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Sermon on the Mount: Part 14 | Communication with God
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In Part 14 of the Sermon on the Mount series, Matt and Top continue their verse-by-verse study of Matthew 6:5–8, examining Jesus' teachings on prayer, hypocrisy, secret devotion, and the danger of vain repetitions. What did Jesus mean when He warned...
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Straight Bible Sermon on The Mount, episode 14. We're in. Matthew 6, verses 5 through 8 today, but very special. Happy birthday to Auntie Jen Jen today, my little sister, June 16, which is a cool day because Cali schools usually end on June 16, too. So it's just like a really rad day.
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Happy birthday.
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So here we go. Matthew 6, chapter 6, verses 5 through 8. We did 5 and 6 last week. Let's just kind of read it as a recap. And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corner of the streets that they may be seen. Amen. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. So we talked about last week. We're talking about prayer. We're expected to pray. We're expected to not do it as a hypocrite or as an actor. And there's a reward that comes along with it. But you, when you pray, enter into your closet. And when you've shut your door, pray to your father, which is in secret. Your father, which season secret shall reward the openly. So we're talking about secret prayer, and we talked last week about verse six, when it says but thou. Right? We said, just get used to that if you're going to live the Christian life. Get used to, like, oh, everything looks like this, but you different, different. Something different. Verse 7. But when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, or those who don't know God. When you pray, use not vain repetitions as people who don't know God do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask them. All right, so a little recap. Don't praise the pretenders or the actors. Right? Like, is there anything more offensive than that? If God gives you direct access to him, and then you use that direct access to, like, look cool to other people for what you're saying is. Is there anything more offensive than that? Could we compare it to putting a video camera in your room when you have intimate time with your wife? Yeah, yeah.
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It's like only fans for God. That's.
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I mean, I could say that's. That's really what it would be comparable to. He's saying you have this special secret thing with me, and somehow you're using it for other people to watch that, for other people to hear. This is between me and you. This is the special intimate thing. Between us, you have access to the creator of the universe. That's what you want to use it for. It's very telling that. That's very telling. If people would do that, you know, like, would God ever say to you, like, who, hey, Bobby, who are you talking to? Like, imagine you're praying and God's in heaven. It sounds cool, but God's like, bobby, who are you talking to? You talking to me, or are you talking to the crowd? Because sometimes it sounds like that when you hear a prayer at church, you're just like, well, who's the guy talking to? Is he saying that to God? That doesn't sound like something you'd say to God. Sounds like something you'd say to the crowd, but it just feels weird. It gets weird, man.
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You're like, talking over God to the people behind him.
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Yeah. It's like you're an actor. It's what he says. Don't praise the actors, do. Don't praise the pretenders, do. It's like you're pretending. It's like you're playing this part of an actor praying to God. It's like, no, no, don't do that. Just pray to God. Just pray to God. So keep your secret life secret between you and God. And when you do this, your light will shine, right? We did that in a previous episode, 5, 14. Let your light shine before men. You're the light of the world, right? So. So as you do that, as you get alone with God, boom, your light's gonna shine. You don't have to come up with creative ways to make your light shine. If you want to do the canned food drive, that's cool. You want to do the spaghetti dinner, the fish fry on Fridays, that's cool too. But, like, you don't have to come up with creative ways. You just get alone with God and your light's gonna shine. You don't have. You don't have to make it shine. Okay? So. So when he says in verse 6, he shall reward the openly. What is that? That's an answer, right? He'll answer you. This is a big part of prayer too, is that it's communication. We said that last week. Like, in its most simple definition, prayer is communication with God. So there's an answer. There's an answer. You're saying things to God. He's answering. It has to be a back and forth conversation, right? You're communicating to him. He's communicating back to you. Let's. Let's pull up Hebrews. If we can look at Hebrews 11. 1. I know we read 1 through 6, but we're just going to condense it a little bit this week we're just going to read Hebrews 11, verse 1 and then we can read verse 6. We don't have to read all the way straight through, but
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we can just
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look at that real quick. You guys all love this passage. We pull it up quite a bit. Like this passage comes into almost every study really. Okay, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, right? So we, so we have an evidence, right? We have a substance, it's an actual thing. It's not just believing in stuff in the. La la la. Let's go all the way to verse six.
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But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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Right? So it's saying the same thing Jesus is saying he'll reward you openly. And now Paul, or whoever the writer is in the Hebrew letter, we don't have to get into all that is saying he's a rewarder of them who diligently seek him. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But without faith, it's impossible to please God. For he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Right? So it's communication, it's back and forth, right? It's, you're talking to God, God's responding to you, that's actually happening. Like I don't know, I think when you come to terms with that, there's not really like a greater rush in the universe. Some of us used to be junkies, we kind of like a rush, you know, we like an adrenaline rush or maybe the so called like dopamine rush or there's somehow like this rush you get from things in life. And that's what we chase. If we're junkies, right, we're like chasing this rush. And so I'm not trying to be like crude or compare it to, to that because there, there is no comparison to communicating with God. I'm just simply saying it's like the greatest rush you'll ever get. And that's why when you start to realize, communicating with God, that there's not just you saying things out into the air, but that there's a back and forth, all the other stuff of the world kind of loses its luster. It all kind of loses its shine. Everything doesn't shine so much in the natural realm. Like, once you start to have that, you kind of live for that. You kind of get excited to get up in the morning, get a little cup of coffee, get in the scripture and do some back and forth with God. There's, like, there's a rush in that it for me. All right, so verse seven says, don't act stupid when you pray. No, no, sorry, not Hebrews. Back, back to Matthew. Back to Matthew 6. We're back to Matthew 6, and it's verse 7. It says, when you pray, don't act stupid. Right? Don't insult God, right? Talk the way you talk and listen the way you listen, right? Sometimes people. Sometimes people ask, they say, well, how does God talk? Well, he. He talks how you listen, right? We read that passage last week. He said, I know my sheep, and my sheep know my voice. So, like, to me, he doesn't speak in Chinese, but. But another guy, he talks in Chinese to him because that. Because that's how he hears, right? Some people, like, maybe the younger people today especially, get offended, like, real easy if you say a stern thing to them. So God, he talks to them in a way they can understand.
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More gentle.
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Yeah, he talks in a way that some of us don't mind a stern thing, especially from God, because we're saying like, hey, I trust you with everything. So whatever you got to say, say it like. I'm. Like, I'm open, right? So he. So he talks in a voice that you can hear. But you have to cultivate it. You have to cultivate it. You have to get used to that communication with God. But what he's saying here, when he's saying don't act stupid, he's saying. He's saying, don't use vain repetitions as the heathen do. And I think people have a hard time with this because I don't think people really have come to terms with the fact that they are talking to the creator of the universe. I. I think that's really where the issue's at. So. So that maybe they get comfortable with vain repetitions, or maybe they get comfortable just saying things they think they're supposed to say as opposed to being like, no, I'm. I'm talking to the creator of the universe. I can say anything I want. It's like, imagine somebody comes to the register, and they're like, I'll take a large hot mocha. I'll take a large hot mocha. I'll take a large hot mocha. I'll take a large hot mocha. Like at some point you're going to want to slap them.
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Do you see what I'm saying? Like, why would, why would we do that with God? Why would we do this thing we talked about last week about like saying prayers is much different than praying. And I think maybe somehow in the culture people have got caught up in like saying prayers that it's like their duty to do. No, this is a person you are engaging with. You're engaging with God. There's a back and forth communication. As ridiculous as it would be to say, I'll take a large hot mocha. I'll take a large hot mocha. I'll take a large hot mocha. It's that ridiculous. If you're just using vain repetitions and he categorizes that, he says the people that do that, those are the people that don't know God. And remember, everything comes back to that. Everything comes back to knowing God. Communicating with God. Praying is the best way to learn how to pray, right? Like this. You can't really learn this in cemetery school. I don't even think they try to teach it, but I don't know, I've never been there. Maybe they do try to teach you how to pray. I, I don't know. I don't know how that would go. I can't imagine like the way I pray now, another person like telling me how to do it like that. I can't imagine that. But like, I think you just have to pray. It's like walking, like breathing, like it's, it's, you just gotta do it. The only way to learn how to do it is to do it. You just gotta start doing it. Just start praying, just start communicating with God. So let's just jump around a little bit and let's just look at some passages of scripture that again, I know we said this last week, like there's no way we're going to do a complete. Like, oh, there's great, there's great books on prayer. Ian Bounds. Anything from Em Bounds on prayer is fire. Alexander White. I think the name of the book is Teaches how to Pray Fire. So there. So like there's dudes who have like, like Ian Bound, specifically, like spent his life writing books on prayer. So we're not going to do this topic like any justice in a study or two trying to communicate like what prayer is and how to pray. We're just kind of like going through some passages and trying to make people hungry to pray is really what we're doing, which is really what we do in all our Bible studies, is try to make people hungry to read the Bible more and to know God more. And so that's what we're doing here. So we're just going to go through some things, but this is also like
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a Sermon on the Mount study, so recovering a lot of things, like a vast amount of topics.
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Yeah, yeah. So we might just be scratching the surface on several of these. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Jeremiah 33. 3. Everybody loves this passage. The Pentecostals love this passage. This one. This one was big when I was in the Pentecostal game.
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Call unto me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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Yeah. So prayer gives you eyes to see. God is really what that's saying, man, is. He's saying, call unto me. Call unto me, and I'll answer you. Right, that. That's the point. We keep trying to make this communication, this back and forth. So if you want God to answer you, he says how to do it? Call unto him. Call unto him, and he'll answer you and show you. Can we see it again?
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Yeah.
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Calling to me, and I'll answer you. And here's how he explains it. I'll show you great and mighty things. Right. I'll reveal it to you. Like, I'll. I'll make, you know, a thing is kind of a good way to understand that. And so for some people, it may be in a visionary thing. It may. He may explain things to you in a visionary way where you have a picture in your mind or you have a story in your mind, and you kind of see that unfold. And that's how he explains a thing to you. A lot of people learn like that. A lot of people learn like that.
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You know, it's. It's funny. Some of the best guitar riffs in the world, they're called call and response. So the call is going to be an initial melody, and the response will be something varying, like something answering it back. But like.
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What do you mean? There's an initial, like, melody, and then somebody just goes hard with a response to that.
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Well, no, it's the same person. Same person will do the. The melody that's going to be probably the question, and then the response is going to be like the melody, but varying and always give you some different flavor.
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What do you mean? Like a solo? Like, where you go from the main part of the song into like, the guitar solo?
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Yeah, the guitar solo is going to mimic the main part of the song. And then the response to a lot of those phrases will be something different. But it's just funny how it's a call. It's always a call and always a response. That's what. That's how you make this. This beautiful.
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I just feel like there should be better Christian music. No, no, I'm serious. Because, like, you're saying that, and I'm thinking, like, oh, yeah, the Chili Peppers, dude, like the guy from the Chili Peppers are simple. They're kind of simple guitar jam, but they're profound. They're kind of. They kind of jam, but then you're like, oh, yeah, the Chili Peppers is like blood sugar butt magic or whatever. The thing is that can't. You know what I mean? Like, there they have all these, like, crazy. Yeah, everything's tied up in the occult, man. And it's like, why come the kingdom of God can't put forward forth, like, profound rad music? I just. I don't know. I don't know, man. It's out there. Yeah, you are. All right, so let's look at John 16, 12, 15. Also, I like this. I like what Jesus says here.
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I must have missed a page because I'm.
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You don't have John 16?
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Nah, that's all right.
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Maybe I didn't have it. Dude. This. Yeah, it's a little clunky. I actually forgot my Bible in my notepad this weekend. Me and Jess went to the beach and I forgot all my stuff, which is when I really do all the stuff. So it might be a little clunky today, but we trust God. He's going to guide us through it and make it relevant to people. Because at the end of the day, you could do, like, some great study. Oh, hey, look how cool of a study I did. But if it doesn't connect with people because the Holy Spirit's not engaged in, like, connecting it to people's hearts, and it doesn't matter anyway.
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What scripture are we at?
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John 16. And if we start in verse 12, I mean, the whole chapter's fire. But if we start in verse 12. I like this statement. I have yet many things to say in you, but you cannot bear them. Now, you could imagine he could tell us about, like, this might be off topic. I don't care. He might have knew about, like, the Tesla coil, like, how to get energy, like, free energy. And he might have known all kinds of stuff about all kinds of stuff. He's like, yeah, I can't talk to you guys about that. Yet I can't talk to you guys about the so called Internet. I can't talk to you guys even about like electricity in general. Like, there's all like, I know a ton of stuff, but I can't like communicate it to you.
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It kind of reminds me of like, I know we don't do the book of Enoch on straight Bible, because it's not straight Bible.
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But no, I don't mind the book of Enoch.
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The idea of the, the fallen giving human technology, it's like, yeah, I know a lot of stuff, but you ain't ready for that. So if these guys are going to start pushing this on humanity, you could imagine the kind of sin that they're going to do with it.
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Right? Yeah. So. But just imagine if he knows all that about things of the natural order. Imagine what things he knows about spirit realm stuff. He's like, dude, I got a ton of stuff to tell you guys, but you can't handle it. Yeah, I don't want to get told that. I mean, I know at a certain degree I'm gonna get told that. He's like, matt, there was a bunch of stuff I wanted to tell you, but you wouldn't shut up. Like you wouldn't stop doing the other stuff you were doing all the time. You wouldn't get quiet, you wouldn't get alone, you wouldn't pray and fast. You wouldn't do that to the extent that I could have communicated these things to you. So I want to be aware of that. I want to be aware. I don't, I don't. I want that to be a very small category where he says, man, I had a lot to say to you, but I just couldn't. I hope that's a very low category. Okay. I've yet many things to say in you, but you cannot bear them now. So he adapts his teaching to our capacity. Let's, let's just keep it simple. Let's, let's just keep it as simple as possible though, because we could talk about just that verse for like a whole show. But, but that's the main point is like he had, he adapts his teaching to our capacity, what we can contain, right. Like this is like whenever you hear about these wine skins and new wine and stuff, like you like you have to have a wine skin that contain, that can contain the new wine. So he doesn't just pour into our vessel. Like he has to make the vessel capable of containing first.
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And it has to be a new wine skin, right?
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Yeah. For new wine. Yeah. Or It'll burst because it's a fermentation process. Like we, like we make a housemade honey syrup, right? And it's actual honey and it's just a concentrate. And if you mix a new honey into an old honey, it'll still keep. It'll keep fermenting. It'll keep fermenting and ultimately it'll end up just bursting a bottle. So it's the same thing. Like, what's the Jeremiah passage where he says, like your cisterns. I don't want to butcher it, but there's a rad passage in Jeremiah where he talks about like your cisterns are something about them not being able to contain it. But. But it's this concept of like, if you don't get a lot of rain and you go to hose water stuff in the food forest, you'll see the water just run off because the, the ground hasn't gotten you. I think in the desert that happens too. It rains, but the water just runs off because the ground isn't used to soaking in the water. And so we're like the same thing, dude. Like, our cistern has to be capable of containing. That's why we say a lot of times in the 501C3 system, like, if a true move of God happened, you. It might just bounce off everybody.
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They've been Jeremiah 2:13 people. For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of the living waters, and hewed them out of cisterns. Broken cisterns that can hold no water.
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That's what I'm saying. So. Okay, what's the first part?
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My people have committed two evils. One, they have forsaken me.
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So they've. So they've forsaken God.
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Yeah, the fountain of the living waters and hewed them out of cistern.
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So. But worse than that, even though they've forsaken God, let's say they try to bring him back. They can't. Their cisterns are made of self.
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Oh, I see.
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These are self made cisterns that can't contain. We. We should have. We should have had that ready. I should have probably put that in the notes, dude.
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He follows up saying, they're broken cistern.
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Yes. They can't contain it. Anyway, that's what I say concerns me sometimes. In the 501C3 system you get the allergy shot over and over and over and over and it just makes you immune to the real thing. Yeah. So like say you have these cisterns now that Just do the thing over and over. The monotony of daily life that happens to you in the office, happens to you in a marriage. It happens to you in friendships. It happens in all the things of life. The monotony of things just get old after a while if you don't be on top of it and try to make it fresh and new and fun and exciting and keep a sense of adventure. Your life with God's the same way, dude. If you just get used to this monotony of just do the thing, go on the Sunday, they do the announcements, then they do the songs and the guy gives the speech. Then like a move of God comes the cisterns. Can't contain it. Anyway, sorry, that was a little much. Let's go into verse 13. How be it when he, the Spirit of drew this come? He will guide you into all truth. Right? So. So he will guide you. He's stretching. He's growing our capacity first and then filling us with truth. I have yet many things to say in you, but you cannot bear them. Now how be it when he, the Spirit of truth has come? He will guide you into all truth. So Jesus is saying, there's some stuff you guys can't understand today. But when the Holy Spirit comes, you'll be able to contain more. You'll be able to. To have more, you'll be able to access more. You'll have greater capacity. I mean, we're like, brushing on the surface of, like, verses that could be talked about for, like, weeks on end. For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And he will show you things to come. Right? So we're back to this idea of he'll show you. God will show you. He'll open your eyes and give you eyes to see about this stuff. He'll show you things to come. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. So that's just how the Godhead operates. Jesus said, I only say. I only do what I what my Father tells me. I only say what I see my Father do. And now Jesus is saying, the Holy Spirit's gonna be the same way. He'll glorify me, for he shall receive of me and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, said I that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you. Right? So we're just keying in on this concept of, like, God showing us things. God answering, right. We're talking about prayer. We're talking about communication with God. We're talking about us saying stuff to God. And he's showing us. He's communicating back to us. He's answering, he's responding, he's showing us things. If we go back a couple pages to John 14, was this one in the notes? No, my bad. John 14. Okay, 20. John 14. 23 is a. Is a wild one to, like, meditate on. If you just ever want to, like, chill out and just meditate on a verse. This is like another level of intimacy that we're talking about. And I. And I think if more people knew this experience, then things would be different in the church, right? It says this. Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man loves me, he'll keep my words, right? We know this, right? The very end of the Sermon on the Mount says, any man who hears these sayings of mine and do with them, he's like a wise man who built his house on a rock. Any man who hears these things of mine and doesn't do it, he's like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. So you have to keep his sayings. You have to keep his words, and you have to live it. If a man loves me, he'll keep my words. Or you could say, if a man keeps my words, you can see that's a man who loves me. You could say that too. And my father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him, live in him. God will come and live inside you. This is what I'm saying. This is all, like, other levels of intimacy. So, like, when I make these references to, like, the husband and wife and, like, setting up a camera in the room, I don't think that that's crude or out of touch or not relevant to that conversation. It's. It's the most intimate relationship possible. God will live inside of you. He that loves me not, keepeth not my sayings. And the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me these things. Have I spoken unto you being yet present with you. But so Jesus keeps alluding to this concept of like, hey, I'm doing rad stuff right now, but there's something going to come that's going to be on another level, even on a greater level than what's been so far, because you hear people sometimes say, oh, imagine if you got to walk with Jesus. Imagine if you lived during that time period in that geographic location, and you got to walk the earth with Jesus. I think those guys Were like, yeah, that was cool. But it was way better when the Holy Spirit came and dwelled inside of us, because that's what he says. But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.
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Yeah, there's a lot of times in where Jesus would go off on his own. And that's kind of like leaving the apostles by themselves. There's no Holy Spirit indwelling in them. I mean, when you're probably with. When you're with Jesus, it was probably awesome. But he kind of like snuck off
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and, you know, I mean, there's a strong. There's a strong argument to be said that what we have now is greater than what Adam had in the garden. I know a lot of people are going to lose it at that statement, but Adam didn't have God living inside of him at that time. There's a strong argument for that. I'm not like starting a new denomination on that. And if that makes me some follower of somebody, I don't. I don't know. I'm just a Bible reader. I just know how the Internet gets when they're like, oh, he believes that. He must be this, or heard it from that guy. I'm just a Bible reader. I'm just a Bible reader. And I'm like, Adam had God and he was interacting with him face to face. And yeah, I think we don't have any concept of what that was like. And he had full capacity and use of his body. Like, I think they say we only use 10 of our brain. I don't think he was only using 10. I think he was using another 90. And so there's a lot of stuff he had. It was more rad than what we have today. But we have God living inside of us today.
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That would be interesting to bring up. We're going to have. Hopefully we'll have Pastor Rick on. But he's a big proponent of like, Holy Spirit. And he. That's like what he. When he preaches, that's what he talks about a lot. Be interested to hear his perspective on it because I think, like, if you can hear the Holy Spirit and God accurately, then it's probably. Maybe it is more profound or. Because God would be inside of you rather than external to you. It's just for Adam, it was probably much easier to communicate with God because they're talking to him. You know, it's just, I guess, about recognizing the voice.
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Yeah, and he had a capacity. Like we're talking about capacity right now. Adam clearly had a capacity way beyond ours. So. So somebody says, no, no, no. What Adam had was better. That's fair. That's a fair statement. You're probably right. I'm just saying, in a certain way, God living inside of us is profound. But this was a verse that changed my life. I know I've talked about it before because. Because I was just like, too stupid to not believe it. Like, I came across this passage and was like, okay, so the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. I just read and believed it. Like. Like, thank God I didn't have like letters behind my name. And so many years in a classroom for somebody to be able to explain that, like, oh, no, no, it doesn't actually mean that. Like, I just read. That was like, okay. I think it means exactly what it says. Like, I'll read passages and then God will explain to me what it, what it's saying. And then I put it into practice and it seemed to work. So I was like, huh? Yeah. I would read a pass and I'd say, okay, what does this mean? And then I'd stare at it for a minute and then I think, well, it seems like it means this. And I'd be like, well, that's weird. Am I just telling myself that it says that? And then I would be like, no, I've never really thought that thought before. I've never, like, I don't even really use those same words that I just thought that thought with. I don't even use those words, but those. But that makes sense. Like what just happened. And it just took me a while to understand that I was communicating with God while reading the Bible. And it was that exact verse that was doing it was that God promised that and he does that.
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I was just talking with Riley about that. I know. I guess not private anymore, but she's going to be moving, I guess.
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Whoa, that's kind of private.
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It's kind of private. Riley's moving to where? I'm not gonna say to where that's private. I don't know. But she's telling me all her plans and I was like, slow down. You know, like, she's like, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do this. And I was like, I think you should just like, trust in the Holy Spirit.
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Welcome to working with 20 year old girls in the coffee shop.
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No, it's great though. I think You. You attract. You attract like. Like good people. Because it's great to have a plan, but I'm like, hey, you know, that plan could go sideways on step one. Like, you kind of have to be fluid and just trust that you'll know. Like, listen to. Listen to what? What it's. What's telling you to do?
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Well, James says that. He says, like, you guys say, you know, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. He. He says, like, you're making all these plans ahead of time and just say, yeah, God willing. God with the Lord willing, I'll do this or that. We don't really know.
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It's good to have a plan, but, yeah, you got to be able to. All right, we're going to move this way now.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah. Amen.
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Practice that muscle.
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All right, so now we're in Isaiah 45, starting in verse 5. Do we have that in the notes?
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I think so.
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Okay. All right, maybe that's where the.
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I might have missed the whole page. All right, here we go.
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I shouldn't have looked up. Does tornadoes not happen in other countries? Is that a real thing? I gotta not look up, man. Sparrow, is that real? Wait, does tornadoes not happen in other countries?
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I've never heard of a tornado happening in India. I don't know. I'm just saying.
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Okay, I gotta not look up, dude.
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All right, so verse five, right?
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Yeah.
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I am the Lord, and there is no one else. There is no God beside me.
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Yeah, let's go.
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I girded thee, though thou has not known me.
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Yeah, so I. So I did this stuff to you. Others see what I am in your life, but you. But you don't even see it. Like, I girded thee, like I clothed you, like I brought you. I put you together. I did all this. There's no God beside me. I did this, but you haven't known me. So we're going to try to keep coming back to some key stuff, man, like, knowing God. Knowing God is what we're talking about. I girded thee, and though thou has not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. He goes through a lot to say that. I know sometimes people are like, oh, no, he's a God. But like, God goes through a lot through the scripture. Actually, Isaiah is like a lot of where the. Where the times where he says this. But this isn't uncommon for God to say, I am God. Only me. Only me. Yeah, sure, there's plenty of lowercase g gods, and if you speak in different languages, Elohim or whatever. But, like, I am God. Like, like the one that I am. There's one, there's only me.
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To be honest, this seems like one of God's, like, biggest things. Yeah, he's always like.
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He's like, yeah, think of the. Think of the chaos. I mean, the story of the Bible is the chaos of people not recognizing and realizing that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I think the dude, Prometheus lens does a good job of saying how, like, Israel goes astray from uppercase G God, because they're being shown miracles by other lowercase G gods. And they're saying like, well, which one do we follow? Like, we don't have a grid for that.
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Yeah. I kind of had like a tense moment with one of the previous guests last week where, because he kept on talking about Satan's deception and how Satan is creating people. And I was like, he doesn't create. Like, this is a big. I don't want to, like, ruin his presentation. But I'm like, he doesn't create. This is all manipulation. This stuff already exists.
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They can't get nasty on somebody.
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No, but I was getting annoyed.
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You were getting Mr. Nasty.
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I was getting Mr. Nasty. TM. Patent pending. Hey, super chat here.
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No, but that's an interesting point.
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Thank you, Oscar. Lonnie, let's go. Matt, thanks for these Bible studies. Thank you.
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Great picture, Oscar.
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Appreciate that.
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You'd stay in shape. That's good, man. Okay, but you guys don't really have to give us the money and stuff, man. We love what we're doing. All right, all right. I form the light. Oh, verse seven really messes up people's doctrine, dude. Really messes people up. But, but back to verse five, I think. I think.
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All right, guys, so this is a preview for the Straight Bible episode. We're going to put it up here on the Nephilim Death Squad channel. We're promoting that, right?
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I mean, I guess we're promoting it.
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That's fine.
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He pays us a great deal of money to promote it.
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He pays us in coffee. He charges us extra for coffee.
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He does actually charge us extra for coffee.
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So this is like a 30 minute preview of Straight Bible. If you like it, go over to the Straight Bible audio channel and the YouTube channel. Go subscribe there. Go check that out. We're trying to build something cool in all directions. Thank you very much, David. Tell the people. Thank you thank you, guys. We'll see you later.