Person & Work of the Holy Spirit
Mike Doyle · Nov 10, 2013
Holy Spirit (2013), No. 44
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://www.hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/492646183965

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

OK, we're at lesson 21. We have gotten up to question 10, right? Or 11? Did we do 10? 10 is, why are the most obscure incidentals in the word so important? According to Rydock. He calls them, he said they might be called incidentals. and not really necessary for the general accuracy of scripture. But then he makes an interesting statement, he said, we will find there are no such things as incidentals in the word of God.

How come? All the parts fit together and they give us a complete picture. Everybody hear that? All the parts fit together and they give us a complete picture. Ridout says, how all of this accords with our theme, the literal interpretation by the Holy Spirit. He presided over it all. He uttered the predictions in Old Testament type and prophecy and he records their fulfillment in the New Testament. He says, accept this truth of the Spirit's inspiration and the Word of God becomes luminous.

I don't know about you, but I find lots of believers who can give or take things they read in the Bible as being true. Well, that doesn't mean much or it's incidental, but none of it is. Every single word the Spirit of God put in there to show us about the Lord Jesus at some point. we see it's priceless value even in the minutest details and we should handle it reverently last week you said when you read the bible you're reading what God wrote and I think if that's your perspective and I think that's a great simple statement of what it is that the scripture is if God wrote it then there are no incidentals that's exactly right The genealogy or when you read through Leviticus and it's like, oh my gosh, this is the longest set of rules ever. But you start to see the character of a God who doesn't find the attention to detail confusing, but he's articulate and he's explicit. I almost think that when you read through that as a believer, it isn't long before you realize, wow, I don't have to do this. But she do have, I mean, I as a young believer, I remember one time thinking, even studying in the New Testament, as Byrne calls the, what is it called, logical imperatives, which means your commands.

I thought, I can't, I mean, come on, where's the grace in this? Well, it dawned on me it was early on. I think you learn position first. Once you learn your position and settle down on the grace, your response to it becomes not legal, but it's a response to the grace.

Can scripture be accurate if it relates lies that are told? I think we did that last time. Because I said yes and somebody else said no. Some may object that there isn't scripture very much that is not true. How can the scripture be inspired? And I believe we have for instance the falsehoods of Satan to Eve.

He shall not surely die. I mean he is still telling the same lie. Because it says here, can scripture be accurate if it relates lies that are told? I mean, it's the truth. They're telling the truth, but they're telling about this lie. Sure. Is that? Yeah, that's accurate. I think it shows that Satan lied. It's historically true.

OK, there's I think I was going to say I've been over the Internet for over a year sharing Jesus with a gal named Sandy and she's a friend of my brother John's. And anyway. I keep sharing the gospel and having like different versions of the sinner's prayer to try to get one so that she'll pray. I'm just kind of kidding, but basically the last email she sent is You know, I want to pray that prayer, but there's things like she said, can I believe in Jesus my way?

Because things like the virgin birth, I mean, how can I buy the virgin birth? That's not part of the gospel. What's that? The virgin birth isn't part of the gospel. I guess that's true, but she can't believe the fact that Jesus was born from a virgin. You know what I tell her? Forget all that. There's only a couple of things you need to believe. Jesus died on the cross for your sins. He was buried and resurrected. Period. We'll get to the virgin birth later. The point is that once she believes the gospel, and why it was necessary.

I used to have the attitude that the more explaining I could do about the Bible to a non-believer, the better chance I had of winning them to Christ. Well, it dawned on me after lots and lots and lots of failure, that there's only one issue with a non-believer, and that's the Gospel. That's the only issue. The only thing we talk about, because what else are they going to understand?

Being the natural man received not the things of the Spirit of God, their foolishness to him. So I remember sitting with a lawyer one time telling him about identification, I did a wonderful job. He never came to Christ. He never came to Christ because they didn't stick to the issue.

I don't know how that fit in, but you know you're talking about what really doesn't matter in the Bible, they're incidental things. Well, for a non-believer, there's only one issue, and that's the gospel. Amen. There's no other issue. That's good. And I think I told her kind of what you said. You know, the virgin birth, big deal. We'll talk about that after you. There you go. Good point. Thank you.

So what Greidout says, which I thought was interesting, the mistake is it's confounding infallible inspiration with the contents of what is revealed. To illustrate, he says, a man might be a perfectly accurate reporter, able to take down every word of an address. But it would be a great mistake to confound his report of the address with the contents of the address. So the scripture can report. so-and-so lying, so-and-so sinning, so-and-so this, so-and-so that. But it's the contents of the address that is inspired for us to learn. You understand the difference?

And sometimes I put that question in there because I think we are such smart people, intellectuals, we sometimes construe the representation for what God is really trying to say to us. What's he really trying to say? What's the content of what he's trying to reveal to us so that we understand? spiritual truth that he's trying to reveal to us and the fact that, oh they didn't create things in six days, okay. So it was six days and two hours, big deal. Do you understand what I mean?

If you get to the New Testament and Paul's doctrinal issues, the fact that Paul And I know you've noticed that even with the Apostle Paul, God never hides the failures of his servants. Never. I mean, Paul made mistakes. Look at our boy Peter. All you've got to do is read the book of Galatians and see what a real superstar Peter was. I love Peter because he's a fallible human. He makes all kinds of mistakes. And God puts him in there.

That doesn't take away from the fact that what God says in the scriptures is perfectly and totally, perfectly accurate. Accurate to the nth degree. Not a single word is just filled. There is no such thing as filled in the word of God. Did God protect his word when it was hand copied?

So here we have the original manuscripts. written by the apostles and then down through the ages, you got these guys in monasteries hand copying copies. The question is, is it accurate? Did God protect it? How long would it take one of those monks to transcribe? And have you ever seen one of those transcripts about how they wrote flowery letters and stuff, how they wrote, it's just been months to do one page. How did God protect the accuracy of scripture?

Through the Holy Spirit. Yeah, how did he do it? Because you have to admit that under all the manuscripts that you find there are in them small variations aren't there? There really are. So how is God protected? He said that there is not a false doctrine. He thinks there is no manuscript embedded in false doctrine or a true one eliminated.

No. What you're looking for? Well, I guess what I'm looking for is this. You know, we've gone through the King James only group. You know about that? No. They swear that the New Testament was written in King James English. That's the only translation you better have. You know, that kind of nonsense. Well, they believe it's only one of God's words. Well, that's right. Or if you if you happen to be a Plymouth brother and you know that the Darby translation is the one that's most accurate.

So earlier that manuscript, the more accurate you see is not necessarily because let's let's say, let's say, let's say you lived in the 14 or 1500s and you have two competing entities. Because now we have a printing press and we have two entities that are trying to publish Bibles to put them out and the public is beginning to have Bibles where they can read them. Because in most Catholic churches they have this great big volume and they have it chained and if you wanted to read it you had to go in there and sit there and read it. Probably this big. So there are two competing factors.

One is the Catholic factor. which is translating into the local language from Latin because the Catholics thought that Latin was what they called a dead language because it wasn't spoken for centuries so there wasn't modifications as it went along. If you don't speak Latin for five centuries then there isn't any new idioms or new words that always mean the same thing. So they said the Latin was that most accurate language than the other school was translating from the Greek manuscripts. And so I mean there are guys like Tyndale was murdered because he was supported the Greeks and the Catholics got a hold of him and they killed him. So how do you know what you're sitting down I guess the big question is how do you know when you sit down and read your Bible it's accurate?

It says there are a large number of small variations. Most of these scarcely affect the meaning at all. Being slight omissions or insertions of letters, small words. Or today, let's say when you become a Christian somebody says you ought to read the NIV. And the NIV is not really a translation, it's a transliteration, which is a little different. And someone else says, no, you ought to read the King James. Someone else says, how about the New American Standard, 1995? And some guy says, oh, the living's good enough for me.

How do you know that what you're reading is accurate? How can you trust it? Isn't it because the Spirit of God lives in you and testifies to you that it's right or wrong? I think so. I think you can trust the Holy Spirit to do his job. It doesn't mean you get lazy about it. It doesn't mean that you don't seek accuracy for your own understanding. And I think eventually once you start you begin to upgrade what you read for accuracy. Because you study and you find out things.

I was going to say something but I don't think it's right. I was going to say a lot of... A lot of what I do is ask questions and you guys answer them. And so I trust people who have studied the Bible more. But then I think you can go into other denominations. And then if you have an area and you might get misinformation.

So you got something right on the end of your tongue and you just can't wait to get it out. Go. You. Well, yeah. If God inspired the Word and He loves us and wants to communicate with us, it's in His very nature that He would preserve that message and He would enrich our lives and passages like 2 Timothy 3.16 where it's for the building up and strengthening us and producing a perfect believer in the end. That can't be true if the word is unreliable, if the spirit hasn't done its job and God is overwhelmed by mankind and unable to fight that. I'm really asking, I should stick to my subject which is not illumination.

How can I be sure that the people that were translating, I remember when I first came to Holly Hills, Ron Merriman was here and Merriman studied those manuscripts. whatever they were. And the very first Bible study I was ever in, in this church, in this room, sitting over here somewhere, and the guy teaching and the guy sitting next to me getting an argument over a Greek verb tense. And I look over at this guy's Bible and it's Greek. And I said to Donna, I'm in the wrong place. What am I doing here?

You know? The point that I'm making there is that Textual accuracy is really important or grammatical accuracy is really important. But how do we learn anything from the word of God? How do we learn anything? It's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit reveals it to us.

And he confirms it in you that it's true. And what you find out as you go around and hang out with people that have a heart for the word like you do, you pretty much believe the same thing. And if you don't, you kind of go at it and you say, oh yeah, I didn't know that. They didn't know something you knew. And there's a meeting of the minds.

Mike, what about the Geneva Bible? I noticed that it's out now. What kind of Bible is the Geneva Bible? A Geneva Bible is an attempt by whoever put it together to sell something by making it sound like it's ancient. Actually, I've seen an early copy of it. My boss owns one. It's printed back in the day. It's before the King James Bible. And it's got notes from reformers that talk about theology from a reform perspective. But the original Geneva Bible was very anti-Catholic and it was very antagonistic. That's exactly right. Hence Geneva. Switzerland, that's where it came from. And that was the center of, pardon the term, the Protestants, who were not the Catholics. Somebody gave me a book called The History of the English Bible, and the first hundred pages of it talk about how the warring factors in trying to produced Bibles in English, murdered each other. They killed each other off. Boy, we're much more sophisticated than that today. We wouldn't do anything like that. Just kill the spirit and the soul. So, question 13.

What did the author mean by higher criticism? Like it's a work of Satan. Yeah. What does higher criticism mean? Granted, right out is talking about something that we don't necessarily use this term today. He says higher criticism whose purpose is to judge the text by its context and to accept or reject it according to certain standards adopted by the critics. You see that?

In other words, I can. accept or reject what the word of God says based on what Spiritus Zodiatis says it is because he's a critic and he's a Greek scholar so if he says it's this way then it must be that way let me tell you something you should challenge everything that any teacher or any author writes because we're not the teachers if the spirit of God isn't teaching you you're not getting taught And you shouldn't say, oh, you know, Mike said this, and Vern said that, and Robert said this, and Courtney said this, and Randy said this. So I'm in the Randy school. So now we're in the first Corinthians era. When you start putting people up on pedestals, you forget how hard it is when they fall off of those suckers. Hitting the ground isn't fun. So, in this way, judging, and most often mistakenly, the differences of style, new words, and supposed doctrines or opinions, the books of the Bible have been cut to pieces. with higher criticism. I'll give you a good example today.

We have a syndrome that goes around called the expert from afar. Everybody know what that means? The farther you come from, the bigger expert you are. So if I went to the East Coast to teach, I would be a huge expert. If I went to Castle Rock, they wouldn't think much of it. The farther you come from, the bigger expert you are.

So when you have one of these revival meetings or some meeting and they're going to call in some guy from a long way off, because he came from a long way off, he's an expert. It's like, I don't want to criticize them because I think it's really a good Bible conference, but Duluth Bible Chapel has a Bible conference every year and it's really a good one, but four or five of the guys that speak there You can tell they put them up on pedestals a little bit and they came from they didn't come from Duluth. They came from the West Coast and East Coast and someplace else.

And they're supposed to be the experts. That's that's what is higher criticism. The other question that floats around from time to time is. How did certain books make it into the canon and others didn't? Like back around the Council of Trent and all that. What basis for those decisions made? Yeah, about those decisions to get certain books in.

Like, as an example, Martin Luther thought that the book of James should not be in the Bible. And he, you know, when they were, I think when they were first publishing Bibles in German, he left them out. And he thought Esther shouldn't be. What's that? Esther. Yeah. The book of Esther shouldn't be. Yeah, so if I don't understand it, it ought to be out. So who determined and how do you do that? I don't know enough biblical history to give you an answer. I do know this though, that the Spirit of God decided what was going to be in there.

And you know what is amazing to me is how, like in the New Testament, in the epistles, how they are in spiritual order. You ever notice that? Romans is the first book of Christianity and it's the survey course. It gives you the overview and then when you go on from there then he starts getting down into issues and it grows from earthly to heavenly. By the time you get to Ephesians, you're in heaven. It's really cool how the Lord set it up so that our spiritual growth goes right through those books.

So when I show up at a church and they're not very spiritually savvy and they say, well if we're going to have a Bible study, we're going to study Ephesians. I think, huh? That's like going to CU and the first class I'm going to take is a doctorate class. I won't understand Ephesians if I don't have the basics of Romans, Corinthians, Galatians. I won't understand what Ephesians really is talking about. I think the Gospels are perfectly placed where they should be. I think it's the work of the Spirit of God to put it in the sequence that they should be in. That's perfect I think.

Less blessing of higher, higher criticism is the fashion of the day. And yet, like all fashions, it constantly changes. And see, that's the problem with something like that. It changes. The critics cannot themselves agree, and while one is more rabid than another, all unite in a denial of that which we have seen lies at the very foundation of truth, of true faith, of belief in the infallible inspiration of the word of God. Any questions about that? The more you get involved with picking apart the trees, you lose sight of the forest. And as long as you've got your mind on God, it doesn't matter what all these people tell you.

Yeah, I understand what you mean by that. I have been, oh I don't want to call myself a victim, but there was a time in my Christian life where I put more credence into what an author was saying rather than what the word itself was saying. And I think we've all been guilty of that at some point where we really thought author A had a handle on it. The spirit of God works it back to where my word is it. And that's the ultimate authority. My word only. Okay, here we go,

22. I'll continue to talk about inspiration.

Right now it says on page 89, how would you describe the most dangerous deceiver? I don't want to hear the name Obama. He who is self-deceived. Huh? He who is self-deceived is the most dangerous. Because he believes in himself. He says that there are some persons of apparent and one who would feign hope of true piety. who allow the thin edge of the wedge of unbelief to be introduced. Such persons are but baits to lure the unwary into the snares of the enemy. Like, I can't become a Christian because I just can't understand the virgin birth, when in fact it has nothing to do with it. Their sincerity and earnestness make them all the more dangerous. A deceiver who is also self-deceived is the most dangerous of all deceivers.

I've got one guy in mind. Joel Olsteen. He doesn't even believe in the virgin birth. Joel Olsteen is not a Christian. Really? No, he's not. Who was the guy with the Crystal Cathedral? By the way, he's gone broke these days. What was that guy's name? He wasn't a Christian either.

Neither was Norman Vincent Peale. I remember as a kid. How can you say that though? He's not a Christian, wouldn't he? ever talked about the gospel message and the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Never. I don't know. Yes, he does. Joe Lustig? No, he doesn't. You listen to him. I do. I have. What is this presentation of the gospel? How about we say it that way? Yeah, how would he present the gospel? How would he do it? Well, you know what?

We have our, as we're talking about it, we have our own side of the argument. I mean, we would have to, like, Our argument is simple. It's 1 Corinthians 15. No, no, I mean the argument about what Joel would say or not say. I mean, as a research person, I would say we would want to see some proof of what he says. Us talking about what we think he would say or didn't say... I probably shouldn't have brought him up. I don't think it's...

And I don't want to challenge you to do this because he's a dangerous deceiver. but if you like him, the next time, listen to what he says, listen to the words in what he says and you will come to the conclusion, wait a minute, wait a minute, it's the same thing with Schuller, if you listen to him, he never, he talks Jesus, Christ, God, Gospel, but he never lays out the Gospel. But they always, he always has like a, or all of them, most of them I would say, always have that, now if you say this prayer with me, you know, you'll be saved because Jesus, so they all put that in there, so that would lead me to believe that they are Christians. And they never, they never give you the grace message. Well I know they don't give the message, but isn't the definition of Christian that you believe that Jesus is, you know.

I'll give you a personal example. When my friend took me to lunch before I was saved and sat down with me and said, I want to tell you about Jesus Christ. And I said, I already know about Jesus Christ. We were in religion class together in college. I already know he's the son of God. I already know he died on a cross. I already know all of that. He said, I want to tell you about the person of Christ. You don't know him. He was right. I knew all about him. Did I believe that he was the son of God? Yeah, sure did. Did he die of a cross? Did he become a man? I believed all of that. I mean, you can't be a Catholic and not believe any of that because that's all they pound into you. What was I missing? Personal relationship. Personal. Who did he die for? Me. Just me. That was the difference.

You know, I have a friend who used to live in Houston, and he was an 18-wheeler truck driver. He called me drunk for about a year, and I tried to share Jesus with him. One night he called me drunk and I could hear the ice cubes rattling in the glass. And I said, boy, you know, it seems like you really need, you know, you really do need Jesus. He says, you know, Rusty, I finally realized that I want to pray that prayer.

And he dumped the bottle of Jack Daniels in the sink, and he has had a drink of still seed. We talked probably three times a week. But what I'm going to say is, he thought, I don't go to church, I watch Joel Olsteen. I'm thinking, oh no. But the other day he said, you know, I stopped listening to him because he never talks about sin and the problems of men.

Right. Yeah, I mean if you, and it's interesting that Rideout says the most dangerous guys are the ones who are the Their sincerity and earnestness make them all the more dangerous. There's no more sincere guy and earnest guy than Joe Woldstein. And some of these other charismatic guys that are on television. I mean, they're serious.

You know? Well, okay. What's that? What about... Now, I think that we've talked about this before. Joyce Meyer is definitely Christian. Sure she is. I don't have any trouble with her. You don't? Okay. I want you to understand something. There are those that God has called to present the gospel. There are those that God has called to present the growth truths. And there are people who should stick to the gospel and not try to talk about spiritual growth. The best example of that is Billy Graham. Billy Graham can give you the gospel message as clear as anybody, right? You don't even have to get out of your seat and come down.

But when he starts talking about spiritual growth, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He does, he starts talking about angels, he doesn't know anything about angels. He writes a whole book, big seller. He's that old guy, right? There was a neat program on TV I just happened to watch last night. Billy Graham has spoken. You see it? That was awesome.

Billy Graham has given the gospel to more people than were on the earth at the time of Christ. But I'll tell you what, I wouldn't want him as a theology professor. I wouldn't want him to tell me what the tenets of spiritual growth are because he doesn't know them. He knows the gospel though.

No. You said C and I said no. According to Romans 4, 23 and 25, 15, 4 and 1 Corinthians 10 and 11, why was the Old Testament written? For our sakes. Romans 4, 23, now not for his sake only was it written, but it was credited to him but for our sake also it will be credited as those who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead Romans 15 for whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction now God didn't do that did he? thousands of years ago these guys are writing stuff for your instruction so that through the perseverance and encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. Now these things happened to them as an example and they were written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the ages have come for your sakes.

I find it interesting that from page one to page last Every word of that word of God was written for my sake and yours. It's all there. For your faith and for mine. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Wow, I'm really glad he did that.

Why should this principle be applied as broad as possible when reading the Word? What's the principle? that the Old Testament was written for our sakes. Why should the principle be applied as broad as possible when we're reading the Word? I think that kind of attitude perks us up so we listen better and are more involved with the Word.

We feel like it's ours, it's for us. Yeah, there are those that say, well I don't read the Old Testament because it doesn't really have somebody else's mail. And there is the principle that, would you say the book of Deuteronomy is written directly to you? Well it was the beginning, I mean what we're learning right now is an eye opener for me. I mean because now I see, I mean God couldn't just come out, you know just say this is the way it is and you understand it all. It's taken forever for me.

Would you say that the gospel of Matthew was written to you as a Christian? No, to the Jew. But it was written to, well why was it written then? For you. It was written for me so I could understand some things. Would you say the book of Romans is written to my friend Zev Pomerantz across the street who is a Jewish Rabbi? Yeah, sure is. There are things that are written specifically to the church and to Israel, and to mankind in general. But all of it is beneficial to us, and it's written for our edification. All of it. We talk a lot about distinguishing between Israel and the church, which is one of those things that creates big arguments today.

But if you don't understand, how do I say this? By reading the Old Testament you learn things like how does God do things? What are his ways? And by the way in the Old Testament he criticized the Jews by saying to them, well you don't know my ways. You don't know how I do things. It's important for us to know how God does things. Those of you who are married it's really important that you know how your spouse does things. And God was upset with the Jews because they didn't pay enough attention to know how God did things.

So the Old Testament, if it does nothing else for us, it reveals to us how God does things. The basic principle is that man brings sin to the table, what does God bring to the table? Grace. Even the Jews under the law system, the fact that he even gave them a temporary remedy of covering their sins is grace. You understand, you begin to understand, oh I know, I see how, that's the way it works. That's how he does things. He's slow to wrath.

I didn't know that until I read how these Jews and some of these Old Testament people just tried him on and tried him on and tried him on. When you look at God's dealing with the Israels in the desert, he brings them back to that fundamental issue of trusting him.

And several generations were like, no, you've taken care of us for 40 years. And God says, hey, I'd like to take you into this one battle after 40 years of taking care of you. No. And so God's patience is an overwhelming story all throughout scripture. Even as messengers of the prophets.

Yeah, you triggered something in my mind. Let me give you a good example. When the Jews went across the Red Sea, and they're like a couple of days march up to this place called Cadiz Barnea, right? And that's right at the Jordan River. And right across the river is the Promised Land. So the Lord says, yeah, go up there, you know, and they decide to send some spies into the land. That was the first problem. Why would you send spies in the land if you trusted God?

You wouldn't. But they go in and they come out and they say, well, you know, there's small cities and there's giants in the land. And yeah, it's a land full of milk and honey, but oh boy. We can't go in there. It's too dangerous. Two guys said, yeah, all of that's true, but God said we should go in, so we should go in. They don't go. They have a vote. They don't go.

They turn around and they go out in the desert for 40 years. What happens in the desert? People have died. All of the unbelievers die. Then they come back 40 years later, up to KD Sparnia, the only two guys that didn't die are Joshua and Caleb. They're the believers. They're going in.

What does that teach you about spiritual growth? That was written for our edification. What does that teach you about spiritual growth? Several things. Your old man won't believe. I don't care how much evidence there is. He won't believe. So what has to happen to your old man? He has to go out in the desert and he has to be put out of business. He has to be rendered to the cross and then God will bring him back to the Jordan River and over you go.

How long did that take the Jews? Four years. So don't be in a hurry. It might take them four years to get you over the Jordan River. That's the lesson I learned. It isn't going to happen next week. It isn't going to happen in the next five minutes or five years that this regulation of my old man to the cross which is the unbeliever may take 40 years. It's probably a good idea not to whine about it either. I don't like that either. The whininess of the old man Yet God sustained them through that whole process, didn't he? He'll sustain us through this entire spiritual growth process. So at the end, 40 years down the road, you will be conformed to the image of Christ just like he promised.

My buddy Strong used to say, you better hurry up because it won't matter if he doesn't, because he was too old. I said, yeah, but you know what's cool? When you leave the planet, You instantly are face to face with him and guess what? You're in the promised land based on that promise.

So you can see how that whole scenario of 40 years with the Jews and all that happened is an exact parallel of your spiritual growth. So don't be in a hurry. Let God do what he's going to do. And you can be a Joshua and Caleb from the beginning, but you're going to still have to do the 40 years. You just do. You walk with them.

So I think that's a personal example. And you see those kinds of examples all through the Old Testament that are parallel to what your spiritual experience is today. I've read all this wonderful positional truth and grace and everything. Why doesn't it just happen to me quickly? Crucifixion was a slow agonizing death. Well we grow and improve as the Holy Spirit shows us things in the word. It's even more profound than that.

You know what he does? He takes your old man and he applies the cross to him. His goal was to put him out of business. So you say, well my old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be put out of business, right? And then he says later, you should reckon yourself indeed dead unto sin, but alive unto God.

Well okay, I'm doing that, but how come every time the music starts my feet are moving? That's the old man. And it takes the spirit of God a long time. Where you won't react the next time the music comes on. Because you know and are persuaded and rest in the fact that you have been crucified, buried and resurrected. That's not you now and you know it. You just don't know it here. It's part of what you are. That's why it takes so long. Let's close. Alright, we will start with question three. Now, let's start with question four.

Dear Father, how we thank you for your word and how we thank you for. The fact that you inspired men to write the things that you would have us know and that all of it is designed to encourage us and to edify us and to trust you as you process us into and conform us into the image of your son the Lord Jesus. And we pray in his precious name. Amen.