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Peter's final letter wasn't written from a position of comfort, but from a Roman prison cell while awaiting execution under Emperor Nero. Yet instead of focusing on his suffering, this seasoned apostle—once a simple Galilean fisherman—pours out his remaining energy to fortify believers against both external persecution and internal deception.
The letter carries a veteran warrior's urgency. Having walked with Jesus, witnessed the Transfiguration, and endured decades of spiritual combat, Peter knows what's at stake. False teachers had infiltrated the early church, twisting grace into license and scoffing at Christ's return. His response? A powerful reminder that Christianity stands not on "cleverly devised myths" but on rock-solid eyewitness testimony and the "more sure" prophetic word of Scripture.
What makes this teaching particularly striking is Peter's assertion that the written Word carries even greater authority than his own dramatic experiences. Though he personally witnessed Jesus transfigured in glory and heard God's voice from heaven, he directs believers to Scripture as "a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns." This remarkable elevation of biblical authority above personal experience—even apostolic experience—offers crucial guidance for navigating today's subjective, feelings-driven religious landscape.
Through Peter's final dispatch, we're challenged to approach Scripture not as optional advice but as divine revelation that comes not from human will but from men "carried along by the Holy Spirit." These ancient words provide our surest foundation amid cultural hostility and spiritual deception. Like soldiers equipped for battle, we're called to advance Christ's kingdom with the confidence that the lamp of Scripture will never fail, illuminating our path until every knee bows to our King.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Happy Lord's Day to you.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, the home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian Warriors for
today's challenges.
I'm hearing me through my phonein like three different places.
Okay, for today's challengehere we forge disciples who will
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faithfully worship, work andmore, until every knee bows to
our King Jesus.
We lock shields to protect theinnocent and disciple the
nations Warriors.
Let us lock shields, raise ourswords of the Spirit and charge
into the practical front linesof 2 Peter 1 with unwavering
resolve.
Let's go ahead and pray.
Ignite our hearts with holyresolve, sharpen our spirits by
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your spirit and steal our faithfor every trial ahead.
May your power be our strength,your wisdom, our guide and your
love our motivation as we pressinto battle against sin and
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despair.
Send forth your angels,embolden your people and grant
to us today victories in yourglory and rescue of the captives
.
In the triumphant name of Jesus, we declare the gates of hell
will not prevail.
Amen.
And for those of you who are newto the faith, if you want to
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know how to pray, you can go toMatthew 6, 9 through 13 for an
amazing example of the Lord'sPrayer, which is when the
disciples asked Jesus to teachthem how to pray.
This is how he taught them andhe said and, of course, prayer
is not an option.
When we are sinful and when weare distant and when we are in
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rebellion, we flee the father.
We are like Adam and Eve in thegarden, hiding from God as if
you could.
Right?
We don't want thataccountability, we don't want to
draw close to him, because wejust feel dirtier and more like
a failure and more like atraitor.
That is the way we are, andit's from day one minute one of
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sin, right?
So, since we ain't from thetruth of knowledge of good and
evil, we flee accountabilityinstead of leaning into God.
And I do it too, we all do it.
But, brothers and sisters,prayer is not optional for the
soldier of Christ, it isessential communication with our
supreme commander in chief.
So here is the Lord's prayer,as in Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
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Pray then in this way ourfather, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
as we have also forgiven ourdebtors, and do not lead us into
temptation, but deliver us fromthe evil one, for yours is the
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kingdom and the power and theglory forever.
Amen.
All right, let's break thisdown for those of you who are
new.
Every part of that prayer has aspecific purpose.
Our Father, who is in heaven,that's who you're talking to.
God is our sovereign commander,ruling from his throne.
Surrender your plans and trustin his leadership.
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Hallowed be your name.
Honor your Father's holiness.
Above all, live to glorify hisname in every action.
Your kingdom.
Come.
Pray for Christ's rule to expandin our hearts and world.
Pursue gospel, advance andcourageous witness your will be
done.
Align your daily decisions withhis divine strategy, not our
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own.
Okay, this is so hard.
We all want to do us.
We all want to do us instead ofdoing what God wants us to do.
Give us this day of daily bread.
Depend on his provision forevery need, day by day.
Forgive us our debts as we haveforgiven our debtors.
Repent swiftly, forgive othersand restore unity.
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This is the basis of everything.
How quick you are to forgiveand how much grace you give is
the stick that you're going tobe measured by.
Do not lead us in temptation,but deliver us from the evil one
.
Seek his protection andstrength against temptation and
spiritual attack, for yours isthe kingdom and the power and
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the glory forever.
Affirm God's eternal dominion,power and victory.
Claim Christ's triumph andpress on with fear.
All right, so let's get intothis.
Now.
It is the mid-60s AD.
Nero sits on, you know, theemperor Nero sits on Rome's
throne.
The city still smells of thecharred districts.
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He blamed the fledgling churchon for the big fire in Rome and
the first great wave ofstate-sponsored persecution is
cresting In a damp cell, likelythe Mamertine prison.
An old Galilean fishermanawaits for the sound of iron
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hinges and the sentence ofcrucifixion.
This is Simon Peter's finaldispatch to the front.
Got more boops and bops goingon here than I know what to do.
His letter is addressed to thecongregation scattered across
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Asia, minor Believers bruised bycultural hostility outside and
stalked by false teachers on theinside.
These infiltrators scoff atChrist's return, twist grace
into license to sin and peddlecleverly devised myths.
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License to sin and peddlecleverly devised myths.
Peter answers with the steel ofeyewitness testimony and the
granite of the propheticscriptures.
Remember who was writing?
A seasoned spiritual warriorwho hauled nets on Galilee,
watched Jesus blaze with theuncreated light on the holy
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mountain, heard God's voice,sprinted to an empty tomb and
now bears the scars ofdecades-long combat for the
gospel.
Tradition places his martyrdombetween 64 and 67 AD Under
Nero's cruelty.
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The man who once sank beneaththe waves as Jesus called him
out of the boat when he wantedto walk on the water with Jesus
now stands unshakable on therock which is Jesus, stands
unshakable on the rock, which isJesus.
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Why does he put pen toparchment in these last hours?
To remind the saints andreassure them of the gospel's
historical certainty and torearm them with the more sure
prophetic word.
These are quotes that more sureis the words he used.
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Richard Baxter captured thismoment's urgency when he said I
preached as never, sure topreach again as a dying man to
dying men.
That is Peter's pulse and itmust be ours.
Okay, if you guys can't bequiet, you need to go.
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Warriors, fix your eyes on this.
Veterans, farewell.
The battlefield is dark, theenemy cunning, but the lamp of
scripture will not fail.
Grip it, hold the line untildawn.
So let's review two weeks ago,when we did 2 Peter 1-11, 2
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Peter 1-11, laying thefoundation Verses 1 and 2, who
we are.
Peter reminds us we share thesame faith as the apostles.
The more we know Jesus, themore grace and peace grows in
our lives.
Verses 3 and 4.
Our gear has already beenissued.
God has already given useverything we need to live for
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him.
His big promises pull us out ofsin and make us more like him.
That's sanctification.
Stack your virtues, add to yourfaith goodness, knowledge,
self-control, endurance,godliness, family love and love
for everyone.
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Think of it like putting onlayers of armor.
Verse 8, fruit check.
When these traits keep growing,your life stays useful and
productive for King Jesus.
Are you useful for Jesus?
Verse nine danger of forgetting.
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Ignore them and you will bespiritually nearsighted,
forgetting what Jesus did foryou and slipping back into old
habits.
Boy, don't we all do that.
The second we get Out of ouremergencies and we get
comfortable.
We start thinking that we didthis ourselves, we did it when
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it's all Jesus, and that we werepaid for and bought with a
price.
And then verses 10 and 11,secure and welcome.
We're colored at thesequalities.
They confirm your call and giveyou a wide, open welcome into
Jesus' eternal kingdom.
With that groundwork in place,peter now tells us why we must
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remember and guard therock-solid prophetic word.
Alright, I'm going to read you.
2 Peter, 1, verses 12 through21.
Therefore, I will always beready to remind you of these
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things, even though you alreadyknow them and have been
strengthened in the truth whichis present with you.
And I consider it right, aslong as I am in this earthly
dwelling, to stir you up by theway of reminder, knowing that
laying aside of my earthlydwelling is imminent, as also
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our Lord Jesus Christ hasindicated to me, and I will be
diligent that at any time aftermy departure you will be able to
call these things to mind, forwe did not make known to you the
power and the coming of ourLord Jesus Christ following
cleverly devised myths, butbeing eyewitnesses to his
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majesty, for when he receivedhonor and glory from God the
Father, such an utterance asthis was made to him by the
majestic glory.
This is my beloved Son, withwhom I am well pleased, and we
ourselves heard this utterancemade from heaven when we were
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with him on the holy mountain,and we have, as more sure
there's that term, more sure theprophetic word to which you do
well to pay attention, as to alamp shining in the dark until
the day dawns and the morningstar rises in your hearts.
But know this first of all,that no prophecy or scripture
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comes by one's owninterpretation, for no prophecy
was ever made by the will of man, but men being moved by the
Holy Spirit spoken from God.
Now, that is not very clear toa lot of people when you read
that, and you can read that 20times and not get the true
meaning from it unless you dosome really deep study.
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I'm going to go with this.
What Peter is talking about hereis the authority of Scripture.
He's going to talk about theauthority of Scripture.
Is this book true or is it nottrue?
Is it trustworthy or is it not?
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And if it's not, then all of usare living a lie and we might
as well all go be hedonists andjust do whatever we want and
degenerate into sin and miserybecause none of nothing matters.
But if it is true, then itholds us to an account on how we
should live.
So let's go through this lineby line and I will help to
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explain what this is reallysaying.
So verse 12, therefore, I willalways be ready to remind you of
these things, even though youalready know them and have been
strengthened in the truth whichis present in you.
Peter promises to keepreminding the church, even if
they already know the truth,because steady repetition turns
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doctrine into reflex, likepracticing a drill, until it's
second nature.
Verse 13, and I consider itright as long as I am in this
earthly dwelling and the termearthly dwelling there is
actually the Greek word for tentto stir you up by way of
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reminder.
Our bodies are only temporarytents as long as Peter is still
in this tent that's the term heused by way of reminder.
Our bodies are only temporarytents as long as Peter is still
in this tent that's the term heused.
He's determined to keep shakingus awake, like a drill sergeant
, ripping off your blankets at0500 and shouting move out.
Peter is calling them to wakeup and get up.
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Verse 14, so here we go.
Jesus had already told Peterthat he would soon die.
Laying aside the tent the termthere means folding up his
earthly body like a soldierbreaking camp.
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The hour has come and Petermeets it with calm readiness.
Verse 15, legacy.
And I will also be diligentthat at any time after my
departure you will be able torecall, to call these things
into mind.
Peter is working hard now sothat after he's gone, believers
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can still reload on truth, likeleaving behind loaded magazines
or ammo crates for the nextsquad behind you.
Verse 16, no myths.
This is so important and soChristianity stands on this,
whereas no other religion does.
For we did not make known toyou the power and the coming of
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our Lord Jesus Christ followingcleverly devised myths, but by
being eyewitnesses of hismajesty.
Peter says we didn't pass alongclever stories like Odin and
Thor and Zeus and Apollo and allthese crazy things out there.
We saw Jesus's power with ourown eyes.
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Christianity isn't fantasy, itis built on facts of solid
eyewitnesses.
Spurgeon said the apostles didnot preach dreams, they
witnessed facts.
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We too often and I used to dothis when I was an atheist
encounter people who want toassail our faith.
You'll, you know, on YouTube oron Instagram or on Facebook or
on TikTok or just friends youhave, who are faithless,
miserable wretches.
They'll find out you're aChristian a guy used to do and
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they will come after you and tryto shake your faith.
Come after you and try to shakeyour faith.
Now we have a faith that isbased on facts that the world is
catching up to.
Science are saying they foundSodom and Gomorrah and guess
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what it's covered in.
Oh, what's that calledBrimstone?
And what's sulfur?
Sulfur that's only found in oneplace ever there.
The whole world used to laughat all of science, used to laugh
at the idea of a great flood.
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Now it's pretty much becomingthe universal hell belief that
there was a giant great flood,more and more people leaving the
farce of evolution, as we havenot one drop of evidence of it
being witnessed anywhere.
Micro evolution is the fluvirus evolving every year.
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Macroevolution is the flu virusturning into a whale or a
chicken becoming a goat or afish becoming a dog.
We have zero fossil evidencethroughout the history of the
world of anything caught in anystate.
Fossil evidence throughout thehistory of the world of anything
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caught in any state.
We have one-cell organisms andwe all supposedly evolved from
one-cell organisms.
We don't have a single two-cellor three-cell organism on the
face of the planet, just onlyone, and then us and the other
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thing in more complex things,dna is code.
These are all facts of acreator.
Jesus Christ lived factually.
There's more evidence of Jesusliving than Julius Caesar, than
anyone historically living inthe ancient world ever.
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You are not following fantasyand we must arm our believers so
that their faith is not shaken,to know that they stand on
something entirely more probablethan atheism, which is
impossible.
The fact that people can haveenough faith to believe that
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nothing created everything isinsane to me, and I laugh at
myself that I used to think thatnothing, by definition, created
everything.
That is a magic trick.
That just does not exist.
So we don't believe in myths.
We don't believe in myths.
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No man would devise this.
We'd all try to write somethingway cooler.
You want a man-devised religion?
No, you'd probably pick onethat gave you 77 virgins when
you died and got to heaven, likesome people in this world.
Or like Valhalla, where it'sbattle every day and only the
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brave go to heaven and all thatstuff.
Right, those are the thingsthat Jason would create.
It wouldn't be what God has donehere.
I wouldn't have chosen Abraham.
I wouldn't have chosen David.
I wouldn't have chosen Jacob.
I wouldn't have chosen any ofthose guys.
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I would have chosen Goliath.
I would have chosenScandinavians and Vikings to be
God's people, not the patheticJews of the time, the weakest.
But God always finds strengthin weakness.
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He chooses the weakest.
He chooses the weakest so thathe is the one who gets the glory
and that people don't thinkthat they did it.
Look at Saul, king Saul.
A lot of you guys are watchingthat new series, david or
whatever it's called.
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It's really good, I enjoy it.
But you see, saul forget thathe was a donkey farmer and God
made him a king and then hethought he did everything when
God did it.
All you know all the differentother Jonah and the whale all of
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these things you must have ananswer for or else you will be
shaken.
You will be shaken.
There are answers for all ofthem, multiple answers and
multiple theories out there, andI've talked about them at
length so I don't want to godown too many roads here.
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But the age of the earth theBible does not say how old the
age of the earth is, and if youwant to believe in seven days of
creation, you can be aChristian and believe in seven
24-hour days of creation.
You can believe in 7,000-yearcreation as well and still be a
Christian.
You can believe in 7 billiontrillion gajillion years as a
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Christian and still be aChristian.
It doesn't say it here andwe're going to get into that
part in the authority ofscripture which is coming up
Verses 17 and 18, and there'sonly 21 verses For when he
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received honor and glory fromGod the Father.
This is Jesus.
Such an utterance as this wasmade to him by the majestic
glory they heard from heaven.
This is my beloved son, withwhom I am well pleased, and we
ourselves heard this utterancemade from heaven when we were
with him on the holy mountain.
Peter, james and John watchedJesus shine with heavenly glory.
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He glowed on the mountaintopand heard the father's voice
thunder.
They heard God's voice.
This is my beloved son.
I am pleased with him.
They didn't dream it, I saw it.
Ears heard, ears heard it.
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Proverbs 14.5 reminds us atrustworthy witness will not lie
.
Now here is something that wethis is amazing and we have, and
we have as more sure rightthere's that term, more sure,
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the prophetic word to which youdo well to pay attention as to a
lamp shining in a dark placeuntil the day dawns and the
morning star rises in your heart.
Peter says the written wordright.
This Bible is more trustworthythan what he even saw with his
own eyes and heard with his ownears on the mountain, peter is
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saying that experience bows tothe written word.
Treat scripture like a lanternthat cuts through the night
until Jesus, the morning star,returns.
John Calvin said the testimonyof the Spirit is more excellent
than all reason.
This book has been making foolsof scientists for a very, very,
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very long time Verse 20.
And this is something we'redealing with even to this day.
False teachers in the churchfrom day one to now.
But know this first of all, thatno prophecy or scripture has
come by one's own interpretation.
What does that mean?
No part of scripture came froma prophet's own ideas and none
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of it can be rewritten to fitours.
The author is the Holy Spiritand the best way to explain any
verse is with the rest of theBible.
You can pull one sentence outof the Bible and make it almost
mean anything, almost make itmean anything.
There are billions of religionsof one who have picked one life
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verse and then the rest of itthey ignore, because this verse
gives them license to dowhatever they want outside of
you know that one sin they don'tlike to do, all the sins they
want to do.
Okay, the only way you knowscripture is by reading from the
front to the back and making itand referencing itself
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throughout the entire word.
Scripture verifies Scripture.
It's why sola scriptura is soimportant.
Feelings change.
The words that are written inthis book are thousands and
thousands of years old and theyhaven't changed.
This is how we stay true to God, not by somebody who's got a
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new spin on it, not someonewho's like, oh, you can sin as
much as you want.
Now there's a new way.
No, no, there's nothing newunder the heavens.
The Bible says so.
We don't get to live the way wewant.
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We got to live the way thistells us to live.
Either Jesus Christ is yourLord and Savior, or you might as
well just go do whatever youwant.
Drink yourself into a hole.
Go do whatever you want.
Drink yourself into a hole.
Go do whatever self-destructivesin, whatever, because if
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you're just kind of doing it,you're not doing it.
You're not doing it.
God knows your heart.
You think you're going to getto heaven and you're going to be
able to con God.
He's going to know.
He's going to know if he wasyour priority or not.
He's going to know if youfollowed his word, if you
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pursued him.
I don't read my Bible enoughpeople.
I don't, I don't.
There are seasons where Istruggle to get through a single
word and I'm a traitor becauseI do it and I hate myself when I
do that.
Okay, you know I was talking toa friend who is a sin minimizer
, a hyper-grace Christian, whoyou know we were debating
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something on God.
I say God's primary attributeis holy, holy, holy.
And he, you know I saidsomething to him.
We're commenting on a PaulWasher video on are you useful
to God or not, which justhappened to be the teaching two
weeks ago, and he's like well,who wants a father like that?
I'm like who wants a fatherlike that?
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Do we create God or did Godcreate us?
We don't get to pick and choose.
The potter made us and we'reeither a bowl or a plate or a
cup, because he made us alldifferent to do some function.
A cup doesn't get to be asledgehammer, a plate makes a
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terrible strainer and a horriblebowl.
No, we must always testeverything with the word, and I
have made plenty of mistakes andthe word is what corrects me.
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So now 21, the last one, for noprophecy was ever made by the
will of man, but by men beingmoved by.
The Holy Spirit spoke from God.
The Holy Spirit steered theBible's authors like winds.
Fill a sail.
The words are human, themessage is God's.
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St Augustine said what scripturesays God says.
So you've got to know this bookor else you don't know what God
says, and if you just count onyour own will, you are screwed.
So what do we do with this?
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Warriors of King Jesus, thedarkness is real, but it is
doomed.
The same word that called lightout of chaos is now marching
through history, subduing rebelslike me and you and remaking
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cultures, and remaking cultures.
Christ already reigns.
His kingdom is expanding likeleaven in bread and will fill
the whole loaf of creation.
So here's our objectivesAdvance, just don't hold.
Carry the lamp of scripture andyour relationship with God into
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every sphere Home, classroom,council, chamber, marketplace.
Work, expecting darkness toretreat.
You will win.
Disciple the nations, buildcovenant families, break
generational curses, plantdoctrinally sound churches,
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found Christ-honoring schoolsand shape just laws that confess
his lordship.
The Great Commission ends whennations taught to obey
everything he commanded.
How are we going to know whathe commanded unless we read this
?
Proclaim total victory.
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Speak, counsel and evangelizewith the unshakable confidence
that the gospel is the power ofGod and will not fail.
Work generationally, layfoundations for your
grandchildren and they willfortify the kingdom, growing
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seed by seed, season by season,until every knee bows.
The difference betweenpost-mill and pre-mill is
pre-mill thinks they're going tobe out of here any minute and
we plan for generations to keepmoving the kingdom for Christ,
to set up my kids for betterthan what I received and them
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for what they received, and onand on and on.
Fight with joy.
The roar of the Lion of Judahis already echoing across the
battlefield.
Therefore, labor knowing thatyour toil in the Lord is never
in vain, your suffering is neverin vain and your work is never
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in vain.
Stand firm, surge and press theadvance until Christ's light
floods every realm and everyknee bows.
So now we're going to do theLord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11,
28.
But a man must test himself, andin doing so he is to eat of the
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bread and drink of the cup.
So this is only for baptizedbelievers.
Okay.
So before we partake, let usquietly bow before the King of
glory.
Let each man, woman and youngwarrior here search his or her
own heart, confessing sin andlaying down burdens, preparing
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to eat and drink in a mannerworthy of the Lord.
Don't bring your filth to thetable.
Get rid of it now, confess itto the Lord and come pure as the
driven snow, white as thedriven snow.
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Let's pray before we go intothis.
Almighty God, sovereign, lordand Host.
We approach your table todaynot because we are worthy, but
because Jesus Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of Christalone.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of Christalone.
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We remember his body broken,his blood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift our hearts in reverent awe.
Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty name, inMatul's name, amen.
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So the Lord Jesus, in the nightin which he was betrayed, took
bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me,which is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake in this breadtogether in remembrance of Jesus
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Christ's body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat.
And in the same way, he tookthe cup also after supper,
saying this cup is a newcovenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you, asoften as you drink it in
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remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether in remembrance of
christ's blood poured out for us.
Go ahead, and his blood, theblood that purchased our
forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether in remembrance of
Christ's blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink, for asoften as you eat the bread and
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drink the cup, you proclaim thedeath of the Lord until he comes
.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, christ has risen, christwill come again.
We are soldiers in hiseverlasting kingdom.
Let us pray.
Brothers and sisters, now goforth from this place as
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soldiers of Christ, armored withfaith, wrapped in hope, blazing
with love.
May the Lord of hosts go beforeyou to lead you, beside you to
guard you, beneath you, tosustain you and with you to
strengthen you.
May your shield of faith neverfalter, may your sword of the
Spirit never grow dull, may yourfeet never stray from the path
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of righteousness and may theroar of the Lion of Judah echo
behind you as you advance hiskingdom.
Wherever your feet tread, standfirm warriors.
Lock shields, fight the goodfight, finish the race.
Keep the faith Until we standbefore the king himself, crowned
by his grace, and hear thoseblessed words.
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Well done, good and faithfulservant in the mighty name of
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
All right, god bless you guys.
See you next week.
Happy Lord's Day to you.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, the home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian Warriors for
today's challenges.
I'm hearing me through my phonein like three different places.
Okay, for today's challengehere we forge disciples who will
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faithfully worship, work andmore, until every knee bows to
our King Jesus.
We lock shields to protect theinnocent and disciple the
nations Warriors.
Let us lock shields, raise ourswords of the Spirit and charge
into the practical front linesof 2 Peter 1 with unwavering
resolve.
Let's go ahead and pray.
Ignite our hearts with holyresolve, sharpen our spirits by
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your spirit and steal our faithfor every trial ahead.
May your power be our strength,your wisdom, our guide and your
love our motivation as we pressinto battle against sin and
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despair.
Send forth your angels,embolden your people and grant
to us today victories in yourglory and rescue of the captives
.
In the triumphant name of Jesus, we declare the gates of hell
will not prevail.
Amen.
And for those of you who are newto the faith, if you want to
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know how to pray, you can go toMatthew 6, 9 through 13 for an
amazing example of the Lord'sPrayer, which is when the
disciples asked Jesus to teachthem how to pray.
This is how he taught them andhe said and, of course, prayer
is not an option.
When we are sinful and when weare distant and when we are in
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rebellion, we flee the father.
We are like Adam and Eve in thegarden, hiding from God as if
you could.
Right?
We don't want thataccountability, we don't want to
draw close to him, because wejust feel dirtier and more like
a failure and more like atraitor.
That is the way we are, andit's from day one minute one of
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sin, right?
So, since we ain't from thetruth of knowledge of good and
evil, we flee accountabilityinstead of leaning into God.
And I do it too, we all do it.
But, brothers and sisters,prayer is not optional for the
soldier of Christ, it isessential communication with our
supreme commander in chief.
So here is the Lord's prayer,as in Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
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Pray then in this way ourfather, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
as we have also forgiven ourdebtors, and do not lead us into
temptation, but deliver us fromthe evil one, for yours is the
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kingdom and the power and theglory forever.
Amen.
All right, let's break thisdown for those of you who are
new.
Every part of that prayer has aspecific purpose.
Our Father, who is in heaven,that's who you're talking to.
God is our sovereign commander,ruling from his throne.
Surrender your plans and trustin his leadership.
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Hallowed be your name.
Honor your Father's holiness.
Above all, live to glorify hisname in every action.
Your kingdom.
Come.
Pray for Christ's rule to expandin our hearts and world.
Pursue gospel, advance andcourageous witness your will be
done.
Align your daily decisions withhis divine strategy, not our
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own.
Okay, this is so hard.
We all want to do us.
We all want to do us instead ofdoing what God wants us to do.
Give us this day of daily bread.
Depend on his provision forevery need, day by day.
Forgive us our debts as we haveforgiven our debtors.
Repent swiftly, forgive othersand restore unity.
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This is the basis of everything.
How quick you are to forgiveand how much grace you give is
the stick that you're going tobe measured by.
Do not lead us in temptation,but deliver us from the evil one
.
Seek his protection andstrength against temptation and
spiritual attack, for yours isthe kingdom and the power and
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the glory forever.
Affirm God's eternal dominion,power and victory.
Claim Christ's triumph andpress on with fear.
All right, so let's get intothis.
Now.
It is the mid-60s AD.
Nero sits on, you know, theemperor Nero sits on Rome's
throne.
The city still smells of thecharred districts.
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He blamed the fledgling churchon for the big fire in Rome and
the first great wave ofstate-sponsored persecution is
cresting In a damp cell, likelythe Mamertine prison.
An old Galilean fishermanawaits for the sound of iron
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hinges and the sentence ofcrucifixion.
This is Simon Peter's finaldispatch to the front.
Got more boops and bops goingon here than I know what to do.
His letter is addressed to thecongregation scattered across
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Asia, minor Believers bruised bycultural hostility outside and
stalked by false teachers on theinside.
These infiltrators scoff atChrist's return, twist grace
into license to sin and peddlecleverly devised myths.
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License to sin and peddlecleverly devised myths.
Peter answers with the steel ofeyewitness testimony and the
granite of the propheticscriptures.
Remember who was writing?
A seasoned spiritual warriorwho hauled nets on Galilee,
watched Jesus blaze with theuncreated light on the holy
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mountain, heard God's voice,sprinted to an empty tomb and
now bears the scars ofdecades-long combat for the
gospel.
Tradition places his martyrdombetween 64 and 67 AD Under
Nero's cruelty.
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The man who once sank beneaththe waves as Jesus called him
out of the boat when he wantedto walk on the water with Jesus
now stands unshakable on therock which is Jesus, stands
unshakable on the rock, which isJesus.
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Why does he put pen toparchment in these last hours?
To remind the saints andreassure them of the gospel's
historical certainty and torearm them with the more sure
prophetic word.
These are quotes that more sureis the words he used.
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Richard Baxter captured thismoment's urgency when he said I
preached as never, sure topreach again as a dying man to
dying men.
That is Peter's pulse and itmust be ours.
Okay, if you guys can't bequiet, you need to go.
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Warriors, fix your eyes on this.
Veterans, farewell.
The battlefield is dark, theenemy cunning, but the lamp of
scripture will not fail.
Grip it, hold the line untildawn.
So let's review two weeks ago,when we did 2 Peter 1-11, 2
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Peter 1-11, laying thefoundation Verses 1 and 2, who
we are.
Peter reminds us we share thesame faith as the apostles.
The more we know Jesus, themore grace and peace grows in
our lives.
Verses 3 and 4.
Our gear has already beenissued.
God has already given useverything we need to live for
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him.
His big promises pull us out ofsin and make us more like him.
That's sanctification.
Stack your virtues, add to yourfaith goodness, knowledge,
self-control, endurance,godliness, family love and love
for everyone.
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Think of it like putting onlayers of armor.
Verse 8, fruit check.
When these traits keep growing,your life stays useful and
productive for King Jesus.
Are you useful for Jesus?
Verse nine danger of forgetting.
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Ignore them and you will bespiritually nearsighted,
forgetting what Jesus did foryou and slipping back into old
habits.
Boy, don't we all do that.
The second we get Out of ouremergencies and we get
comfortable.
We start thinking that we didthis ourselves, we did it when
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it's all Jesus, and that we werepaid for and bought with a
price.
And then verses 10 and 11,secure and welcome.
We're colored at thesequalities.
They confirm your call and giveyou a wide, open welcome into
Jesus' eternal kingdom.
With that groundwork in place,peter now tells us why we must
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remember and guard therock-solid prophetic word.
Alright, I'm going to read you.
2 Peter, 1, verses 12 through21.
Therefore, I will always beready to remind you of these
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things, even though you alreadyknow them and have been
strengthened in the truth whichis present with you.
And I consider it right, aslong as I am in this earthly
dwelling, to stir you up by theway of reminder, knowing that
laying aside of my earthlydwelling is imminent, as also
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our Lord Jesus Christ hasindicated to me, and I will be
diligent that at any time aftermy departure you will be able to
call these things to mind, forwe did not make known to you the
power and the coming of ourLord Jesus Christ following
cleverly devised myths, butbeing eyewitnesses to his
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majesty, for when he receivedhonor and glory from God the
Father, such an utterance asthis was made to him by the
majestic glory.
This is my beloved Son, withwhom I am well pleased, and we
ourselves heard this utterancemade from heaven when we were
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with him on the holy mountain,and we have, as more sure
there's that term, more sure theprophetic word to which you do
well to pay attention, as to alamp shining in the dark until
the day dawns and the morningstar rises in your hearts.
But know this first of all,that no prophecy or scripture
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comes by one's owninterpretation, for no prophecy
was ever made by the will of man, but men being moved by the
Holy Spirit spoken from God.
Now, that is not very clear toa lot of people when you read
that, and you can read that 20times and not get the true
meaning from it unless you dosome really deep study.
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I'm going to go with this.
What Peter is talking about hereis the authority of Scripture.
He's going to talk about theauthority of Scripture.
Is this book true or is it nottrue?
Is it trustworthy or is it not?
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And if it's not, then all of usare living a lie and we might
as well all go be hedonists andjust do whatever we want and
degenerate into sin and miserybecause none of nothing matters.
But if it is true, then itholds us to an account on how we
should live.
So let's go through this lineby line and I will help to
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explain what this is reallysaying.
So verse 12, therefore, I willalways be ready to remind you of
these things, even though youalready know them and have been
strengthened in the truth whichis present in you.
Peter promises to keepreminding the church, even if
they already know the truth,because steady repetition turns
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doctrine into reflex, likepracticing a drill, until it's
second nature.
Verse 13, and I consider itright as long as I am in this
earthly dwelling and the termearthly dwelling there is
actually the Greek word for tentto stir you up by way of
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reminder.
Our bodies are only temporarytents as long as Peter is still
in this tent that's the term heused by way of reminder.
Our bodies are only temporarytents as long as Peter is still
in this tent that's the term heused.
He's determined to keep shakingus awake, like a drill sergeant
, ripping off your blankets at0500 and shouting move out.
Peter is calling them to wakeup and get up.
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Verse 14, so here we go.
Jesus had already told Peterthat he would soon die.
Laying aside the tent the termthere means folding up his
earthly body like a soldierbreaking camp.
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The hour has come and Petermeets it with calm readiness.
Verse 15, legacy.
And I will also be diligentthat at any time after my
departure you will be able torecall, to call these things
into mind.
Peter is working hard now sothat after he's gone, believers
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can still reload on truth, likeleaving behind loaded magazines
or ammo crates for the nextsquad behind you.
Verse 16, no myths.
This is so important and soChristianity stands on this,
whereas no other religion does.
For we did not make known toyou the power and the coming of
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our Lord Jesus Christ followingcleverly devised myths, but by
being eyewitnesses of hismajesty.
Peter says we didn't pass alongclever stories like Odin and
Thor and Zeus and Apollo and allthese crazy things out there.
We saw Jesus's power with ourown eyes.
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Christianity isn't fantasy, itis built on facts of solid
eyewitnesses.
Spurgeon said the apostles didnot preach dreams, they
witnessed facts.
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We too often and I used to dothis when I was an atheist
encounter people who want toassail our faith.
You'll, you know, on YouTube oron Instagram or on Facebook or
on TikTok or just friends youhave, who are faithless,
miserable wretches.
They'll find out you're aChristian a guy used to do and
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they will come after you and tryto shake your faith.
Come after you and try to shakeyour faith.
Now we have a faith that isbased on facts that the world is
catching up to.
Science are saying they foundSodom and Gomorrah and guess
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what it's covered in.
Oh, what's that calledBrimstone?
And what's sulfur?
Sulfur that's only found in oneplace ever there.
The whole world used to laughat all of science, used to laugh
at the idea of a great flood.
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Now it's pretty much becomingthe universal hell belief that
there was a giant great flood,more and more people leaving the
farce of evolution, as we havenot one drop of evidence of it
being witnessed anywhere.
Micro evolution is the fluvirus evolving every year.
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Macroevolution is the flu virusturning into a whale or a
chicken becoming a goat or afish becoming a dog.
We have zero fossil evidencethroughout the history of the
world of anything caught in anystate.
Fossil evidence throughout thehistory of the world of anything
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caught in any state.
We have one-cell organisms andwe all supposedly evolved from
one-cell organisms.
We don't have a single two-cellor three-cell organism on the
face of the planet, just onlyone, and then us and the other
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thing in more complex things,dna is code.
These are all facts of acreator.
Jesus Christ lived factually.
There's more evidence of Jesusliving than Julius Caesar, than
anyone historically living inthe ancient world ever.
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You are not following fantasyand we must arm our believers so
that their faith is not shaken,to know that they stand on
something entirely more probablethan atheism, which is
impossible.
The fact that people can haveenough faith to believe that
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nothing created everything isinsane to me, and I laugh at
myself that I used to think thatnothing, by definition, created
everything.
That is a magic trick.
That just does not exist.
So we don't believe in myths.
We don't believe in myths.
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No man would devise this.
We'd all try to write somethingway cooler.
You want a man-devised religion?
No, you'd probably pick onethat gave you 77 virgins when
you died and got to heaven, likesome people in this world.
Or like Valhalla, where it'sbattle every day and only the
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brave go to heaven and all thatstuff.
Right, those are the thingsthat Jason would create.
It wouldn't be what God has donehere.
I wouldn't have chosen Abraham.
I wouldn't have chosen David.
I wouldn't have chosen Jacob.
I wouldn't have chosen any ofthose guys.
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I would have chosen Goliath.
I would have chosenScandinavians and Vikings to be
God's people, not the patheticJews of the time, the weakest.
But God always finds strengthin weakness.
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He chooses the weakest.
He chooses the weakest so thathe is the one who gets the glory
and that people don't thinkthat they did it.
Look at Saul, king Saul.
A lot of you guys are watchingthat new series, david or
whatever it's called.
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It's really good, I enjoy it.
But you see, saul forget thathe was a donkey farmer and God
made him a king and then hethought he did everything when
God did it.
All you know all the differentother Jonah and the whale all of
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these things you must have ananswer for or else you will be
shaken.
You will be shaken.
There are answers for all ofthem, multiple answers and
multiple theories out there, andI've talked about them at
length so I don't want to godown too many roads here.
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But the age of the earth theBible does not say how old the
age of the earth is, and if youwant to believe in seven days of
creation, you can be aChristian and believe in seven
24-hour days of creation.
You can believe in 7,000-yearcreation as well and still be a
Christian.
You can believe in 7 billiontrillion gajillion years as a
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Christian and still be aChristian.
It doesn't say it here andwe're going to get into that
part in the authority ofscripture which is coming up
Verses 17 and 18, and there'sonly 21 verses For when he
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received honor and glory fromGod the Father.
This is Jesus.
Such an utterance as this wasmade to him by the majestic
glory they heard from heaven.
This is my beloved son, withwhom I am well pleased, and we
ourselves heard this utterancemade from heaven when we were
with him on the holy mountain.
Peter, james and John watchedJesus shine with heavenly glory.
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He glowed on the mountaintopand heard the father's voice
thunder.
They heard God's voice.
This is my beloved son.
I am pleased with him.
They didn't dream it, I saw it.
Ears heard, ears heard it.
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Proverbs 14.5 reminds us atrustworthy witness will not lie
.
Now here is something that wethis is amazing and we have, and
we have as more sure rightthere's that term, more sure,
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the prophetic word to which youdo well to pay attention as to a
lamp shining in a dark placeuntil the day dawns and the
morning star rises in your heart.
Peter says the written wordright.
This Bible is more trustworthythan what he even saw with his
own eyes and heard with his ownears on the mountain, peter is
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saying that experience bows tothe written word.
Treat scripture like a lanternthat cuts through the night
until Jesus, the morning star,returns.
John Calvin said the testimonyof the Spirit is more excellent
than all reason.
This book has been making foolsof scientists for a very, very,
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very long time Verse 20.
And this is something we'redealing with even to this day.
False teachers in the churchfrom day one to now.
But know this first of all, thatno prophecy or scripture has
come by one's own interpretation.
What does that mean?
No part of scripture came froma prophet's own ideas and none
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of it can be rewritten to fitours.
The author is the Holy Spiritand the best way to explain any
verse is with the rest of theBible.
You can pull one sentence outof the Bible and make it almost
mean anything, almost make itmean anything.
There are billions of religionsof one who have picked one life
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verse and then the rest of itthey ignore, because this verse
gives them license to dowhatever they want outside of
you know that one sin they don'tlike to do, all the sins they
want to do.
Okay, the only way you knowscripture is by reading from the
front to the back and making itand referencing itself
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throughout the entire word.
Scripture verifies Scripture.
It's why sola scriptura is soimportant.
Feelings change.
The words that are written inthis book are thousands and
thousands of years old and theyhaven't changed.
This is how we stay true to God, not by somebody who's got a
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new spin on it, not someonewho's like, oh, you can sin as
much as you want.
Now there's a new way.
No, no, there's nothing newunder the heavens.
The Bible says so.
We don't get to live the way wewant.
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We got to live the way thistells us to live.
Either Jesus Christ is yourLord and Savior, or you might as
well just go do whatever youwant.
Drink yourself into a hole.
Go do whatever you want.
Drink yourself into a hole.
Go do whatever self-destructivesin, whatever, because if
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you're just kind of doing it,you're not doing it.
You're not doing it.
God knows your heart.
You think you're going to getto heaven and you're going to be
able to con God.
He's going to know.
He's going to know if he wasyour priority or not.
He's going to know if youfollowed his word, if you
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pursued him.
I don't read my Bible enoughpeople.
I don't, I don't.
There are seasons where Istruggle to get through a single
word and I'm a traitor becauseI do it and I hate myself when I
do that.
Okay, you know I was talking toa friend who is a sin minimizer
, a hyper-grace Christian, whoyou know we were debating
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something on God.
I say God's primary attributeis holy, holy, holy.
And he, you know I saidsomething to him.
We're commenting on a PaulWasher video on are you useful
to God or not, which justhappened to be the teaching two
weeks ago, and he's like well,who wants a father like that?
I'm like who wants a fatherlike that?
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Do we create God or did Godcreate us?
We don't get to pick and choose.
The potter made us and we'reeither a bowl or a plate or a
cup, because he made us alldifferent to do some function.
A cup doesn't get to be asledgehammer, a plate makes a
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terrible strainer and a horriblebowl.
No, we must always testeverything with the word, and I
have made plenty of mistakes andthe word is what corrects me.
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So now 21, the last one, for noprophecy was ever made by the
will of man, but by men beingmoved by.
The Holy Spirit spoke from God.
The Holy Spirit steered theBible's authors like winds.
Fill a sail.
The words are human, themessage is God's.
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St Augustine said what scripturesays God says.
So you've got to know this bookor else you don't know what God
says, and if you just count onyour own will, you are screwed.
So what do we do with this?
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Warriors of King Jesus, thedarkness is real, but it is
doomed.
The same word that called lightout of chaos is now marching
through history, subduing rebelslike me and you and remaking
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cultures, and remaking cultures.
Christ already reigns.
His kingdom is expanding likeleaven in bread and will fill
the whole loaf of creation.
So here's our objectivesAdvance, just don't hold.
Carry the lamp of scripture andyour relationship with God into
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every sphere Home, classroom,council, chamber, marketplace.
Work, expecting darkness toretreat.
You will win.
Disciple the nations, buildcovenant families, break
generational curses, plantdoctrinally sound churches,
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found Christ-honoring schoolsand shape just laws that confess
his lordship.
The Great Commission ends whennations taught to obey
everything he commanded.
How are we going to know whathe commanded unless we read this
?
Proclaim total victory.
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Speak, counsel and evangelizewith the unshakable confidence
that the gospel is the power ofGod and will not fail.
Work generationally, layfoundations for your
grandchildren and they willfortify the kingdom, growing
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seed by seed, season by season,until every knee bows.
The difference betweenpost-mill and pre-mill is
pre-mill thinks they're going tobe out of here any minute and
we plan for generations to keepmoving the kingdom for Christ,
to set up my kids for betterthan what I received and them
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for what they received, and onand on and on.
Fight with joy.
The roar of the Lion of Judahis already echoing across the
battlefield.
Therefore, labor knowing thatyour toil in the Lord is never
in vain, your suffering is neverin vain and your work is never
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in vain.
Stand firm, surge and press theadvance until Christ's light
floods every realm and everyknee bows.
So now we're going to do theLord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11,
28.
But a man must test himself, andin doing so he is to eat of the
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bread and drink of the cup.
So this is only for baptizedbelievers.
Okay.
So before we partake, let usquietly bow before the King of
glory.
Let each man, woman and youngwarrior here search his or her
own heart, confessing sin andlaying down burdens, preparing
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to eat and drink in a mannerworthy of the Lord.
Don't bring your filth to thetable.
Get rid of it now, confess itto the Lord and come pure as the
driven snow, white as thedriven snow.
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Let's pray before we go intothis.
Almighty God, sovereign, lordand Host.
We approach your table todaynot because we are worthy, but
because Jesus Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of Christalone.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of Christalone.
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We remember his body broken,his blood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift our hearts in reverent awe.
Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty name, inMatul's name, amen.
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So the Lord Jesus, in the nightin which he was betrayed, took
bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me,which is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake in this breadtogether in remembrance of Jesus
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Christ's body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat.
And in the same way, he tookthe cup also after supper,
saying this cup is a newcovenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you, asoften as you drink it in
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remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether in remembrance of
christ's blood poured out for us.
Go ahead, and his blood, theblood that purchased our
forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether in remembrance of
Christ's blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink, for asoften as you eat the bread and
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drink the cup, you proclaim thedeath of the Lord until he comes
.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, christ has risen, christwill come again.
We are soldiers in hiseverlasting kingdom.
Let us pray.
Brothers and sisters, now goforth from this place as
(36:01):
soldiers of Christ, armored withfaith, wrapped in hope, blazing
with love.
May the Lord of hosts go beforeyou to lead you, beside you to
guard you, beneath you, tosustain you and with you to
strengthen you.
May your shield of faith neverfalter, may your sword of the
Spirit never grow dull, may yourfeet never stray from the path
(36:23):
of righteousness and may theroar of the Lion of Judah echo
behind you as you advance hiskingdom.
Wherever your feet tread, standfirm warriors.
Lock shields, fight the goodfight, finish the race.
Keep the faith Until we standbefore the king himself, crowned
by his grace, and hear thoseblessed words.
(36:44):
Well done, good and faithfulservant in the mighty name of
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
All right, god bless you guys.
See you next week.
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