I don't understand.
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Why did this
have to happen to me?
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I feel like I just
can't make sense of things.
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I need answers.
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Where is God?
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Welcome to Raw
Questions Relevant Answers,
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a program where we
deal with relevant,
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real issues that are
crippling our young people
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and just giving Christ-centered
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practical
answers from the Bible.
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Today, we're talking about
the topic of finding truth,
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how can I know what's true,
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how can I know it's
actually right and correct,
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and how do I balance my
life in harmony with that.
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I've got two really
close friends of mine
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with us today as our co-host,
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Michelle
Doucoumes, and Mark Paden.
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And so we're
just going to go ahead
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and start right away
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on addressing these
particular questions.
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Here's the first one
from a male in Illinois.
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He says, "What is the best
way to empirically ask questions
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about what we believe
without going too deep
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into the weeds of doubt?"
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What a great question.
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I love this question.
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This is something that
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I've been thinking about a lot
recently for various reasons,
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but I think one
of the biggest things
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going back to the
Protestant Reformation.
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In that time, you had
these pillars of the faith.
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You have people
like Martin Luther
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or Wycliffe, right?
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These people that had
profound influence in shaping
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the culture of the
world at that point,
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and what was their
means of ascertaining truth?
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It was this.
This is the best way.
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If we are going to ask questions
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about this thing,
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it has to be answered with here.
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We have to come to
this Word knowing that
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it's the inspired Word of God.
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And then this is the
complete system of truth
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that when we come to this Word,
this is God speaking to us,
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and this is how
we arrive at truth.
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The other key ingredient is that
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we have to have
our hearts in a place
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that are willing to hear
and learn and understand.
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And if in my heart,
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I don't want to follow God,
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if I don't want to know truth,
I'm never going to find it.
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But if in my heart,
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I genuinely want
to know the truth,
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if I've gone to God and said,
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"Lord, create
in me a clean heart
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and give me a heart that truly,
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honestly desires Your
will," you will find it.
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It's like John 7:17 says,
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"If any man wills to do My will,
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he's going to know
regarding the doctrine."
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Are we willing to know?
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And also may be willing to
actually ask the questions.
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I mean, I think about
the Protestant reformers
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that you mentioned,
they went to Scripture,
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but they also
asked hard questions.
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They grappled with their faith,
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they wanted to
know it for themselves.
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And so I don't believe
it's bad to ask questions.
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That's not doubt,
that's really seeking.
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That's what we're told to
do when Jesus says, you know,
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"Seek Me, and you'll find Me
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when you search
with all your heart."
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I do though realize
that there is danger
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and getting mired
in the weeds of doubt
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as the person said.
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And I think of a quote
from a book called Mind,
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Character, and
Personality Vol. 2.
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It says, "Many pass long
years in darkness and doubt
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because they do not
feel as they desire.
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But feeling has
nothing to do with faith.
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That faith which works by love
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and purifies the soul
is not a matter of impulse.
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It ventures out
upon the promises of God
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firmly believing
that what He has said,
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He is able to perform.
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Our souls maybe
trained to believe,
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taught to rely
upon the Word of God,
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the Word that declares
"the just shall live by faith,"
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which is what Martin
Luther really quoted a lot,
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"The just shall live by faith."
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And so there is
this coming together
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of being willing
to ask questions,
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but also saying, "Do I
stand on what I do know,
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with what is clear
from the Word of God,
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am I willing to take that?"
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Sometimes they kind
of throw out the baby
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with the bathwater with doubt
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because of the
things we don't know,
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we throw out the things
that are clear in God's Word,
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and that's not
going to be productive.
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It's true.
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And there's kind of two schools
of thought about thought.
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There's the Greek view
that just questions everything
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at every essence of it
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and then there was the
Hebrew means of thought,
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when it comes to,
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you know,
Christianity in the sense of...
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There was a sense of
faith and an understanding
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and trust and who God was
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and your system as
truth was built around this.
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And that Greek means of thought
has really kind of permeated
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a lot of what we
see now today of.
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So when a young person wrestles,
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they want to tear
the whole thing down,
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even things that
they knew to be true
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and just try to
start from the beginning.
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But we should know
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if we're seeking to know
the truth as it is in Jesus,
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let's start with the
truth as it is in Jesus.
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Jesus Himself said that
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He was the way, the
truth, and the life,
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the way that life should look.
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And so we do have an anchor
that holds the soul steadfast,
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and that's in Christ.
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So our system of truth
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should be telling us
something about Jesus as well.
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And so any of the
beliefs that we may be garnering
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as a movement, as a
church, as an individual,
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those things we're believing
should give us an insight
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into who Jesus was and
be true to who Jesus was.
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So one other
thing too that I think
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we need to deal with
here in this question
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is their use of the word,
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"What is the best way to
empirically ask questions?"
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With the
understanding of that word being
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that it's empirical evidence,
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evidence that is
evidence and experience-based
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rather than just theoretical
and that type of thing, right?
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So you should be true to life.
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Right. Right.
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And I think the
key here is that...
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You know what, we do have
to experience these things
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and as we...
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Let's say, we're wrestling
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with a question of
faith versus presumption.
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The best way to
empirically look at that
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is test it in your life,
test it in the lives of others,
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see how it has worked
in others experiences,
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see examples of it in
the Bible, see in that way,
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I think you'll come to a
much better understanding of it.
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However, the one thing that
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we need to be
cautious about is saying,
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trying to look at
scientific evidence
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to prove miracles and
different things like that
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where we want to base
Christianity on the same metric
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that the world
uses for its science.
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True science is Bible-based.
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Right.
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God created the earth, right?
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But when we start
getting into the weeds of doubt
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is where we
start making our metric
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something that isn't
grounded in the Word of God.
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And we're told
that the things of God
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are foolishness with men, right?
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So there's this sense
of, you know, context,
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I think that's provided towards
as well to the Apostle Paul.
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Second question here is,
"How can you know the truth
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and how can you be sure
that the Bible is true?"
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This is from a
female in Malaysia.
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Now we've talked about
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some of the ideas
of how to find truth,
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but I think we can kind of spend
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a little bit of time
here on how can we be sure
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that the Bible itself is true.
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I think there's a few ways.
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One, the Bible is
internally-consistent, right?
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It's amazing
that you have 66 books
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that are written by
30-something authors
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on the span of 3
different continents I believe,
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over the span of
like 1,200 years or more.
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And yet, all of these people
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with different
experiences in different places
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end up telling the
same picture of God
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and the same picture of man.
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I mean, if you were to assemble,
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you know, five
scientists or doctors to say
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whether coffee is
good for you or bad for you
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and have them
assemble those into one book,
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you're not going to get
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an
internally-consistent article.
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And yet, over
the span of this long
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and these
different many places...
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These many different
places, how was that possible?
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There was a divine mind
guiding these individuals
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as they wrote.
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2 Peter, is it 1:20?
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2 Peter, I
believe it's chapter 1
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where he talks about the fact
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that the Spirit
of God prompted them
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and moved them and
carried them along the way
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as far as the
people who wrote the Bible.
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And I think it's an
important premise for us to know
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that there's a divine
mind behind the Bible.
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And its internal consistency
and its cultural consistency
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attest to this as well.
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How is it the Jamaicans
know who Abraham is, right?
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This is a book written by
nomadic Jews to a large degree,
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and yet, Jamaicans
know who Abraham is,
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and they're putting their
faith in the God of Abraham.
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Why?
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Because the Bible
speaks to the very issues
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of all of our lives throughout
all the salvation history.
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It was just as relevant to
Moses as it is to me today.
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How's that possible?
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And you can't say that
about other books of history
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as you can of
this powerful book,
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and I believe this
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because there's a
divine mind behind it,
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let alone
prophecy and other things.
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You know, another big
thing for me has been Daniel 2.
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Honestly, the
whole Book of Daniel,
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you hear God prophesize
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how a kingdom is
going to come about,
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which kingdoms would
rise and fall at what times
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and all of that happened.
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Yeah.
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And to me, that gives
me a lot of faith in it
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that if God is able
to predict the future,
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I think He's able to tell
me how I should live, you know.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's huge.
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Prophecy, like you
said, Daniel, Revelation,
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we can see things
actually happening
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through history
like the Bible said.
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Archaeology shows the same thing
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that they find
things in archaeology
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the Bible spoke about,
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people didn't
realize that it existed,
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things about the
Babylonian Empire
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and other kingdoms of the world
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that the Bible had
spoken this a long time before.
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And also, even though
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there are some
little differences,
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like the gospels
have small differences,
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people say, "Wait a
minute, that's not consistent,
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" like you were saying, Dee.
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But at the same time,
it actually, in a way,
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shows more the consistency.
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People wrote in their own way,
they saw it in their own way.
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It shows this
wasn't just a collusion
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or something
that was put together.
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Also something that speaks to me
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is how vitally it
shows the reality,
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people's good sides
and their bad sides.
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Add to that, yes.
Can I just point out?
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Those discrepancies were
not theological discrepancies.
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Those were little
tiny details of an event.
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Yes.
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Like all three of
us go to the same event
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and tell how many
people were there, right?
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Like, there can be differences
in something like that, but...
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The overarching picture
of who God is and who man is
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and the condition it's
in, none of these change.
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The internal
consistency still applies.
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And it does discredit
this idea of collusion.
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They wrote with
different experiences
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and different point of views,
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all telling the
same overarching picture
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of the purpose
of why Jesus came,
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the impact that it had,
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and the truth
that it lay or the...
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What that means to
you, what that means to me.
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And I think it's amazing.
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You know, the prophecies
in Daniel that say that,
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you know, when
Jesus will be baptized,
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when the gospel is going
to go to the Gentile world,
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there's just
these amazing things
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that God has throughout the Word
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to show that it's
verifiably accurate.
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And if it can be
that true to life,
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I'm reckoning it can
be that true to my life.
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Yeah, sure.
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One more question here.
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We say, finding
truth, question three,
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"Should I rely on
what the preacher says
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to be true or
should I study for myself?"
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This is a 25-year-old
female from the United States,
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and I think that question
was somewhat asked in jest,
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but there's a
lot of truth to this.
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Because when
you're in a situation
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where you hear
someone say something,
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the easy thing to do
and the intellectually...
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Lazy?
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Lazy-ish, I
don't want to be mean,
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but like that's easy.
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Anyone can just say,
"Hey, so-and-so said this,"
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and this person's
stuff is solid, right?
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We like this person,
we love their sermons,
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we love their books.
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The problem is God wants you
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to have an
experience for yourself.
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We talked about this
in a previous program
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that when Jesus in
Matthew 25, I believe,
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tells the parable of the
wise and the foolish virgins.
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The wise virgins
spent their own time
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in preparation
to receive the oil,
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the Holy Spirit for themselves.
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Someone else's
experience with God
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cannot get you into heaven.
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Yeah.
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Someone else's
understanding of the Bible
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can't get you into heaven.
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You need to have
your own experience,
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and it's not just
like you better or else,
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I mean this in the context
of you have the privilege
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of having your own
experience with God.
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God can speak to
you in the same way
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He spoke to them
by you searching out
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the Word for yourself.
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They're not a
better person than you,
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and just because they
may have an education,
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original
language or something else
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does not mean that God
can't give you understanding
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in the Word of God for yourself,
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and God wants that for you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a crazy thing
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because God does use
other people to speak for Him.
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That's what we see in Scripture,
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the Holy Spirit
speaking through men.
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And so it's not that it's
wrong to listen to other people,
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but I think of the
Bereans in the Book of Acts.
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In Acts 17, it talks
about Paul visiting Berea
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and how they
were more fair-minded
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because they
searched the Scriptures daily
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to find out whether
these things were so.
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And Paul was a smart
guy. Paul knew his Bible.
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Right.
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And made a convincing argument,
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but they still
wanted to see for themselves
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that it was true.
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You know, here's a one
other example from the Bible
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that I think really does this.
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Matthew shows this.
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Matthew 23, Jesus says...
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He's speaking to the
multitudes and to His disciples,
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and He says, "The
scribes and the Pharisees
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sit in Moses' seat.
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Therefore, whatever
they bid you to observe,
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observe and do but
do not do what they do."
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Right?
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And then it goes on to show
how many abuses they had done
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and how much they
had corrupted the Bible.
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And yet you had
a whole generation
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who was willing to
reject the very God of heaven,
00:13:29.87\00:13:34.01
Jesus Christ is
prophesied throughout Scripture
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because they were
listening to their preachers
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rather than
studying the Word of God.
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And their preachers happen
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to coincide with the
worldview that they wanted.
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Exactly.
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They wanted a
messiah to look one way,
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but the messiah was prophesied
to look a different way,
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and they missed a blessing.
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