're dating a young woman and she's like

01:26:00.400 --> 01:26:05.520
i don't identify with the genital warps that i warp you know warts or herpes that i have it's

01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:14.080
not part of me but it's like but is it on you yeah well then it then no right and it's like you can

01:26:14.080 --> 01:26:21.120
have a perfectly awesome meek nice woman that she made one mistake and now she has herpes and you're

01:26:21.120 --> 01:26:25.200
just like i just don't want it because of that you could have a great church but they're just

01:26:25.200 --> 01:26:29.120
bringing in trannies and putting them on the front row and you're just like sorry i just don't want

01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:36.720
to go here and you know it's not right to allow trannies to come into a good church in the same

01:26:36.720 --> 01:26:42.720
way that we don't want kids to be you know committing fornication and be filled with sds and

01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:48.880
whatever other nonsense is going on hey we want to be clean and pure and holy and righteous that's

01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:54.960
what we want so if you're not meeting together you're not church if you are meeting together

01:26:55.040 --> 01:27:00.000
whether you like it or not you're part of that church and i don't like we don't have this

01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:04.160
hey you're here but you're not really here doctrine you're here or you're here

01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:10.240
number two is as a qualified bishop or pastor over the church now obviously i understand

01:27:10.240 --> 01:27:15.360
there's an exception with the apostolic era right there was potentially some churches that got formed

01:27:15.360 --> 01:27:20.560
by apostles specifically and at that moment they didn't have a bishop over them they had an

01:27:20.880 --> 01:27:27.120
apostle but you either have a bishop or an apostle over your congregation now as we see with the

01:27:27.120 --> 01:27:32.000
apostles in some cases they were over a church that they didn't necessarily attend all the time

01:27:32.000 --> 01:27:38.960
or they were ruling from afar or they could only visit on seldom occurrence so i'm for church

01:27:38.960 --> 01:27:44.640
planting that's okay it's okay that we start a church somewhere and we have a congregation of

01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:49.920
people meeting and we can't always be there and and the bishop can't always be there and the elder

01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:55.440
can't always be there but what's the goal to get that church to grow and mature and get to a point

01:27:55.440 --> 01:28:00.320
where it can be on its own just like your literal children your little children cannot be on their

01:28:00.320 --> 01:28:07.280
own from day one but what's the goal the goal is for them to leave all right the goal is for them

01:28:07.280 --> 01:28:14.080
to eventually buy in the same way that church plants should have the goal to eventually leave

01:28:14.080 --> 01:28:19.280
god willing some leave earlier than others some are late bloomers we get it but that's the goal

01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:24.720
i also you know that's why i struggle i don't want to start church plants that i don't have

01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:29.840
confidence that's going to leave because i just don't want to have 20 kids living at home

01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:36.400
okay and and so i'm i'm going to be more cautious about that you know it's like you kind of want to

01:28:36.400 --> 01:28:41.680
think about that and and be careful because i don't think i don't think it makes sense for one guy

01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:48.240
one bishop just be ruling over 20 30 churches that are just have no possible situation where

01:28:48.240 --> 01:28:52.400
possible situation where they're going to leave eventually that's just not probably

01:28:53.200 --> 01:29:01.040
a realistic scenario it's not very prudent number three is that it preaches and obeys god's word

01:29:02.320 --> 01:29:06.880
so in order for it to be a legit church number one it has to have a visible gathered assembly

01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:13.040
number two it should have a qualified bishop and if you want to give the exception apostle over it

01:29:13.040 --> 01:29:17.600
whether he's physically in attendance every service or not is is not the point but they have it

01:29:18.240 --> 01:29:22.640
number three that they're preaching and obeying this book if they're not i don't consider it a

01:29:22.640 --> 01:29:27.600
church okay they better have the bible they better have the word of god they better be preaching

01:29:27.600 --> 01:29:31.680
number four is they are doing the first works as we saw in revelation chapter number two because

01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:34.480
they're not doing the first works they'll lose a little candlestick and they're no longer a legitimate

01:29:34.480 --> 01:29:40.080
church i would not want to go i'm not going to go to church where i can't go that's pretty obvious

01:29:40.080 --> 01:29:45.600
okay i'm not going to internet church i'm going to go where i can physically show up i'm going to go

01:29:45.600 --> 01:29:49.920
where there's a bishop somewhere that we can point to and say this guy's in charge i'm going

01:29:49.920 --> 01:29:55.280
to go to a church where they actually have the word of god okay and that they are doing the first

01:29:55.280 --> 01:30:00.560
words they're doing evangelism they're going out and preaching the gospel and then the the last point

01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:08.880
is that their final authority is the bible that is an autonomous church under christ that above that

01:30:08.880 --> 01:30:15.360
bishop is the bible and at any point that the church the bishop or anybody is out of sync with

01:30:15.360 --> 01:30:20.000
the bible we can go to the leadership and say hey this is what the bible says and they would

01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:23.920
at least be willing you know at least they've said we'd be willing to change we'd willing to

01:30:23.920 --> 01:30:29.360
adapt to what the bible says that's safety right it wouldn't be safety if you just said hey even

01:30:29.360 --> 01:30:34.480
if i see something in the bible contrary to the church the leadership will not accept that will

01:30:34.480 --> 01:30:39.120
not hearken will not listen cannot be challenged in anything they do look this church should always

01:30:39.120 --> 01:30:44.720
be willing to adapt to whatever this says if i'm doing something contrary to this bible show me

01:30:44.720 --> 01:30:49.760
right now and i'll change right now that should be our attitude that is always my attitude and

01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:54.560
anytime i argue with anybody family members friends anybody i'm just saying like okay show

01:30:54.560 --> 01:31:00.720
me something in this i'm doing wrong i'll change right now the problem is they can't or the problem

01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:06.320
is they haven't considered all verses on a particular subject okay they'll they'll maybe

01:31:06.320 --> 01:31:10.480
maybe sometimes you'll get one version like okay what about these 12 and then they're just like

01:31:11.040 --> 01:31:16.960
i don't know well i don't know okay well i do know and i know that i'm still right okay but

01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:22.800
look i've been corrected i've been challenged i've been challenged a lot but i have been corrected

01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:28.080
and i can keep and sometimes i'm correcting myself but i'm not correcting myself this is correcting me

01:31:28.880 --> 01:31:33.920
we trust the lord with all thine heart and we lean not on our own understanding but in all our ways

01:31:33.920 --> 01:31:41.520
we acknowledge him okay i want you to go to revelation three and we'll finish this is an

01:31:41.520 --> 01:31:52.000
important doctrine i had a lot of other points that i'd love to make i'm not going to prove all

01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:56.000
of them but i just want to kind of say a few more things and then we're going to wrap up but you

01:31:56.000 --> 01:32:01.840
know some people may criticize our church for having one bishop or one elder there's a lot

01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:06.800
of churches that believe in the the plurality of elders they think like every church needs to have

01:32:06.800 --> 01:32:14.560
elders but think about this from a smaller church perspective right how does that work what if we

01:32:14.560 --> 01:32:21.280
when we started the church in oklahoma city we had to have multiple elders well now it's just

01:32:21.280 --> 01:32:27.600
everyone's literally an elder how does that work and if we actually believe it's important for

01:32:27.680 --> 01:32:34.400
elders to actually be studying the word of god and meeting all the qualifications and potentially

01:32:34.400 --> 01:32:38.880
even getting paid at some point how does that work with a small church where everybody's an elder

01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:44.400
you know and i think some people have a low here thing if you want to have small churches everywhere

01:32:44.400 --> 01:32:48.480
that they all have plurality of elders you're going to have to lower the bar on what you actually

01:32:48.480 --> 01:32:53.200
believe the qualifications of bishops are because if you're really honest it just it's just not

01:32:53.200 --> 01:32:57.520
meeting practical reality so you just run into all these logistical problems that just don't even

01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:03.040
make any sense at all you can't afford them they you can't have a high regard for the qualifications

01:33:03.040 --> 01:33:07.920
they'll start really lowering them where the guys don't really have kids they're not really married

01:33:07.920 --> 01:33:14.720
they are just the rich banker or whatever and you just and then elder they don't even come

01:33:15.360 --> 01:33:20.480
they're literally a drunkard i mean it's just all it's just wild and look this is a common theme

01:33:20.480 --> 01:33:24.400
there's a common theme there's tons of church where they just were all the elders or everybody's

01:33:24.400 --> 01:33:28.480
an elder or you go to church and it's like we have 25 elders now look is there a problem with

01:33:28.480 --> 01:33:34.800
having multiple elders no obviously think about the church and axe the church and axe got 3000

01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:39.120
people saved in one day then later they get another 5000 i mean this church is running like 10 000

01:33:39.120 --> 01:33:44.880
people i think it makes sense that they might have a handful of elders right maybe even a dozen and

01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:50.160
then on top of that not only that they have a bunch of bishops as well i even think they probably

01:33:50.160 --> 01:33:55.360
have a multi-campus site potentially because where do you meet with 10 000 people in the first

01:33:55.360 --> 01:34:01.120
century i don't know so it makes sense that you could have multiple buildings it makes sense that

01:34:01.120 --> 01:34:08.880
you could have multiple elders if the scale really did call that into reality okay yeah sometimes

01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:13.120
you know like you think about jack house they had a completely separate building that you know they

01:34:13.120 --> 01:34:17.360
would bring their bus ministry to and they had a separate building where they would maybe have the

01:34:17.360 --> 01:34:21.840
spanish services sometimes that's okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna i'm not gonna get really

01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:26.320
nitpicky on that particular point but at the end of the day it makes sense they might have that

01:34:26.320 --> 01:34:33.440
when the scale meets that kind of a situation okay but this is where they'll get really mad

01:34:33.440 --> 01:34:36.480
i was saying okay even if you had multiple elders though is are you saying they're all in charge

01:34:36.480 --> 01:34:42.960
pastor shirley and i would say no this church will never have multiple bishops at the top it will have

01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:49.120
one now we could have assistant pastors we could have multiple pastors on staff multiple bishops

01:34:49.120 --> 01:34:55.280
on staff but we will never have them all in charge we believe in a top-down structure and i'm not

01:34:55.280 --> 01:35:00.160
going to change on that and why why have that structure pastor shirley i'll just give you a

01:35:00.160 --> 01:35:05.920
couple practical reasons number one if the church in the wilderness with moses is being described

01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:14.400
that way how many leaders were there one how many were they running one million plus okay so i don't

01:35:14.400 --> 01:35:20.800
care how big you get one leader all right show me where it's the opposite or show me where the

01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:31.200
multiple people leading ever works well number two man is bad okay man is bad is hard to find even one

01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:37.680
good leader if you try to put the one good leader in a mix of five six seven eight nine ten

01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:43.600
what are the chances in likelihood you're going to get ten awesome guys and what you really do is you

01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:48.880
just limit the good people from ever actually accomplishing and they'll say oh but if you give

01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:53.680
a really bad guy that much power it's going to be bad yeah but if you you really think if you give

01:35:53.680 --> 01:36:00.480
ten people it's going to magically be good look if you have a plurality you're going to have mediocre

01:36:00.480 --> 01:36:07.040
and bad if you have singular you're going to have awesome horrific and everything in between

01:36:07.680 --> 01:36:10.640
but even think at least my model gives us the opportunity to have some awesome

01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:15.760
because you know what is you know why the million reigns are going to be so awesome because we give

01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:22.080
one one person all the power it's jesus christ yeah look having the the number of leaders is just the

01:36:22.080 --> 01:36:29.760
scale at which something is accelerated okay you have one guy in charge it's gonna it's just going

01:36:29.760 --> 01:36:35.600
to be a scale to the maximum or the extremity of that personality so if he's good it's going

01:36:35.600 --> 01:36:42.000
to be extremely good if he's rotten it's going to be extremely rotten so what would be case in point

01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:50.000
jesus christ extremely good north korea extremely bad okay but but at the end of the day if you have

01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:56.800
a system think about america what if we put the best guy on the planet as the president of america

01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:02.400
would we magically be good all of a sudden no because we have congress no because we have the

01:37:02.400 --> 01:37:07.360
supreme court no because we have all these other people in charge and even the best guy in the

01:37:07.360 --> 01:37:13.200
world still couldn't make that big of an impact okay but if america said hey we're going to just

01:37:13.200 --> 01:37:18.960
give all of our power to you know pastor mehia you know we all be having tacos that's for sure

01:37:18.960 --> 01:37:25.360
you know it would be awesome right i mean again you take a great guy and you give them all the

01:37:25.360 --> 01:37:30.000
power well it's going to go great okay and this is the argument yeah what about the bad guys

01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:35.840
okay but here's the thing if we don't ever have a single leader then we just basically are

01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:40.800
handicapping the good guys that's all we're really doing and a practical reality they'll say oh

01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.960
there's safety in all these people well how how come then all these churches that have a plurality

01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:52.880
of elders suck yeah show me you know what all the churches that i love have one guy in charge all

01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:56.560
the churches that are terrible and i never want to go to have a plurality of elders so if your

01:37:56.560 --> 01:38:02.000
doctrine is so great you know wisdom is justified if our children is what the bible teaches so if

01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:07.280
it's so great then why don't we see a single example of it in the bible and history or today

01:38:08.480 --> 01:38:12.640
whereas we do see in the bible plenty of examples where the singular leader

01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:18.720
in the bible and in history and today are doing great so you can sit here and criticize me all

01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:22.320
day long and call me a pope all day long but let me tell you something i'm not in charge this is

01:38:22.320 --> 01:38:31.600
in charge but you know you don't have a problem with this doctrine you know you would be you

01:38:31.600 --> 01:38:37.040
would be terrified if they said hey we have eight people in the cockpit and they're all flying the

01:38:37.040 --> 01:38:43.680
plane right now we have eight people driving the car right now in fact we installed a steering

01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:49.120
wheel in every single seat in the church van and everybody's going to drive the church van this

01:38:49.120 --> 01:38:55.520
afternoon who wants to go you'd be you'd be like this is insane why is it i mean and think about

01:38:55.520 --> 01:39:02.720
it a plane this is your life you could die i mean that's a that's a pretty important decision you're

01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:08.080
going to put your life your soul in one person's hands to fly a plane but then you're going to say

01:39:08.080 --> 01:39:12.960
oh i don't want one person in charge of the church like it's just because you don't understand the

01:39:13.040 --> 01:39:19.520
concepts of reality okay we trust one person all the time there's going to be one guy at the end

01:39:19.520 --> 01:39:24.080
of the day that's keeping your power on that's keeping your plumbing working that's keeping your

01:39:24.080 --> 01:39:30.560
infrastructure going and you trust that all day long without batting an eye yeah then people get

01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:36.400
all mad about the church you know it gets mad it's bad people who want to take over and and wield

01:39:36.400 --> 01:39:42.080
power and water down the good guy and stop the good guy from doing his job look we don't want

01:39:42.080 --> 01:39:47.760
to change the structure we want to keep god's model well i don't agree with it show me in the

01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:54.800
bible how i'm wrong and i'll change show me in the bible show me a doctrine show me a belief show

01:39:54.800 --> 01:40:01.600
me a practice show me anything and we will change because this is what our church is based on go to

01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:09.600
the catholic church they'll say you can't use that you don't understand it trust me bro icons are good

01:40:09.600 --> 01:40:15.120
icons are bad icons are good icons are bad trust me i never make a mistake

01:40:17.520 --> 01:40:21.200
you go to the catholic church it's like literal idols everywhere

01:40:22.160 --> 01:40:28.160
a guy in a dress will tell you to put a crack in your mouth and say this is literally jesus's body

01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:33.360
why does it taste like a cracker you don't understand it's literally his body

01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:39.280
it's literally his blood well then why does it taste like juice why if i throw up will i throw

01:40:39.440 --> 01:40:45.040
up juice and if i test it in a scientific lab it'll say that it's still the the organic compounds

01:40:45.040 --> 01:40:50.160
of juice because you know what when jesus turned water into wine it would have scientifically been

01:40:50.160 --> 01:40:57.040
wine it was literally wine it was the color of wine when jesus uh or when moses part of the red

01:40:57.040 --> 01:41:02.560
sea the water was really literally there and they walked on dry land it wasn't metaphorical dry land

01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:08.000
it was really dry land we don't want to cheapen the miracles of the bible and if it's not literally

01:41:08.000 --> 01:41:10.720
turning into body and blood then it's symbolic

01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:20.240
because if it's literally happening i don't want to deny miracles of god i don't want to

01:41:20.240 --> 01:41:24.160
i don't want to cheapen god but you know what it's not literally turning into that

01:41:24.160 --> 01:41:28.800
so you have to just turn up your brain and just be like it's really it's really body

01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:35.360
it's just it's just really blood yeah it really happened even though it matches none of your

01:41:35.360 --> 01:41:41.280
actual reality and senses look god is not that unreasonable god is not trying you to trust a

01:41:41.280 --> 01:41:47.520
fiction he's it's facts it's reality okay the miracles of the bible really happened

01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:51.360
lazarus really came back from the dead they weren't looking at a dead corpse and be like

01:41:51.360 --> 01:41:56.960
look how lazarus alive isn't he so alive and you're like it's like symbolically he's alive

01:41:56.960 --> 01:42:04.240
no no really he's really alive he's like no he's not okay the god of the bible had real miracles

01:42:04.240 --> 01:42:07.840
and when you think about this why why do so many catholics start denying the miracles

01:42:07.840 --> 01:42:12.000
because they're sitting there being told they're eating a real body and blood and it's not happening

01:42:14.000 --> 01:42:19.520
so they just get in this mindset of like it's called gaslighting where you can't even trust

01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:24.240
your own senses and your own reality and you just have to depend on someone else to tell you what's

01:42:24.240 --> 01:42:30.640
really happening this is being blind when you can't trust your own senses because they don't work

01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:35.120
and so you need someone to lead you by the hand that's why jesus said it's the blind leading the

01:42:35.120 --> 01:42:42.880
blind that's why when you get saved you're like wow these people are blind it's fake it's not real

01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:48.320
and you become a baptist okay get the baptist bias and you know what hey join a local church

01:42:49.040 --> 01:42:53.120
what do you take what do you take away from this this sermon pastor pastor what am i supposed to do

01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:59.680
go to the best church in your area they're not all the same the catholic church isn't the same

01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:05.920
except i mean they're the same as trash they're all trash in the sense of the same but not the

01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:12.560
same as this church you know and again i'm i'm not mad at someone that goes to and visits another

01:43:12.560 --> 01:43:18.560
church if it's better go who am i to hold you back from the best church in your area you should be

01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:23.040
going to the best church in your area because hey we're here to serve christ if you were going to

01:43:23.040 --> 01:43:28.320
serve god somewhere else better please go i'll help you why would i not want that for you

01:43:29.120 --> 01:43:33.840
everybody should be going to the best church they can possibly go to okay don't think you're

01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:38.160
already i'm just already the church or i'm already and if you're not going you need to go to church

01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:43.440
oh i'm part of this this this internet church no you're not

01:43:45.200 --> 01:43:50.560
now look i listen to sermons online but if you're not going to church you need to go to church

01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:57.120
wherever you're at it's better to go to a real church than to go to internet church go to a

01:43:57.120 --> 01:44:00.800
real church and you say yeah but i don't like it okay well then that'll motivate you to go to a good

01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:08.000
one like if you go to a bad one if you just say look i'm going to church period then you know what

01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:14.640
you'll be motivated to go to a good one and this is an important fundamental belief that we have

01:44:16.560 --> 01:44:21.200
why are we in a baptist church this morning because people said you know what i don't like your

01:44:21.200 --> 01:44:25.440
crappy catholic church i don't like your crappy orthodox church i want to go where christ is

01:44:25.440 --> 01:44:28.800
actually in charge and that's why we have the church we have that's why we have the faith we

01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:31.920
have that's why we have the history that we have that's why you have a king james bible in your

01:44:31.920 --> 01:44:36.160
hand you you know why you have a king james bible in your hand because they were like i don't think

01:44:36.160 --> 01:44:40.160
the church is doing what christ is saying and i need to be able to read it for myself and i want

01:44:40.160 --> 01:44:46.080
to be able to actually understand it and test the church against it so then do that then do why you

01:44:46.080 --> 01:44:50.640
use the bible that was actually given to you and exercise it and read it and understand why you're

01:44:50.640 --> 01:44:53.920
showing up here and don't just go through the motions and you know what teach your children

01:44:53.920 --> 01:44:58.240
why they come here because if you don't maybe they'll get sucked into some stupid institution

01:44:58.240 --> 01:45:02.960
like orthodox or the catholic or some non-denom or something because you never explain to them

01:45:02.960 --> 01:45:07.280
why you actually go here or why we actually have our faith you know we don't want to be a church

01:45:07.280 --> 01:45:11.840
where we just say just believe us because bro we want to explain it and we want them to know the

01:45:11.840 --> 01:45:16.560
doctrine let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father so much for giving us this institution of

01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:22.240
the church thank you for what your son did dying on the cross and purchasing it with his blood

01:45:22.240 --> 01:45:26.880
i pray that we would not devalue the institution of church but rather we would love it we would

01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:31.920
cherish it we would get plugged in that we would serve in the local church that we would do the

01:45:31.920 --> 01:45:37.600
first works of the local church that we would have respect to the local church that we would allow

01:45:37.600 --> 01:45:45.440
christ to be the the head of our church i pray that you would motivate everyone to have a stronger

01:45:45.440 --> 01:45:51.520
desire to be in church and to love church and to be plugged in at church and to emphasize the

01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:56.240
institution that you've given us and the bible that you've given us and the word of god and i

01:45:56.240 --> 01:46:00.320
pray that you would just help bless our church to be a bright and shining light in such a dark world

01:46:00.320 --> 01:46:11.120
in jesus name we pray amen amen our last song this morning will be song number 96 in your hymn

01:46:11.120 --> 01:46:16.400
books god leads us along song number 96

01:46:20.480 --> 01:46:21.920
god leads us along

01:46:27.280 --> 01:46:31.920
song number 96 join us there on the first

01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:53.920
sectors

01:46:53.920 --> 01:46:59.380
his dear children alone.

01:46:59.380 --> 01:47:05.880
Some through the water, some through the flood,

01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:12.360
some through the fire, but all through the flood,

01:47:12.360 --> 01:47:19.340
some through grace far above, but God gives us strong.

01:47:19.340 --> 01:47:25.340
In the nice season and all the days long,

01:47:25.340 --> 01:47:31.840
sometimes on the mountain where the sun shines so bright,

01:47:31.840 --> 01:47:38.340
God leads his dear children along.

01:47:38.340 --> 01:47:44.840
Sometimes in the valley in darkest of night,

01:47:44.840 --> 01:47:51.840
God leads his dear children along.

01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:58.340
Some through the water, some through the flood,

01:47:58.340 --> 01:48:04.840
some through the fire, but all through the flood,

01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:11.340
some through grace far above, but God gives us strong.

01:48:11.340 --> 01:48:17.340
In the nice season and all the days long,

01:48:17.340 --> 01:48:24.340
of sorrows we call us and Satan oppose,

01:48:24.340 --> 01:48:30.340
God leads his dear children along.

01:48:30.340 --> 01:48:36.840
Through grace we can't comfort, we feed all our foes,

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God leads his dear children along.

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Some through the water, some through the flood,

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some through the fire, but all through the flood,

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some through grace far above, but God gives us strong.

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In the nice season and all the days long,

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away from the fire and away from the clay,

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God leads his dear children along.

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Away up in glory, in eternity stay,

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God leads his dear children along.

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Some through the water, some through the flood,

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some through the fire, but all through the flood,

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some through grace far above, but God gives us strong.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.

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In the nice season and all the days long.