Becoming Better Theologians (part 18)

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Father in heaven, we thank you for yet another day a day that you have designed and created and given us

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To gather together and worship you father. We thank you for this opportunity and pray that as we

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Consider what your word says about? How you have revealed yourself to us the father that we would rejoice in your preservation of it

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That we would eagerly anticipate Learning it that we would be students of it and that we would

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Constantly be reminded of your love and grace toward us Father, would you bless our time and bless our group in Israel today in Christ's name?

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Amen All right. Well, you know sometimes You know,

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I get a lot of email during the week and some of it's not too helpful Some of it's very helpful Some of it just takes my time.

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This was very helpful. I received this this week and I thought this is a

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This is very good because it'll be a little bit of a thought experiment for us I think you know the

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Master Seminary has a little motto when you walk into the walls. It's like You know

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Notre Dame football How many of you are Notre Dame fans by the way, that's good.

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Then we don't have to have a moment of prayer They have a sign as they as the football players exit the locker room one that says, you know play like a champion today, and I think they

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I won't say they slap something on their way out to the field

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The Master Seminary has something on the wall and it says we train men as if lives depend on it

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And I think you know quite often it does This is from this is from a blog post that a man who is a pastor of a church where at least one person from this church used to attend and this is

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Where we are what we've been talking about about how God has revealed himself. Well, listen to this. He says today Let's talk about the six ways

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God still speaks God speaks through an audible voice sometimes

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Jesus heard the audible voice of his father both at his baptism Right, what did

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God say the father say at Jesus' baptism Matthew 3 he said in whom

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I am well Please okay, and then at his transfiguration Matthew 17, what'd he say there?

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What's that? This is my beloved son hear him So he says

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Jesus. Here's the father speak out loud and others around him heard it, too The Apostle Paul came to faith in Christ because Jesus appeared to him as a bright light and spoke to him audibly

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There are many other examples, but sometimes God speaks out loud thoughts about that Spoke out loud.

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Okay Hebrews. What did somebody say? Hebrews 1 what is he was he let's look at Hebrews 1.

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Let's see for a resident biblical scholar What verses are we referring to in Hebrews 1 or is it

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Hebrews 2? Okay, or is it

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Hebrews 1 1 and 2? We have a multitude of options But we agree it's early on at the book of Hebrews, I'd say it's chapter 1 could be chapter 2

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Let's see Well, I like chapter 1 better Chapter 1 verse 1

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Long ago at many times and in many ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets But in these last days he has spoken to us by his son

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Whom he appointed the heir of all things through whom he also created the world Can you think of some problems with the way this man is describing

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God speaking out loud Yes, Peggy, it would leave room that revelation isn't complete.

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I mean if God has to say something out loud And I mean you could apply this to a number of things that we're gonna be talking about here in a minute

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But if God has to say something out loud, what does that imply? The revelation isn't complete that the

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Bible is lacking that there's something he needs to say that he needs to Yeah, he needs to add supplement to the

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Bible It really kind of implies that the Bible is not

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Sufficient Yeah, I mean the voice could have multiple sources that deem in all sorts of things.

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You know what I don't know about you But if I hear voices, I'm mildly concerned Bruce It that is so key begin what

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Bruce just said is you know that we presume that because God did something in a particular way

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That he necessarily will continue to do that But he's told us in his word that he's not going to do that that he's done speaking to us that he's spoken to us through his son that revelation is complete and The other point

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Bruce raised is also excellent, which is we think many of us in evangelicalism

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Let me take it down a step many of us in Christendom Think that we are on par with the the apostles

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The prophets, you know that there's ultimately no difference in the way. God is going to speak to us. Well, there is a big difference

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So I mean, I think number one his first way It's pretty far out there.

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They the other thing I would say is you know, what we have here is a case of what? Description not

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Prescription God never says. Hey, listen, I'm going to talk to you. You never know when I'm gonna talk to you.

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So just be ready We don't see that in Scripture The second one's kind of a variation on that.

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He says You know first one was God speaks out loud Second one is God speaks through a whisper.

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Sometimes he's just talking in a normal voice or maybe even shouting and sometimes it's just He says the old -timers.

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This is a quote the old -timers I Thought about it. I'm going hmm I don't know if some people would want to be called an old -timer.

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The old -timers called it the still small voice of God Often it is just God Guiding our thoughts, but we learn to recognize when it is

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God guiding our thoughts and when it is just us thinking This is probably the most common way that God speaks to me

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Wonder what he whispered while he was typing this up This is really dumb. Stop. Then he thought that's not

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God. That's just me talking. No, no wrong What about that?

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You know people want to have that still small voice God spoke to me People do that all the time

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Daniel brings up the the idea, you know, the people say God has given them a piece about X Y or Z You know and sometimes it's even sinful

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To Christians decide they're going to break God's commandments and and you know

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God's okay with it because they have a piece or God spoke to them in a still small voice

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Well, it does raise a key issue because if God communicates to us in a still small voice in a way that Contradicts what he's revealed to us in his written word then one of those two isn't the voice of God now, which one would that be?

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And we know from Jeremiah 17 9 that the heart is deceitful above all else Desperately wicked who can know it

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We deceive ourselves, you know, we'd say You know, I don't know if I should do this or not

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But I have a piece about it. I hear a still small voice You know the picture of the angel on one side of your shoulder the devil on your other shoulder, you know, and Did I guess the devil shouting and the angels speaking in the still small voice it's absolute rubbish

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But he goes on sometimes these thoughts are interrupting thoughts We're driving down the road,

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I mean, I just can't believe people go to this church We're driving down the road and all of a sudden out of the blue.

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We think that we should call someone call Jim. That's in quotes The thought may keep pressing through because God is on the line with a divine appointment

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Often these thoughts come when we are intentionally quiet and listening for a prompting of the Spirit We may be asking

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God for wisdom By the way, if you ask God for wisdom, what's the source of wisdom his revealed word?

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What are the sources of wisdom might there be? He says

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I want to buy the Lamborghini she says that would not be wise That is the voice of wisdom indeed sometimes you have to settle for the

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Toyota What's that Godly counsel is another source of wisdom

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I mean sometimes you don't know what to do and you need to get somebody who's detached who has a Solid biblical understanding of things and just say, you know

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Both choices are okay, but here's the better one and here's why But this idea of You know

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James 1 5 asked for wisdom and so the idea would be well just ask God for wisdom and then wait to hear

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That's still small voice. You still have the same problem Is it God speaking to you in a still small voice or is it you know, your multitude of personalities manifest, you know?

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We don't know Yeah, Pam says, you know, sometimes you're you're not really sure what to do and you pray for some wisdom and God provides

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Through providential means in other words through the normal course of life things come to light new information comes to light and you're able

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To make a more informed decision But you know it gets worse

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Often I've been sitting in pastoral counseling sessions or praying for someone when I heard the whisper of the spirit

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There are times God has said to me quote. This person has been abused ask them

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And I asked them have you been abused? After I recovered in the hospital the

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I mean this is just not something that you You know, oh you haven't been abused.

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Well, God told me to ask you I I guess that really wasn't God He says and all these horrid secrets came out and healing began to flow

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And I think this is this is quite bad, too There are times when I have been praying for someone the Lord whispered to me

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The Lord has a secret tell them and it's safe to tell it. Why doesn't the Lord just tell them the secret? I Conveyed the word and a secret came out and into the open that had been long since buried and destructive

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God speaks through whispers That last sentence is kind of telling God speaks through whispers.

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What's he really saying? How's he sort of summarizing all this that I know

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God speaks through whispers how? By his experience he didn't even bother to list a list of scripture why bother because there isn't one

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You know, please give me the scripture where it says God whispers sometimes Shh still small voice.

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Yeah All right, number three God speaks through pictures

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In Acts 2 17 and 18 Peter tells us your young men will see visions your old men will dream dreams

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God is and that's the end of the quote of the scripture And then he says God is going to speak to people through dreams and visions.

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Those are pictures thoughts on that Mm -hmm.

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Yeah Yeah, and you wake up or you you know You mysteriously look over at your clock random lane is says 747.

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That means you're gonna take a trip What's the problem with dreams and visions

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What's that? Yes, it's in reference to the last days given the context.

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Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep, and I I mean it takes a lot of a Lot of work to even understand what that means, but you don't just say well, you know what we're in the last days

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Therefore it must mean that we're going to have visions and we're gonna dream dreams and God is going to speak to us through those things

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Well, what about that If you think that God is speaking to you through your dreams, what do you do

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You act on them. Yeah, but I mean, let's say last night. I had a dream where You know an axe murderer came into my home

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How do I interpret that? with a 357 axe axe 357

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Reminds me of another joke, you know the inmates used to ask me, you know deputy Can I ask you a question I'd say if you're gonna ask me anything take two steps back

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Yeah, so What about interpreting dreams well the problem is how do you how would you even know how would you know that if a particular dream?

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Was from God or if it was from the food you ate or if it was from some other Circumstance in your life that was causing you stress and making you

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Dream things or because you're grinding your teeth too much. Who knows what you dream is Every dream a divine message

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No Do we have any dreams that are divine messages I Don't think we have anything in Scripture that would tell us

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You know Steve be on the lookout because sometimes I'm just gonna send you a little messages through dreams He says not every picture that comes to our mind not every dream we have is from God Amen Just like not every voice that is heard not every thought we have is from God Sometimes it's the medication we're on He didn't say that He says we have to test it.

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But sometimes God speaks through dreams and visions and what's What's the Bible reference for that He says this occurs throughout the

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Bible from the first book in Genesis to the last book in Revelation, which is a vision Is that true yes revelation is a vision

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Does God speak to people in dreams? I mean we know that Daniel interpreted dreams, right?

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Call me old -fashioned, but I tend to be a New Testament guy When Paul's writing to Timothy when he's writing to Titus when he's writing to Peter when he's ready

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They are winning when he's talking to the Apostles and telling them how to run the church. Did he ever say listen guys?

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They're gonna be people who have dreams When they have dreams, this is how you interpret them

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No There were men who were gifted in the Old Testament with interpreting dreams for specific reasons.

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And what were those reasons? I'm sorry

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I still didn't hear To authenticate what was being said exactly and to sometimes authenticate the messenger.

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I mean when we think about Joseph what why was he interpreting dreams?

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Because it kind of made him stand out a little bit You know we could you know when you see that sort of thing in the

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Bible It is to elevate someone to separate them out from the crowd So I I don't know why we would get dreams down again.

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What does it go to it goes to the sufficiency of Scripture? Number four

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God speaks God speaks through emotions

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Now listen the biblical basis for this Ephesians 4 tells us not to grieve the Holy Spirit This is this a little bit of a bank shot

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Ephesians 4 tells us not to grieve the Holy Spirit grief is an emotion Sometimes the conviction of the

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Spirit comes to me, and I feel it okay, so we don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit Grief is an emotion the

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Holy Spirit gets grieved And then he visits that grief on us I guess right because he says sometimes the conviction of the

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Spirit comes to me, and I feel it I feel uneasy I feel unsettled Yeah, God's law written in our hearts.

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We violate it and that therefore our conscience afflicts us Right yeah, that's exactly right.

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It's not our grief. It's not talking about us being grieved It's the Holy Spirit's grief so Ephesians 4 has nothing to do with God speaking to us through emotions

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This is the response of the Holy Spirit to our actions Do not grieve the

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Holy Spirit has nothing to do with God talking to us through our emotions He says

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Romans 5 tells us that God pours out the love of God in our hearts by the Holy Spirit Okay, that's true

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Many times God speaks to us through love I don't know what that means

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Often I will begin to feel God's love for a person right before God gives me a prophetic word to encourage a person

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God speaks through emotions. I don't see any credible source for that. Okay number five God speaks through a word we see in our mind's eye.

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It's like a cartoon caption We see a word spelled out for example sometimes

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I have seen the word forgiveness when praying for someone. I'll say I see the word forgiveness does that mean anything to you

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I? See the word apple pie does that mean

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I mean It has often led to a breakthrough

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You know, I just hope they're good words you see I I don't even understand that I See the word what is word association or something?

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Anyway, that's crazy. And again, no biblical He doesn't even attempt to support that and sixth and last and I think probably the worst

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Yeah worse than seeing words God speaks to our and I listen quotations to our knower

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Sometimes we just know something God speaks to us spirit to spirit.

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Is that true? That's in Romans 8, right? The Spirit of God testifies to our spirit that what that we belong to him.

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That's what he testifies to is not just generally Now listen this for years my wife struggled to believe the goodness of God She knew it.

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Now. This is a pastor's wife For years my wife the pastor's wife struggled to believe the goodness of God.

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That must have been something She knew it, but she struggled with it because of the evil in the world

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She wrestled with this for years and then one day she woke up and she just knew God was good

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Maybe she'd been reading the Psalms for months and no he doesn't say that but God revealed his goodness to her deep in her spirit and she doesn't struggle with that anymore

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Sometimes we just know something again, no biblical support for that and again,

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I would say there's a Biblical unsupport for that and that's Jeremiah 17 9. Sometimes we know things we just know and we're wrong

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What do you do then? I? Guess it wasn't God He concludes this way he says these are the ways

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God speaks Whatever we receive we need to humbly test But the story of the

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Bible is a story of God speaking to his people. He wants to speak to you How is

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God communicating to you these days? Are you listening? And I thought you know what

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I mean one of my I I Don't want to say it's one of my favorite passages

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But just a passage that always amazes me is in Judges. Let's look at Judges for a moment.

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I think it's in Judges 14 and I want to kind of Illustrate some of the silliness here actually

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Judges 13 And Starting verse 2 there was a certain man of Zorah of the tribe of the

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Danites whose name was Manoah and His wife was barren and had no children and the angel of the

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Lord appeared to the woman and said to her Behold you are barren and have not born children, but you shall conceive and bear a son

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So sometimes I could add to this list sometimes God sends an angel to speak to us and to tell us that we're going to have a baby

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I Have to cut you off because I have to I have to summarize this before I forget it

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She said and I think this is an excellent point that there's a dissatisfaction Among some people who had named the name of Christ with what with the ways he has told us he is going to communicate with Us it's not enough for them

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They have to have something more and what better way to do things or what better way to expand the way

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God might speak to Then to look in the pages the Old Testament and to say well he spoke in that way

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So why can't he speak to us that way now? I mean shouldn't we expect I mean logic if we follow this man's logic here

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We would expect every time there's a baby Being born you know the angel of the Lord does show up and say hey guess what you're gonna have a baby

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Of course then he should go on to give us what the Nazirite vow for the wife for the mom to keep and Tell us that we have to keep our baby in that same state

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I mean the big problem here on top of ignoring the Bible and wanting something extra biblical to happen is to look at things like even

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God the Father speaking to the Lord Jesus Christ when he is baptized or on the Mount of Transfiguration and saying well

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God spoke then audibly therefore God must speak to us today God sent an angel of the

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Lord to speak to Manoah therefore God must send angels of the Lord You know the angel of the Lord to speak to us today

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That's not what Hebrews 1 says says that in ancient times

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God spoke in various ways to these men But now he has spoken to us through his son

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So when you see things like this and this is so and the reason I wanted to go over this is because I think it's so common

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To hear Christians talk this way to see people Preachers teachers talk this way to in broad evangelicalism

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Christianity speaking of that I somebody sent me a little YouTube deal and how many of you are familiar with John Hagee and In it he would it that he's written this book

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I in fact if I could I just showed the whole video especially since I didn't turn off my cell phone

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I hope it doesn't ring And in it he says in this video he says that Jesus Christ did not come to be the

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Messiah And I thought That is

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Quite bad. He says he went out of his way to deny being the Messiah Anyway, just another false teacher.

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So we're talking about how God does speak to mankind how he has revealed himself

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And ultimately we know that it's through the scripture, but there are a number of ways in which he's

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Shown us that he does exist some things with regard to who he is

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And I'm trying to find exactly where we left off and I will know here in a moment there it is

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Casey Very dangerous,

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I know this isn't your personal thing so much but strikes me as very dangerous because It underestimates the immense power of the enemy.

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We're told that the enemy is very powerful. He can Reject himself as an angel of light stalks us like a lion and to Take these whispers in these pictures in these dreams and these words that show up in your mind

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Yeah, Casey says, you know the our opponent the devil

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Is very powerful and can use some of these same things, you know that this man is attributing to God who's to say?

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I mean if we were to look at a history of false religions how did

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Joseph Smith come about the His startling discoveries because he had a vision

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Yeah, he saw an angel and furthermore. He also saw The very first vision in fact, if you ever talk to more missionaries, they'll try to convince you that Joseph Smith while praying

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Saw God the Father and God the Son two separate personages And if you ever see the movie, they look like identical twins.

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They both have a body. They both look identical Mohammed supposedly got the

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Quran was dictated to him by What's that Yeah by Satan, but by by an angel.

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I mean this is you know, so if God speaks and We can just presume that anything we hear that is not

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You know from a person must be from God then we're in a lot of trouble We can do all sorts of things and found all kinds of false religions

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Good that's absolutely right I mean there's no way of knowing whether those things are from God or from Satan and I would

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Discount the God part because he has given us his word and told us that it's all we need Some of the different ways that God talks to us or has communicated with us and one of them was the

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And I wouldn't discount this but it was the inward prompting by the Holy Spirit. Can he do that?

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Yes What I don't think is we're driving down the street. He says call Jim. I would dispute that And How would that work?

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I don't really know. I think there there are some times that we just we What is a way that we do know that we are prompted by the

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Holy Spirit what's an example that Daniel Okay, yeah guy could bring a scripture to mind absolutely

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John your conscience In the Holy Spirit uses our conscience to convict us of sin

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Yeah, Pam points out that Hudson Taylor was burdened for China rather than Argentina or Nicaragua or any number of other places he could have been burdened for Why was that?

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Because it was God's design I Mentioned Romans 8

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Holy Spirit testifies to our spirit. You know, how do you know that you're saved? One way is certainly you can look at your life as you

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Look back and see, you know, well, this is this is what I designed for my life this is what I wanted and I've seen the work of God in my life up to this day and when

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I think about how it's not like I've arrived But when I think about how my life is now versus how it was 20 years ago.

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I can certainly see the work of God in my life and that gives me great comfort and assurance of salvation

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But how else does God I mean have you ever had this sense and I think this happens to most new Christians when they realize

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When you're struggling with the issue of salvation and you come to realize the burden of your sin

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I think that generally happens first is that you realize that you have indeed sinned against a holy

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God and there's a certain weight of that And then you come to realize what?

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That Jesus Christ died for your sins that you've been forgiven of your sins in Jesus Christ and what happens there is almost like a weightlessness and I and again,

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I think that would be that's not God talking to you. That is the Holy Spirit giving you that sort of assurance of salvation and let's see the

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Roman Catholic Church in Vatican to continues to make her exclusive claims as the sole sphere of salvation and custodian of divine revelation

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And I think I even said something about yeah, they were the custodians. They were one to locked it up and wouldn't let anybody read it

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Yet she consistent with her insistence that human rate reasoning faculties remain unimpaired in the fall allows

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Oh, yeah, I remember this. This was terrible that special revelation Without benefit of special revelation that is scripture

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Human beings can know God in a saving way. This is from Vatican to the sacred synod professes that God the first principle and Last end of all things can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason

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That is sick Because that basically says that the fall had no Not such a severe impact on us that we can't know

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God just by natural revelation We close with this this is in keeping with the latent doctrine of universal salvation prevalent in Vatican to Now here we go

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In any case if God is in other words if God exists, he must not be ignored but worshipped

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God spoke of how the comforter the Holy Spirit would be sent in the world to convict the world of sin in John 16 7 through 10, but it is doubtful of Jesus's promise

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Relates to the Spirit's work apart from the preaching of the word. Let's look at John 16 Verses 17 to 10 and I think

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Culver makes an important point there How would the Holy Spirit?

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Convict us of sin if it were not through the preaching of the

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Word of God, let's read John 16 7 through 10 and Somebody want to read that?

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Pretty look at verse 9 there concerning sin because they do not believe in me

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Well, how could they possibly believe in the Lord Jesus? Apart from divine revelation by just looking at the world as it is

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You can know certain things about God and we've talked about that a little bit You can know that he's a

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God of order. He's a God of power You can know a lot of truths about God, but can you know about Jesus Christ just by looking at?

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the natural world I Think the answer is no So if he's going to convict you of your failure to worship

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Christ, it has to be through preaching this word Okay aside from that promise it has been argued from John 1 9

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John 1 9 that Christ the eternal logos word has also been lighting every person

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Coming into the world and that such Is the meaning of Micah 5 2?

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whether or not these texts Teach us The presence of God's Spirit in the world has always been through what some teachers call

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God's common grace and influence for good and a restraint on evil.

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I Mean, why aren't all people as bad as they possibly could be? Why aren't we all? Cannibalistic, you know evil people because of their strength of God we all have a

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Conscience will have the law of God written in our hearts and we all have not the

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Holy Spirit in the sense of Salvation or anything of that nature, but we have that conscience constantly pricking us and that is in some respect the work of the

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Spirit of God That Yeah, Daniel asks if Well, I guess we could just make it larger if Christians or the church generally speaking don't have some kind of restraint on Sin, I think they do if we look at Well, let's put it this way the more fervently a country or a church is

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Impacts a society You know, is there more or less sin? Well, I'll just give you the most obvious example

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If surveys say that 70 to 80 percent of Americans are Christians and They do say that, you know the

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Christians or that Americans say Somewhere between 70 and some polls are like 85 percent say that they're

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Christians What would the United States actually look like if that were true? I mean, would we be having a debate on whether we should, you know fund

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Planned Parenthood for a 360 million dollars a year. We wouldn't be having that debate It just Would we be having a debate about abortion?

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No, we wouldn't because we would all Understand that that is wrong. We'd be having debates about how to deal with You know

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Unwanted children and all those kind of we'd be having those debates We'd be having debates about how to adopt more kids

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We'd be having debates about what the church's role should be in supporting orphans

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But we wouldn't be having debates like we have in this country Yeah, yeah,

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I think it's definitely true that the That The farther we get from you know, those kind of principles the more we're going to see sin sort of multiply and I mean

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You don't really have to even talk about the United States to look at it If you just look at Europe and see how it has

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Yeah, I mean it's really spiritually dead it's a vacuum over there so Yep, very true

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Okay Yes, Charlie God won't share his glory with dirt with created matter and the idea being that if Creation itself could save then

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God would Would receive or he would be granting glory to his creation and he doesn't do that Salvation is through God alone through Christ alone through his word of law through a specific revelation about himself

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J. O. Buswell wrote this Scholar wrote this actually a fundamentalist.

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So he's worth listening to in my opinion The convicting work of the Holy Spirit in the world in general is a work upon the hearts of all men prior to either faith or regeneration a work wherein not only is the gospel freely offered to all but all are brought to a

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Point of enablement to such a degree that if having been convicted they reject the grace of God thus offered to them but they are subject to the eternal wrath and curse of God because they have not believed and Because they have not received the knowledge of the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness

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In other words, the Holy Spirit is at work in the world But people reject his work

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Sometimes it's even to the point where they can clearly understand the gospel the choices that are being presented to them and they reject it anyway

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All men are held accountable for what they do reject because they do suppress the truth that they that they know

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And Yes, don't they it's gonna be a girl you gotta yeah,

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I mean Isaac and Alicia's separately each individually dreamed

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That their little boy was gonna be a girl that didn't that didn't quite work I I mean that this whole idea and Donnie's exactly right

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You know when when people when Christians especially and I think this is just so dangerous and so many of you here this morning

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Know this from experience that when people set aside when Christians set aside the scripture or when they go out side of scripture to look for something better to look for something deeper and Actually, I would argue it's not to look for something better or something deeper but to look for something

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Easier easier It takes work to study the Bible it is easy to say

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God I Need to know what to do. Could you just you know, show me a short sentence?

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I'm just asking for three or four words. I just want to see them clearly in my mind's eye God could you just give me a dream tonight

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God? Could you just you know speak to me so that I don't have to you know Study your word and try to figure things out for myself.

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I Could please just you know have a still small voice whisper in my ear, that'd be so much better I think it does.

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I think it does fall into the practice of divination. I mean, what's the difference between? Waiting to see so he'd see hear whatever some kind of sign from God and saying, you know what

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God If you want me to do X, I'm gonna roll these two dice and if they come up You know doubles then

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I'm gonna say, okay It's choice a if they come if they don't then it's you know choice

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B and if one of the dice lands on its side Then I'm you know You might as well be the men

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You know, there are examples now. I notice he didn't say that God doesn't speak to us through the casting of lots

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Why not, you know, we could go to the example of Jonah We go to the example of how they chose an apostle we could say well look, you know casting lots

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It's divinely appointed God speaks to us through the rolling of dice Charlie Yeah, delight yourself in the things of God in God himself in the attributes of God in his word

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You know, there are promises up made to us if we study God's Word About the effect that God's Word will have on us

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There are no promises with regard to what? You know God Is speaking to us in a variety of different ways and that we should just wait on those things we have no instructions

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We had no promises concerning those things our our goal our objective our

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Our focus needs to be on what God has revealed to us that we might know him and might know his will for us and not all these extraneous things that Don't have any promise for us whatsoever.

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We need to get closed here Father, we just thank you for your sure word.

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Even as we think about what Peter wrote. He was there on the Mount of Transfiguration And he didn't say

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Oh God speak to your people just as you did to me on that day what he said was

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Writing a group of believers. He said I was there on that mountain. You need to pay attention to the more sure word

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We're referring to the Word of God father Would you just use that lamp in our lives turn us to it again and again?

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That we might know you that we might love you more and that we might understand what your will is for our lives

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Father never let us be pulled Aside by those who would say there is an easier way there is another way

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Let us not open the door to Satan or to any kind of Deception in that way father.