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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseboro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

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This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

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So scripture describes false teachers as those who are empty talkers.

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They are waterless springs. They are waterless rain clouds. This is how scripture describes them.

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I have found, well I'm stumbling over myself here, I have found an example of waterless rain cloudage, of waterless springage, of empty talkage that is just mind -boggling.

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It's from one of the demon slayers, Vlad Savchuk, one of the heir apparents to the throne of Benny Hinn.

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It's just a complete mess, and all I can say is maybe grab a prophecy bingo card?

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It may be helpful, but we'll do a little bit of biblical study along the way, but this is going to be a big nothing burger.

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I mean absolute, just word salad nothing burger. An egregious example of narcissistic egregious.

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That's when you read yourself into biblical text. We'll try to untwist this, but I don't have a lot of hope on this one, because he doesn't say anything except for all of these prophecy buzzword bingo statements.

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You'll see what I'm saying here in a second. So let's whirl up the desktop, and let's see here.

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Here's my web browser. You're not ready for this. I don't even know if I'm ready for it.

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The name of the message is 10 steps to thrive in your season of shift. Are you ready for a nothing burger?

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Here we go. I'll share with you about a season shift. A season shift is 10 things that I want to share with you about a shift of seasons.

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Now one of the things that I have is a message that I actually, this is not the first time

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I've shared this, okay? I share with you. You've shared this more than once. Are you ready for a season shift?

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I mean right now it's summer in North America, presently as I'm recording this, and here in in North Dakota where I live, it's been a pretty mild summer overall to be honest with you, but in about a month, maybe a little more, we'll experience the beginnings of the season shift.

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It'll start to get noticeably cooler here in North Dakota, and that's because we live in American Siberia, at least my wife and I do, and living in American Siberia means well, you know, we're gonna have to start putting on sweaters and things.

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I'm ready, you know, and then we got to start getting the house ready for winter and get the camper ready.

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You know, we got to winterize it and stuff. So yeah, I'm ready for the season shift. It may be five or six weeks away, but I'm ready.

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I'm there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not what he's talking about, is it?

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No, none of this makes any biblical sense either, but let's keep going. ...different ways in different places, but this has become really one of my core teachings that I've been sharing.

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This is a core teaching? You're not saying anything, and we'll see that as you go along, but we'll keep going.

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Right now, we are in a very unique season where a lot of people are going through different shifts and seasons, but I think it's...

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So we're in a different season where a lot of people are going through different shifts and seasons.

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You know, if you drive a car with, you know, manual transmission, I would say you go through a lot of shifts every day when you drive.

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Yeah, I'll be here all week. ...only right now. It's always happening with somebody, and so I want to share with you those 10 shifts or 10 things that you need to keep in mind about a

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I do believe God... 10 whole things

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I've got to keep in mind during season shifts. What?

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Oh, I might need to take notes. No, don't worry. You don't even need to take notes.

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This is just gonna be stupid. Let's keep going. ...structures our life in seasons. The Bible talks about it.

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I do believe that God controls seasons, and I believe that we have to also be... Okay, you know, this reminds me.

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Okay, let's see here. You know what? Hang on a second. I'm gonna do this this way because I want to show you.

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If you do not own, like, high -end Bible software... I happen to own two very high -end

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Bible software packages, one I teach from, one I study from, but all that being said, Google is a great place to look for, you know, to search for biblical passages and stuff.

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Okay, so if I go to Google, and I type in Bible, and I want for everything...

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hang on a second... everything there is a season. Okay, and I want to know the reference.

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It's Ecclesiastes 3. Ah -ha! So we could talk about the biblical teaching on seasons here.

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Let's just throw this in because we're getting a nothing burger at the moment. So notice, it was

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Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Okay, let's check this out. For everything there is a season.

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Ah, so there is a sense in which the Bible talks about seasons. For a time, and a time for every matter under heaven, a time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to pluck up what is planted, a time to kill, a time to heal, time to break down, and a time to build up, time to weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to seek, a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away, time to tear, and a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and then there's a time to speak, a time to love, a time to hate, a time for war, a time for peace.

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All right, so there's a biblical text that talks about the different seasons of life, and you kind of have a handy -dandy thumbnail sketch of what that looks like, but this isn't what

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Vlad Savchuk is talking about, nor is he even exegeting

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Ecclesiastes 3. No, it's worse than that. So, here we go again.

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Aware of the season that we are in and act accordingly to the season that we are in. All right, so let me back this up.

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So the Bible talks about it. I do believe that God controls seasons, and I do believe that we have to also be aware of the season that we are in and act accordingly to the season that we are in.

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Ecclesiastes 3 would be helpful at this point. For example, if it's winter, you probably don't want to be, you know, wearing flip -flops.

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This is true. I mean, especially in North Dakota. Okay, yeah. Wearing shorts, and if it's a summer and it's really warm, you probably don't want to be wearing a huge coat.

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Amen? So God wants to... That's just common sense, dude.

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Just common sense. How are you gonna tie this into the Scriptures? I'm curious. Bring a shift in our season, and God wants to change us as the shift is happening in our season.

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God's gonna bring a shift in our season. Do you have a biblical text that teaches this core teaching of yours?

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Like, explicitly? Like, clearly? So let me just mention to you these ten things.

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I want you to get ready to take some notes. We're gonna go into school right now. We're gonna learn some things, and I believe these things will... No, we're not gonna learn anything.

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This is gonna be just a mess. And these things will also establish you so that you can process things and walk through things better and with wisdom.

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And I'm gonna go through these ten ones quickly. This day will come from the story of Joshua. What? Season shifts are a core doctrine taught in the story of Joshua.

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What? One of the greatest stories in the Bible that presents to us how

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God works with people in taking them from one season to another is the story of Joshua. So what he's doing is he's eisegetic.

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Eisegesis is reading into the biblical text things that are not there.

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That's, you know, what you don't want to do. You don't want to read things into the Bible that are not there.

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So he's started with his season shift doctrine, and now he's going to eisegete it.

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He's going to read it into the story of Joshua. This is a Bible twisting technique, which reminds me...

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Hang on a second here. Let's see. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna go do another

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Google search. I'm gonna say, Sire Bible twisting.

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Hang on a second. And let's see here. Twisting scripture.

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20 ways the cults misread the Bible. And what we'll do is we'll put a link to...

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I don't know why it has grow your Christian life as the cover here, but there's a book that is a classic, and I'll find the original paperback if I can, but you need to get this book.

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Scripture twisting. 20 ways the cults misread the Bible. And it discusses eisegetes as one of those ways.

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In fact, Sire's book is... There's the original. 20 ways the cults misread the

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Bible. Scripture twisting by James W. Sire. That's the original cover on this thing, and it's well worth it.

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And let's see here. Methodology. The methodology of misreading. And so he gets into the different ways in which it happens.

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So scripture is rhetoric, scripture is literature, scripture is evidence, scripture reasoning from the scriptures, confused definitions, ignoring alternative explanations, the obvious fallacy, virtue by association.

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Sire does a great work. This is a standard text going back to 1980 is when this was originally published by InterVarsity Press, and when

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I was learning how to do countercult apologetics, this was mandatory reading,

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Sire's book. So we'll put a link down below if you want to get a copy of it. You can get it on Kindle if you want, but well worth the read.

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And he's gonna be eisegeting here. You know, favorite Bible twisting techniques of those who don't know how to rightly handle the biblical text.

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And so he's gonna, we're gonna read the times of shifting seasons into the story of Joshua, and we're gonna glean wisdom for the season shift that God's gonna be bringing you through next

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Thursday. Okay. Joshua. In the New Testament, the Bible tells us that they, these people who went before us,

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Joshua, Moses, they are examples for us. So we're not just, you know, taking Now this is true.

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The Bible does say that the Old Testament characters are examples for us. But let's take a look at that text.

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I happen to know where it's from. 1st Corinthians chapter 10. Paul writes, says, I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea.

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Now, Paul is writing to the Church of Corinth, which is full of a bunch of Gentiles. Okay. So I do find it fascinating that writing to an audience of Gentile Christian believers, he says that the

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Old Testament patriarchs are our fathers. And they are. Oh, Andy Stanley, you might be paying attention to this.

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This is why we don't unhitch ourselves from the Old Testament. So I don't want to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was

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Christ. Now, a little bit of a note. Types and shadows. Types and shadows.

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Okay. The Old Testament stories point us to Jesus. That's the whole point here.

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In fact, let's see. I don't want you to be on the... Okay. Mm -hmm. I'm gonna get to a particular word in the

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Greek here. Now, so notice what he says here. Now, nevertheless, with most of them, God was not pleased.

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Now, let's talk about the types and shadows here. They were all baptized. Coming out of the Exodus, they were baptized?

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Yes, they were. They ate the same spiritual food. They all drank the same spiritual drink. Hmm. Those seem like references to baptism in the

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Lord's Supper. That's right. The baptism into the Red Sea is a type and shadow pointing to our baptism into Christ.

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The spiritual food that they ate, the manna, and the drink that they had that was taken from the side of the rock that was struck.

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Oh, that's a type and shadow of the Lord's Supper. Hopefully, you kind of see those connections. So, we are in our

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Exodus, as we're heading towards the promised land, which is the new heaven, the new earth, and we have all been baptized, and when we have the

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Lord's Supper, we are partaking in the same spiritual food and spiritual drink as they did. The manna of the wilderness points to what?

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It points to the Lord's Supper. Right. Christ is the bread of life. You know, you get the idea.

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So, all that being said, they all were baptized. They all ate the same spiritual food, drank the same spiritual drink.

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Nevertheless, with most of them, God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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Now, these took place as examples, the text says in the ESV, but it says in the

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Greek τὸ τὸ δὲ τοῦ ποι. Okay, τοῦ ποι ἡμῶν. What's a toupas?

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It's a type. Okay, these things took place as types, as copies of images.

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Okay, these are the types and shadows. This is a kind, you know, showing a pattern or things like that.

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So, there is a sense, a right understanding that the Old Testament stories, these are types and shadows, and it says so in the

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Greek. Here in 1 Corinthians 10 .6, these all took place as types for us.

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Why? So that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were.

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As it is written, the people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play. We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and 23 ,000 fell in a single day.

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We must not put Christ to the test as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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These things, now these things happened to them as a type, a toupikos, but they were written down for our instruction on whom the end of the ages has come.

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Therefore, let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation is overtaking you that is not common to man.

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God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape so that you may be able to endure it.

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So, the idea then is actually quite simple. Paul, here in 1 Corinthians 10, explains to us the

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Old Testament stories are types that help us by basically helping us learn from other people's mistakes.

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Okay, have you ever needed to learn from somebody else's mistake? I have, and I have learned from other people's mistakes.

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A long time ago, when I was a young lad, lived at home, and my brother and I both lived at home at the time, and we were both in high school, and my parents had a strict rule about watching television.

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We weren't allowed to watch much TV on school nights. In fact, barely any at all.

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It made it impossible to be able to watch Dukes of Hazzard and the A -Team when they were airing at their proper time.

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We had to set the VCR up and record it when it would come on so that we can watch it at a time we can watch television.

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Well, my brother decided he was gonna come up with a great idea. He bought himself something that looked like...

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Remember transistor radios? Well, this looked like a transistor radio with a one -inch television on it, with one of those long antenna on it.

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And I was thinking, I gotta do that too, man. My brother's able to watch television, whatever he wants, in his room.

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He's able to watch whatever television show is on, and I have to wait until the weekend to be able to catch up on my favorite shows.

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And I thought, you know, I was thinking, you know, maybe I'm gonna go and buy myself one of those televisions. But then my mom found it.

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Oh boy. So let's just say that my brother's punishment and my mom's anger, these were legendary.

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This is the best way I can put it. There's no way around it. It was whoo!

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Yeah, I'll never forget it. And so at that point, after he got punished that way, I said, you know, I don't need myself one of those little one -inch televisions.

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I think it's best just to keep going on the way I'm going on. I learned from my brother's mistake. That's what

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Paul is saying here. And so you'll note, these are examples to us. These are types and shadows for us.

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So there is a sense in which we can study these Old Testament stories, and they do have something to teach us.

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But notice that Paul's primary focus is on the negative lesson that we learn by them dying and being killed by God.

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It's a testimony calling us to repent of our sin rather than to live in it and enjoy it.

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You get the point here. So Vlad Savchuk is right -ish, but he's not correct in what he's doing here.

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So he's going to use this, he's misusing this text as the justification for this core teaching of his about ten things that help you thrive in your season shift.

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We continue. Out of context, when we take Joshua's story and put some application into our life, we are actually following the

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Scripture because they... This is not application, sir. This is eisegesis. What they did, how

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God worked with them, it carries timeless principles for generations after them.

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Amen? The teaching of principles, yeah, that's not sound eisegesis either.

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First thing that I want to highlight is a new season brings a new shaking. Bingo! A new season brings new shaking.

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What on earth? This doesn't even mean anything. Now let me show you some other passages real quick here.

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Three texts in particular, okay? Ephesians chapter 5 verse 6, an actual command from God, let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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False teachers are empty talkers. They speak empty words, and we are getting a bunch of that from Vlad Savchuk in this core teaching of his.

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Colossians 2, 8, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit.

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Excuse me. He's saying nothing. This is just straight -up nothing.

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According to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, not according to Christ. Paul, writing to Titus, telling us the qualifications for those in the pastoral office.

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If anyone is above reproach, husband of one wife, his children are believers, not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

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For an overseer's God steward must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick -tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self -controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught. Oh, there's a standard.

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That's right. You have to teach the word as it's been taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and to rebuke those who contradict it.

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For there are many who are insubordinate, and here we go, empty talkers.

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That's what we're hearing from Vlad Savchuk. This is just empty talk. And deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party, they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

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Consider what Jude writes about the false teachers. Jude writes, starting at verse 5,

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I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt afterward, destroyed those who did not believe.

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And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling.

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He's kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day. Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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Yet in like manner, these people, also relying on their dreams, mm -hmm, it's describing charismatics here, isn't it?

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They defile the flesh, they reject authority, they blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel

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Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he didn't presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment.

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He said, the Lord rebuke you. But these people, these false teachers, they blaspheme all that they do not understand.

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They are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them, for they have walked in the way of Cain.

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Cain had religious activity without faith, and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error, and they perished in Korah's rebellion.

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Korah's rebellion was rebellion against the offices that God set up within the church. These are hidden reefs at your love feasts.

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They feast with you without fear. Shepherds feeding themselves.

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Waterless clouds. Waterless rain clouds. Uh -huh.

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Empty talkers are exactly that. Waterless clouds. Swept along by winds.

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Every wind of doctrine, right? Fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted.

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Wild waves of the sea casting up the foam of their own shame. Wandering stars.

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You can't navigate by a wandering star, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

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So Jude warns us about it, and Peter has almost the exact identical thing to say. 2

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Peter 2 says, false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with what?

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False words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle. Their destruction is not asleep.

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If God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.

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If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserve Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly, if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what's going to happen to the ungodly, and if he rescued righteous lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked.

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For as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard.

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Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

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Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, they don't pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the

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Lord. But these irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, they will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing.

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They count a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

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They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls.

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They have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children, forsaking the right way.

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They have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his transgression.

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A speechless donkey spoke to him with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. These are waterless springs, mists driven by a storm.

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For them, the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. Speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice, by sensual passions of the flesh, those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

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Waterless springs, waterless clouds, empty talkers. These are empty words, empty, empty, empty.

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Here we go some more. When I say a new shaking, I mean sometimes in a new season you experience a shaking that usually comes from the fact that people that were in your life before exit your life.

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Or sometimes, as it happened with Joshua, his hero, his mentor, a guy he looked up to, a guy that really kind of helped him to rise up, stepped aside.

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Actually he died, and Joshua had to step into his shoes. And that was, that was scary. That was a bit shaking.

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In fact, God had to kept telling Joshua. Notice what Vlad Savchuk isn't doing?

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He's not reading the narrative. He's not exegeting the text. Huh. I wonder why.

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Hmm. Could it be that if he actually just read the text people would say, you know what, I'm not sure how he's getting that from there.

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So Joshua chapter 1. And let's throw in a little bit Hebrew just in case we need it.

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Hang on a second here. We probably won't need it though. Okay. After the death of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,

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Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this, and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

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Every place that the sole of your feet will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

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From the wilderness, and from this Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the

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Hittites, to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

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I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

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Now, what's going on? These are types and shadows. Joshua, who happens to have the exact same

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Hebrew name as Jesus, yeah, Jesus' Hebrew name is Yeshua. Guess what

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Joshua's name is? Yeshua. Yahweh saves. You see, Moses, the giver of the law can't bring you into the promised land, eternal life.

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The law can't save you. So God has to give you a Savior who will bring you in for you, okay?

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And that's Jesus, Joshua. You start to see the connection. It works out beautifully, by the way, wonderfully.

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So God continues, do not turn from... only be strong and courageous, being careful to do all according to the law of Moses, my servant commanded you, do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

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This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. You shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed, for Yahweh your

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God is with you wherever you go. Great, comforting words, right? Okay, and obviously we're not gonna be able to read the entire story of Joshua here, but I'm pointing this out.

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I've just read the first nine verses of the book of Joshua, and I've already read more than Vlad Savchuk has, and from the looks of it, more than he will read.

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Let's keep going. ...be afraid, which tells me he felt afraid, he felt insecure, he felt unsure and uncertain, so it is totally normal to step into that season.

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You know a season shifted if you're kind of shaken, if you're kind of scared, if you're kind of unsure of what's gonna...

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So because Joshua, God told him to not be frightened, your God is with you, because that is written in the scriptures, that means that if you've experienced a season shift, if you're frightened, you just can't make this stuff up.

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This is just so boneheaded, wrong, and just ridiculous.

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Especially if you're taking in, you're stepping into a shoes of someone. Your shoes are stepping in something for sure.

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It's just smells. You're stepping into a season of something you've never done before. You're stepping into a season of something you've never done before.

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What on earth? Hang on, just listen, listen. Unsure of what's gonna happen. Especially if you're taking in, you're stepping into a shoes of someone.

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You're stepping into a season of something you've never done before. You're totally unexperienced.

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So when your hero falls, it's time for you to rise up. When you step into an area you've never been in before, it's time for you to trust in God and to remember, though your season has changed, the source, your

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God, is with you. Though you're stepping into... It's true, God is with us, but you are not exegeting this passage.

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I don't know what you're doing with it. It's complete narcissistic eisegesis, and it's like you're barely even in the text at all, and you're saying all this nonsensical, empty, talking platitudes of nothingness.

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You have no experience in, your God is going to supply the needed grace to make up for what you are lacking.

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God will give you strength in this new season. So a new season sometimes brings a new shaking.

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Joshua 1 2, it says, Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise and go over to Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which

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I'm giving to them, the children of Israel. So the Lord is saying, hey I know you're shaken, you're grieving,

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I know it's hard for you because this guy that's been such a great example to you, who is not entering the promised land because of his sin, because he didn't show holiness of God when he needed it.

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No, he quoted one verse, and now he's still quoting

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God directly, but the things that God is saying are not the things that God said.

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So he quoted one verse, and then after that, we're off into just make -up stuff land.

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And now you're stepping in, you're not like Him, you're not better than Him, you're not more powerful than Him.

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God didn't say any of these words. Why aren't you reading the rest of the text? Oh I know, because if you read it, you wouldn't be able to tell people that these are the ten things they need to thrive in their season shifts.

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What are you even talking about? A new supply.

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Would that be like air supply? I'm all out of love. I'm so lost without you.

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That air supply would be the new supply, right? Oh my goodness. I've got double bingo at this point.

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This is a historical narrative. The manna stopped because they got into the promised land.

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They were going to be farmers at this point, and they didn't need God to miraculously provide for them in the wilderness where they couldn't plant crops.

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Well, if I apologize. New season brings a new supply. When God removed the provision which was manna,

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He wasn't doing that so He can punish them. He was doing that so He can prepare them for the new supply.

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His promise has always been milk and honey, but milk and honey and manna don't go together.

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So he's gonna totally allegorize this. Sometimes one supply of God stops for another one to come.

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And I want to encourage you that maybe you are in between jobs right now. The manna has nothing to do with your current job, your past job, or if you're looking for a job.

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This is nonsense. Perhaps you're in between jobs right now. You're actually in a shift. One of the things that you know the season is shifting is when

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God changes manna. He removes manna. You know that the season is shifting is when

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God changes manna. This is so bad.

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The manna points to the Lord's Supper. The manna is the type and shadow.

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The Lord's Supper is the substance. It doesn't refer to your job. Off of the menu, because He's about to bring milk and honey.

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Now some of us, when we lose manna, when we lose God's provision in our life, we get frustrated. We start to doubt

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God. We become afraid. God has never fed me bread from heaven the way that He did in Exodus.

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What are you even talking about? Okay, again this is all pointing to the Lord's Supper.

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Christ is the true bread of heaven kind of thing. But you've totally missed the point.

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You're thinking this has something to do with your job or how you're gonna pay your bills or things like this.

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It doesn't. Or we worry. What's gonna happen tomorrow? Am I gonna be able to pay my bills?

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Do I have enough? Did God forsake me? You know, is the devil attacking me? It's normal to feel these things.

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But as Christians, we also must understand that the Lord constantly tells us not to be afraid and not to worry.

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And these two commands, instructions, apply to our finances. When you enter a new season, your supply will shift.

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Right! If you get a new job, who writes the check will shift from your old employer to your new employer.

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This is so ridiculous. Now let me show you this. Okay, the ten things are actually listed here now.

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So you know there's a new shaking, there's a new supply. In the new season there'll be a new spirit, there'll be a new sacrifice, new sanctification, a new strategy.

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Oh check this one out. This one's just... New season requires new strategy. Joshua chapter 8 verse 2. And the

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Lord said, and you shall do to I and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. You did not even tell the story of Jericho, huh?

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So when you get to the story of Ai, they got clobbered by Ai right after Jericho because Achan had stolen things that were, which had been devoted to God.

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And you know, he stole silver and other things and hid them. And then when they went up against Ai, they got their clocks cleaned by this little village.

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And the reason why they weren't able to stand before Ai is because of their sin. They had to deal with...

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Achan's sin had to come out to light. Then Achan was killed along with his family. And then

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God gave them the victory over Ai. And you're just skipping over all of that?

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And just going, oh yeah, when you're in a new season, you're gonna need a new strategy.

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This is not sound biblical exegesis. This guy should not be teaching anybody anything.

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Here's the thing. The standard given in Scripture for pastors is they must teach the

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Word as taught. They must be able to give instruction and sound doctrine, and so he must hold firm to the trustworthy

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Word as taught. Show me an example of any of the church fathers or even any of the apostles doing this with the story of Joshua, turning it into all the ten things that you need to look to regarding your season shifts.

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Nobody has taught this. This is brand new in church history, which means it's completely untrue, because the standard is you have to teach the

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Word as taught. He's not even teaching the Word. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourself.

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Lay an ambush for the city behind it. So I want you to notice, the Lord says, I'm gonna give you a new strategy for the new battle.

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The city of Jericho, you circled it around. I didn't circle Jericho. What are you talking about?

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I don't need a new strategy. I'm not attacking any towns. ...times, seven days, and then seven days, seven times, in one day.

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Now this next city, God says, it's gonna be a little bit different. The cattle, the spoil, and everything that you see there is yours.

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You're not gonna bring it to me. It's yours. And then the Lord says, I want you not to circle it around. I want you to lay an ambush for the city.

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Now why is this important? This isn't about strategies, dude.

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Okay, God gave them victory over both. And Jericho, the destruction of Jericho is a type and shadow of the end of the world.

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I want you to drop this in the chat. Yesterday's success cannot be today's strategy. What is he even talking about?

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I can just see somebody sitting there going, yesterday's success cannot be today's strategy. Wow, these are pearls of wisdom.

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I don't know what it means. I mean, I've received fortune cookies that are more clear than this.

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This is nuts. What worked yesterday might not work today. People that are not led by the

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Holy Spirit usually try to repeat what worked yesterday. And that's what

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Joshua did, mistakenly. He saw the breakthrough in Jericho and just went on the assumption the next city will be a piece of cake.

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He consulted his board, his committee. This was nothing about the strategy.

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Okay, this is annoying me. This is really now starting to get me mad.

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All right, here's what I mean. Okay, so if I go to Joshua chapter 9, give me a night deception.

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Hang on, let me back up. The fall of Ai. Okay, all right, do not fear, do not be. Okay, let me just back up just a little bit here.

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Israel defeated by Ai. Okay, so Joshua chapter 7. Why was

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Israel originally defeated by Ai? The text will tell us. Okay, so the fall of Jericho has already happened and Achan has stolen things that were devoted to God.

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Okay, he's taken things he shouldn't. Everything, all the spoils belong to God in the city of Jericho, and so he's stolen some of stuff.

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So Joshua 7 begins with, but the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things.

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For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things, and the anger of Yahweh burned against the people of Israel.

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Joshua wasn't defeated because he wanted to do the same strategy that he did with Jericho.

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That's just ridiculous. So the reason why they fell before Ai is because of Achan's sin.

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Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Avin, east of Bethel, and they said to them, go up and spy out the land, and the men went up and spied out

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Ai, and they returned to Joshua and said to him, do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack

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Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few. So about three thousand men went up there from the people, and they fled before the men of Ai, and the men of Ai killed about thirty -six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent, and the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

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Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads, and Joshua said,

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Alas, O Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the

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Jordan at all to give us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us?

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Oh, would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say when

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Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off your name from the earth, and what will you do for your great name?

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Yahweh said to Joshua, Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned.

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They have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them, that they have taken some of the devoted things that they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.

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Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies because they have become devoted for destruction.

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I will be with you no more unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

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Get up! Consecrate the people and say, Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the Lord, the

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God of Israel. There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.

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The text will go on to explain how Achan is found out, what God does, and then when you just get to the next chapter after Achan is killed for his sin, then

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God gives the victory to them. It has nothing to do with the strategy at all.

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The strategy was just a strategy. It's not the thing that made the difference. God gave them

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AI into their hands after they got rid of Achan who had sinned against God.

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The reason why they couldn't stand before AI is because of the sin of Achan.

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Just listen to this. This is so bad and he's not even reading the text. Usually try to repeat what worked yesterday and that's what

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Joshua did mistakenly. He saw the breakthrough in Jericho. No, Joshua didn't mistakenly try the same strategy.

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You are not even reading the text and what you're saying is false, sir. So you're just going to ignore the whole

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Achan story and gloss it with the words, the Lord dealt with the problem.

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You are an intentional deceiver, sir. You are not somebody who's deceived.

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You are intentionally deceiving. It's clear in your inability and refusal to let the text of God speak and for you to change it the way you have.

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And from that point on, you saw many battles Joshua would take. He would wait on God's instruction. Why am I sharing this?

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When you step into a new season, don't try to be led by principles.

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Be led by God's presence. This is just utter nonsense.

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Utter nonsense. Complete blasphemy at this point. So a new season requires a new strategy, a new subduing, a new speech, a new step, a new stewardship.

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This is just nonsense. And he says this is a core teaching for him. This is a core teaching that shows this guy can't rightly handle a biblical text.

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He's a wolf. He is an empty talker. He's a waterless rain cloud.

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He's a waterless spring. He's a fruit tree in autumn without any fruit on it.

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He's twice dead. Avoid him. Scripture warns about men like him. Scripture warns us, don't listen to him.

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