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I thought I'd love the girl when I really

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didn't understand what love was

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. I had a false sense or a false

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definition of what love was because of

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my very narrow

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and shallow understanding of

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what love actually was .

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Faith and Failure's podcast

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.

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That's just the facts . All right , now I was talking

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about speaking of truth . Now some of you , some

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of you may not understand how bad some

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churches have gotten . So I wanted to like kind of

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point out a little bit today on

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this video where

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this guy is using scripture to

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say that you can just be sinful

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however you want . Listen to this .

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Jesus said you welcome people period

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. Jesus said you extend radical

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hospitality period

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. Jesus did not say

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one single word

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of condemnation about anyone

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based on sexual orientation or gender

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identity . In fact , the only

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mention Jesus really makes of it is

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this passage in Matthew

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. Maybe you're familiar with

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it . It's actually an affirmation

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. Now there we go . It's buried in

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ancient language and it's surrounded

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by this weird teaching about divorce

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, but what Jesus said is this Hold

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on .

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He just said Jesus said this and

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it's surrounded by weird teaching , by divorce . So now

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he's saying what Jesus said was weird

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teaching . So he already , he already

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set the stage for what he actually believes

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is truth . It's obviously not

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what Jesus says . That , if

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you ?

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are unique and you have been a unique

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since birth . That was an ancient

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way of saying that if you differed from

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what was expected in terms of

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what we would call today sexual orientation

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or gender identity , that if you were

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a unique and you had been a unique from

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birth , that you were loved

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by God . Jesus said you

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love period .

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Okay , so I'm

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going to do a quick search , right quick , because

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I think he's pulling from . Actually , let's watch

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this other video , see if this guy actually points it out . Hold on

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. Mark said Justice

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is turned back and righteous stands . I

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say , if it did not , truth is fallen

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in the street equity cannot

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enter . Yeah . So let's say this this

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guy , what's his name ? Original

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Mr B , I think it's his name . So

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this guy talks about apologetics and things

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. He's kind of a younger dude

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, but see if he addresses and

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says what scripture I was gonna look

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up .

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This is , and you using

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the little loving face emoji

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shows me that you do not understand

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what love is . Consensual

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adults in a loving relationship

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is not a sin . People

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being their authentic selves

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, including the gender that they know

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themselves to be , is not

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a sin . If your religion

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says that it is , get

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a new religion .

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I wanna offer a criticism to both the original

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comment and this creator's response

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to the comment . When it comes to

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the LGBT discussions we have many

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well-meaning Christians sometimes use an aphorism

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God loves the sinner , but

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hates the sin . Unfortunately , this

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cliche ends up creating a lot of confusion

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. My friend , ellen Schleeman points out that

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when Christians use this cliche , the

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only word people hear is the word

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hate . And because they believe being

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LGBT isn't merely what they do

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, but who they are , what they end up

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hearing is God hates me and you

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hate me . That's true . Not only . This slogan

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is intended to communicate compassion and

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hope for sinners , but it's not

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received that way . So let's drop the cliche

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and instead let's just present the gospel Well

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. I don't like the original comment . I think

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the creator's response is even worse . This

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creator claims that the commenter doesn't

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understand what love is . After

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all , she says consensual adults

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in a loving relationship is not a sin

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and people being their authentic selves

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is not a sin . Of course , this is demonstrably

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false . Just visit a prison and you

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will find people who are being their authentic

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selves . Furthermore , we have explicit

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examples of consensual sexual activity

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that violates God's commands . When Paul

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found out that a man and his father's wife

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were in a sexual relationship , he didn't

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say well , as long as

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this is consensual adults in a loving relationship

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, it's not a sin . On the contrary

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, he pronounced judgment on them . Now don't

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miss this . The arrogant Corinthian church

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thought they were being loving

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towards the couple by tolerating

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their consensual relationship . The problem

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is , they didn't understand what real

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love looks like . In the same letter , paul

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says love does not rejoice in

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wrongdoing , but rejoices in

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the truth . When we rejoice and

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affirm wrongdoing , something God calls

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a sin , we keep people from repentance

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, and that's not loving , that's unloving

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. One way God communicates his love to

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you and me is by telling us that many

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of the things we want to do we shouldn't do

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. Because Jesus loved the woman caught in

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adultery , he said go and sin no more

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. Because Jesus loved the rich man , he told

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him to sell all that he had and give it to the poor

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. Because Jesus loved the lost Jewish people

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, he said unless you believe that I am he

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, you will die in your sins . Only

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God defines what love is . The apostle

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John writes and this is love that

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we walk in obedience to his commands

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. And he says by this we know that we

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love the children of God when

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we love God and obey his commandments

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. So we love others by keeping

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God's commands , not by rejecting

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them .

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Yeah , so that's what he does . He takes

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like the pin out , yeah , cast

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dead . And this is 100%

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true . Loving is not the same

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as condoning and agreeing with

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citizen . Wrong is wrong and

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a lot of people get that confused . They

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throw around . They throw around

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the word love , just like I did when I was a child

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I thought I loved a girl , when I

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really didn't understand what love was

5:54

. I had a false sense or a false

5:56

definition of what love was because of

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my very narrow

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and shallow understanding of

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what love actually was . Love

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will make you tell somebody the

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truth , even when it hurts them

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a little bit . Love will help you

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or will bring you to a

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place of repentance . Because

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I love God so much

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for what he has done for

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me and just who he is , I

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will not turn to what I used to do

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, but I will repent and turn

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for my wicked ways" . I think

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a lot of times in the New Testament

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when Jesus healed somebody , he would say go

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and send no more . And this

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place of gratitude and love because

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of what God just demonstrated

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in their life was a very real , intangible

6:43

thing , like a lot of their lives were changed . Like

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a man who was blind now could see

6:48

you understand their emifications of

6:50

something like that in your life

6:52

, changing and turning around , the

6:54

layman who kept trying to get into

6:57

the pool , but everybody would always beat him

6:59

. When the angel will come and stir up the waters

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, like all of a sudden this man could walk , all

7:03

of a sudden this man could go to work , all

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of a sudden this man can do what

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he never could have done in

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his life . And so God

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tells us that we are to repent

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and stop the way we are

7:18

now . Give it all to him , let

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him wash it and he will bless it and give it back

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to us in a way that we never dreamed

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. There's one more video from the same guy I wanna

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look at . Well , it's hold

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on , and this is talking about sin . Same kind

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of concept . Like you , look at this guy and

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you'll understand exactly what I'm talking about . Not trying to make

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fun , but there he is . That's

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the dude .

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Well , it's a sin To who ? It's

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a sin To who

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? To everyone . That's kinda how sins work

7:45

, see . But that's not true . Sin is subjective

7:48

. It says so in Romans 14 , 14 . In

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it Paul says I'm convinced

7:52

, being fully persuaded by the Lord Jesus

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, that nothing is unclean in

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itself , but if someone regards something

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as unclean , then for that person

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it is unclean . So I say

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again for who ? Cause it

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depends on the person .

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This is what happens when you read a single verse

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without looking at the context . Well

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, we have a principle , don't we Never read

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a Bible verse ? What that means is

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you always read the verses around the verse , the

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context . And when you read the context

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, you find out that Paul is specifically talking

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about eating food that is clean

8:24

but that you think is unclean . See

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, on the one hand , there were Christians with weaker faith

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those are Paul's words who believed eating certain

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food was sinful . As a result , they passed

8:33

judgment on those Christians who would eat those

8:35

foods . On the other hand , there were Christians with

8:37

stronger faith , like the apostle Paul , who

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knew all food is clean . But

8:42

those stronger Christians were causing the weaker

8:44

Christians to stumble into sin by

8:46

getting them to do something that they believed

8:48

was wrong . That's the context . But this

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raised a question about the weaker Christians

8:53

. How does doing something that's not

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sinful in itself become sinful

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if the person believes God prohibits

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it ? Maybe an illustration will help . Imagine

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I , tim Barnett , believe it's a sin to

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go to the movie theater . Fyi , I actually

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met someone from a legalistic home who believed

9:08

that .

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Now if my dad used to . I

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don't know about necessarily a sin , but

9:13

growing up as a kid we could not go to the movies . Do

9:15

you remember a Robin Williams movie

9:17

called Flubber ? I was in hell

9:20

at eight and my parents

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didn't even take me . It was a babysitter that took

9:24

me with her husband and I kind

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of got in trouble because I went and then the next movie

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was and I don't even remember , but

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I was not allowed to go to the movies at all going

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up .

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Now , if I believe God prohibits going to the

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movie theater and I go to the movie theater

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because my Christian friends are going , that

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would be sin . Why is it ? Because

9:41

all sin is really subjective ? Of course

9:44

not . It's because in that act my

9:46

heart is set against God and it's objectively

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sinful to do something that you believe is prohibited

9:51

by God . You don't have to believe something

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is sin for it to be sin . For

9:55

example , you might not believe murder is sin

9:57

, but that's and change the fact that murder is

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a sin . However , you do

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have to believe something that's not a

10:03

sin is a sin for it to

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be sin . You may need to listen to that sentence

10:08

again , using Paul's example . If you

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believe in certain meat is a sin

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, even though it's not a sin , but you

10:14

eat it anyways , then that is a

10:16

sin . The problem is a sinful heart , not

10:18

sinful food . That's why , concerning eating , paul

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says each one should be fully convinced

10:23

in his own mind . If you're not convinced

10:25

that it's okay to eat and you eat it anyways

10:27

, you have sinned against God , paul says

10:29

. But whoever has doubts is condemned

10:31

if he eats because the eating is

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not from faith , for whatever does

10:36

not proceed from faith is sin . Faith

10:38

is a confidence that what you're doing is for

10:40

the Lord . So if you think you're doing something

10:42

against the Lord , it's not from faith , it's

10:45

sin . This content creator thinks sin is subjective

10:47

and that this verse proves it . Ironically

10:50

, this passage teaches just the opposite

10:52

.

10:52

He always puts it Well it's a sin , who

10:55

he always puts the pain back there like bone

10:58

done , told you . And

11:00

so this is . This is

11:02

something you need to understand as a Christian that as

11:05

soon as someone says my truth , it

11:08

no longer is true . Because because

11:10

in the world we live

11:12

in good , bad , our

11:14

culture , civilization , whatever

11:16

you want to slap on it we're living

11:18

in God's world . He is the

11:20

creator , he is also the

11:23

, the ender , if he wants to be so

11:25

. That should shake us , that should keep us humble

11:27

, that should keep us chasing after him , because

11:30

we want to please him , we desire

11:32

to be in relationship with him

11:34

, we desire to be close to him . So

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I had a couple more videos . We're gonna wrap it up

11:39

now . I've been on here for , let's see

11:41

, oh , almost two hours . So

11:43

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