Kept secret and made known are polar opposites.
It seems like there's not much further you can get on that one.
We had someone the other day trying to tell us that, well, the mystery was known by the prophets.
But they couldn't prove it.
You know, a lot of people say a lot of things.
But when it comes down to it, when you give them their time, their space, their few minutes to explain it to you, and they couldn't prove it because the scriptures that Jesus was talking about were written by the prophets, all those prophecies that testified of him.
But none of the prophets, not a one, knew the mystery.
They didn't know the mystery scriptures that would one day interrupt and put that prophecy program on hold to bring in a postponed dispensation of grace.
The mystery scriptures that would provide us with things never spoken before.
Secret data hidden in God before, not from, before the foundation of the world.
Guys, when we compare the verses and we can see the contrast.
We see the comparatives.
It opens our eyes to truths that you've never seen before, still just thinking about it and talking about it, be about it, get in this book.
That's our job.
Back it up, confirm it, be an Acts chapter 17:11 Berean and go search it for yourself.
Make sure what we're telling you is true.
That's exactly right.
We're here to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery by doing what?, rightly dividing the word of truth, comparing scripture with scripture.
Most don't know how to rest in this finished crosswork because of that.
This finished crosswork of Christ, it doesn't happen by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John knowledge.
It won't happen.
Hebrews through Revelation will not give you peace.
You won't find it there.
You won't find the joy.
You won't even find the term, "body of Christ."
No.
You see, people's been in this religious system has you working toward the cross, but for many years now, we've been committed to teaching others how to work from the cross, to work smarter, not harder, to help you separate right from almost right.
There's a whole lot of almost right out there.
There is.
When you rightly divide the word of truth, it's clean.
It's not eat the meat and spit out the bones.
It's just eat the meat.
There should be no bones.
You only get two educations, the one you're given and the one you give yourself, so keep shunning profane and vain babblings, and keep educating yourself, educating yourself in the Pauline epistles.
Too many men, they mix their religious poison that alters the composition of Paul's gospel.
Most church buildings today are, they're a place to go for worshipatainment.
Worshipatainment.
It's Six Flags over Jesus.
Oh, yeah.
True worship is found, guys, in studying the very words of God that are written down right here in 66 books.
Worship minus the entertainment, opening God's perfectly preserved word, and getting to the heart, cutting to the heart of the gospel, the way Paul, our 1 Timothy 1:16 pattern, taught us to do.
Now, that's true God honoring worship, patterning ourselves after our apostle.
He said, For I had determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians chapter 2, yep, yeah, this brother Paul, this man, hey, he had no shame in the game.
No shame when it come to preaching the gospel.
What we've commonly seen happening today is an ungodly watering down of what true worship is.
It's not what you see on TBN, Daystar.
And the main thing is they don't understand the fellowship of the mystery.
They don't understand.
2 Corinthians 5:19, God was in Christ doing what?
Reconciling the world into himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.
But there's all kinds of physical acts people are doing, trying to get the non-imputed sins, now, which non-imputed sin can you go, go to the altar and pray through for?
Which non-imputed sin can you say the Lord's Prayer and him forgive you?
Well, I should say the sinners prayer as they say.
Right.
We did a teaching on that.
That's nonsense.
It is.
Had a listener send us that pamphlet that he found at a restaurant telling you to say that prayer.
Yeah.
Won't do a thing for you.
Right.
And prayer is a work.
So, if you're praying to get saved, then you're working for your salvation.
Our apostle is going to tell us that that's not going to do it.
That's right.
I mean, really, really clear, it's not going to happen.
Well, you just said prayer is a work.
Right.
That takes, that takes most of twistianity by surprise.
They don't have no clue that prayer is.
They'll say, I mean, I've had them tell them prayer is not a work.
I don't feel like I'm working.
I don't care what you feel like.
We're reading scripture.
Paul says.
Paul says it is.
In prayer.
And labor is work.
In prayer is work.
So yeah.
Prayer is a work.
You can't be saved by a work.
Forget it.
Prayer is something saved people do.
It's not something unsaved people do to get saved.
Right.
Right.
That's a lie of the devil.
It's one of the most popular ones.
And again, the only thing worse than going to hell is going there and being surprised, and there's going to be a lot of folk in hell because they prayed that prayer.
Right.
And you made me think of a verse when you were talking about the word worship awhile ago and saying that people don't worshipatainment.
Right.
Worshipa...
I have to write that down.
That's, that's a new one you just sprung on me like you usually do, but worshipatainment.
I will forget that.
That's a, that's a good one.
Um, Philippians 3:3, For we are the circumcision,... and we know what Paul means when he says circumcision here, he's not talking about the Jews' religion.
We're talking about what happened as a result of the operation of God, ...which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Talking about all the worship that you see going on in churches on TV, the worshipatainment, TikTok platform in front of people.
It is flesh.
It is, it is flesh.
If you look at it this way, though, you can understand that to lift your hands up to heaven and praise God, there's nothing wrong with that.
But, once you do that and look at your hands as being the worship to God, that's when the problem comes in because worship should be a reaction.
This is a reaction.
It's a response.
Whenever you're forcing the worship, that's your flesh, just like emotions and feelings and everything, we're not emotionless, we're not without feelings, but those are a response.
They're not what leads us.
The truth leads us.
I mean, I know you do too.
I have a reaction to the truth.
What should be the response is what's leading you is when it becomes of the flesh.
That's right.
It's an ungodly watering down of what true worship is.
Liftin' your hands and praisin' the lightbulbs.
Yeah.
If you pay attention to what they say and what they're doing, they're doing it, there's really a religious term that just hit my mind, an invocation.
They're doing it to invoke the spirit that should already be living inside of them and sealing them up.
Oh, no, what are you talking about?
They have the spirit, boy, after the service, "The Spirit sure showed up and showed out today."
What?
The Spirit showed up?
Are you saved?
They haven't been taught that if you're saved, the Spirit is there with you.
It doesn't dwell in these temples made with hands.
Oh no.
It goes with you wherever you go.
That's right.
Again, we're back to this false worship watered down and that's why we're constantly here focusing on the cross of Christ because the preaching of the cross has the ability to turn the world upside down.
We're constantly focusing on the resurrection because that's where we find our assurance accepted in the beloved.
We're not doing things to be accepted.
No.
We're not doing things to get favor with God.
No.
Already got the, listen, I'm in Christ.
Does Christ have favor with God?
Then Trey Searcy has favor with God.
I'm complete in Christ.
That's right.
What I find out is that whenever I got saved, I was sanctified set apart because I was placed into Christ versus being outside of Christ.
I don't know how much more sanctified I can get than that.
Now, my job is to try to walk in that as best as I can.
It's trying to live up to what you already are.
Right.
Now, I'm not doing that because I need a motivation of a prize that I'm going to win when I get to heaven.
I'm doing that because I want to do what Paul says to do, which is what will be pleasing to the one who died for me.
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