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Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

I hope everyone is doing well today.

And let me just, I know it's customary for a speaker to do this, but let me just express my sincere, sincere

appreciation to all of you to answers in Genesis and to John MacArthur, Grace Community

Church, and grace to you, the fruit that is being born by God's grace from these ministries

is truly beyond what words can express and beyond what any of us

will ever know this side of heaven. So I'm very grateful to be here. Okay. Well, I have been assigned

a topic today and that topic is mysticism. Christian mysticism. Now that is a very, very broad topic and I can't

even say that this next hour or so will be a bird's eye view of mysticism. It's not

even going to be a 35,000 foot view of mysticism. It's going to be more like Colonel Jeff Williams' International Space

Station orbital view of mysticism because it is such a very broad topic. But we're going

to look at it. The deadly dangers of trusting personal experience over biblical authority. The deadly dangers of trusting personal experience over biblical authority.

The deadly dangers of trusting personal experience over biblical authority.

Mysticism broadly defined is the belief that, now watch the phrases that I have here highlighted,

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