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Discipleship Vol. 2 Jesus in the Old Testament #2 Adam, Eve, and the Good Samaritan
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Jesus has been involved in the salvation project as it relates to mankind right from the very beginning... Let's look at that today!
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Introductions and Session Setup
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Hi there, Mary, everything.
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Anita. Hey, Lisa. Hi, Brandon. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. I'm good. Ready for this.
Challenges in Online Teaching
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I see. At least I would be if I remembered where i put my notes. there Hi, Brendan. Hey, how were are you?
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Maybe I'll get the hang of this eventually. You're doing great, don't worry. people but that You are adapting to as faster than it took me, I'll be honest. my oh gosh, when I first started teaching online...
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I always dreaded having to sign And it sounds like so simple, just click the link and in you have But whatever way I was doing it, it was and disaster.
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And I would spend 15 to 20 minutes just trying to click the link. of Insane. Insane.
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glass to wear. and
Climate Change and Flooding
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Oh, it's very cold. don't know about you. it It is very lean-y, I have to say. and suppose that's the effect of having 10 weeks of rain.
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so and Whatever it's been now. ah We'll start building an ark soon. Absolutely, absolutely. a No, it's crazy because I didn't think that...
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December was as wet as it could have been, to be honest. um So I wasn't really surprised. and the rain began falling in January.
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But I have to
Skepticism on Climate Change
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say, when you look at some of the houses around the country that have been flooded, just the billions and billions of euros of damage it's done, it's tremendously sad.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. But no, thank god I live in a hill, so that's never been a problem. Yeah, I'd have one hill to another a kind of a hill so I'm blessed. Yeah, thank god. yeah Yeah, not to be in a hollow. No, no. mean, the number of people even who have like the beachfront houses.
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Yes. And they would have played top or paid top dollar for the view. But now, I mean, the heists are underwater. It's just heartbreaking.
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Heartbreaking.
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We have the authority to command that race to stop. Be gone. That's right. That's right.
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Yeah, but sure, look, next time the government tell us, you know, global warming or global boiling, we can say, does your house have a window? Yeah, exactly. oh my goodness, warming and that's world's good.
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Yes. I think in the 70s, they were saying, um there's going to be a global freeze. the world got warmer. And then it was,
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her on that one blooming and then the world got colder and rainier and then they just started saying climate change its matter what the weather is they're like oh yeah we are right
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the Lord yeah it's elating enjoyed your teaching last week Brandon it was excellent
Bible Study Preparation: Genesis Focus
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Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Wow.
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That's Jeff. Yeah, no, thank you. No, because I mean, when you compare like the teaching to the notes, obviously I only looked at a very small section.
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Yes. i him Yeah. And that was definitely a Holy Spirit prompt. I just said, okay, God, which one do you want me to look at in particular? Where do you want this from?
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to go, where do you want the focus to be for the live stream? And then same with today. Today we're looking at Adam and Eve. And Genesis is my favorite book in the Bible.
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And Genesis 1, 2, and 3 is one of my favorite stories in the Bible. And the the first sin and the heavenly rebellion and everything else.
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him But I just kind of said last night, all right, Holy Spirit, narrow this down for me. Where do you want us to really focus on the third ones to hone in Yeah, so I got a very clear directive that there's a lot of very interesting material there.
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yes um but at the end of the day the discipleship course is Jesus in the Old Testament so then I'm like okay anything that's interesting but not specifically related to Jesus just yet yeah that asks me for the Bible study but actually not the light stream itself and that's just the natural cautioning and editing but yeah I think it's going to good think you're all going enjoy it I'm looking forward to it thank you thank you Well, speaking of which, I want honor the time of everyone who's here at eight. So let's let's kick off with the word of God.
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And if there'd be any questions or the likes throughout, don't hesitate to ask. Hey there, Sabina, great to see you. Hi, Brendan.
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Thanks. Hi, Sabina. Hi, everybody.
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All right.
Creation of Adam and Eve
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So, Discipleship, Volume 2, Part 2. Adam and Eve and the Creation of evil All right. so the Lord, Jesus, is the one who created Adam and Eve. And a lot of people kind of miss out on that. They kind of think it was Father God and Jesus was just in heaven doing absolutely nothing.
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But the reality is... Adam and Eve, or the man and the woman, could very evidently, very clearly see the creator faceto- face to face.
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And Jesus that says in the New Testament that no one, no human on earth had ever seen God the Father face to face before. So when you see God in the Old Testament, and he is seen, and people speak to him face to face as though to a friend, and they're talking to him, and he has a physical form.
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It's Jesus. So the creation Adam is actually given in the Book of Psalms, and particularly Psalm 139, verses 14 to 18.
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and thirty nine verse fourteen to eighteen This psalm is the creation of Adam. And it says, i praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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And the fact that the Lord Jesus just got down, played out some dirt and poof, as a human, yeah, that's fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful.
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I know that full well. Because as soon as Adam was created, or the man was created, his mind was operating at 100%. He could walk, he could talk, he could discern good from evil, he could choose to trust Jesus when he said, I'm the creator, I made you. He was like, okay, I believe that.
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When the woman came along, He was able to rationalize and choose, I'm going to marry this woman and be with her for the rest of our lives. So his mind was at 100% and he knew the good works of God full well.
God's Records: Book of Life and Deeds
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He says, my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. God's underground workshop. Why underground?
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Probably so a m the dark angels, Satan and demons, wouldn't get there first and kill him or get involved or start attacking him. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
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The depths of the earth underground. So the Lord made Adam underground from the dust where no one else could see beneath the earth.
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Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to thee.
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What book is that? Well, heaven has i number a number of books, and the Bible tells us about two of them in particular. One of them is called the Book of Life.
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And in the Book of Life, the name of every saved person is written. Then there's the Book of Deeds. And the book of deeds is where every word you've ever spoken, any action you've ever done, any thought your mind has been conjured is written. And on the day of judgment, for those who are God's kids, the book of deeds will be opened.
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And the Lord will say, oh, on this date, you said this, you are going to get a prize. On this date you did that, you are going to get a reward.
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On this day you lose. Sorry, Chiggy, you ain't getting any prizes for that one. On this day though, that's the book of deeds. But now the deeds of the wicked are also written down and it will be used against them as evidence in the courts of heaven.
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So your eyes saw my unformed body. And all the days ordained for me were written in your book of deeds before one of them came to be.
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them. I can not count them. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
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When I am still with you.
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And what I love about this is the man is saying, before I was even created on day six of creation. And I think that's why the enemy hates the number six and his number 666. It's the day man, woman, and marriage were created.
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Three things the devil hates.
Adam and Eve's Role and Symbolism
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But Adam is saying here, All my days were ordained. All my days were chosen. All my days were purposed. All my days were allotted. They were all written down.
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And presumably he's happy about this. Presumably there are only good things in this book. And your thoughts for me are so vast and so incredible.
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You know, Adam never had to sin. He could have chosen, with an act of his will, to stay in the straits and narrow, to obey the Lord, if he had wanted to.
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The world has gone on for about 6,000 years since then. Potentially, he and Eve could have been the kings and priests of the earth that entire time, with...
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No delays, no drama, no hassle, no death, no destruction, if they'd chosen to obey the Lord. Now, I like to give this little side note.
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If they hadn't screwed things up, I know myself well enough to say I probably would have been one to introduce into the world. I'm humble enough to admit, and tale here's in my weaknesses.
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But if they hadn't sent every single record in the book of deeds beside their name, I believe would have been impeccable, would have been fantastic, would have been perfect, would have been pleasing.
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Because we are told as God's kids to put on the mind of Christ. Well, what is the mind of Christ? Whatever is good, whatever is perfect, whatever is pleasing, whatever is praiseworthy, whatever is admirable, whatever is pure, whatever is noble.
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Think about these things. That's what we are told to think. We're commanded to think those thoughts. So that would tell me that that is the mind of God.
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That when God was thinking of the man and the woman, when Holy Spirit was thinking of the man and the woman, when Jesus was thinking of the man and the woman, all of his thoughts were perfect and pleasing, were admirable, were pure, were beautiful, were delightful, and in their imagination, humans would always get it right.
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In their imagination, people would live perfect, incredible, amazing, holy, righteous lives. And the potential for Adam and Eve to do that was always there.
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Now, God knows the truth. He knows everything we'll say and do before we do. he knows every thought we'll think before we've thought it. But the potential for humans just to get it right and never as stray was there.
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Now, 1 Corinthians 15, 45 refers to the first Adam, the first man, and it calls Jesus the second Adam or the last Adam.
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So this would imply that Adam's life and Jesus' life were quite similar in a number of ways. And in fact, they were.
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you know, Adam was formed underground from the dust and then Jesus dug him up.
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And yet when Jesus died, his tomb was underground and Holy Spirit resurrected him. So you've got two men, the first Adam and the last Adam, and both of them are underground.
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Jesus brings up the first Adam and breathes into him the breath of lives, a soul and a spirit. And Jesus, the last Adam, was killed and buried underground.
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We know that from the tombs that we have found archeologically. And yet Holy Spirit raised him up to life.
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We're told that Adam was made in the primordial earth, in the wild. And then he was put in the Garden of Eden. We're not told he was made there. Eve was made there.
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Adam wasn't. The Bible never says he was made in Eden.
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But he was made in the wild earth and put into a garden. And yet when Jesus came back to life, where were the first place he went to? a garden.
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Remember when Mary Magdalene found him? Excuse me, are you the gardener? Have you kidnapped the body today? Well, why would she think he's a gardener? Unless he's in a garden, you know?
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From Adam, he was put into a Holy Spirit sleep. And while he was anestheticized supernaturally, the Lord performed surgery on him, cut his side, took out a rib,
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Worked his magic and voila, a woman came along.
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And side note on that actually, ribs are bones which have the potential to actually grow back. So sometimes you may have seen something online like, you know, oh, men have one less rib than women.
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Not true. It actually would have regenerated. He wouldn't have been in pain for long.
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And yet with Jesus, when he hung on the cross, The Roman soldier came with a spear and stabbed him where? The side, through the heart.
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And out came blood and water everywhere. And you could say that when the man was stabbed, a woman came from him.
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When Jesus was stabbed, you could say the church came from his side. His people, his children, his family, people who've been washed by his blood.
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The woman came from his injured side and his removed rib.
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And the church came from Jesus' injured side and the water and the blood that gushed forth.
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The first human that the man met was a woman. You know, Jesus presented Eve to Adam.
Women's Portrayal in the Bible
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And when Jesus came back from the grave and he was outside that tomb in that garden, who was the first person who met him?
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ah woman, Mary Magdalene. In fact, a lot of people who don't read the Bible but hate the Bible say, Bible is sojournistic. There are no women. And then you say there are women at, I do not say.
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One of them literally saw Jesus come back from the dead and became an evangelist. A lot of people actually cite that story as evidence that the Bible is true.
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They say if the Bible had been written by misogynists, by women hating men, A man would have found Jesus first, not a woman.
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So they actually say that Mary Magdalene meeting Jesus first is probably evidence of the Bible. It was written by Holy Spirit.
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The man was made to have adventures.
Dominion and Authority of Adam and Eve
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A lot of us kind of read Genesis 1, 2 and 3, and you kind of think Adam and Eve just sat on grass, chewing leaves all day.
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But actually, they were made to be dangerous. They were made to take dominion of the earth, to bring the wild earth into submission to the Lord, to be righteous kings and priests over the future generations who had come and over all the wild beasts and over the demons.
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Deliverance ministry did not begin in the 2020s. Rebuking the enemy began with Adam and Eve. If you read 1 Kings, it describes Cherubim in the Garden of Eden.
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So therefore, they were able to see angels, cherubim, seraphim, the host of heaven, and they're also able to see demons and they would be rebuking them from their mountain garden.
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The man, the woman were made to have exciting lives, risky lives, to co-labor, to be helpmates. And in the same way that Jesus was about the father's business,
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dismantling the operations of evil. We've been called to co-labor with him.
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The man and the woman were mighty in the Lord's power as they took dominion over the fallen angel. And in the same way, we, as God's kids, have been called to wrestle not against flesh and blood,
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but against the principalities, the despots, the kings and queens, the tyrants, spirits of wickedness in high places in the dark world.
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In the Garden of Eden, there were two very special trees in particular, which had almost supernatural-like qualities.
Significance of Eden's Trees
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Life came through one of them and death came through one of them.
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Especially death. the eighth of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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For Jesus, he hung on a tree. And it represented his death. He became a curse for us. And he was punished with every curse the Old Testament mentioned as a punishment for sin.
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But his tree of death became our were a tree of life.
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It's by which we cross over from death to life, from rejection to acceptance, from being God's enemies to being his children.
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The was incredible. If you read Genesis two and three in Hebrew, and it talks about The Lord walking in the cool breeze.
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The cool breeze in Hebrew is the Ruach, Holy Spirit animated breath that gives rise to prophetic utterances. That is what the cool breeze means.
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The man and the woman were a supernatural powerhouse. But because of their disobedience, their disobedience brought death to all people.
Jesus vs Adam: Obedience and Disobedience
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And then you've got Jesus. Born into a family with a man and a woman and everyone knew. He'd been born somewhat illegitimately. The timeline didn't add up.
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Spent his whole life surrounded by scandal. Had to flee as a refugee into Egypt as a toddler, toddler the small child. Came back as the son of a carpenter who died young.
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Tragedy surrounded him, even in his own home. Abandoned by his own brothers and sisters, rejected by his own siblings until after the resurrection.
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But still, he chose to live a life of obedience. And through his obedience, we have life. Adam was given everything he needed for a good start in life.
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He disobeyed and brought death. Jesus had nothing going for him. But he chose to obey. And now we have life.
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The man was made naked. And Jesus was crucified naked on the cross. When it says his clothes were traded and sold, that means his clothes.
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He wasn't wearing clothes.
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Underwear like you see in most statues of them. They're designed to make the cross look more polite for civilized society. Not true.
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The people torturing Jesus did not care about his decency or his modesty.
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We're told that the first couple, after they sinned, they hid beside a fig tree. So there's a fig tree near the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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And they try to make clothes for themselves. I'm, listen, clothes are great, okay? I love clothes. Clothes are awesome. I believe in time humans would have created clothes and the fashion industry because God loves creativity.
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But they made it in a failed attempt to cover their sins, to cover their shame. But yet later in Jesus' life, we actually see him pass a fig tree.
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And he curses that fig tree. I wonder if he had Adam and Eve in his mind. And that fig tree was growing no figs, no fruit, no food. I wonder if he thought of the man and the woman and just said, yeah, I remember what it was like when they first sinned and their fruitful lives became fruitless and dead and decaying. And he cursed that tree.
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Jesus kicked them at the Garden of Eden. because he did not want any human in their sinful state getting anywhere near the tree of life and living forever.
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So he put a cherubim with a flaming sword to block the way to the tree of life.
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But because of Jesus' cross, when he got speared and stabbed with weapon, we now have a way back to the Father, the source of life.
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And Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
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And we know from Genesis chapter four, when Abel offered up a pleasing sacrifice of livestock, of a lamb for the Lord, that the Lord sacrificed a lamb and he made Adam and Eve garments to cover them up.
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And he said, here, you've sinned, you feel exposed, Things are gonna change. Nature gonna react very, very badly to this. Here are some clothes. These will keep you warm.
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And Jesus himself became the Lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of the earth to take away the sins of the world.
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That's just a snapshot image of how the first man, the first Adam, and the last Adam's lives were so similar.
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Yet in our case, death and destruction came through one of them, the first. But life forevermore, forgiveness, reconciliation with the father came through the second one.
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So let's look at the fall now in more specific detail.
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We're told that Adam and Eve when they were created were Arom in the Hebrew. Arom means naked, unclothed, totally nude.
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You get the picture. They had no clothes on. But it's also about the soul and the spirit. It's not just physical. It's also metaphysical.
Tree of Knowledge and Sin
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It's internal.
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It also means the relationship with the Lord was transparent. They held nothing back. They would tell him anything and everything.
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And it also means that they acted wisely. They acted prudently. They behaved cautiously.
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In everything that they did, they remained in step with the Lord.
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Now Jesus gave Adam a command. And he said, do not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For the day you eat of it, in dying, you will die.
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That speaks of two deaths. You will die in the spirit and that will lend itself to you dying eventually in the natural.
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Imagine Jesus that's created this incredible garden with all kinds of trees and they're all growing all the food that was necessary for humans to eat. And he just says, you can have 99 99, 99, 99,
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But tithe me one tree. Put one tree aside. One tree is not for you.
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And this does not mean that Adam and Eve were stupid. Okay, they were not ignorant of evil. They were innocent of evil.
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They knew that evil existed, that they could see with perfect clarity into the supernatural realm. And if you're living cautiously and wisely and prudently, that means you know right from wrong.
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They knew evil existed, they knew what it looked like. But they had always, to that to that point, chosen to live properly, chosen to live rightly. And with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, think of twisted, perverted knowledge.
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Transgenderism. Adam could be a madam. Eve could be a Steve.
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Think of fourth wave feminism. Not men and women are equal, but women have to hate men.
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Think of every wicked religion you've ever heard of that hurt people, that stole from people, killed people, that destroyed people.
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Think of fear and anxiety, not looking at a situation and saying, let's choose faith, looking at a situation and freaking out. God can't save me. Nobody can.
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That's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's a twist of knowledge. It's perverted knowledge. It's corrupted knowledge. The Lord Jesus did not want them to be stupid. The entire book of Proverbs tells you how much the Lord hates stupid people being stupid.
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but but He wants people to be wise. He wants them to know things. But what you fill your head with is going to determine where you go in life.
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And the enemy that we have knows this. And he is the enemy of the soul. That's what Psalm 143, verse three, called the devil.
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He knows how humans operate, that we have a heart, we have a will, we have a mind. We have a heart to we have emotions, to feel, to experience.
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We have a mind to rationalize, to understand, to understand. We have a will to determine, to choose, to make choices. So the enemy came against all three.
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He entered into a snake, a physical creature, because again, adam and Eve could see supernatural creatures. If Satan had just come into the Garden of Eden, they probably would have rebuked him there and then.
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So he was subtle. He was sneaky. He entered in through a physical creature. who itself was probably in rebellion.
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And then you have this moment where he leads, where he finds Adam and Eve close to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And he speaks to the woman in particular. And this is his framework. And pay attention to this, because he does this for every person every day.
Serpent's Deception of Eve
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He encourages doubt with the mind by adding to the word of God, subtracting from the word of God, taking away, or misquoting, changing, altering, twisting, corrupting the word of God.
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Do you know your Bibles?
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He encourages desire with the heart for something that's destructive to you, for something that the Lord hates, for something that in the spirit realm smells like vomit.
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And he encourages disobedience with the will, because he wants people to be complicit in their own destruction.
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As such, the devil in the snake asked this.
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Did the Lord really say that the day you eat this fruit, you'll die? The word die in Hebrew here means drop dead immediately in the natural.
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When you read Genesis chapter three in most English translations, you don't really know what the problem is. You're like, well, yeah, he did say that, didn't he? No, this is the actual Hebrew translation.
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Jesus says, the day you eat of the fruit, in dying you shall die. You'll die on the inside and you'll die on the outside afterwards. The snake asks, did the Lord really say, the day you eat of this fruit, you will drop dead finito, done and dusted.
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No more happily after, no more second chances.
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And it's interesting. Jesus told Adam,
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The snake is specifically speaking to Eve. He's catching her unaware, he's catching her by surprise.
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And all of a sudden, Eve now has this wicked thought of the Lord in her head. The Lord is our bully. He doesn't want anyone to have any fun.
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He's a megalomaniac. He's all powerful and he's throwing his authority, you know, the weight around of the poor defenseless humans. So now that she's thinking of God in a worse way, she now responds, oh, he said if we catch the tree, we'll drop dead.
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The enemy put this idea, God's a big meanie, God doesn't like you, God's out to get you, God doesn't want you to have any And once that idea is in her head, she exaggerates.
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It's no longer about eating the fruit. It's no longer about touching the fruit. If you just touch the bark of the tree, touch a branch, touch a leaf, you'll drop dead.
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And that is how the exaggeration takes place. And the most frustrating thing about this story is that her husband, the man,
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add who spoke to the Lord, who knows what the Bible says, who knows Jesus' instruction, he stands there while all of this is happening.
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And presumably he says nothing. It's like you're watching somebody putting a gun to their temple or you're watching somebody the drinking poison in slow motion.
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Or you're watching someone who has never driven a car in their life and has no license getting behind the wheel of a car, putting on their seatbelt and stepping on the accelerator.
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You're watching a crisis. You're watching a disaster. And he just lets it happen. How many times has that been us? Let's be honest. Sometimes we're very harsh on Adam. We've all done that before.
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So the enemy says, go on, eat it, it's it's fine You'll be like God. But here's the sick thing. They were already like God. They had already been made in God's image.
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But now they want divinity. Now they want a taste of the divine, of the almighty on their terms.
Adam and Eve: First Religion
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They want religion.
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Relationship with God is not enough. Now they want to, by human methods, become holy. By human methods, become more supernaturally advanced and superior.
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This is the first instance we see in the Bible, chronologically, of religion. And it goes badly.
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Because as soon as they have both eaten of that fruit... Their eyes are opened and fear, terror and shame set in.
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And Jesus comes walking and cool and collected. And in Genesis 3, 9, he shouts, where are you?
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Now the word where in Hebrew is I am or Ia. It means where are you? What happened? Give an account.
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He's Jesus. He knows where they are. He knows what bush they're hiding behind. He knows about the fig tree. But he's giving them the opportunity to be accountable for their own actions.
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And they say, we heard you coming and we were ashamed because we were era Now, originally, they were all.
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Physically naked, but very transparent with Jesus. Tell all, hold nothing back, living wisely, acting prudently. Nothing was off limits. They would tell him anything and everything about their day.
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They're no longer at all. They are now at all. Naked. Bare. We were exposed.
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We were vulnerable. We felt unclean. We're hiding from you because we feel dirty. We feel ashamed.
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We feel like we cannot be around you anymore. We feel like we can no longer be in your presence. And our solution is to try to make clothes for themselves out of fig leaves.
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Jesus... Meet that punishment where punishment is due. And he says, OK, Adam, you had a garden here where everything grew supernaturally for your comfort, for for your benefits.
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No longer. Go into the wild earth where presumably things were going to grow a lot more slowly than in the Garden of Eden.
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And you now have to toil. And very hard way to make things grow.
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And from dust you came dust you will return. Your spirit man is now dead. Your physical body will die eventually. And he kicked him at the Garden of Eden.
Consequences of Adam's Sin
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And just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, in this way death came to all people. because sin is a proclivity all people have.
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And for the woman, she was told the man would then rule over her, and there would be increased pain in her childbearing.
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This was a day of testing, and they failed the test. Personally, i think this happened on day 40, that's 4-0, on day 40 of creation. 40 is a number of testing in the word of God.
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We see that the Hebrews would get stranded in the desert, going round round circles for 40 years. And when Jesus was in the wilderness, he was tested for 40 days and 40 nights by Satan before he, Satan, knew he was defeated and left.
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And it also happened in top of a mountain. So I would say that this test, that the man failed, probably happened on the 40th day of creation.
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But the beautiful thing about Jesus is...
God's Clothing: Sacrifice Symbolism
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even though his children had let him down and their relationship with him would never be the same again.
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He did sacrifice the lamb and he made clothes for them, probably to help them because the weather and the natural elements were now all going to change totally. And Eden did have the perfect climate. That was not going to happen any longer.
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but he sacrificed a lamb for them, gave them new skins, new clothes, and ultimately was a picture of himself, that he is the lamb who would one day take away the sins of the world on the cross for us.
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Are there any questions at the moment on Adam and Eve? before we look at them through the New Testament lens.
Parable of the Good Samaritan
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Any questions at the moment? Or are that all clear for everybody?
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No complications? All right.
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Okay. The next most detailed story of Adam and Eve, Adam in particular, happens in Luke chapter 10, verses 25 to 37.
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This
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this is a story called the Good Samaritan.
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In this story, Jesus says that there was a certain man, in Jerusalem. That certain man was Adam.
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Not in a parabolic man, it's not imaginary man, it's a certain man, it's a real man, it's Adam.
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And in Ezekiel 28, 13 to 14, Jerusalem is used metaphorically for the Garden of Eden. So the certain man in Jerusalem is the certain man in the Garden of Eden.
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It's Adam.
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And in Jesus' story, this man in Jerusalem decides to go to Jericho.
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Jericho, according to many historians, is the oldest walled city that was ever built. It was a cursed place. It was an evil place.
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They worshipped a demon called Nana, who was God of the moon. In fact, Jericho means the city of the moon. And the ancient Jews, I'm not saying that they're right, but this is what they taught.
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The ancient Jews taught that Lucifer, Satan, the devil, lived on the moon. So Jericho, the city of the moon,
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and they're worshiping Nana, the god of the moon. Think of Rihanna's song, you know, oh, Nana, what's her name? Yeah, that Nana, hello. They're literally a city named after Satan, a city of Satan worshipers.
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So this man decides to go from Jerusalem down to Jericho. This road actually existed In the natural.
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To us, they kind of just sound like, you know, places that don't have a we dont a relationship with. But Jesus' contemporaries knew exactly what he was referring to and where he was referring to.
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The road in real life, and you can still walk it today, was 27 kilometers long. And it dropped dramatically in elevation.
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Jerusalem is about 760 meters above sea level. And Jericho is about 250 meters below sea level.
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So it's quite the descent. It's quite the drop. It's quite the decline. Physically and morally. The man who was in Eden took quite a steep decline morally.
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He just went down, down, down, down. down down down
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The terrain was rocky. It was narrow. The paths were windy. The road in real life was full of crevices and full of caves.
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that were largely barren and isolated.
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It passed through a desert wilderness called the Wadi Kelt. And in real life, it was ideal for Ambosh.
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If you wanted to go to Israel, if you wanted to go to Jerusalem in particular, and you were a priest or you were a Pharisee, or going to offer a sacrifice to God, you would be loaded. You'd be coming with your money. You'd be coming with your animals.
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You were a prime target for these attackers. If they looked at you, they'd say, oh, he has some money. on, get him. Get him. Get his money. broke Go, go, go, go, go.
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It was known as the robber's road. Robbers were thieves. And in time, it was also called the Way of Blood.
Spiritual Theft and Adam's Fall
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The Way of Blood, Blood Road. It had a reputation for being a place of murder, of scummy activity. It had a reputation for evil, for violence, for drawing blood, for claiming lives.
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Not that the nature claimed lives, People claiming the lives of people.
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So pilgrims who were going to Jerusalem would likely be murdered by bandits.
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Law enforcement was limited. The Roman Empire would sometimes send patrols there, but because the terrain was so windy and narrow and desolate, policing it was not easy, it was very difficult.
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So when Jesus hearers were told this story, they were like, why would anyone go down that road? That makes no sense.
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So for this guy, this certain man to go down this road, knowing that it was robbers road, knowing that it was the way of blood, he was an idiot.
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He was a fool. He was a dope. He deserved everything he got. Think of if you're on social media and you're on holidays and you're like, you know, well, babes, I'm here in sunny Florida for the next two weeks.
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Selfie. And you post it on. What do people use nowadays? Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok.
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I'm sorry. But if you go back home and everything in your house has been stolen, your windows have been smashed, your safe is gone, they stole your dog, your TVs, your laptops, I'm sorry. I'm not going to feel sorry for you.
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There are crimes of opportunity and that is someone who is looking for misery, who's looking for trouble, they're looking for danger and they found it. This is the ancient world equivalent.
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This guy was looking for trouble and he found trouble. And that is just like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And next thing, they just happen to be beside the tree of the knowledge of good and evil looking at it. Look at its fruit. Will we? Won't we? Oh, it does look good And the snake comes along. and eat's a bit juicy.
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They were looking for trouble. They knew what they were doing. Stupid behavior.
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Jesus goes on to say in the story of the Good Samaritan that the man fell into the hands of thieves. That means he was worn down.
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He was lighted upon. he was deceived by them.
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To be worn down. Think of when the enemy says something. And he says it again. And he says it again. And he says it again. eventually you just give up the fight. You have no fight left. No more stamina.
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But Adam made it really easy for the devil. Because he was standing there looking at the tree.
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And here's the thing. We know who the thief is. In the Good Samaritan story. Because Jesus tells us in John 10.10.
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We often simplify the verse, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that they may have life have it full. It's nice. In Greek, John 10.10 is vicious and violent.
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It says the thief comes to steal, to steal secretly and with stealth.
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The thief comes to kill, in Greek, The thief comes to sacrificially offer you on an altar by burning and to butcher you completely.
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The devils are not your friends.
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The thief comes to destroy, in Greek, means the thief comes to cut you off entirely, to violently perish you, to cause you to be lost.
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by experiencing a miserable end. To abolish you, to ruin you, to blot you out, to blot out your name from the book of life.
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To vanish you away. To cause you the loss of the everlasting life God's given you. That is John 10.10 in the Greek.
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That is what the thief comes to do. Steal, kill, and destroy? and that sounds bad. Write it down the Greek. It is vicious. It is violent. It is total.
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It is complete. And if he has his way, it has eternal consequences.
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So the thief comes against Adam. And Jesus says, the thieves stole his raiment. The thieves stole his coat.
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What is the coat? It was Adam's anointing to be the chief king and priest over the earth.
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It was his duty, his responsibility, his peace, his security, his perfect health.
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You know, the man... When questioned, what's happened? Where are you? Tell me the details. Give me the facts. Says, it wasn't me. It was the woman.
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You made. He's passing responsibility on to Jesus, the creator, and on to the woman. Passing responsibility. What does she do?
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Me? For scorn, I feel faint. It was the snake. And what did the devil inside the snake say?
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Nothing. Adam gave the woman responsibility for everything. And the woman gave the devil responsibility for everything.
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And the devil said nothing because that's what he wanted. He wanted responsibility. He wanted authority. He wanted command the situation. He wanted rulership of the earth.
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And that is what he got. That's why he's called the the god of this world. Because he is. Because humans gave it to him.
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And therefore he was able to seize upon man's blessings and instead inject death. anxiety, fear, shame, pain, grief, stress, bitterness, deception, illusion, delusion.
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That is why he stole a man's raiment, so that he could instead inject his own wicked plans and perceptions into the earth.
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the likes of which were never part of God's intentions for creation.
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And what happened to the man? he was left half dead.
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The day you eat of this fruit, in dying you shall die. His spirit died, his body began to decay, he was half dead, just like the man in the Good Samaritan story.
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Along came Levite and priests.
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You know, the Levites represented the law of the Old Testament, which Jesus himself created and gave to Moses, so it was good.
Good Samaritan and Old Testament Critique
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But Romans 8.3 tells us that the law highlighted sin, but actually every person chose to break God's law, so actually it saved nobody.
00:58:39
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And mark seven thirteen in Jesus' day, the priests had such unbelief and such wickedness, and they prized their own traditions so much above the word of God that they made the word of God null, void, and powerless.
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They stripped the word of God of its power because they would not forego their own traditions. They loved their pomp, their splendor, their prestige, their fancy dinner parties, their expensive clothes, and being able to abuse people, being able to bully people.
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They pushed other people down to lift themselves up. And so they nullified the power of God's word in their time.
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And in the story of the Good Samaritan, when the Levite and the priests see him, they're kind of tiptoeing around him, doing their best not to touch him. Because if they did touch a bloody man, they might have to get ceremonially cleansed and purified.
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They might be ritually unclean and they couldn't go to the tabernacle. Oh my goodness. Worst thing in the world. Why they were so self-righteous. that they would not lower themselves to help someone who was actually in need.
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But then we get to the really, really great part of the story where Jesus puts himself in the story. And next thing the Good Samaritan comes along.
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A Samaritan, for those who who don't know, Samaria was a territory located in North Jerusalem.
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They were seen as being ethnically mixed, not being real Jews, and their religious traditions were seen by Jesus' contemporaries as having been corrupted by pagan influence.
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Jews would not talk to them, Jews hated them, Jews saw them as mongrels, people of dishonor, as hybrids, not really people, not people who you could actually spend time with, definitely not people you could be close to.
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And in fact, the religious leaders even hated Jesus so much that they even called him that's Samaritan, to suggesting that he was a half-breed.
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Probably because they knew that Mary had been pregnant before she got married to Joseph. So they're probably saying, oh yeah, well, you know, we're pure breeds. We're the children of Abraham.
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But who's your daddy, Jesus? Ooh, was a Joseph? Ooh, scandal. And probably saying that he was a figure of scandal and so was Mary. So in the same way that the Samaritans were seen as a hybrid people,
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Jesus was a hybrid. His mother was a human, Mary, and his father, real father, was God. So Jesus is the good Samaritan in the story.
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And in the story, he comes to where the sick man is. He comes to where the dying man is. The Samaritan is a man on a mission.
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He is looking not for the healthy, because you cannot make healthy people well. He's looking for the sick to make the sick well.
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He is seeking out to save those who are lost, those who are broken, those who are needy, those who are desperate.
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And the Good Samaritan story, it says, when the Samaritan saw the man on the road, he had compassion for him. Again, the man was responsible for what happened to him.
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His own trespasses. Literally trespassing way he never should have gone. His own transgressions. His own sin going downhill. Downhill morally. Bad decision after bad decision after bad decision after bad decision.
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But the Samaritan was filled at mercy. Loving kindness. And a feeling of grace towards him. Undeserved favour. Undeserved merit towards this man.
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That he could not help but pour out his love on him.
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And then we're told that the Good Samaritan bound up the man's wounds. How would he have done that? He would have worn off his own clothes.
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and made bandages to wrap them up around the wounded man. And like I said earlier, when Jesus was on the cross, he was naked. The cross was not PG.
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And Jesus, supernaturally, 2 Corinthians 5.21, has covered us with his own righteousness.
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He has covered us with his own holiness. His own goodness, His own perfection.
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And on the cross, Isaiah 53, three to five, He took all of our pain, all of our shame, all of our fear, all of our stress, all of our agony, and He buried it in hell.
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And instead, He has substituted it for our forgiveness. for our healing, for our restoration.
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We're then told that he gave oil olive oil, to the dying man.
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Olive oil comes from the Garden of Gethsemane. The Garden of Gethsemane means the place of the olive press, where the olives were pressed
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And the oil would come out. And in James chapter 5, 14, we see that oil was even used in miraculous healings.
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The Garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus prayed before the crucifixion. And he prayed until he bled. Just like the olives were pressed and squeezed yeah and the olive juice came out.
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Jesus was pressed and squeezed until blood came out of his forehead.
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We're also told that he gave wine to the man. And in Acts chapter two, 15 21, fifteen to twenty one Wine represents the outpouring of Holy Spirit.
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The man said, oh my goodness, you're speaking different languages. You must be dripping, And Peter said, it's not that kind of wine. is Holy Spirit wine. This is supernatural wine.
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and then we're told that the Samaritan put the man on his donkey. Now, Jesus riding into Israel on a donkey, into Jerusalem on a donkey, is probably one of the most famous images of Jesus.
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All the people are like, Hosanna in the highest, and throwing cloaks and palm branches in front of him.
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So this story, it talks about ancient times, and it's a prophecy about Jesus' life.
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You know, the half dead man could have said, no, I'm fine. God will help me. Leave me be. He could have been proud. He could have been an idiot. But he let the Samaritan help him.
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And Jesus just picked him up. Put him on the donkey. And walked him in And yeah the body can pump a lot of blood. Jesus probably getting blood all over his clothes while he's doing this. He's taking on the man's mess.
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He doesn't mind because it's an act of grace. It's an act of carrying someone who could not carry themselves. Helping someone who was responsible for what happened to them.
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And on the cross, Jesus would take on our mess, our muck, our sin, our shame, our issues.
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Just like the Samaritan here on the donkey. And he would deal with it once and for all time. And now our identification is in the cross.
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Doesn't matter about your sin the old is gone. For today, the new has come. What lies ahead? Grace to grace, strength to strength, glory to glory.
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Only ever better days ahead with Jesus.
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Now in real life, Jesus contemporaries knew that there was an inn located that road about four hours from Jerusalem.
Inn as Restoration and Community
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To do the whole journey would take about two days. So a lot of people would stop at that inn, stop at that hotel. And from that inn to Jerusalem was about a four hour walk.
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This was a real building. It legitimately, genuinely existed. So when Jesus told this story, they knew exactly what he was talking about.
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Jesus said that the Samaritan took the man to that inn.
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The road was so long, so windy, so treacherous, so dangerous, that people kind of needed to break up the journey, to be honest.
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This was the Lord giving restored humanity, a family. In an inn, in a hotel, in a place, you have lots of people.
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Lots of different people. Lots of different personalities. Lots of different backgrounds. Lots of different gifts, different journeys, different lanes, different trajectories.
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This is the Lord giving people a two-day respite. A two-day break around different people. It's like 2,000 years of the church age.
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God giving people a family. And yes, it's crazy. Yes, God's family is nuts. Yes, nothing causes me to lose my mind and pull out my hair quite like God's kids.
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But...
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They are my favorite people at the same time.
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I've tried running away from God's family. It just hasn't stuck. He always threw a fishing line and reeled me back in again.
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And then we're told that the Samaritan paid the innkeeper. And the innkeeper, the one who keeps watch over us to protect us, it's Holy Spirit.
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Holy Spirit, we're 14, 16 27, would be our advocate before the Father. He would teach us all things.
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He would remind us of things that Jesus had already said. He would always be with us. He would never forsake us. He would always be there.
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And he would bring us deep, intimate peace, the likes of which we otherwise could never know, could never understand, could never begin to fathom.
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Jesus gave the innkeeper two denarii.
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A denarius was a day's wage. Two denarii was two days wages. Now, Psalm chapter 90, verse four, and 2 Peter chapter three, verse eight, both say the same thing. They reveal the same mystery.
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In heaven, one day is the equivalent of 1,000 earth years.
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So Jesus told Holy Spirit, stay with the human rights, for 2,000 earth years. Stay with them, linger with them, watch over them, lead and direct them, and I will be back in 2,000 years.
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So Jesus' hearers would not have known but anything about the rapture. The rapture was a mystery until the Apostle Paul came along. But Jesus' contemporaries were sitting around waiting for Jesus to come and kill the Antichrist and establish his millennial kingdom and end evil once and for all. okay That's what Jesus' hearers were waiting on.
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But Jesus said something very, very interesting. He said, if I'm late, I will pay in full. If I'm delayed, I'll pay back every cent.
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So some Christians are kind of sitting around thinking, Jesus was raptured to heaven in 30 AD. He flew into the sky. He's Superman into the sky.
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so he's coming back in 2030 AD. no, no, no, no. no no He only said, if I'm late, I will repay in full.
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Because he's Jesus and he knew he would be late. So 2030 is like the absolute earliest he's going to come back to the earth. The absolute earliest.
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But again, he's Jesus. So if he says, if I'm late, I'll come back in full, that means he's going to be late. So anyone who has their rapture rug rolled out and they're just waiting for the rapture in the apocalypse, roll your rapture rug back up, stick it in the press,
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You've got more living to do. The world has more than four years left.
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And the wonderful thing with this story of the
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good Samaritan, the great Samaritan, the best Samaritan, is it shows you about the certain man. It tells you about the man in Eden. It tells with Adam.
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He went down a slippery slope. He knew what he was doing walking beside that tree. He knew what he was doing looking at that tree. He knew what he was doing fantasizing about that tree.
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But he made a decision. He was worn down by the thief, by the enemy, by the devil. But with an act of his will, he became complicit in his own destruction.
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complicit with the very forces in the spirit realm that wanted to destroy him.
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But we have the good Samaritan Jesus. And just as Jesus sacrificed a lamb for Adam and a lamb for Eve, he became the lamb who takes away the sins of the world.
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He has given us his Holy Spirit to watch over us, to guide us, to guard us, to protect us, to reveal all things to us.
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And in the same way, he is one day going to come back and he's going to take us to be in the world of heaven, his home forever and ever.
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Amen. And a few years later, he is going to come back And he is going to destroy the Antichrist and the operations of darkness. And the Garden of Eden on Earth, the peace on Earth, the kingdom of heaven on Earth that people have always wanted, he will usher
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All right, guys, want really thank you for your attention during all of that. And just a couple announcements before I give any time for comments or questions.
Discipleship Schedule and Materials
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at Next week is the last Wednesday of the month. So just remember, we always take the last Wednesday of the month off from discipleship.
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It gives me time to work on making the teachings, putting them together because they do take ages. And so next week, no discipleship on Wednesday, but the first Wednesday of March, we will be back.
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And again, um on Saturday, not this coming Saturday, but next Saturday, we're having the Irish Revival. I cannot believe it is almost upon us. It is absolutely not. think it's like nine days away now. So if you know anyone who you think would be interested, and tell them, invite them.
01:18:03
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If you think of someone and you say, oh my goodness, they would never say yes. They might just be the one that God wants you to invite. Ask him for names, ask him for opportunities, and that he'll give you just the right people and just the right words to invite them.
01:18:21
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um So if anyone would like the Bible teaching that goes with this episode, just remember that the first one was free.
01:18:32
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From this one onwards, the Bible study is a tenner each, 10 euros each. This Bible study will include the creation of the angelic realm, particularly Lucifer.
01:18:47
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It will tell you what Lucifer's life as a cherub and a worshipper in heaven was like. It will describe why he turned against the Lord in the first place.
01:18:58
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A lot of churches say he was a worshipping angel. and one day he said, wow, imagine people worshipping me instead of God. And the next thing, he grew a tail, horns, and his skin turned red.
01:19:12
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That is such an oversimplification. It's embarrassing. And the fact, it's not even true. but but but but but David liked to know more about him. He's in the Bible study.
01:19:23
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And then I also look at what Adam and Eve's lives were like. Here in the live stream, the focus has to be very Jesus oriented because it is Jesus in the Old Testament. and But actually in the Bible study, it tells you what their lives were a like.
01:19:43
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And they did a lot more than sitting on the grass, chewing leaves all day which I think is what a lot of people actually think their lives were like. They think they were very, very boring. was boring people in the Bible. Nothing could be further from the truth.
01:19:56
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and And then I go into a lot more detail into the curses against them, the curses against Satan, and also the curse against snakes and reptiles more generally.
01:20:13
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There's a lot of that very good, juicy material there on the Bible City version. And of course, there are questions, I think 75 questions and an answer key as well.
01:20:27
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But now it's over all of you. Any comments, any queries, any questions on any of that? The floor is yours.
01:20:39
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Thank you, Brendan.
01:20:43
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um i have a question. um And this is when Adam, when the Lord made Eve and he presented her to Adam, yep and he recognized her.
01:20:57
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um But i have ah i have a doubt that and my daughter asked me this question I didn't know how to answer her. God made man before he made Adam.
01:21:10
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He says in the Bible that he made man in his image and and then he said that he made the garden and then put the man in there and made Adam from the ground.
01:21:23
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I don't understand that. Sure, sure. Yep, great question. So in Hebrew, it is very common to say something and then to explain it.
01:21:36
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So for example, in Genesis 1, 1 and 2, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
01:21:51
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Happy days. Then at verse 3, We start with, okay, firstly he reveals his own light, he manifests his own light. Fair enough.
01:22:02
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And then we get into the nitty gritty from days two, three, and four of him actually creating the heavens. Not the world of heaven. Heaven with a lowercase h and an s. The air, the atmosphere, the interstellar planetary constellations, the sky.
01:22:24
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The physical world, yeah. is The physical realm. So first you're told he created it. And then you're told the how. You're told the order. In Genesis 1, yeah, your daughter's right. It says he created man in her image. he he like He had a conversation with the other godhead, with the Trinity. and Oh, you know, let's make man in her image. Wouldn't that be great? Male and female. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:22:49
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Then you get to Genesis 2. And it goes into the nitty gritty of, okay, let's get more technical. Let's get more specific about day six. Or then if we click on a little bit to genitive 10, the table of nations.
01:23:07
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We're told this is the table of nations. You've got Japheth, you've got Gomer, you've got Javin, you've got Cush, you've got Sabtica, you've got Arthaxad, Egypt, more than we can even mention here.
01:23:22
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Then you get to Genesis 11 and it's like, okay, let's talk about the Tower Babel and how they got spread apart in the first place. So it tells you that they all got spread apart as nations.
01:23:35
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And then it tells you the incident that caused the scattering. So it's just part of Hebrew literature. You're often given a summary and then the specifics.
01:23:47
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So in this case, Genesis 1, 26, if I'm not mistaken, is when they conceive the idea of making the man and the woman. And they do.
01:23:59
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And then Genesis 2 goes into the specifics of how they did it, which is from the dust, they made a husk of the man, a corpse of the man underneath the dust, under the ground, and then dug him up.
01:24:16
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And I actually think of Genesis 2 very closely to in 2 Kings when Elisha lies on top of the dead boy, hands on his hands, feet on his feet, eyes on his eyes, mouth on mouth.
01:24:31
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I think a Elisha got that from Jesus, just throwing out there. That's what I think Jesus did to Adam. I think Adam was probably almost like a genetic clone of Jesus, would have looked very similar.
01:24:43
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And I just imagine Jesus going hand on hand, feet on feet, nose on nose, eyes on eyes, mouth on mouth.
01:24:53
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Kind of like mole. A soul and a spirit. And then the man became animated. Then he became a living being. Then he was awake.
01:25:04
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It's almost like Jesus made a corpse. And then he brought him to life. He made a shell. And then he... resuscitated them.
01:25:15
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Yeah. Yeah. My doctor was asking me about that because um I was trying to figure out how to like explain and understand myself.
01:25:28
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Says that when Cain killed Abel and he went and then he reproduced yeah with other women. She's like, where did they came from? oh Great question. I don't know.
01:25:42
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Sure. Sure. So when Adam and Eve, you have remember, he lived for over 900 years.
Early Human Reproduction
01:25:50
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And presumably she did as well.
01:25:53
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So being Earth's first family, there were no genetic defects in their DNA initially. That all kind of came later on as and as a consequence of sin.
01:26:09
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So they actually would have had sex, and then had sons and daughters. And their sons and daughters would have grown up, and probably similar to ourselves at the age of 20 or 30, probably been old enough to start getting married, making those kinds of decisions.
01:26:25
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And their sons and daughters would have married each other. So you would have had Abel marrying one of his sisters, Cain marrying one of his sisters. Now, only those two sons are mentioned.
01:26:39
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They probably had dozens of kids. And in fact, being that healthy, that virile, I'm going to give you this for free.
01:26:50
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if you want to know what their marriage looked like, read Song of Songs. Because that's all about husbands and wives doing it in the garden and out with the flowers and the perfume.
01:27:01
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With a little bit of editing, Song of Songs basically is the love of life of Adam him and Eve. And even down to the, I wish we'd been brother and sister. That way we could have been together a whole life long.
01:27:14
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So would say that you would have had brother marrying a sister, a brother marrying sister, a brother marrying sister, but you could have had like dozens of brothers and sisters. So within one generation, you could have had cousins marrying just like cousins. cousins maring cousin With the next generation, a cousin marrying a second cousin.
01:27:38
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cousin marrying a third cousin. With another generation. ah cousin marrying someone that's a distant relative that they probably would never otherwise have met.
01:27:49
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And because they lived so long, they would have had an absolutely ridiculous number of kids. But people kind of get hung up on the fact that you only ever read about three of their sons.
01:28:01
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Cain, Abel... And Abel's replacement, let's be honest. Seth, the righteous son for the righteous son, who we'll look at next time.
01:28:13
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and But actually,
01:28:18
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probably about 30, 40, pushing 50 years, would have passed between Abel and Seth. So they would have had a lot of kids, the human race would have begun popping like popcorn, multiplying very, very quickly, very, very quickly.
01:28:37
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So while your daughter might think it's a bit strange, a brother marrying a sister, what was the alternative? And there was no, there would have been no genetic defect at the time. It wasn't sin at the time.
01:28:49
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fact, it wasn't sin until the law of Moses came along and God made it sin. That's how Abraham married his half sister Sarah and no one bought an eyelid.
01:29:01
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So it wasn't actually abnormal or strange and or sinful until Exodus. Okay.
01:29:11
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Right, brilliant. Do you reckon that, I don't know, husbands and wives are supposed to recognize themselves in each other when they meet? Like, I have seen a lot of like online pastors and ministries And when you look at the man and you look at the woman, you see some similarities in them and that just, it's just freaky. And it...
01:29:47
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Sorry, Hades, your camera lagging a little bit, but I think I got just your question. and I would say there are times in the Bible when you absolutely see it happen.
01:29:57
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Like when Isaac met Rebecca, there seems to have been an instant, she's the one for me. Adam and Eve, definitely. Day six was a wild day. Things happen at a very fast pace. and Then there are other relationships in the Bible and you just don't see it happen all that briskly.
01:30:20
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and Whether they were arranged marriages or you're reading about couples who had already been together for years before the Bible story begins. and So I would say that there are absolutely times when God will just turn on the light bulb and you'll have that moment.
01:30:39
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And then there are times when, because God knows his kids and he knows the needs and he knows how some need to quicken the pace,
01:30:50
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And some need to slow it down. And I believe then that there'll be many relationships as well where it will start off just, okay, you're in the same room as each other. You even see each other, but there's no interaction.
01:31:05
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And so you become friends and it just becomes a moment because not everyone, you know, we're told not to awaken love before it's ready, not to awaken love before your heart is ready.
01:31:16
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That doesn't mean that you're not going to meet the love of your life straight away. But if you're not ready to take on the full commitment of what that entails, God is saying, take control your heart, take control your own feelings, take control of your own libido. So I would say there are absolutely times that happens.
01:31:35
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a But I would also say and not to compare the condition of your heart with anyone else's. um I know that when you see the third, fourth, fifth or 17th person online, like, well, this is how it happened for me.
01:31:57
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You can begin to think, God, am I just missing something? Yeah. Their lane is not your lane. No, that's true. That's true. It was just one of them things because honestly, I have seen like a few, like couple ministries online.
01:32:14
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and like John Bevere and Lisa Bevere and there is another one called Ty Jackson and his wife. yeah And I'm like, goodness me, she's like, you are caught in the same clothes. you What do you do just to find somebody who looks like you?
01:32:30
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And it made me think of that part in the scripture that Adam saw the woman and he recognized it and he he just so said to her, you are flesh of my flesh and bones of my bones. So It's just really weird. Really weird to see.
01:32:46
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Yeah, no, look, it's one of those things where you'll have you'll have moments in life when you just know that you know that you know whatever it is. Whether it's the word of God, whether it' if you can trust somebody, whether someone's dangerous, whatever.
01:33:01
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um i would say Adam had the advantage of walking in revelation knowledge. um As soon as he woke up and opened his eyes and Jesus, he just knew, oh you created me.
01:33:14
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You're God. I'm fearfully and wonderfully made, and you're the one who did it. and to be able to walk and talk to rationalize and to absorb all that information all that stimulus straight away and he was walking in revelation knowledge which helped and and there'll be times when you'll have those moments and then there'll be times when God's more like It's Christmas.
01:33:42
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We're just going to unwrap this layer by layer, take off the wrapping paper one sellotape strip at a time. Um, nope, too fast.
01:33:54
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Go for a bow now, just take out the bow. Take another bow. Okay, now this sellotape strip, now this one. And as he does does a lot more delicately, it's unraveling, it's unwrapping. And it does't it doesn't mean that he has concealed this from you. It's because he's concealed it for you um because he wants you to get joy and a spark and enjoyment and a laugh and out of every single stage, every step of the journey.
01:34:24
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And um to to be okay with God doing things. Yeah.
01:34:32
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Well, thank you very much for today. Thank you. Very very informative as usual. show Thank you. questions thank you Thank you.
01:34:43
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yes slide i Anyone else?
01:34:47
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Yes, Brendan. Thank you again. Excellent excellent presentation. Thank you. go blessed. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much.
01:35:00
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Thank you so much, Lisa. And Everyone, Lisa is actually five hours ahead of us. She's in Pakistan. So for Lisa right now, it is. Hold on, I can do basic mathematics.
01:35:12
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Try two. thank so got happens to Thank you. i was i was like, is it half two or half three? Half two. Lisa, you're amazing. You go to bed now and you have a great day tomorrow, okay?
01:35:26
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that's Don't be falling asleep at work. Those children need you.
01:35:37
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awesome hi brandon just a quick question okay um i i am bit confused and you said yeah are you doing a different bible study as payable i don't understand unable no no are you doing another like you said ah but you talk about um Bible study that we need to do. Is it a different day? Like when do you do it?
01:36:05
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No, I don't understand. Sorry. That's all right. You're fine.
Free vs Paid Bible Study Notes
01:36:08
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So the live stream is free. and And then for those who want to go into more detail, I have a Bible study version where I go into the creation of Lucifer.
01:36:23
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what Lucifer's job in heaven was like as a cherub, what his life in heaven was like, why he chose to go rogue and turn against the Lord.
01:36:35
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It is probably not the reason you have been taught all your life long. um ah How he went about creating the first heavenly rebellion, turning so many angels, seraphimus, rube, and rububen against the Lord.
01:36:50
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And looks at the creation of Adam in more detail. The creation of Eve. I kind of glossed over that today. i just looked at very briefly, but she's in there too, obviously.
01:37:02
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And what their life on Earth was like pre-fall. And just how amazing and incredible, prosperous, exciting, miraculous, supernaturally powerful, anointed, appointed, and authoritative.
01:37:18
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and I look at the ball in more detail. I'm looking at the snake and the devil's manipulations and machinations in more detail.
01:37:30
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How could the devil just enter into a snake? Can the devil enter any creature he wants? Or does an animal have to be complicit? Who fell first?
01:37:42
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The man and the woman? Or the reptile? um I look at the punishments that the Lord meted out in more detail. I didn't really look at Satan or the snake at all today in that um in that context. And and then a it goes on to the Good Samaritan, and then also the comparison between the first Adam and last Adam.
01:38:08
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So there are elements of this lesson that are in the paid version, a But the paid version has an absolutely insane amount of more information.
01:38:22
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And then it's got 75 questions at the end and for just for understanding true or false gap fills match the Bible verse to the event.
01:38:35
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So it really is designed to get you Flicking forwards and backwards through the Bible, scouring the text. And then there's an answer key that goes along with it and where you can self-correct and see if you got the answers right. So, Brendan, is that the same? Is that the PDF we got last week? It equals Sabina means. It's the...
01:38:56
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PDFs we got last week is what you're talking about now. got them free last week. We pay for them this week when you set that up. That's right, ye so the first grade you mean that's speed up yeah.
01:39:06
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yeah We pay for the notes so we we don't have a different date. Not a different live stream, no. yes It's just the notes, right? It's the it's the addition onto what Brad is after doing on now.
01:39:19
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live stream is what we're after watching. And then the PDFs come at a cost from this week on and like that you got free Do you understand that? though yeah yeah for two um In the Bible study that's attached to this live stream.
01:39:33
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Exactly. that right, Brendan? Yep. 100% Mary. Thank you. Yeah, that's perfect. yeah Okay. Mine is a question is that I know i and
Reading Non-Canonical Texts
01:39:41
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some people say don't. Some people say it's okay. and Are we allowed to read the book of Enoch?
01:39:46
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That is a great question, Sabina. I would say it is not Holy Spirit inspired in so far as it was not written by the actual Enoch. It seems to have been written centuries, if not millennia, afterwards.
01:40:06
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And what I would say is there is extra biblical texts that um So let's say on Sunday i was teaching on the Tower of Babel at church.
01:40:21
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And Tower Babel, okay, you've got 1 Chronicles 1.10 on Nimrod. You have Genesis 10 on Nimrod. You have Genesis 11 on the Tower Babel itself.
01:40:33
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You've got Deuteronomy 28 or 32. When the Lord talks about what's happening in the supernatural realm. You could look at Daniel to see what the demonic king over Babylon looked like.
01:40:48
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So it was very Bible verse heavy. But there is an ancient world historian called Flavius Josephus.
01:40:59
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He was not a believer. In fact, I'm pretty sure he thought Jesus was a magician.
01:41:05
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But he wrote a book called... and The Antiquities of the Jews, where he basically writes an entire history of the people of Israel, beginning with Adam.
01:41:18
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And so much of what he writes corroborates the word of God. Not all of it. And he's not a believer. But a lot of it corroborates the word of God. He gives details that when you read it, you're like, yeah, that makes a heck a lot of sense.
01:41:34
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So let's say he explained the Tower Babel. as Nimrod creating a city and turning it into a dictatorship.
01:41:45
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And he wants to create a tower that could withstand another great flood. And that's why he chose to make the tower out of burnt bricks and mortar, that it would be water resistant.
01:42:01
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So if God sent another great flood, this tower would withstand it. And when you kind of read it, you're like, I can totally actually see that happening. um Especially, you know, in Nimrod's day, they began to make the Gaborim the giants.
01:42:17
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that theyd The second round of Nephilim. So given that the first great flood had washed the Nephilim away, you're like, well, yeah, if you're going to do it again, this makes perfect sense. Of course, you would try to create something to insulate your hybrids.
01:42:35
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and So he gives a lot of extra detail. Do you put it on the same level as the word of God? Absolutely not. He is just a man. Does it contradict the word of God?
01:42:46
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No. In fact, it's it's very interesting and it's very plausible to me when I read it. So I would say the word of God is up here. But I would say Flavius Josephus notes on the article to the Jews in that respect I would still consider them and I would still teach them, but I would tell people it's not Holy Spirit inspired, but it sounds very plausible.
01:43:15
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And with the Book of Enoch, I'm going to be honest, Sabina, it's on my to-read list this year and i it's in the public domain. i' have printed it off. I've got a big stash of like 3,000 pages of notes just underneath the Irish flag for all my teachings for this year.
01:43:32
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The Book of Enoch is among them. Will I put it on the same level as the Word of God? Not a chance. Will I read it to glean and see if there's anything that corroborates the Word of God? Yes.
01:43:49
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If I see something and I think, well, that sounds likely, I'm just not sure. I'll say that. I'll say, okay, guys. the author says this about the Nephilim it's not in the Bible but it sounds pretty darn likely it does seem to echo things that are in the so I would say by all means read it but just know it's not the Holy Spirit inspired Word of God don't hedge your bets on it to the same degree you would with the 66 books of the Bible and
01:44:29
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But with extra biblical material, if it doesn't hurt you and your relationship with Jesus, it's fine. Think of like, you know, St. Patrick's Confessio.
01:44:42
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Was St. Patrick's book Holy Spirit Inspired? No. Do I read it every single year? Yeah. Do I teach in it? Multiple times a year. But I tell people he lived in the This not the Bible.
01:44:58
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this is not bible but he was an amazing man of God. Or reading theologians, let's say, from the ancient world, a I could say, okay, well, this theologian said, little little little little little little little little the way this person is not Jesus.
01:45:15
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This person had Holy Spirit, but was fallible like the rest of us. Holy Spirit did not write their theological book, but there's some good seed here. There's something we can glean.
01:45:29
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It would be like you quoting a pastor whose sermon you liked.
01:45:36
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Holy Spirit's in them.
01:45:39
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But they have not written the 67th book of the Bible. But perhaps they shared something. And you're like Ruth in the field. You're gleaning. You're taking a bit of this, a bit of that, a bit of this, a bit of that.
01:45:53
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That you think will be good for you. You don't put it on the same level as the Bible itself. But if it's not going harm you, it can still help you grow. So I would say that with the of Enoch.
01:46:05
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By all means, satisfy your curiosity. Have a read. Don't put it on the same level as the word of God per se. But if you read it and you think, okay, the word of God says something very similar here. The word God says something very similar to that.
01:46:22
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What's the harm in that, you know?
01:46:27
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I'm not.
01:46:31
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All right, brilliant. Thank you very much, Brendan. I am about to drop, so I'm going to go. That's all right. I think we all are, Hades. Have a lovely evening. and Thank you so much for for the work that you've put on this. Really appreciate it.
01:46:47
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very appreciate that Thank you so much. Brendan, have a
Afterlife and Judgment Day
01:46:51
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last question. I don't know. and i am i don't know i Do you agree, well even the Bible says each one will be judged according to their action, I think.
01:47:03
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But do you agree, like some preachers say when you die, you're in Christ, straight to heaven. If you're not in Christ, straight to a hell. Do you agree with that?
01:47:14
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Yes, I would say when you die, a you will step out of your physical body. And your guardian angels will transport you to heaven.
01:47:28
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Because if you look at the story of the poor man, Lazarus, and the evil, selfish, rich man who died, we're told that when Lazarus died, his angels took him to heaven.
01:47:44
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and Angels took him to heaven. So I'd say they're probably, well, it makes sense that they're your guardian angels. um And I'm sure they'll take you to heaven. in the most exciting way that most suits your personality, whether that's a chariot, whether that's a Formula One racing car that flies.
01:48:04
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and If you're a child who loves pirate ships, I'm sure the Lord will conjure a pirate ship for you. Whatever floats your boat, so to speak. and They'll take you there. If you really want to see your family one last time, they might take a little detour when you go to
01:48:25
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You know, sometimes when someone dies, their loved one just knows. They're like, I just felt so cold. I just feel like we need to call Margarita.
01:48:35
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And she'll answer because she's dead. You know, you you might say a little bit of a detour, but effectively you'll be going to heaven pretty niftily. um And for those who choose not to live in Christ, but to live in rebellion, and I believe that The second they step out of their physical body, they will be in abject terror and regret. I think they will know within an instant that they have made a very, very long list of bad choices in life.
01:49:07
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And their dissension into darkness will begin. a and then with regards to... the book of life and the book of deeds, that refers to the day of judgment. So let's say when you go to heaven, let's assume the rapture doesn't happen beforehand, let's assume you die a natural death. 50, 60 years from now.
01:49:34
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And you die and you go to heaven. You will be taken to the Father, you'll be presented to him, and you'll get to see Jesus and Holy Spirit, you'll be like, You'll meet family and friends who've gone before you, ancestors who've gone before you, friends who've gone before you, friends that you never made on Earth because they lived 600 years ago.
01:49:58
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They'll be like, hey, Sabina, Jesus said we're going to be friends, so let's be friends, best friends. And you'll go to see your mansion, your property in the sky, wherever he's chosen for you to live.
01:50:10
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And he will have crowns there for you, a crown room. He'll have a robe of and praise and and all this amazing attire, um a list of things for you to do in heaven.
01:50:25
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And you'll just be living your best life. You'll be more alive than you've ever been on the earth. He'll give you some blessings and rewards for a job well done, probably representative of the size of your property. But on the day of judgment, which on earth time is after the apocalypse,
01:50:43
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After the millennial kingdom. After he's just about scrapped up the earth. Then you have the day of judgment. And the day of judgment for us will be a day of increased blessing.
01:50:56
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It will be a day when he's like, is your name book life? Well, obviously you live here. Hello. And then he opens the book of deeds. And the book of deeds, he'll say, OK, I wanted you to win 4,461 people.
01:51:13
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To me on the earth. Yeah, you won twelve. So I was going to give you this gift.
01:51:23
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No, no, you can get this really small and instead. i wanted you to show love to this old lady in a bus and you did not disappoint me.
01:51:36
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She went home and she won her entire family for the Lord. They have gone on to win three hundred thousand. You are getting blessed for 300,000, 12 saved lives. You're going to get this.
01:51:49
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And we're told he passes your good work through the fire. So it would be like, I wanted you to serve me at the Irish Revival in February 28th, 2026.
01:52:01
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And he puts your work through the fire. And if it comes out practically, that means that you did it properly. You did what you to do. you get the blessing. it it kind of comes out looking...
01:52:12
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little funky, you might get less blessing if your attitude was absolutely stinking. Or you just decided, you woke up the morning, you were tired, didn't want to go.
01:52:24
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You might say, okay, that's, I'm not going to bless you you for some for a job not done. So you won't be cursed. You won't be punished.
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But you will be blessed in addition to everything you've already gotten for what you've done on the earth. For those who are not in the Lord, that will be the white throne room judgment, and it will be horrific.
01:52:53
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They will be, I'm sure, tearing their clothes into shreds. And he will look at the book of life. Their name will not be in it.
01:53:06
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He will look at the book of deeds. And he will tell them all the wicked things that they've done, which will be held against them. And he will open a portal to the lake of fire.
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And he will say, in life, you despised me.
01:53:26
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Continue on your way. In life, you thought my name was a cuss word. And you lived like it.
01:53:38
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I never knew you. You never knew me. Go on, you scallywag. Continue on your way. You'll turn to people and say, you murdered 47 women. You abused 127 kids.
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You for abused one hundred and twenty seven kids
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you voted For 85 wicked politicians, a grand total of 365 times each, knowing that they were murdering babies and pushing transgenderism on kids.
01:54:14
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Continue on your way. And those ones who have already died and been to hell. will then walk into that portal into Lake Fire, into a dimension that will be even worse.
01:54:30
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Hell has an expiry date. The Lake of Fire doesn't. And it will be a world of unrelenting punishment. And then that world will get sealed off, and they'll have no further communication or interaction with us ever again.
01:54:48
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and But that's... as a snapshot day of the day judgment. Okay. Yeah, but ah the Bible says, well, like each one will be judged according to their deeds of what they've done. So if a person have done good action and, but just not knowing Christ, you can't just send it, send them to hell.
01:55:10
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and And also if someone doesn't know Christ is dying now, they just go to hell. So they're already being punished. And now the lake of fire doesn't make sense. Right. Well, you see, heaven has an expiry date. Hell has an expiry date. Earth has an expiry date.
01:55:26
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All of this, all three worlds are already perishing. All three worlds already are on the clock, if you will. um It's after the Day of Judgment that he remakes reality.
01:55:40
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That means he remakes the Earth who Old Testament believers and post-rapture believers. We, the body of Christ, are a heavenly people, so we will live in heaven with him.
01:55:56
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The Bible tells us that we will live in heaven with Jesus forever, so we will live in the new heaven. and And then when hell gets eviscerated, the lake of fire becomes the prison world where everyone is chosen to live in rebellion.
01:56:15
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Because hell is still part of this reality It might be its own dimension, but it's still part of this version of reality. But all of this will get wiped away and burnt away and in flames and doper.
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Heaven in its current form will be destroyed and remade. Earth will be destroyed and remade. And hell will be
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destroyed replaced with light of fire.
01:56:48
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But if you'd like to, we willll we'll come back to Judgment Day at some point, because it's a very, very long day. It's very busy day. a lot in us. And we can look at it from lots of different angles for the righteous, for the unrighteous.
01:57:02
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and But some point, we'll welcome'll come back to it, okay? Yeah. Thanks. Perfect.
01:57:11
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All right, everyone. Well, thank you so much for joining today and for staying until the very end. um Have a beautiful rest of your day. Have a super rest of your week.
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Remember, next week is the last Wednesday of the month, so no discipleship. Instead, I'll fervently be working away on, I've pretty much got session three already, but session four, working session four.
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a and the first Wednesday of March, we'll be right back at it. And we'll be looking at what happened straight after the fall. We'll be looking at Cain, Abel, Seth, and working our way the whole way down to Noah.
01:57:56
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All right. So have super rest of your day. bless each and every one of you. Thanks so much for your time. really appreciate that and the trust you've given me to impart into your lives.
01:58:07
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And I'll catch you soon. Okay. Thanks, Brandon. Good night, all. Bye. Good night. but i yeah minute