The Prophet Jeremiah Part 23

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August 24, 2022

The Prophet Jeremiah Part 24

00:00: Okay, we are going to pray and then we're gonna get started on our study.
00:05: I see that Sheldon has his hand up I should not allow him to speak. I am worried at this point
00:14: Let's pray and then we'll deal with my anxieties Lord Jesus again as we open up your word
00:19: 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
00:32: 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
00:40: But because we are saved because of you we ask in Jesus name. Amen All right.
00:45: Hang on a second here against my better judgment. I'm going to Unmute Sheldon now.
00:51: I think hang on a second what I'm gonna do here for this Very dangerous maneuver,
00:57: 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?
01:04: Let's see Sheldon Hold on we're trying to work out an audio issue
01:13: The televisions are muted that's a problem. Let's see here All right, say something
01:20: Sheldon say something No, he's not not hearing it. Yeah, hang on a sec
01:26: MacBook Pro speakers. That's what it says Yeah, they're they're on Huh?
01:34: Yeah, this is this is bizarre. So Sheldon unfortunately due to technological difficulties you have been rendered speechless.
01:43: I Know it's one of the injustices of this. I'm looking for that and trying to figure it out. Hang on a second
01:49: Wait, it says great room. Let me try this. All right, try it now Sheldon. Try it now. I Can all right my my anxiety levels have now just shot through the roof.
02:00: All right Okay, yeah
02:22: You Were shocked by you were shocked by the fact that I said you're a sinner
02:38: You did okay, so the online folks have raised their hand and so it's so it's
02:44: Sheldon sometime after 6 p .m Central check your email and we're gonna try to email you a slice
02:55: FedEx pizza, okay.
03:02: All right. Thank you for that Yeah, I believe
03:11: I did yes All Right, all right.
03:16: 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.
03:25: All right. 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 as we're working our way through the book of Jeremiah It was necessary to talk about the topic of sola scriptura
03:40: Now those of you who are been hunting diligently for that particular
03:45: Sunday school lesson Alas, it has been corrupted and something happened and we do not have a copy of it so That being the step being said today
03:56: 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
04:04: We will endeavor to persevere and so if you remember a couple weeks ago We talked about the the major basis for the doctrine of sola scriptura is in the words of Christ now
04:17: It's important to note here if you were to listen to Roman Catholic arguments Okay, which
04:23: I recently had somebody send me a couple of YouTube videos by some Roman Catholic folks
04:28: And they they have this funny thing that they do. So Roman has a dilemma
04:34: Rome has a dilemma they have doctrines and dogmas that they hold to that they require that you believe but they
04:43: Recognize they are not found in the Bible All right.
04:49: So what do you do when you find yourself in that awkward situation? Normally that what should happen is you repent?
04:56: Okay, that that's that that's the standard procedure so that you can be reconciled to God and not blaspheme his name
05:04: 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.
05:17: All right and so they say that the authority in Christ Church is not the
05:24: Bible the Authority is The Pope right? The authority is the church or the authority is the
05:34: 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
05:41: 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
05:52: And then when they lift up the shell, it's not there, right? This is a shell and pea game Yeah, this is exactly what this is.
05:57: 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
06:07: Listen to who has the authority Jesus says all authority in heaven on earth has been given to Me.
06:16: All right, if you were French, mwah, right? So all authority has been given to mwah
06:21: Christ says it's weird making Jesus French. I need to repent about this Okay, but all of that being said
06:29: 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
06:39: Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you
06:46: So no the one who has the authority has Demanded has given his authoritative
06:55: Declaration that we as the church are to make disciples and there's a there's a teaching curriculum
07:02: Disciples are learners right disciples are learners and the curriculum is all that Christ has commanded
07:10: So, where are we going to find that right? And if you think in Bible That's that's not a bad place to look
07:17: And you're gonna note then that in the Gospel of John in the
07:22: Gospel of John John tells us something really interesting and that is is that in John chapter 20 verse 30
07:31: It says Jesus did Many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are not written in this book
07:42: Does the Bible contain everything that Jesus ever said Jesus ever taught
07:49: Jesus ever did No, it didn't it doesn't okay.
07:55: Does the Bible contain everything every word that Jeremiah preached? No, okay
08:01: 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
08:09: That's not how the scripture works. So many other signs Jesus did in the presence of the disciples
08:14: They are not written in this book but these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the
08:20: Christ the Son of God and that by believing you may Have life in his name Right, and if as I'm reading this you can hear the tune
08:28: That's good. These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the
08:34: Christ the Son of God Oh Yeah, right. Yeah, so these things are written so that you may believe so we recognize
08:43: Completely not everything everything that Christ did or said is recorded in Scripture.
08:49: No problem with that But now the only place I can go
08:56: To find the things that Jesus said and did Is in the
09:01: Bible, right? That's how this works the only place you can go is
09:06: 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
09:24: Who okay, okay, you know that this is a righteous thing. Okay this this there
09:29: Okay manna from heaven has Doesn't even come close. Okay, they the children of Israel complained about manna
09:37: 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
09:45: Oh, and it's one of the melt the cheeses you got I'm saying, right? So therefore because of my love for these things it obviously follows that that is
09:54: Jesus's favorite food Yeah, right
10:01: 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
10:09: About the goodness and wholesomeness and comfort ability of a grilled cheese sandwich on rye to go beyond the scripture is
10:18: 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
10:33: Okay, because we we deal in our day and age where you have scoffers within the visible church
10:38: Scoffers who are twisting the words of God and come up with these really clever arguments.
10:44: So here's clever argument Number one if you would well when I read the
10:49: Gospels, I'm a red -letter Christian Yeah, and when I read the Gospels, I don't see Jesus anywhere condemning homosexuality
10:56: So, I guess we can say that that's okay Okay, what's the problem with that?
11:03: Has Jesus commanded Against the sexual sin of homosexuality
11:13: How about adultery Okay, how about sleeping with your cousin?
11:19: Okay. Now, I don't remember Jesus ever saying you can't sleep with your cousin Okay, I I don't find that in the red letters, but where do we find those commands
11:31: 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
11:41: Teaching. Okay, Jesus never once said that smoking leads to the lung cancer
11:47: Okay, never said that But all of that being said we have to take the
11:54: Old Testament into consideration when we consider all that Christ has commanded because Jesus is the second person of the
12:02: Trinity. There is one God three persons and God has inspired and commanded
12:10: Moses to write particular commands that form the basis of Understanding then the difference between right and wrong good and evil
12:20: 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
12:29: 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
12:39: 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
12:52: 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.
13:05: Are you wearing right now a t -shirt that has a cotton polyester mix in it? Don't you understand the
13:11: Old Testament forbids that ha so we can just say that anything goes
13:18: It's a clever argument But here's the issue if you read the book
13:23: Itself it explains it. So let me give you an example on on this one in the book of Colossians, okay
13:32: Colossians chapter 2. Okay the Apostle Paul Lays a few things out here in relation to how the
13:42: 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
13:49: 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
14:03: Shabbat I have to say it the way that the Hebrew roots folks said this is Shabbat, right? Well that being the case you're gonna know what your
14:10: Paul's basically saying Yeah Don't let anyone just pass judgment on you because guess what the Gentiles in Colossi are not
14:16: Keeping the Sabbath the Gentiles in Colossi are not observing the distinction between Clean and unclean foods the
14:25: Christians in Colossi are not celebrating Passover Pesach and they're not doing any of that.
14:30: All right, 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
14:38: 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
14:48: Which is eternal by the way moral law Civil law which is an extension of the moral law used by the left -hand
14:57: Kingdom and then ceremonial law So it says here.
15:02: 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?
15:14: 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
15:25: 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
15:34: Apostles Who explained to us what our relationship is to the Mosaic Covenant?
15:41: Mosaic Covenant the if the official term for the Mosaic Covenant its status right now in German, it's kaput
15:47: Okay, the Mosaic Covenant is kaput. It's it's it's no longer in effect.
15:53: Christ has fulfilled it We are in the New Covenant and the moral law that is part of the
15:59: Mosaic Covenant You'll note if you are a careful student of the of the
16:04: New Testament That all but one of the Ten Commandments is reiterated in the
16:10: 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.
16:20: And here's the reason why for Eternity for Christians for us in the new earth
16:26: 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
16:37: God's name It'll forever be a sin to despise his word.
16:42: It'll forever be a sin and In the new earth even to despise proper authorities whom
16:50: 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
17:00: It will forever be a sin to be sexually immoral through adultery and other means it'll forever be a sin to steal
17:08: 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
17:15: Isaiah and parts of the book of Jeremiah and you get hints at the end of revelation
17:21: That the new earth is described in terms of sinlessness No chaos, no consequences of sin because there is no sin
17:33: Instead it is a world where we will perfectly love God and perfectly love each other forever
17:42: In other words the chaos and lawlessness of our present age, which seems to be getting darker and weirder by the minute
17:51: Right, we'll all pass away to the calm Wonderful steady
17:59: Kingdom of God without sin and the best part is is that I you know,
18:05: I keep saying this the young kids here I feel for you right now, but you just because I know what's coming.
18:10: You're gonna end up looking like me Okay, it's just a matter of time and I apologize, you know, but this is glass
18:18: This is the way it goes right we fall apart, but in the new earth Look around the room right now.
18:24: Look at the D. This is who you're spending eternity with All right 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 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.
18:43: You just you can who is that guy? You know, it's like yeah my 1980s guy came back
18:50: Right. Yeah, I'm gonna have to wear I have to wear the skinny ties again. And you know, yeah Yeah, that's right.
18:57: 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
19:03: 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
19:18: God with each other and It's going to last Forever it will never end ever
19:29: 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
19:36: 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
19:48: And just you won't hear anything about a pandemic you and that none of that will occur. No earthquakes
19:53: 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?
20:02: You know, it's it's just depressing right? It'll never be that in the new earth
20:08: So you'll note then a proper understanding of the law
20:15: 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
20:23: 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.
20:33: We're good With I think we should have a party at Ashley's house like week two, you know What do you think
20:40: Ashley you upset? You heard it she agreed so Yeah So all of that being said then okay
20:53: Let's let's just do a little bit of biblical work here as we work through some biblical texts that talk about our
21:00: 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
21:09: 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
21:20: God has chosen to write things Notice it was not man who came up with this idea of writing a
21:29: 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
21:40: 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.
21:48: So the Torah has been written The Torah is written and God at the end of the
21:53: Torah says you cannot add to this You cannot take away from it and you're gonna know that God forbids people to add or take away from his word
22:03: One of the things I couldn't I can legitimately say is somebody who knows a thing or two about heresy
22:09: All right. 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
22:27: It's still an addition because that's not what the text means And so you'll know that God makes it very clear
22:34: 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
22:41: Bible? God and as a pastor, my job is exemplified if you were to you know to kind of talk about this
22:48: 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
23:07: The one thing I can say I legitimately don't ever want to do is tell you something about a biblical text.
23:14: That's not true All right, so you'll know that one of the things I never do I never tell you that well
23:20: David slayed Goliath So you need to get your five smooth stones and go slay your Goliaths. Okay, you know, this that just sounds annoyingly
23:28: Too much energy. I just I know I got I'd rather watch Netflix. All right It's we don't talk like this and the reason why is because that's not what the text means
23:38: So you'll note we do not get to add to Nor take away and then note what it says that I command you
23:50: Who's doing the commanding in the Bible God That sounds like the highest authority ever to me
23:59: Okay, so the idea then is is that God's Word is what it's living it's active
24:05: 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
24:20: Sunday school that didn't quite make the cut because of the Technological issue we noted that when
24:26: Jesus was out doing his ministry work and the Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to check out
24:32: Jesus's ministry. All right, you know, so Jesus was constantly under scrutiny like constantly
24:38: All right, so headquarter sends their best guys from Jerusalem and they watch
24:44: 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
25:02: Pharisees hand -washing ceremony All right. So this is an addition to the scripture
25:09: So people can add to the scripture when we talk about additions they can add to the scripture through tradition
25:14: All right human tradition and bind people's consciences and here's where we're gonna have to pay careful note to something
25:21: All right. There are some folks who you like first look at Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. They go.
25:27: Oh Roman Catholic, okay. The pastor wears a collar. Oh, yeah, you know
25:35: What's wrong with those Lutherans, right? Right, this is what they do
25:40: Okay, and so they'll sit there and and you can you can almost hear them, you know doing the fiddler on the roof thing going tradition
25:48: What's wrong with you Lutherans tradition, right? You can just hear this Now it's true.
25:55: We Lutherans have traditions most certainly true However, when we're talking about the traditions that Christ is condemning
26:04: 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
26:21: Basically, I keep talking about this as a uniform and you'll notice at the square dancing night at the math sins
26:27: Was I wearing a clerical? No Okay last week at the
26:33: Manual service, you know, we did this outdoors when I took my uniform off a couple of people said
26:38: 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
26:52: But here's the thing are we? Commanded as pastors to wear uniform No 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,
27:14: 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
27:22: Uniform and say that you're not really a true confessional Lutheran unless you wear the uniform outcome the
27:30: Birkenstocks and The I'm not only the Birkenstocks. I'm gonna get the white 1970s like thigh -high
27:38: Athletic socks with the two stripes on them. Okay, and I'm gonna go full -on
27:44: Bermuda shorts and a Hawaiian shirt I'm doing that from the pulpit and it's gonna be glorious Okay, all right
27:58: Cowabunga, yeah Why because as soon as you tell me I have to do this and I'm not really a
28:04: Lutheran unless I do this You've now added to the Word of God and I am duty -bound to break your rule
28:12: Okay, so when we look at Mark 7 We again the history of this
28:18: I've talked I talk on this frequently, but I'll just kind of give you a quick summary The Pharisees added to the
28:24: Word of God and the way they added to it was very clever They added by saying and here was their narrative when
28:32: Moses ascended on Mount Sinai God gave Moses the written Torah and he got
28:38: God gave Moses the oral Torah All right And the oral Torah was for the purpose of Gentiles never hearing the whole truth so that they couldn't be saved
28:50: That's the whole purpose right and so you'll know when you read the written Torah Is there a commandment in the written
28:57: 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
29:05: No okay, but that was the gist of this command and it was found in their oral
29:11: Torah and So the command went something like this when you go out to this when you go out to the marketplace
29:18: It was called the Agora when you go out to the Agora and you're among the goyim. That's the
29:23: Gentiles They they they make you unclean their uncleanness is airborne
29:29: All right And so since they couldn't social distance what they would do then is is that when they would go into their homes?
29:36: There was a wash basin and a pitcher and you had to do this stupid a little washing ceremony left foot and left hand
29:43: Face down right hand palm down left hand palm up right hand palm up and then this prayer
29:49: I thank you God that you've given me the command to wash my hands Did God command people to do that?
29:56: No, they added to the Word of God okay, and Jesus tells his disciples
30:04: No You do not do that Because if his disciples had done that Jesus would by their actions have affirmed this addition to the
30:18: Word of God So no, you cannot add to you cannot take away So here's how it goes.
30:24: 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.
30:31: 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
30:38: They observe such as the washing of cups pots copper vessels and dining couches important note here
30:44: The word for wash is baptized. So baptized. So if any way if you heard anyone ever say
30:51: Baptizo in Greek means full immersion. No, it doesn't it just no one fully immerses a dining couch.
30:57: That's not how this works Right, you're gonna ruin it.
31:03: All right, and then note here the Pharisees and scribes they asked Jesus Why do your disciples not walk?
31:09: That's a Hebraism. Why do they not conduct their lives? According to what the tradition of the elders?
31:18: Why it's because it's an addition you cannot add to or subtract But they eat with defiled hands
31:24: Jesus said well did Isaiah prophesy of you you hypocrites as it is written This people honors me with their lips.
31:31: Their heart is far from me in vain Do they worship me doing what teaching as doctrines the commandments of men?
31:44: I'm gonna say this Rome is exactly like this Okay, so for instance
31:53: Rome teaches the doctrine of what Semper Virgo that Mary was
31:59: Perpetually a virgin. Okay. Do you have a biblical text that teaches this?
32:06: No, in fact, I got one that contradicts it I've got a couple that contradicted so for instance, okay
32:14: Marriage is a union between a man and a woman and according to scripture men and women who are married are required as part of marriage
32:22: To come together physically. It's part of it In fact scripture is very clear that it is not to be
32:30: 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
32:41: 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
32:57: Okay Please fulfill was a prophet All right.
33:04: 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
33:10: Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit her husband
33:16: Joseph This is Matthew 1 by the way being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame resolved to divorce her quietly
33:22: Notice Joseph's a just dude, right? But as he considered these things behold an angel of the
33:28: 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
33:34: 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
33:42: 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
33:51: God is right that's spoken by the prophet behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and call his name
33:57: Emmanuel which means God with us when Joseph woke from sleep. He did as the angel of the
34:02: 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
34:11: Jesus So the question then comes up where does Semper Virgo come from where does this doctrine that Mary was perpetually a virgin
34:25: It comes from man. Yeah, but let me give you a more specific it comes from a document called the the pseudo the pseudo gospel of The pseudo evangelion of James that's the name of it second century text.
34:44: It's Gnostic All right, and in the pseudo Evangelion of James you have the story of you guys remember
34:53: Samuel okay, his mother's name was Hannah and Samuel was
34:59: Conceived because God answered Hannah's prayer and then he grew up in the temple The best way
35:05: I can describe the pseudo evangelion of James is it takes that story and changes the sex
35:10: Okay It's it's really bad fanfiction In fact, it's Gnostic fanfiction is the best way
35:16: I can put it and the way the story goes. Okay, is that? Mary's mother her name is st.
35:24: Remember and st. Anna. Okay, Anna is the Greek version of Hannah Okay, it's the same.
35:32: It's the same story. It's just the names and the sexes have changed So if you if you know your Roman Catholicism, it's st.
35:38: 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
35:51: He was studying to be an attorney Which his dad was very proud of his dad was very disappointed when
35:56: 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.
36:11: Anne save me, right? He prays to st. Anne and and because st. Anne saved him and he wasn't killed by the lightning storm
36:18: He decided that that was a sign from God. He needed to become a monk Okay, I I kid you not you just yeah, that's right
36:26: He was a is a Roman Catholic kid who believed in st. Anna even prayed to her, right? Where in Scripture does it say we are to pray to Saints?
36:35: Nowhere, is that an addition to the scripture? You cannot add to or take away. It's an addition
36:40: So the Pseudo Evangelion of James teaches that Mary's mother was a woman by the name of Anne or Anna she conceives
36:49: Mary and under miraculous type circumstances and then dedicates her to work in the temple
36:57: 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
37:02: But here was the issue here was the issue when she gets to be about 12 years old
37:08: They know that you know She's going to go the way of women and she's going to start menstruating and so they can't have her
37:13: Polluting the temple making it unclean with her menstrual cycle. So they come up with a solution the priests decide
37:20: They're going to auction her off Okay They're going they're good. They're basically gonna have a raffle.
37:27: 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
37:40: Okay So he's old. He's already has his own kids. His wife has died.
37:45: 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
37:54: While he's doing his work and the priests see that as a sign and so he's the one who gets married
38:02: Okay, but he had already had his kids so he wasn't interested in any intercourse and things like this
38:07: I kid you not this is how the story goes read the Pseudo -Evangelion of James. All right, but here's the thing the church at the time
38:17: 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
38:30: Backstory of Mary and all this kind of stuff and the church at the time condemned the thing as a forgery
38:39: But what does Rome say? Well tradition says that Mary's mother's name was
38:44: Anne and Tradition says that she remained a virgin because Joseph never had relations with her
38:52: That's called an Addition to the scriptures Okay All right, and here's the thing if you're a
39:01: Roman Catholic, are you required to believe these things? Yes Now I will make this side note
39:11: 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?
39:27: 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
39:33: All right That's the idea. These are these are not doctrines that come from the scripture
39:39: So we cannot add to we cannot take away from the biblical text
39:45: And so you'll note them the scoffers the scoffers today who say well Jesus never condemned this that or the other thing, right?
39:51: What are they doing? They're taking away from the scripture so we cannot add to nor take away and scripture is clear that Joseph didn't know
40:01: Mary until She had given birth to a son until all right and the natural sense of this text is actually quite clear what that means and she had entered into a
40:12: Marriage, which is a covenant which includes That okay, plus you'll note that this is the thorny thing
40:19: Jesus has brothers and sisters Okay, and you ask every Roman Catholic.
40:24: How do you explain that? Well the word Adelphos could also mean cousins Yes, it can but why were the cousins traveling with Mary?
40:35: Okay, so like Okay, my kids have cousins, but here's the thing my cuz her my kids as cousins don't hang out at my house
40:44: They hang out at their aunt's house, I'm not, you know, and my kids is aunt's house, right? That's how that works
40:49: 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
41:00: So coming back then to our text in Mark, let me find this real quick I'm just so disorganized today.
41:09: What am I doing? Relation. All right. I see what I did there. All right, let me go back to Mark So well, did
41:21: Isaiah prophesy you you hypocrites in vain? Do they worship me teaching as doctrines the commandments of men that's in addition to the scriptures and then he says this you leave the commandment of God and You hold to the tradition of men.
41:35: 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
41:45: So you're familiar with the talk the doctrine of Corban that the Pharisees had set up the way
41:50: Corban works Is that let's say mom is getting old in age, right?
41:56: Dad's gone and and and mom's a little She can be a little in -your -face
42:01: Have you noticed that sometimes guys don't you know, like like especially firstborn guys don't get along with their mom
42:07: 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
42:14: 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
42:24: And I would rather die than have mom in my house. Okay, this is how this goes
42:29: And so what the Pharisees did is they create 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
42:43: 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?
42:51: 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
42:57: 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
43:04: And so you can expect that over the you know, the remainder of the 10 years It's gonna cost this amount of money.
43:10: 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
43:34: What was that? Yeah You're on the highway to hell right exactly.
43:39: Okay. So can you think of a commandment that is being broken here? Okay, honor your father and your mother
43:47: Okay Okay, but the oral Torah says Korban, right?
43:54: Yeah, the reason why the oral Torah says Korban is because the Pharisees were into money
44:00: They were prosperity preachers Okay So Jesus says you have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of who
44:08: God in order to establish your tradition For Moses said honor your father and mother whoever reviles father or mother must surely die
44:19: Love the Greek here must die the death but you say But you who are you?
44:26: Okay, you say if a man tells his father or his mother whatever you would have gained from me is
44:33: Korban 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
44:40: Word of God by your Tradition that you have handed down and many such things you do
44:49: 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
45:03: Word of God Everyone's focused on what the addition is and the real Word of God just kind of falls by the wayside
45:10: 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?
45:19: book of Mormon doctrines and covenants pearl of great price, right and These are all in addition to the
45:27: Bible. They also consider the Bible to be the Word of God However, there's a nice big asterisk.
45:33: 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
45:39: All right And the six -point font says only in the King James Version and only insofar as it is correctly translated
45:47: So here's how this works. Okay, you sit there you say to a Mormon You believe that you can become a god
45:56: Yes That's what's revealed in The book of Abraham. It's also in doctrine and covenants number 138 you we see it
46:05: This is this is called the law of eternal progression as as man is God once was
46:12: And as God is man can become it's the law of eternal progression You sit there and go dude, do you even
46:17: Bible and you go? Well, what do you mean? Well, I I've read in Isaiah 40, you know, like 43, you know
46:24: Not that I'm I'm a Hebrew scholar or anything, but Isaiah 43 says this verse 10
46:32: 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
46:41: Watch this before me. No God was formed nor shall there be any after me.
46:47: I am I I am Yahweh and besides me there is no Savior And you sit there and go says right there
46:56: It's in black and white before me. No, God was formed. Well, that wasn't correctly translated Right You are correct
47:14: Right You see the problem here. Okay So, you know, it's been a while since I've had a conversation with a
47:22: 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.
47:30: I'd say I time I've been a breed What what'd you say I asked if you know Hebrew Law Loma Vena breed
47:42: 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
47:51: Would you? right They wouldn't be able to do it, but that's their go -to so they've added to the
47:58: Word of God and the additions contradict the clear scriptures and They say then if you point out a biblical text that contradicts their doctrines their additions.
48:09: Well, that's not correctly translated That's not how this works
48:16: This is not how this works at all, right, but it doesn't Rome do the same thing
48:21: Okay Well, it doesn't say in the Bible that we're supposed to pray to dead saints, but not everything written down.
48:29: That's the hat that the Apostles taught is written down. So we are the ones who are the possessors of this this oral teaching of the
48:38: Apostles and We know that this is the case because the church has kept this and the church we have the authority
48:46: Yeah, right exactly All right, how we doing on time we're doing good good good good.
48:53: Good. All right So let me give you another text along these lines because we're still talking about sola scriptura and this is then requires us to take a closer look at 2nd
49:03: Peter Okay, I always liked pointing this out that Peter as he's getting ready to die
49:10: If you haven't figured this out 2nd Peter is the last thing that Peter writes before he's crucified All right
49:16: 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.
49:27: We can't prove it However, the bones that they found in st. Peter's that are supposed to be Peter's bones.
49:33: The the legs were hacked So which kind of it verifies the story the you know, the the skeletons kind of the leg bones are hacked up So he was cut from the from the cross after he died three days later
49:47: And we actually have forensic proof along those lines all that being said Okay in 2nd
49:52: Peter Here's what Peter writes We did not follow
49:58: Cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and the coming of our
50:04: Lord Jesus Christ We were eyewitnesses of his majesty
50:10: We were eyewitnesses of his majesty For when he received honor and glory from God the
50:15: Father and the voice was born to him by the majestic glory This is my beloved son with whom
50:20: 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?
50:34: Okay So this is my beloved son whom I am well, please we ourselves we heard this very voice that was born from heaven
50:42: For we were with him on the holy mountain All right, and you're gonna note here now.
50:48: He's going to switch gears up Peter as he's getting ready to die is not pointing people to Supernatural experiences
50:58: He's not pointing them to now. We had this experience on the holy mountain and you should expect that too
51:03: 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.
51:10: No, here's what he says and We have the prophetic word more fully confirmed
51:20: To which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place
51:26: Until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts knowing this first of all no prophecy of graph face
51:34: Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation For no prophecy was ever spoken by the will of man
51:45: But men spoke from God as they were carried along by the
51:50: Holy Spirit Hmm. So as Peter's getting ready to die, what's he pointing you to?
51:57: the word Okay. Now this this is a little bit funny kind of along those same same lines, you know that Paul the
52:08: Apostle Paul he was also martyred very much around the same time Peter was
52:13: All right, Paul was martyred by Nero Second Timothy is his last letter
52:20: 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
52:33: Patience my love my steadfastness my persecutions my sufferings that happened to me at Antioch at a conium at least
52:42: 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
52:49: 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
52:58: Doesn't work when I do it like that does it? Okay. Could you imagine Joel Osteen preaching a sermon on this text?
53:05: No, right. Well evil people and Impostors, they're gonna go from bad to worse deceiving and being deceived but as for you
53:14: 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
53:21: We go the sacred gramata the sacred writings Which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ.
53:30: Jesus all Scripture is breathed out by who? God who's talking to you in the
53:37: 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
53:48: Which is negative and for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be complete and equipped for some good works
53:59: It says every doesn't it? Yeah for every good work
54:04: Is there a good work that Christ is going to call you to? That the scriptures will not equip you for No All right, then he continues
54:20: 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
54:26: And his kingdom What's the job of the pastor? Preach the word
54:34: Okay now all authority in heaven on earth has been given to Christ, right Who called me to be a pastor?
54:43: God did right and that call was confirmed by tongues of Inger Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minnesota.
54:48: Don't you know? Okay That's how the call is confirmed. Yeah, that's how
54:54: Mike my calls in the ministry was confirmed by this congregation calling me to the ministry so Was did
55:02: I invent the pastoral office? Okay Let me put it in another way The office of the
55:09: President of the United States did Joe Biden invent that office No Fourth commandment dude fourth commandment, okay
55:20: Okay Okay, but the office itself Can the person who occupies the office of the
55:28: President of the United States make laws? No, he can't
55:34: He can sign them. He's the executive According to the
55:39: Constitution, which was written long before any of us were alive. At least I think Don you weren't around Okay.
55:46: Yeah, right just checking. Okay, right But all of that being said, okay
55:52: There are very clearly Specific duties and powers given to the office of the president.
56:00: There are very specific duties and Requirements for the office of pastor.
56:06: I fill the office here in this congregation But I didn't invent it. Where where do
56:12: I find the duties of that of this office outlined in the Bible? Okay, but here's one of them
56:18: My job is to preach what? which words The Bible because this in the context of Scripture, right?
56:27: 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
56:34: I be preaching through when I get to the doctrine that all? Middle -aged white men are racists
56:43: Which biblical text will I be preaching that? Which biblical text will I be preaching when I get to the doctrine of Semper Virgo First hallucinations, right?
56:56: Okay Which biblical text will I be preaching through that tells me that I can vacation in?
57:04: Heaven with Kat Kerr while filing lawsuits in the courts of heaven Second hallucinations, right?
57:10: 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
57:23: Yes, it's second tentacles it's a second tentacles chapter 5 by the way just Okay.
57:29: Now you starting to see it, right? okay, so I The church is called to Teach all that Christ is commanded
57:43: Pastors are only allowed to preach the word no
57:49: 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
57:59: I've got one book to go to and it's thankfully it's long Okay, because otherwise
58:05: 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
58:15: Is that not by definition? Sola scriptura if my job is to preach the word
58:21: I don't get to preach my opinions I don't get to preach the the current doctrine de jour that everybody's super excited about In fact,
58:29: I assure you because I can't find it in the Bible. I will never trouble you with critical race theory
58:38: Right. Am I authorized to preach critical race theory? Am I authorized to preach evolution from the pulpit?
58:45: No Am I required by scripture to teach that you all need to have a second baptism of the
58:50: Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in tongues and barking like dogs No right
58:56: The job of the pastors to preach the word and so you can see this then in the positive cases and then next week
59:04: 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
59:14: It's absolutely demanded by it. And if a pastor is only permitted to preach the word and I can't add to or take away by human tradition
59:27: Well I can't change the curriculum and you're gonna note that there is no Bible like 1 .2
59:34: Okay, or Bible 3 .0. Okay, we got Bible now we can talk
59:39: 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?
59:50: But those who try to basically say well the church existed without a Bible, you know for three centuries, that's baloney
59:58: Okay There's a little bit of a note on along these lines. All right, if we didn't have any ancient manuscripts of the
01:00:07: New Testament Okay No ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, so we don't have Codex Sinaiticus.
01:00:13: We don't have Vaticanus We don't have the John Ryland's manuscript. We don't have any of these really cool manuscripts that they're following today
01:00:20: We hadn't we had none of these were extent. We didn't have any of them. All right from the writings of the
01:00:26: Church Fathers from the death of John the Apostle until Roughly, let's say 250
01:00:33: AD From just the writings of the Church Fathers. How much of the
01:00:39: New Testament could I reproduce? From just those that time period
01:00:46: How much? Yeah, all of it except for 11 verses all of it every single book with the exception of like 11 verses
01:01:02: Now that tells you something That tells you that the ancient church before the
01:01:09: 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
01:01:27: 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
01:01:36: Finally said okay these books and no others, but there were there are certain books that were never in question
01:01:43: Never in fact it the the books that were in question as to whether or not they were apostolic
01:01:50: These these are the works that were written against that were called Antilogomena. It's not that big of a list It's a pretty small list the remainder fully
01:02:00: 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.
01:02:08: 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
01:02:22: Bless us the Lord in these your gifts, which we're about to receive in your bountiful goodness of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen All right.