WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.160 Well, today Paul gets crucified with Christ but not really. 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:07.639 But for real kind of yes, well he says it, 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.320 not physically, that's what we're talking about today. He's Chris. 4 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:24.039 I'm Jeff and where the Bible guys? So Chris, you know, 5 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.600 I'm constantly looking for trustworthy sources of news and information. 6 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:28.280 Sure you are. 7 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:32.840 And the Babylon B which is one of my favorite. Hey, 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.280 it's just as good as all the other ones, by 9 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:36.840 the way, I would say, But the Babylon B, which 10 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.679 is a satire page. For those who don't understand, the 11 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:41.960 Babylon B's not real. They've had a whole bunch of 12 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.119 things get quoted by CNN and MSNBC and different organizations 13 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.520 quoting them like it's real news, and then later on 14 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.159 people have to come back and go, it's just satire, 15 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:54.359 right right, So anyways, the Babylon B they did a 16 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.439 blind taste test, and here's the headline. It says, blind 17 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:59.640 taste test finds most people can't tell the difference between 18 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.039 candy corn and an orange crayon we found in the 19 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:06.159 junk drawer. And here's the news article says, a fascinating 20 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.680 new study has revealed that the vast majority of people, 21 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.680 when presented with a blind taste test, can't tell the 22 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:13.079 difference between candy corn and the dusty, old orange crayon 23 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.200 we found in the junk drawer. According to researchers, people 24 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:18.040 who were fed candy corn and people who were fed 25 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.400 the old orange crayon that had been stowed away in 26 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.879 a drawer for the last seventeen years had the same reaction. 27 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.719 Quote this tastes like a waxy blob of nothing, and 28 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.879 my life is much worse for having places repulsealrojict in 29 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:30.319 my mouth. 30 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:35.920 End quote head of hey, I reject all of that 31 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:40.359 candy corn A lot ahead of research doctor science. 32 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.799 It's the science, Chris, the head of research doctor Gorbo 33 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:47.159 Lindfield said. Quote we had theorized that at least twenty 34 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.640 percent of those surveyed would be able to detect some 35 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.599 kind of flavoring candy corn. So we were shocked to 36 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.159 find that over ninety five percent of people had the 37 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:58.359 same instant negative reaction to eating candy corn, so full 38 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.560 they did the chewing on the old dusty crayon. Now listen, 39 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.319 he says it right here. It's proven in the article. 40 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.400 Quote the science is settled. Candy corn is just as 41 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:10.800 tasty as a crayon forgotten in a cabinet for decades. 42 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.759 It's sophisticating here, isn't it? So, he says. 43 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.479 Further research showed that over ninety percent of people couldn't 44 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.520 tell the between marshmallow peeps and a piece of cotton, 45 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:19.919 both from an ivy pro from bottle. 46 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.759 Okay, so let's let's talk about the candy. 47 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.120 You know, Circus peanuts, it says, says, you can't tell 48 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.199 the between Circus peanuts and eraser from one of those 49 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.639 giant novelty pencils or dots and stale gum that's been 50 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:34.000 stuck on the underside of a table. 51 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:34.159 Down. 52 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:36.680 It flows, It flows, diners. 53 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:40.159 Yeah, yeah, listen, I just I just want to go 54 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.719 on record and say that I think candy corn is phenomenal. 55 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:45.000 Are you serious? 56 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:45.199 Oh? 57 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.560 Yeah, I love candy corn. What yeah, Chris? And by 58 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:49.800 the way, so does the catapillar. 59 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.919 Okay, I questioned your judgment on everything else in your life. 60 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.879 Remember the Canabi statement, Yes he's going in the circus 61 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.159 and he goes, oh, candy corn. Let me hope you 62 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.919 do finish it. You like candy corn? Oh? I love it? 63 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.199 Okay, kids, after Halloween this year, just bring all of 64 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.599 your candy corn and dump it in Chris's office. 65 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.639 Oh don't do that, Oh please. I didn't say I 66 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:14.360 would eat it. 67 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.080 I just love it. 68 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:16.919 It's disgusting. 69 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:19.000 I just don't eat a bunch of candy. Hey, by 70 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.560 the way, real quick, real quick, what is what is 71 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:22.919 your favorite Halloween candy? 72 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.199 My favorite Halloween candy. Well, chocolate is by far the 73 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:30.039 most important thing. So it's kind of a mix between 74 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.319 KitKat and Snickers, one one or the other. Either one 75 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:34.479 of those. Those are my two favorites. 76 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:37.120 So it's Snit snut. 77 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.039 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah? 78 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.400 Or Kickers Yeah maybe Kickers. So so what do you 79 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:44.360 mean you just meant. 80 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:45.520 Either one, either one? 81 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.080 Yeah, those are your favorite. Like I pile those two up. 82 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.080 Kind of like a concrete mixer, yeah or something. 83 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.520 And then racist peanut butters. 84 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.599 Yeah. So here's the thing. I agree. I think that. 85 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:58.840 Uh uh, you know, I don't. I'm not a lover 86 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:00.560 of chocolate. I don't love chocolate. 87 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:03.800 Again, you like candy corn and don't like chocolate. 88 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:04.800 I don't love chocolate. 89 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:08.919 Hey, this is this interview is don I'm leaving. 90 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:10.879 So it's terrible. 91 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.199 Dude, I could only eat chocolate one of your friends 92 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.040 coupled with I never said it was your friend. 93 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.360 You know, it would be nice. 94 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:21.959 It has to be coupled with something else, so like 95 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.040 peanuts or you know, like like, I'll be honest with you, 96 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:27.120 if I eat a Snickers bar. By the time I 97 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.839 get done with a regular sized Snickers bar, I'm done with. 98 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:30.600 The chocolate part of it. 99 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:31.120 Wow. 100 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.639 Yeah, yeah, I like the stuff inside it more. 101 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.360 Yeah. Well that speaks volumes about you, your character, Yeah, 102 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.000 your lack of humanity. 103 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.040 Yeah, that's unbelievable, man. Yeah, yeah, you know what I think. 104 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:44.399 I told you the reason why I don't. 105 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.879 So if you had a choice between candy corn and 106 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:48.439 the Snickers, you would choose candy corn. 107 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:51.920 It depends on the mood, but I would say I 108 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:53.399 could easily choose candy corn. 109 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:58.319 That's disgusting, Okay, Yeah, listeners were sorry you had to 110 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.879 go through that. Yes, it's and horrifying. Don't look down 111 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.120 on him otherwise, he's a pretty decent human. 112 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:04.959 I think, thanks, Jeff. 113 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.120 Yeah, I appreciate your buddy question your judgment though, What 114 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.319 in the world what did your parents do to you 115 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.519 as a child that made you not like chocolate and 116 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:15.519 like candy corn. 117 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:16.279 So we don't. 118 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.439 We don't celebrate Sweetest Day a lot doing sweetest Day. 119 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.000 My wife and I do, okay, every day. 120 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.639 Oh Jess. 121 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.800 Never Jim carry on dumb and dumber and he goes 122 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:33.800 like this like this, So basically, my wife sent me 123 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:35.560 a bunch of chocolate when I was in Bible College, 124 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.480 like a huge, huge, massive things of chocolate. It was 125 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:40.759 a it was a box this big. 126 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:41.439 I kid you not. 127 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.879 It was like it was like a foot and a 128 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:44.720 half by For our listeners, it's a foot and a 129 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:45.560 half by foot and a half. 130 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:47.680 Yeah, So I just said it way to be late 131 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:50.319 and and I and it was filled with her she's 132 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.480 kisses and everything else. And I ate the whole thing 133 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:56.160 within like a week, and I got sick on chocolate. 134 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:57.920 Huh And ever since that day. 135 00:05:57.959 --> 00:05:59.040 I don't think that's possible. 136 00:05:59.279 --> 00:05:59.560 Yep. 137 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.720 I actually have not loved chocolate since that day. So 138 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.480 it's been you know, like a long time. 139 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.360 Well, thanks Liz for ruining him for life. 140 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:08.000 Yes, wow, that's. 141 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.079 What she's Okay. 142 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:14.279 Well, I'm glad that segment's over because there's just some 143 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.120 things we don't want to know about you and that's 144 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:18.720 that's one of them. So, oh, my goodness, that's terrible. 145 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.600 So we are continuing in the Book of Galatians. So 146 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.120 remember we're reading through the Book of Acts and the 147 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.399 spread of the Gospel, and throughout the Book of Acts, 148 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.319 Paul pauses and he writes these books back to the 149 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.279 churches he had just helped start. So the churches that 150 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:35.600 he had on that first journey that he and Barnabas 151 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:39.000 has helped start in Iconium and in Lystra, Derby and 152 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.639 antiog Pasidia, these towns. Now he's writing a letter back 153 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.639 saying somebody has come in, these Judaizers have come in, 154 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.040 and they're perverting the Gospel. And he's given some credibility, 155 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.839 a little bit of his resume as to why you 156 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.879 can trust the fact that he has authority to teach 157 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.920 the Gospel. And so we're going to pick up there 158 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:03.439 where he's already talked about his zeal Judaism, it beliefs 159 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.360 that he had before he became a Christian, and all 160 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.439 those things. And then he says in chapter two, verse one, 161 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.720 then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, 162 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.920 this time with Barnabas, and Titus came along too. I 163 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:18.399 went there because God revealed to me that I should go. 164 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.040 While I was there, I met privately with those considered 165 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.000 to be leaders of the church and shared with them 166 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:27.480 the message I had been preaching to the gentiles. I 167 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.399 wanted to make sure that we were in agreement, for 168 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.199 fear that all my efforts had been wasted and I 169 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:33.759 was running the race for nothing. And they supported me 170 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.519 and did not even demand that my companion Titus be circumcised, 171 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.639 though he was a gentile. Even that question came up 172 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.480 only because of some so called Christians. They are false 173 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.720 ones really, who were secretly brought in. They sneaked in 174 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:47.480 to spy on us and take away the freedom we 175 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.480 have in Jesus Christ. They wanted to enslave us and 176 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.399 forced us to follow their Jewish regulations. But we refused 177 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.279 to give in to them for a single moment. We 178 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.600 wanted to preserve the truth of the Gospel message for you, 179 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.360 and the leaders of the church had nothing to to 180 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.480 what I was preaching. By the way, their reputation as 181 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.480 great leaders made no difference to me, for God has 182 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:07.480 no favorites. Instead, they saw that God had given me 183 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:10.399 the responsibility of preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, just 184 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.600 as he had given Peter the responsibility of preaching to 185 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.160 the Jews. For the same God who worked through Peter 186 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.120 as the apostle of the Jews, also worked through me 187 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.560 as the apostle to the Gentiles. In fact, James, Peter, and John, 188 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.839 who were known as pillars of the Church, recognized the 189 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.439 gift God had given me, and they accepted Barnabas and 190 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.199 Me as their coworkers. They encouraged us to keep preaching 191 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:32.399 to the Gentiles while they continued their work with the Jews, 192 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.960 and their only suggestion was that we keep on helping 193 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.960 the poor, which have always been eager to do. But 194 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.360 when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him 195 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:43.480 to his face, for what he did was very wrong. 196 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.120 When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile Christians 197 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.879 who were not circumcised. But afterwards, when some friends of 198 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.080 James came, Peter wouldn't eat with the gentiles anymore. He 199 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.639 was afraid of criticism from those people who insisted on 200 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.200 the necessity of circumcision. As a result, other Jewish Christians 201 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.159 followed Peter's hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by 202 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.879 their hypocrisy. When I saw that they were not following 203 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.879 the truth of the Gospel message, I said to Peter 204 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.200 in front of all the others, Since you, a Jew 205 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.679 by birth, have discarded Jewish laws and are living like 206 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.879 a gentile, why are you now trying to make these 207 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.960 gentiles follow the Jewish traditions? You and I are Jews 208 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.799 by birth, not sinners like the quote unquote gentiles. Yet 209 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:21.879 we know that a person is made right with God 210 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.039 by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. 211 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.120 And we've been We have believed in Christ Jesus so 212 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.039 that we might be made right with God because of 213 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.440 our faith in Christ, not because we've obeyed the law. 214 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.600 For no one will ever be made right with God 215 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.559 by obeying the law. But suppose we seek to be 216 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:38.919 made right with God through faith in Christ, and then 217 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.679 we are found guilty because we've abandoned the law. Would 218 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.360 that mean that Christ has led us sin to sin? 219 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.559 Absolutely not. Rather, I'm a sinner if I rebuild the 220 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:49.399 old system of law I already tore down, For when 221 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:51.759 I tried to keep the law condemned me. So I 222 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:53.919 died to the law. I stopped trying to meet all 223 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.320 its requirements so that I might live for God. My 224 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.200 old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no 225 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:02.600 longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So 226 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.000 I live in this earthly body by trusting the son 227 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.559 of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 228 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.679 I did not treat the grace of God as meaningless, 229 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.159 for if keeping a law could make us rite with God, 230 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.120 then there was no need for Christ to die. 231 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:17.240 Wow, that's a lot. 232 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.240 Yeah, man, there's some great stuff in there. Yeah, there's 233 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.240 a lot as opposed to some of those bad chapters 234 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.080 that we've read, but this is a really good one. 235 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.399 I found myself saying there's some really great stuff there, 236 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.320 and I thought there's great stuff in every chapter we read. 237 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:30.559 Ok. 238 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.080 Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. 239 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.240 You know, it's it's a it's a it's a it's 240 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.960 a funny thing how Paul is writing for a specific 241 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:45.720 purpose because of what is happening, happening specifically in that city. 242 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:48.879 But at the same time, the content in which he 243 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.519 is writing applies to us today, which is what I 244 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.600 love about God's words so much. I mean, you know 245 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.320 we all understand that. Well, let me we're phrase if 246 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.279 you've been a Christian a while. Isn't it interesting how 247 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.840 you can read one verse one day and it applies 248 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.919 to what you're going through, and then maybe down the 249 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.799 road you read that same verse and you get something 250 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.039 completely different out of it. 251 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.080 Is that ever happened to you? Yes, many times where 252 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:14.519 it's like. 253 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:18.960 The same verse applies to it. And so it's just 254 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.320 so cool for me because there's a practical sense of 255 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.200 what we're reading, and you and I are sort of 256 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.879 talking about that practical sense. We're talking about, Oh, this 257 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.279 is the reason why Paul's writing these things, and you know, 258 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.600 he's writing it specifically for these reasons. But let's not 259 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:35.240 forget that. Because it's a living book, because it's the 260 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.039 inspired word of God, because God had Paul write these 261 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.240 you know, letters and and and that we believe that 262 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.000 it's inspired by the Holy Spirit, and so we believe 263 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.519 it is the Word of God. And so Paul is 264 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.720 writing it for a specific reason. So God used human 265 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.720 authors to pen his words, and so let us not 266 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.360 forget that. Because the truths that that that that only 267 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.000 apply to the culture and to the specific context that 268 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:05.960 they should be taken, you know, with that in mind, 269 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:10.840 But central truths like this apply to us today because 270 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.200 Paul is talking about, you know, very plainly, the difference 271 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.039 between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And by 272 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.480 the way, we just talked about this last Sunday at 273 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.720 our church, where we talked about treasures being both old 274 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:27.279 and new. We shouldn't discard one for the other, but 275 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.840 we should try to understand the old in light of 276 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.679 the new. And that's what really Paul is trying to say. 277 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.759 He's trying to say, like, those those laws that you 278 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:40.320 have obeyed for centuries aren't to waste. In fact, the 279 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:44.559 law points me toward Christ. And if not for Christ, 280 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.399 then then it's good for nothing, because I've died to 281 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.519 the law. They're important, but I now understand that it 282 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.320 all points me to this one thing, which is Jesus Christ. 283 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:02.240 The sacrificial laws, those all represented the cost for sin, 284 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.639 how to cover over sin, redemption, all those kinds of things. 285 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:12.159 The societal laws, those really they set apart the Jews 286 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.200 from the rest of the pagan cultures at the time. 287 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.720 But most of those laws also had some significant benefits 288 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.320 to them. Right. The don't eat pork law was there 289 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.320 were you know, pigs normally and naturally carry a lot 290 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.320 of diseases. Of course, now you know we treat those 291 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:29.759 things and so it's a little bit different. But back 292 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:34.080 then it was highly probable that you'd get ringworm or 293 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:37.159 some kind of disease like that. The idea of building 294 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:40.320 latrines around your homes. Everybody else it was just on 295 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:41.960 the ground or out in the rivers or whatever. But 296 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.440 for them, they would have latrines that would manage their 297 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.320 waste and it would provide a better healthy lifestyle for them. 298 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.559 Not keeping allowing any vermin, rats and things to be 299 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.759 in their homes. They'd keep cats or whatever to keep 300 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.960 them out, would prevent a lot of the spread of diseases. 301 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:58.440 So there's lots of. 302 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:00.960 Lots of Just to be clear, you're voting laws that 303 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:01.639 were given. 304 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:01.840 To the Jewish. 305 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:03.879 Yea, I'm quoting all these laws that God had given 306 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:07.399 to the Jewish people. That they began to look at 307 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.759 it that by keeping those laws they get to go 308 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.360 to Heaven. They by keeping those laws, they please God, 309 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.799 and God likes them, as opposed to God saying I 310 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.399 gave you these laws for your benefit. So they shifted 311 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:21.960 it from the benefit of their lifestyle of being healthier 312 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.559 and better to this is how we please God. This 313 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.360 is how we get into eternity. This is how we 314 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.120 earn his blessing. 315 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.840 Expand on that whole like latrine thing of bearing it 316 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.480 like they didn't understand it, but then modern science tells 317 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:33.919 us what. 318 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:35.519 Yeah, yeah, I think I talked on one of the 319 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.279 older podcasts about this. That so really funny passage in 320 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.679 the Book of Deuteronomy, which is the whole book is 321 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.759 just laws, six hundred and seventeen laws or something. There's 322 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.159 two verses, the funniest verses in the Bible. God says, 323 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:50.919 when you need to do your business, he said, first 324 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.080 of all, go outside the camp, turn over a hole 325 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.559 in the ground, do your business, and then cover up 326 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:59.039 that hole. And then the next verse says, because I 327 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.000 the Lord, your God, walk among you in the camp. 328 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.080 It's such a funny verse. Right, he doesn't say much 329 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.519 else about it, but so God says, you can do 330 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:08.840 your business. Do your business in a hole, right, a 331 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.759 little hole. He's not talking about necessarily digging a pit, 332 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.799 but at least the hole. And it was thousands of 333 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.320 years before we discovered it was in the mid or 334 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.240 the early twentieth century before we discovered that in the 335 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.000 top you know, twelve inches or so of soil in 336 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.279 most places in the world, the micro organisms in those 337 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:31.320 top few inches of soil will break down human waste 338 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.759 and the negative sides of waste in a matter of 339 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.159 hours days, you know, two days or so. Whereas if 340 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.399 you do your business on top of the ground and 341 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.200 just wait for to naturally dry out or whatever rain 342 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:46.320 comes winds up ruining the water things, it can be 343 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:51.320 weeks that the negative impact has on society or on 344 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.000 the world around us. And so all the water ways 345 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.519 are polluted. All these things happen so God, they didn't 346 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:02.840 know when God gave that four thousand years ago to Moses. 347 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.559 They didn't know about micro organisms, they didn't know about germs, 348 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.159 they didn't know about those things. God didn't even take 349 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:10.519 the time to explain it. God just gave them a 350 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.480 law and said, if you obey this, your whole community 351 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.000 will be more healthy. And how many times you and I, 352 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.120 You and I've been in places where I was in 353 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:23.720 Africa one time in the massive cholera outbreak, dysentery. There's 354 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.159 several things that wind up happening because water gets polluted 355 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.440 from human waste because they're not managing it well. So 356 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:33.399 God doesn't explain every little micro organism detail. He just says, 357 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.120 trust me. And so if you're looking at the laws 358 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.480 of God, just to trust me. I'll take care of 359 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.720 you if you follow me. That's very different than what 360 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.240 the Judaizers were doing. The Judaizers were saying, if you 361 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.120 don't first convert to being a Jew, you can't become 362 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.840 a Christian because Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. So the 363 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:55.080 first thing we have to do is you need to 364 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:57.279 be all the men have to be circumcised, which, by 365 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.960 the way, circumcision being a requirement for joining the church 366 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:01.720 would really limit membership. 367 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.679 I would think I would think so too, Yeah, wouldn't 368 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:04.079 you think. 369 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.960 But they that's what they were requiring, was you have 370 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.559 that all the men have to be circumcised, and you 371 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.880 have to convert to Judaism first. And Paul want wait 372 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.759 a minute. That was never the purpose we thought that 373 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.839 was the purpose of the law. That was never the 374 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:18.920 purpose of God's laws. 375 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:19.880 Yeah. 376 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.200 And by the way, the whole circumcision conversations just hilarious. 377 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.480 The fact that most people, and I would say, you know, 378 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.039 probably upwards of ninety high ninety percent of people are 379 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:31.920 circumcised males. 380 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.440 When they're born right in the US. In the US. 381 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:37.440 Yeah, that's actually a really good point, and it's become 382 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:41.200 sort of a practice and people know that because when 383 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.240 they have children. It's just something that just happens. 384 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:43.480 Right. 385 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.559 But people don't necessarily connect it to the Bible. Right, 386 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:49.200 they don't connect it to the Bible. There are so 387 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.359 many things in our culture that exists that are around 388 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:55.680 us today that we don't necessarily know or understand that 389 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:56.759 it's connected to the Bible. 390 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:58.039 It's really interesting. 391 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:01.200 Yeah. Yeah, So now there's health benefits in that, you know, 392 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:02.920 you can look all that up to This is in 393 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.599 a biology lesson necessarily, but there are a lot of 394 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.519 with regard to the transmission of diseases and other things, 395 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:10.960 there are some health benefits to it. But this was 396 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.720 a command from God to Abraham, and from that point 397 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:16.519 on that was the main symbol. It's not the only thing, 398 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.319 but it was the main symbol of the fact that 399 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.799 people have converted from whatever their religion was into Judaism 400 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.319 was that issue. And so Paul saying, hey, even Titus 401 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.880