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Welcome to Talking Scripture, I'm Mike.

I'm Bryce, and today we are going to be in section 76, The Vision.

Get ready, because this is a big piece of doctrine here.

Now let me just say up front that given all that we know from all the other scriptures,

this is not a tool of judgment to point to who's going to the slushed your kingdom.

But far too often, that's what it becomes, the club that we bang over the head.

No one should bang themselves over the head and say, I'm not good enough.

Of course we're not good enough right now.

Judgment is a very complicated thing, and only a God can truly do it.

So why would the Lord reveal section 76?

May I suggest that what the Lord does in these scriptures gives us patterns of behavior.

Patterns of identifying terrestrial traits in ourselves that we want to overcome, not

a tool of judgment to say, oh, you're going to the terrestrial kingdom.

But rather to say, that's a terrestrial trait, and I don't want to hold on to any terrestrial

traits.

I've used this analogy in the past.

Let me do it one more time, because I think this is the best way to look at sections like

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