DAILY TRUTH - “Waiting To Be TAKEN From The Land” Vs. “Working To TAKE The Land”
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The New Testament Church is a type of the Old Testament Church, but there is a massive difference between Old Testament and New Testament churches. In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the difference between the New Testament and Old Testament churches and how they relate to one another.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. I think that there's been a massive mistake
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when it comes to understanding the New Testament church's role in the world today.
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Often, one of the chief texts that will be pointed to by pastors, theologians, and evangelicals
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is Jeremiah. I believe it's chapter 27. And it's not so much the portion of the text that talks
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about God has a plan for us that he knew us in our mother's womb that is true but the text goes
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on and talks about seeking the welfare of the city for if the city prospers you too will prosper
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but we have to be aware as we seek to exegete scripture that is to rightly interpret the
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meaning of scripture, and just as much, if not even more so, as we seek to rightly apply the
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scripture. Not just interpreting its meaning, but applying, as Connor said, seeking to actually put
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the meaning of scripture into practice. Not mere hearers of the word only, but those who hear the
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word rightly understand its sense its meaning meditate upon the meaning and implications of
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the word day and night and then seek to actually obey seek to actually live out the meaning of a
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text as we seek to be those who rightly interpret scripture hear it properly and those who rightly
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apply scripture obey it properly we must have the proper context of scripture and when we find in
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jeremiah that israel had been called to seek the welfare of the city to give their sons and
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daughters in marriage to plant vineyards to build houses to seek the welfare of the city for if the
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city prospers you too will prosper the context for that commandment is exile i'll say that again
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the context for that commandment is exile it is true that israel old covenant old testament
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israel according to the flesh is a type of the new testament church it is a type that is a symbol
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it can often represent the new testament church the new testament church often does well to take
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its cues from old testament israel but we have to be aware as we're looking at old testament old
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covenant israel and the commandments given to them by god we have to be aware of the context
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in jeremiah the context is that israel had been unfaithful and because of their unbelief
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their hardness of heart their stubbornness and rebellion towards god and his kingship because
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of all these things their reluctance and slowness to be faithful and obedience and all his commands
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for these reasons God handed them over to their enemies they were overpowered they were subdued
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they were captured and they were taken into exile so Jeremiah 27 seek the welfare of the city
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for if the city prospers you too will prosper is a good command for the New Testament church
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even today, when the church is living in exile, when the church, when Christendom has fallen,
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to speak plainly, when Christendom has fallen, or when the gospel in this gospel age,
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this New Testament church age, when the gospel goes forth to another nation that has not
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previously been engulfed and submerged in christian thought in christian principles
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when the gospel goes forward to a pagan nation or goes forward to a nation that is dominated by a
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christian heresy such as judaism or islam when the gospel goes forward into new places
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that are currently underneath the power of a false religion and that the culture and society
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and laws and customs have been dictated and distinctly shaped by false doctrine and false
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worship of false gods. When Christians are in these places, they do well, I believe,
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to look at jeremiah 27 and say here are some some cues for us of how to live faithfully
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as the people of god in captivity in exile but even then there is still contextually
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a massive distinction the distinction is this for israel in exile in babylon for 70 years
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which was prophesied by the prophet isaiah because of israel's faithlessness their unbelief their
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rebellion in this context the the goal the solution the hope that israel was looking to
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is that eventually they would be delivered and set free and that they would be permitted
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released to go back to their land that god had promised to them and rebuild that is a distinction
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a massive distinction between old covenant israel and the new testament church our promise brothers
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and sisters is not that we are living in exile and that we need to do our best to get along
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with our captors but that eventually we will be set free to leave this land of babylon to go
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somewhere else no the new testament church in her marching orders is not that we will one day be
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freed from this oppressive land our order is that we will conquer this land it's not that we are in
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Babylon, but that God will mercifully take us out of Babylon to go somewhere else. No, the
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commandment is that by God's grace, that we will conquer Babylon, that Babylon will be Christianized.
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Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you guys, you're
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thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you
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shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
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Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years due
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to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change
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