Did you know that
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you could study the Bible in 5D?
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Stay tuned to find
out about a unique system
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that you can
implement that will help you
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see the Bible like never before.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is
Pastor Ivor Myers,
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Speaker and Director of
Power of the Lamb Ministries
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and he is also the co-host
of Dare to Dream Networks,
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Salvation in Symbols and Signs.
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Welcome to Urban
Report, Pastor Myers.
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Thank you, Jason.
Thanks for having me.
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I'm looking forward
to this program today.
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I think we had a good
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study in our last session.
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And I know we're continuing on
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so I'm looking forward to
start getting deep into it.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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And, you know, you've
taken it five dimensions deep.
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I mean, you with
this photo theology thing,
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we're going
five dimensions deep.
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So, you know, for our viewers
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that haven't seen part one,
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why don't you
give us a little recap
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of what photo theology is,
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and then also touch
on the five dimensions?
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Okay, so basically,
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photo theology is a term
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that I've coined, and
that term is the phrase
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that I use to describe
my method of Bible study.
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Photo theology is
the art of studying
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the Bible through
the use of images.
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We've all heard
that seeing a picture
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is worth 1000 words.
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So I take that philosophy
and apply it to the scriptures.
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So I'm basically
teaching my students
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how to see the
Bible in pictures.
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And then how to
take these pictures
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and learn to create storylines
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with the different pictures,
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do different things
with the different images
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and I found is that
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it just 10xes
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your ability to
understand scripture.
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Kids are using it,
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people who have been
studying for years, you know,
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from whether
they're young or old.
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Using this system,
they're beginning to see
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and get so much more
out of their Bible study.
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And so that's what
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we're going to be
talking about today.
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That is a bird's
eye view or I should say
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a nutshell description
of what photo theology is.
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Got you.
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So now when you say
you teach your students
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to draw other like pictures
from the stories, how do you?
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Do you mean like you
help them to see parallels?
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So like, give us an example
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of some
parallels that you can see?
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So the idea and we
talked a little bit
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about this in the last program.
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Before I do that,
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let me give a
little bit of foundation.
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So we were talking about
the photo theology palace.
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And remember that we
discussed this, you know,
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this imaginary palace
that has 24 different rooms,
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right, six floors, 24 rooms.
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Each room is a
different principle
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in photo theology.
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So one of the
rooms that we discussed
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on our last program
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was the concentration
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which is one of
the foundational rules
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or principles when it
comes to photo theology.
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It is the art of taking images
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or pictures and
looking for a match,
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looking for the comparison
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with Christ in particular.
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So I don't know if I shared this
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or not in the last
program, we talked about Waldo.
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Or I'll often share that
analogy of those little books,
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Waldo, Finding Waldo.
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You know, in those books,
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the object is to find
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Waldo on every page of the book.
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Right, no matter how much detail
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is on the page, you know,
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Waldo is somewhere on the page.
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And so photo theology
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approaches the Bible
with that idea in mind
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that Christ is on
every page of the scriptures.
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So when you begin
to look at stories
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with that idea of
where is Christ, right?
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With that concept of
where is Christ in the story,
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where is He in the text?
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Where is He in the parable?
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That's when things
begin to jump off the page.
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So one example
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that I would give is the story
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of Elijah and Elisha.
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Okay, I do not know
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if I shared this on
the last program or not.
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But Elijah
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came before Elisha.
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Elijah, there is a
transition of power
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from Elijah to
Elisha after Jordan.
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Elijah is then
taken off the scene
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and the disciples of Elijah
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go on to follow Elisha.
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Elisha has a double portion
of the power that Elijah had.
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I think I see where
you're going with this.
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Okay.
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And Elijah...
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Elisha's first miracle
after crossing the Jordan,
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was he provided what,
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he provided
drink for the thirsty.
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All right, so you just said,
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"I think I see
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where you're
going with this," right?
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For those that are listening,
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you may be, in your
minds right now like,
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wait, what?
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And that's probably
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because as I was
giving you that picture,
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you started playing the
concentration game, right?
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We described
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in the last
program concentration game.
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We have all the
cards facing down.
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There was a card game I
played when I was little.
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I have all the
cards put facing down.
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And the objective is
to find matching cards.
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You have to remember
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where you saw the matching card,
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and when you find it, you know,
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that's a point
or that's a victory,
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whatever it, you
have them describe it.
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This is the same thing.
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When I describe this
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many of you
perhaps began to think,
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wait a minute, that reminds me
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of Jesus and John the Baptist.
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Why?
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Because there's a
transition of power
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from John the Baptist
to Jesus at the Jordan.
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After that transition of power,
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John the Baptist
is taken off the scene
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and Jesus continues on.
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Just as Elisha was
more powerful than Elijah.
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So John the Baptist said,
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"I must decrease
and He must increase."
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The disciples
of John the Baptist
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go on to follow Jesus.
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And Jesus' first miracle
after crossing the Jordan,
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is He turns water to wine.
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So basically,
all we did just now
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was we just studied
the Bible using images,
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using pictures and stories
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that most everyone
who's ever studied the Bible
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is already familiar with.
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We just played a matching game.
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And now we're like,
"Wait a minute, what?"
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Yes. Yes.
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That excitement begins...
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The story jumps off the page,
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because you're studying
it not just through words,
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I'm not saying we
do away with words,
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but what's
happening that you're bringing
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a visual element to the stories.
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And when you do that,
things suddenly come to light.
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Yeah, just jumps
off the page at you.
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So touch on the five dimensions,
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because I remember you
telling us that, you know,
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we study in 2D as opposed to 5D.
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Right.
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So to recap about
this five dimension...
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By the way, the 5D room is short
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for five
dimensions is one of the rooms
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in the photo theology palace.
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And basically
what that principle
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does is it allows us
to see the scriptures
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in five dimensions,
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those five
dimensions are in order,
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the literal dimension,
and then the Christ dimension,
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and then the me dimension,
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and then the church dimension,
and then the heaven dimension.
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So the question you
would ask in each dimension is,
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how does this relate,
you know, what am I studying?
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What is the text
saying, literally?
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That's the literal dimension.
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Then where is Jesus
in the text or story?
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That's the second dimension.
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Then how does it relate to me?
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That's the third dimension.
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How does it
relate to the church?
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The fourth dimension.
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How does it relate to
heaven? Fifth dimension.
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So I think last week we
talked about the sanctuary.
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And how in each, you
know, there's literal sanctuary,
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then Christ Himself as
a temple is a sanctuary.
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Destroy this temple, I
will raise in three days.
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Then I am a
temple, then as a church
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we are the temple
of body of Christ,
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and then there's a
heavenly sanctuary.
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We can do that
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for different
things in the scriptures,
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we can do it for the priesthood.
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In the Old Testament there
was a literal priesthood, right?
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That's the literal dimension.
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And the second dimension,
Christ is our high priest.
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In the third dimension
I am called to be a priest
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and maybe the
priests of my own household.
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In the fourth dimension,
we are a royal priesthood.
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And the fifth dimension
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we will be kings
and priests with Him
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for thousand
years in heaven, right?
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So basically, you're
learning to see one text
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in five different dimensions,
one verse, one story,
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five different dimensions.
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This opens up, right,
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the way that you
study the scriptures
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because as I said,
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most people study the
Bible in two dimensions.
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That's the literal and
then how does it relate to me?
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I know, Jason, we also
talked about the question room
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when we were talking
about asking the text questions.
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I don't know if I mentioned this
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when we talked last
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but we talked
about the challenge of,
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you know, opening
or asking questions,
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as many questions as
you can with the text,
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50 questions, or 100 questions.
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And then again, I don't remember
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if we'd discuss this,
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but we did that first and then
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what I what I
want to demonstrate
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is that when most people,
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when I need my students
to ask the text questions,
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this is before we
do the dimensions room.
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So when they get like 50 or
100 questions from the text,
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and then I introduce
them to the dimensions room,
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and I'm like "Now,
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you were only asking
questions in one dimension."
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Wow!
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That's when
their mind opens. Yeah.
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And that's 50 to 100 questions
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and in only one dimension
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but yet there's five dimensions.
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And there's five dimensions.
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So the reason that
I try to encourage my,
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you know, my students
ask the text questions,
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because what happens is,
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when you ask the text questions,
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you begin to think
about things about that text
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that you maybe
would never have thought
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about before, right?
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So our goal in the question room
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is to learn how to
become good detectives,
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asking questions that
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other people
didn't even think about.
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Yes.
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And when you
ask those questions,
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they tend to lead
you on thought patterns
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where you're like,
"Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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I never thought
about that before.
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Well, if this
happened because of this,
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then oh, oh,"
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and that's when you
get those ah-ah moments.
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Got you.
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So we actually
have several graphics
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that we didn't have a
chance to get through last time.
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Why don't you kind of touch on
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what the importance
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or significance
of these graphics?
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Okay.
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So one of the
rooms we talked about,
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and this room was
on the ground floor.
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We talked about the 24
frames per second room,
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we talked about the importance
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of memorizing the
themes of each chapter,
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because that's how
you're going to populate,
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if you will, or furnish
your photo theology palace.
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The more pictures
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you have in your
photo theology palace,
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the more effective
your Bible study becomes.
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So we basically created
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this method of memorizing
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the different
themes of the chapters.
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So the picture
you were just sharing
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is picture of planet
earth with a 1 on top of it.
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And that picture,
when you see that picture,
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the idea is to remember that
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that is what is
found in Genesis Chapter 1,
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the creation of the earth.
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And so when we see that
image of creation of the earth
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and we see the
earth with a big 1 on it.
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We're always gonna remember
Genesis Chapter 1, creation.
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That's supposed to be
locked into our minds.
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Yeah.
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All right, what
is the next picture?
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Let's put the next one up.
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That's the Genesis Chapter 1.
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Let's put the...
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Yeah, there we go.
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So that looks to me,
I'm picturing Adam and Eve.
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Okay.
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That image I can't...
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For some reason I
can't see it on my screen,
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but I'll... There we go.
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So here you have a
picture of Adam and Eve.
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Now I'm going to show you
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something that you did
not notice in this picture.
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So look at Eve's
hair, what do you see?
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You said Eve's hair? Yes.
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It seems... What it did tell us?
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Oh, number two. Very good.
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So I'm going to
always remember that
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when I think about
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the Eve's hair
in the shape of a 2,
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I'm always gonna remember,
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yeah, that's Genesis Chapter 2,
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that's where we
focus in on Adam and Eve.
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Wow! Right.
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You're using memory devices,
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using images to help you
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remember the
theme of each chapter,
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right, so the next one.
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All right.
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We'll put the
next picture up here.
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Okay, so there
you see the serpent
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and you will notice
that the serpent looks like
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he's in the shape of a 3.
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You also see that
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the tree looks like
it's in the shape of a 3.
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So I'm connecting the serpent
and the tree with the number 3
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to always remember
when I get to Genesis 3,
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that's the story of the tree,
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that's the story of the serpent.
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When I do this,
what begins to happen is
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I'm now depending
on these images, right,
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to wake up my memory.
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So now I'm
thinking planet earth,
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I'm thinking Eve's hair,
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I'm thinking the
tree in the shape of a 3
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and I begin to be
able to go move rapidly
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through these
chapters going "Yeah,
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Genesis 1, creation, Genesis
2, Adam and Eve, Genesis 3,
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that's the tree, Genesis 4,
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the picture that you
see on your screen now
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is the story of
Cain killing his brother.
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I see blood on the rock,
the blood is in the shape of 4.
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I'm going to always remember
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whenever I see
that image in my mind,
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I'm gonna remember that
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Genesis Chapter 4 is the
story of Cain killing Abel.
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Wow.
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And we have two more pictures.
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All right, so this
is Genesis Chapter what?
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Is that 6? Should
be obvious right there.
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That's 6, the 6
has been tripped on
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its side to be in
the shape of a boat.
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I'm always gonna remember
when I see that 6 mentally,
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that that is a story
of Noah building the ark.
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Yes. Yes.
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And our sixth picture. Okay.
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Now what is this? Now this is...
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Yeah, this is
Genesis Chapter 17.
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Okay.
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And Genesis Chapter 17,
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the 17 is in the
shape of a scissor.
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This is a painful chapter.
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This is where
Abraham is circumcised.
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Oh, yeah, that is
a painful chapter.
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That's right.
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You will never forget
that Genesis 17 is a chapter
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that Abraham is circumcised
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because we see the 1
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and the 7 in the
shape of a pair of scissors.
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That will remind me "Oh,
yeah, that's a painful chapter."
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Like, think about
it, feel the pain, right?
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Like, everything that you can,
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when we're talking
about these chapters
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you want to bring every sense
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you possibly can into it, right?
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So when you're talking about
Cain or the tree in Genesis 3,
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think of the taste of the fruit.
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Think of every...
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employ every sense
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to make that image
stick in your mind.
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So the reason
that we're doing this,
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Jason, is because again,
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we're training our minds
how to think in pictures.
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Got you. Got
you, photo theology.
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Now okay, I know some people
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have seen you preach
and all of that stuff,
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and they have to be wondering,
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how do you prepare your sermons?
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Yeah.
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So this is, to me,
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this is a huge
advantage to photo theology.
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Let me address another
issue here while we're at this.
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So one of the
problems that I hear most often
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when people say, you know,
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"Hey, this is my struggle
00:19:55.69\00:19:57.06
with Bible study
is the issue of time."
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Okay.
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"I don't have
time to Bible study."
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Right?
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I don't know if you
run into that issue, Jason.
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"We're so busy.
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We don't have time to study"
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and that is, you
know, a huge component.
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So photo theology
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totally destroys that.
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I'm not gonna say an excuse,
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but it moves
that out of the way.
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It answers that problem.
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I'm gonna say it that way
because it's a genuine problem.
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People are busy,
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they got a lot
of things going on,
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things, da-da-da.
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Right?
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Photo theology
answers the problem.
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Why?
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Because when I have Genesis 6
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and Genesis 5, and Genesis 4,
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and Genesis 3, and Genesis 17,
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when I have those stories
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locked in my mind,
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I can now do
Bible study in my mind
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while I'm driving,
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while I'm doing the dishes,
while I'm out exercising,
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my Bible study is
no longer limited to,
00:21:12.13\00:21:15.60
"Okay, it is
now time to sit down
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and open my Bible so
that I can Bible study."
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I got you. Do you
catch what I'm saying?
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Wow.
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You have just 10x once again,
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your Bible study time.
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If I have all the stories
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of Revelation in my mind.
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Like, I'll give you an example.
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Right now if I
want to do a study
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on the seven
churches and the seven seals,
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I typically will not
have to go to my Bible
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and open it up and say,
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"Okay, it is time for me
to study the seven churches."
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Because I have it
here, my Bible study is here.
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Wow! See, that's huge.
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That is stored. Yeah.
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So when it comes time for
me to put together my sermon,
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it's pretty much
already happened here.
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When I go to the Bible,
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all I'm doing now is
I'm finding the verses
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that were already right here.
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Got you.
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I'm putting together storyline
00:22:28.34\00:22:30.45
that was already
put together right here.
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Yes, yes. Right.
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That's your...
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because we're memorizing verses,
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a lot of people, "Oh, man,
00:22:40.72\00:22:42.26
I got to
memories the whole Bible.
00:22:42.29\00:22:43.83
Yeah, my memory is not...
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I can't, you know,
that's never gonna happen."
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All right, let's translate
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those verses into images.
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"Oh, okay, yeah,
yeah, I could do that."
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Let's put that in
your photo theology palace.
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Wow. Right.
00:22:59.01\00:23:00.74
So in a sense,
I'm showing people
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you do have a
photographic memory.
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Yeah.
00:23:06.51\00:23:07.85
And see, that's huge
with that Bible study,
00:23:07.88\00:23:10.29
like in your mind,
because you can be on the go,
00:23:10.32\00:23:13.22
it doesn't matter where you are,
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.76
you can be studying
the Word in your mind.
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And when there comes a time
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where we don't have access
to our Bibles, you know...
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Absolutely.
00:23:22.96\00:23:24.30
That will come, it'll be
that much more incredible
00:23:24.33\00:23:29.84
during that time as
well and needed as well.
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Absolutely. So...
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So that kind of brings up...
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Now, what are you
gonna say? Go ahead.
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That kind of brings up what?
00:23:38.65\00:23:40.85
I was gonna say that
that what I just talked about,
00:23:40.88\00:23:44.62
kind of brings us
into another room,
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.49
which I don't
think we talked about
00:23:46.52\00:23:48.86
in our last program,
which was the freestyle room.
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Oh, biblical free
styling. Biblical free styling.
00:23:50.73\00:23:56.06
So there are two
different freestyle routes.
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There is the biblical freestyle,
00:23:58.87\00:24:01.10
and there's the
nature freestyle.
00:24:01.14\00:24:04.17
So let me talk about
the nature freestyle.
00:24:04.21\00:24:07.04
That's what I want to
focus on today, and it's this.
00:24:07.08\00:24:11.28
I believe Jesus was
a master freestyler.
00:24:11.31\00:24:15.28
Now when I say
the word freestyle
00:24:15.32\00:24:17.85
or the term freestyle,
in the hip hop industry,
00:24:17.89\00:24:20.96
this is what we would do,
00:24:20.99\00:24:22.66
we would often freestyle
00:24:22.69\00:24:25.26
and what that meant was,
00:24:25.29\00:24:27.13
you had to come up
spontaneously with a runner.
00:24:27.16\00:24:31.53
Okay?
00:24:31.57\00:24:32.90
It was the art of
spontaneous rhyming.
00:24:32.93\00:24:37.01
So in a biblical sense,
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.54
the reason I'm using that term
in a biblical sense is this.
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Jesus, I believe Jesus,
00:24:43.88\00:24:47.08
He didn't pre plan
a lot of the things
00:24:47.12\00:24:49.08
He was going to say, right?
00:24:49.12\00:24:51.49
He wasn't taking notes like,
00:24:51.52\00:24:52.85
"Oh, yeah, consider
the lilies of the field."
00:24:52.89\00:24:55.16
I think he was
in the field, right,
00:24:55.19\00:24:58.36
talking to the people
00:24:58.39\00:24:59.73
and He looked at
the lilies and be like,
00:24:59.76\00:25:02.96
"Consider the
lilies of the field."
00:25:03.00\00:25:04.33
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
00:25:04.37\00:25:06.74
Jesus...
00:25:06.77\00:25:08.50
The sheep and the goats, right?
00:25:08.54\00:25:10.37
He spontaneously
would take object lessons
00:25:10.41\00:25:15.31
from nature
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.05
and make it
applicable to the gospel.
00:25:17.08\00:25:18.41
Yeah.
00:25:18.45\00:25:19.78
And he tailored it to the people
00:25:19.81\00:25:21.15
He was speaking to.
00:25:21.18\00:25:22.68
Absolutely.
00:25:22.72\00:25:25.72
So one of the things I
encourage my students to do
00:25:25.75\00:25:28.56
in the freestyle room is this,
00:25:28.59\00:25:30.76
I want you when
you're driving to work,
00:25:30.79\00:25:34.83
I need you to start
thinking about object lessons
00:25:34.86\00:25:38.13
regarding driving to work.
00:25:38.17\00:25:41.34
Right?
00:25:41.37\00:25:42.70
When you're on the road driving,
00:25:42.74\00:25:44.41
I want you to think
about object lessons.
00:25:44.44\00:25:46.27
"Okay.
00:25:46.31\00:25:48.28
We are all on the road of life."
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.11
Yes, that's right.
You're on the road of life.
00:25:50.15\00:25:52.75
And, you know, we
need to be careful
00:25:52.78\00:25:55.58
of what exit we
get off because we...
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.72
Yes, yes.
00:25:57.75\00:25:59.09
And you start
making analogies, right?
00:25:59.12\00:26:02.89
Of the very thing you're
doing in real life right there.
00:26:02.92\00:26:05.69
Yeah.
00:26:05.73\00:26:07.96
So what this does
is it enables you,
00:26:08.00\00:26:11.00
if you're
cleaning out your garage,
00:26:11.03\00:26:13.70
I want you to think
of object lessons about
00:26:13.74\00:26:17.14
cleaning out your garage.
00:26:17.17\00:26:18.51
Wow, so there's a
sermon in everything.
00:26:18.54\00:26:19.87
If you're doing dishing,
00:26:19.91\00:26:22.64
there's a sermon
in everything, right?
00:26:22.68\00:26:24.15
Yes.
00:26:24.18\00:26:25.55
We've got about one
and a half minute left,
00:26:25.58\00:26:27.35
I know you can't see the clock,
00:26:27.38\00:26:28.72
but I want you to know,
we got a minute and a half.
00:26:28.75\00:26:30.35
And I want people to know
how to access this course.
00:26:30.39\00:26:35.79
So where can they
go to get this course?
00:26:35.82\00:26:40.66
It's powerofthelamb.com,
that's my website.
00:26:40.70\00:26:45.03
That's the easiest place to
go and look up photo theology.
00:26:45.07\00:26:49.07
And you'll see how you
can get access to the course
00:26:49.10\00:26:51.37
and I can't believe we
just spent half an hour.
00:26:51.41\00:26:52.77
That's crazy.
00:26:52.81\00:26:54.14
I know it just flies by,
I mean, there is so much.
00:26:54.18\00:26:57.91
What I love too
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.28
is how you're
able to juice it down,
00:26:59.31\00:27:01.98
see it in pictures,
and study on the go.
00:27:02.02\00:27:07.66
Yeah. That's
right. That is incredible.
00:27:07.69\00:27:09.32
What would you say to that
00:27:09.36\00:27:11.26
individual that has
never given Jesus a chance?
00:27:11.29\00:27:14.13
We've got about
maybe 30 seconds.
00:27:14.16\00:27:18.50
I would say that
for me personally,
00:27:18.53\00:27:22.40
the best thing that
00:27:22.44\00:27:23.97
I ever did was to
give Jesus a chance,
00:27:24.01\00:27:26.27
He changed my life.
00:27:26.31\00:27:29.34
There is nothing that
00:27:29.38\00:27:30.71
I regret about
giving Him that chance.
00:27:30.75\00:27:33.01
And so I would encourage
you to do the same thing.
00:27:33.05\00:27:37.89
I think there
is nothing to lose,
00:27:37.92\00:27:40.06
you have nothing to lose.
00:27:40.09\00:27:41.76
I think if you
give Jesus a chance,
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allow Him to
come into your heart.
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You will see what a
blessing it is to live
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with a blessed hope
residing in your heart.
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Amen. Amen.
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Yeah, I've seen a
little bit of your testimony
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and how He's
transformed your life
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and that's truly a blessing.
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I want to thank
you for joining us
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here on Urban Report.
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And I want to
thank you for tuning in.
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Well, we've reached
the end of another program.
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Join us next time and remember,
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it just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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