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What's up family? You're tuned in right now to the Street Preachers Podcast with Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell.
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We pray that you're blessed by the content you're about to receive. What's up, family? We want to welcome you to the Street Preachers Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell. And we're so honored to have you guys on this journey with us. This your first episode, Listen, I want to encourage you to do a couple of things. Share it, like subscribe, do us a big favor, follow us on this journey. Go back, listen to episode one. Episode two. We're so grateful for all the love that you all are showing us on this journey as we endeavor to go with you through the word of God, step by step, line upon line, precept upon precept, and grow together in our proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today we got a sacred text, bro.
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Yeah, we do want to handle sacred text. So in our last episode, Tim and I really had a conversation about just the state of the American church.
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Yeah.
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And one of the things that Tim and I feel very deeply about, we just feel deeply concerned about the state of the church globally, but definitely about the state of the church in the west. And we had a very in depth conversation just about where we feel the church is and what some of her issues are. And the fact that we want to constantly keep reminding people that time is running out. And on this episode, what we want to do right now is just open the Word of God with you.
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Right.
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We want to inject the Word of God into the narrative. I think it's not enough for us to just have a conversation about the state of the church. We want to try to empower as many of you as possible, give you some handles on what we feel like, how do we respond right now to what's happening in the church. We feel like having a conversation is not enough.
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Right.
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And just broaching a conversation on a podcast is not enough. And we want to really go to the word of God. We want to go to the scriptures. Tim and I are very serious about the Word of God. We believe that this is God's revelation of himself to mankind. We believe that this is the ever living breathing inherent in its original languages. Word of the living God. We believe it is the final authority for all life and practice. And we believe that we have to be careful.
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Right.
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Especially in the generation we live in, to not just preach opinions and man made doctrines and secular humanistic philosophies and all these things. We want to be men who try to encourage as many people as possible to find their authority in the Word of God, find their practice in the Word of God, find the guidance for their life in the Word of God. And, you know, even as. Even as we're talking right now, as Tim and I are sitting here sharing, we are just deeply, deeply, deeply and acutely aware of what's happening right now in culture. Yeah. What's happening in Christendom. And. And here's what I want to say. I want to say that we have to be willing to step into this fight right now for culture, especially. This means something to me. I know. Means a lot to Tim, because we have children. Yeah. And we are thinking about the next generation. We're thinking about what are we going to hand off to our children. And as Tim and I was just approaching this episode, there is a passage we want to share with you. This, that we think is very, very important. And we're just going to do an impromptu Bible study through that passage. Right, Tim? We don't got no notes. We just have our. Our copies of God's Word. And we want to use this episode to kind of walk you through God's Word. So in the Old Testament, we seen prophets just, you know, prophesying about, you know, the coming of Christ and the times that we be living in. And we know that Christ has come. Christ lived, Christ preached, Christ died, Christ was buried, Christ was resurrected, Christ has ascended, and he is physically seated at the right hand of the Father. And what happened after that is that the apostles came preaching the gospel behind him and calling people to repentance. And we feel like we have to have a return to that type of preaching. We got to have a return to gospel preaching. That's what this whole podcast is about. It's us using our voice to call as many people as possible back to repentance and to call the body of Christ to rise up in this hour and really be contenders for the faith. And in the New Testament, there is a small, small letter in the back of the New Testament. It is often not preached. It is not talked about. It is, for the most part, forgotten in culture. But it's a very important letter, and I feel like it is a letter that is necessary right now for the times. As much as I get a chance to talk about this letter, I'm going to do that on pulpits all across America and Bible studies. Whenever I get a chance to open this small letter, I think it's important because I feel that Although that this letter was written in the first century, I feel that it has come through the annals of time.
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Yes.
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And I feel like there is a message in that small letter for the times that we're living in right now. And so I'm not sure if you know this, but Jesus had siblings. He was born in a home, and he had siblings. Scripture tells us they had brothers. We know it was at least four brothers. And he had sisters plural. So we know that he had at least two sisters or more. He was raised in a home. We can say at minimum, six children, minimum, could have been more.
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More.
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And. And one of his brothers, we know that one of his brothers was in the early church, as you know, a leader. But he did have another biological brother who was not silent. And that biological brother wrote to us a very powerful letter that's hidden for us in the back of the New Testament. Jesus had a biological brother named Jude. And he's not famous, he's not well known, but he did write a very small letter that we think is very necessary for the times.
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Yeah.
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And as Tim and I was kind of thinking about just the state of the American church, the state of the church here in the west, we really thought the message of Jude, the voice of Jude, was very necessary for our times. And I think Tim and I want to spend the time we have on this particular episode just tackling just a few verses, not the whole leather, but maybe just four to eight verses in Jude. And beginning in Jude, it's only one chapter and verse one. And if you.
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If you.
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If you have your Bible man, you could just lean in with us. If you don't, you could just listen. But we want to have just a. A fluid, impromptu conversation about the letter of Jude, a message that we believe is necessary for the hour that we live in. And as often as I get a chance to talk about this message, I think it's important. So he opens his letter. He wrote this in the first century A.D. and he's writing maybe some. Sometime between 30, 60 years, maybe about 30, 30, 35 years after the resurrection of Christ. At this time, we know that Rome is in power. The people of God are being persecuted. The people of God are fleeing from Jerusalem. They're fleeing with spread of the Gospel.
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And we would go so far as.
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To say a lot of the people of God, by this time, some 30 years after Christ, a lot of them are already involved in false doctrines. They're already straying from orthodox Christianity. And Jude writes this message, Tim, that I think kind of pierces the culture.
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Yeah. Right.
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I think. I think it pierced the culture in his times, and I think it is a necessary message for right now. Absolutely.
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Right.
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And would you agree?
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Absolutely. I think, you know, when we read Jude, he's utilizing his voice to come against heresy.
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Yes.
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And if we were to summarize, the text that we're reading is that silence in the voice of silence in the face of heresy is agreement in the eyes of heaven, 1,000%. And Jude is coming against that. So I'm excited, man, about our text today.
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Yeah.
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So he opens up his letter and he says in verse one, he says. He says, jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James.
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Right.
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And I think right here off the bat, he acknowledges himself a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James. He mentions another biological brother, James.
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Right, right.
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Who we know was part of the first century church. But like the fact that Jude started out with a. A title for himself, he didn't say Jude, the biological brother of Jesus. Right. So he didn't use his relationship with Jesus for clout. That's right.
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Right.
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He could have easily said Jude, the brother of Jesus, and used his affiliation with Jesus for clout. He didn't do that.
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Right.
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He used a title that we kind.
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Of stray away from in the body of Christ. He called himself a servant there.
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Right.
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And in the Western church, that title's not sexy anymore. Like, calling each other servants is not sexy. So we love. We love titles from the five offices. We love being called apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists. We love being called all these other things. But I think Jude called friend. We love being called friend. But I think Jude used a title that is almost a lost title. Like, what do you feel when you hear the word servant?
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Like, Jude introduces himself as a servant of Jesus, a servant of his own brother.
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You feel what I'm saying? He doesn't come boasting in his relationship with his brother.
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He doesn't even tell the readers, I'm a biological brother. I mean, he says, jude, a servant.
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Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He takes a title that his brother took.
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That's right. His brother took. I mean, we don't want it straight from Jude. But just really quickly, I mean, when we talk about even the kenosis of Philippians chapter 2, When Jesus emptied himself.
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To come in the form of a.
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Servant, although he was God in the flesh, I think it's very powerful. That jewel took the form of a servant. He identifies himself as a servant of Christ.
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He uses that. When I think a servant, I Think of someone coming on behalf of someone greater.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And you think about a servant in a restaurant.
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Yeah.
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Their job isn't to cook or manufacture. Their job isn't to really prepare the food. That's the chef's job. Their job is to deliver what the chef has prepared. Bro, come on to the table.
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Hold on, bro.
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Of the person consuming.
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They don't cook the food.
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They don't cook.
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The food has already been cooked.
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It's already cooked.
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It's already prepped. And so Jude is telling us, what you are hearing has not come from me.
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Yeah.
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It is not what I have prepared.
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Yeah.
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It is what God in heaven has prepared as the master chef of the food that we're eating.
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Man, that's so good.
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Let.
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Let's get off of milk. This is meat. This is what the Father has prepared.
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Bro, that's.
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So let me serve this to you.
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I'm coming.
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On behalf of someone greater than me.
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Yeah.
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To serve to you what he's prepared for us. And that's what I think about when I hear word. Servant.
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Servant. He says, jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James. Then he says.
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Then he.
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He.
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He tells us who the letters for. Yeah, he said the letters to those who are called. Yeah, those who are the beloved in God the Father and those who are kept for the Lord Jesus Christ. And so Jude tells us who the letter is for, right?
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So he identifies himself as a servant and then in the letter, he tells us who he's addressing this to.
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He's addressing this letter to everyone who.
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Is called, everyone who is beloved and everyone who is kept, right? So this message of Jude is not just for Tim Timberlake, Right?
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It's not just for Philip Anthony Mitchell.
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This message of Jude, these words of Jude, is for every single person who is called, every single person who is a beloved and every single person who is kept. So first he said, this letter, this mess, is for everyone who's called.
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Who's called.
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Right?
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I think when we hear the word calling, especially in the church in the west, we only think about platforms, yeah?
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Right.
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We only think about some office. But in the New Testament, the majority of time, we hear the word called, 90% of the time is called to Christ, it's called to God himself. The majority of times the word call comes up in the New Testament, it is connected to being saved, being ransomed, being rescued. So we know that this letter, first and foremost, is for every single person who has been saved. Ed, every person who has been ransomed, Ed, every person who the Holy Spirit has tapped their heart, convicted them of sin, regenerated them, and brought them into the kingdom of God.
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Right.
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So this letter is for every single follower of Christ who has been born again, who has come into the.
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So it's not.
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It's not for just Tim Timberlake.
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It's not for Philip Anthony, Mit.
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It's not just for the pastor.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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This message that Jude has given us is for every single person. Person who is called.
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And then Timmy says, this is for the beloved.
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Right.
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How would you describe someone who is a beloved?
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What is a beloved?
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Someone that's beyond proximity. This. It's deeper than proximity.
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Yeah.
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And sometimes, bro, we settle for living like Jesus.
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Yeah.
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Instead of living with Jesus.
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Yeah.
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When we hear beloved, man, it. It rings in my soul.
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Come on, bro.
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We are supposed to live with Jesus.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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If.
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If I'm living as his. As his beloved.
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As his beloved. If I'm living with him, I'm becoming like him.
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Yeah.
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Because I become like who I live with.
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Come on, bro.
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That's why we can't join ourselves with people, be in anybody's homes living with people, shacking up with people, sleeping with people, because we become like who we live with.
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Come on.
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So when we utilize the terminology beloved, beloved, what Jude is telling us is this is somebody that you are walking.
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With, living with, having good relationship with.
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If I am beloved by God, John utilizes this language.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It is me, the one you love. I am beloved by God. He references himself as that many, many times in scripture. And Jude is bringing us, bringing this to the surface. Beloved.
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Beloved.
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It's more than proximity. It's more than knowing about Jesus.
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Yeah.
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It's knowing him in a very intimate way.
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And even as I'm staring this word.
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Beloved, and you're talking about intim it, Right. I. I think, like, there might be someone watching right now who, you know, they struggle with the fact that, you know, what is God's love? How do I know God love me? How do I know I'm a beloved? And I. I think it's important for us to broach this because, you know, I think sometimes we equate God's love to only the tangible things he has placed in our life. Like if I have a husband or a wife, if I'm no longer single, if I have the home I want or the card I want. We all oftentimes attach all these material things to God's love things on his kindness is his grace. And I just want to remind Somebody that's watching. I think it's important that we talk about this. I think it's important that we remind somebody that's watching that the scripture tells.
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Us the evidence of God's love.
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Right.
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It says that for God demonstrated his.
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Love for us, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So for me personally.
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Right.
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Philip and Mitchell.
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Every time I see a cross somewhere.
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In society, it could be at the.
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Top of a steeple of an old facility.
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It can be a cross I see on hanging around somebody's neck. Every time I see the cross, every time I see the cross, I am reminded that I was loved.
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Every time I see the cross to.
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Him, I'm reminded that I am his beloved. I have this intimate relationship with Christ because of what he did for us on the cross. And I think this is important for somebody to remember because when we go through hard times or difficult times, it's easy to think God doesn't love us because of difficult times or someone dies who we love, or a doctor's report. But I think we have to remember that the symbol of God's love is the cross. And no matter what happens to us in this life, every time we get a flashback of what Christ did for us on the cross, we know that we are his beloved.
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Right.
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And so Jude is writing this letter for everyone who is called, everyone who is the beloved, and everyone who is kept. That's right. By Jesus.
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Right.
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Kept. I think about. Kept. I think about how you and I was talking about episode one. We was talking about our background story.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And we talking about how God brought us into the kingdom. We talked a little bit about our persecutions in episode one, episode two, about some of the things you and I have been through.
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Even as I'm sitting right now, I.
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Can say that I've been kept. You know, you can say you've been kept. Like when you hear the word kept.
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What comes up in your heart when.
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You hear that cover?
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I feel like the word kept also implies set aside.
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Yeah.
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You know, there's a scripture in the Old Testament that says that God lays up things for the just.
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Yes.
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He keeps it, sets it apart. And Jude is saying, for those that have been kept, those that have been covered, those that have been protected.
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Protected.
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Those that have been safeguarded.
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Safeguarded.
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Yes.
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A stone.
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Yes.
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Of protection over you. And so when we. When we read this, he's very specific with who this letter's for.
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Yes, he is very specific.
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He's very specific because the instructions that he gives next Are only for the demographic of people, bro.
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Come on.
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I like that transition in the text.
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Like, that's how you transition a text.
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You know what we doing right now? This is expository teaching. That's how you transition the text. For what he's about to tell you next, right? He's about to tell you. What I'm about to tell you next is for everybody who is called beloved, kept.
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And what I'm about to tell you next. This is for y'.
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All.
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This is for you, man.
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Come on.
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And he says.
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What does he say, Tim?
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May mercy. And I think we just need to pause there for a second.
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Come on, bro. Mercy.
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Because who he's talking to.
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Yeah.
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Has experience judgment, persecution. Because they are called.
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This is first century.
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They are beloved.
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Yes.
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This is first century.
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And what is what.
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Why would he utilize kept. What's been coming against them? That they need to be kept from persecution. They've been persecuted. And he's telling them, may mercy, peace and love be multiplied.
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Mercy.
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Right.
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Let's unpack those three words. May mercy, peace and love be multiplied unto you.
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Mercy.
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Mercy is God keeping us from what we deserve.
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Come on.
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And what we deserve, Tim. What you deserve and what I deserve is wrath.
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Absolutely.
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What you and I deserve is hellfire. What you and I deserve is separation from God. This is very important because there is an entitlement in the body of Christ that people think God owes them mercy.
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Right.
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God owes you your vision board.
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God owes you everything.
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You pray.
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No, actually, God owes us nothing.
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That's right.
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What God owes us for what we have done, he owes us wrath. He owes us us punishment. He owes us judgment. He owes us hell. And if more believers would hear that, that this is what God really owes you, then we will marvel more in his mercy. We will see his mercy and marvel. We would see our spouses and marvel. We will see our children and marvel. We will see our jobs and marvel. We would see health and marvel. We would see jobs and marvel. We will see cars, all the other things he's given us that we don't deserve. We would see those things and marvel at those things. If our foundation is. You owe me nothing.
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That's right.
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You see what I'm saying? If the foundation is the Lord owes me nothing. But then when I look around at everything he has given me, then that causes my heart to well up even more with this awe of God who owes me nothing. But look at what he's done.
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Right.
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But he's given me mercy.
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He has spared me because think about it, bro, you've been shot.
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Absolutely right.
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Yeah.
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And I've had a bullet graze my right ear. I remember when it whizzed by my ear. I had one whizzed by my back. So I escaped.
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Two bullets.
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A bullet hit you. You could be dead. I could be dead. So when you and I look out of our past, you know what we experience? Mercy. You could be hellbound right now, Tim. You could be burning in flames right now. I could be burning in flames right now. But what you have experienced by the hands of God was mercy. What I've experienced at the hands of God, mercy. Mercy. Even post salvation, Even from the mistakes I've made, the times when I feel like I didn't live right in a particular season or I could have preached this sermon, right? I could have did this, right. I could have handled that situation at the church, right? What I'm still experiencing to this day.
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Mercy, bro.
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Mercy. And everybody watching, we all experience that mercy. So he's saying, man, those who are called beloved kept. Now he's praying innocent. So when he says, may these things be multiplied unto you, what he's praying is that mercy will be multiplied unto you. That God will continue to keep you from what you deserve.
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Absolutely.
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To keep you from wrath, keep you from judgment, keep you from bringing the gavel down on you.
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Right?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Absolutely.
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Let me.
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Yo, I thought about this too, Tim. Let me just parenthetically insert this, right? Yo, last night, right? Last night we was out at dinner and. And I was. We was at the dinner table and I was. I was sharing how. I was. I was sharing about how, you know, when we. When we talking about. About mercy, you know, how.
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God, it's so easy for us to. It's so easy for us to just.
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Be caught up in, you know, when we talk about. I was sharing them. When we talk about, like, it's easy for us to see things in the wrong light and not understand God's mercy, right? But when I. When I was sharing with them, when we. We actually was having a conversation about being merciful to others and seeing things from the right perspective. And I think the more we see God from the right perspective in terms of his kindness and his mercy and the things he has done, and the more I keep looking around and my heart just begins to overflow with just gratitude, right? Just gratitude for what he has done. Gratitude. We was talking about this last night. Seeing things from a different perspective, that helps us to have gratitude, man.
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Right?
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And I think if We. If we start to see everything in life from a different perspective, where I could have been, what I could have been doing, where I should have been, man, then what well is up in our heart is just more gratitude seeing things from a different perspective. So I think we just can't gloss over that. It's like he's.
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He's.
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He's praying that we will have an increase in mercy.
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D
Right?
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Verse 3. He says, he's saying to us, I find it necessary to appeal to you about what's happening. Which tells me, bro, yeah.
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He says, beloved, beloved, though I was.
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Very eager to write to you about our common salvation.
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That's it.
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He says, I found it necessary to write to you about something else.
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D
Right, bro?
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And what I find so interesting and powerful about this text is that truth is not fragile. Yes, but it is under fire.
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Yes, it is under fire.
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And then he continues, let's keep going.
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But peep in the text how he said, I was going to write to you about. Yeah, Salvation. Salvation. He's saying to them, I was gonna. I was gonna initially pick up a pen and write to you. Now this is important. I was gonna initially pick up a pen and write to you about salvation. But watch. But when I realized what was happening in the culture, when I look at what the state of the church is under Rome.
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D
Yeah.
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When I see the rise of false teachings.
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Come on.
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When I see the drift from orthodox Christianity, when I see you being bewitched, like the people in Galatia being bewitched by legalism. Judah's almost looking out over society like we are right now.
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Right.
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He's saying, although I wanted to write to you about something that would make you feel warm and fuzzy on the inside, I'm looking at the culture, and I feel like I need to talk to you about something that's far more important. And essentially, that's what we're saying right now, right? We're saying that when we look at the culture, what's happening right now, we need to sound an alarm in the culture.
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D
Right?
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A
There is a lot that we could talk about, but right now, in this moment, we're trying to sound an alarm in this culture. This is what we're trying to do with Street Preachers podcast, right? There's a lot we can use this podcast for.
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D
Right?
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A
There's a lot we can use this platform, but we want to use this new platform to sound an alarm in the culture. And essentially we stepping into this space like Jude did, to say, listen, there is a lot of things Tim and I Can talk to you about.
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But right now, in this moment, we.
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Want to use this platform to sound an alarm in the culture.
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Judah saying is, I could have wrote.
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To you about our common salvation, but instead I find it necessary to write appealing to you.
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Appealing, begging, pleading, warning. Like, listen to what I'm saying.
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Appealing to you to do what?
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Contend, man.
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To contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. So Jude was saying, man, I was going to write to you about salvation.
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But when I saw what was going on in culture, I thought it more.
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Important to write to all of you who will hear this message. To contend for the faith, to fight for the faith. And I just want to draw attention to this definitive article, the in front of the word faith. Not a faith.
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That's right.
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D
Right.
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Not a faith that has come from Google, but the faith, the faith that was handed down for us from the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles, the faith that's contained in the word of God from Genesis to revelation. He says, when I looked out over the culture, I thought it was necessary for us to do what? To contend for the faith. I think. I think, Tim, I think we got to pause right here. I think this is a message right.
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Here for the culture.
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Even if we don't get all the.
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Way to the backside of this text.
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I think we got to talk about this right now. Think we got to help the people in the culture to understand this is.
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Not just a message for pastors.
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This is not just a message for spiritual leaders. This is a message for everyone who is called beloved and kept, that we need to contend for the faith. We got to contend for the faith.
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That is evaporating right now in the culture.
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When. When you. When you hear that word contend, what rises up in your spirit?
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What do you feel?
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Faith is not something that we just believe. Faith is also what we battle for.
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Or we battle for.
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And culture is battling against it.
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D
Right.
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Culture and society. And sin is so loud.
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Yes.
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And as the beloved.
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Yes.
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As the kept.
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Yeah.
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B
As the called. We have a tendency to remain silent in the face of adversity, to appease, to looking and being. What we call so called loving.
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C
Yeah.
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Being loving is not silent.
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Yes. Yes.
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Being loving is walking out the scripture in a manner in love, but still calls culture to a higher standard, still calls society to a higher standard, still calls those who have been loved, called and kept come on to a higher standard. That's what I see. That's what I feel when Jude is talking about. I appeal to you to contend for the Faith, fight for the faith. Fight for what Jesus has left us.
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Yes.
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So this is not something that we just run with. This is all something. This is also something that we relay.
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Let me ask you a question.
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D
Right?
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So let's just say there's somebody watching right now, and they're not a. They're not a pastor. They don't have a platform on Sunday to contend.
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D
Right.
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How does a person, the single mom.
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Going to work, the husband going to work. There are people outside. We, you know, you and I have been filming every week here in New York. We've been filming every week in New York. There are people outside headed to work who are believers.
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D
Right.
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They're not. They're not going to. They don't have a YouTube channel. They don't have a platform. They're not on a stage like you and I.
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How do. How can we give practical handles to people? The everyday believer?
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How can they contend for the faith in their everyday life? What does contending look like in practicality?
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I got some ideas.
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Yeah.
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I want to. I want to hear.
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What are some of your ideas?
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Everything contends against this.
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Yeah.
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So you don't need a platform to be in a daily.
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Let's establish that right now.
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Yeah.
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You do not need a platform to contend.
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You don't.
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Okay.
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B
You don't need a platform to contend. And you don't need a platform to be in battle every single day.
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Yes.
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I guarantee there's a great majority of people listening and leaning into this moment that are going through mental warfare right now.
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Yes.
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B
That are going through oppression.
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C
Yes.
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Depression.
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Yes.
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That are going through real life, seasons and situations. And they are contending, they are fighting. They are grappling with this idea that they are loved.
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Loved.
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C
Yeah.
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That they are kept.
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And they are called warfare.
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That's it.
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And I would also add, too, in addition to warfare, because that warfare is real. You feel. And I feel it. There's a contending in the spiritual realm. And I also think that there has to be contending in how we live.
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Right.
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I think people could contend in the way that they live, and I think they don't think about that. So if we're called to be witnesses of Christ, you can contend on your.
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Job by just being a good witness of Christ.
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Absolutely.
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You could contend on your campus by just being a good witness of Christ.
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Right.
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Somebody could contend on social media just how they. How they govern themselves on social media or how they post.
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I think there is a type of.
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External contending that comes from how do we govern ourselves in Our various spaces, how we contend, how am I going to serve as an employee?
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How am I contending in the home in terms of how I'm discipling my children?
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How am I contending when it comes to my marriage? How am I contending when it comes to my friendships? I think there is a practicality to.
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Contending for the faith, right?
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If this is the faith, the faith.
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Has been handed down to us.
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We have the faith in the Word.
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Of God and we are witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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How do these standards come to bear in my everyday life?
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Does that make sense?
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How does the teachings of Christ come to bear in my everyday life? What the Lord has said to me as a husband and how I govern myself with my wife, how I govern myself with my children, how I govern myself at my job, even when he says things like, like servants, be, be, be. You know, how we should conduct ourselves around our masters, employees, how you should govern yourselves around. Like, how does the Word come to bear on my everyday life? I think as the more we allow the Word to come to bear on our everyday life, we are essentially contending. The more I think about my Christian character.
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Come on.
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F
And my Christian witness. Every place that I go, I am contending how I govern myself in the restaurants, I am contending how I govern myself, man, when I'm in chats, I am contending. So if I'm allowing the weight of the Word to come to bear on my soul, on my mouth, my decision, making my relationships, if people can look into your life and see Christ, if they can look into my life and see Christ, if they can look into your life and see Christ, essentially we are contending. If we're fighting against compromise, both in the culture, in our minds and in our hearts, if we're pushing against sinful patterns in our life, if we're striving for holiness, if we're striving for godly character, if we're striving towards those things, then essentially we are contending. We are putting up a fight against the winds of culture, the winds of the adversary, the winds of what's going on. We are putting up a fight against that.
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A
So there is a practicality in contending, right?
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You don't need a platform to contend.
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B
That's right.
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F
You don't need a platform contend.
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But you need to know what Jesus has said. You need to know what the Word is saying. So I think if we're.
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Watch this. If we're taking a stand for the Word in our various spheres of influence.
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A
And environments, then Essentially, we're contending for the faith.
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F
And I'm going to go so far.
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A
As to say this, Tim. If more believers. If more believers just took seriously. Watch. Just a Christian witness. It's like, yo, we care about likes.
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B
Come on.
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F
We care about how people feel about posts.
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C
Yep.
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F
We care about money, we care about status, we care about fame, we care.
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About all these things.
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F
But we need more believers to care about their Christian witness. We need to care about our witness. What does my attitude, my words, my mannerisms, my circles, my relationships. What is my Christian witness to say? If we ask 25 people to write down a piece of paper, when you hear this person's name, what comes to mind? We need to care about our Christian witness. This does not mean we are people pleasers.
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C
Right?
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D
Right.
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F
It does not mean that we live for the applause of men. But my whole thing is, how do we care about our Christian witness? I think if we don't care about.
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A
Our Christian witness, we can't contend at all. You cannot contend if you don't care about your Christian witness. Would you agree about that?
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B
I would agree strongly. I would also say to those that are watching that find yourself in a struggle right now, you may be watching this and you're like, man, I'm struggling. I'm struggling with my faith, I'm struggling with my relationship. I'm struggling. I would say struggle is the proof that you have not been overtaken by your enemy. When there is no struggle, there is no contending. There is no fight. You've been overtaken. And so continue to fight through it. Continue to contend. Continue to struggle with Jesus through the season, the circumstance or the situation that you find yourself in. And this is who Jude is talking to, bro.
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A
And I want to also lean in right there. I want to also say to our audience, I think what Tim is saying is very powerful, that I think contending comes in two areas.
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B
Yes.
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A
There is an outward contending and there's an inward contending.
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D
Yeah, right.
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A
There's contending on the outside in culture, but I think there's a contending on the inside.
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D
Right.
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A
And I think contending on the inside is not only what Tim is broaching in terms of not yielding to struggles, but it's also when you're dealing with doubt, when you're dealing with unbelief, when you're dealing with. Let's go deep.
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C
Right.
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A
When you're dealing with depression, when you're dealing with suicidal ideations, there are people watching right now who feel unworthy. They feel ill equipped they feel that God can't use them. And so I think contending goes beyond what we do on the outside, is also what we're doing on the inside. For some of you, you got to contend maybe more on the inside, to hold on to the faith, to remind yourself of the things that the Lord has said about you, to remind yourself that he'll never leave you nor forsake you when you're hearing those lying voices. That there has to be a contending on the inside. There has to be a contending when you're this close from walking away from the Lord, walking away from your home, walking away.
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F
We got to learn how to contend.
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A
On the inside just the same. So I think there is an external contending, but there's also an external contending in which we're contending in culture. But I think that we are contending in our hearts. And I think, man, we could even land the plane on verse four.
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B
Come on.
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A
Right?
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F
I think it'd be dope if we.
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A
Just land the plane on verse four. Because in verse four, what Judah's going to tell us is the thing that's really stirring up the battle, the thing that is causing the fight, man, to be intensified. And in verse four, he said, he says, for certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation. And listen to what he called them, ungodly people who do what they pervert the grace of God into sensuality and deny our Lord, our master, Jesus Christ. You know, I. I think about the back half of verse three when he talks about the faith that was handed down.
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D
Yeah.
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A
I like to watch relay races sometimes on YouTube.
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D
Right.
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A
I'm. I'm a nerd on the low in private, and I like learning about a lot of things. I love watching. I love watching, like, this part of the Olympics, track and field.
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D
Right.
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A
And you know how, like, when you see somebody bending the corner as they come in towards that ankle leg and they got that baton in their hand and they're holding that baton, and you know, that handoff has to be smooth not to drop that baton. And they have to run step and step.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And I almost feel like right now, Tim, that I feel like not only are we living in the. In the last hours of the church age, but I feel like the men and women of God, that's gone before us, they ran their race like Paul ran his race. He handed that baton to Timothy, and Timothy ran his race, he handed that baton to somebody else. And it's come down through the. And we're rounding the corner towards the close of the church. Age and the people have come before us.
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F
They've given us a baton.
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A
And I'm gonna go so far as to say that baton has come down to us in blood. Like that baton.
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F
People paid a price for that baton. Like, men died for that baton.
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A
Women died for the baton.
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F
I think about, like, we're holding these Bibles in our hand. Like, you. Let's keep it a hundred. I think about men like William Tyndale died for it.
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A
Who.
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F
Who translated the Bible from. From. From Latin to English. The first person sit down and make a complete translation of the scriptures and was burned at the stake for that, right? He was. He was impaled and set on fire. Like he died. So when I even think about, I'm holding. I'm holding a copy of God's words in my hand in English that a man died to give me. Died to give you. Died to give us. A man was martyred for us to hold just an English translation of the Bible in our hand. People died. So he was among those of great faith who handed down to us this faith.
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D
Right?
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F
And my whole thing is the baton we have in our hands right now. Like, what are we going to hand off to the next generation? Are we going to hand off compromise? Are we going to hand off toxicity?
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D
Right?
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F
Are we going to hand off immorality? Are we going to hand off a different gospel? Are we going to hand off a corrupted gospel? Like, what are we going to hand off? Like? I feel like as a generation, we should be thinking about that right now. We're talking about contending. Like we should be talking about, like, what are we going to hand off.
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A
To the next generation, Tim, you see what I'm saying?
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F
This is important. I think I'm done right here, Tim. I feel the spirit of God, especially for, like, pastors and leaders.
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C
Yeah.
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A
What are we going to hand off, Tim?
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B
I love what he says here. He says in verse four, for certain people have crept in unnoticed.
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F
They've crept in unnoticed.
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B
So they didn't come with horns.
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A
They didn't come with horns.
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F
They didn't come with a.
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A
With a. Red horns and pitch a.
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B
They came with hashtags.
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A
They came with hashtags. They came with Christian conferences, they came.
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F
With Christian posts, they came with Christian books, they came with podcasts just like this. And they crept in unnoticed because the greatest deceit is not an outright lie. The greatest deceit is a little bit.
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A
Of truth mingled with a lie.
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F
And they crept in unnoticed.
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A
Him. And once they Creep in unnoticed. You know what they do? They lead us astray with doctrines that are not completely accurate. They lead us astray with empty words. They lead us astray with their podcasts, their books, their conferences, their ministries. They crept in unnoticed. That's what he said. And right now, as you and I are talking, people have crept into the body unnoticed. I seen a dude on Facebook the other day, you know, calling himself the New Age Apostle.
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F
New age apostle. 14,000 followers on Facebook. New Age Apostle. Not even undercover. Right? New Age Apostle, Right.
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A
So I think about stuff like that. People have crept in unnoticed and they're leading people straight. This is something we have to contend upon against in the culture. We got to contend upon doctrines, philosophies, teachings, people that God has not sent. Plants of the devil.
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B
Come on, say that.
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F
Plants of the devil that Satan is.
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A
Using to deceive his sheep and lead people astray.
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B
Deception doesn't storm the gates. It knocks and we let it in.
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A
Say that again, Tim.
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B
Deception doesn't storm the gates. It knocks and we let it in. We let it in. One poor decision after another.
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A
One podcast after another, one service after another.
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B
Discernment. This is something you preach about, and I love it. I love when you go on this revelation and unpacking what discernment is. Just for a second, talk about that, because I believe we need discernment.
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A
Yeah, I think, you know, I think as we land in the plane on this episode, I think the sermon is.
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C
A.
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A
Undervalued kingdom resource. It is a supernatural knowing that something is wrong, something is off, something is not of God. And I think discernment is sharpened as our prayer life deepens. Discernment is sharpened. And as we grow in knowledge of God's word, our discernment is sharpened. I think the closer we get to the Lord, the more we grow in his Word, the more discernment is sharpened. Then you walk into rooms and you feel something is off. You'll shake somebody's hand.
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F
This is what happens to me.
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A
I'll shake somebody's head and I'll be like, oh, yeah, like something is off. I'll come into a room, something is off. I'll be in spaces and feel like something is all. I hear something, I feel like something. So discernment increases. The more intimacy we have with Christ, the more knowledge we have this Word, the more we grow in discernment, the more we grow in the ability to discern that something is off, something is wrong, something is not true. And I think it's very important since that There is an increase in society of voices that the devil has planted. I think there needs to be an increase of discernment. Say it in my heart.
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B
That the devil.
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A
That the devil has planted. Since we have an increase of voices in society that the devil has planted, I think there needs to be an increase in discernment in the hearts of God's people. I think we got to be careful.
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F
Not to just run with everything that we hear.
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A
And we got to be careful not to just lend our hearts to everybody. I say this all the time. We owe everybody love, right? Love is a grace gift. We owe that to everybody. Access is something that should be earned. Absolutely.
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F
Everybody should not have access to our heart.
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A
Our heart should not be a freeway.
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D
Right?
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A
People should earn that over time with character, integrity and sound Bible teaching. Does that make sense, what I'm saying?
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F
So I think because there is a rise of voices and it's going to increase.
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A
According to the scriptures, when Jesus talks about towards the end times, it's going to increase.
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F
And the more these things increase, the more discernment needs to increase, the more our prayer life needs to deepen, the.
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A
More our knowledge of God's word needs to deepen. That makes sense. Absolutely. And so I. I think. I think what y' all hearing Tim and I are saying right now, I mean, you could go ahead and read the rest of Jude for yourself, right? We want to encourage people to do that. Go ahead and read the rest of Jude for yourself. And you're going to see that Jude is going to go on to strengthen his argument. He's going to go on to talk about false prophets and false teachers. He's going to go on to talk about the punishment that they're going to receive in the end. He's going to go on to call them out, clouds without rain. He's going to go on to talk about that. He's going to go, hear me, to.
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F
Warn the people of his day and to warn the people right now, because.
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I think his message is applicable for right now. He's going to go on to warn us to beware of voices that God has not sent. This is a critical problem in the body, because if there's anything destroying the church more than anything right now, it is the voices that God has not sent.
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Right?
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The voices God has not sent. And so we want to just encourage you, man, to read the rest of Jude. You know, I. I feel like just as verses 1 through 4 is enough heat for this episode.
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Absolutely right.
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It's enough heat for this episode. Enough Heat for us to say that we need to contend for the faith.
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Got to. I think what's both encouraging and alarming in this text is that Judas talking to people about others that are on the inside.
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Yes.
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These are not outsiders coming in with false doctrine.
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They've crept in unnoticed.
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Crept in unnoticed.
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Yeah.
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They're on the inside.
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Yeah.
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And how. We have to be careful of deception.
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Deception.
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C
Yeah.
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We have to be careful of false doctrine.
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C
Yeah.
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We have to be careful of getting what we want.
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C
Yes.
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You know, and that's why I believe David says, the Lord is my shepherd. I have no wants.
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C
Yes.
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The reason we fail is because we get what we want.
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C
Yeah.
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The reason we fall short is because we get what we want.
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C
Yes.
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And Jude is telling us, listen, you are loved, you are kept.
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Yes.
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You are called. God never promises to give us what we want, but he does tell us. He supplies all of our needs, all of our need. And so this text, may it be a clarion call.
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Yes.
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To the called, to the beloved and to the beloved and to the kept.
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And so if you're watching this episode right now, Tim and I want to just encourage you to contend for the faith.
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D
Yeah, right.
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Contend for the faith. You can be a spiritual leader, a pastor, you can be a stay at home mom in whatever space you find your life in right now. I think that this message that Jude wrote in the first century is very applicable to the times we're living in right now. I think we're living in a times. I think personally, Tim and I believe we're living in the final hours of the church age. We're living in a critical time in world history. Just watch the news, right. There is wars and rumors of wars. I think that God is preparing the world right now. God. God is preparing the world right now for the coming of the son. He's preparing the world right now for the rapture of the church, the rise of the Antichrist. He's preparing the world right now for that. We don't have all this time left and we just want to encourage you, we hope, with just this little Bible teaching that Tim and I have done together, to remember that you are called, that you are the beloved, and that you have been kept. And what Jesus has prayed, what he is, what, what Jude has prayed, we're praying that mercy be multiplied to you, love be multiplied to you, grace be multiplied to you.
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And if you fall in that camp.
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Then this is a charge for you. Listen to me. If you fall in the camp of being called beloved or kept, this is.
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A clarion call to you.
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This is a charge to you. We need to rise up together as the body of Christ. We have to contend for the faith, not the faith up Anthony Mitchell. Not the faith of Tim Timberlake. The faith that came from Christ and.
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The apostles that we herald to you.
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We got to contend for that faith on our social media platforms, on our campuses, in our jobs. Man. In the Uber, in the back seat, I'll be giving the gospel to my drivers. True story. I'll be giving the gospel to my drivers in the Uber, in the back seat. We got to contend for the faith outwardly. But Tim and I want to also encourage you. Contend for the faith inwardly. Those of you battling depression, those of you wrestling with suicidal ideations, those of you wrestling with deep insecurities, those of you who feel like your mistakes has disqualified you from being used.
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If that was the case, I wouldn't be here.
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Tim wouldn't be here.
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Those you feel ill equipped.
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Good.
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Those of you who feel like you're not good enough.
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F
Those you who on the verge of quitting.
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You're getting ready to walk out on.
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F
A marriage, but the Lord wants you to stay there.
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Yeah. You're getting ready to walk away from a church, but the Lord wants you to stay there. You're.
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F
You're tempted to push yourself into a place of isolation and be alone, but.
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The Lord don't want you there.
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You're tempted to abandon your friends, but the. I'm talking to those of you who are battling on the inside. Like Tim was saying, the struggle doesn't mean that you're evil, man. What's more, evil is when we yield.
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That's right.
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The struggle is real. Even in the back half of Romans chapter 7, the great apostle Paul testifies of his own struggle. The thing I don't want to do, I keep doing. And what I should be doing, I don't do. And although he does not name his sin, he is still honest about the fact he is struggling. Struggling means that your heart is still sensitive to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Yes.
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So Tim and I want to encourage you. Who's watching right now, who's in the struggle, you're still in a good place. If you're being convicted, you're still in a good place. We want to encourage you. Listen to me, my brother or my sister, hear me.
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Don't give up.
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Yeah.
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Don't throw in the towel. Don't abandon, don't jump ship, but contend for the faith. Watch on the inside.
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Go back to the scriptures. Go back to your prayer room.
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Go back to your father who loves you, who has your best interest at.
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Heart, who called you, who died for.
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You and made you his beloved, who has kept you. Go back to him. Keep taking your broken heart and putting it in the word of God, in the psalms, in the presence of your Savior. Don't give up the fight. I don't even know why I'm here, Tim. Like somebody's watching. Don't give up right now. Contend on the outside. We got to do that, that contend on the inside. Come out of that dark place, right? Come out on the other side of that difficult battle. Come through that valley that's only shadows of death, and come out on the other side with a testimony of the grace of God. Wipe off your knees, get back up.
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And get back in that fight now. I want to take this moment right.
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F
Now to just pray for every single.
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Person who's watching right now that God.
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Would give you the fire on the.
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Inside to both contend outwardly and inwardly. So eternal God and ever wise Father.
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Like we hear these sirens right now in the busy streets of the city of New York. I pray a siren right now would go off in the hearts of those who are watching right now. An alarm would go off in their.
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Hearts that we are living in the final hours of the church age and we need an awakening. And Father God, I pray in the name of the Holy One that you would strengthen those who are watching right now. Our brothers and our sisters in the United States and around the world, those being persecuted and those taking grace for granted. I pray you will strengthen them in their inner man right now with might by the power of the Holy Spirit. We pray God, you would open their eyes to see the state of the truth church in the west or in their city or in their nation. We pray God, you would fill them that they would love everything that you love and they would hate everything that you hate. We pray God you would help them. God, Lord, have a disdain and a disgust for everything that's coming against the church. I pray right now there will be an increase of discernment, hey, in the hearts, God, of our brothers and sisters, that you would make them more sensitive to your spirit than ever before. I pray God they will be more sensitive to evil than ever before. I pray you would deepen their love for the scriptures and for your presence and for prayer. And that they will start to discern the voices in the culture that you have not sent. They will see beyond the veneer and the lies of voices that the devil has established. And they would run in the opposite direction. Father, we even pray for the freedom and the deliverance of the unsuspecting sheep that are underneath the tyranny of false leaders that you have not chosen. We pray you would deliver them from cults and from being ensnared by voices you have not chosen. We pray for an awakening in the hearts of your bride and that she would turn to you and love you.
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And love the voices that you have sent. Father, I pray you will give strength to us to fight on the outside against the compromise of culture and the lies in the body and to contend on the inside against the lies in our minds and the struggles we're dealing with in our hearts. Strengthen our brothers and our sisters to be contenders of this faith that we will stand strong in these last days. I pray this over them a fire consume them and burn them. I pray this over them. Tim and I pray this over them.
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In the mighty.
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And the majestic and the matchless name of our sun coming king, the Lord Jesus Christ. If you agree with that, we say amen.
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Amen. And Amen. And Amen. Listen, we thank you for watching. Yo Tim and I got a huge announcement coming in our next episode. Man. Stay locked. Share this episode subscribe all the things Huge announcement coming in episode number four of the Street Preachers podcast. We love you. We'll see you in the next episode.
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Peace.
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Thank you for listening to this episode of the Street Preachers Podcast with Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell.
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Do us a favor like subscribe, comment on all platforms, help us share the gospel of Jesus Christ.