Mystery is hidden wisdom.
It's not something that we still have to figure out.
Deep dark and mysterious.
No.
And, and let me, let me add to that, it's not something we're waiting on the Lord to reveal to us.
No.
There's heretical doctrine going around.
These folks that are telling you, as they teach their heresy, that, oh, the reason you don't know it yet, is it hasn't been revealed to you.
Oh no, no.
Oh, give me a break!
It's all revealed.
Just read it and believe it.
We're not waiting on a special revelation from the Lord.
It's already happened.
You're behind.
Right.
You need to get up here and catch up, that's what you need to do.
Right, right, right.
Just because I don't agree with your heresy, doesn't mean God hasn't revealed it to me.
Maybe another spirit revealed heresy to you.
How about that?
Let's deal with that for a moment.
That's true. That's true.
Well, and that's the thing about bad doctrine, about heresies.
They don't ever just remain as an error.
The problem is, is when someone takes those errors, and they create a doctrine from the error.
And what do they do?
They take it down the road and they dump it off on babes in Christ.
Right. Right.
Who don't know any better.
And when you take the error and turn it into a doctrine, then it becomes heresy.
Mm hmm.
So, there's a difference between just, you know, saying some things wrong here and there, because we all are going to make mistakes.
The trick is to try to correct those mistakes.
That's right.
And when you're shown, this is incorrect, this is an error, it's real easy to see if that person pulls back and goes, oh, okay, let me go steady on that.
Right.
Or if they, oh, no, no, no, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, this is right because God revealed it to me.
God just hasn't revealed it to you yet.
Yeah.
Grammar?
God hasn't revealed how to understand grammar to me?
Yeah, mm hmm.
I mean, it's really, that's all it is.
That's right.
It's right there in front of your face.
You know, you hear some of the craziest excuses about why you disagree with this person.
Mm hmm.
And the fact is, we're looking at the same Bible, the same God, the same Holy Spirit inspired every single word.
The same Jesus is in those pages that died on the cross for our sins.
The same Jesus came down from heaven and visited Paul and told him what to say.
In both our Bibles, why are we getting, why are we getting something different?
Well, it's not hard to hop on the internet.
And I know it's been a while for some of us who've been in school and learned fifth grade English.
But it's not hard to hop on the internet and give yourself a little refresher.
Mm hmm.
It's really not.
I've had to do it multiple times.
Mm hmm.
But you can't deny, you know what a comment, a semicolon means.
And, and when you understand how context works to help define certain words, I mean, we took these on the standardized tests.
I know some people listen and may not be from the United States, but the United States, we have standardized testing in elementary school all the way through high school.
Mm hmm.
And it was where you had these paragraphs that you read.
And then there's a word in the paragraph and you have to give the best definition for that word, according to the context of that paragraph.
Right.
And you know, it's multiple choice.
You get to choose which one it is.
That's, that used to be part of our learning.
That used to be part of our reading comprehension.
That used to be how they would check and make sure that we were learning what we were supposed to do in school.
Yeah, it's been a long time since I've been to school, and I hope they still do that, I'm not sure if they do.
But, it seems like that's a lost skill these days.
Mm hmm.
That now you can just take and find a word in a verse, and you match it with the same word in another verse.
Yeah.
We see that all the time.
Then we see the, the law of first mention thing.
Mm hmm.
And that's just, it, that just doesn't read, it's not a law.
Hm hmm.
Laws are consistent.
No, if you're here today and you think there's a law of first mention, go back and rethink that.
Yeah.
It doesn't hold up.
A law is consistent, and the law of first mention is not consistent.
No.
We're going to teach you on that in the future too.
Right.
There's plenty of words that the first time you see 'em, they mean one thing and the next time you see 'em, they mean something else.
Mm-hmm.
It's context.
It is. It is.
Context will not allow there to be a law of first mention.
It won't work.
Context is always...
We've already tried it.
Right.
And context always should be the, the decider of everything.
Mm hmm.
Because the context is going to tell you what the thought is about, what the idea is.
We read context...
What goeth before, and what cometh after.
That's right.
But, I mean, this is the reason why we can look at Romans chapter 1, just for example, and go to the end of Romans chapter 1 and pick up on Romans chapter 2 and see that the thought continued, it didn't change.
That chapter wasn't put there to be a thought by itself and then have a separate thought to come after it.
That's right.
That's not what that, it continues.
You could take chapter 2, the words chapter 2 out of there, and keep on reading, and you would still be within the same context as you were in chapter 1.
So, the last verse of chapter 1, and the first verse of chapter 2, you have several places that you, you can look at that and see.
So, you can't allow the helpful things that those who put our Bible together.
It's helpful to have those numbers for verses.
It's helpful to have the chapter ending and beginnings and numbers and all that kind of stuff because then we can all look up the same place and be on the same page when we read it together, and when we're searching for things.
But you can't allow those numbers that have been inserted to interrupt the thought (right) from one verse to the next, or you'll lose the context.
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