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<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I am Cory J.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Mahler, and I'm still woe.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty</v>

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<v Speaker 2>satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom, and over them three high</v>

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<v Speaker 2>officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give</v>

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<v Speaker 2>account, so that the king might suffer no loss.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>satraps him because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king</v>

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<v Speaker 2>planned to set him over the whole kingdom.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then the high officials and the satrap sought to find a ground</v>

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<v Speaker 2>for complaint against Daniel, with regard to the kingdom, but they could</v>

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<v Speaker 2>find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and no error or fault was found in him.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then these men said, We shall not find any ground for complaint</v>

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<v Speaker 2>against this Daniel, unless we find it in connection with the law</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of his God.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then these high officials and satraps came by agreement to the king</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and said to him, O King Darius, live forever.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>All the high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the counsellors and the governors, are agreed that the king should establish</v>

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<v Speaker 2>an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any</v>

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<v Speaker 2>god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall</v>

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<v Speaker 2>be cast into the den of lions.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now, O King, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the Persians, which cannot be revoked.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>his house, where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day, and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then these men came by agreement, and found Daniel making petition and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>plea before his God.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>O king, did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes</v>

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<v Speaker 2>petition to any god or man, within thirty days except to you,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>O king, shall be cast into the den of Lionel.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The king answered and said, The thing stands fast, according to the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who was one</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a day.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed, and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>set his mind to deliver Daniel, and he labored till the sun</v>

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<v Speaker 2>went down to rescue him.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Medes and Persians, that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes</v>

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<v Speaker 2>can be changed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>den of lions.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The king declared to Daniel May your God, whom you serve continually,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>deliver you.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>story of Daniel, as he was serving his king, is instructive for</v>

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<v Speaker 3>this week's episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because although Jesus obviously correctly calls Daniel a prophet, Daniel's day job</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was not as a prophet.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He was a public employee.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He worked for the king, he worked for a pagan king, all</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of his co-workers, the men whom he served and whom he supervised,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>they were all pagans.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so he just had a public job.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And we're opening with this passage from Daniel six to six today</v>

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<v Speaker 3>because it is a prime example of what we as Christians are</v>

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<v Speaker 3>faced with in our own day in current year.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And in fact, in the past week a circumstance similar to this</v>

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<v Speaker 3>has arisen in one of the states in the United States.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>When Daniel was faced with these evil pagan men who hated him</v>

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<v Speaker 3>because God had blessed him, and even though the king was not</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a Christian, was not a believer in the true God, he still</v>

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<v Speaker 3>respected Daniel for the gifts he'd been given.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So those men set about to change the law in order to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>destroy Daniel.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the destruction they hoped would take the form of Daniel violating</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the law, which prohibited praying to anyone but the king for a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>period of thirty days.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The reason this is instructive for us is that a law was</v>

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<v Speaker 3>passed and a believer in the true God responded.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The impetus for today's episode, this week's episode, is a law that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was passed last week in the state of South Dakota.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was a law that was modeled after an international international definition</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of anti Semitism that was ratified in twenty sixteen.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's been upheld as a model for stamping out hate globally by</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the UN, by the European Commission, by a bunch of other groups,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>lots of acronyms, lots of very serious faces, all saying anti-Semitism is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>very bad, we gotta stamp it out.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The reason we're talking about it this week is that one of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the provisions in that law, which we're gonna discuss in a bit</v>

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<v Speaker 3>In a bit, but the reason we're talking about this today is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that that law effectively makes the Bible illegal in the state of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>South Dakota.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We'll talk about the details.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They don't really matter all that much in terms of legality.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's one of the first points I want to make here.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because when you look at the example of Daniel, he didn't think</v>

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<v Speaker 3>like an American.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't think, oh, they've passed a law that impinges upon my</v>

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<v Speaker 3>freedom of religion.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I need to petition the ruler to get the law changed.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What did he do?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He did what he always did.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He prayed to his Lord three times a day, and he did</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it in front of the window because that was his habit.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He wasn't making a spectacle, which is something that's condemned in the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>New Testament correctly.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He wasn't he wasn't putting on a show.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He just wasn't hiding when he was praying.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He had always done it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The other evil satraps knew that, and they knew that if he</v>

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<v Speaker 3>continued to be faithful to his God, they'd be able to catch</v>

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<v Speaker 3>him and accuse him, take him before the king, and see him</v>

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<v Speaker 3>killed. That was their principal goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>However, they could also destroy Daniel if he obeyed the law, if</v>

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<v Speaker 3>he stopped praying to his God, and if he did pray to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the king instead of to the true God, that would also be</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a victory.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They probably would have been more satisfied with him being thrown into</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the lion's den.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's always principally what evil men were.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They want to see the physical destruction of their enemies.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But to see their enemy Daniel humiliated by causing him to apostatize</v>

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<v Speaker 3>would have been very satisfying.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Frankly, in the long term, that may have been even more satisfying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to the To them because it would have permitted them to co-opt</v>

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<v Speaker 3>him, to make him one of them, and then to pull him</v>

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<v Speaker 3>into their evil schemes and to separate him from the true God.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So what did Daniel do?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He did not pray to the king.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That would have been adherence to the law.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He did not take a prayer fast.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't say, you know what, I'm just not going to pray</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for 30 days.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not going to disobey the law, but I'm not gonna obey</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it either.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't try to split the difference and stay out of trouble,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>which in the case of this kingdom, legal trouble, meant execution.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So he could have just stopped praying.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He could have said, you know what, I'm not gonna pray to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the king, I'll just I'll not pray for anything.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Or I'll pray in my head, but they won't know.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God knows what's in my heart, so I don't need anyone to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>find out about it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He could have done that, and he didn't.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the model that Daniel provides is the model that we need</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to have in mind as we're confronting everything that happens in the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>world going forward from this day on.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>One of the things that I said on Telegram in response to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>this when it came out, somebody said something, and I'm gonna use</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a few responses to this story as it was breaking from guys</v>

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<v Speaker 3>who listen to Stone Choir and interact with me on Telegram or</v>

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<v Speaker 3>on Twitter.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Please don't feel like I'm picking on you, not in the slightest.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The things that were said were prime examples of the way we're</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all taught to think.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Somebody basically made some reference to the obvious American solution of, well,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>this has got to be litigated.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Clearly, the South Dakota law that says that the classic anti Semitism</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in the specific of the law says that the Jews killed Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is classic anti-Semitism.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It is illegal to say that, and there are contexts in which</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you can be punished legally in the state of South Dakota.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The typical American response is, well, that obviously violates the first amendment</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of the United States Constitution.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I want to see this litigated.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, maybe someone would choose to violate it knowing that it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was going to be litigated and they could be the poster child</v>

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<v Speaker 3>defendant. The problem with that, and the thing that I rebuked at</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the time, and I subsequently said on Twitter, I'm going to say</v>

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<v Speaker 3>here, stop thinking like an American and start thinking like a Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Look Look to Daniel for an example when anything like this comes</v>

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<v Speaker 3>up that impinges upon our spiritual duties to God.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What did Daniel do?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't go to the king and say, Oh mighty king, if</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I obey this law, I will be violating my conscience and praying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in a manner that I find to be untenable.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I can't worship you, and I must continue to worship my God.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Please don't throw me into the lion's den.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't ask for reprieve.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He didn't ask for an excuse, he didn't ask for the law</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to be changed.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He did exactly what he always did.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is the Christian response in the case of something where you</v>

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<v Speaker 3>were told to apostatize, which is precisely what the law was.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The law was no one may pray to any god except for</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the king for thirty days.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It didn't say you had to replace your God with another god.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It specifically said don't pray to another god except for the king</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for thirty days.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was time limited.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They had a sunset clause.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was not exclusive in terms of belief or even confession.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was just prayer.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Don't offer petitions to anyone except for the king.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>As God, as a deed.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The legal outs there, if you're thinking like an American, are abundant.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You cannot pray.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can pray secretly so that no one knows.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can pray publicly, hoping to challenge it in court, so that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you can you know assert your rights and and fight back in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that way.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>None of those occurred to Daniel.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He said nothing.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know he didn't argue.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He was basically led like a lamb to the slaughter, simply by</v>

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<v Speaker 3>doing what he always did, which was to pray three times a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>day to the true God, and he was thrown into the lion's</v>

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<v Speaker 3>den for it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>This is an example for us today simply by virtue of the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>fact of all the things that Daniel didn't do, because the instincts</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that we have all been given today are to focus on things</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that are gonna keep us out of trouble.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And just as happened last year, in the context of Stone Choir</v>

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<v Speaker 3>itself, and the church more broadly, satanic attacks often occur during Lent,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>during the Easter season.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We did an episode just at the end of last calendar year</v>

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<v Speaker 3>about the liturgical life where we talked about the church calendar, which</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is held by almost all churches and it should be held by</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all because it's a useful teaching tool.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And we pointed out in that episode and something that's reiterated here</v>

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<v Speaker 3>by example, when you look at the church calendar that has seasons</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of Easter and Lent and Christmas and then Pentecost, which is the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>big one that fills most of the year, each of these seasons</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is designed to emphasize a different part of the faith, a different</v>

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<v Speaker 3>part of the story of God and creation and Christ's sacrifice for</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us and all the teachings of scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The reason we have to spread it out is that there's so</v>

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<v Speaker 3>much in the Bible that you can never possibly fit it all</v>

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<v Speaker 3>into one Sunday.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can't fit the whole Bible into one sermon.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can't fit the whole Bible into one lifetime.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They're men who dedicate entire lives to studying a couple books of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the Bible and they never get to the bottom of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They can bring together a lot of connections, but the depth of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the richness and wisdom and knowledge of God, it's more than a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>human mind can comprehend.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's a blessing.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So the church calendar gives us structure by saying, you know what,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in this time, particularly as we're recording this now, it is during</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Lent. We have Palm Sunday coming up in just a couple weeks.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>In this penitential season, we're particularly focused on the crucifixion of Christ,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>on the events that led to it, and reflecting on the fact</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that the reason for the crucifixion was our sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's why it's a penitential season.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's a downer.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It is something that weighs on consciences, rightly, that our sin caused</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Christ to have to sacrifice himself for us.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's also the gospel, that God loved us so much that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>while we were yet his enemies, he did this, the ultimate act</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of love in all of history to do something for people who</v>

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<v Speaker 3>were nailing him to the cross by our wickedness, he did it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>so that we could be saved from the penalties for the very</v>

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<v Speaker 3>wickedness that he was paying.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is That is the law, that is the gospel, that is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the entire arc of the Christian faith in one moment.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is the cross.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so oftentimes in the church, we will focus on something like</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the cross, we'll point to Good Friday, which is coming up soon,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and we'll also point to Easter, which happens a few days later.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because if Jesus is dead in the tomb and that's the end</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of the story, that's the hope of the world.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's no hope at all.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's just death, and then you're gone.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's basically nihilism.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The story of the Christian faith is that there's an Easter Sunday</v>

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<v Speaker 3>when the sun rises, three days later, the tomb is empty.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the celebration and the joy that we feel in that moment</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is that God had fulfilled all the promises that led to the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>cross, led to the crucifixion.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so all the miracles were performed, all of the prophecies that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>were fulfilled, the fact that Christ raised from the dead is the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>ultimate proof that everything was kept.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Everything he said he was going to do, he did, and he</v>

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<v Speaker 3>proved it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so we can count on every promise that God makes to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us because it's from God and He proved it and he delivered.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But if your church is only Easter every Sunday, if every Sunday</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is Easter at your church and the cry is always Christ is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>risen, he is risen indeed, hallelujah.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Something that we all know the call and response is baked into</v>

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<v Speaker 3>our hearts.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If every single Sunday is only about Easter, how do you understand</v>

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<v Speaker 3>why the tomb is empty?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why is there a tomb in the first place?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Well, it's because he died.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Well, why did he die?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because he was crucified.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why was he crucified?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So you have to work back through the entire story to understand</v>

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<v Speaker 3>any of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can't understand the joy of Easter.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can't have the joy of Easter if you don't first have</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the weight of the sin and the death that came to that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>moment. The joy is in contrast to that which led to it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so the problem that we have in the church, that is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>really the point of this episode, is something that I referred to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a couple weeks ago.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's going to become a recurring theme now.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that is doctrine versus emphasis.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because the problem that we have in the Christian church today is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that every denomination has its particular doctrines.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It has these are the temple features of the Christian faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>This is how we orient our lives.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's how we orient our belief.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Everything that we do, everything we know revolves around this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's not inherently bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The problem is when those doctrines are permitted to have an emphasis</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that obscures the rest of Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because if every Sunday at your church is Easter Sunday, I'm sorry,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>but you're not a Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's not a Christian church.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because there's more to the Christian life than Easter Sunday is the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>entire story.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't make sense without Good Friday.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't make sense without everything that led up to it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So for the Christian, it is imperative for us to focus on</v>

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<v Speaker 3>these various doctrines at certain times so that we don't forget them,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>so that we incorporate them.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But that emphasis cannot be exclusive.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the problem that we have today that's exemplified by this one</v>

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<v Speaker 3>law and by the example of Daniel is that he could have</v>

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<v Speaker 3>emphasized the doctrine, well, I'm not going to pray to that king.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That would be idolatry, that would be sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I will absolutely not do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But I don't need to make a big deal out of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I don't need to say anything publicly.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I can stay out of trouble, I can just keep my head</v>

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<v Speaker 3>down for 30 days, the law's gonna sunset and I can go</v>

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<v Speaker 3>back to praying to God.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Never gonna pray to anyone else.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I'm just gonna take a fast from prayer.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's kind of what we all did during COVID, isn't it?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The problem with that is the the doctrine that is true that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>why I haven't prayed to other gods is is at odds with</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the doctrine of, you know, for example, remembering the Sabbath day, to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>pray, praise, and give thanks to God in all times and in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all places.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And particularly when the world says you can't do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's the reason we're doing this episode today, is that we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in current year are faced with the circumstances in the world where</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the world is now saying there are parts of the Bible that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>are illegal.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There are parts of the Bible that are classic anti-Semitism.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And therefore, be a good little Christian, you can't say that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the problem that is occurring is that when the world says,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>well, that's anti-Semitism, say that the Jews killed Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If the response, which is what someone gave me on Twitter, again,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not picking on you at all, please don't feel like this</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you're being singled out for this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's a perfectly natural response.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Somebody said, My sins crucified Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's the entire point of this episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is entirely true doctrine, and it is a completely false confession.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Here's why.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There are five things that are true about the crucifixion.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>My sins crucified Christ, just as yours did.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Pontius Pilate crucified Christ, the Roman centurions crucified Christ, the Pharisees crucified</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Christ, the crowd of braying Jews crucified Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>All five of those facts are true.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>All five of them are scriptural.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It is entirely permissible to say all five of them as a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Christian. And yet the world only cares about the last two in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a And especially the last one.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can say my sins crucified Christ all you want.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You won't get banned from Twitter for it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The UN won't care.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Satan doesn't care.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I think that's the crucial point that we need to get</v>

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<v Speaker 3>through today.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There are certain confessions of the Christian faith that the world is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>completely fine with.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can say something that's completely Christian and Satan's like, Yeah, keep</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that up.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's why we're doing this episode today.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why is it that Satan cares about some confessions but not others?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If I say that I crucified Christ with my sins, Satan's like,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>great. If I blame the Romans, okay, yeah, that's that's a great</v>

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<v Speaker 3>excuse. It keeps the Jews out of the spotlight.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If I say the Pharisees did it, well that's kind of anti</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Semitic because they were the leaders of the Jews, but at least</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it's not all Jews.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But if I say what scripture also says, which is that the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Jews, the crowd of braying Jews, all of them, called for Called</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for Christ's blood.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is impermissible.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I've said before, I've actually heard Lutheran pastors in the pulpit</v>

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<v Speaker 3>change the text of that story to remove Jews and say Pharisees.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is a false confession</v>

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<v Speaker 3>because the question is not which of those five is the most</v>

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<v Speaker 3>important. The most important one is my sins.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The Christian faith is that it's my sins are crucified Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>No argument there.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But when someone in the world attacks one of the others, that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>becomes the crucial Christian confession for a moment, not in replacement of,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>but when we continue to cling to the emphasis on the traditional</v>

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<v Speaker 3>correct doctrine that Christ died for our sins, Satan's like, Yeah, that's</v>

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<v Speaker 3>great. Keep on doing that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Just don't say the Jews killed Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Just by example, this one place where the emphasis of a true</v>

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<v Speaker 3>doctrine it becomes a false confession by omission of the truth that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is also in scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So that's the reason we're talking about this today.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Essentially Any problem that we are going to face when it comes</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to religion or really almost any issue</v>

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<v Speaker 2>can be derived from statements in scripture or supported by them once</v>

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<v Speaker 2>otherwise derived.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now I want to be very clear about what I am saying</v>

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<v Speaker 2>with those twin statements.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I am not saying that every truth is contained in Scripture because</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not every truth is contained in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Scripture is not meant to be a comprehensive statement of truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Scripture first and foremost is a statement of religious truth, of doctrinal</v>

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<v Speaker 2>truth, of theological truth, so anything having to do with those subjects</v>

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<v Speaker 2>can be derived from or supported by a statement in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The reason that I am making those two statements, those twin statements,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is because it is not always the case that every single thing</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be grounded explicitly in a verse that addresses it</v>

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<v Speaker 2>explicitly. For instance, headship as a doctrine,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>as an entire area of theology, quite francally is derived from many</v>

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<v Speaker 2>places in Scripture from many verses.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If you read through all of those sections, you will come away</v>

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<v Speaker 2>with the right understanding, but you can also derive that doctrine from</v>

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<v Speaker 2>reality, from biology, from psychology, from</v>

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<v Speaker 2>this world and our lives as we live them, you can derive</v>

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<v Speaker 2>them from the created order, because God is also the God of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>nature. He is the one who has created creation, as the name</v>

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<v Speaker 2>would imply, and instilled that order into it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And the reason I want to make that point is that it</v>

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<v Speaker 2>leads into my next one, which is that it is possible</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to lie with a truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now I want to distinguish again two things that are going to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>sound relatively similar.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is possible to lie with a truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is not possible to lie with the truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The distinction there is key.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And what that distinction means is that if a given situation calls</v>

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<v Speaker 2>for you to speak a certain truth and you do not speak</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that truth, that is the truth you did not speak, and speaking</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that truth would not have been lying.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If you speak another truth, that truth may be lying with the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>truth because it is a lie by omission</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Let me give an example to make this more clear.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>From Luke four.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And he took him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, He</v>

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<v Speaker 2>will command his angels concerning you to guard you, and on their</v>

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<v Speaker 2>hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a stone.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And Jesus answered him, it is said, You shall not put the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Lord your God to the test.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Satan was speaking a truth, two of them in fact.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He quotes from scripture What he said was in fact true.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He was using those verses in an attempt to deceive.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Of course he can't deceive Christ, but nonetheless that is what he</v>

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<v Speaker 2>was attempting to do, and he can certainly deceive men.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He was doing that with truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now the truth, the truth, that was key here, is the one</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that is spoken by Christ, and so Christ speaks the truth that</v>

00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:40.240
<v Speaker 2>is on point, that is relevant here you shall not put the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Lord your God to the test.</v>

00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:48.080
<v Speaker 2>Satan attempts to deceive through lying by omission</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And this is something that we see frequently in our day and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>age. Woe just went over a key example of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If you say the Romans killed Christ, that's true, they did.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now Scripture never says the Romans were seeking to kill Christ, because</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the Romans did not want to kill Christ.</v>

00:25:09.760 --> 00:25:13.760
<v Speaker 2>Pilate's hands were forced, as it were, that doesn't absolve him of</v>

00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:17.360
<v Speaker 2>guilt, but certainly he has the lesser sin, and if you're inclined</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to squabble or quibble with me over that, I'm quoting Christ directly,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>so perhaps think about why you have that response.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But if someone asks you, Did the Jews murder Christ?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And you say, Well, my sins crucified Christ, or you say the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Romans crucified Christ, or you say Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Christ,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>all of those statements are</v>

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<v Speaker 2>true. It is a truth to say that my sins crucified Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But it is not the truth that is called for in that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>situation. The truth that is called for in that situation is to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>affirm what Scripture says in many places, the Jews murdered Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And incidentally, I want to briefly address the fact that some will</v>

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<v Speaker 2>try to say, well, it was just the leaders, it was the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Pharisees, it was the rulers.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>God has essentially preempted every single sort of heresy that will ever</v>

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<v Speaker 2>come up from the beginning of time until the last day.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This This one he addresses directly in Luke, because there it says</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the chief priests and the rulers and the people.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>All three are listed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so those who try to say that it is just the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Pharisees, or just the rulers, or the scribes, or whomever it happens</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to be they choose as their scapegoat.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>No. Scripture gives us the list, and the last group is the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>people, the Jews themselves, the Jews as a collective people are listed</v>

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<v Speaker 2>there as guilty of the murder of Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so just because you are stating a truth</v>

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<v Speaker 2>does not mean that you are stating the truth that needs to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>be spoken in a given situation.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And as a Christian, it is incumbent on you to speak the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>truth. Now this does not mean that you have to go around</v>

00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:17.680
<v Speaker 2>picking fights at all times in all places.</v>

00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.880
<v Speaker 2>You don't have to stand up in your workplace and yell the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Jews murdered Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's not what we're saying.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>These matters, as we have highlighted so many other times in so</v>

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<v Speaker 2>many other episodes, are matters of wisdom to some degree.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>When it comes to bringing up the conversation, it is certainly a</v>

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<v Speaker 2>matter of wisdom when, where, and with whom you do that, and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>how you do it, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But if you are challenged on your Christian faith, if someone says,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't it true that Christians teach, then you are required to speak</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the truth as it is written in Scripture.</v>

00:27:59.760 --> 00:28:04.960
<v Speaker 2>If someone says, Isn't it true that Scripture says the Jews murdered</v>

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.480
<v Speaker 2>Christ, you have to affirm that, yes it's true, because it is</v>

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<v Speaker 2>written in many places.</v>

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:14.000
<v Speaker 2>If someone says the inverse, isn't it true that Scripture says that</v>

00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.480
<v Speaker 2>it was the Pharisees or it was the Romans, or that it</v>

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't the Jews.</v>

00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:21.600
<v Speaker 2>You have to affirm what Scripture says.</v>

00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:25.440
<v Speaker 2>You have to say, no, it says the Jews murdered Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You are, of course, supposed to affirm all of those if it</v>

00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:35.120
<v Speaker 2>is a listing, so yes the Romans, yes Pilate, yes the Jews.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>You do not have the sort of dispensation, as it were, that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Muslims have.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Islam teaches its followers to lie.</v>

00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.000
<v Speaker 2>There are four different kinds.</v>

00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.320
<v Speaker 2>We're not going to go through them in this episode because that's</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not the point.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But there are different types of lying that are outlined in Islam</v>

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<v Speaker 2>as being explicitly commanded intended, or at the very least permissible, for</v>

00:28:58.800 --> 00:29:03.360
<v Speaker 2>Muslims to use against non-believers, against non-Muslims.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There is no such thing in Christianity.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>As a Christian, even if you know that speaking the truth will</v>

00:29:11.760 --> 00:29:14.960
<v Speaker 2>destroy your life, that you'll be thrown to the lions, you are</v>

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:16.800
<v Speaker 2>required to speak the truth.</v>

00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:20.640
<v Speaker 2>You are required to do the same thing that Daniel did.</v>

00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:23.920
<v Speaker 2>And it is up to God whether He preserves you or whether</v>

00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.400
<v Speaker 2>you become a martyr to His glory.</v>

00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.480
<v Speaker 2>That is what Christians are required to do, and we very much</v>

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<v Speaker 2>see that increasing in likelihood in our day.</v>

00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:40.640
<v Speaker 2>There are very real consequences of Christendom being destroyed in the past</v>

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<v Speaker 2>handful of generations.</v>

00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:47.680
<v Speaker 2>We are going to face challenges that our ancestors did not face.</v>

00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:51.280
<v Speaker 2>Because those who were living in the centuries long life span of</v>

00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:56.640
<v Speaker 2>Christendom were never brought up on charges for saying, Well, you said</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that slavery is fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>No, because the authorities would have said it's in Scripture, because the</v>

00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:05.680
<v Speaker 2>authorities were Christian.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so affirming what Scripture said was not a risk.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, of course, there were times where people were brought up on</v>

00:30:11.760 --> 00:30:15.040
<v Speaker 2>heresy charges when they were actually teaching teaching the truth, but that</v>

00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:18.640
<v Speaker 2>was nearer to the end and that was a different issue we've</v>

00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.200
<v Speaker 2>gone over the Reformation previously.</v>

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:25.360
<v Speaker 2>But by and large, affirming the things that were in Scripture, assuming</v>

00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:27.520
<v Speaker 2>you were literate and could read Scripture,</v>

00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:31.360
<v Speaker 2>would not have been something for which you would have been put</v>

00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:34.400
<v Speaker 2>on trial or put in prison.</v>

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:39.280
<v Speaker 2>Today, that is a very real potential risk, because these sorts of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>laws are being enacted in more and more places, and yes, also</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in the United States.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so I know that those who are perhaps of a former</v>

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<v Speaker 2>libertarian bent, and it should indeed be former, but those who are</v>

00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.720
<v Speaker 2>of that bent may think, well, what about the First Amendment?</v>

00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:01.040
<v Speaker 2>That is, as Woe said, the wrong frame of mind.</v>

00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:04.720
<v Speaker 2>You need to be thinking as a Christian, not as a constitutionalist,</v>

00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:08.800
<v Speaker 2>not as an American, not as whatever other category you want to</v>

00:31:08.800 --> 00:31:14.320
<v Speaker 2>believe. The Constitution does not matter in this.</v>

00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:17.840
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it may very well be used as a weapon by our</v>

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<v Speaker 2>side in court and we'll see how that goes, but fundamentally the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>issue for individual Christians is when you are presented with this sort</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of challenge, when you are presented with the opportunity or the demand</v>

00:31:31.040 --> 00:31:36.320
<v Speaker 2>to confess the faith fully, every word of Scripture, and that doesn't</v>

00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:39.440
<v Speaker 2>just mean Christ crucified for sinners.</v>

00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:43.360
<v Speaker 2>Confessing the fullness of the faith is more than just confessing the</v>

00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:47.360
<v Speaker 2>gospel, the literal, simple gospel itself.</v>

00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:48.240
<v Speaker 2>It means confessing</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that every word spoken by God, every word written down in Scripture,</v>

00:31:54.720 --> 00:32:00.000
<v Speaker 2>is true, regardless of how uncomfortable that word may make modern men</v>

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<v Speaker 2>feel. Does Scripture say that slavery is morally permissible?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The answer is yes.</v>

00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.000
<v Speaker 2>Does Scripture teach that women are headless?</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The answer is yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because that's headship, we've gone over that previously.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And a dozen other issues.</v>

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:17.920
<v Speaker 2>We've gone over many of these issues, often in dedicated episodes or</v>

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<v Speaker 2>even spanning multiple episodes in a series.</v>

00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:25.200
<v Speaker 2>Each and every one of those things must be affirmed by a</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Christian when those things are challenged.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It actually even goes further than that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There are certain things that by and large are just are generally</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not binding upon the Christian.</v>

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:43.440
<v Speaker 2>We call these things of course adephora things that are indifferent, literally</v>

00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:47.840
<v Speaker 2>understood. Which means that you are permitted to do them or not</v>

00:32:47.840 --> 00:32:48.720
<v Speaker 2>to do them.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>A great example would be candles or liturgical vestments.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>These things are not specifically required in scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>However, if the secular authorities</v>

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<v Speaker 2>if the state if the world tells you</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you may not use candles, you may not use liturgical vestments, you</v>

00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.040
<v Speaker 2>may not sing this list of hymns.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The Christian response</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is to continue doing those things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>They are no longer a matter of indifference because once it has</v>

00:33:24.080 --> 00:33:28.640
<v Speaker 2>been commanded by the anti Christian authorities that you are not permitted</v>

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:33.280
<v Speaker 2>to do those things, doing them becomes a confession of faith.</v>

00:33:33.280 --> 00:33:37.440
<v Speaker 2>And so there are things that are even not explicitly parts of</v>

00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.040
<v Speaker 2>Scripture or parts of the faith that may very well be displayed,</v>

00:33:43.040 --> 00:33:46.960
<v Speaker 2>be required of Christians as part of our public confession before the</v>

00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:51.280
<v Speaker 2>world, when the world tells us we may not engage in them.</v>

00:33:51.280 --> 00:33:55.600
<v Speaker 2>And so yes, literally it may be the case that lighting candles</v>

00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:58.800
<v Speaker 2>may be a necessary part of your confession of the Christian faith</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in the coming years.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That one perhaps is not as likely as some of the others,</v>

00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:06.960
<v Speaker 2>but the big ticket ones obviously are going to be did the</v>

00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.000
<v Speaker 2>Jews murder Christ and things like that.</v>

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.320
<v Speaker 2>The ones where the world has already built up this cult, this</v>

00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:19.040
<v Speaker 2>false religion, this idolatry, and told you you have to give the</v>

00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:22.480
<v Speaker 2>pinch of incense to Caesar, it's often more than a pinch of</v>

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.440
<v Speaker 2>incense these days, but you have to give this false confession.</v>

00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:31.680
<v Speaker 2>Because as we've said so many times, if you confess a false</v>

00:34:32.640 --> 00:34:37.440
<v Speaker 2>sin, it is worship of a false God, it is idolatry and</v>

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.200
<v Speaker 2>it is damnable.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>These are not minor matters.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing in Scripture is a minor matter when the world demands that</v>

00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:49.040
<v Speaker 2>you lie about it.</v>

00:34:49.040 --> 00:34:53.200
<v Speaker 2>When Satan demands that you speak one truth and not another, then</v>

00:34:53.200 --> 00:34:56.480
<v Speaker 2>you speak both, you most certainly speak the one that he told</v>

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<v Speaker 2>you not to speak.</v>

00:34:58.560 --> 00:35:03.440
<v Speaker 2>Because to do otherwise is to deny Christ before men.</v>

00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:08.560
<v Speaker 2>I want you to think about a particular issue, a particular way</v>

00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:11.680
<v Speaker 2>that things are worded in Scripture, just something to contemplate.</v>

00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:15.200
<v Speaker 2>I won't go into it in depth in this episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But I want you to read the beginning of John.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>In the beginning was the word.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And then I want you to think about the fact that Christ</v>

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<v Speaker 2>is called the Word</v>

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<v Speaker 2>and scripture is called the word.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Think about that interplay and the implications of it, and then think</v>

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:38.000
<v Speaker 2>about the implication of denying any particular part of scripture.</v>

00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.560
<v Speaker 2>These are matters of eternal life or eternal death.</v>

00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:47.440
<v Speaker 2>Nothing in Scripture is minor when the world or Satan says you</v>

00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:50.240
<v Speaker 2>must not speak that truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>To give another more worldly illustration of how telling the truth can</v>

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:58.960
<v Speaker 3>in fact be a lie by omission, I'm going to give a</v>

00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.880
<v Speaker 3>completely over the top hypothetical because it's a really good illustration.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Imagine that you and I are standing near the woods outside having</v>

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<v Speaker 3>a conversation.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We're just chatting.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe we're talking about this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I'm doing most of the talking and your back is to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the woods.</v>

00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:16.720
<v Speaker 3>And as we're speaking, you think you hear something kind of in</v>

00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:17.440
<v Speaker 3>the tree line.</v>

00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:20.640
<v Speaker 3>And as it's dawning on you that maybe you should look over</v>

00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:23.200
<v Speaker 3>your shoulder, I start speaking more loudly.</v>

00:36:23.200 --> 00:36:26.480
<v Speaker 3>And my expressions get bigger, my hands start moving more.</v>

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:27.840
<v Speaker 3>I'm keeping your attention.</v>

00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.840
<v Speaker 3>And I talk faster and faster and I keep you from turning</v>

00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.120
<v Speaker 3>around because I've distracted you and this goes on for a little</v>

00:36:35.120 --> 00:36:37.680
<v Speaker 3>while. And suddenly I turn and bolt.</v>

00:36:37.680 --> 00:36:40.160
<v Speaker 3>And as I get about three steps away and you're trying to</v>

00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:43.760
<v Speaker 3>figure out what's going on, you feel a bear's teeth sinking into</v>

00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:44.880
<v Speaker 3>your neck.</v>

00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:48.240
<v Speaker 3>Because while I was standing there talking to you, I wasn't telling</v>

00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:50.960
<v Speaker 3>you if there was a bear stalking both of us and it</v>

00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:52.720
<v Speaker 3>was about to eat one of us.</v>

00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:57.040
<v Speaker 3>Now, this is an overtop example, but imagine that my argument to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>say well yeah I didn't kill you because you know, everything I</v>

00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:01.200
<v Speaker 3>was saying was true.</v>

00:37:01.200 --> 00:37:03.840
<v Speaker 3>Every word that I was speaking to you is like a transcript</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of this episode.</v>

00:37:04.640 --> 00:37:06.720
<v Speaker 3>Everything I'm saying right now I believe is true.</v>

00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:09.920
<v Speaker 3>I can in good conscience say all Say all these things.</v>

00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:13.760
<v Speaker 3>But if we're doing it face-to-face and there's a nine-foot-tall grizzly bear</v>

00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:16.720
<v Speaker 3>behind you, it's about to eat you, have I lied to you</v>

00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:18.560
<v Speaker 3>by having this conversation?</v>

00:37:18.560 --> 00:37:22.480
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely. I murdered you because I distracted you by not telling you</v>

00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.320
<v Speaker 3>the one thing that you had to know to save your life.</v>

00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:28.400
<v Speaker 3>This is what we're talking about here.</v>

00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:32.640
<v Speaker 3>There are things that are true doctrinally that are true because they're</v>

00:37:32.640 --> 00:37:36.000
<v Speaker 3>in Scripture, but if they're the emphasis in the face of the</v>

00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.760
<v Speaker 3>world saying no, you can't say that, the world is saying it's</v>

00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:40.960
<v Speaker 3>not true doctrine.</v>

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.600
<v Speaker 3>And you're saying, well, I'm going to focus on this other stuff.</v>

00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:46.720
<v Speaker 3>So again, South Dakota passed a law.</v>

00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:49.200
<v Speaker 3>Here's the particular wording that is used.</v>

00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:50.000
<v Speaker 3>What happened?</v>

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:55.440
<v Speaker 3>They passed a one-paragraph bill that incorporated by reference a long definition</v>

00:37:55.440 --> 00:38:01.440
<v Speaker 3>of anti-Semitism from the IHRA, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.</v>

00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.680
<v Speaker 3>Why you need a global alliance to remember the Holocaust?</v>

00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:05.040
<v Speaker 3>I'm not entirely sure.</v>

00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:09.120
<v Speaker 3>Personally, I also find it highly offensive in White Erasure that they're</v>

00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:13.760
<v Speaker 3>taking IHRA from the International Hot Rod Association on behalf of Big</v>

00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:16.640
<v Speaker 3>Daddy Don Garless, that ticks me off.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But the fact that they have defined this elsewhere in the world</v>

00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.000
<v Speaker 3>in twenty sixteen, and now South Dakota is the first state to</v>

00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:27.920
<v Speaker 3>incorporate that definition by reference on the books as a law in</v>

00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.440
<v Speaker 3>South Dakota.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And immediately the governess of South Dakota got on Fox News and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all the other TV stations saying this is gonna be a model</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for every other state.</v>

00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:38.640
<v Speaker 3>And she's absolutely right.</v>

00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:42.800
<v Speaker 3>This is something that I said, UNESCO, the UN, the European Commission</v>

00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:44.960
<v Speaker 3>are all saying this is really good.</v>

00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.440
<v Speaker 3>We got to stamp down on this anti-Semitism.</v>

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:48.880
<v Speaker 3>It's a global problem.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And here is the definition.</v>

00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:53.120
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to read to you the one line of the entire</v>

00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:56.560
<v Speaker 3>thing that we've dealt with some of the other things in the</v>

00:38:56.560 --> 00:38:57.600
<v Speaker 3>overall definition.</v>

00:38:57.600 --> 00:39:00.000
<v Speaker 3>We'll give a link so you can read it all.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I obviously disagree with every part of it, but as Christians, even</v>

00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:08.080
<v Speaker 3>if you don't care about the rest, this one line alone morally</v>

00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:12.000
<v Speaker 3>obligates us to speak against it is this.</v>

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.680
<v Speaker 3>Part of the definition of anti-Semitism is according to them, using the</v>

00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:21.280
<v Speaker 3>symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism, for example, claims of Jews</v>

00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:27.360
<v Speaker 3>killing Jesus or blood libel to characterize Israel or Israelis.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So what has happened in South Dakota and is going to happen</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in other states is to say it is a criminal act of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>anti Semitism to say that Jews killed Jesus.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>As we said earlier, the question is not what is the most</v>

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<v Speaker 3>important of those five?</v>

00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:48.480
<v Speaker 3>Obviously the most important of the five things that killed Jesus, there's</v>

00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.000
<v Speaker 3>perhaps more, but just for the sake of argument, those five specific</v>

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.200
<v Speaker 3>entities, my sins and your sins, are the most important thing.</v>

00:39:55.200 --> 00:39:57.760
<v Speaker 3>Jesus Jesus would not have been crucified, he would not have been</v>

00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.560
<v Speaker 3>incarnate if not for my sins and your sins.</v>

00:40:00.560 --> 00:40:02.240
<v Speaker 3>That is the most important thing.</v>

00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:07.440
<v Speaker 3>That is the law of God, and we stand condemned by it.</v>

00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:11.920
<v Speaker 3>This is true doctrine, and it is the most important Christian doctrine.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the UN and the European Commission and the IHRA and Satan</v>

00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:18.320
<v Speaker 3>don't care about it.</v>

00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:19.760
<v Speaker 3>At least not for right now.</v>

00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.360
<v Speaker 3>That's not what they're attacking.</v>

00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:22.640
<v Speaker 3>What are they attacking?</v>

00:40:22.640 --> 00:40:25.760
<v Speaker 3>They're attacking claims the Jews killed Jesus.</v>

00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:27.200
<v Speaker 3>Well, okay, claims.</v>

00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:28.880
<v Speaker 3>Is that true or false?</v>

00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.760
<v Speaker 3>Historically, they want to say we had nothing to do with that.</v>

00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:35.680
<v Speaker 3>Although at the same time, you have guys like Ben Shapiro saying</v>

00:40:35.680 --> 00:40:39.120
<v Speaker 3>that Jesus was a rebel and deserved to be murdered.</v>

00:40:39.120 --> 00:40:42.000
<v Speaker 3>He dances in the blood of Jesus, as they all do, as</v>

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<v Speaker 3>they have for two thousand years.</v>

00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:48.880
<v Speaker 3>But when it comes to Christians in our own nation saying just</v>

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<v Speaker 3>simply as a matter of Christian confession, the Jews killed Jesus, this</v>

00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:54.160
<v Speaker 3>is now a criminal act.</v>

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.680
<v Speaker 3>This podcast episode is a criminal act in the state of South</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Dakota now.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>As are many of the past episodes we've done, we specifically dealt</v>

00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.200
<v Speaker 3>with some of the other details.</v>

00:41:05.200 --> 00:41:07.920
<v Speaker 3>I want to give you a couple examples and just not to</v>

00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:11.040
<v Speaker 3>very lead, but at the very end of this episode, on our</v>

00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:14.400
<v Speaker 3>way out, we are going to read back and forth a litany</v>

00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:18.240
<v Speaker 3>of passages from scripture that specifically say the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:21.680
<v Speaker 3>So after we make the whole argument for what we're claiming here,</v>

00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:25.680
<v Speaker 3>that it is necessary for us as Christians to say the Jews</v>

00:41:25.680 --> 00:41:28.800
<v Speaker 3>killed Christ when they say we can't.</v>

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.360
<v Speaker 3>We're just gonna leave you with the words of scripture echo in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>your ears.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So the last thing you remember is not gonna be us making</v>

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:34.720
<v Speaker 3>any points.</v>

00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:37.920
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna be God's word saying that over and over and over</v>

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<v Speaker 3>again. We cherry picked a dozen or so, there are a whole</v>

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<v Speaker 3>bunch more.</v>

00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:45.360
<v Speaker 3>And these are just passages that are directly addressing that claim.</v>

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:51.920
<v Speaker 3>There are many, many more that incorporate it more obliquely.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The very first time that this claim is made after the crucifixion</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is in Acts 2.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Go read the first few chapters of Acts after this and see</v>

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:05.760
<v Speaker 3>if you don't find exactly what we're saying here.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Peter, I've said before, Peter was kind of a bumbling idiot when</v>

00:42:10.080 --> 00:42:13.200
<v Speaker 3>Jesus was conducting his earthly ministry.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>As soon as the ascension occurred, Peter became this incredible preacher.</v>

00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:21.520
<v Speaker 3>He was eloquent, he was prolific, and he went to town on</v>

00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:22.800
<v Speaker 3>his audience.</v>

00:42:23.040 --> 00:42:26.400
<v Speaker 3>One of the very first sermons that he preached, he says this</v>

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<v Speaker 3>in Acts two, let all the house of Israel therefore know for</v>

00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:32.640
<v Speaker 3>certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ this morning</v>

00:42:32.640 --> 00:42:35.280
<v Speaker 3>this Jesus whom you crucified.</v>

00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.080
<v Speaker 3>And listen to the response of the Jews in the temple when</v>

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<v Speaker 3>he said this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and</v>

00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:45.120
<v Speaker 3>said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brothers, what shall</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we do?</v>

00:42:45.680 --> 00:42:48.320
<v Speaker 3>And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your</v>

00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.760
<v Speaker 3>sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.</v>

00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.640
<v Speaker 3>And about five thousand were baptized that day.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So here is Peter, and what effectively the first sermon of the</v>

00:43:01.520 --> 00:43:05.920
<v Speaker 3>church, of the Christian church, what does he say?</v>

00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:08.800
<v Speaker 3>Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God</v>

00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.480
<v Speaker 3>has made both him Lord, made him both Lord and Christ, this</v>

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.120
<v Speaker 3>Jesus whom you crucified.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>He wasn't speaking to Pilate or Roman centurions.</v>

00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:20.480
<v Speaker 3>He wasn't talking directly to me.</v>

00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.040
<v Speaker 3>He was talking to a crowd of Jews.</v>

00:43:23.040 --> 00:43:24.480
<v Speaker 3>And what was their response?</v>

00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.880
<v Speaker 3>They were cut to the heart and they said, What do we</v>

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:28.880
<v Speaker 3>do? And he said, Repent and be baptized.</v>

00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.480
<v Speaker 3>And they were saved that day.</v>

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:31.760
<v Speaker 3>How are they saved?</v>

00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:35.200
<v Speaker 3>They were saved by the words that are il illegal under this</v>

00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:37.600
<v Speaker 3>statute in the state of South Dakota.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So you tell me Which is the true confession?</v>

00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:46.400
<v Speaker 3>If I tell you, as Peter did, that the Jews killed Christ,</v>

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.880
<v Speaker 3>if your instinct is to argue with me and say, no, no,</v>

00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:52.560
<v Speaker 3>no, no, I did it, what problem are you trying to solve?</v>

00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:56.080
<v Speaker 3>This episode is fundamentally the synthesis of probably about half of the</v>

00:43:56.080 --> 00:43:57.760
<v Speaker 3>episodes that we've done in the past.</v>

00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.120
<v Speaker 3>Because when you take a moment, when you're confronted with a situation</v>

00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:04.320
<v Speaker 3>and think, what problem am I trying to solve and what is</v>

00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:06.880
<v Speaker 3>the genealogy of this particular idea?</v>

00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:09.360
<v Speaker 3>It becomes very clear what we as Christians must do.</v>

00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.880
<v Speaker 3>And so we began with the example of Daniel is he exemplifies</v>

00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:14.320
<v Speaker 3>what we as Christians must do.</v>

00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:16.720
<v Speaker 3>You don't appeal to the king, you keep on doing it.</v>

00:44:16.720 --> 00:44:20.000
<v Speaker 3>And if God says to do it, you do it even harder.</v>

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:23.200
<v Speaker 3>As I've said in the past, there is an instinct among many</v>

00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:27.600
<v Speaker 3>Christians today to take worldly things and to attempt to bring them</v>

00:44:27.600 --> 00:44:30.960
<v Speaker 3>into our churches and to baptize them and to say, well, I</v>

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.480
<v Speaker 3>can make this sound Christian and then I can fit in with</v>

00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:39.600
<v Speaker 3>the world, which is a completely evil and insane approach.</v>

00:44:39.600 --> 00:44:42.720
<v Speaker 3>Why are we taking our doctrine from outside of Scripture?</v>

00:44:42.720 --> 00:44:44.880
<v Speaker 3>Why aren't we taking it from Scripture?</v>

00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.600
<v Speaker 3>And so when confronted with this particular circumstance, where the IHRA hands</v>

00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:54.480
<v Speaker 3>a draft to your state legislature and says, this needs to be</v>

00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.400
<v Speaker 3>your law for anti-Semitism.</v>

00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:58.960
<v Speaker 3>And the law is then gonna read that it is illegal to</v>

00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:02.080
<v Speaker 3>make claims of Jews killing Jesus.</v>

00:45:02.080 --> 00:45:05.120
<v Speaker 3>The very first sermon that Peter preached said that the Jews killed</v>

00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:07.840
<v Speaker 3>Jesus and they were saved by hearing that.</v>

00:45:08.160 --> 00:45:10.240
<v Speaker 3>That makes it the gospel.</v>

00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:11.200
<v Speaker 3>It's also the law.</v>

00:45:11.200 --> 00:45:14.480
<v Speaker 3>I'm not confusing law and gospel for all you Lutheran listeners.</v>

00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:16.560
<v Speaker 3>The gospel is every word from the mouth of God.</v>

00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.160
<v Speaker 3>It's not just the good parts.</v>

00:45:18.160 --> 00:45:20.240
<v Speaker 3>You can go read the definition in Revelation.</v>

00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:24.560
<v Speaker 3>It's very clear that the gospel is not just we're saved.</v>

00:45:24.560 --> 00:45:27.680
<v Speaker 3>The gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ, which is that</v>

00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:31.360
<v Speaker 3>we are sinners and that we are damned without him, and therefore</v>

00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.600
<v Speaker 3>he came to save us from our sin.</v>

00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:38.880
<v Speaker 3>If you don't understand the damnation, the gospel is incoherent.</v>

00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.760
<v Speaker 3>Like Jesus raised from the dead, I don't care what what does</v>

00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:42.560
<v Speaker 3>that have to do with me?</v>

00:45:42.560 --> 00:45:43.920
<v Speaker 3>I'm not doing anything wrong.</v>

00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:46.080
<v Speaker 3>That's the approach of most people in the world today.</v>

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:48.400
<v Speaker 3>They don't care because they don't think it has anything to do</v>

00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:48.960
<v Speaker 3>with them.</v>

00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:52.560
<v Speaker 3>Until they hear the law, until they hear the good news that</v>

00:45:52.560 --> 00:45:57.520
<v Speaker 3>they're damned, they can't possibly respond to the gospel.</v>

00:45:57.520 --> 00:46:01.520
<v Speaker 3>There's no possible response if you don't believe that you're in trouble.</v>

00:46:01.520 --> 00:46:04.320
<v Speaker 3>You're not gonna run if I don't tell you there's a bear</v>

00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:05.040
<v Speaker 3>behind you.</v>

00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:06.320
<v Speaker 3>So where's the good news?</v>

00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:08.720
<v Speaker 3>The good news is I'm gonna be a Christian and say, hey,</v>

00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:10.000
<v Speaker 3>let's get out of here.</v>

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:14.240
<v Speaker 3>And you run as fast as you can because there's something dangerous.</v>

00:46:14.240 --> 00:46:18.000
<v Speaker 3>When the world is saying you can't say the Jews killed Christ,</v>

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.640
<v Speaker 3>the response cannot be, well, that's true.</v>

00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:23.520
<v Speaker 3>It's really more important than my sins killed Christ.</v>

00:46:23.520 --> 00:46:25.760
<v Speaker 3>No, that is completely impermissible.</v>

00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.920
<v Speaker 3>Something which is doctrinally correct, that my sins kill Christ, that your</v>

00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.080
<v Speaker 3>sins kill Christ, is in this moment irrelevant.</v>

00:46:34.080 --> 00:46:38.800
<v Speaker 3>And to emphasize that, to emphasize that true doctrine in the face</v>

00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.520
<v Speaker 3>of a false confession, coming from Christ killers who hate God and</v>

00:46:43.520 --> 00:46:47.360
<v Speaker 3>hate the gospel, and forbid us from saying what's in Scripture, if</v>

00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:51.200
<v Speaker 3>we agree with them by the smallest degree, we have apostatized.</v>

00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:55.280
<v Speaker 3>It is apostasy to refuse to say that the Jews killed Christ</v>

00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.200
<v Speaker 3>when they tell you you can't say it.</v>

00:46:57.200 --> 00:46:59.280
<v Speaker 3>Why? Because it's in scripture.</v>

00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.720
<v Speaker 3>When Peter preached it to that crowd, they were converted.</v>

00:47:02.720 --> 00:47:04.400
<v Speaker 3>Their consciences were convicted.</v>

00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:06.240
<v Speaker 3>Because they weren't just the Pharisees.</v>

00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:08.400
<v Speaker 3>It wasn't just the leaders and the teachers.</v>

00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:10.080
<v Speaker 3>It was all the other Jews.</v>

00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:11.920
<v Speaker 3>He hung it around all their necks.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And the very next chapter, we don't know how much longer, it</v>

00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:16.000
<v Speaker 3>was not too much longer.</v>

00:47:16.160 --> 00:47:18.960
<v Speaker 3>longer in chapter three of Acts, And when Peter saw it, he</v>

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<v Speaker 3>addressed the people, men of Israel, why do you think that this</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is or why do you stare at us as though by our</v>

00:47:24.720 --> 00:47:26.960
<v Speaker 3>power or piety we have made him walk?</v>

00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:29.760
<v Speaker 3>The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob,</v>

00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:34.240
<v Speaker 3>the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered</v>

00:47:34.240 --> 00:47:37.760
<v Speaker 3>over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided</v>

00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:41.120
<v Speaker 3>to release him, but you denied the holy and righteous one, and</v>

00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:44.160
<v Speaker 3>asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed</v>

00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:47.600
<v Speaker 3>the author of life whom God raised from the dead.</v>

00:47:47.600 --> 00:47:50.320
<v Speaker 3>To this we are witnesses.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's about as hard as anyone can ever go at the Jews.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it was a whole bunch of them.</v>

00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:55.360
<v Speaker 3>And you know what they did?</v>

00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:56.880
<v Speaker 3>They repented.</v>

00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:58.960
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna give a bunch more examples like I said at the</v>

00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:00.960
<v Speaker 3>end. We're not gonna belabor all the points in the middle of</v>

00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.360
<v Speaker 3>the episode, but throughout scripture, over and over in the New Testament,</v>

00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:09.520
<v Speaker 3>it is a recurring theme that the Jews murdered Christ.</v>

00:48:09.520 --> 00:48:11.680
<v Speaker 3>Now, is it the only doctrine?</v>

00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:14.160
<v Speaker 3>No. My sins killed Christ.</v>

00:48:14.160 --> 00:48:16.240
<v Speaker 3>I murdered Christ by my wickedness.</v>

00:48:16.240 --> 00:48:17.280
<v Speaker 3>We all do this.</v>

00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:18.800
<v Speaker 3>And we do it every day.</v>

00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:23.040
<v Speaker 3>And that is why we need penitential seasons like Lent to remind</v>

00:48:23.040 --> 00:48:26.560
<v Speaker 3>us. Because even though the Christian life should be one reflecting on</v>

00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:31.280
<v Speaker 3>our sin and our penitence, on and on repenting and turning away</v>

00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:34.560
<v Speaker 3>from our wickedness, God knows that we need to be reminded at</v>

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<v Speaker 3>certain times, really, look at this.</v>

00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.120
<v Speaker 3>Look at what you did.</v>

00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:42.640
<v Speaker 3>And simultaneously, look at what I did for you.</v>

00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:44.640
<v Speaker 3>The cross is both of those things.</v>

00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:48.560
<v Speaker 3>The cross is a condemnation of our wickedness and is a proclamation</v>

00:48:48.560 --> 00:48:49.760
<v Speaker 3>of God's love for us.</v>

00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.240
<v Speaker 3>It's all happening simultaneously.</v>

00:48:52.240 --> 00:48:54.160
<v Speaker 3>God is wonderful in this way.</v>

00:48:54.160 --> 00:48:58.240
<v Speaker 3>That in one symbol, He can encapsulate all this teaching.</v>

00:48:58.240 --> 00:48:59.840
<v Speaker 3>But you have to keep it all in your head.</v>

00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:01.840
<v Speaker 3>You have to receive it faithfully.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So So the chief focus of the Christian life is not that</v>

00:49:05.600 --> 00:49:06.880
<v Speaker 3>the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.400
<v Speaker 3>We don't think that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Well, the early episodes we did was on forgotten doctrines, neglected doctrines,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and we talked about usury and women covering their heads and a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>few others and we use them as examples of specifically saying this</v>

00:49:20.240 --> 00:49:23.200
<v Speaker 3>is not the whole Christian life, this is not the meat of</v>

00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:24.320
<v Speaker 3>the Christian faith.</v>

00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:26.800
<v Speaker 3>But we pointed out in that episode, you know what, these things</v>

00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:29.120
<v Speaker 3>are also in scripture and they just kind of vanished from our</v>

00:49:29.120 --> 00:49:30.640
<v Speaker 3>churches. What's going on?</v>

00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:34.240
<v Speaker 3>How can we claim to be the church of Peter if we're</v>

00:49:34.240 --> 00:49:38.560
<v Speaker 3>throwing away the doctrines that the church upheld for centuries or millennia?</v>

00:49:38.560 --> 00:49:39.680
<v Speaker 3>How is that happening?</v>

00:49:39.680 --> 00:49:42.400
<v Speaker 3>How do we forget the things that our forebears in the faith</v>

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<v Speaker 3>simply held as the faith?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And now today, not only don't we believe them, but when the</v>

00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:50.320
<v Speaker 3>world says you can't do that anymore, like, yeah, that's terrible.</v>

00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:52.400
<v Speaker 3>We never did that in the first place, despite the fact that</v>

00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:54.640
<v Speaker 3>Christians did it for hundreds and thousands of years.</v>

00:49:54.640 --> 00:49:56.320
<v Speaker 3>Slavery is a prime example.</v>

00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:58.800
<v Speaker 3>Did a whole episode about that.</v>

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.400
<v Speaker 3>How is it that the past is damned by the present when</v>

00:50:02.720 --> 00:50:06.000
<v Speaker 3>those people were supposed to be the same faith as us.</v>

00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:07.440
<v Speaker 3>Somebody's lying.</v>

00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:09.680
<v Speaker 3>And we of course know today that it is we who are</v>

00:50:09.680 --> 00:50:13.280
<v Speaker 3>the liars by pointing back to faithful Christians whose teachings were in</v>

00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:15.840
<v Speaker 3>accordance with scripture and we condemn them.</v>

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.840
<v Speaker 3>And we don't condemn them scripturally, we condemn them in worldly fashions</v>

00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:24.160
<v Speaker 3>because these things that are coming from outside of scripture, from outside</v>

00:50:24.160 --> 00:50:27.360
<v Speaker 3>of the church, are being hauled in off the sidewalk, and people</v>

00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.240
<v Speaker 3>are saying, Yeah, this is really good, this is Christian teaching.</v>

00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:34.800
<v Speaker 3>This is really This is really what MLK and Bonhoeffer did most</v>

00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:38.080
<v Speaker 3>the some of the most damage in the twentieth century.</v>

00:50:38.080 --> 00:50:42.480
<v Speaker 3>They denied the resurrection, they effectively denied the purpose of the crucifixion</v>

00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:46.160
<v Speaker 3>because they replaced the Jesus who died for our sins with the</v>

00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:47.840
<v Speaker 3>Jesus who set an example.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And yes, Jesus did set an example.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's very important.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But they eliminate the rest in their teaching.</v>

00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.120
<v Speaker 3>Because when Jesus is just one of many examples, then there's just</v>

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<v Speaker 3>one of many religions.</v>

00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:00.320
<v Speaker 3>And there's things you can learn from all religions.</v>

00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:03.280
<v Speaker 3>And so then at that point, you know, maybe you can learn</v>

00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:05.280
<v Speaker 3>something about Christianity from the UN.</v>

00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:09.200
<v Speaker 3>Maybe UNESCO and the European Commission can teach us something about how</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to be better Christians.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Because really there are a lot of different sources of morality.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's deranged.</v>

00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:17.440
<v Speaker 3>When I say that out loud, you're you're either laughing or cringing</v>

00:51:17.520 --> 00:51:18.720
<v Speaker 3>like that's just stupid.</v>

00:51:18.720 --> 00:51:20.320
<v Speaker 3>It's such a ridiculous thing.</v>

00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.400
<v Speaker 3>But that's exactly what's happening today.</v>

00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:25.920
<v Speaker 3>We have these things being drafted by these evil, wicked pagans, and</v>

00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:27.520
<v Speaker 3>then being handed to our states.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And see, it's not a direct assault on the gospel.</v>

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.480
<v Speaker 3>They're not saying John three sixteen is illegal.</v>

00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.680
<v Speaker 3>They're saying that Acts two is illegal, just partially, just a couple</v>

00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.320
<v Speaker 3>verses. And just to tell you at the end when we read</v>

00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:41.600
<v Speaker 3>through all those verses, there can be no citations verbally.</v>

00:51:41.600 --> 00:51:43.360
<v Speaker 3>We will put them in the show notes so you can look</v>

00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:44.240
<v Speaker 3>each of them up.</v>

00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:47.120
<v Speaker 3>If you think we're lying, if you think we're cherry picking and</v>

00:51:47.120 --> 00:51:49.440
<v Speaker 3>we're taking things out of context, great.</v>

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:50.720
<v Speaker 3>Go read the entire chapters.</v>

00:51:50.720 --> 00:51:54.880
<v Speaker 3>Go read the entire books, prove us wrong by reading the Bible.</v>

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:57.520
<v Speaker 3>You're not going to find anything different than what we've said here.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The Bible says over and over again, the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.120
<v Speaker 3>Christians must say the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:06.320
<v Speaker 3>And we're not saying it's a primary emphasis, as Corey said, you</v>

00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.840
<v Speaker 3>don't need to stand up in church and shout this, but in</v>

00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:14.560
<v Speaker 3>the specific case where there's a law passed, you are now bound.</v>

00:52:14.560 --> 00:52:18.000
<v Speaker 3>Certainly, and this is something I I said on Twitter last week.</v>

00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:21.360
<v Speaker 3>This lie thing was ratified, I believe, on Friday of last week,</v>

00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:22.400
<v Speaker 3>as we're recording.</v>

00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:26.320
<v Speaker 3>I tweeted that every pastor in South Dakota was morally obligated to</v>

00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:30.000
<v Speaker 3>God to get up in his pulpit on Sunday and specifically say</v>

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:31.440
<v Speaker 3>that the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.680
<v Speaker 3>Why? Because what scripture says.</v>

00:52:33.680 --> 00:52:37.760
<v Speaker 3>And the moment that the king says you're not allowed to pray</v>

00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.800
<v Speaker 3>for 30 days to anyone but me, that you're not allowed to</v>

00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:42.720
<v Speaker 3>say that the Jews killed Christ.</v>

00:52:42.720 --> 00:52:47.120
<v Speaker 3>Obedience to God requires doing the exact opposite.</v>

00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:52.880
<v Speaker 3>You do have to manifest what psychologists today call opposition defiant disorder,</v>

00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:56.720
<v Speaker 3>where you rigorously do the exact opposite of what you're told to</v>

00:52:56.720 --> 00:52:59.600
<v Speaker 3>do. Now, most of the time, that's not how Christians behave, but</v>

00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:03.920
<v Speaker 3>in this one specific case where the specific demand from the world,</v>

00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:07.760
<v Speaker 3>from the lawgiver, is you must deny what's in scripture, we must</v>

00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.360
<v Speaker 3>confess what's in scripture.</v>

00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:11.840
<v Speaker 3>Even if we don't usually talk about it, even if we don't</v>

00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:13.040
<v Speaker 3>usually think about it.</v>

00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:15.200
<v Speaker 3>And that's why this is where Satan's attacking.</v>

00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:18.480
<v Speaker 3>He knows he's doing an end run around all of our defenses.</v>

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:22.640
<v Speaker 3>Cause the normal rote response is, Well, my sins killed Christ.</v>

00:53:22.640 --> 00:53:24.320
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'm gonna focus on the cross.</v>

00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:27.040
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, the fact that there were Jews involved, well, that's just</v>

00:53:27.040 --> 00:53:28.160
<v Speaker 3>cause that you know is Israel.</v>

00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:29.360
<v Speaker 3>it's what happens.</v>

00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:30.400
<v Speaker 3>But they're not guilty of it.</v>

00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.000
<v Speaker 3>Certainly not more guilty than me.</v>

00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:34.160
<v Speaker 3>Corey said, Jesus says the opposite.</v>

00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:36.400
<v Speaker 3>He says that those who handed me over to you have the</v>

00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:37.440
<v Speaker 3>greater sin.</v>

00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.240
<v Speaker 3>He said that the Jews were more guilty of his murder than</v>

00:53:40.240 --> 00:53:44.400
<v Speaker 3>Pilate. He said it again with the centurions.</v>

00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:48.240
<v Speaker 3>That absolution was not given to the braying crowds.</v>

00:53:48.240 --> 00:53:50.080
<v Speaker 3>They did not receive absolution.</v>

00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:55.040
<v Speaker 3>They received condemnation in the very first sermons preached in the church</v>

00:53:55.040 --> 00:53:56.400
<v Speaker 3>from Peter's own mouth.</v>

00:53:56.560 --> 00:53:58.480
<v Speaker 3>Said, You people killed Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That is Christian doctrine.</v>

00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:02.400
<v Speaker 3>And whether or not we talk about it every day, I don't</v>

00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:03.440
<v Speaker 3>think we need to.</v>

00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:06.080
<v Speaker 3>I don't want to be the guys who talk about Jews all</v>

00:54:06.080 --> 00:54:08.960
<v Speaker 3>the time, and we don't, despite the fact that many people think</v>

00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:12.320
<v Speaker 3>that. But when this particular thing comes up, the state of South</v>

00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:14.960
<v Speaker 3>Dakota decided we had to do this episode this week.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Regardless of what else we had planned, when this law was passed</v>

00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:22.480
<v Speaker 3>that says you cannot say that the Jews killed Christ, we have</v>

00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:23.040
<v Speaker 3>to say it.</v>

00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:25.360
<v Speaker 3>We have to say it loud and clear, and we have to</v>

00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:29.600
<v Speaker 3>embolden others to remember that the examples given in the past of</v>

00:54:29.600 --> 00:54:31.920
<v Speaker 3>the Christian faith did the same thing.</v>

00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.760
<v Speaker 3>When a law was passed, they didn't appeal to Caesar, they didn't</v>

00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:37.920
<v Speaker 3>appeal to the king, asking for mercy.</v>

00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:39.760
<v Speaker 3>They said, I gotta do what I gotta do.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I answer to God.</v>

00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:44.800
<v Speaker 3>And if I answer to you in this life, God's gonna take</v>

00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:46.480
<v Speaker 3>care of me, no matter what happens.</v>

00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:48.560
<v Speaker 3>If I live, if I die, I don't care.</v>

00:54:48.560 --> 00:54:49.680
<v Speaker 3>This is my confession.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I submit to the Lord.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>In case anyone listening is inclined to be contentious needlessly, I would</v>

00:54:57.520 --> 00:55:01.200
<v Speaker 2>say in this case, I am not going to disagree with Woe's</v>

00:55:01.200 --> 00:55:05.040
<v Speaker 2>characterization of this law as being a criminal matter.</v>

00:55:05.040 --> 00:55:09.280
<v Speaker 2>Yes, by and large, Title Twenty of the South Dakota laws, and</v>

00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:11.760
<v Speaker 2>quite frankly their laws are a bit of a mess.</v>

00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:16.240
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, Title Twenty is largely dealing with civil matters.</v>

00:55:16.240 --> 00:55:21.440
<v Speaker 2>However, if you actually read through Title twenty, it has criminal penalties</v>

00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:22.720
<v Speaker 2>mixed in.</v>

00:55:22.720 --> 00:55:27.840
<v Speaker 2>And more importantly, than the specifics of how South Dakota is bringing</v>

00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:31.760
<v Speaker 2>about this particular regime regime because it is a regime they're attempting</v>

00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:34.560
<v Speaker 2>to import from European countries.</v>

00:55:34.560 --> 00:55:38.080
<v Speaker 2>We already know how this plays out because we have seen it</v>

00:55:38.080 --> 00:55:41.520
<v Speaker 2>in Europe, in Western Europe, and in Eastern Europe, quite frankly, in</v>

00:55:41.520 --> 00:55:48.400
<v Speaker 2>many places, particularly Poland, these things start out as being a minor</v>

00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:49.280
<v Speaker 2>civil matter.</v>

00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:54.560
<v Speaker 2>And so here you have largely a matter of discriminatory practices or</v>

00:55:54.720 --> 00:55:58.400
<v Speaker 2>or unfair practices, depending on how they're charging you.</v>

00:55:58.400 --> 00:55:59.840
<v Speaker 2>And so maybe it's a civil matter.</v>

00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:03.760
<v Speaker 2>It starts out as a fine, or a black mark, on your</v>

00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:05.840
<v Speaker 2>record, if you happen to hold a state license.</v>

00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.600
<v Speaker 2>That's another way they go about enforcing these things.</v>

00:56:09.600 --> 00:56:13.360
<v Speaker 2>It eventually becomes a crime, and then it's a misdemeanor.</v>

00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:17.200
<v Speaker 2>Some of the things in this section in Title twenty are misdemeanors.</v>

00:56:17.200 --> 00:56:19.120
<v Speaker 2>And then it becomes a felony.</v>

00:56:19.120 --> 00:56:20.800
<v Speaker 2>And then you get prison time</v>

00:56:22.080 --> 00:56:25.840
<v Speaker 2>We already see that happening in Europe.</v>

00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.000
<v Speaker 2>There are men in prison today because they have said things that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>were classified under this definition as anti Semitic.</v>

00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:37.520
<v Speaker 2>And to be clear, anti Semitism is not a sin.</v>

00:56:37.520 --> 00:56:40.400
<v Speaker 2>Nowhere in scripture do you find that as a sin.</v>

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:44.080
<v Speaker 2>We have gone over this at length in previous episodes, the issue</v>

00:56:44.080 --> 00:56:47.840
<v Speaker 2>of racism, because really this is just a particular special kind of</v>

00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:50.400
<v Speaker 2>racism against the Jews.</v>

00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:52.000
<v Speaker 2>It isn't a sin.</v>

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:56.800
<v Speaker 2>So confessing it, because this is an attempt to extract a religious</v>

00:56:56.800 --> 00:57:00.960
<v Speaker 2>confession, confessing it is confessing a false sin, which is confessing a</v>

00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.040
<v Speaker 2>false god, which is apostasy.</v>

00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:08.160
<v Speaker 2>To go over this law just a little more, I don't intend</v>

00:57:08.160 --> 00:57:11.120
<v Speaker 2>to go over it at length because this is not a legal</v>

00:57:11.120 --> 00:57:13.440
<v Speaker 2>podcast, and as I mentioned it's not the point.</v>

00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.400
<v Speaker 2>The point for Christians is that you have to confess the truth.</v>

00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:19.520
<v Speaker 2>The specifics of this law and how it gets appealed and how</v>

00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:23.680
<v Speaker 2>it gets enforced and all of that stuff is really tangential.</v>

00:57:23.680 --> 00:57:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's important in its own right, but I'm not going to</v>

00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:30.800
<v Speaker 2>talk about void for vagueness and strict scrutiny and prior restraint.</v>

00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.720
<v Speaker 2>That's not the sort of podcast this is.</v>

00:57:34.720 --> 00:57:40.880
<v Speaker 2>But it is worth highlighting just how expansive and vague this law</v>

00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:46.560
<v Speaker 2>is. Because the goal is basically to make a blanket possibility of</v>

00:57:46.560 --> 00:57:52.240
<v Speaker 2>charging anyone who says anything negative about the Jews or Israel.</v>

00:57:52.240 --> 00:57:56.560
<v Speaker 2>This is part and parcel of the same sort of scheme we</v>

00:57:56.560 --> 00:57:58.400
<v Speaker 2>see being enacted in many states.</v>

00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:00.400
<v Speaker 2>And so you may think, oh, it's just South Dakota.</v>

00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:02.080
<v Speaker 2>It's no.</v>

00:58:02.080 --> 00:58:08.720
<v Speaker 2>Many states have enacted laws that punish at least civil servants because</v>

00:58:08.720 --> 00:58:11.840
<v Speaker 2>those are the ones over whom they have direct control.</v>

00:58:11.840 --> 00:58:15.440
<v Speaker 2>But they will expand that as far as they are permitted, as</v>

00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:16.960
<v Speaker 2>far as they possibly can.</v>

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:22.240
<v Speaker 2>But they have enacted laws that punish those who participate in boycotts</v>

00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:26.160
<v Speaker 2>of the state of so called Israel.</v>

00:58:26.160 --> 00:58:29.440
<v Speaker 2>We have that in a majority of states now, and so it's</v>

00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:31.120
<v Speaker 2>not just South Dakota.</v>

00:58:31.120 --> 00:58:36.240
<v Speaker 2>This is the majority of the United States at this point.</v>

00:58:36.240 --> 00:58:39.280
<v Speaker 2>And it is going to continue because they are going to keep</v>

00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:41.120
<v Speaker 2>pushing these laws.</v>

00:58:41.120 --> 00:58:44.400
<v Speaker 2>And so yes, it is incumbent on Christians to push back against</v>

00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:48.000
<v Speaker 2>this in the political realm, in the legal realm, but it is</v>

00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:54.080
<v Speaker 2>incumbent on individual Christians to give the good confession when these matters</v>

00:58:54.080 --> 00:58:54.880
<v Speaker 2>come up.</v>

00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:59.440
<v Speaker 2>And as Woe said, pastors have to respond to this by preaching</v>

00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:04.000
<v Speaker 2>the full counsel of God, the full truth of Scripture, specifically those</v>

00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:07.360
<v Speaker 2>parts that are condemned by this law.</v>

00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:11.920
<v Speaker 2>And the examples that are given for this are very clearly meant</v>

00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:15.760
<v Speaker 2>to destroy, to gut the Christian faith.</v>

00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.040
<v Speaker 2>Because the definition, here's the definition, I'll just read the full thing</v>

00:59:19.040 --> 00:59:20.720
<v Speaker 2>for you because it's so vague.</v>

00:59:20.720 --> 00:59:24.800
<v Speaker 2>Not the law, but the definition of anti Semitism that the law</v>

00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:28.080
<v Speaker 2>references and incorporates by reference.</v>

00:59:28.080 --> 00:59:29.840
<v Speaker 2>Here's the definition.</v>

00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:35.040
<v Speaker 2>Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as</v>

00:59:35.040 --> 00:59:36.560
<v Speaker 2>hatred toward Jews.</v>

00:59:36.560 --> 00:59:42.080
<v Speaker 2>Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non</v>

00:59:42.080 --> 00:59:47.840
<v Speaker 2>Jewish individuals and or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious</v>

00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:53.520
<v Speaker 2>facilities. Setting aside the bad grammar, certainly you can see how broad</v>

00:59:53.520 --> 00:59:54.400
<v Speaker 2>that is.</v>

00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:59.920
<v Speaker 2>It literally defines anti Semitism as a certain perception of Jews.</v>

00:59:59.920 --> 01:00:03.120
<v Speaker 2>Because the rest of it is explanatory.</v>

01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:05.360
<v Speaker 2>That's the definition.</v>

01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.600
<v Speaker 2>That is maximally vague.</v>

01:00:07.600 --> 01:00:10.320
<v Speaker 2>And here are the examples, just a couple of the examples.</v>

01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:15.120
<v Speaker 2>Woe gave one, but this is targeted at the Christian faith in</v>

01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:18.960
<v Speaker 2>many of these examples.</v>

01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:23.680
<v Speaker 2>So for instance, if you say that here's the quote, the myth</v>

01:00:23.680 --> 01:00:27.920
<v Speaker 2>about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy,</v>

01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:31.840
<v Speaker 2>government, or other societal institutions.</v>

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.000
<v Speaker 2>There are many Jewish directors and others on record saying the Jews</v>

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.440
<v Speaker 2>control Hollywood.</v>

01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:42.480
<v Speaker 2>If you quote them, you are guilty under this law.</v>

01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:47.760
<v Speaker 2>Another denying the fact, scope, mechanisms, or intentionality of the genocide of</v>

01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.040
<v Speaker 2>the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its</v>

01:00:51.040 --> 01:00:56.560
<v Speaker 2>supporters and accomplices during World War II in parentheses, the Holocaust.</v>

01:00:56.560 --> 01:01:00.880
<v Speaker 2>The episode we did on The Big Lie clearly violates that, and</v>

01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:04.160
<v Speaker 2>a number of other episodes we've done also violate it.</v>

01:01:04.160 --> 01:01:07.360
<v Speaker 2>But that is so broad that if you question any part of</v>

01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:10.800
<v Speaker 2>the narrative, you violate this law.</v>

01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.040
<v Speaker 2>So if you question the electrified floors, the masturbation machines, the death</v>

01:01:15.040 --> 01:01:18.640
<v Speaker 2>roller coaster, if you question any of that, you have violated this</v>

01:01:18.640 --> 01:01:24.160
<v Speaker 2>law. Any outlandish claim falls under the scope of this definition.</v>

01:01:24.160 --> 01:01:28.000
<v Speaker 2>And Woe brought up the one where it mentions, of course, the</v>

01:01:28.240 --> 01:01:34.240
<v Speaker 2>blood libel and the Jews killing Christ Well, we mentioned, and we've</v>

01:01:34.240 --> 01:01:36.720
<v Speaker 2>gone over at length the issue of the Jews killing Christ, and</v>

01:01:36.720 --> 01:01:39.360
<v Speaker 2>we'll certainly go over that at the end of this episode with</v>

01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:41.680
<v Speaker 2>reference to many parts of scripture.</v>

01:01:41.680 --> 01:01:45.280
<v Speaker 2>But the blood libel, if you say that Saint Simon of Trent</v>

01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:49.040
<v Speaker 2>was killed by the Jews, you're guilty under this definition.</v>

01:01:49.040 --> 01:01:52.960
<v Speaker 2>That was the position of the historic church from the murder of</v>

01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:57.280
<v Speaker 2>Saint Simon until I believe it was the nineteen sixties that Rome</v>

01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:58.720
<v Speaker 2>did away with that.</v>

01:01:58.720 --> 01:02:01.920
<v Speaker 2>It is still the position of any church that hasn't already bent</v>

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:03.840
<v Speaker 2>the knee to the Jews.</v>

01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:09.120
<v Speaker 2>This is unbelievably broad, and that is of course the point.</v>

01:02:09.120 --> 01:02:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it does mean that legally it can be challenged.</v>

01:02:13.200 --> 01:02:16.880
<v Speaker 2>But the point is not the legality, the point is how</v>

01:02:18.240 --> 01:02:21.840
<v Speaker 2>strongly Satan is pushing for these things.</v>

01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:24.880
<v Speaker 2>And just how much of the board he is attempting to take</v>

01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:26.720
<v Speaker 2>in one fell swoop.</v>

01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:30.480
<v Speaker 2>And very few Christians are fighting back against this, partly because of</v>

01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:35.360
<v Speaker 2>the cancer of dispensationalism in so many churches, but also because Christians</v>

01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.560
<v Speaker 2>look at it and say, oh, it's just Caesar being Caesar.</v>

01:02:38.560 --> 01:02:40.800
<v Speaker 2>It's not attacking the core of the faith.</v>

01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:44.720
<v Speaker 2>They're not saying that we can't say Jesus is God, not that</v>

01:02:44.720 --> 01:02:47.840
<v Speaker 2>most Christians so called in the United States even believe that anymore</v>

01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:49.200
<v Speaker 2>when you look at the survey data.</v>

01:02:49.200 --> 01:02:53.280
<v Speaker 2>Data, but they'll say it's not attacking the core of the faith.</v>

01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:55.920
<v Speaker 2>It's not saying he wasn't God, it's not saying he didn't die</v>

01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:59.360
<v Speaker 2>for sin, it's not saying he didn't rise again, etc.</v>

01:03:00.080 --> 01:03:03.200
<v Speaker 2>That's not the point.</v>

01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:08.480
<v Speaker 2>Any attack on any part of Scripture is an urgent matter.</v>

01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:12.800
<v Speaker 2>Because Satan certainly has a plan, and we've seen that play out.</v>

01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:16.640
<v Speaker 2>So many of the episodes we've done have been on things that</v>

01:03:16.640 --> 01:03:19.200
<v Speaker 2>are not the core of the faith.</v>

01:03:19.200 --> 01:03:22.240
<v Speaker 2>Because Satan is not attacking the core of the faith.</v>

01:03:22.240 --> 01:03:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Because by and large we have answers to that, we have wrote</v>

01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:29.120
<v Speaker 2>responses as it were.</v>

01:03:29.120 --> 01:03:35.440
<v Speaker 2>The matter of justification, Article four for Lutherans, it's a solved problem.</v>

01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Satan can attack that all he wants, we have a response.</v>

01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:42.080
<v Speaker 2>It is bulletproof, we know exactly what to say.</v>

01:03:42.080 --> 01:03:44.720
<v Speaker 2>And that is the case for so many things.</v>

01:03:44.720 --> 01:03:48.320
<v Speaker 2>If Satan attacks the Trinity, we have the Athanasian Creed.</v>

01:03:48.320 --> 01:03:51.760
<v Speaker 2>We don't need to explain or even understand more than that.</v>

01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:55.120
<v Speaker 2>We simply affirm what it says.</v>

01:03:55.120 --> 01:03:59.200
<v Speaker 2>And with so many other issues, that is the case.</v>

01:03:59.200 --> 01:04:02.320
<v Speaker 2>But Satan knows that he doesn't have to attack the core of</v>

01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:03.200
<v Speaker 2>the faith.</v>

01:04:03.200 --> 01:04:08.240
<v Speaker 2>Satan is not an idiot, he's evil, but he's not dumb.</v>

01:04:08.240 --> 01:04:12.320
<v Speaker 2>If you are attacking an entrenched enemy position, you don't do a</v>

01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:15.840
<v Speaker 2>frontal assault because that's stupid.</v>

01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:18.480
<v Speaker 2>You attack where they are weakest.</v>

01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:20.480
<v Speaker 2>You don't attack the Maginot line.</v>

01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:22.640
<v Speaker 2>You go through Belgium.</v>

01:04:22.640 --> 01:04:25.120
<v Speaker 2>That's what Satan is doing.</v>

01:04:25.120 --> 01:04:29.200
<v Speaker 2>Satan is going to find whatever little weak spot there is, whatever</v>

01:04:29.200 --> 01:04:32.720
<v Speaker 2>chink there happens to be in the Christian armor, and that's where</v>

01:04:32.720 --> 01:04:34.560
<v Speaker 2>he's going to come in.</v>

01:04:34.560 --> 01:04:37.520
<v Speaker 2>Not for nothing is he called a snake.</v>

01:04:37.520 --> 01:04:40.560
<v Speaker 2>If a snake can get its head through an opening, the whole</v>

01:04:40.560 --> 01:04:44.160
<v Speaker 2>snake is coming in, and they can get through very small openings.</v>

01:04:44.160 --> 01:04:45.360
<v Speaker 2>Same with rodents.</v>

01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:48.400
<v Speaker 2>Satan is a rat.</v>

01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:53.760
<v Speaker 2>But that is why he's attacking these issues because Christians don't have</v>

01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:56.640
<v Speaker 2>the proper response most of the time.</v>

01:04:56.640 --> 01:04:59.440
<v Speaker 2>Most Christians look at this and think, oh, it's a minor matter</v>

01:04:59.520 --> 01:05:01.600
<v Speaker 2>or it's a tangential matter.</v>

01:05:01.600 --> 01:05:02.800
<v Speaker 2>It's not.</v>

01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:07.440
<v Speaker 2>If Satan is attacking it, it is incumbent on Christians to respond</v>

01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:09.600
<v Speaker 2>in the strongest of terms.</v>

01:05:09.600 --> 01:05:12.960
<v Speaker 2>Particularly when it's something that is explicit in scripture.</v>

01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:16.480
<v Speaker 2>This is not even a matter where you have to derive it.</v>

01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:23.280
<v Speaker 2>This is a literal direct refutation, a direct condemnation of an actual</v>

01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.000
<v Speaker 2>quote from Scripture.</v>

01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.400
<v Speaker 2>And so this should be an easy one for Christians.</v>

01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:32.320
<v Speaker 2>This should not be a complicated matter.</v>

01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:38.640
<v Speaker 2>And speaking of things for which we have specific responses, written responses,</v>

01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:42.400
<v Speaker 2>wrote responses in the good sense of that term.</v>

01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:45.520
<v Speaker 2>Because some people will think that wrote is a bad thing, that</v>

01:05:45.600 --> 01:05:47.200
<v Speaker 2>oh, it's just a wrote response.</v>

01:05:47.200 --> 01:05:50.400
<v Speaker 2>No. Sometimes you should have a wrote response.</v>

01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:53.680
<v Speaker 2>If someone asks you what the commandments are, you have a wrote</v>

01:05:53.680 --> 01:05:54.880
<v Speaker 2>response to that.</v>

01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.960
<v Speaker 2>The same is true for many of these attacks.</v>

01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:00.160
<v Speaker 2>But not all of them.</v>

01:06:00.160 --> 01:06:03.760
<v Speaker 2>And that's why we're addressing these sorts of attacks, because for these</v>

01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:08.160
<v Speaker 2>ones, most Christians do not have that rote response.</v>

01:06:08.160 --> 01:06:14.400
<v Speaker 2>But earlier I mentioned that even adiaphora can become binding under certain</v>

01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:21.440
<v Speaker 2>circumstances. For Lutherans, the Solid Declaration should come to mind, because the</v>

01:06:21.440 --> 01:06:26.800
<v Speaker 2>formula of Concord actually explicitly addresses this matter, because this was a</v>

01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:32.080
<v Speaker 2>live issue to some degree during parts of the Reformation era.</v>

01:06:32.080 --> 01:06:34.880
<v Speaker 2>And so I'll read just a little bit from Article Ten of</v>

01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:37.120
<v Speaker 2>the Solid Declaration.</v>

01:06:37.120 --> 01:06:41.440
<v Speaker 2>We believe, teach, and confess that at the time of confession, that</v>

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:45.120
<v Speaker 2>is, when a confession of the heavenly truth is required, when the</v>

01:06:45.120 --> 01:06:48.640
<v Speaker 2>enemies of God's Word desire to suppress the pure doctrine of the</v>

01:06:48.640 --> 01:06:54.560
<v Speaker 2>Holy Gospel, the entire congregation of God, yea, every Christian, but especially</v>

01:06:54.560 --> 01:06:58.160
<v Speaker 2>the ministers of the Word, as the leaders of the congregation of</v>

01:06:58.160 --> 01:07:02.960
<v Speaker 2>God, are bound by God's word to confess freely and openly the</v>

01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:07.920
<v Speaker 2>godly doctrine, and what belongs to the whole of pure religion, not</v>

01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:12.320
<v Speaker 2>only in words, but also in works and with deeds, and that</v>

01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:17.280
<v Speaker 2>then, in this case, even in such things truly and of themselves</v>

01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:23.040
<v Speaker 2>Adiaphora, they must not yield to the adversaries, or permit these Adiaphora</v>

01:07:23.200 --> 01:07:26.240
<v Speaker 2>to be forced upon them by their enemies, whether by violence or</v>

01:07:26.640 --> 01:07:30.400
<v Speaker 2>cunning, to the detriment of the true worship of God, and the</v>

01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.600
<v Speaker 2>introduction and sanction of idolatry.</v>

01:07:34.240 --> 01:07:39.440
<v Speaker 2>Moreover, by such yielding and conformity in external things, where there has</v>

01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:44.320
<v Speaker 2>not previously been Christian union and doctrine, idolaters are confirmed in their</v>

01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:49.360
<v Speaker 2>idolatry. On the other hand, the true believers are grieved, offended and</v>

01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:54.320
<v Speaker 2>weakened in their faith, both of which every Christian, for the sake</v>

01:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.560
<v Speaker 2>of his soul's welfare and salvation, is bound to avoid.</v>

01:08:00.560 --> 01:08:07.040
<v Speaker 2>In absolutely no uncertain terms, we confess, as Lutherans specifically in this</v>

01:08:07.040 --> 01:08:10.880
<v Speaker 2>case, that this is a matter of salvation.</v>

01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:13.040
<v Speaker 2>Let me repeat that.</v>

01:08:13.040 --> 01:08:18.640
<v Speaker 2>We confess that this is a matter of salvation.</v>

01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:25.440
<v Speaker 2>If we deny Christ by denying the word, we are apostate.</v>

01:08:25.440 --> 01:08:29.520
<v Speaker 2>If we yield in matters that are actually not in and of</v>

01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:34.640
<v Speaker 2>themselves binding, which is again to say Adiaphora, if we yield in</v>

01:08:34.640 --> 01:08:39.360
<v Speaker 2>those matters, because Satan, the world, the adversaries, the enemies are demanding</v>

01:08:39.360 --> 01:08:45.120
<v Speaker 2>that we yield, that endangers our soul, that is also a matter</v>

01:08:45.120 --> 01:08:47.200
<v Speaker 2>of salvation.</v>

01:08:47.200 --> 01:08:50.640
<v Speaker 2>These are not trivial issues.</v>

01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:54.640
<v Speaker 2>This may seem like something that's tangential to the Christian faith, and</v>

01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:59.360
<v Speaker 2>to a certain degree and in a certain light, it is.</v>

01:08:59.360 --> 01:09:03.920
<v Speaker 2>But it's not because of the simple fact that if you confess</v>

01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:08.160
<v Speaker 2>a false sin, so in this case anti Semitism, you are thereby</v>

01:09:08.160 --> 01:09:10.400
<v Speaker 2>confessing a false God.</v>

01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:15.520
<v Speaker 2>If you fail to speak a truth about the true God, you</v>

01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:20.960
<v Speaker 2>are again confessing a false God because you are violating both the</v>

01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:25.840
<v Speaker 2>first and the second commandments, the second because you are speaking falsely</v>

01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:26.800
<v Speaker 2>about God.</v>

01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:31.600
<v Speaker 2>Because not only are you required not to speak falsely about God,</v>

01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:35.760
<v Speaker 2>you are required by the same commandment to speak truthfully about God.</v>

01:09:35.760 --> 01:09:40.640
<v Speaker 2>To violate it in either direction, is damnable, is sin.</v>

01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.320
<v Speaker 2>And if you are engaged in that sin, and you are impenitent,</v>

01:09:44.320 --> 01:09:47.440
<v Speaker 2>you have no promise of salvation.</v>

01:09:47.440 --> 01:09:50.960
<v Speaker 2>And when it comes to the first commandment, the matter is simple,</v>

01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:53.200
<v Speaker 2>as I have said many times before, and as well as said</v>

01:09:53.200 --> 01:09:57.200
<v Speaker 2>in other episodes, if you are confessing a false sin, you are</v>

01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:01.520
<v Speaker 2>confessing a false God.</v>

01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:04.960
<v Speaker 2>And so if you confess that this thing is a sin and</v>

01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.560
<v Speaker 2>it's something that Christians can just ignore, we can just let the</v>

01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.120
<v Speaker 2>State do what it wants with regard to the Christian faith.</v>

01:10:11.120 --> 01:10:14.240
<v Speaker 2>The State can just say Just say, you cannot speak these words</v>

01:10:14.240 --> 01:10:15.680
<v Speaker 2>from God's word.</v>

01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.120
<v Speaker 2>You cannot say these things that are contained in this book or</v>

01:10:19.120 --> 01:10:19.760
<v Speaker 2>that book.</v>

01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:23.040
<v Speaker 2>You have to excise these things from Scripture.</v>

01:10:23.040 --> 01:10:28.240
<v Speaker 2>If you go along with that, you are confessing another God.</v>

01:10:28.240 --> 01:10:33.040
<v Speaker 2>Whatever name that God may have, whether you've deified the state, or</v>

01:10:33.040 --> 01:10:37.200
<v Speaker 2>you've deified the so-called state of Israel or the Jews, or you've</v>

01:10:37.600 --> 01:10:41.120
<v Speaker 2>deified whatever it happens to be.</v>

01:10:41.120 --> 01:10:45.280
<v Speaker 2>You have taken God off the throne in your heart and placed</v>

01:10:45.280 --> 01:10:48.880
<v Speaker 2>an idol there, and you are no longer a Christian.</v>

01:10:50.080 --> 01:10:56.880
<v Speaker 2>These matters are essential, and whether or not we like it, we</v>

01:10:56.880 --> 01:11:01.840
<v Speaker 2>live in that time of confession, as stated in Article 10 of</v>

01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:03.120
<v Speaker 2>the Solid Declaration.</v>

01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:08.720
<v Speaker 2>This is when a confession of the heavenly truth is required, because</v>

01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:12.880
<v Speaker 2>the enemies of God's Word are seeking to suppress it, and we</v>

01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:17.920
<v Speaker 2>as Christians are required to speak the fullness of it.</v>

01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:21.680
<v Speaker 2>Not just bits and pieces, not just the parts that don't make</v>

01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:26.320
<v Speaker 2>people uncomfortable, not just the parts that make us comfortable.</v>

01:11:26.320 --> 01:11:31.920
<v Speaker 2>We are required to confess the fullness of God's truth</v>

01:11:33.280 --> 01:11:38.160
<v Speaker 2>because to do otherwise is to be apostate.</v>

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As

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<v Speaker 3>I mentioned earlier, while we were recording this, we are in the</v>

01:11:41.440 --> 01:11:46.480
<v Speaker 3>season of Lent with Palm Sunday just a couple weeks away.</v>

01:11:46.480 --> 01:11:51.280
<v Speaker 3>This is another moment when Satan is using the life of the</v>

01:11:51.280 --> 01:11:57.280
<v Speaker 3>Christian church collectively through the church calendar to attack God's people.</v>

01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:02.480
<v Speaker 3>Lent culminates in Good Friday and then Easter.</v>

01:12:02.480 --> 01:12:04.320
<v Speaker 3>Just this week, the U.S.</v>

01:12:04.320 --> 01:12:09.200
<v Speaker 3>Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church announced that it will require a</v>

01:12:09.200 --> 01:12:12.720
<v Speaker 3>pastoral note on anti-Semitism to be placed in worship aids and pew</v>

01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:18.480
<v Speaker 3>missiles ahead of all Good Friday Passion narratives beginning this year.</v>

01:12:18.480 --> 01:12:22.160
<v Speaker 3>I want to read you the note The note that they have</v>

01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:24.960
<v Speaker 3>that is going to be available in English and Spanish, it's supposed</v>

01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:28.880
<v Speaker 3>to be in every single parish in the United States.</v>

01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:33.520
<v Speaker 3>Reads as follows: The Passion narratives are proclaimed in full so that</v>

01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:36.800
<v Speaker 3>all see vividly the love of Christ for each person.</v>

01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:41.040
<v Speaker 3>In light of this, the crimes during the Passion of Christ cannot</v>

01:12:41.040 --> 01:12:46.320
<v Speaker 3>be attributed in either preaching or catechesis indiscriminately to all Jews of</v>

01:12:46.320 --> 01:12:48.640
<v Speaker 3>that time nor to Jews today.</v>

01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:52.880
<v Speaker 3>The Jewish people should not be referred to as though rejected or</v>

01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:56.080
<v Speaker 3>cursed as if this view followed from Scripture.</v>

01:12:56.080 --> 01:12:59.440
<v Speaker 3>The church ever keeps in mind that Jesus, his mother Mary, and</v>

01:12:59.440 --> 01:13:03.360
<v Speaker 3>the apostles all were Jewish, as a church has always held, Christ</v>

01:13:03.360 --> 01:13:06.880
<v Speaker 3>freely suffered his passion and death because of the sins of all,</v>

01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:08.880
<v Speaker 3>that all might be saved.</v>

01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:12.720
<v Speaker 3>As we said in the past, what they've wrapped the statement in</v>

01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:16.000
<v Speaker 3>is Jesus butter, saying a bunch of things that are doctrinally true.</v>

01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:17.920
<v Speaker 3>Yes, true that Mary was a Jew.</v>

01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:19.680
<v Speaker 3>Jesus was a Jew.</v>

01:13:20.080 --> 01:13:24.400
<v Speaker 3>We talked in the episode Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites to what extent</v>

01:13:24.400 --> 01:13:30.240
<v Speaker 3>those types of labels apply to certain groups, but as shorthand, sure,</v>

01:13:30.240 --> 01:13:32.480
<v Speaker 3>that's fine.</v>

01:13:32.480 --> 01:13:36.080
<v Speaker 3>The reason that they get wrapped up in these details is so</v>

01:13:36.080 --> 01:13:40.000
<v Speaker 3>that when they tell you you can't indiscriminately apply to the Jews</v>

01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:44.240
<v Speaker 3>of all time that Christ's passion was was their fault.</v>

01:13:44.240 --> 01:13:49.920
<v Speaker 3>Well is the preaching of Peter in his first sermon, which they</v>

01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:52.800
<v Speaker 3>claim he was the first pope, it's nonsense, but even if you</v>

01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:56.480
<v Speaker 3>take their argument at face value, if Peter was the first pope,</v>

01:13:56.480 --> 01:13:59.040
<v Speaker 3>would he have been able to preach his sermons in Acts two</v>

01:13:59.200 --> 01:14:01.600
<v Speaker 3>and three with this bulletin insert?</v>

01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:02.640
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely not.</v>

01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:08.240
<v Speaker 3>Peter's preaching, the first pope's so called preaching, is in direct violation</v>

01:14:08.240 --> 01:14:12.640
<v Speaker 3>of what today's pope is saying is the universal Christian faith.</v>

01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:14.400
<v Speaker 3>Somebody's a liar here.</v>

01:14:14.400 --> 01:14:17.840
<v Speaker 3>Either this Pope is a liar or Peter's a liar.</v>

01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:21.600
<v Speaker 3>Well, Peter's in Scripture, whether he's a Pope or not, he's not.</v>

01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:24.480
<v Speaker 3>But he is an apostle, and the words that are recorded in</v>

01:14:24.480 --> 01:14:26.960
<v Speaker 3>Scripture are infallibly true.</v>

01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:30.880
<v Speaker 3>Not because Peter spoke them, but because the Holy Ghost expressed them</v>

01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:33.120
<v Speaker 3>to us for all time.</v>

01:14:33.120 --> 01:14:36.960
<v Speaker 3>Peter preached to the crowd and said, You people killed Christ, and</v>

01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:38.880
<v Speaker 3>they said, The Lord have mercy, what do we do?</v>

01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:41.280
<v Speaker 3>And he said, Repent and be baptized, that you may be saved.</v>

01:14:41.280 --> 01:14:44.720
<v Speaker 3>And about five thousand were converted one day, about three thousand another</v>

01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:46.960
<v Speaker 3>day. It was the beginning of the church.</v>

01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:52.320
<v Speaker 3>All those Jews converted to Christianity by repenting of their Jewish wickedness,</v>

01:14:52.320 --> 01:14:55.680
<v Speaker 3>by repenting of their Jewish murder of Christ.</v>

01:14:55.680 --> 01:15:00.240
<v Speaker 3>So So when this attack comes, whether it's from North South Dakota</v>

01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:04.560
<v Speaker 3>or from the Pope or from every other direction, because again, everybody's</v>

01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:08.160
<v Speaker 3>on the same page, when we routinely call this stuff the new</v>

01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:12.240
<v Speaker 3>global religion, that's why the Pope is saying the same thing as</v>

01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:15.920
<v Speaker 3>South Dakota, is saying the same thing as the European Commission.</v>

01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:18.720
<v Speaker 3>Excuse me, this is our source of doctrine.</v>

01:15:18.720 --> 01:15:21.680
<v Speaker 3>No. That's why Corey and I will always and only point to</v>

01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:23.520
<v Speaker 3>Scripture as a source of these things.</v>

01:15:23.520 --> 01:15:26.880
<v Speaker 3>And we reference the things in the Lutheran Confessions, it's because we</v>

01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:28.720
<v Speaker 3>believe they're in accord with Scripture.</v>

01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:32.640
<v Speaker 3>We believe that the lesser document points to the greater document.</v>

01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:36.880
<v Speaker 3>Scripture's infallible, the things that point to it faithfully are true.</v>

01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:39.200
<v Speaker 3>We don't call them infallible, we just say it's true.</v>

01:15:39.200 --> 01:15:43.040
<v Speaker 3>The creeds are true because every word of them accords with Scripture.</v>

01:15:43.040 --> 01:15:46.720
<v Speaker 3>But the infallibility rests in Scripture alone because that is what's breathed</v>

01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:47.520
<v Speaker 3>out by God.</v>

01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:52.160
<v Speaker 3>And when God breathed out Scripture, he repeatedly breathed out the Jews</v>

01:15:52.160 --> 01:15:53.360
<v Speaker 3>killed Christ.</v>

01:15:53.360 --> 01:15:58.720
<v Speaker 3>As we look at these situations today, we must recognize that</v>

01:15:59.840 --> 01:16:03.520
<v Speaker 3>as Christians, we don't always get to pick our battles.</v>

01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:08.240
<v Speaker 3>It is perfectly fine to run through the liturgy and the lectionary</v>

01:16:08.240 --> 01:16:11.600
<v Speaker 3>and focus on whatever the pericopey is for a particular Sunday.</v>

01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:14.240
<v Speaker 3>That's good, that's blessed, it's what we should do.</v>

01:16:14.240 --> 01:16:20.320
<v Speaker 3>However, there are moments, there are inflection points like this, where the</v>

01:16:20.320 --> 01:16:24.640
<v Speaker 3>world demands a false confession, and we don't get to stick to</v>

01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:25.680
<v Speaker 3>the script.</v>

01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:29.360
<v Speaker 3>We don't get to use what is a salutary practice as an</v>

01:16:29.360 --> 01:16:33.520
<v Speaker 3>excuse to avoid the one confession that actually matters.</v>

01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:36.080
<v Speaker 3>If I'm talking to you and the bear's right behind you and</v>

01:16:36.080 --> 01:16:38.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't say, hey dude, there's a bear right behind you, let's</v>

01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:39.440
<v Speaker 3>get out of here.</v>

01:16:39.440 --> 01:16:40.160
<v Speaker 3>I've lied to you.</v>

01:16:40.160 --> 01:16:43.440
<v Speaker 3>No matter how true the words that I spoke.</v>

01:16:43.440 --> 01:16:45.520
<v Speaker 3>This is equally true of preaching.</v>

01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:49.040
<v Speaker 3>It's equally true of all doctrines that we espouse.</v>

01:16:49.040 --> 01:16:52.400
<v Speaker 3>I don't care how true the doctrine is if you're using it</v>

01:16:52.400 --> 01:16:56.720
<v Speaker 3>as a smoke screen for avoiding where Satan is bringing the battle,</v>

01:16:56.720 --> 01:17:00.160
<v Speaker 3>you're a liar, you are condemned, and you will not have a</v>

01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:01.920
<v Speaker 3>promise of salvation.</v>

01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:03.120
<v Speaker 3>How can you?</v>

01:17:03.120 --> 01:17:05.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, how can you just point to the parts of scripture that</v>

01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:06.320
<v Speaker 3>keep you out of trouble?</v>

01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:08.320
<v Speaker 3>Is that what Daniel did?</v>

01:17:08.320 --> 01:17:09.920
<v Speaker 3>Is that what the other prophets did?</v>

01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:11.520
<v Speaker 3>Is that what the other martyrs did?</v>

01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:13.440
<v Speaker 3>They didn't keep themselves out of trouble.</v>

01:17:13.440 --> 01:17:15.280
<v Speaker 3>They didn't go picking fights either.</v>

01:17:15.280 --> 01:17:18.960
<v Speaker 3>They continued to be faithful even in the face of consequences that</v>

01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:21.200
<v Speaker 3>may be murderous.</v>

01:17:21.200 --> 01:17:22.800
<v Speaker 3>That's up to God.</v>

01:17:22.800 --> 01:17:24.800
<v Speaker 3>What's going to happen is up to him.</v>

01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:28.480
<v Speaker 3>That's why we've done episodes on fear of God and trust in</v>

01:17:28.480 --> 01:17:35.360
<v Speaker 3>God. When the doctrine is around emphasizing Jesus' love and God's love</v>

01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:40.720
<v Speaker 3>to the exclusion of fearing God, you end up with a different</v>

01:17:40.720 --> 01:17:44.080
<v Speaker 3>God. You don't end up with the God of the Bible because</v>

01:17:44.400 --> 01:17:47.600
<v Speaker 3>the God that's preached in many churches today is one that doesn't</v>

01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:49.280
<v Speaker 3>inspire any fear.</v>

01:17:49.280 --> 01:17:51.200
<v Speaker 3>That should fill you with terror.</v>

01:17:51.200 --> 01:17:53.360
<v Speaker 3>If you go back and listen to the Fear of the Lord</v>

01:17:53.360 --> 01:17:57.680
<v Speaker 3>episode, when you understand properly who God is, He's terrifying.</v>

01:17:57.680 --> 01:17:59.920
<v Speaker 3>He's properly terrifying.</v>

01:17:59.920 --> 01:18:03.600
<v Speaker 3>It's made clear in scripture that if anyone beholds the Father, he's</v>

01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:04.640
<v Speaker 3>struck dead.</v>

01:18:04.640 --> 01:18:06.240
<v Speaker 3>You can't do it.</v>

01:18:07.040 --> 01:18:10.960
<v Speaker 3>that's awesome power that we don't even have words or comprehension for.</v>

01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:15.520
<v Speaker 3>We know that the awesomeness of God is more than our human</v>

01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.400
<v Speaker 3>bodies as creatures can withstand.</v>

01:18:18.400 --> 01:18:21.440
<v Speaker 3>From our sinfulness and from the fact that we are not infinite</v>

01:18:21.440 --> 01:18:22.560
<v Speaker 3>as God is.</v>

01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:24.880
<v Speaker 3>We don't know how to explain it, but we know that it's</v>

01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:28.800
<v Speaker 3>fearful. Even God's messengers, the angels, when they're described in their true</v>

01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:30.800
<v Speaker 3>forms, are terrifying.</v>

01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:34.000
<v Speaker 3>And they say frequently when the when the angels appear and they're</v>

01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:38.240
<v Speaker 3>not appearing in human form, they will often say, Be not afraid.</v>

01:18:38.240 --> 01:18:40.480
<v Speaker 3>An angel that just looks like a dude doesn't need to say</v>

01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:41.440
<v Speaker 3>don't be afraid.</v>

01:18:41.440 --> 01:18:43.760
<v Speaker 3>Like maybe if he appears in a room, you might be a</v>

01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:44.960
<v Speaker 3>little bit unnerved.</v>

01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:51.200
<v Speaker 3>But God's messengers and God himself are terrifying because they're holy, they're</v>

01:18:51.200 --> 01:18:55.840
<v Speaker 3>pure and they're perfect, and God has infinite power.</v>

01:18:55.840 --> 01:19:00.560
<v Speaker 3>When we reduce all of that to the loving boyfriend Jesus, who</v>

01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:03.120
<v Speaker 3>just wants to hang out and you know</v>

01:19:04.080 --> 01:19:04.800
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.</v>

01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:09.520
<v Speaker 3>It's like we we we reduce God to the mockery of Buddy</v>

01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:12.880
<v Speaker 3>Christ, where he just hangs out and he's a pal and he</v>

01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:14.800
<v Speaker 3>never condemns anything.</v>

01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:19.120
<v Speaker 3>And that's really comforting because it doesn't put any pressure on you.</v>

01:19:19.120 --> 01:19:24.080
<v Speaker 3>Now, there's a sense in which you are not under pressure when</v>

01:19:24.080 --> 01:19:28.400
<v Speaker 3>you're in God's presence because you know there's nothing you can possibly</v>

01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:31.520
<v Speaker 3>do. It's not that we can stand face to face because we're</v>

01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:36.160
<v Speaker 3>equals. It's because God's covered our sins and our imperfection with his</v>

01:19:36.320 --> 01:19:41.680
<v Speaker 3>perfection. So as we're able to stand face to face with him</v>

01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:44.640
<v Speaker 3>after judgment, it's because he's elevated us.</v>

01:19:44.640 --> 01:19:46.560
<v Speaker 3>It's not because we began as equals.</v>

01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:49.120
<v Speaker 3>And by elevated, I don't mean we become equal with God.</v>

01:19:49.120 --> 01:19:52.160
<v Speaker 3>It's simply that we're allowed to be in his presence without dying.</v>

01:19:52.160 --> 01:19:55.040
<v Speaker 3>That's miraculous unto itself.</v>

01:19:55.040 --> 01:19:58.880
<v Speaker 3>These people who want to reduce what is in scripture, whether they're</v>

01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:04.480
<v Speaker 3>trying to uphold feminism or decry slavery or make up things like</v>

01:20:04.480 --> 01:20:09.040
<v Speaker 3>racism and anti-Semitism or all the other doctrines so called that we've</v>

01:20:09.040 --> 01:20:13.280
<v Speaker 3>discussed in past episodes, fundamentally what they're doing is they're whittling away</v>

01:20:13.280 --> 01:20:16.400
<v Speaker 3>at scripture around the edges.</v>

01:20:16.400 --> 01:20:20.400
<v Speaker 3>And what you're left with if you believe them is not the</v>

01:20:20.400 --> 01:20:21.120
<v Speaker 3>true God.</v>

01:20:21.280 --> 01:20:24.880
<v Speaker 3>You can't possibly have a God who isn't also terrifying.</v>

01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:26.080
<v Speaker 3>Is he only terrifying?</v>

01:20:26.080 --> 01:20:27.040
<v Speaker 3>No, absolutely not.</v>

01:20:27.040 --> 01:20:28.560
<v Speaker 3>I'm not terrified of God.</v>

01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:31.760
<v Speaker 3>I know the God is terrifying and I'm thankful for his love</v>

01:20:32.320 --> 01:20:36.880
<v Speaker 3>that despite the sheer terror that he inspires, I don't have to</v>

01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:39.600
<v Speaker 3>be afraid because I'm an adopted son of God.</v>

01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:41.760
<v Speaker 3>That is his mercy, that is his love.</v>

01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:43.680
<v Speaker 3>That's why Easter happened.</v>

01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:46.480
<v Speaker 3>If you strip away all of that and then you only talk</v>

01:20:46.480 --> 01:20:48.720
<v Speaker 3>about Easter, what's the point?</v>

01:20:49.120 --> 01:20:52.320
<v Speaker 3>there's no story there if you don't have everything that leads up</v>

01:20:52.320 --> 01:20:52.960
<v Speaker 3>to it.</v>

01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:56.400
<v Speaker 3>And so when these attacks come, and they're gonna continue to come,</v>

01:20:56.400 --> 01:20:58.400
<v Speaker 3>it's part of why we're doing this episode, it's not just about</v>

01:20:58.800 --> 01:21:03.600
<v Speaker 3>one statute and one state, or you know, this false declaration from</v>

01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:08.160
<v Speaker 3>Rome, you know, count ten thousand in the last thousand years.</v>

01:21:08.160 --> 01:21:11.360
<v Speaker 3>It's about the fact that this is not only an ongoing attack,</v>

01:21:11.360 --> 01:21:16.000
<v Speaker 3>but it's an escalating one As I said earlier, this legislation is</v>

01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:20.160
<v Speaker 3>being hailed as model legislation for all the other states.</v>

01:21:20.160 --> 01:21:22.960
<v Speaker 3>Why do you think it's South Dakota, one of the least populous</v>

01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:26.960
<v Speaker 3>states in the country where Zionism is off the charts, where it</v>

01:21:27.440 --> 01:21:29.120
<v Speaker 3>was a very easy sell.</v>

01:21:29.120 --> 01:21:30.800
<v Speaker 3>There's I don't I didn't follow it.</v>

01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:34.080
<v Speaker 3>I didn't after it had been ratified because I don't really pay</v>

01:21:34.080 --> 01:21:35.120
<v Speaker 3>attention to politics.</v>

01:21:35.120 --> 01:21:37.760
<v Speaker 3>And we're not trying to make a politics episode, we're trying to</v>

01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:39.360
<v Speaker 3>make a scripture episode.</v>

01:21:39.360 --> 01:21:41.520
<v Speaker 3>Daniel 6 is not about politics.</v>

01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:44.480
<v Speaker 3>Daniel 6 is about the true confession of God.</v>

01:21:44.480 --> 01:21:48.480
<v Speaker 3>When you are told by the world you can't do this in</v>

01:21:48.480 --> 01:21:52.000
<v Speaker 3>God's name, at that moment you must do it.</v>

01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:54.240
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna face more and more of these.</v>

01:21:54.960 --> 01:21:58.400
<v Speaker 3>Part of the reason we did the episode late last year on</v>

01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:02.400
<v Speaker 3>normalcy bias as Admiral Stockdale on the cover.</v>

01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:06.400
<v Speaker 3>We are getting to the point in the timeline where these birth</v>

01:22:06.400 --> 01:22:09.360
<v Speaker 3>pangs are getting closer and closer together.</v>

01:22:09.360 --> 01:22:13.840
<v Speaker 3>And there's no reason to expect that going back to normal is</v>

01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:15.360
<v Speaker 3>in the cards.</v>

01:22:15.360 --> 01:22:16.640
<v Speaker 3>I hope it does happen.</v>

01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:18.240
<v Speaker 3>It would be nice if it did happen.</v>

01:22:18.240 --> 01:22:20.400
<v Speaker 3>I like to go back to the world of my childhood.</v>

01:22:20.400 --> 01:22:22.000
<v Speaker 3>It seemed pretty great.</v>

01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:25.760
<v Speaker 3>Like morally by comparison in the arc of history, it was still</v>

01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:26.800
<v Speaker 3>a disaster.</v>

01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:30.160
<v Speaker 3>But yet compared to today, to m compared to kids who are</v>

01:22:30.160 --> 01:22:35.360
<v Speaker 3>growing up, you know, forty years after me as seven-year-olds, it's a</v>

01:22:35.360 --> 01:22:38.880
<v Speaker 3>completely different, far worse world.</v>

01:22:39.360 --> 01:22:43.360
<v Speaker 3>The escalating nature of these attacks attacks needs to be something that</v>

01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:44.720
<v Speaker 3>emboldens us.</v>

01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:48.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there was another guy from Twitter, a right wing guy named</v>

01:22:48.400 --> 01:22:51.760
<v Speaker 3>Stone Toss, who was doxxed this week by the same group that</v>

01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:53.040
<v Speaker 3>doxed me.</v>

01:22:53.040 --> 01:22:54.640
<v Speaker 3>And he's just a normal guy.</v>

01:22:54.640 --> 01:22:55.760
<v Speaker 3>He just a cartoonist.</v>

01:22:56.240 --> 01:23:01.760
<v Speaker 3>he he writes brilliant and devastating cartoons mocking the evil of this</v>

01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:06.560
<v Speaker 3>stuff. And I only mention this because I think that as these</v>

01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:09.600
<v Speaker 3>attacks come more and more.</v>

01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:13.600
<v Speaker 3>One of the things that we want to inspire by Stone Choir</v>

01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:19.040
<v Speaker 3>in general is to embolden men, to not be afraid to do</v>

01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:21.440
<v Speaker 3>what Daniel did in your own context.</v>

01:23:21.440 --> 01:23:23.840
<v Speaker 3>Again, we're not saying I don't want every guy to become a</v>

01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:26.640
<v Speaker 3>podcaster. There should be fewer podcasts, not more.</v>

01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:27.680
<v Speaker 3>I regret being one.</v>

01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:29.200
<v Speaker 3>It's a horrible thing.</v>

01:23:29.200 --> 01:23:31.040
<v Speaker 3>But we have to do it.</v>

01:23:31.040 --> 01:23:33.200
<v Speaker 3>You don't have to go out and do exactly what other guys</v>

01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:36.560
<v Speaker 3>are doing but you have a life you have a family you</v>

01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:41.280
<v Speaker 3>have a situation in a neighborhood where these things will come up</v>

01:23:41.440 --> 01:23:44.240
<v Speaker 3>you don't have to pick the fight but if the fight comes</v>

01:23:44.240 --> 01:23:49.360
<v Speaker 3>up you must confess faithfully whatever that means, and whatever the consequences</v>

01:23:49.360 --> 01:23:52.080
<v Speaker 3>are. If you prayed three times a day in front of the</v>

01:23:52.080 --> 01:23:55.680
<v Speaker 3>door and a law is passed that says you're gonna be executed</v>

01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.800
<v Speaker 3>if you keep doing that, you must keep doing it.</v>

01:23:58.800 --> 01:24:00.720
<v Speaker 3>You don't have to do anything different, but you have to keep</v>

01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:01.520
<v Speaker 3>doing that.</v>

01:24:01.520 --> 01:24:05.360
<v Speaker 3>And frankly, when these things come along that have laws that say</v>

01:24:05.520 --> 01:24:08.880
<v Speaker 3>it's illegal to say that the Jews killed Christ, if you weren't</v>

01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:12.800
<v Speaker 3>already saying that the Jews killed Christ, you stand condemned.</v>

01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:14.240
<v Speaker 3>But there is hope for you.</v>

01:24:14.240 --> 01:24:17.040
<v Speaker 3>Repent. Go ahead and listen to the repents episode.</v>

01:24:17.040 --> 01:24:19.360
<v Speaker 3>What does it look like to repent from failing to say that</v>

01:24:19.360 --> 01:24:20.720
<v Speaker 3>the Jews killed Christ?</v>

01:24:20.720 --> 01:24:22.480
<v Speaker 3>Doesn't mean you feel bad about it.</v>

01:24:22.480 --> 01:24:24.640
<v Speaker 3>It means you change your mind and you start doing it.</v>

01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:25.600
<v Speaker 3>Not to do it all the time.</v>

01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:26.720
<v Speaker 3>We're not going to do it all the time.</v>

01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:28.240
<v Speaker 3>We're going to talk about this for a while.</v>

01:24:28.240 --> 01:24:31.360
<v Speaker 3>But in this moment, as this thing is happening, we must point</v>

01:24:31.360 --> 01:24:34.560
<v Speaker 3>to it and say, look, right here, this is what's coming for</v>

01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:35.280
<v Speaker 3>all of us.</v>

01:24:35.280 --> 01:24:37.440
<v Speaker 3>It will almost certainly be passed in my state.</v>

01:24:37.440 --> 01:24:38.400
<v Speaker 3>Will they come for me?</v>

01:24:38.400 --> 01:24:38.960
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.</v>

01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:40.320
<v Speaker 3>Maybe. Probably, we'll see.</v>

01:24:40.560 --> 01:24:43.040
<v Speaker 3>Am I gonna change my tune in the slightest?</v>

01:24:43.040 --> 01:24:44.720
<v Speaker 3>No. What's gonna happen?</v>

01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:45.920
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea.</v>

01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:46.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't care.</v>

01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:48.160
<v Speaker 3>It's in God's hands.</v>

01:24:48.160 --> 01:24:50.160
<v Speaker 3>All these things are in God's hands.</v>

01:24:50.160 --> 01:24:54.240
<v Speaker 3>And that is why we need to have confident faith and we</v>

01:24:54.240 --> 01:24:56.800
<v Speaker 3>need to trust in the Lord and we need to fear a</v>

01:24:57.120 --> 01:25:00.320
<v Speaker 3>God who inspires that.</v>

01:25:00.320 --> 01:25:04.720
<v Speaker 3>When you have that supplicative posture towards the Lord, all the stuff</v>

01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:06.000
<v Speaker 3>gets a lot easier.</v>

01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:09.200
<v Speaker 3>You don't have to worry about how the legal ramifications are going</v>

01:25:09.200 --> 01:25:10.000
<v Speaker 3>to play out.</v>

01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:12.240
<v Speaker 3>You don't have to worry about what the consequences will be in</v>

01:25:12.240 --> 01:25:12.880
<v Speaker 3>your life.</v>

01:25:12.880 --> 01:25:14.320
<v Speaker 3>Are you doing the right thing?</v>

01:25:14.320 --> 01:25:17.440
<v Speaker 3>If you're doing the right thing, that's the end of it.</v>

01:25:17.440 --> 01:25:19.040
<v Speaker 3>God will take care of the rest.</v>

01:25:19.040 --> 01:25:22.160
<v Speaker 3>And if he protects you from the lions, or if he uses</v>

01:25:22.160 --> 01:25:25.600
<v Speaker 3>you as a martyr who is an example to others of what</v>

01:25:25.600 --> 01:25:28.720
<v Speaker 3>true faith looks like, it's a blessing no matter what.</v>

01:25:28.720 --> 01:25:30.000
<v Speaker 3>It's not up to you.</v>

01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:32.480
<v Speaker 3>We are instruments in God's plan.</v>

01:25:32.480 --> 01:25:33.680
<v Speaker 3>All of us are.</v>

01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:37.200
<v Speaker 3>And when we are faithful in that manner, it means that when</v>

01:25:37.200 --> 01:25:39.280
<v Speaker 3>things like this come along, they're going to be more.</v>

01:25:39.280 --> 01:25:41.280
<v Speaker 3>And you know, at some point we're going to get knocked off</v>

01:25:41.280 --> 01:25:41.600
<v Speaker 3>the line.</v>

01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:43.120
<v Speaker 3>You'll never hear from us again.</v>

01:25:43.120 --> 01:25:46.320
<v Speaker 3>We hope that we can equip everyone at that point to have</v>

01:25:46.320 --> 01:25:49.280
<v Speaker 3>enough of this in mind that you can open your Bibles and</v>

01:25:49.280 --> 01:25:53.440
<v Speaker 3>you say, hey, what's happening here is not what scripture says.</v>

01:25:53.440 --> 01:25:55.920
<v Speaker 3>They're telling me to do one thing and I remember from somewhere</v>

01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:57.520
<v Speaker 3>in the Bible it says the opposite.</v>

01:25:57.520 --> 01:25:58.800
<v Speaker 3>Go looking for it.</v>

01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:01.200
<v Speaker 3>Or go talk to someone who knows the Bible better than you</v>

01:26:01.280 --> 01:26:03.680
<v Speaker 3>and figure out if you're being told to apostatize.</v>

01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:04.560
<v Speaker 3>Because guess what?</v>

01:26:04.560 --> 01:26:05.600
<v Speaker 3>You probably are.</v>

01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:08.560
<v Speaker 3>There's nothing that's going to come from the world that is going</v>

01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:10.320
<v Speaker 3>to enhance your faith.</v>

01:26:10.320 --> 01:26:14.160
<v Speaker 3>So back to the earlier point, when these things come from the</v>

01:26:14.160 --> 01:26:19.600
<v Speaker 3>UN expressing doctrinal statements like it's forbidden to say that the Jews</v>

01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:22.320
<v Speaker 3>killed Christ, what problem are they trying to solve?</v>

01:26:22.320 --> 01:26:25.600
<v Speaker 3>They're trying to camouflage the Jews who are burning down the world,</v>

01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:27.600
<v Speaker 3>which is another thing that's illegal to say.</v>

01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:30.480
<v Speaker 3>Even if you don't believe that's true, you must believe what scripture</v>

01:26:30.480 --> 01:26:32.320
<v Speaker 3>says that the Jews killed Christ.</v>

01:26:32.320 --> 01:26:34.960
<v Speaker 3>You must believe it, or you go to hell.</v>

01:26:35.120 --> 01:26:37.200
<v Speaker 3>As Corey repeated, I'm gonna repeat again.</v>

01:26:37.200 --> 01:26:39.920
<v Speaker 3>If you don't believe that the Jews killed Christ, you are going</v>

01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:43.680
<v Speaker 3>to hell because Scripture says it and you deny it.</v>

01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:46.560
<v Speaker 3>If you don't take that seriously, then why are you pretending to</v>

01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:48.080
<v Speaker 3>be a Christian in the first place?</v>

01:26:48.080 --> 01:26:49.360
<v Speaker 3>What a waste of time.</v>

01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:52.960
<v Speaker 3>What an inconvenient thing to be, especially in this world.</v>

01:26:52.960 --> 01:26:54.720
<v Speaker 3>How stupid to be a Christian.</v>

01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:58.240
<v Speaker 3>There's so many more intelligent things to be in the world if</v>

01:26:58.240 --> 01:27:00.320
<v Speaker 3>you want to get along with the world.</v>

01:27:00.320 --> 01:27:02.640
<v Speaker 3>If you want to get along with God and you want to</v>

01:27:03.120 --> 01:27:06.560
<v Speaker 3>actually be a Christian, then every word breathed from the mouth of</v>

01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:08.560
<v Speaker 3>God is what you need to confess.</v>

01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:10.240
<v Speaker 3>You can't confess it all at once.</v>

01:27:10.240 --> 01:27:11.200
<v Speaker 3>Nobody can.</v>

01:27:11.200 --> 01:27:14.560
<v Speaker 3>Every one of these episodes is, you know, some sort of even</v>

01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:17.760
<v Speaker 3>a superficial deep dive on a subject.</v>

01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:20.400
<v Speaker 3>You know, we did an entire episode on Galatians 3.28.</v>

01:27:20.400 --> 01:27:22.400
<v Speaker 3>We barely scratched the surface.</v>

01:27:22.400 --> 01:27:24.640
<v Speaker 3>We can never possibly confess everything.</v>

01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:25.600
<v Speaker 3>That's fine.</v>

01:27:25.600 --> 01:27:28.800
<v Speaker 3>But when Satan says you can't confess this, guess what?</v>

01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:31.280
<v Speaker 3>That is the next thing that needs to come out of your</v>

01:27:31.280 --> 01:27:34.000
<v Speaker 3>mouth. It's a very simple rule.</v>

01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:39.360
<v Speaker 3>When Satan cares about you agreeing with God, you're obligated to do</v>

01:27:39.360 --> 01:27:43.040
<v Speaker 3>it. And you don't get to hide behind your true confession of</v>

01:27:43.040 --> 01:27:44.000
<v Speaker 3>something else.</v>

01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:47.600
<v Speaker 3>In the moment that you say something that is true that is</v>

01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:50.480
<v Speaker 3>not in opposition to the world, you're a liar.</v>

01:27:50.480 --> 01:27:53.760
<v Speaker 3>It is cowardice in the very moment when we are called to</v>

01:27:53.760 --> 01:27:55.520
<v Speaker 3>have Christian boldness.</v>

01:27:55.520 --> 01:27:58.080
<v Speaker 3>That's the entire point of this episode.</v>

01:27:58.080 --> 01:28:00.720
<v Speaker 3>You don't get to pick these fights.</v>

01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:03.200
<v Speaker 3>It's not all the time, it's not every day, it's not even</v>

01:28:03.200 --> 01:28:06.480
<v Speaker 3>every year, but it's gonna get worse and it's gonna come for</v>

01:28:06.480 --> 01:28:08.640
<v Speaker 3>you. Your state's gonna pass this stuff.</v>

01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:11.840
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna come up in conversation of your church.</v>

01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:15.520
<v Speaker 3>Are you going to be apostate like Doug Wilson and double down</v>

01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:16.880
<v Speaker 3>on defending the Jews?</v>

01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:19.280
<v Speaker 3>Or are you going to say what scripture says?</v>

01:28:19.280 --> 01:28:21.520
<v Speaker 3>Or are you going to say that, well, we don't say the</v>

01:28:21.520 --> 01:28:23.520
<v Speaker 3>Jews kill Christ 'cause that's just envy.</v>

01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:26.640
<v Speaker 3>No, you say what God says and you defend God.</v>

01:28:26.640 --> 01:28:30.000
<v Speaker 3>And if that puts you against the UN and Doug Wilson, then</v>

01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:33.680
<v Speaker 3>God will be with you in opposing his enemies.</v>

01:28:33.680 --> 01:28:35.120
<v Speaker 3>This is the fight.</v>

01:28:35.120 --> 01:28:36.720
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna divide households.</v>

01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.160
<v Speaker 3>It's gonna divide churches as Christ promised it would.</v>

01:28:40.160 --> 01:28:41.040
<v Speaker 3>It stinks.</v>

01:28:41.040 --> 01:28:41.920
<v Speaker 3>It's unpleasant.</v>

01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:43.120
<v Speaker 3>This isn't fun.</v>

01:28:43.120 --> 01:28:46.000
<v Speaker 3>This isn't good news in the sense of, hey, you won the</v>

01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:47.840
<v Speaker 3>lottery, or hey, I found your dog.</v>

01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:50.720
<v Speaker 3>It's good news in the sense that God has told us that</v>

01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:52.240
<v Speaker 3>these things will happen.</v>

01:28:52.240 --> 01:28:55.600
<v Speaker 3>And even when the bad things happen, we know, well, that's my</v>

01:28:55.600 --> 01:28:57.760
<v Speaker 3>God. My God told me what was going to happen that it</v>

01:28:57.760 --> 01:29:00.800
<v Speaker 3>did. I can keep trusting him because he always keeps his promises,</v>

01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:03.200
<v Speaker 3>even when he promises something terrible.</v>

01:29:03.200 --> 01:29:06.080
<v Speaker 3>Some days that's all we're gonna have, and it still needs to</v>

01:29:06.080 --> 01:29:09.120
<v Speaker 3>be enough to keep us in the fight until God calls us</v>

01:29:09.120 --> 01:29:09.920
<v Speaker 3>home.</v>

01:29:10.080 --> 01:29:10.320
I would

01:29:10.320 --> 01:29:14.800
<v Speaker 2>like to give the pastors in the audience a very concrete step</v>

01:29:14.800 --> 01:29:19.680
<v Speaker 2>that they can take in pursuit of being faithful in this particular</v>

01:29:19.680 --> 01:29:22.320
<v Speaker 2>matter, but just more generally.</v>

01:29:24.080 --> 01:29:27.680
<v Speaker 2>As Woe said, and as you all well know, Good Friday is</v>

01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:29.840
<v Speaker 2>coming up shortly.</v>

01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:34.800
<v Speaker 2>Here is the traditional text of a prayer that the Church has</v>

01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:38.560
<v Speaker 2>long used on Good Friday.</v>

01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:43.680
<v Speaker 2>Let us pray also for the perfidious Jews, that Almighty God may</v>

01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:47.520
<v Speaker 2>remove the veil from their hearts, so that they too may acknowledge</v>

01:29:47.520 --> 01:29:49.760
<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ our Lord.</v>

01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:54.880
<v Speaker 2>Almighty and eternal God, who dost not exclude from thy mercy even</v>

01:29:54.880 --> 01:30:00.160
<v Speaker 2>Jewish perfidiousness, hear our prayers, which we offer for the blindness of</v>

01:30:00.160 --> 01:30:04.880
<v Speaker 2>that people, that acknowledging the light of thy truth, which is Christ,</v>

01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:08.880
<v Speaker 2>they may be delivered from their darkness, through the same our Lord</v>

01:30:08.880 --> 01:30:12.880
<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of</v>

01:30:12.880 --> 01:30:16.080
<v Speaker 2>the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.</v>

01:30:16.080 --> 01:30:21.520
<v Speaker 2>Amen. I would first note that this is a prayer that every</v>

01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:24.480
<v Speaker 2>single one of you should be able to pray for from the</v>

01:30:24.480 --> 01:30:28.560
<v Speaker 2>heart. We do pray for, we do desire the conversion of the</v>

01:30:29.040 --> 01:30:34.560
<v Speaker 2>Jews to Christianity, because we desire that for all men, because Christ</v>

01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:36.640
<v Speaker 2>died for all men.</v>

01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:41.440
<v Speaker 2>He died to atone for everything, the scope of the atonement, as</v>

01:30:41.440 --> 01:30:44.560
<v Speaker 2>I have said before, is universal.</v>

01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:49.040
<v Speaker 2>He redeemed creation, and so of course we want them to turn</v>

01:30:49.040 --> 01:30:52.800
<v Speaker 2>from their wickedness and come to faith.</v>

01:30:52.800 --> 01:30:57.680
<v Speaker 2>But the second point, reintroduce this into your liturgy, if you have</v>

01:30:57.680 --> 01:31:00.720
<v Speaker 2>a liturgy, and if you don't, that's a separate problem.</v>

01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.840
<v Speaker 2>But at least reintroduce this into your prayers.</v>

01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:06.400
<v Speaker 2>And perhaps use this explicit form.</v>

01:31:06.400 --> 01:31:11.680
<v Speaker 2>This is the pre-1955 form as used by the Roman Church and</v>

01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:13.440
<v Speaker 2>used by a number of other churches.</v>

01:31:13.440 --> 01:31:18.560
<v Speaker 2>Lutherans have historically used one that's almost identical.</v>

01:31:18.560 --> 01:31:22.480
<v Speaker 2>Call them the perfidious Jews.</v>

01:31:22.480 --> 01:31:28.240
<v Speaker 2>Speak the truth, as Scripture says it, as the church has proclaimed</v>

01:31:28.240 --> 01:31:33.120
<v Speaker 2>it, every year without fail, for centuries.</v>

01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:37.760
<v Speaker 2>This was changed only recently, as you may have noticed, I said,</v>

01:31:37.760 --> 01:31:40.960
<v Speaker 2>this is the pre nineteen fifty five form.</v>

01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:44.240
<v Speaker 2>I wonder why it would have changed then.</v>

01:31:44.240 --> 01:31:48.720
<v Speaker 2>In nineteen forty nine, Pope Pius, I believe it was Pius the</v>

01:31:48.720 --> 01:31:50.400
<v Speaker 2>Second, at that point.</v>

01:31:50.400 --> 01:31:54.960
<v Speaker 2>Any rate, it doesn't really matter, in nineteen forty nine, he issued</v>

01:31:54.960 --> 01:32:01.520
<v Speaker 2>a statement that oh Perfidus in Latin just means faithless.</v>

01:32:01.520 --> 01:32:04.800
<v Speaker 2>Well I have Whitaker's words here, and those of you who know</v>

01:32:04.800 --> 01:32:07.440
<v Speaker 2>any Latin will definitely know that name.</v>

01:32:07.440 --> 01:32:13.600
<v Speaker 2>Perfidus means faithless, treacherous, false, deceitful.</v>

01:32:13.600 --> 01:32:17.440
<v Speaker 2>All of those are in view in this traditional prayer.</v>

01:32:17.440 --> 01:32:22.560
<v Speaker 2>And that is why we use perfidious in English, because perfidus in</v>

01:32:22.560 --> 01:32:27.760
<v Speaker 2>Latin and perfidious in English basically have the same scope conveniently, we</v>

01:32:27.760 --> 01:32:31.280
<v Speaker 2>just happen to have the same word here because of course it</v>

01:32:31.280 --> 01:32:34.640
<v Speaker 2>is the Latin word just imported into English.</v>

01:32:34.640 --> 01:32:37.280
<v Speaker 2>So use the historic prayer</v>

01:32:38.320 --> 01:32:40.320
<v Speaker 2>because it's true.</v>

01:32:40.320 --> 01:32:44.160
<v Speaker 2>You are calling the Jews what they are, and you are praying</v>

01:32:44.160 --> 01:32:48.960
<v Speaker 2>for their conversion, which is something we should do as Christians.</v>

01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:53.520
<v Speaker 2>This is a concrete step that you can take in the direction</v>

01:32:53.520 --> 01:32:56.160
<v Speaker 2>of being a faithful Christian.</v>

01:32:56.160 --> 01:33:01.440
<v Speaker 2>This is particularly, again, particularly true of pastors.</v>

01:33:01.440 --> 01:33:03.360
<v Speaker 2>This is incumbent on you</v>

01:33:04.240 --> 01:33:08.400
<v Speaker 2>As the statement from the Solid Declaration, as that section I read</v>

01:33:08.400 --> 01:33:13.040
<v Speaker 2>from Article 10 said, pastors are in fact meant to be leaders</v>

01:33:13.040 --> 01:33:15.200
<v Speaker 2>of the congregation of God.</v>

01:33:15.200 --> 01:33:18.000
<v Speaker 2>That is supposed to be one of your roles.</v>

01:33:18.560 --> 01:33:24.080
<v Speaker 2>And so introduce this, reintroduce this, use something that is part of</v>

01:33:24.080 --> 01:33:28.080
<v Speaker 2>the historic practices of the church, and is a good thing, because</v>

01:33:28.080 --> 01:33:31.920
<v Speaker 2>it is a true statement, it is a conversion of what Scripture</v>

01:33:31.920 --> 01:33:37.200
<v Speaker 2>commands us to believe, and also of what Scripture commands us to</v>

01:33:37.200 --> 01:33:41.520
<v Speaker 2>do. So this is a concrete step.</v>

01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:45.040
<v Speaker 2>You can make this change two weeks from today.</v>

01:33:45.040 --> 01:33:47.520
<v Speaker 2>Well, not two weeks from today, because this will be released on</v>

01:33:47.520 --> 01:33:52.880
<v Speaker 2>Thursday, but two weeks and a day from today.</v>

01:33:52.880 --> 01:33:58.480
<v Speaker 2>These are not matters where it's some Nebulous issue or something that's</v>

01:33:58.400 --> 01:33:59.840
<v Speaker 2>vague or difficult.</v>

01:33:59.840 --> 01:34:04.000
<v Speaker 2>It may be challenging because there may be very real consequences for</v>

01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:08.000
<v Speaker 2>doing these things, but being faithful is a fairly simple matter.</v>

01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:11.920
<v Speaker 2>It's as simple as praying that one or two paragraph prayer that</v>

01:34:11.920 --> 01:34:14.960
<v Speaker 2>I just read, readily available.</v>

01:34:14.960 --> 01:34:17.760
<v Speaker 2>You can modify it if you're so inclined, you can add to</v>

01:34:17.760 --> 01:34:21.840
<v Speaker 2>it from scripture, but if you use that exact form, that is</v>

01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:25.760
<v Speaker 2>a step in the direction of faithfulness, and it is something that</v>

01:34:25.760 --> 01:34:30.640
<v Speaker 2>every single Christian church should be doing, particularly because it is a</v>

01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:34.160
<v Speaker 2>refutation of what Satan is saying we have to do.</v>

01:34:34.160 --> 01:34:38.480
<v Speaker 2>So reject what Satan is saying, pick up the historic praxis of</v>

01:34:38.480 --> 01:34:41.680
<v Speaker 2>the church, and be faithful.</v>

01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:44.640
<v Speaker 2>Be a Christian.</v>

01:34:44.640 --> 01:34:47.840
<v Speaker 3>So we're going to leave you now with quite a few minutes</v>

01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:50.320
<v Speaker 3>of readings from scripture.</v>

01:34:50.320 --> 01:34:52.880
<v Speaker 3>As we did at the end of the Big Lie episode, Cory</v>

01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:55.280
<v Speaker 3>and I are gonna take turns just reading these.</v>

01:34:55.280 --> 01:34:57.760
<v Speaker 3>Unlike that episode, we're not gonna be laughing at any of this.</v>

01:34:57.760 --> 01:34:59.440
<v Speaker 3>This is deadly serious.</v>

01:34:59.440 --> 01:35:01.520
<v Speaker 3>We're also not gonna give any of the citations.</v>

01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:03.600
<v Speaker 3>Those will be in the show notes.</v>

01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:06.400
<v Speaker 3>We're just going to give you words only.</v>

01:35:06.400 --> 01:35:10.800
<v Speaker 3>So we're leaving you with the words of scripture on this particular</v>

01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:13.280
<v Speaker 3>matter. Think about this.</v>

01:35:13.280 --> 01:35:16.000
<v Speaker 3>For the rest of the week and whenever you reflect on this</v>

01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:20.560
<v Speaker 3>episode, when scripture says these things and the world is saying that</v>

01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:25.360
<v Speaker 3>is classic anti Semitism, that is wickedness, according to the UN and</v>

01:35:25.360 --> 01:35:29.360
<v Speaker 3>Doug Wilson, what are you gonna do?</v>

01:35:29.360 --> 01:35:32.720
<v Speaker 3>Whom will you serve in that environment?</v>

01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:36.160
<v Speaker 3>You don't get to hide behind, well, Jesus died for my sins.</v>

01:35:36.160 --> 01:35:39.760
<v Speaker 3>That is a false confession, no matter how true the doctrine is,</v>

01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:41.440
<v Speaker 3>because it's not the question.</v>

01:35:41.440 --> 01:35:46.320
<v Speaker 3>You're You're answering a different question when you espouse that doctrine.</v>

01:35:46.320 --> 01:35:48.640
<v Speaker 3>It is a deceitful response.</v>

01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:50.400
<v Speaker 3>It is a faithless response.</v>

01:35:50.400 --> 01:35:55.200
<v Speaker 3>And it's a very easy response for cowardly Christians to offer because</v>

01:35:55.200 --> 01:35:57.280
<v Speaker 3>it keeps you out of the fight.</v>

01:35:57.280 --> 01:35:59.680
<v Speaker 3>Do you think that you're in a day and an age where</v>

01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:02.240
<v Speaker 3>staying out of the fight is an option?</v>

01:36:02.240 --> 01:36:05.440
<v Speaker 3>I hope that no one who's a stone choir listener actually believes</v>

01:36:05.440 --> 01:36:08.400
<v Speaker 3>that. I don't think it's really possible.</v>

01:36:08.400 --> 01:36:13.840
<v Speaker 3>We create our episodes and our topics around emboldening men to first</v>

01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:16.400
<v Speaker 3>believe the truth and then to obey God.</v>

01:36:16.400 --> 01:36:19.920
<v Speaker 3>And I don't think we really leave room for the sort of</v>

01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:22.320
<v Speaker 3>man who could have that view.</v>

01:36:22.320 --> 01:36:24.960
<v Speaker 3>Again, we're gonna leave you with the words of God.</v>

01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:26.160
<v Speaker 3>Think about it.</v>

01:36:26.160 --> 01:36:28.160
<v Speaker 3>This should be your confession.</v>

01:36:28.160 --> 01:36:31.040
<v Speaker 3>And if you hear words from our mouths in the last minutes</v>

01:36:31.040 --> 01:36:35.440
<v Speaker 3>of this episode that caused you discomfort, figure out why.</v>

01:36:35.440 --> 01:36:37.360
<v Speaker 3>Because it didn't come from the word of God.</v>

01:36:37.360 --> 01:36:40.240
<v Speaker 3>We're going to be reading nothing but scripture.</v>

01:36:40.240 --> 01:36:44.240
<v Speaker 3>If that makes you uncomfortable, makes you squirm, if it's something that</v>

01:36:44.240 --> 01:36:47.440
<v Speaker 3>you couldn't say to another Christian, if it's something that wouldn't be</v>

01:36:47.440 --> 01:36:50.880
<v Speaker 3>said in your church, if these are words that maybe your pastor</v>

01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:54.480
<v Speaker 3>would change the wording, or when he finished, he would explain it</v>

01:36:54.480 --> 01:36:55.520
<v Speaker 3>away somehow.</v>

01:36:55.520 --> 01:36:58.640
<v Speaker 3>Either that was a different time, or here's what those words actually</v>

01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:02.560
<v Speaker 3>mean, but it it's not really all Jews, don't worry about that.</v>

01:37:02.560 --> 01:37:05.280
<v Speaker 3>You have a problem in your life.</v>

01:37:05.280 --> 01:37:07.040
<v Speaker 3>All we can do is tell you what God says.</v>

01:37:07.040 --> 01:37:09.280
<v Speaker 3>You gotta figure out from there whether you're gonna believe it or</v>

01:37:09.280 --> 01:37:11.440
<v Speaker 3>not, and whether you're gonna obey it.</v>

01:37:11.440 --> 01:37:14.880
<v Speaker 3>Will you have the faith of Daniel, or will you be faithless,</v>

01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:19.120
<v Speaker 3>when the matter is the most urgent?</v>

01:37:19.120 --> 01:37:23.760
<v Speaker 3>You stiff necked people, uncircumcised and hardened ears, you always resist the</v>

01:37:23.760 --> 01:37:27.120
<v Speaker 3>Holy Spirit Spirit, as your fathers did so do you, which of</v>

01:37:27.120 --> 01:37:29.520
<v Speaker 3>the prophets did your fathers not persecute?</v>

01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:32.720
<v Speaker 3>And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the righteous</v>

01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:36.400
<v Speaker 3>one, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, you who received the</v>

01:37:36.400 --> 01:37:39.920
<v Speaker 3>laws delivered by angels, and did not keep it.</v>

01:37:40.080 --> 01:37:45.120
<v Speaker 2>Jesus answered them truly I say to you, every one who practices</v>

01:37:45.360 --> 01:37:47.440
<v Speaker 2>sin is a slave to sin.</v>

01:37:47.440 --> 01:37:51.520
<v Speaker 2>The slave does not remain in the house forever, the son remains</v>

01:37:51.520 --> 01:37:55.360
<v Speaker 2>forever. So if the sun sets you free, you will be free</v>

01:37:55.360 --> 01:37:59.760
<v Speaker 2>indeed. I know that you are offspring of Abraham, yet you seek</v>

01:37:59.760 --> 01:38:03.280
<v Speaker 2>to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.</v>

01:38:03.280 --> 01:38:06.880
<v Speaker 2>I speak of what I have seen with my father, and you</v>

01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:09.440
<v Speaker 2>do what you have heard from your father.</v>

01:38:09.440 --> 01:38:12.720
<v Speaker 2>They answered him, Abraham is our father.</v>

01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:16.880
<v Speaker 2>Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would be</v>

01:38:16.880 --> 01:38:20.960
<v Speaker 2>doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me,</v>

01:38:20.960 --> 01:38:24.000
<v Speaker 2>a man who has told you the truth that I heard from</v>

01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:27.040
<v Speaker 2>God. This is not what Abraham did.</v>

01:38:27.040 --> 01:38:29.920
<v Speaker 2>You are doing the works your father did.</v>

01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:33.680
<v Speaker 2>They said to him, We were not born of sexual immorality.</v>

01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:36.640
<v Speaker 2>We have one father, even God.</v>

01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:40.720
<v Speaker 2>Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love</v>

01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:44.000
<v Speaker 2>me, for I came from God and I am here.</v>

01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:47.760
<v Speaker 2>I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.</v>

01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:50.400
<v Speaker 2>Why do you not understand what I say?</v>

01:38:50.400 --> 01:38:53.680
<v Speaker 2>It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.</v>

01:38:53.680 --> 01:38:56.880
<v Speaker 2>You are of your father the devil, and your will is to</v>

01:38:56.880 --> 01:38:58.960
<v Speaker 2>do your father's desires.</v>

01:38:58.960 --> 01:39:02.480
<v Speaker 2>He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in</v>

01:39:02.480 --> 01:39:05.520
<v Speaker 2>the truth, because there is no truth in him.</v>

01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:09.440
<v Speaker 2>When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he</v>

01:39:09.440 --> 01:39:12.000
<v Speaker 2>is a liar and the father of lies.</v>

01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:15.600
<v Speaker 2>But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.</v>

01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:18.160
<v Speaker 2>Which one of you convicts me of sin?</v>

01:39:18.160 --> 01:39:21.600
<v Speaker 2>If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?</v>

01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:24.880
<v Speaker 2>Whoever is of God hears the words of God.</v>

01:39:25.200 --> 01:39:28.400
<v Speaker 2>reason why you do not hear them is that you are not</v>

01:39:28.400 --> 01:39:29.600
<v Speaker 2>of God.</v>

01:39:30.080 --> 01:39:30.240
But

01:39:30.240 --> 01:39:33.440
<v Speaker 3>the Pharisees went out and conspired against him against him how to</v>

01:39:33.440 --> 01:39:34.560
<v Speaker 3>destroy him.</v>

01:39:35.120 --> 01:39:38.160
<v Speaker 2>This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill</v>

01:39:38.160 --> 01:39:41.840
<v Speaker 2>him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was</v>

01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:46.640
<v Speaker 2>even calling God his own father, making himself equal with God.</v>

01:39:47.200 --> 01:39:49.920
<v Speaker 3>After this Jesus went about in Galilee.</v>

01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:52.800
<v Speaker 3>He would not go about in Judea because the Jews were seeking</v>

01:39:52.800 --> 01:39:53.920
<v Speaker 3>to kill him.</v>

01:39:54.240 --> 01:39:56.560
<v Speaker 2>Has not Moses given you the law?</v>

01:39:56.560 --> 01:39:58.640
<v Speaker 2>Yet none of you keeps the law?</v>

01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:00.240
<v Speaker 2>Why do you seek to kill me?</v>

01:40:00.400 --> 01:40:02.880
<v Speaker 2>The crowd answered, You have a demon.</v>

01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:04.800
<v Speaker 2>Who is seeking to kill you?</v>

01:40:05.200 --> 01:40:08.720
<v Speaker 2>The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.</v>

01:40:08.800 --> 01:40:12.720
<v Speaker 2>The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking</v>

01:40:12.720 --> 01:40:16.320
<v Speaker 2>to stone you, and are you going there again?</v>

01:40:16.640 --> 01:40:16.960
<v Speaker 2>So</v>

01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:19.920
<v Speaker 3>from that day on the Jews made plans to put him to</v>

01:40:19.920 --> 01:40:20.880
<v Speaker 3>death.</v>

01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:23.680
<v Speaker 2>Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in</v>

01:40:23.680 --> 01:40:27.680
<v Speaker 2>the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted</v>

01:40:27.680 --> 01:40:32.000
<v Speaker 2>together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.</v>

01:40:32.480 --> 01:40:32.720
And

01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:36.080
<v Speaker 3>this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing</v>

01:40:36.080 --> 01:40:37.600
<v Speaker 3>these things on the Sabbath.</v>

01:40:37.600 --> 01:40:41.200
<v Speaker 3>But Jesus answered them, My Father is working until now and I</v>

01:40:41.200 --> 01:40:42.640
<v Speaker 3>am working.</v>

01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:45.200
<v Speaker 2>Men of Israel, hear these words.</v>

01:40:45.200 --> 01:40:49.120
<v Speaker 2>Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty</v>

01:40:49.120 --> 01:40:52.240
<v Speaker 2>works and wonders and signs, that God did through him in your</v>

01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:57.680
<v Speaker 2>midst, as you yourselves know, this Jesus delivered up according to the</v>

01:40:57.680 --> 01:41:02.560
<v Speaker 2>definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified, and killed by the</v>

01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:04.800
<v Speaker 2>hands of lawless men.</v>

01:41:05.040 --> 01:41:08.240
<v Speaker 3>Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God</v>

01:41:08.240 --> 01:41:12.640
<v Speaker 3>has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.</v>

01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:14.960
<v Speaker 3>Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and</v>

01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:18.240
<v Speaker 3>said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brothers what shall</v>

01:41:18.240 --> 01:41:18.800
<v Speaker 3>we do?</v>

01:41:18.800 --> 01:41:22.000
<v Speaker 3>And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of</v>

01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:24.880
<v Speaker 3>you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your</v>

01:41:24.880 --> 01:41:28.000
<v Speaker 3>sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.</v>

01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:30.720
<v Speaker 3>For the promise is for you and for your children and for</v>

01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:34.240
<v Speaker 3>all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls</v>

01:41:34.240 --> 01:41:37.840
<v Speaker 3>to himself, and with many other words he bore witness and continued</v>

01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:41.840
<v Speaker 3>to exhort them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.</v>

01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:45.440
<v Speaker 3>So those who received his word were baptized, and they were added</v>

01:41:45.440 --> 01:41:48.320
<v Speaker 3>that day about three thousand souls.</v>

01:41:48.320 --> 01:41:52.160
<v Speaker 2>But you Jews denied the holy and righteous one, and asked for</v>

01:41:52.160 --> 01:41:55.440
<v Speaker 2>a murderer to be granted to you, and you Jews killed the</v>

01:41:55.440 --> 01:41:59.680
<v Speaker 2>author of life, whom God raised from the dead, to this we</v>

01:41:59.680 --> 01:42:01.360
<v Speaker 2>are witnesses.</v>

01:42:01.360 --> 01:42:01.600
And

01:42:01.600 --> 01:42:04.720
<v Speaker 3>when they had brought them, they set them before a council, and</v>

01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:08.080
<v Speaker 3>the high priest questioned them, saying, We strictly charge you not to</v>

01:42:08.080 --> 01:42:11.200
<v Speaker 3>teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your</v>

01:42:11.200 --> 01:42:14.400
<v Speaker 3>teaching, and you attend to pring this man's blood upon us.</v>

01:42:14.400 --> 01:42:18.480
<v Speaker 3>But Peter and the apostles answered, We must obey God rather than</v>

01:42:18.480 --> 01:42:21.920
<v Speaker 3>men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by</v>

01:42:21.920 --> 01:42:23.200
<v Speaker 3>hanging on a tree.</v>

01:42:23.200 --> 01:42:26.640
<v Speaker 3>God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to</v>

01:42:26.640 --> 01:42:29.840
<v Speaker 3>give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.</v>

01:42:29.840 --> 01:42:32.400
<v Speaker 3>And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy</v>

01:42:32.400 --> 01:42:35.760
<v Speaker 3>Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.</v>

01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:38.800
<v Speaker 3>When they heard this they were enraged and wanted to kill them.</v>

01:42:39.200 --> 01:42:39.280
For

01:42:39.440 --> 01:42:43.200
<v Speaker 2>you brothers became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus</v>

01:42:43.360 --> 01:42:44.960
<v Speaker 2>that are in Judea.</v>

01:42:44.960 --> 01:42:48.480
<v Speaker 2>For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they</v>

01:42:48.480 --> 01:42:52.160
<v Speaker 2>did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the</v>

01:42:52.160 --> 01:42:57.760
<v Speaker 2>prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind,</v>

01:42:57.760 --> 01:42:59.600
<v Speaker 2>by hindering us from speaking to the nations</v>

01:43:08.240 --> 01:43:11.840
<v Speaker 3>Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the</v>

01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:14.960
<v Speaker 3>people, And said to them, You brought me this man as one</v>

01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:19.200
<v Speaker 3>who is misleading the people, and after examining him before you, behold,</v>

01:43:19.200 --> 01:43:22.640
<v Speaker 3>I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges</v>

01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:26.000
<v Speaker 3>against him, neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us.</v>

01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:29.280
<v Speaker 3>Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.</v>

01:43:29.280 --> 01:43:31.680
<v Speaker 3>I will therefore punish and release him.</v>

01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:34.880
<v Speaker 2>Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask</v>

01:43:34.880 --> 01:43:38.080
<v Speaker 2>for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.</v>

01:43:38.080 --> 01:43:38.320
But

01:43:38.320 --> 01:43:41.840
<v Speaker 3>they all cried together, Away with this man and release to us</v>

01:43:42.000 --> 01:43:45.920
<v Speaker 3>Barabbas, a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection</v>

01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:47.920
<v Speaker 3>started in the city and for murder.</v>

01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:51.600
<v Speaker 3>Pilate addressed them all once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they</v>

01:43:51.600 --> 01:43:54.560
<v Speaker 3>kept shouting, crucify, crucify him.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>A third time he said to them, Why, what evil has he</v>

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<v Speaker 3>done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I will therefore punish and release him.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be</v>

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<v Speaker 3>crucified, and their voices prevailed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a riot was beginning, he took water, and washed his hands before</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the crowd, saying, I am innocent of this man's blood, see to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>it yourselves.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And all the people answered, His blood be on us and on</v>

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<v Speaker 2>our children.</v>