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From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
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The following program was pre recorded and now here's Bible
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answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
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Well, hey very much, Randy is always it is great
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I got a letter that says thank you for all
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the labor you do to spread God's word and to
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spread his truth. So many questions that I had and
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was hesan to ask have been answered in various ways
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on your radio broadcast. I listen every day after work
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on my drive home. It comforts my heart to know
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that there is at least one person out there answering
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people's questions that no one else dares to answer. Moreover,
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it pleases me greatly that Hank adheres to God's word
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and never takes it out of context. I've not encountered
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any other ministry that answers people's questions about the Bible
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and about God in such an unadulterated way, in such
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a truthful way. May God continue to bless, prospers for
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and use this ministry for His glory and for the
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salvation of many souls. Again, a much appreciated note of encouragement,
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And I think that encouragement is not only to me,
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but also to all those who stand with me in
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the propagation of the Gospel. A lot of you hanging on.
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We'll go right to our phone callers. First today James,
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he's listening in New Jersey on the web. Hi, James, Hey, Hank,
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how are you. I'm doing good.
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Oh that's good, It's good.
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Hank.
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Listen. I got a question. I called you previously, and
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by no means that I'm trying to challenge you anything
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like that. Matter of fact, I'm hoping that you can
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sharpen me in this question. I called you previously about
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the temptation of Christ, and my contention was Christ was
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not being tempted, and you said he was being tempted,
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and so I was trying to harmonize the bibliic a text.
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But I don't want to be wrong in all doing
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and knowing that I'm violating the biblical text. So that's
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why I'm calling you. Well, anyway, my question is, can
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we say if Christ was being tempted, would he be
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tempted in the case of Matthew four and one, was
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he more tempted to do righteousness than to do unrighteousness
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or to yield to satan temptation to sin?
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If you actually read the text, Matthew for says Jesus
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was led by the spirit into the desert to be
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tempted by the devil. So the test is a test
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by God, the temptation is a temptation by the devil,
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and the test demonstrates that Jesus could not sin. Of course,
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Jesus did not have an inkling towards sin because Jesus
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Christ did not have a sin nature, But this in
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no way supposes that the temptation was not real. So
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the way that I would contextualize this is, on the
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one hand, Scripture tells us that God cannot be tempted
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by evil. On the other it informs us that during
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his wilderness sojourn, Jesus was tempted by the evil one.
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So again the question how could Jesus be tempted or
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couldn't he be tempted? And as I've responded to this
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question many times by saying, for sin to take place,
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there has to be a sinful inner
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response to a
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seductive suggestion to sin. And though Satan appealed to Jesus's
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natural human desires, in other words, to his hunger and
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the like, our Lord did not fantasize for even a
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moment over the suggestion to sin, because had he done so,
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that would have constituted sin, and if he had sinned,
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he couldn't be our savior. Secondly, although Jesus did not
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have any sinful proclivities that inclined him towards evil, the
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temptations were nonetheless as real as the very flesh upon
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his bones, and even those who were born into sin
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can identify with being tempted to do something that they're
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utterly disinclined to do. The final point would be that
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in saying God cannot be tempted by evil, James is
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focusing on God as the self sufficient sovereign of the universe,
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and in that sense, he has no unmet needs. Conversely,
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the accounts of the temptation in the Wilderness focus on Jesus,
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who experienced all the essential physical and psychological needs that
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are commensurate with humanity, that is to say, hunger and
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fatigue and the desire for self preservation. And therefore, the
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biblical truths that God cannot be tempted and yet Christ
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was tempted or complimentary, they're not contradictory. But there's another
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point that should be made here. Why did this take place?
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To begin with, this took place so that we could
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see how Jesus overcame temptation. It was always in the
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exact same way. It was always through the word of God.
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So Jesus, as you pointed out, had fasted forty days
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and forty nights, and therefore the tempter sensed vulnerability, and
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so he said, if you are the son of God,
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tell the stones to become bred. Well, Jesus could have
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responded by unveiling the effulgence of his majesty, but he didn't.
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He did what you and I ought to do. He
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took up the sword of the Spirit, which is the
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word of God. Now that necessitates knowing the word of God.
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And then, of course Satan transports Jesus to
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that temple, and he says, if you are the son
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of God, throw yourself down, for it's written. He will
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command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you
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up in their hands, so that you will not even
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strike your foot against a stone. Well, again, Jesus could
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have routed Satan with legions of angels, but he didn't.
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He did exactly what we're instructed to do. He was
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our exemplar. He took up the sword of the Spirit.
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This is one of the reasons I have been emphasizing
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that we are to imitate Christ. We are to be
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apprentices of Jesus Christ. We are to do what he did,
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because in the moment of temptation, we will stand if
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we live a life, as it were, behind the scenes
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that prepares us for that moment of temptation. We want
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to go back to the phone lines and talk to
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Mary in Modesta, California.
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Hi.
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Mary, Hi, and thank you for taking my call pleasure.
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My question is about package in I think it's chapter
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eleven of Mark, and Jesus was walking with his disciples
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and he cursed the fig tree. The Bible continues to
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say that it was not the season for the fruit,
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and I wonder why Jesus would have expected to find
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the fruit if it wasn't the season for it, and
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why he would also curse the tree for that reason.
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Well, there's a couple of things I would say about that.
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Number one, this is an object lesson to all of us.
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It is an object lesson, first of all, in that
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there are those who have the signs of godliness, the
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leaves of godliness, as it were, but they don't have
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the fruit of godliness. And so Jesus here is emphasizing
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the immediacy of judgment upon the Jewish authorities who were
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about to reject Messiah, which is to say, they had
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the appearance of godliness, but they didn't have the fruit.
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They tie their mint and their coming, but they neglected
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the weightier matters of the law righteousness and justice and equity.
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And of course the application that Jesus Christ makes is
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that believing prayer makes all things possible. And the context
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of Mark which you mentioned is have faith in God.
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If you have faith in God, then your faith is
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well placed. If your faith is in your own faith,
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then it is misappropriated. It will amount to nothing. But
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God can do all things. And thus we put our
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faith in God, and all things become possible. Because with God,
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all things are possible.
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Why does the plastic then continue to say it wasn't
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this season if the application is about not bearing fruit
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as issue at trivian Chi.
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Well again I'm saying that this was an object lesson here.
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You had the leaves, but you did not have the
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fruit buds themselves, and thus you find a tree that
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is utterly worthless. It is a show of godliness, but
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there's no inner resource or power by which to bear fruit,
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and therefore they are justly and condigningly condemned. And this
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is something that looks again in context at the authorities
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in the Jewish nation who were God's representatives to the people.
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They had all of the show of godliness, but they
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didn't have the inward reality coming to the station breakley
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Once again, here is hand catigraph.
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Thank you very much, Randy, and we'll go right back
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to our phone Callor's Josephine. She's listening in Wichita, Kansas. Hi, Josephine, Hi,
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here's my question.
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Can you talk to me tell me a little bit
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more about the Wiseman. I understand they were royal astrologers
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from eastern Land, but I mean outside of the exile
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to Babylon. I don't really understand how they would know
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about the star and what it meant enough to even
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be looking for it ahead of time.
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Yeah. Well, you know, Herodotus, who was the Greek historian,
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actually identified the magi as a cast of needs who
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had a priestly function in the Persian Empire. And certainly
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they may have been animated by superstition, but go, God
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brings guidance in the midst of superstition, and just very
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much as he did to Nebucudnezzar, he had magi as
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it were as well. They were astrologers, and there were
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sorcerers and so forth. But in the end, what God
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shows is that they're utterly bankrupt. They can't do what
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they pretend to do. And of course Nebugodnezzar undresses them,
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and Daniel comes in, as it were, and saves them,
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because he says, yes, no one knows this, only God,
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and so this is not something that I can conjure up.
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as an instrument. And so God did use Daniel as
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an instrument. In the same sense, God used the magi
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as instruments of his grace, even if they did practice astrology.
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What the Bible makes clear is that these wise men
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we're led by God by means of a star, and
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that star guides them contrary to the practice of astrology
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and divination, and attempts to protect the future apart from God.
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The star leads them not to foretell the future, but
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to forthtell the future. It becomes a proclamation by which
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they themselves are led into the light. So they're looking,
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as it were, for darkness from the stars. Now the
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star in fact shows them the glory, the effulgence of
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the one who comes into time and space to illumine
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us and to take the dead and dull hearts and
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bring within them wisdom and insight that can only come
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from God. So, just as the Magi were given those
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insights through the star leading them. So we too are
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given those insights through the star, the superstar in the
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constellation of all of history, which is Jesus Christ.
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Right, But I guess I get all that. I do
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not argue with any of that. But how did they
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even know about it? Like, where did they even get
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this knowledge? I mean, was it just imparted by the
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Holy Spirit? Was there some other writing in the time
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that was foretelling or forestelling I'm not really sure how
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to use the word, but of a Messiah to come
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to the Jews. I mean, they got there and they're like,
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where's the King of the Jews? So they knew who
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this guy was?
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in darkness, which is to say that the Jews ultimately
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were an amalgamation of people that were called out to
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be a light to the world. And the fact that
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they did not completely or perfectly fulfill their calling, and
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certainly the testimony to their imperfections is rife in the
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pages of scripture. But the fact that they did not
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do that does not mean that the words did not
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go out to the ends of the earth. Remember, Paul
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says that God puts all people in such perfect places
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so that they might find him, just as the astrologers
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or the magi found Jesus Christ from one man, says Paul.
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God made every nation of men that they should inhabit
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the whole earth. He determined the exact times and places
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that they should live, and he did that so that
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men might reach out for him and find him. Though
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he is not far from each one of us. So
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the light is not sheltered in one small place that
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only a certain people knew about it. No, the light
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is a light that was universal. First of all, is
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universal because of the light of creation. Secondly, it is
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universal because the light of conscience, and so when you
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respond to that, you will be ultimately like the magi
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be led to Christ.
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Okay, okay, think you're.
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Welcome back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
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John New York, New York, listening on the World Wide Web. Hi, John, h.
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I know everything, Hank doing good.
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Thank you.
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My question is.
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Regarding the documentary hypothesis the JEDP. I don't ask much
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about it, but I was worried to give me some
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insight about it.
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Well, I mean, it's a basic permutation of hypotheses that
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have been used in all kinds of different formats. You
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have the two doc theory with respect to the New Testament.
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You have the four doc theory, and this is a
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theory with respect to the Old Testament. And the notion
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is that editors spliced pieces of the documents together and
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getting the Pentateuch. And the belief therefore is that they
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then put Moses' name on it. But if you want
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a short answer in terms of the contrary truth, Jesus
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puts Moses' name on the Pentateuch. And if Jesus puts
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Moses's name on the Pentituke, that should be good enough
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for all of us.
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That's a good answer. Because I was having an argument
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with a friend about it who's a non believer, and
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he was trying to I guess you present this idea,
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And when I was reading up on it, it just
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didn't seem legit, and it looked like there's a lot
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of loopholes too. I just kind of, I guess you
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say here from your mouth kind of confirms it in
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my book.
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Yeah, So the Pentethuk says that Moses is the author,
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as opposed to the documentary hypothesis. Secondly, there are other
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books in the Old Testament that claim that Moses wrote
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the Pentateuch. You can find this in Joshua, for example,
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or Ezra or Malachi. And then the most important, and
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that's why I started with it, is that Jesus himself
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confirms the authorship of the Pentateuch as being penned by Moses.
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And so when he's dialoguing with the Pharisee, says, if
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you believe Moses, you would believe me because he wrote
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about me. But since you don't believe what he wrote,
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how are you going to believe what I say? And so,
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if Jesus is the god Man, the Messiah of Israel,
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then his confirmation of mosaic authorship should be the final
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word on the subject.
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That's a great answer.
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Thank you so much, you got it. Thank you so
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much for your call. Let's go back to the phone
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lines and we'll talk next to Mary. She's listening in Oklahoma.
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Mary, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
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You're welcome.
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I'd like to know, is the
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our thoughts.
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Basically correct, Satan can't read our minds, but he can
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influence our thoughts. So the Bible therefore is instructing us
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to put on the full armor of God so that
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we can take our stand against the devil's schemes. Without it,
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you're just a guaranteed casualty in the invisible war. With it,
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you're invincible. Spiritual warfare is waged against invisible beings that
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personified the extremities of evil, and their weapons are spiritual.
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They're not physical. Therefore, they can't bite us. They can't
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physically violate us. They can't cause you to levitate, but
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they can tempt us to cheat and to steal and
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to lie.
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Okay, that's true. Then how do they know what bothers
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you versus what bothers me, what affects what temptations affect
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me versus someone else?
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They have a lot of accumulated wisdom. I mean, think
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of what we can do compared to what, let's say
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the Egyptians could do. We have nanotechnology. We can do
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things that previous civilizations could not do, although they had
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astounding accomplishments like the Pyramids. But we can do things
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they couldn't do. And the reason is not because we're
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smarter than they are, but we have an accumulation of knowledge. Now,
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think about this in terms of a being that was
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there before the creation of humanity. He has an accumulation
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of knowledge, and as such he's got a pretty good
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idea of what your proclivities are. He watches us carefully,
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and he is ready to trip us up on the
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propensities of humanity that are common to all of us,
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which is to say, nothing catches him by surprise. He's
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been around for a long long.
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Time, right right, Well, then, is it true someone was
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saying last night in my vile study group that they're
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concerned about putting their prayers out loud? You know, we
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talked about speaking the word of God out loud for protection.
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But should we then confess our sins out loud or
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keep them inside?
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No? I mean we shouldn't give in to superstition. But look,
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just as your friend know you well and know exactly
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what's going to affect you, they know how to push
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your buttons because they've known you so well, how much
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more an intelligent being that has been around for eons
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of time? So yeah, I mean, I don't think that
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we have to fall into superstition and therefore pray silently
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as though we're shielding something from Satan, because ultimately we
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have to start with the right priorities in prayer to
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begin with. And what is the right priority? You look
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at the very beginning of the fullumer of God, what
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does it do. Does it emphasize Satan's power to pillage
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or God's power to protect? The answer is the latter.
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It emphasizes God's power to protect. So the real issue
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then is that we ought to put on the fullarmer
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of God. If we put on the fullarmer of God,
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we can stand against the wills of the evil one.
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If we don't, we're guaranteed casualties.
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Understood. Okay, thank you, Now I know what to take
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back to my group. Okay, thank you too much. Heke,
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i'd let you.
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Thank you so much for your call. And I've written
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about this subject in a book called The Covering God's
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Plan to Protect You from Evil. Thanks for tuning in.
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