Hello, I'm Lance
Wilbur. And I'm Dwayne Lemon.
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And we like to
welcome you again to TKS,
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the True Knowledge of Self
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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Now, in our last episode,
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we dealt with a subject
of True Knowledge of Self,
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a biblical knowledge of self
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verses other concepts and ideas
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in these ideas
of knowledge of self
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in the hip-hop
culture and elsewhere.
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And we saw that
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this counterfeit
knowledge of self
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is rooted in
Lucifer who became Satan.
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And we saw that this
theme of self exaltation,
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the idea that created beings
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can become God
or greater than God
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is what corrupts
us to the very core.
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And we saw in contrast
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that a biblical
knowledge of self
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as we saw
defined in many verses,
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but specifically John 17:3.
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It says, "And
this is life eternal,
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that they might know
thee the only true God
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and Jesus Christ
who now has sent."
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A knowledge of God
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and his
righteousness and his greatness
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and his glory actually gives us
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a true understanding
of who we are in contrast
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and shows us a way
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in which we can
now become like God
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the way that he intended.
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Now, Dwayne again we're
back and we're discussing
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and going to kind
of the next transition,
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the next point in our journey,
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and we're
ascertaining the cause.
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We're figuring out
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what is the cause
of these problems.
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We talked about
the problems enough,
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and we saw that
the Bible has something
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in contrast to that,
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but we're now
looking at what is the cause.
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Does the Bible define
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because it's one thing
to say here's a problem
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but then, it's
another thing to show you
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how and why the problem exists
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because there's
no way essentially
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to reverse the
problem or to have a remedy
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without figuring
out what caused it
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because God is
not just interested
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in providing
maintenance or therapy.
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God wants complete restoration,
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total restoration of
his image in mankind.
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That's right and you know
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one of the
things to think about is
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you know, we all have problems.
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It doesn't matter if
we're black or white.
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It doesn't matter if
we're male or female,
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young or old.
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If we find that there
is one common denominator
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between all humanity is
that we all have problems.
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And those
problems are manifested
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in different ways.
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Sometimes, the problems
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are manifested
through relationships.
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The other times,
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they are manifested
through environment.
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Other times, they are manifested
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through health, occupation,
and the list goes on.
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We all have problems,
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but the Bible
lets us know something.
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Now, the Bible
doesn't use the word problem,
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but the word that the Bible uses
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at least in the
King James Version
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is a word called, Curse.
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There are many
people always say,
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you know our world is
cursed, you know this is curse,
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and that is cursed, and so
on and sometimes people say,
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our relationships,
our homes are cursed
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and the list goes on,
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but the Bible presents a picture
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that we would do
well to understand
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is found in the
book of Proverbs 26:2.
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It's a type of language,
this use is very interesting.
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Solomon says, "As
the bird by wandering,
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and as the swallow by flying,"
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it says, "so the curse
causeless shall not come."
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Now, it's very
natural for a bird
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to wander from place to place.
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Is very natural for swallow
to fly from place to place,
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so it is that the
Bible says is very natural
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that a curse never
comes without a cause.
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So when a person
identifies a curse,
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whether it's taking
place in their home,
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whether it's taking
place in their environment,
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when it's taking
place in their occupations,
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when it's taking place
even with their health.
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In all cases,
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a curse never
comes without a cause.
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So therefore, the
logical thing to do
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is to ascertain the cause.
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Once you can
ascertain the cause,
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it has been
found in many respects
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that the cure is
typically in the cause.
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Real side note on this,
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but I remember
talking with a lady
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she was sick
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and she had specifically
high blood pressure,
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and you know, one of the things
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that I was talking
with her about as I said,
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you know, "Tell me
what you're eating,"
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because you know,
most people think of salt
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when they think of
high blood pressure.
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This lady said, "I'm
not eating any salt,"
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but then she said,
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"But I'm eating a lot
of black and white pepper."
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She says she uses
black and white pepper
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for everything in the food.
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Well, it turns out
that scientifically,
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it is proven that
black and white pepper
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is actually a
stimulus to the blood
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to the point that
it can actually be
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a cause for hypertension.
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She didn't know that.
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So therefore, what did she do?
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She started to
eliminate the usage
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that high usage of all
that black and white pepper,
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she made some lifestyle
changes and within a few weeks,
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her blood
pressure was regulated.
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That's the idea.
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The cure is
typically in the cause.
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Once you understand the cause,
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you can more than
likely find your cure
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for that problem.
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And so it is that
we all have problems.
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So the question
is, what's the cause?
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And then once we can
ascertain that cause,
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perhaps by God's grace,
he can show us the cure.
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Yeah.
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So therefore,
that's the question
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that now I want to pose to you
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is do you have an idea
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of what may be the very cause
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of all these
problems that we had.
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You had problems growing
up, I had problems growing up.
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People we talk to all
the time, they have problems.
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So we know that
humanity has problems.
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The question is,
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what is the cause
of all these problems?
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Yeah, and I believe
that the Bible is very clear,
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again, we don't
want to just manufacture
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responses and answers.
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Right. The
Bible gives an answer.
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And so, when we're
talking about this subject.
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What is the root cause?
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We understood that
the war started in heaven,
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we established that
in Revelation Chapter 12
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and then, we
established the fact
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that it came to the earth
and now has affected humanity.
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Well, where do we see
that account in the Bible,
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and it begins in
Genesis Chapter 3,
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almost at the very beginning
and it's best oftentimes,
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when we want to
figure out something
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or figure out a principle,
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go to the first
place that you see it...
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That's right.
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Come up in the
Bible... Deal with the root.
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Right, begin at the
beginning as they say.
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So in Genesis Chapter 3,
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this chapter is dealing
with the fall of humanity,
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and we're going
to just highlight
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a few verses again and
focus in on the actual,
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the action of the fall
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because we're talking about
the root cause of the problem,
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what happened that
brought the problems
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and brought these
broken relationships
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and things into our room,
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and we look at
verse 6 in Genesis 3,
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and we're just
looking at verse 6 and then,
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we're going to go all
the way down to verse 9.
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Genesis 3:6-9, and
I'm going to read those.
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It said, "And when the woman saw
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that the tree was good for food,
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and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
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and a tree to be
desired to make one wise,
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she took of the
fruit thereof, and did eat,
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and gave also answer
her husband with her,
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and he did eat."
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It's talking about Adam and Eve.
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It says, "And the eyes
of them both were opened.
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And they knew
that they were naked,
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and they sewed
fig leaves together,
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and made themselves aprons.
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And they heard the
voice of the Lord God
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walking in the garden
in the cool of the day:
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And Adam and his
wife hid themselves
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from the
presence of the Lord God
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amongst the trees of the garden.
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And the Lord God called on
to Adam, and said unto him,
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"Where art thou?"
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It is a profound
and deep question
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and you can go on and on
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about some of the
intricacies of the verse,
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but essentially, as
soon as Adam and Eve
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broke their
relationship with God
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through
breaking their agreement,
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they did exactly the
opposite of what God commanded
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to not eat of the tree
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of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil.
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They ate of it.
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And when they did,
everything was broken.
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Everything was shattered,
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and we saw as those
things that we highlighted,
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problems in those various areas,
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the relationships were broken.
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God's relationship
with man was broken
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because now when he came,
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they fled and hid
themselves from God.
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That's right.
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Their relationship
with each other was broken
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and when you see that later on
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as there is now
disagreement and contention
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and strife and insecurity...
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Even brothers
killing brothers. Right.
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Genesis Chapter 4,
goes right into that fact,
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human
relationships are now broken.
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Man's relationship with
his environment is broken
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and the rest of
God's creation, remember,
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God commanded mankind to
have dominion over the earth
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to subdue it not to persecute it
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or to abuse it,
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but to live harmoniously
with his creation...
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As a faithful student.
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That's right, a
caretaker and one sin comes in,
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that relationship
is affected and broken.
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We see that man is now
fleeing, is cast out of his home
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as you go on to see
in Genesis Chapter 3,
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and there's all
kinds of problems
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and degrading in every level.
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Man's health degrades.
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Remember the
word of God was that,
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"If you eat it in the
day that thou eat there of,
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you will surely die."
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Death was not in
existence on the earth.
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Now, that sin
comes into the earth,
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this transgression if you will
this, this cause, this curse,
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death is the result.
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The human body, the human mind
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now has the
capacity not to grow.
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Well, I still have
the capacity to grow
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but not to perpetually grow,
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but to degrade into the
point of actual physical death.
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So every aspect of
man's existence now
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is affected negatively by sin.
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And again, we talked about
this idea of mental slavery
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that if I follow a
religion of God in heaven
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and follow the
religion of the Bible
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that this is a form of slavery,
it's a form of the deception,
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and I am the one
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that is going to
control my own destiny,
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and I am God in myself.
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Well, it's really
a greater deception.
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We saw it in
the case of Lucifer.
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We saw it in the
case of Nebuchadnezzar,
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we saw in the case of Herod.
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The Bible comments on kind
of this fundamental principle
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in the book of Romans.
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So I actually
want to turn there now
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in direct our
attention to Romans 6,
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Romans 6 in the New Testament,
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and we're looking at verse
16, and I'm going to read that.
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Romans 6:16.
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It says, "Know ye not,
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that whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom you obey,
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whether of sin unto death,
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or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
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Notice, there's
simply two options, sin,
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following sin
which will lead to death,
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slavery or bondage to
sin which will lead to death
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or service to God, obedience
which leads to righteousness.
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It's an
automatic cause and effect.
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If I follow
transgression or sin,
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then it will lead to death.
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If I follow obedience,
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it will automatically
lead to righteousness,
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and God is putting
before us this very choice.
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Now, I keep using these
words sin, transgression
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and looking at this is
the curse in the cause,
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thus the Bible
gives a definition,
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a basic clear
definition of what sin is
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when we talk about sin.
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What is sin?
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Okay, now, I'm glad
you asked that question
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because thus
far, what I'm seeing
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you bring out in your point
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is really, really important
for our viewers to understand
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is that when we
look at this issue of sin
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being the cause root of
A, B, C problems in life.
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It's amazing how truth
by default eliminates lies.
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Right.
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Because there are
individuals who try to say
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the white man is the
cause of our problems,
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especially in
aspects of hip-hop culture.
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There are some who say the
black man or the Indian man
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and they point at
races and different creeds
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and so on to say
these are the reasons
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why we're going
through oppression,
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slavery, and bondage,
but the Bible says, "No."
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The Bible deals with the issue
of sin, sin is the problem.
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And until, we deal
with the sin problem,
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these other problems
are not going to go away.
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They're just
going to shape shift
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and that's why the
most important thing
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whenever someone wants
to make a nation better,
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when they want to
make a church better,
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when they want to
make a community better
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or a home better, we
have to deal with the things
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that cause them not to be better
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and when we
clearly understand that
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and that is sin, then now
we know where our battle is.
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Our battle is not with white,
black and this that, the other
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'cause it's not dealing
with pigmentation of skin.
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Our issue is with the issue
of sin, sin is the problem.
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Right.
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And you clearly
pointed that out.
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So naturally, like you said,
it now puts us in a position,
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we need to define, what is sin.
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Yeah. We have to define it.
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Now, there are some
beautiful ways to do this.
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The Bible spells
it out in 1 John 3:4.
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This is the
clearest biblical explanation
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on what sin is.
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You can go to
people, you ask them,
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"Hey, what is sin."
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They say, "Well, you
know, it's not doing God's will
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or it's doing this
bad thing or that thing."
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Right.
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I believe, let's go
to the horse's mouth,
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let's find out from God
what did he say sin was.
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The Bible says in 1 John 3:4.
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It says,
"Whosoever committed sin
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transgresseth also the law:
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For sin is the
transgression of the law."
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It's the breaking
of the law of God.
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Yeah.
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Now, there was approximately
613 laws in all the Bible.
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So, some of
them were ceremonial,
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some of them were hygienic,
some of them were health laws,
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some of them were moral
laws and sacrificial laws.
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So the question
is well, which one?
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How do you know which law it is
that if we break it, it is sin.
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Well, the Bible tells us
in Romans 7 Chapter which one.
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When you go to
Romans the 7 Chapter,
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you find that Paul,
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he expresses it
very, very clearly
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so that we
don't have to miss it.
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In Romans the 7:7,
here is what it says,
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"What shall we say then?
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Is the law sin? God forbid.
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Nay, I had not
known sin, but by the law:
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For I had not known lust.
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Except the law had
said, 'Thou shalt not covet.'"
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So whatever law that
says, "Thou shalt not covet,"
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is the same law that
if we break it, it is sin.
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Now, anybody can go to
Exodus 20 and of course,
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when you look at verse
17, the Tenth Commandment,
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that's the command that
says, "Thou shalt not covet."
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Now, James Chapter 2
introduces a thought about this
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that becomes
very important to us.
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In James 2, it tells us this,
and these are the key things
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because
remember, we have problems,
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we want our problems to go away,
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our problems can't
go away by smoking weed.
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Our problems can't go away
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by blinking our
minds off from the world
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and trying to go to a club
so we can zoom out for a minute
00:15:01.90\00:15:04.20
as we dance on the dance
floor and once the club is over,
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you're going to go
right back home to your...
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It's misery. Yeah.
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And our problems
cannot be found in sex.
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Sex is pleasure for a
moment, but then after that,
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there's still a down spiral.
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Pleasures can't
even be found in money.
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Ask any
millionaire who killed himself.
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You can you can look
at the issues of life
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and money is not
answering the questions.
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Sex is not
answering the question.
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All these things
are not answering it.
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Yeah.
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So therefore, we
ascertain the cause,
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the issue is sin,
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but we need to define
what sin is so that hopefully,
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we can know how we
can get victory over it.
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That's going to
be the key. Right.
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So we look at 1 John 3:4,
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sin is the
breaking of God's law.
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Which law?
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There is a whole
bunch of them in the Bible.
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Well, we go to Romans 7:7.
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It says, "That I
had not known lust,
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except the law,"
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that if I break it a sin
said, "Thou shalt not covet."
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What law is that?
You go to Exodus 20.
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You look at verse 17,
"Thou shalt not covet."
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That's the Ten Commandments.
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Oh, so the law
that if I break it
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the Bible calls it sin
are the Ten Commandments.
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Now, we're going
to the Book of James
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because James tells us something
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in relation to
those Ten Commandments.
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It's says in James 2,
right here at verse 8, it says,
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and we're going to
look at verses 8-11.
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It says, "If ye
fulfill the royal law
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according to the scripture,
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thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself,
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ye do well:
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But if you have respect
to persons, ye commit sin,
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and are convinced of
the law as transgressors.
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For whoever shall
keep the whole law,
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and yet offend in one point,"
it says, "he is guilty of all.
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For he that said,
Do not commit adultery,
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said also, Do not kill.
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Now if thou commit no
adultery, yet if thou kill,
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thou art become a
transgressor of the law."
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So the standard is high.
The standard is very high.
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God says that he is
trying to establish a people
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that will be in
total harmony with his law
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and when you and I
look back at our lives,
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we may say, "Oh,
I never murdered."
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But here it is, we may
have committed adultery.
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The adultery, the person says,
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"Well, I've never
murdered or committed adultery,"
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but may be they told a lie
and they bear false witness.
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So we all can find
ourselves guilty of this,
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and this is why
the Bible tells us
00:17:08.16\00:17:10.06
in Romans 3:23 that,
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"All have sinned,
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and come short of
the glory of God."
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That's a problem. Yes.
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That's a problem
because all of us have sinned
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which means all of us
has violated God's law
00:17:21.27\00:17:23.04
at some point in our
lives, and therefore,
00:17:23.07\00:17:26.07
we are now under
the death penalty.
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Because the Bible says
that once we have sinned
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and come short of the glory
of God, the Roman 6:23 says,
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"The wage of sin is death."
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The payment for sin is death.
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Right, as it was
at the beginning,
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that still stands.
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I can't...I can
walk as many people
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across the street
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as I want who
cannot walk themselves,
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it is a good deed, but
it cannot pay the debt.
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I can go ahead and I can help
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as many homeless
people as possible,
00:17:47.63\00:17:49.53
it's a good deed, but
it cannot pay the debt.
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So I can do all sorts of
great things, good actions,
00:17:51.90\00:17:54.24
wonderful deeds, but
at the end of the day,
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it doesn't pay the debt.
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The Bible says, "The
payment for sin is death.
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You've got to die."
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And this is why
the story of the Gospel
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becomes so
powerful because it says,
00:18:04.61\00:18:06.61
"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son
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that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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So seeing that we can't...
we have the death penalty.
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Yes sir.
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The standard is set high
00:18:21.96\00:18:23.30
in fact, God sets
Himself up as the standard,
00:18:23.33\00:18:25.83
and He shows us
in contrast to Him
00:18:25.87\00:18:28.17
that we do not
need it and therefore,
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we require the penalty of death.
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That's right.
00:18:34.41\00:18:35.74
So then, the
natural question is,
00:18:35.78\00:18:37.11
does God give a way to escape?
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And you just highlighted
the point, and I think,
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we're going to spend
a whole entire program
00:18:41.98\00:18:44.92
dealing with this solution
for the great problem of sin
00:18:44.95\00:18:48.92
because that is
the ultimate problem.
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All these things
that you talked about
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in the materialism
and the material things
00:18:52.03\00:18:53.96
and let's not be confused,
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there's nothing
wrong with being happy...
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Absolutely. ..or pleasure...
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That's right.
00:19:00.54\00:19:01.87
..or God doesn't
mean, to follow God,
00:19:01.90\00:19:03.24
you have to be poor.
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You know, some certain things,
00:19:04.64\00:19:05.97
there's nothing
inherently wrong with them.
00:19:06.01\00:19:08.84
But as they become
corrupted through the human mind
00:19:08.88\00:19:11.95
and we begin to
abuse these things,
00:19:11.98\00:19:14.38
it leads to destruction
and it leads to death.
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Now, one of the
things I really like about
00:19:16.82\00:19:19.15
what you just said
and also how you know
00:19:19.19\00:19:21.66
we're trying to
emphasize is in this program,
00:19:21.69\00:19:23.83
we know that there's
something called fanaticism.
00:19:23.86\00:19:25.96
You know, extremes
where people go too far
00:19:25.99\00:19:28.40
on one side or the other,
00:19:28.43\00:19:30.93
it's very clear,
that's not our mission.
00:19:30.97\00:19:32.67
Our mission is not
to try to tell people
00:19:32.70\00:19:34.67
you cannot be happy
00:19:34.70\00:19:36.50
or you cannot enjoy
some things in life,
00:19:36.54\00:19:38.91
have "fun," by no
means are we saying that,
00:19:38.94\00:19:41.04
by any means or any
stretch of the imagination.
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In fact, think of the
words of Jesus, you know,
00:19:43.24\00:19:45.61
most people don't consider
00:19:45.65\00:19:46.98
why does Jesus even give us
the commands that he gives us.
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You ever think
about that? What about...
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Why does he give
us these commands?
00:19:51.82\00:19:53.59
Watch this, John 15 chapter.
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This is just to prove
that God is not on a mission
00:19:55.59\00:19:58.06
to make us unhappy
00:19:58.09\00:19:59.43
when he gives us
commands and instructions
00:19:59.46\00:20:01.33
and all these things
00:20:01.36\00:20:02.70
because notice
what the Bible says
00:20:02.73\00:20:04.07
in John the 15
Chapter, talking about Jesus.
00:20:04.10\00:20:06.13
In John 15:11.
00:20:06.17\00:20:08.34
This is Jesus,
this is Him speaking
00:20:08.37\00:20:10.44
and all these
teachings, all these concepts,
00:20:10.47\00:20:13.21
all these ideas
00:20:13.24\00:20:14.58
that He is
presenting these commands
00:20:14.61\00:20:16.21
to His disciples,
00:20:16.24\00:20:17.61
here is the
reason why He did it.
00:20:17.65\00:20:19.05
Okay.
00:20:19.08\00:20:20.42
John 15:11, "These
things have I spoken unto you.
00:20:20.45\00:20:24.35
That my joy may remain in you,
00:20:24.39\00:20:28.59
and that your
joy might be full."
00:20:28.62\00:20:32.09
Have you ever wonder
what a person looks like
00:20:32.13\00:20:33.66
when their joy is full.
00:20:33.70\00:20:35.70
Yes. They're joyful.
00:20:35.73\00:20:37.87
You know, what I'm saying?
00:20:37.90\00:20:39.23
In other words, this
is what God was doing.
00:20:39.27\00:20:41.17
So when God gives a command,
00:20:41.20\00:20:43.04
it is not that it
should be received as grievous,
00:20:43.07\00:20:45.84
but it should be understood.
00:20:45.87\00:20:47.21
God is saying, "I'm
trying to look out for you.
00:20:47.24\00:20:49.51
I'm trying to
extend mercy to you."
00:20:49.54\00:20:51.48
I mean think about it,
sexually transmitted diseases,
00:20:51.51\00:20:54.48
broken relationships,
parenting over children
00:20:54.52\00:20:57.89
that we were not
ready to be parents to
00:20:57.92\00:21:00.42
and a lot of these problems
00:21:00.46\00:21:01.79
that affect society,
affect us in urban youth,
00:21:01.82\00:21:04.46
affect us even in
the hip-hop culture,
00:21:04.49\00:21:06.26
do you know one commandment
00:21:06.29\00:21:07.63
could help protect us from that,
00:21:07.66\00:21:09.00
is called, "Thou
shalt not commit adultery."
00:21:09.03\00:21:12.10
I mean if you think about
that to a very large degree...
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Yes.
00:21:15.37\00:21:16.71
..sexually transmitted diseases
00:21:16.74\00:21:18.51
to...you know,
00:21:18.54\00:21:19.87
a lot of these
problems that we see
00:21:19.91\00:21:21.24
broken
relationships, broken homes,
00:21:21.28\00:21:22.71
the children being
born, no father, no mother,
00:21:22.74\00:21:24.65
you know, and
all this other stuff,
00:21:24.68\00:21:26.01
to a very large degree,
00:21:26.05\00:21:27.38
these things would be diminished
00:21:27.42\00:21:29.38
if we simply
kept that commandment,
00:21:29.42\00:21:31.42
"Thou shalt not
commit adultery."
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So they are our benefit.
They are for our benefit.
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It's not that God is like,
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"I'm trying to make
your life miserable.
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I want to punish you."
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That's the last
thing that's on God's mind.
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God's saying, "Look, somebody
is out to steal your joy.
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I'm giving you these commands
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because I want My
joy to remain in you
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and that your
joy would be full."
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God is terribly
interested in our happiness,
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but he understands
that happiness never comes
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when we live a rule-free life.
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You go to any country
where there's no rules
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and you see chaos.
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In the book of Judges,
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the very last verse
in the book of Judges.
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It says, "Every man did
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what was right in his own eyes."
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And when you look at
the condition of Israel,
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they were in
total absolute chaos.
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So the idea that the less
rules that I have in my life,
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the less things
that govern my life,
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supposedly makes
me a happier person
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is an absolute lie.
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Right.
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And now, in contrast,
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we're not talking
about millions of rules.
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Right.
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God has very simple principles
that are designed to follow,
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and it's kind of
like having children.
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I have children,
you have children,
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we both have many children.
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But all through
one wife. That's right.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right. Keep going.
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So little children when they're
babies, infants or toddlers,
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they begin to walk, crawl,
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the level of hazard and
danger increases, right?
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When they're little
infants, they can...
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you can sit
them down in a rocker
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or a chair or something
and they just sit there
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and all you need to do
is change them, feed them,
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you know, comfort
them once in a while,
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but they're
perfectly content, you know,
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sitting there for the most part.
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Yeah.
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But as they start moving
around and getting into things,
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now there's a whole industry
selling gates and locks and,
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you know,
protector, outlet covers
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and all these things
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because there's hazards,
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they are ignorant to many things
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and so you have to
say, "Don't touch that.
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Don't do that.
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Don't put your hand to the fire.
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Don't do this, don't do that,"
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and so there's a
lot of don't do's.
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And there's a lot of no, no,
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but it's not designed to
punish or to create misery,
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it's actually
designed to protect
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and to strengthen
and as you get older,
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I don't have to be told,
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"Hey, don't put your
hand on the hot burner,
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don't stick your
hand inside the toaster."
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You know, I don't
have to be told that.
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I know that you shouldn't do
it and if I want to be happy,
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then I'm going to keep
my hand off of the flame.
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That's right.
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So the rules, we
are not saying this,
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you know, bludgeoning
of rules and regulations,
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as you mature, the
rules become second nature.
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They become natural to you.
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So this is what
God is looking for.
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He's offering a
situation and an agreement
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as He gives us instruction,
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He gives supernatural power now
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where these
things become natural
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and we will be talking
about God's grace and His mercy
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and His love and
His righteousness,
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all these things.
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Absolutely.
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And this is why it
gets very sweet man
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because God was
really trying to protect us
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and to keep us
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so that we don't
fall into the tricks
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and the traps of the devil,
00:24:28.20\00:24:29.53
so that we can
have that happier life.
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This is in contrast to
what is taught primarily
00:24:31.67\00:24:34.70
through hip-hop culture.
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It's, "Do what you
want, do what you feel,
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you are God at
the end of the day,
00:24:38.11\00:24:39.44
so you get to call
the shots, new age,
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that's the same principle.
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I mean it's all
throughout the world,
00:24:42.74\00:24:44.31
this teaching,
"Do what you want,
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do what thou
wilt, do what you feel,"
00:24:45.71\00:24:47.32
and so on where God
says, "No, there are laws,
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there are governing
powers that I've given to men,"
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and this is why the
solution to all of these things
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is in Matthew 24:14.
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Jesus said, "And
this gospel of the kingdom
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shall be
preached in all the world
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for a witness unto all nations,
and then shall the end come."
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And you know, one of the
things that comes to an end
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when the Gospel is rightly given
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and rightly receive?
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What? Problems.
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And that's the
issue. We all have problems.
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The root cause is sin.
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God gave a
solution called The Gospel
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that can bring an
end to the problems.
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So therefore,
God brings the gospel
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because he says the
gospel brings an end to sin
00:25:26.12\00:25:27.89
and when it
brings an end to sin,
00:25:27.92\00:25:29.26
it brings an end to problems.
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And this is why
Satan is mad at the Gospel,
00:25:31.86\00:25:34.16
and he will create
anything to try to shut it down.
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And this is in the Bible.
This is in the Bible, brother.
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So we're not
talking about just abstract,
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.90
we're not just here building
and just making up stuff
00:25:41.94\00:25:44.24
as we go along,
00:25:44.27\00:25:45.61
we're not taking
books from this person
00:25:45.64\00:25:47.14
or that man or this,
this is from the Bible.
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This is a faithful
study of the scripture.
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All right.
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So we're using...
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we're using the term the Gospel.
00:25:54.62\00:25:55.95
We know that essentially,
basically in the Greek,
00:25:55.98\00:25:57.89
the word Gospel means good news,
00:25:57.92\00:25:59.52
if you will as
people say, good news,
00:25:59.55\00:26:01.29
the delivering of the good
news is the verb of that now.
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So when we talk
about the Gospel,
00:26:04.53\00:26:07.50
I believe we
have to take the time
00:26:07.53\00:26:11.80
to identify which Gospel
00:26:11.83\00:26:14.47
because there's
many gospels out there.
00:26:14.50\00:26:15.84
In fact, we were
looking at some things,
00:26:15.87\00:26:17.54
and we saw that now
00:26:17.57\00:26:18.91
there's a 600-page book
called the Gospel of Hip Hop.
00:26:18.94\00:26:21.44
That's correct.
00:26:21.48\00:26:22.81
That's authored by KRS
One for the temple of hip-hop.
00:26:22.84\00:26:25.55
So there's the
gospel of hip-hop,
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.32
there's the gospel of
this, the gospel of that,
00:26:27.35\00:26:29.55
and we have to differentiate
00:26:29.58\00:26:32.25
between just the
idea of a gospel,
00:26:32.29\00:26:34.39
the concept of gospel
and the Biblical Gospel.
00:26:34.42\00:26:37.99
That's right.
00:26:38.03\00:26:39.36
And you know, it's a hard thing
I'm sure because let's face it,
00:26:39.39\00:26:41.56
look, we are called to
love and to respect all men
00:26:41.60\00:26:47.40
whether they hold
the same religious views
00:26:47.44\00:26:49.60
that we do or not, but
all religions, all men,
00:26:49.64\00:26:56.11
all churches cannot be right.
00:26:56.14\00:26:58.85
And this is why we have to
ask because you go to them,
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.52
there's the gospel of hip-hop.
00:27:01.55\00:27:02.92
Then, there's
the gospel of this,
00:27:02.95\00:27:04.29
there is a gospel of
that, lots of gospels,
00:27:04.32\00:27:06.45
lots of good news messages,
but they have to be qualified,
00:27:06.49\00:27:10.19
and this is why you're asking
that question, which gospel?
00:27:10.23\00:27:12.29
Right.
00:27:12.33\00:27:13.66
Because we know that
Jesus spoke about a gospel
00:27:13.70\00:27:15.03
that definitely can
bring an end to problems
00:27:15.06\00:27:17.10
and an end to sin,
but the question is,
00:27:17.13\00:27:19.10
does the gospel
of hip-hop do it?
00:27:19.13\00:27:20.87
Does a gospel of this do it?
00:27:20.90\00:27:22.34
Or does the Gospel
of the other do it?
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So I think in our next session,
00:27:23.74\00:27:25.07
we are gonna have to
really build on this idea
00:27:25.11\00:27:26.47
which gospel is it
00:27:26.51\00:27:28.41
that's designed to bring the end
00:27:28.44\00:27:30.95
not only to sin
but to life's problems.
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Absolutely amazing.
00:27:33.75\00:27:35.78
We're going to see
what the Bible has to say,
00:27:35.82\00:27:37.52
which gospel are we to follow,
00:27:37.55\00:27:39.29
which Gospel are
we talking about.
00:27:39.32\00:27:41.26
We thank you for
joining us at TKS,
00:27:41.29\00:27:43.19
a True Knowledge of Self,
00:27:43.22\00:27:44.56
and we invite you to
come back, invite a friend
00:27:44.59\00:27:47.96
and remind you
Proverbs 2:6, it says,
00:27:48.00\00:27:52.63
"The Lord gives
wisdom and out of His mouth
00:27:52.67\00:27:56.37
comes knowledge
and understanding."
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God bless you and hope
you come and visit us again.
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