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Okay, we are going to pray and then we're gonna get started on our study.
I see that Sheldon has his hand up.
I should not allow him to speak.
I am worried at this point.
Let's pray and then we'll deal with my anxieties Lord Jesus again as we open up your word.
We pray that through your Holy Spirit that you would help us to understand what you would reveal there So that we may embrace your
word which comforts us with the good news of the forgiveness of our sins we pray that we would be able to
by the power of the Holy Spirit walk on our baptismal faith and Bear the fruit of the Spirit in love and works
towards others not because we are trying to be saved by them But because we are saved because of you we ask in
Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
Hang on a second here against my better judgment.
I'm going to Unmute Sheldon now.
I hang on a second what I'm gonna do here for this Very dangerous maneuver, I'll put
I'll put this over here so we can see Sheldon.
Sheldon.
Let's see.
Are you can y 'all hear him?
Let's see Sheldon.
Hold on we're trying to work out an audio issue.
Ah, the televisions are muted.
That's a problem.
Let's see here.
All right, say something Sheldon.
Say something.
No I'm not hearing it.
Yeah, hang on a sec.
MacBook Pro speakers.
That's what it says.
Yeah, they're they're on.
Huh.
Yeah, this is this is bizarre.
So Sheldon unfortunately due to technological difficulties you have been rendered speechless.
I.
Know it's one of the injustices of this.
I'm looking for that.
I'm trying to figure it out.
Hang on a sec.
Well, it says great room.
Let me try this.
All right, try it now Sheldon.
Try it now.
Can you hear me?
I can.
All right, my my anxiety levels have now just shot through the roof.
Uh -huh, okay.
Yeah.
But well while you're preaching and you know in mentioning all of our things we were very
depressed.
Really shocked by all of the things you mentioned.
You you were shocked by you were shocked by the fact that you I said you're a sinner.
You did.
Okay, so the online folks have raised their hand and so it's so it's Sheldon
sometime after 6 p .m Central check your email and we're gonna try to email you a slice.
FedEx.
Okay, all right, thank you for that.
Yeah, I believe I did yes.
All right, all right, yeah, I'll get back to you.
All right Sheldon, I'm gonna mute.
I'm gonna mute everybody now.
Hang on a second here and mute all there we go.
And there we go.
So last time we were able to meet for Sunday school I began a study a little
mini study by virtue of the fact that we're working our way through the book of Jeremiah.
It was necessary to talk about the topic of sola scriptura.
Now those of you who are been hunting diligently for that particular Sunday school
lesson Alas, it has been corrupted and something happened and we do not have a copy of it.
So that being this that being said today We're gonna do a little bit of review while still
continuing with the topic of sola scriptura.
So, you know not not to be thwarted by technological challenges.
We will endeavor to persevere and so if you remember a couple weeks ago we talked about the
Major basis for the doctrine of sola scriptura is in the words of Christ now.
It's important to note here if you were to listen to Roman Catholic arguments okay,
which I recently had somebody send me a couple of YouTube videos by some Roman Catholic folks
and They they have this funny thing that they do.
So Roman has a dilemma.
Rome has a dilemma.
They have doctrines and dogmas that they hold to that.
They require that you believe but they recognize they are not
found in the Bible.
All right, so what do you do when you find yourself in that awkward situation?
Normally that which should happen is you repent?
Okay.
That that's that that's the standard Procedure so that you can be reconciled to God and not blaspheme
his name to say things about him that are false.
That's a breaking of the Second Commandment but Roman Catholics have this funny thing that they do
they engage in this argument that talks about the topic of Authority, all right
and so they say that the authority in Christ Church is not the Bible.
The Authority is the Pope, right?
The authority is the church or the authority is the Apostles.
This is how they talk and so so in like one of the have you ever seen like You
ever seen a three -card Monty done on the streets.
It's illegal.
It should be illegal three -card those guys know what they're doing or the the guys who have like the table set up and they got The shell and the
pea and and you can hear it clinking and then when they lift up the shell.
It's not there, right?
This is a shell and pea game.
This is exactly what this is.
This is a theological three -card Monty.
There's some sleight of hand going on here when they talk in these ways because when we
talk about.
Authority.
Listen to who has the authority.
Jesus says all authority in heaven on earth has been given to Me.
All right, if you were French mwah, right?
So all authority has been given to mwah.
Christ says it's weird making Jesus French.
That's I need to repent about this.
Okay, but all of that being said Christ is the one who has the authority.
He's the one who calls the shots and then he says this go therefore make
disciples of all nations.
Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you so no the one who
has the authority has Demanded has given his authoritative
Declaration that we as the church are to make disciples and there's a there's a teaching curriculum.
Disciples are learners right disciples are learners and the curriculum is all
that Christ has commanded.
So, where are we gonna find that right?
And if you think in Bible, that's that's not a bad place to look.
And you're gonna note then that in the gospel of John in the gospel of John
John tells us something really interesting and that Is is that in John chapter
20 verse 30?
It says Jesus did Many other signs in the presence of the disciples
which are not written in this book.
Does the Bible contain?
Everything that Jesus ever said Jesus ever taught Jesus ever
did.
No, it didn't it doesn't okay.
Does the Bible contain everything every word that Jeremiah preached?
No, okay.
It you know in order to put something like that together.
You would have to have like a website and you know, some kind of recording device and things like this.
That's not how the scripture works.
So many other signs Jesus did in the presence of the disciples.
They are not written in this book.
But these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that by
believing you may Have life in his name.
All right, and if as I'm reading this you can hear the tune.
That's good.
These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son
of God.
Hallelujah, right?
Yeah, so these things are written so that you may believe so we recognize.
Completely not everything everything that Christ did or said is recorded in Scripture.
No problem with that but now The only place I can go
To find the things that Jesus said and did Is in the Bible,
right?
That's how this works.
The only place you can go is Scripture in fact if somebody were to come along today and Say
well, I believe this that or the other thing about Jesus and that you know in fact because I have such a
fondness for grilled cheese sandwiches on rye.
Whoo, okay.
Okay, you know that this is a righteous thing.
Okay this this there.
Okay, manna from heaven has it doesn't even come close.
Okay, they the children of Israel Complained about manna.
I've never had a complaint about grilled cheese sandwich on rye ever.
Okay, and in fact, it's it's the most comforting of comfort foods.
Oh, and it's one of the melt the cheeses, you know what I'm saying?
So therefore because of my love for these things it obviously follows that that is
Jesus's favorite food.
Right, yeah, the issue here is is that I don't have a text that says that and it doesn't
matter how true it is.
About the goodness and wholesomeness and comfort ability of a grilled cheese sandwich on rye.
To go beyond the scripture is not what I'm allowed to do.
So, you know then the basis of sola scriptura when we use the Bible begins with the actual positive words of
Christ that We are to teach all that he is commanded now this leads to the next
question.
Okay, because we we deal in our day and age where you have scoffers within the visible church.
Scoffers who are twisting the words of God and come up with these really clever arguments.
So here's clever argument.
Number one if you would.
Well when I read the Gospels, I'm a red -letter Christian and when I read the Gospels, I don't see Jesus
anywhere condemning homosexuality.
So I guess we can say that that's okay.
Okay, what's the problem with that?
Has Jesus commanded?
Against the sexual sin of homosexuality.
How about adultery?
Okay, how about sleeping with your cousin?
Now, I don't remember Jesus ever saying you can't sleep with your cousin.
Okay, I don't find that in the red letters.
But where do we find those commands?
Old Testament, okay.
The Old Testament lays that out and so you'll note then that somebody who cleverly points out all of the
omissions in Jesus is.
Teaching.
Okay, Jesus never once said that smoking leads to the lung cancer.
Okay, never said that.
But all of that being said We have to take the Old Testament into consideration
when we consider all that Christ has commanded because Jesus is the second person of the
Trinity.
There is one God three persons and God has inspired
and Commanded Moses to write particular commands that form the basis of
Understanding then the difference between right and wrong good and evil Those things
that are wholesome and those things that are perverse Those things that are profane versus those things that are holy
that is laid out very clearly in the Old Testament.
And so as a result of it in order to teach all that Christ has commanded requires every pastor
to teach both the Old and the New Testament.
And To make a proper distinction then when it comes to God's law as it relates
to what kind of law we're dealing with which leads to clever argument number two.
Clever argument number two goes something like this.
Well.
We can just ignore that Old Testament because it has commands in there against eating
lobster and Wearing clothes that have mixed fabrics.
Are you wearing right now a t -shirt that has a cotton polyester mix in it?
Don't you understand the Old Testament forbids that.
Ha so we can just say that anything goes.
It's a clever argument.
But here's the issue if you read the book Itself it explains it.
So let me give you an example on on this one in the book of Colossians, okay.
Colossians chapter 2.
Okay, the Apostle Paul Lays a
few things out here in relation to how the Old Testament works and how we are to look at it.
Hebrews does an expanded edition of this but here's the kind of a first pass Paul writing to
Christians at the Church of Colossi says therefore let no one pass judgment on you in
questions of food of Drink or with regard to a festival or a new moon
or a Shabbat.
I have to say it the way that the Hebrew roots folks that this is Shabbat, right?
Well that being the case you're gonna know what your Paul's basically saying.
Don't let anyone just pass judgment on you because guess what the Gentiles in Colossi are not Keeping the
Sabbath.
The Gentiles in Colossi are not observing the distinction between Clean and
unclean foods.
The Christians in Colossi are not celebrating Passover Pesach and they're not doing any of that.
Here's what Paul says these are a shadow of the things to come but the substance belongs to Christ.
So when we look at the Old Testament then when it comes to commandments We break them up
into three big blocks.
You know commandments are either going to be moral law, which is eternal by the way moral law
civil law which is an extension of the moral law used by the left -hand Kingdom and.
Then.
Ceremonial law.
So it says here.
These are a shadow of the things to come but the substance belongs to Christ.
So as Christians are we required to take the day off on Saturday starting at
sundown on Friday?
No, we're not.
We're not required to do that.
And the reason why is the Sabbath itself is a type in shadow of salvation by grace through faith
apart from works.
So the idea then is is that Teaching all that Christ has commanded also was going to
require you to be a good disciple of Jesus and the Apostles.
Who explained to us what our relationship is to the Mosaic Covenant?
Mosaic Covenant the if the official term for the Mosaic Covenant its status right now in German, it's
kaput.
Okay, the Mosaic Covenant is kaput.
It's it's it's no longer in effect.
Christ has fulfilled it.
We are in the New Covenant and the moral law that is part of the Mosaic Covenant.
You'll note if you are a careful student of the of the New Testament That
all but one of the Ten Commandments is reiterated in the New Testament all but one
and that's the command to keep the Sabbath and The rest of the nine are reiterated as
still binding on us.
And here's the reason why.
For.
Eternity for Christians.
For us in the new earth.
It will forever be a sin to have a God other than the true God.
It will forever be that way.
It will forever be a sin to blaspheme God's name.
It'll forever be a sin to despise his word.
It'll forever be a sin and In the new earth even to despise
proper authorities whom Christ will establish in the new earth Himself being the king
king of kings and Lord of Lords.
It will forever be a sin to murder somebody.
It will forever be a sin to be sexually immoral through adultery and other means.
It'll forever be a sin to Steal or to lie about somebody or to covet the good gifts that God has
given them in the new earth.
You'll note that when you read the prophet Isaiah and parts of the book of Jeremiah and you get hints at the end of
revelation.
That the new earth is described in terms of sinlessness no chaos
No consequences of sin because there is no sin.
Instead it is a world where we will perfectly love God and perfectly love each other.
Forever.
In other words the chaos and lawlessness of our present age, which seems to be getting darker and
weirder by the minute.
Right.
We'll all pass away to the calm Wonderful steady
Kingdom of God without sin.
And the best part is is that I you know, I keep saying this the young kids here I feel for you right now, but just
because I know what's coming.
You're gonna end up looking like me.
Okay, it's just a matter of time and I apologize, you know, but this last this is
the way it goes, right?
We fall apart but in the new earth.
Look around the room right now.
Look at the D.
This is who you're spending eternity with.
So you might want to get to know them during lunch just you know just saying because you might not be in neighbors or something like In the New Jerusalem,
but all of that being said these are the people we're gonna hang out together like forever and
You're not gonna recognize me.
You just you can.
Who is that guy?
You know, it's like yeah my 1980s guy came back.
All right, yeah, I have to wear I have to wear the skinny ties again and you know, yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Right my voice will be the same but I won't say anything like I'm really hungry like the wolf or you know.
It's weird stuff like that.
But the point is is that we're all going to be we're gonna our youth is going to be restored and we're going to live in a world without
end without sin, which means there's this we're going to really really have an
Amazing time with our God with each other and It's going to last.
It will never end.
Ever.
So that's some really cool stuff.
And if you want to know what it's it's like look at the Ten Commandments.
We're gonna keep them.
Perfectly, you will never pull up a newspaper in the New Jerusalem.
All right and read the headline, you know 10 ,000 murdered in war or about
some kind of a school shooting or you know, and just you won't hear anything about a pandemic.
You know, none of that will occur.
No earthquakes.
No tsunamis all the stuff that we wake up to.
It's like I feel like every time when I turn my computer on and I fire up Apple News, it's like, okay.
What happened now, you know, it's it's just depressing right?
It'll never be that in the new earth.
So you'll note then a proper understanding of the law.
Gives us something actually Eschatologically to hang on to and hope for all right a world
like that sounds like a good place to live.
All right, and it will be it will be a fantastic place to live and we never have to worry about
Dying saying goodbye to people never seeing them again.
We're good.
With I think we should have a party at Ashley's house like week two, you know, what do you think actually upset?
You heard it she agreed so.
So all of that being said then okay.
Let's let's just do a little bit of biblical work here as we work through some biblical texts that talk
about our Relationship to these things and then I'll you know I'm trying to keep this on a
positive note as far as like affirming what the scripture says and so we're gonna take a look.
Let me go to Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 2 here.
Here are the words and so you're gonna note that from time to time throughout the his human history
God has chosen to write things.
Notice it was not man who came up with this idea of writing a Bible it was God and
So there's a commandment that we see in the book of Deuteronomy.
You shall not add to the word that I command you nor take from it.
That you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God that I command you.
So you'll note that God puts these these things in place.
So the Torah has been written.
The Torah is written and God at the end of the Torah says you cannot add to this.
You cannot take away from it and you're gonna note that God forbids people to add or take
away from his word.
One of the things I couldn't I can legitimately say is somebody who's knows a thing or two about heresy.
I've listened to a little bit of it.
All right, is that it almost?
Without exception.
Somebody is guilty when it comes to heresy of either adding to God's Word or taking
away from it and Even if they're adding by virtue of the fact that they're twisting it.
It's still an addition because that's not what the text means.
And so you'll note that God makes it very clear.
You don't get to add to or take away to my word and here's the reason why who's talking to
you when you read the Bible God and As a pastor, my job is
exemplified if you were to you know to kind of talk about this.
By the work of like Ezra the priest after the Israelite the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon.
Ezra the priest was a man who dedicated himself to the study of Scripture to the public reading of it
and Even had people there to help people understand its proper sense.
The one thing I can say I legitimately don't ever want to do is Tell you something about a biblical
text.
That's not true.
All right, so you'll know that one of the things I never do I never tell you that well David slayed
Goliath.
So you need to get your five smooth stones and go slay your Goliaths.
Okay, you know, this just sounds annoyingly.
Too much energy.
I just I'd rather watch Netflix, right?
We don't talk like this and the reason why is because that's not what the text means so you'll know we do not get to add
to or Nor take away and then note what it says that I
command.
You.
Who's doing the commanding in the Bible God.
That sounds like the highest authority ever to me.
Okay, so the idea then is is that God's Word is what it's living.
It's active.
It's sharper than any two -edged sword.
God is the one.
Speaking through these texts now by way of a little bit of
review in Mark chapter 7 we did this in the in the episode of our Sunday school that
didn't quite make the cut because of the Technological issue we noted that when Jesus was
out doing his ministry work and the Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to check out Jesus's
ministry.
All right, you know, so Jesus was constantly under scrutiny like constantly.
Alright, so headquarter sends their best guys from Jerusalem and they watch Jesus.
They watch Jesus heal the sick.
They hear Jesus preach and teach and they have nothing negative to
say until Until Jesus doesn't
allow his disciples to engage in the Pharisees hand -washing ceremony.
All right, so this is an addition to the scripture.
So people can add to the scripture when we talk about additions, they can add to the scripture through tradition.
All right, human tradition and bind people's consciences.
And here's where we're gonna have to pay careful note to something.
There are some folks who you like first look at Kongsvinger Lutheran Church.
They go.
Oh Roman Catholic, okay, the pastor wears a collar.
Oh, yeah, you know.
What's wrong with those Lutherans, right?
Right, this is what they do.
And so they'll sit there and though and you can you can almost hear them, you know doing the fiddler on the roof thing going.
Tradition.
What's wrong with you Lutherans tradition, right?
You can just hear this.
Now it's true.
We Lutherans have traditions most certainly true.
However, when we're talking about the traditions that Christ is condemning.
These are traditions that usurp God's Word.
They add to God's Word or they take away from God's Word.
So no, you cannot add to you cannot subtract from.
And so.
Me wearing a clerical collar.
Basically, I keep talking about this as a uniform and you'll notice at the square dancing night at the Mathsons.
Was I wearing a clerical?
No.
Last week at the Manual service, you know.
We did this outdoors.
When I took my uniform off a couple of people said I don't even recognize you right?
They'd never seen me out of uniform.
Okay, if I'm not on duty, I'm not wearing the uniform.
Okay, the whole purpose of the uniform is to make pastors uniform to make us
interchangeable with each other.
But here's the thing.
Are we Commanded as pastors to wear uniform.
So there are a few guys within confessional Lutheranism that sometimes get really
dangerously close to taking this good practice and making it a requirement and
I always tell those guys and I you know, I tell them, you know this way I also told them publicly and told them to their
face as soon as you guys make it a Requirement for me to wear this uniform and say that
you're not really a true confessional Lutheran unless you wear the uniform out.
Come the Birkenstocks and The I'm not only the Birkenstocks.
I'm gonna get the white 1970s like thigh -high Athletic socks with the two
stripes on them.
Okay, and I'm gonna go full -on Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt.
I'm doing that from the pulpit and it's gonna be glorious.
Cowabunga.
Why.
Because as soon as you tell me I have to do this and I'm not really a Lutheran unless I do this.
You've now added to the Word of God and I am duty bound to break your rule.
Okay, so when we look at mark 7 We the again the history of this.
I've talked.
I talk on this frequently, but I'll just kind of give you a quick summary.
The Pharisees added to the Word of God and The way they added to it was very
clever.
They added by saying and here was their narrative.
When Moses ascended on Mount Sinai God gave Moses the written Torah
and he got.
God gave Moses the oral Torah.
And the oral Torah was for the purpose of Gentiles never hearing the whole truth
so that they couldn't be saved.
That's the whole purpose, right?
And so you'll know when you read the written Torah.
Is there a commandment in the written Torah that when you go to the grocery store and you're around those icky sinners?
That you have to wash your hands when you come into your house.
Okay, but that was the gist of this command and it was found in their oral Torah and.
So the command went something like this when you go out to this when you go out to the marketplace.
It was called the Agora.
When you go out to the Agora and you're among the goyim.
That's the Gentiles.
They they they make you unclean their uncleanness is airborne.
And so since they couldn't social distance what they would do then is is that when they would go into their homes.
There was a washbasin and a pitcher and you had to do this stupid a little washing ceremony.
Left foot left hand Face down right hand palm down left hand palm up right hand palm
up and then this prayer.
I thank you God that you've given me the command to wash my hands.
Did God command people to do that.
No they added to the Word of God.
Okay, and.
Jesus tells his disciples.
You do not do that.
Because if his disciples had done that Jesus would by their actions have
affirmed this addition to the Word of God.
So no, you cannot add to you cannot take away.
So here's how it goes.
All right, so the Pharisees and all the Jews.
They do not eat unless they wash their hands properly holding to this needs to be capitalized tradition of the elders.
That's a body of work.
That's the oral Torah.
And when they come from the marketplace They do not eat unless they wash and there are many other traditions.
They observe such as the washing of cups pots copper vessels and dining couches.
Important note here.
The word for wash is baptized.
So baptized.
So if any way if you heard anyone ever say Baptizo in Greek means full immersion.
No, it doesn't it just no one fully immerses a dining couch.
That's not how this works.
Right, you're gonna ruin it.
All right, and then note here the Pharisees and scribes they asked Jesus.
Why do your disciples not walk?
That's a Hebraism.
Why did they not conduct their lives?
According to what the tradition of the elders?
Why it's because it's an addition you cannot add to or subtract.
But they eat with defiled hands.
Jesus said well did Isaiah prophesy of you you hypocrites as it is written this people honors me with
their lips.
Their heart is far from me in vain.
Do they worship me doing what teaching as doctrines the commandments of men?
I'm gonna say this Rome is exactly like this.
So for instance Rome teaches the doctrine of what Semper Virgo that
Mary was Perpetually a virgin.
Do you have a biblical text that teaches this?
No, in fact, I got one that contradicts it.
I've got a couple that contradicted so for instance, okay Marriage is a
union between a man and a woman and according to scripture men and women who are married are required to
As part of marriage to come together.
Physically, it's part of it in fact Scripture is very clear that it is not to be
disengaged from unless by mutual consent for just a period a small period of time so that
There is no temptation that the devil doesn't come in and tempt.
This is a command.
All right, and Mary was betrothed To Joseph and was married to
Joseph and there's this funny little text in Gospel of Matthew
That I think is important, okay.
Please fulfill was a prophet.
So here we go.
So I'll back up into our context.
So now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way when his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together.
She was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit her husband Joseph.
This is Matthew 1 by the way being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame resolved to divorce her quietly.
Notice Joseph's a just dude, right?
But as he considered these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not Fear to take
Mary as your wife for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
She will bear you a son and shall you shall call his name Jesus Where he will save his people from their sins and all
this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the Prophet.
Who Did.
Who did the speaking by the way there?
The Lord so we talk about Scripture who's talking God is right
that spoken by the Prophet behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and call his name Emmanuel which means God with
us when Joseph woke from sleep.
He did as the angel of the Lord commanded him.
He took his wife, but he knew her not Chaos until she had
given birth to a son and he called his name Jesus.
So the question then comes up where does Semper Virgo come from.
Where does this doctrine that Mary was perpetually a virgin.
It comes from man.
Yeah, but let me give you a more specific it comes from a document
called the the pseudo the The pseudo gospel of
The pseudo evangelion of James, that's the name of it second century text.
It's Gnostic.
All right, and in the pseudo you are in Gilead of James.
You have the story of you guys remember?
Samuel okay, his mother's name was Hannah and Samuel was
Conceived because God answered Hannah's prayer and then he grew up in the temple.
The best way I can describe the pseudo you are in Gilead of James is it takes that story and changes the sex.
It's it's really bad fan fiction.
In fact, it's Gnostic fan fiction.
It's the best way I can put it and the way the story goes.
Okay, is that?
Mary's mother her name is st.
Remember aunt st. Anna.
Okay, Anna is the Greek version of Hannah.
Okay, it's the same it's the same story is just the names and the sexes have changed so if you if
you know your Roman Catholicism, it's st. Anne who is the mother of the Virgin Mary in
fact when Luther Before he hurt discovered the gospel the thing that
scared him into going into the monastery and being a monk.
He was studying to be an attorney.
Which his dad was very proud of his dad was very disappointed when Martin Luther decided he's gonna become a monk because what happened?
He was traveling on one summer day and a big old thunderstorm came by and a bolt of lightning
struck a tree really close to To where Luther was and he cried out st. Anne
save me.
Right, he praised the st. Anne and and because st. Anne saved him and he wasn't killed by the lightning storm.
He decided that that was a sign from God.
He needed to become a monk.
Okay, I kid you not you just yeah, that's right.
He was a is a Roman Catholic kid who believed in st. Anne even prayed to her right where the scripture does it say?
We are to pray to Saints.
Nowhere, is that an addition to the scripture?
You cannot add to or take away.
It's an addition.
So the Pseudo Evangelion of James teaches that Mary's mother was a woman by the name of Anne or Anna
she conceives Mary and under miraculous type circumstances and then
Dedicates her to work in the temple.
And she's able to work as a little girl in the temple kind of the way that Samuel did when he was a little boy.
But here was the issue here was the issue when she gets to be about 12 years old.
They know that you know.
She's going to go the way of women and she's gonna start menstruating and so they can't have her polluting the temple making it
unclean.
With her menstrual cycle so they come up with a solution the priests decide they're going to auction her
off.
Okay, they're they're going they're good.
They're basically gonna have a raffle.
Okay, they're gonna have a raffle for the purpose of Pawning Mary off in marriage
and what ended up happening is is that apparently this carpenter from Nazareth in his?
50s.
So he's old.
He's already has his own kids.
His wife has died.
He's there at the temple working on the temple Right doing some repair work and a
dove comes down on him and the lights on him While he's doing his work and the priests see that as a
sign and so he's the one who gets married.
Okay, but he had already had his kids so he wasn't interested in any intercourse and things like this.
I kid you not this is how the story goes.
Read the Pseudo -Evangelical of James.
All right, but here's the thing the church at the time Knew
that it was this was a False text that this was this was an imposter this was
not really written by James nor did it contain anything accurate about it about the life of Christ
or the Backstory of Mary and all this kind of stuff and the church at the time condemned the thing as a forgery.
But what does Rome say?
Well tradition says that Mary's mother's name was Anne and Tradition
says that she remained a virgin because Joseph never had relations with her.
That's called an addition to the scriptures.
All right, and here's the thing if you're a Roman Catholic, are you required to believe these things?
Yes.
Now I will make this side note.
There are some very famous Lutherans who held on to Semper Virgo.
It was a pious belief but every one of them who held on to this belief knew that it was not in Scripture and just
held on to it as A pious belief and kept it at that.
All right, you want to believe that fine?
You want to believe in the Easter Bunny?
Go ahead.
Okay, I'm not going to condemn you if you believe in the Easter Bunny or Semper Virgo, but they're they're from the same origin.
That's the idea.
These are these are not doctrines that come from the scripture.
So we cannot add to we cannot take away from the biblical text.
And so you'll note them the scoffers the scoffers today who say well Jesus never condemned this that or the other
thing, right?
What are they doing?
They're taking away from the scripture.
So we cannot add to nor take away and scriptures clear that Joseph didn't know Mary
until she had given birth to a son until.
And the natural sense of this text is actually quite clear what that means and she had entered into
a Marriage which is a covenant which includes.
That okay, plus you'll note that this the thorny thing.
Jesus has brothers and sisters.
Okay, and you ask every Roman Catholic.
How do you explain that?
Well, the word Adelphi could also mean cousins.
Yes, it can but why were the cousins traveling with Mary?
Okay, so like okay.
My kids have cousins, but here's the thing my cousin.
My kids as cousins don't hang out at my house.
They hang out at their aunt's house.
I'm not, you know, and my kids his aunt's house, right?
That's how that works.
Okay, but you know that Jesus is brothers and sisters.
They're hanging out with Mary.
Okay, the whole thing just reeks but so talking then cannot add to or take away.
So coming back then to our text in Mark, let me find this real quick
I'm just so disorganized today.
What am I doing?
Relation.
I see what I did there.
All right, let me go back to Mark.
So well, did Isaiah prophesy you you hypocrites in vain?
Do they worship me teaching as doctrines the commandments of men that's an addition to the scriptures and then he says this
you leave the commandment of God and You hold to the tradition of men.
So Christ here is condemning them for an addition and.
Subtractions.
Okay, so you're now leaving the commandments of God and here's how they do it.
So you're familiar with the talk the doctrine of Corban that the Pharisees had set up the way Corban
works.
Is that let's say mom is getting old in age, right?
Dad's gone and and and mom's a little.
She can be a little in -your -face.
Have you noticed that sometimes guys don't you know, like like especially firstborn guys don't get along with their mom.
So well at times it's it's a thing.
Okay, so maybe maybe you're you don't have the best relationship with your mom.
Mom's getting up there in age and you're thinking Dude, it's just like two or three years before mom's
gonna end up moving in my house and stay with us until she dies.
And I would rather die than have mom in my house.
Okay, this is how this goes.
And so what the Pharisees did is they created this doctrine called Corban and the way it works is is that they
had set up?
Really like like a like some kind of an amortization schedule, you know.
What's the average amount of lifetime you can expect from a man from a woman?
How old is that person and then how much does it cost to feed them and house them?
Over a period of a year and then you can work it all out.
So you look at mom mom's in her, you know in her mid 60s.
She's probably gonna live another 10 years and and every year it's gonna cost this amount of money to take care of
mom.
And so you can expect that over the you know, the remainder of the 10 years.
It's gonna cost this amount of money.
They would calculate this out.
All right, and then all you had to do was this.
Take the lump sum write a check to the temple for the entire amount and say
that this is now a gift given to God and Then you can wash your hands of your
mother and you don't have to take care of her at all.
What was that?
You're on the highway to hell right.
Exactly, okay.
So can you think of a commandment that is being broken here?
Okay honor your father and your mother.
Okay, but the oral Torah says Corban, right?
Yeah, the reason why the oral Torah says Corban is because the Pharisees were into money.
They were prosperity preachers.
So Jesus says you have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of who God in order to
establish your.
For Moses said Honor your father and mother whoever reviles father or mother must
surely die.
Love the Greek here must die the death.
But you say.
But you who are you?
Okay, you say if a man tells his father or his mother whatever you would have gained
from me as Corban That is a gift given to God.
Then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father and mother thus making void the Word of God
by your Tradition that you have handed down and many such things you do.
You cannot add to you cannot take away and you're gonna note their additions
resulted in taking away actual commands from God and that's the
thing when you add to the Word of God everyone's focused on what the addition is and The real Word of God just kind of
falls by the wayside.
Have you ever had a conversation with a Mormon?
All right, the Mormons.
What what what books do they consider to be authoritative books from God?
Book of Mormon.
Doctrines and covenants.
Pearl of great price, right.
And.
These are all in addition to the Bible.
They also consider the Bible to be the Word of God.
However, there's a nice big asterisk.
All right, so we believe that the Bible is the Word of God.
Asterix.
Then you go down you look at the six -point font.
And the six -point font says only in the King James Version and only insofar as it is correctly
translated.
So here's how this works.
Okay, you sit there you say to a Mormon.
You believe that you can become a god.
That's what's revealed in the book of Abraham.
It's also in Doctrine and Covenants number 138 you we see it if this is this is called the law of eternal
progression as as Man is God once was.
And as God is man can become it's the law of eternal progression.
You sit there and go dude.
Do you even Bible and you go?
Well, what do you mean?
Well, I I've read in Isaiah 40, you know, like 43, you know.
Not that I'm I'm a Hebrew scholar or anything, but Isaiah 43 says this verse
10.
You are my witnesses declares Yahweh My servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and
believe me and understand that I am he.
Watch this before me.
No God was formed nor shall there be any after me.
I am I.
I am Yahweh and besides me there is no Savior.
And you sit there and go says right there It's in black and white before me.
No, God was formed.
Well, that wasn't correctly translated.
You are correct.
You see the problem here, okay.
So, you know, it's been a while since I've had a conversation with a Mormon.
But I know what I would immediately say if they were to pull that on me I'll pull the text
out and they say well, it's not correctly translated.
I'd say I time I've been a great.
What would you say.
I asked if you know Hebrew.
Law.
Loma Vena.
Breed.
Local cocktail, you know, this is how we talk to them.
You know, I can pull out the Hebrew text and I can say now explain to me how this isn't correctly translated.
Would you?
They wouldn't be able to do it, but that's their go -to.
So they've added to the Word of God and their additions contradict the clear scriptures and.
They say then if you point out a biblical text that contradicts their doctrines their additions.
Well, that's not correctly translated.
This is not how this works at all, right, but it doesn't.
Rome do the same thing.
Well, it doesn't say in the Bible that we're supposed to pray to dead saints, but not everything written down that's that
the Apostles Todd is written down.
So we are the ones who are the possessors of this this oral teaching of the
Apostles and We know that this is the case because the church has kept this and the church we have the authority.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
All right, how we doing on time?
We're doing good.
Good.
All right so let me give you another text along these lines because we're still talking about solo scriptura and This then
requires us to take a closer look at 2nd Peter.
Okay, I always liked pointing this out that Peter as he's getting ready to die.
If you haven't figured this out 2nd Peter is the last thing that Peter writes before he's crucified.
Christ made it clear that he was going to die the same way that Jesus did and
Tradition this is absolute tradition tells us that he was crucified upside down.
We can't prove it.
However, the bones that they found in st. Peter's that are supposed to be Peter's bones.
The the legs were hacked.
So which kind of it verifies the story the you know, the the skeletons kind of the the leg bones are hacked
up.
So he was cut from the from the cross after he died three days later.
And we actually have forensic proof along those lines with all that being said.
Okay in 2nd Peter.
Here's what Peter writes.
We did not follow Cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the
power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice was born to him by the majestic glory.
This is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased.
You'll note Peter here is referencing the man of transfiguration.
I always like to say that if Patricia King would be willing to sell her mother into slavery to have
that kind of encounter with God, right?
So this is my beloved son whom I am.
Well Pleased we ourselves.
We heard this very voice that was born from heaven for we were with him on the
holy mountain.
All right, and you're gonna note here now.
He's going to switch gears up.
Peter as he's getting ready to die is not pointing people to Supernatural
experiences.
He's not pointing them to now.
We had this experience on the holy mountain and you should expect that too.
Okay, you're gonna hear the voice of the Father.
You need to chase after signs and wonders and miracles and all this kind of stuff.
No, here's what he says and We have the prophetic word
more fully confirmed to which you will do
well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place.
Until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Knowing this first of all no prophecy of graph face.
Scripture.
Comes from someone's own interpretation.
For no prophecy was ever spoken by the will of man But men
spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Hmm.
So as Peter's getting ready to die What's he pointing you to?
The Word.
Now this this is a little bit funny kind of along those same same lines, you know that
Paul the Apostle Paul he was also martyred very much around the same time Peter was
Paul was martyred by Nero.
Second Timothy is his last letter Written to a pastor of a congregation
in the city of Ephesus.
So he writes to Pastor Timothy you.
However, you have followed my teaching my conduct my aim in life my faith
my patience my love my steadfastness my persecutions my sufferings that happened to me at
Antioch at a conium at Leastra at which persecutions I endured yet from all of them The Lord
rescued me indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ.
Jesus will be persecuted.
Let me say that in this in this list this way All who desire to be living a godly life in Christ
will be persecuted.
Doesn't work when I do it like that, does it?
Could you imagine Joel Osteen preaching a sermon on this text?
No, right.
Well evil people and Impostors, they're gonna go from bad to worse deceiving and being
deceived but as for you.
Continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you've been
acquainted with here We go the sacred gramata the sacred writings
Which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ.
Jesus all Scripture is breathed out by who?
God who's talking to you in the Bible.
God is is there a higher authority than him?
No, all scriptures breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching for reproof for
correction Which is negative and for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be complete and
equipped for some good works.
It says every doesn't it?
Yeah for every good work.
Is there a good work that Christ is going to call you to?
That the scriptures will not equip you for.
All right, then he continues So I charge you in the presence of God and of
Christ Jesus who's to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing And his kingdom.
What's the job of the pastor?
Preach the word.
Now all.
Authority in heaven on earth has been given to Christ, right?
Who called me to be a pastor?
God did right and that call was confirmed by tongues of Inger Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minnesota.
Don't you know?
That's how the call is confirmed.
Yeah, that's how Mike my calls in the ministry was confirmed by this congregation calling me to the ministry.
So.
Was did I invent the pastoral office?
Let me put it in another way.
The office of the President of the United States.
Did Joe Biden invent that office.
Fourth Commandment dude.
Fourth Commandment, okay.
Okay, but the office itself.
Can the person who occupies the office of the President of the United States make
laws?
No, he can't.
He can sign them.
He's the executive According to the Constitution which was written long before any of us were
alive.
At least I think.
Don you weren't around.
Okay, right just checking.
Right, but all that being said, okay.
There are very clearly Specific duties and powers given to the office of the president.
There are very specific duties and Requirements for the office of
pastor.
I fill the office here in this congregation.
But I didn't invent it.
Where where do I find the duties of that of this office outlined in the Bible?
Okay, but here's one of them.
My job is to preach what.
Which words?
The Bible because this in the context of Scripture, right?
You know the sacred writings make you wise for salvation.
They're going to equip you for every good work.
So which biblical text will I be preaching through when I get to the doctrine that all?
Middle -aged white men are racists.
Which biblical text will I be preaching them?
Which biblical text will I be preaching when I get to the doctrine of Semper Virgo.
First hallucinations, right?
Which biblical text will I be preaching through that tells me that I can vacation in?
Heaven with Kat Kerr while filing lawsuits in the courts of heaven.
Second hallucinations, right?
Okay, which biblical text will I be preaching through that teaches us how to avoid an attack on
my brain by the sneaky squid spirit.
Yes, it's second tentacles.
It's a second tentacles chapter 5 by the way.
Okay, now you starting to see it right.
Okay, so I.
The church is called to Teach all that Christ has commanded.
Pastors are only allowed to preach the word.
No Christian is allowed to add to or take away from the Word of God.
And When you start to work out the positive case here
I've got one book to go to and it's thankfully it's long.
Okay, because otherwise I'm gonna get become very redundant.
But it's a long book and it requires me to be in that and teaching it and helping people to understand the
natural sense.
Is that not by definition?
Sola scriptura if my job is to preach the word.
I don't get to preach my opinions.
I don't get to preach the the current doctrine de jure that everybody's super excited about.
In fact, I assure you because I can't find it in the Bible.
I will never trouble you with critical race theory.
Am I authorized to preach critical race theory?
Am I authorized to preach evolution from the pulpit?
Am I required by scripture to teach that you all need to have a second baptism of the Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in tongues and
barking like dogs.
The job of the pastors to preach the word and so you can see this then in the Positive cases
and then next week.
We'll talk a little bit more.
We'll actually kind of blow this up.
But that's that's your foundation.
That's your basis for sola scriptura, and it's not it's it's not contrary to
scripture.
It's absolutely demanded by it.
And if a pastor is only permitted to preach the word.
I can't add to or take away by human tradition.
Well, I can't change the curriculum and you're gonna note that there is no Bible like 1
.2.
Okay, or Bible 3 .0, okay, we got Bible.
Now we can talk, you know.
Maybe in the weeks ahead about how the Bible came into existence.
Especially in the New Testament.
How did the church come to say these these documents and not others.
That is an interesting study.
But those who try to basically say well the church existed without a Bible, you know for three centuries,
that's baloney.
There's a little bit of a note on along these lines, all right.
If we didn't have any ancient manuscripts of the New Testament.
No ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, so we don't have Codex Sinaiticus.
We don't have Vaticanus.
We don't have the the John Ryland's manuscript.
We don't have any of these really cool manuscripts that they're following today.
We hadn't we had none of these work stand.
We didn't have any of them.
From the writings of the Church Fathers from the death of John the Apostle until
Roughly, let's say 250 AD.
From just the writings of the Church Fathers.
How much of the New Testament could I reproduce?
From just those that time period.
How much?
Yeah, all of it except for 11 verses.
All of it.
Every single book with the exception of like 11 verses
now that tells you something.
That tells you that the ancient church before the Bible was officially ratified by
Constantine, which is a false narrative.
But long before that they already knew what was apostolic and what wasn't and they quoted it
authoritatively against heresy.
And they quoted authoritatively to encourage and build up the Saints.
So that being the case I think we got a pretty good case here that even the ancient church understood solo scriptura
even before they Finally said okay these books and no others, but there were there were certain
books that were never in question.
Never in fact it the the books that were in question as to whether or not they were
apostolic.
These these are the works that were written against that were called Antilagomena.
It's not that big of a list.
It's a pretty small list the remainder fully Adopted almost
immediately and used authoritatively from the time that they were written.
So, all right, we will pick up on this topic next week.
Glad to see you those of you online.
Peace to you.
We're gonna sign up, but I gotta pray for our food first.
Let's pray the eyes of all look to Oh Lord.
You grant them their food at the proper time you open your hands you satisfy the desires of every living thing.
Bless us the Lord in these your gifts, which we're about to receive in your bountiful goodness of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Peace to you brothers and sisters Lord willing.
We'll see you next time.