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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the
Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And of course, there
were enemies during this time,
as there are for us enemies tosanctification.
I want to stop yoursanctification.
There's the world, the worldaround you, that can corrupt you
.
I mean, all the nations aroundIsrael at that time were
idolatrous.
Isn't that how Israel becameidolatrous?
They looked at all the othernations.
They started to importeverything from those nations,
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just like Solomon did.
You know, solomon importedwives.
But you don't just get wives,you get the belief systems of
the wives too, by the way,that's why it's really important
to marry another believer.
If you're a believer, you don'tmarry an unbeliever.
Because you're a believer, youdon't marry an unbeliever
because you're not just marryingan unbeliever, you're also
bringing in everything from herworldview, her system of
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thoughts, whatever it is.
So the Bible is very important.
You know, if you marry someone,marry someone in the Lord, you
know, marry someone who sharesthe same set of beliefs, belief
system.
So Israel was justintermarrying with anybody and
taking in all of their idolatry.
And God even used these nationslike Assyria and Babylon, to
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finally discipline and judgethem right as he sends them into
exile.
Of course, they all had theflesh.
Which the flesh?
We also have it.
It's our sinful nature, that westill have that wars against us
.
And then finally, the devil andthe devil was the one in the
old testament.
Who's behind the foreign nations, stirring them up against
israel for disciplinary measureand by corollary, you might look
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at a passage like firstcorinthians 5 5.
This is one of those strangepassages where, honestly, a lot
of expositors are like I dondon't know what this means, or
aren't sure what this means, ordon't give much explanation of
what it means.
But it's the passage where Paulis talking about a believer at
Corinth who is having relationswith his father's wife and in
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that passage he says you guysare worse than the Gentiles.
You're living lives that aremore horrible than people who
aren't even Christian, whichshows you that Christians can
live lives that are worse thannon-Christian.
1 Corinthians 5.
But in that passage Paul says Iturn such and such person over
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to Satan for the destruction ofhis flesh.
And people say what does thismean?
Turn him over to Satan fordestruction of his flesh?
Well, it's turning him out tothe world where Satan rules, to
undergo Satan's wrath anddiscipline upon the believer,
just like Israel.
What did God do?
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God turned them over to nationsthat were controlled by Satan.
Okay, so Paul is using OldTestament imagery, the ideas
that Satan is behind thesenations like Assyria and Babylon
, to go in and influence Israeland also to discipline Israel,
and he takes that over to theNew Testament.
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He says a believer who's so farout of it?
Paul says I just turn him overto Satan.
It doesn't mean he losesalvation or something like that
, any more than it means thatIsrael is suddenly not Israel
and lost all God's promises orsomething.
That's silly.
But what it is is talking aboutturning them out to the world
for extreme divine disciplineunder satanic influence.
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So that's what's going on there.
So we get a good review here atthe kingdoms in decline of all
five aspects of sanctificationthe phases, the aim, the means,
the dimensions and the enemies.
But the main thing that we haveto walk away from is realizing
that in this period it becomesvery evident that Israel is not
going to keep the Mosaic Law.
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But there's a bright glimmer ofhope because God says that
there's going to be a newcovenant and that new covenant
will provide a new heart and aspirit who will be placed within
you, that will obey, and allthat sets up what is necessary
for Israel to enjoy the landeternally that God has promised
them, enjoy the seed and be ablessing to the world.
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And so when will the newcovenant be fulfilled to Israel?
When will they have this newheart and this new spirit?
Well, at the second coming,when they believe in Jesus as
their Messiah and he takes theminto his kingdom that he
establishes on earth.
So all the New Covenant looksto that point in time.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
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