Hello, I'm
Dwayne. And I'm Lance.
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And we'd like to welcome
you to another episode of TKS,
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A True Knowledge of Self,
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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Now we're gonna have
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a very exciting
discussion right now.
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And we're gonna be
kind of contrasting
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true knowledge of self versus
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this idea in hip-hop
culture of knowledge of self.
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And so we're gonna kind of look
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at what we refer to as
the Great Controversy theme
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and our desperate
need to know ourselves
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as God had originally intended.
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And then, we're
gonna contrast that
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and look at this false
concept of knowledge of self
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as presented by hip-hop Culture.
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So, Dwayne, when we
think about these things
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why is knowledge of
self so important anyway?
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Well, I think the
best way to approach it
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would be to look at it
from a biblical perspective
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because that's the
emphasis of our program anyhow.
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And if you were to
consider even creation,
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when God made not only
the heavens and the earth
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but he made the angels.
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The Bible says
something very specific
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that we would do
well to consider.
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He says in Colossians 1
and this is in verse 16,
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speaking about Jesus.
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It says, "For by him
were all things created,
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that are in heaven,
and that are in earth,
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visible and invisible
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whether they be
thrones, or dominions,
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or principalities, or powers,
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all things were
created by Him, and for Him."
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So when you think about that,
angels were even made by God,
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but also for God to glorify Him,
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to honor Him, to worship Him.
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Well, the Bible makes it
clear that there was an angel
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by the name of Lucifer,
and that angel or in fact,
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he was of course,
Lucifer the Light Bearer,
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but eventually he
became known as another being.
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And Lucifer the Light Bearer
was made by God to glorify God.
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Yet, Lucifer,
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according to the
testimony of scripture,
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lost a knowledge of himself
and the reason we know that
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is because when
you get to Isaiah 14
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the Bible says something
about the condition of Lucifer,
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something that happened to him.
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And it says, in verse 12,
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"How art thou
fallen from heaven,
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O Lucifer, son of the morning!
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How art thou cut
down to the ground
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which didst weaken the nations!
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For thou hast
said in thine heart,
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I will ascend into heaven.
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I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God.
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I will sit also upon the
mount of the congregation,
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in the sides of the north.
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I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
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I will be like the most high."
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It was when Lucifer
lost a knowledge of himself,
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where his position
was, why he was created,
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his purpose in creation,
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that he actually thought
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that he could
supersede the Creator himself.
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That's right.
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He lost the
knowledge of himself,
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and as a result of
that he exalted himself.
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And the Bible
says, as a result of this
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a war started in heaven.
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Well, the problem is that
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though the war
started in heaven,
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it landed on earth,
according to Revelation 12:12.
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All right.
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So because of this fact,
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Satan has waged
war still against God,
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but he is using
humanity as the medium,
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he is using us as the
means to hurt God now.
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So when humanity
fell into the sin trap,
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then something happened to us.
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We live our live,
though, as if our DNA changed.
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And so we were created
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in the image of
God in His likeness,
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but now we were made
in the likeness of men,
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and along with that
was a sinful nature.
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All right.
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Well, the Bible speaks
about this in Jeremiah 17:9,
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and it says,
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"That the heart" talking
about the condition of man.
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"The heart is
deceitful above all things,
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and desperately
wicked, who can know it?"
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This is the true
condition of man.
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This is what
man needs right now,
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they need a true
knowledge of self
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to understand that
naturally I am wicked,
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I am antichrist,
I am against God,
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and I'm certainly not godly.
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And this is why
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a true knowledge
of self is important
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so that we can
understand we have fallen,
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we have a fallen
nature, and we need help.
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So man can't be
trusted on his own?
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He cannot be trusted on his own.
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He can't trust
anything of, in and of himself.
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So if man can't be trusted,
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then what was the
original plan in other words
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what had God originally designed
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and intended?
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That is a excellent question.
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I mean, if you go way
back to the beginning of time,
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in Genesis 1:26
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the Bible tells us very
clear God's intent and purpose
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when he made mankind.
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The Bible says, "God
made man in His image,
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and in his likeness."
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Man was called to
reflect the image of God.
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He was called to
reflect the character of God.
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And this was
supposed to be brought forth
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all throughout the planet earth
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and throughout
all of the creation
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that would come
through the earth,
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and Man was to have dominion
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over the creatures of the earth.
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So God had a beautiful
plan that was in the beginning,
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He was able to create
man to reflect his image,
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but the problem is,
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is that when man fell into sin,
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as I stated, it caused a shift.
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An example,
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if we were to look at Genesis 5,
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this is often 'cause you know,
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I remember a time
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I used to tell
people this to say,
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"Don't you know
that you were created
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in the image of God?"
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And, you know, you
say that to people,
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but if the truth be told
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we were created
in the image of God
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but something
happened in history
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that caused man to
lose much of that image.
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And as a result of that
something else took place,
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it's in Genesis 5.
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It says right
there in verses 1-3,
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"This is the book of
the generations of Adam.
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In the day that God created man,
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in the likeness
of God made he him,
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male and female created he them,
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and blessed them, and
called their name Adam,
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in the day when
they were created.
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And Adam lived 130 years.
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And begat a son
in His own likeness,
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after His image, and
called his name Seth."
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Once man fell into sin,
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it was as if a
literal DNA change took place.
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So we were no longer
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just directly
and most emphatically
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reflecting the
image and likeness of God.
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Now we're reflecting the
image and likeness of Adam
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with a fallen nature
and, therefore, we need help.
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This was not
God's original plan.
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When God made us in His image,
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He wanted us to
reflect that image.
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And in Psalms 1-4 verses 1-2,
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the Bible says
something beautiful,
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it says that
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"God covers himself with
light as with a garment."
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God actually when He made men,
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He wanted us to
be light bearers,
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He wanted us to be the ones
to spread his light of love,
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hope and righteousness,
all throughout the world,
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that was his original plan.
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So when God made
man in His image,
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if God covers
Himself with light,
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then man was also to
be covered with light.
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Right.
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Now there is a very
specific function of light.
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In Ephesians
5:13 the Bible says,
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"Whatsoever makes
manifest is light."
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In other words,
that's the purpose of light.
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Light is designed to
make something manifest,
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to make something known.
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So when God made
man in His image,
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and His likeness,
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He covered man
with the same light
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that He had upon Himself,
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and He wanted man
to reflect that light
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all throughout the
world, to make something known.
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The question is what?
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What was it that
the God wanted man
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to make known all
throughout the world?
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It's found in the
book of Micah chapter 7:9,
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in Micah 7:9 it says,
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"I will bear the
indignation of the Lord
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because I have
sinned against Him."
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And then it says,
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"And then He
will plead my cause,
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before me, and
present judgment."
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And then it goes on to tell us,
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"He will bring me
forth to the light,
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and I shall behold
his righteousness."
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Right.
Righteousness. There you go.
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So the light, the
light that God wanted
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to be emanated
throughout the world
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was none other than the
light of His righteousness.
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God covers Himself with
light as with a garment.
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God covers
Himself with righteousness
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as a garment.
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When God made man, He
covered man with light.
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He covered man
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with righteousness as a garment.
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And God wanted that
righteousness to shine
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all throughout planet earth.
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And this was God's plan
in the beginning for man.
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So God wanted to
give man what He had?
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That's right.
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Man was made in His
image, then what happened?
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I mean basically
we're in a situation
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where we looked
at Jeremiah 17:9,
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and we see, "That the heart
is deceitful above all things
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and desperately wicked."
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We see the
corruption now that we're facing
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and this deception, if you will,
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that we know
ourselves when we really don't
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because we don't
understand God original plan.
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That's right.
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So what happened, why
the change, what happened?
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Well, if you go
back to Genesis 3
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the Bible speaks on this.
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Because what you see
happening in Genesis 3,
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you can literally see
happening in our society today.
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I mean, it is
absolutely parallel.
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When God made Adam and Eve,
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you remember in
Genesis 2, actually,
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I'll go there first.
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In Genesis 2:25,
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it says
something pretty powerful.
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It says, "And
they were both naked,
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the man and his wife,
and were not ashamed".
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Now I don't know if
people understand this,
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but this is actually
a very strange statement
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when it comes to scripture.
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Because for someone to be naked
and not ashamed is not normal.
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Right.
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You know, in our
day and age today,
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you know, if you're
naked that's a shameful thing.
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And even in the Bible
when the Bible talked about
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those who are inflicted
with the disease of Laodicea,
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it says in Revelation
3:18 when it talks about
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the beautiful
natural remedies of God,
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it talks about,
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"I counsel thee to buy of
me gold tried in the fire,
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that thou mayest be
rich, and white raiment,
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that thou mayest be clothed,
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and that the
shame of thy nakedness
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do not appear."
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So shame and
nakedness normally go together.
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But here, before
sin touched this planet,
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it literally says,
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"That man was
naked and not ashamed."
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He had a covering,
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and we just found out
what the covering was.
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It was God's light.
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'Cause remember, God
covers Himself like a garment,
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man was covered with
light like a garment,
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that light was
God's righteousness,
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but when man chose to sin,
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we got to pay
attention to the text.
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All right.
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In Genesis 3, now, it
says right there in verse 6,
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"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 unto
her husband with her,
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and he did eat."
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Verse 7, is key,
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"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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So here it is that the
Bible is literally showing
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that in the beginning of time,
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man when he was in
right standing with God,
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he could be naked before God
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and not ashamed because
he has the right covering.
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It's kind of like you and I,
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we're on a
televised program right now,
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and if the truth be
told, we are both naked.
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But we're not ashamed of it
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because we have a
covering called clothing,
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the clothing
covers our nakedness
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it's the same principle.
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Adam and Eve they were naked,
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but they were not ashamed
because they had a covering,
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it was God's righteousness.
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When they fell into
sin they lost the covering,
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that's what the Bible's
saying, now the eyes are open,
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they lost the covering,
they lost God's righteousness.
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Sin can remove
God's righteousness.
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Yep.
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And as a result of
this, now Adam and Eve,
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they see their
nakedness but they do something
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that was absolutely unwise,
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and humanity
today is doing something
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that is absolutely unwise.
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Adam tried to cover himself.
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He made something called aprons.
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These aprons were
obviously insufficient
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in covering his nakedness
because even after he made it,
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and put it on,
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what does it
says in Genesis 3:10?
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It says in Genesis 3:10,
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after God was calling for Adam
and looking for him it says,
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"And he said,
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I heard thy voice in the garden,
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and I was afraid
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because I was
naked and I hid myself."
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Even when Adam and
Eve had on a new garment,
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if you will, it was
still not sufficient
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because God later on
in verse 21 of Genesis 3
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had to make a new
clothing for them.
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It says, "Unto Adam
and also to his wife
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did the Lord God
make coats of skins,
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and clothed
them" all over again.
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The apron was insufficient.
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Now if the first
garment Adam and Eve had
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was a garment of righteousness,
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then when they made
this second garment,
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that they were trying
to cover themselves with,
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this is obviously a garment
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that is demonstrative
of self-righteousness.
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Self-righteousness.
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A man trying to
cover his own nakedness
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in and of his own merits,
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and this is
something that obviously
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is unacceptable with God.
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God cannot accept it.
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And a true knowledge of
self, helps me, helps you,
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helps everyone, to understand
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in and of myself
there is nothing I can do
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or ever will do
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that can make me
righteous with God.
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Righteousness starts with God,
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righteousness is
maintained with God,
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and righteousness
finishes with God.
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So, what we're
looking at is a situation
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where true knowledge
of self the object is God?
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That's right.
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Everything originates from Him,
and everything that we have,
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comes from Him and everything
that we have, we owe to Him.
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That's right.
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Knowledge of self,
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as is presented
in hip-hop culture,
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and we're talking about that,
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you know, more later
on, in future episodes.
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But knowledge of self in
an earthly sense, is self,
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you know, we become the objects.
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That's right.
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So we become the dictators,
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we become the origins of
truth in what righteousness is.
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And it's extremely deceptive
as we looked at in the Bible.
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So now that we're
talking about this righteousness
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and what God is presenting,
what's the Bible is presenting,
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what is righteousness?
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Well, as we prepare to go
ahead and answer that question,
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I want us to consider this.
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If we would have tried to take
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these little points of scripture
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that we put together thus far,
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the plan of salvation,
that the Bible presents,
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is a plan where God
is seeking to help man
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put his clothes back on.
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All right.
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You know, if I could
put in real layman's terms,
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that this is what
God is doing right now.
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He's on a mission to help
man get his clothes back on.
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Because man started
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with the right
clothing but man, unfortunately,
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is wearing the
wrong clothing today.
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And that wrong clothing
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is what we can
simply term Adam's apron.
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Any time an individual tries
to make themselves righteous
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or in right standing with God
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because of some
deed that they do,
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or because of some
concept that they conjecture,
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or anything like that
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these are all various
forms of self-righteousness.
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I can make myself
in right standing,
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with God and man,
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independent of God,
independent of His word,
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independent of His ways.
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All of this
represents Adam's apron.
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God's plan is to get
that apron off of us,
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and to clothe us,
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He wants to re-clothe
us with His righteousness.
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So when we think about
what really is righteousness,
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it is something that
man cannot answer himself,
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God has to answer that question.
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And it requires a
spirit and mind of humility
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that one can be
able to say, "All right.
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I don't have the
answers, God has the answers,
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and it causes me to submit
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and surrender my
thoughts and my processes,
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and let God's will be done."
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Because Proverbs 14:12 tells us,
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clear as day,
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"There is a way that
seems right unto a man."
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I can take the word
right and put righteous there.
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There is a way that
seems righteous unto a man,
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but the end, thereof,
are the ways of death.
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And the Bible didn't say
it once it said it twice.
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Proverbs 14:12,
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"There is a way that
seems right unto a man,
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but the end here of
are the ways of death."
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Proverbs 16:25, "There is a
way that seems right unto a man,
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but the end there of
are the ways of death."
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God literally
had to repeat Himself
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to try to get us to understand
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I know what I'm talking
about and I mean what I say.
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So true knowledge
of self is really,
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we're really talking
about total dependence?
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That's right.
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Whereas, the self righteousness
in this worldly knowledge
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of self is really
this independence?
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That's correct.
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And so we have to be afraid
of total dependence on God,
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and all of His
ways, and all of His word,
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and all of His righteousness.
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So again we need to understand
what is righteousness is,
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so, you know, break that down.
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Absolutely.
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Now, if we go to Psalms 1:19,
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Jesus said a
statement a long time ago
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that I believe is still relevant
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to the people of God today.
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In Psalms 119:172,
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the Bible tells us clear
as day what is righteousness.
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And this is
imperative for anybody
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who really wants
true righteousness.
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But you have to have
a true knowledge of self
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to see your need
for righteousness.
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All right, So in Psalms
119:172 the Bible clearly says,
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"My tongue shall
speak of thy word,
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for all thy
commandments are righteousness."
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So when we think
about what is righteousness,
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it's not enough
to say, right doing.
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And the reason why is because
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who says what
you're doing is right.
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Exactly.
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A man can literally walk
up to another man take a gun
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and kill him and say,
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"What I did was
right, I had to do it."
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A person can go to a
store, steal food, and say,
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"I did, what I did was
right, I had to do it."
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People can rationalize
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and that's the world
we live in right now.
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People can rationalize
almost every wicked deed.
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We are living in a
time of Isaiah 5:20.
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"Woe unto those
who call good evil,
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and evil good."
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Today there's evil
things that's happening
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and people have the
nerve to call it good.
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There are things that
good things are happening,
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and people have the
nerve to call it evil.
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Our minds are
exceptionally frail,
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and again, when we have
a true knowledge of self,
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we understand
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I can't even
determine what's right or wrong.
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Right. So we
have to let God do it.
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And when God does
it through His word,
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He says, "All my commandments,
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all my
commandments are righteousness."
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So when I think of
what is righteousness,
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I can sum it up
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in God's
commandments, specifically,
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these Ten Commandments.
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This is why
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
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makes it blazingly clear,
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"Fear God and
keep His commandments
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for this is the
whole duty of man".
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So God wants to make it
clear, listen, my understanding,
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my concept of righteousness
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is encased in
these blessed principles
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that we call
the Ten Commandments
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that has been given unto man
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that is our whole
entire duty to follow.
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If we follow these principles,
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we would find ourselves
in a much better position
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than we see ourselves in today.
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So in a sense, the
commandments of the God,
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now clearly defined
as His righteousness,
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or our righteousness,
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then the commandments of God
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ultimately a
reflection of his character?
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That is correct. Think about it.
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When you go to
the Book of Romans 7,
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the Bible says in Romans
7 right there in verse 7.
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Paul makes it clear, I
like to read it, in fact.
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I think it's
important to look at it.
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Well look at Romans
7:7, and then Romans 7:12.
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Okay.
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In Romans 7:7 the Bible says,
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"What shall we say,
then? Is the law sin?
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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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And then when you go
down to verse 12 it says,
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"Wherefore the law is
holy, and the commandment holy,
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and just, and good."
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Now literally each
phase of what the Bible
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just called God's commandments
is literally in, as you said,
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a definition on
inscription of His character.
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God is just, Deuteronomy 32:4,
God is good, Matthew 19:17,
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God is just,
Deuteronomy 32 again
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and James 2 as well.
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So God is just, God
is good, God is holy.
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1 Peter, 1:15-16.
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So if God is all of these things
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or since God is all these things
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and the commandments
are all these things,
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clearly the Ten Commandments
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are therefore a
transcript of God's character,
00:19:28.26\00:19:30.87
which it was Adam
and Eve's job to bear,
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to shine, all
throughout the world.
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And so now, if
that's very clear,
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so God's character
and His commandments
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are essentially
one and the same,
00:19:43.38\00:19:45.75
and His
righteousness is essentially
00:19:45.78\00:19:48.08
one and the same.
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So if God's character is holy,
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and just, and good,
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and his commandments are
holy, and just, and good,
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then righteousness is
holy, and just, and good.
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And, therefore,
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a human being cannot produce
inherently righteousness,
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and justice, and
holiness, and goodness.
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So that's the
ultimate question is,
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can we make ourselves righteous?
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Well, the truth of
the matter is that we can.
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In fact, when you
look at Romans 3, right?
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If you look at
Romans the 3 chapter
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you will notice in the 10 verse,
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it says, "As it is written,
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there is none
righteous, no, not one."
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The Bible says, in verse
23 that "All have sinned,"
00:20:25.92\00:20:30.13
all have fallen
into unrighteousness,
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"all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God."
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And I remember this
growing up in hip-hop culture,
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I was of somebody who
was taught that I am a God.
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I was taught that
there are lots of things
00:20:41.30\00:20:42.64
that I can do that is godly
00:20:42.67\00:20:44.07
in a demonstration
of a godlike character.
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But when I compare it
00:20:46.24\00:20:47.64
to God's law
especially magnified,
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I saw incredible contradiction.
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God's law says,
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.15
"Thou shalt not
commit adultery."
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Which means be
loyal, remain faithful,
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and here it is
that in hip-hop culture
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that as I experienced it,
00:21:01.36\00:21:02.76
I was told that
having sex with somebody
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that's not my wife
is perfectly all right.
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In fact, that's demonstrated
in hip-hop culture today.
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The biggest names in
hip-hop today all of them,
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advocate fornication,
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1 Thessalonians 4:3
is a clear text it says,
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very clearly,
"This is the will of God,
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even your sanctification
00:21:19.54\00:21:21.14
that you might
flee fornication."
00:21:21.18\00:21:23.35
But yet in hip-hop
culture it is often made known
00:21:23.38\00:21:25.95
that it's all
right to fornicate.
00:21:25.98\00:21:27.32
You don't have to be
married to one person
00:21:27.35\00:21:29.32
and commit your life
to them all your life,
00:21:29.35\00:21:31.12
etcetera, you can go ahead
00:21:31.15\00:21:32.85
and as long as you care
about the person and don't...
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Once you can make up
00:21:35.19\00:21:36.52
your own rules,
and close the book,
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then we're like the
people in the Book of Judges,
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everybody does what's
right in their own eyes,
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but the problem
00:21:44.43\00:21:45.77
is there's not a
true knowledge of self.
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Our hearts are deceitful,
we can't trust ourselves,
00:21:47.50\00:21:49.97
we are bent on making
00:21:50.01\00:21:51.34
the wrong decisions
over, and over, and over again,
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and I believe almost anyone
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that takes a faithful
look at their own lives
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can see the truth of the
Bible in their own reality.
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Making decisions you
look back at it and you say,
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"Man, I wish, I
never made that decision,
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I really deceived myself."
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But the Bible already told
us that a true knowledge of self
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helps me see how messed up I am,
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that I can go to
someone who's not missed up,
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that he can clean me up.
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Right.
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But if I'm stuck
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in the "Knowledge
of self that I am God,
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and I am the supreme
being and I'm the one
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that has the knowledge wisdom
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and the so-called overstanding",
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then I'm not
gonna go ahead and go to
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this one and only God,
and submit myself to him,
00:22:26.07\00:22:28.91
and let not my will,
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but His be done even if it means
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I must be faithful unto death.
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I'm not gonna let those
things be a reality for them.
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So this is the
deception of knowledge of self
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in comparison to the
reality and the truth
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of true knowledge of self.
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So we can't get
our own righteousness,
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we need to get it
from God, so the question,
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the next question
is, "How do we get it?"
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How do we get it?
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Well, let's
consider what the Bible says.
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If we were to look
right back at Romans 3,
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just consider verse 22,
I think it's very clear.
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In Romans the 3:22,
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how then do we
get righteousness,
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considering that we need it,
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it was God's
original plan we fell from it,
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we've tried to
establish our own,
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we have failed miserably.
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And now we are at a
point, where we're seeing,
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"Lord, okay, how then do I
get what you want me to get?"
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The Bible says, in Romans 3:22,
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"Even the righteousness of God
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which is by faith of
Jesus Christ unto all
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and upon all them that believe,
for there is no difference."
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So the Bible makes it clear
that righteousness can come
00:23:33.07\00:23:35.91
to a man today,
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but it can only come by faith,
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and it has to come by
faith of Jesus Christ.
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This is why
Christianity is the solution.
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We know that
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they are
perversions to Christianity.
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I mean, I'm a black
man and there are people
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who literally will
say that there are things
00:23:49.79\00:23:51.29
that are "Black"
00:23:51.33\00:23:52.96
that I can look back, and say,
excuse me, I'm not like that.
00:23:52.99\00:23:55.70
You know, there are things
that we are told a way a person
00:23:55.73\00:23:58.10
talks, dresses,
acts, and they'll say,
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.04
"Oh, he's
talking, or addressing,
00:24:00.07\00:24:01.40
or acting like a black man."
00:24:01.44\00:24:02.77
I'm like, "Excuse
me, I'm a black man,
00:24:02.80\00:24:04.14
and I don't talk,
dress, or act like that"
00:24:04.17\00:24:05.51
so I find that
to be disrespectful,
00:24:05.54\00:24:07.01
in fact insulting.
00:24:07.04\00:24:08.38
Well, there's a
lot of disrespect
00:24:08.41\00:24:09.74
and insult
given to Christianity.
00:24:09.78\00:24:11.58
You often hear the story,
00:24:11.61\00:24:12.95
even told many a
times to hip-hop culture,
00:24:12.98\00:24:15.62
it was the Christians
00:24:15.65\00:24:16.99
that enslaved the
Africans, and etcetera.
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.65
I can guarantee you
00:24:18.69\00:24:20.02
those people
were not Christians.
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.52
You know, they
were putting up a front
00:24:21.56\00:24:22.89
they were a bunch of actors.
00:24:22.92\00:24:24.26
But they were not Christians.
00:24:24.29\00:24:25.63
True biblical
Christianity is the solution
00:24:25.66\00:24:29.36
on how mankind can
receive righteousness,
00:24:29.40\00:24:32.57
but it's only
gonna come by faith
00:24:32.60\00:24:34.77
in that man, name Jesus Christ.
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All right, so essentially
00:24:37.07\00:24:39.11
we're kind of unwrapping
some deeper layers here.
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Essentially then the gospel
00:24:43.38\00:24:45.98
or Jesus Christ
is the central theme,
00:24:46.01\00:24:49.02
this idea of salvation
00:24:49.05\00:24:50.39
is the central
theme of the Bible,
00:24:50.42\00:24:52.29
or the central
theme of everything?
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That's correct.
00:24:53.69\00:24:55.02
I love a statement that I
read in the book Education.
00:24:55.06\00:24:56.89
In the book
Education it was on page 125
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that it made a
very profound statement.
00:24:59.83\00:25:01.16
I'm gonna read it. Okay.
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It states, "The
central theme of the Bible,
00:25:02.56\00:25:06.57
the theme about
which every other
00:25:06.60\00:25:09.10
in the whole book
clusters is the redemption plan,
00:25:09.14\00:25:13.04
the restoration
in the human soul
00:25:13.07\00:25:15.18
of the image of God.
00:25:15.21\00:25:16.64
From the first
intimation of hope
00:25:16.68\00:25:18.41
in the sentence
pronounced in Eden
00:25:18.45\00:25:20.12
to that last glorious
promise of the Revelation,
00:25:20.15\00:25:23.02
they shall see His face,
00:25:23.05\00:25:24.49
and His name shall
be in their foreheads,
00:25:24.52\00:25:26.49
the burden of every book
and every passage of the Bible
00:25:26.52\00:25:30.16
is the unfolding of
this wondrous theme.
00:25:30.19\00:25:33.23
Man's uplifting,
the power of God,
00:25:33.26\00:25:35.96
which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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So this is the
theme of the Bible.
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This is the
emphasis of scripture.
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This is why our Lord
Jesus has admonished us,
00:25:45.27\00:25:48.34
don't live by bread
alone but live by every word
00:25:48.38\00:25:52.45
that proceeds out
of the mouth of God.
00:25:52.48\00:25:55.25
So since this is the goal,
00:25:55.28\00:25:59.12
it was imperative
00:25:59.15\00:26:00.66
that God would
then create a lifestyle,
00:26:00.69\00:26:04.09
a way to live so that we aren't
simply left with all of these,
00:26:04.13\00:26:08.66
you know, precious
truths in this reality
00:26:08.70\00:26:10.93
that's presented to us,
00:26:10.97\00:26:12.30
and then all the sudden
we just got to figure it out.
00:26:12.33\00:26:14.14
You know, how do
we walk, talk, eat,
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.17
dress because
it is important so,
00:26:16.20\00:26:17.74
you know, by definition
when we talk about culture,
00:26:17.77\00:26:20.31
it's
essentially how humans live.
00:26:20.34\00:26:23.04
That's right.
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.41
You know, everything that
they do is part of culture,
00:26:24.45\00:26:27.08
so God is going to
then give a culture.
00:26:27.12\00:26:31.69
He's not going to
just leave us cultureless.
00:26:31.72\00:26:34.72
That's right.
00:26:34.76\00:26:36.09
So we're not
coming into a situation
00:26:36.12\00:26:37.46
where we're saying,
00:26:37.49\00:26:38.86
culture is not important,
00:26:38.89\00:26:40.23
culture is essential
and it's vitally important,
00:26:40.26\00:26:42.56
but culture is
dictated and it's a reality
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.87
that was given
us by God himself.
00:26:44.90\00:26:46.94
That's correct.
00:26:46.97\00:26:48.30
So we're gonna be talking about
this culture of Christianity,
00:26:48.34\00:26:51.77
and we're gonna
be moving forward
00:26:51.81\00:26:53.14
and contrasting that
with the hip-hop culture.
00:26:53.17\00:26:55.31
That's right.
00:26:55.34\00:26:56.68
Because we have to realize,
and we have to understand that,
00:26:56.71\00:27:01.12
just because it's
rich, and it's cultured,
00:27:01.15\00:27:04.55
and it's powerful,
and it affects people,
00:27:04.59\00:27:06.52
and it changes lives,
doesn't mean it's right.
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.86
That's right.
00:27:08.89\00:27:10.23
And that's what we have
to be able to differentiate.
00:27:10.26\00:27:12.33
God has given a superior culture
00:27:12.36\00:27:14.43
and we have to acknowledge that.
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.93
So when we come
back in our next episode,
00:27:16.97\00:27:19.73
we're gonna be talking about
00:27:19.77\00:27:21.10
more of this
knowledge of self versus
00:27:21.14\00:27:22.47
true knowledge of self.
00:27:22.50\00:27:23.84
We're going to
look at hip-hop culture
00:27:23.87\00:27:25.21
because myself
and Dwayne came up
00:27:25.24\00:27:27.51
in hip-hop culture,
00:27:27.54\00:27:28.88
we valued it we thought it
was the most important thing
00:27:28.91\00:27:31.31
on the planet to
represent, and to demonstrate,
00:27:31.35\00:27:34.32
and to exemplify.
00:27:34.35\00:27:35.68
And we're gonna talk about that.
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.05
So I want to
encourage you to join us again
00:27:38.09\00:27:40.62
in our next episode,
00:27:40.66\00:27:42.16
and I also want
you to always remember,
00:27:42.19\00:27:44.56
as it is written in
Proverbs Chapter 2:6,
00:27:44.59\00:27:48.43
"It is the Lord
that gives wisdom
00:27:48.46\00:27:51.47
and out of His mouth comes
knowledge and understanding."
00:27:51.50\00:27:55.34
I can't wait to see you again.
00:27:55.37\00:27:56.94
And as we continue next time,
we want you to be enriched,
00:27:56.97\00:28:01.74
and obtain a true
knowledge of self.
00:28:01.78\00:28:05.58