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🗓️ 1 October 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, here we are. This is the Friday Q&A, which currently is not every single Friday. |
0:10.4 | I kind of am doing it every other Friday because I'm so busy. So incredibly busy it |
0:15.9 | hurts. So I'm doing that every other Friday so that I can use one of the Fridays every |
0:21.0 | other week as a study day. Anyway, the first question for today, which you guys are probably |
0:24.8 | interested in, and then I'll tell you a little bit more about stuff. There it is. That's |
0:28.9 | what I was trying to do, is this one here coming in from Brzez, Joshi, who says, much appreciation |
0:38.2 | for the ministry, how were the disciples able to follow Jesus and resist sin without the |
0:44.4 | spirit indwelling them? Is it possible to be a Christian without the spirit? Two different |
0:52.4 | questions, but let's dig into those things. First off, I want to challenge a presupposition |
0:56.3 | that we might have going on here behind your question, that the disciples didn't sin when |
1:02.7 | they were following Jesus, or even after Jesus' resurrection. But during the time when he was |
1:08.0 | on the earth, the idea that the disciples didn't sin seems wrong. There's actually strong |
1:14.0 | reasons to think this is the case, and it's, you know, Jesus rebukes the disciples. |
1:18.0 | He rebukes Peter, says, give behind me Satan. He rebukes the disciples for arguing amongst themselves |
1:23.2 | about which one of them is the greatest. That's kind of a big deal. He calls them O ye of little faith. |
1:30.4 | And so he reprimands them on a number of occasions, not to mention like |
1:35.8 | just other events where you don't have specifically a word from Jesus to what they did was wrong, |
1:39.4 | but there's something going on there. The disciples were in a learning process. This doesn't |
1:44.6 | mean everything they did was wrong, but I think it would be wrong to think they didn't sin. |
1:49.7 | But maybe you're asking like, how did they ever not sin without the spirit in dwelling them? |
1:55.3 | Like if you don't have the Holy Spirit in you, isn't everything you do sinful? |
1:58.9 | Is there anything you do that's truly good, that's morally good and upright? |
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