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Feb. 24, 2024 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of 2nd Corinthians 3 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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- If you're receiving this transmission, you are the resistance. you are the resistance.
Declaring war on the New World Order.
truth radio show dot com shalom and welcome to the damn it's not true to the show dot com welcome to the book of second Corinthians chapter three in this in-depth comprehensive study of the bible So, like always, we have to begin with a specific Bible study approach.
Number one, to pray for wisdom and understanding.
So we do that right now.
So Jesus, Yeshua Messiah, we ask you to forgive us individually of our sins that we committed today.
Any sins, abominations, any trespasses, any transgressions.
We ask you to pour your blood upon us and cleanse us, Lord, of those sins.
And we repent of those sins, Lord.
And we ask you, Heavenly Father, to write your word upon our hearts today with the Holy Spirit.
In this case, 2 Corinthians chapter 3.
And we ask you just to protect us all from the forces of evil.
Comfort all of us that need comforting.
And just anybody that's sick right now and everything else going through any anguish.
We ask you just to be with us and heal us Lord.
And we ask you in your mighty name we pray.
Amen.
And now we read the scripture in context, because remember, context is key.
Very important to understand this.
And let the scripture interpret the scripture.
Don't lean on your own understanding.
If you don't understand something, ask for the Holy Spirit to give you better understanding.
That's especially why we pray, too.
Not only to cleanse ourselves, but to ask God for divine intervention to read His Word.
Because there's so much context involved.
And I say this every time we do a video.
You know, it's like, you can't learn this stuff in academia.
You can't.
Because there's spiritual applications in the scripture that cannot be taught in a school.
It has to be taught to you by the Holy Spirit.
So if you've got a Bible, please open it up.
And that's chapter 3 of the book of 2 Corinthians.
So, here we go.
So, verse 1, chapter 3.
Do we begin again to command ourselves?
Or need we, as some others, epistles a condemnation to you, or letters of condemnation from you?
This is Paul asking, again, if you don't know what's going on here.
This is Paul's second letter to the Church of Corinth.
And you are our epistle, written in our hearts, known in red of all men.
See, you're going to see that in the Scriptures a lot, about written on our hearts.
That means you love the Lord.
And when you have these things written on your hearts, it's like second-hand nature.
Like the commandments and all that, when it's written upon your heart, it's like, it's a beautiful thing because you understand them now, you know?
And that's why we pray for the Holy Spirit, too.
To write these things upon our hearts.
And again, he says, you are our epistle.
Our epistle, right?
We are epistles.
Written in our hearts, known in red of all men.
That's amazing, too, because, wow, here we are, 2,000 years later, this word is still effectively written upon people's hearts.
That's crazy.
Crazy good, actually.
For as much as you are manifestly declared by the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in the tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of heart." Guys, right here!
Bam!
It's right here what I'm going to talk about.
If you've been following this series, guys, and by the way, if you missed chapters 1 and 2, stop right here and go back and watch the other two videos.
But this right here is a perfect demonstration of what I've been talking about.
This is why we do that Bible study approach.
This is why we ask for the Holy Spirit to reign upon our hearts.
Every video we've done, we ask this.
And I know some of these things might sound repetitive, but the thing is we need to constantly remind ourselves.
So we don't go our own ways, you know what I mean?
We go to the quantum of the spirit.
And right here, this is like so powerful, right here.
So, for as much as you are manifestly declared to be the apostle of Christ, ministered by us.
And again, here's the thing, right?
The scripture, you know, the Bible itself, it's a book with ink in it, and there's pages, you know, words in it, right?
It's more than that.
This is what people don't understand.
And we're not saying the Bible itself, the book itself has power or we worship it.
No, we're not saying anything like that.
It's written down about the essence.
This is what I was talking about.
This is something that universities, seminary schools, colleges, churches cannot teach.
It's the spiritual application of the word.
This is beautiful, yeah.
This is, oh man, like a goose bumps.
So, I've been saying this the whole time.
You know, no scholar, or priest, or anything like that, or pastor could teach you this.
This has to be manifested to you by the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit of the Living God is the Holy Spirit, guys.
Again, I'm gonna, like, really reflect on this because this is where you pull the context out.
So, if we were at a church, right, they would read, say, well, you know, a few verses here.
They would just read to us.
Maybe, a quick, quick explanation.
Maybe.
Or you go to a Bible site, you know, which they, you know, people read the Bible very well, better than me.
But, they don't get into the context of this.
So, I'm gonna really reflect on this for a minute, yeah.
So, for as much as you, verse 3, yeah, are manifestly declared to be Epistle of Christ ministered by us.
Right?
We are declared to be an Epistle of Jesus Christ.
As believers, right?
Now, It's not written with ink, guys.
Yeah, obviously, if you open the book, it's obviously ink and all that stuff.
That's not what he's talking about.
The book itself, the Bible, is just a book.
But it's the Word that made, yeah, became flesh.
The Word that is power.
That's written upon our souls and our hearts.
But with the Spirit, like, it's written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God.
That is the Holy Spirit, guys.
He writes it upon our hearts.
Not in tables of stone, you know, the Ten Commandments, right?
And it's not saying the Ten Commandments are abolished, because when it goes back, we can go right back to the Old Testament.
Because sure, the Ten Commandments are written in stone, but the Lord said they need to be written upon your hearts.
See how the Old and the New Testament go together?
And I can't stand when people say, oh, the Old Testament doesn't matter.
Yes, it does.
So when you have the commandments of God and the word of Jesus Christ written upon your heart, that's a beautiful thing.
Thank you.
But firstly, tablets of our hearts.
See, you get what this is saying?
It's written, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, the Holy Spirit, and not on tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.
In such trust have we through Christ to God word.
I love this.
This is really cool.
And one more time.
So far as I'm excited because this is everything I've been saying, man.
And I'm going to show you one more time here, so hang on a second.
Yeah.
This is why we do this, guys, Bible study approach.
This is why I repeat the same thing every video.
Same thing.
One more time, verse 3.
For as much as you are manifestly declared the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, So we were ministered by reading the Word, right?
And we are declared apostles of Christ.
You don't just hang out in the church all day, and that's what a lot of Christians don't get.
Yeah, it's good to get to know the Word, you know, it's a baby question.
But you grow up, you learn it yourself afterwards, and you become ministers yourself.
The people just sit there all year long, you know, every year, I'm sorry, year after year, go to the churches, they go to the churches to hear the Word of God, which is beautiful.
But they don't do nothing.
They go home, they don't say anything to anybody.
That's not what we're supposed to do.
We're supposed to be ministers of Christ.
And you don't need to go to seminary school to do that.
The only person that can ordain you to do that is the Holy Spirit.
You don't need a certificate to say you're a minister.
But the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not in the tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of your heart.
Needs to be written upon your heart.
As such, trust we have, we, through Christ to God.
It's a God word, it doesn't mean we become God, no.
Yeah, because I know some new ages probably take that out of context.
But it's a God word, you know, the knowledge of the stuff, right?
And being, you know, trying to walk that perfect path, you know, that was straight and narrow.
Now, I'm sorry, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.
So, right here, this is why you need to read context, because somebody will say, oh, we could be like God, and perfect, and everything else, and we, we, we, I, I, I. They'll take this out of context.
But if you read it in context, Paul explains himself.
This is why, here's the thing, a lot of people say Paul's difficult to understand.
And the only reason why they say that, Paul, is because they read a couple of verses.
Yeah, you need to read the whole thing because, Paul, if you can't read one or two verses, you're like, alright, you could have multiple meanings.
But when you read the whole thing in a context, it could be the paragraph, it could be the chapter, or a couple of chapters, it's a full understanding, very easy to understand.
It just takes basic comprehensive skills.
And mainly the Holy Spirit.
So he's not saying that we have this God-willing power, you know, knowledge and power or whatever.
He said it's not we are sufficient of ourselves.
We're not sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves, but our efficiency is of God, who also has made us able ministers of the New Testament.
So he's made us ministers.
We are ministers of the New Testament.
Not of the letter, but of the spirit.
For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Do you get what he's saying?
This is truly amazing stuff, it really is.
So, but if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was able to be done away.
So, really look at this rest of it, right?
And this, again, I gotta say this, again, perfect example right there.
And if you didn't know the Old Testament, how would you know anything about the face of Moses?
What are they talking about?
This is why you need to know the Old Testament.
And I say this, guys, because countless churches and religions out there don't even concentrate on the Old Testament.
Oh, just read Matthew through Revelation and that's it.
And repeat, and repeat, and repeat.
So, if you don't know the Old Testament, how are you going to know this?
How are you going to know what Jesus says as it is written?
How are you going to know what Paul means when he says as it is written?
They talk about the Torah and the Old Testament.
So, if you don't know that, the Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament.
So, if you don't know that, how are you going to understand what they're talking about?
And right here, we have two references, right here.
Three, I'm sorry.
Yeah, three references, basically, of Old Testament stuff.
The first thing, when I read about the written part of the Mahattah, instantly it came to my mind about the Ten Commandments.
And it explained that.
So, let's talk about the children of Israel, right?
The Jews here, when Moses was on the mountain, and when he spoke to God, Moses came down and his face was glowing.
Literally, not figuratively or metaphorically, his face was glowing.
Now I know a lot of religions like to rip the spirituality out of the Bible.
To say, oh it's figuratively or metaphorically.
No, it was literally.
His face was glowing.
Because of the countenance.
The glory of his countenance.
And that's why God himself, the Father, he had to appear to him in the form of a burning bush.
Because anybody that sees the face of God, you're instantly dropped dead.
You can't even comprehend or understand.
Right now, if the guy was to appear himself, the Father, everybody that's seen him would drop dead instantly.
Doesn't matter how much faith you have or anything like that, you would drop dead instantly because of the countenance of his glory.
That's why Moses was just seen at Brandon Bush, his face was blown, they had to put a veil on him.
It scared the heck out of people.
And if you didn't know any of that, you know, the Old Testament, you wouldn't know what the heck they're talking about here.
That's why a lot of religions are just read over that quick and not explain it.
And before you even get time to register in your head, well, what is he talking about?
They're already still going on and on and on and on, you know, and you forget about it.
This is why we do this study here.
And I don't care if it takes a half hour.
I don't care if it takes two hours.
There's only 18 verses here, and yeah, we could do this in like probably a minute or two.
That's not what we're doing here.
This is just amazing stuff, and we're going on 16 minutes here, and um... Yeah, so much stuff we pulled out already.
Yeah, so, "...but manifestation of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face..." In other words, they couldn't...
Comprehend or understand, and it scared them, the face of Moses.
Because it was glowing with the glory of his countenance.
Which was the glory of God.
You know what I mean?
Right there.
Which glory was to be done away with.
And it doesn't mean the laws and all that stuff would be done away with.
That's not what he's talking about.
How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
Yeah, how is the Spirit not glorious?
Yes.
It is, you know.
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceeding glory.
For every, I'm sorry, even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect.
But the reason of the glory that exceleth So if you get what Paul's trying to say, he's not saying, uh, you know, the Ten Commandments and all that stuff written in stone and whatnot, it's not, he's not saying it's not glorious, but he's saying the spirit of it is more glorious.
Like the book we have today called the Bible?
He's not saying it's not glorious, right?
But he's saying the spirit, like written upon the hearts and stuff, that's more glorious.
And that's what he showed.
Remember I told you, I think one of the lessons I had, about the Holy Spirit?
We did a lot of these studies, yeah?
But, it manifests with us.
And this is why we're able to understand things and all that stuff, and really pull the context out of you, because the Holy Spirit's reaching out to us.
So Moses had a physical attribute, if you will, His countenance, you know, which is the glory of God to be done with.
The glory was to be done away, right?
And again, it's not saying that the law is not to be done away, right?
It's nothing like that.
It's the Spirit.
For in which that hath made glorious hath no glory in respect.
In this respect.
But reason of the glory that excels.
So, with the Spirit, the glory excels.
For if that which was done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
So again, this is why you need to read Paul's writings in context, because if you read a couple of these verses, you'd be like, what is he even talking about?
And it'd be wide open to interpretation.
And if people say, oh, that's why Paul's are hard to read, well, it is at first, but when you read it all in the context of that, it's not hard.
That's why you need to read the things in context.
So, seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which was abolished.
Right?
Okay.
Thank you.
Then this is just like, you know, again, he had to put a veil over his face.
When you go read Exodus and all that, you'll understand what this is really talking about.
The children of Israel could not steadfastly, right?
And if you want to know what steadfastly means, it's God's devoted loving kindness, mercy, and faithfulness at the very core of his character and actions.
right?
So, but in their minds, we're blind.
Blinded.
And for until this day remain at the same veil, untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away with in Christ. .
So the things that, so, all right, so I know the question is like, what did you talk about?
You know, because you said a couple of times of something that's being done away with, right?
The glory to be done away with.
It's not talking about the laws, right?
This is why people need to read Paul in context, expression.
The veil, the mystery, like in other words, hidden.
Now understand this, right?
We told you that Moses had to have a veil to hide the countenance of God, because it was scaring people.
His face was radiant, glowing, just from being in the presence of the Lord.
So you say, and to this day, the veil, in the spiritual sense, has not been taken away yet, in the reading of the Old Testament.
Which veil is done away in Christ.
So when Jesus came, he removed that veil.
He removed the restrictions of the old covenant.
And again, we need to specify, when it was done away with the old covenant, to the new covenant here, the new covenant is Jesus Christ.
He removed that veil.
So you can now see the countenance of God.
And the mysteries.
He is not saying that the people, I don't know where people get this from.
The laws and commandments, they carry into the New Testament.
I don't know where people get they were abolished.
When the Old Testament was abolished, I'm sorry, the Old Covenant was abolished.
They didn't abolish the laws.
We went over this through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The laws and commandments.
Every chapter, I mean, every book we've read so far, Jesus tells us to keep the commandments of God, and his also, the two great commandments.
Which are, what's his two great commandments?
The two hangers, which the laws hang upon, and the Ten Commandments.
So, the veil that was over them, basically the spiritual veil, he's saying, that was covering things, right?
From the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, It's now lifted in Christ.
But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
What does that mean?
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to God, the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
Because the thing is, back then, they didn't have the Messiah.
They prophesied about the Messiah and all that, right?
So the veil is... The veil is Jesus.
Jesus is the one who lifts that veil.
He's also the one who rips the sky open, like a scroll, when he comes back.
So basically he's saying, you know, just understanding the Old Testament, you still got that veil upon your heart.
The Messiah's not here.
You don't have the spirit of knowledge and all that, right?
Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
When you turn to Jesus, the veil will be taken away.
And now the Lord is that Spirit.
And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Freedom!
Knowledge is power, you know?
The truth will set you free.
That's exactly what that means.
But we all, with open face beholden, as in the glass of the glory of the Lord, are changing to the same image from glory to glory.
Even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
And as in the glass of the Lord. - I'm sorry, the glass of the glory.
The glory of the Lord.
Basically encompassed with the glory of the Lord.
Are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
So remember he said one glory is, you know, at the beginning here.
Talk about glory here. - Yeah.
From glory to glorious.
So he was saying the old, you know, the old, right?
Moses, which glory was to be done away with, right?
So it went from glory, the old covenant, was glory.
The new covenant with Jesus is glorious.
And glorious, if you, I mean, compared to glory, glory is great.
Glorious is much better than glory.
At the higher level, you know what I'm saying?
And he's talking about the spirits.
To get this in a nutshell.
Yes, the people before Christ, right?
Because they all proselytized about, you know, the prophets, the covenant with Messiah, Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah.
The Son of Man, the Son of God.
God in the flesh.
And at the time they had a veil on them, the old covenant was glory.
Because it set a standard that we are now under the veil of God.
And we are under the veil of the old covenant. - Lord.
So when Jesus fulfilled his prophecy that he is the Messiah, that veil was lifted.
Now we go from glory to glory, yes.
The image from glory to glory.
Even as the Spirit of the Lord, the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, it's the Spirit of the Heavenly Father.
Wow, what an amazing chapter this is.
Yeah, and especially this, I've got it one more time, guys.
Sorry, we're now going almost a half hour, so... Yeah, this just really, really got to me here.
"...for as much as that you are manifested and declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with think," right?
"...written not with think," that's the books or whatever, "...but with the Spirit of the living God, the Holy Spirit." That's what I... Before we even started, I said this stuff, right?
And, you know, we elaborated on it again.
That... This right here.
So, you know what I mean?
I'm not... You know, here's the thing.
I'm not bashing anybody who's a scholar.
You know, who goes to college and all that stuff.
But the thing is, you gotta deal with a lot of these scholars who think they're experts and they're better than anybody else.
And I ran into a lot of them.
They're exactly what they think.
But there's one thing they lack.
It's the spirit.
Because, right here.
Yeah, you read and studied a book with ink and all that stuff, right?
But where's the spiritual applications?
This is what I've been talking about.
There's been people out there, literally, that could really... You tell them, it's like, alright, without looking at the Bible, just read 1 John 1.
And they can spit it right out, no problem.
But when it comes to understanding, and they're on the academic level, right?
But when it comes to understanding the spiritual level, they're clueless.
You need to have it written upon your heart to fully understand the Scriptures.
Even at that, I mean like, how many times we could read chapter 3 at?
And we're gonna always pull stuff out of here.
This is the mysteries of the Lord, this is beautiful.
Cause you got a scholar saying, all right, I'm going to read this.
Down here.
All right.
All right.
What'd you learn out of that?
Oh, let's talk about glory and all that stuff.
Now, would you really learn out of that?
You went to this chapter here in like two minutes.
You didn't, you didn't grasp enough, man.
Did you take time to study what this meant?
And these modern day churches that don't even teach the Old Testament anymore.
You're not going to understand any of this.
Especially when it talks about Moses' face glowing and everything.
You're not going to understand any of that.
This right here, I think that out of all the chapters so far, I think this one right here, 2 Corinthians chapter 3, I think this one right here is just solidified everything I've been saying.
And by all means, I am not taking the glory or anything for that, because this is what I've been taught by the Holy Spirit.
And when you read Charles Spurgeon, right?
That's why a lot of religions hated Spurgeon.
Because he understood this.
He's got a book, it's a small little book called The Holy Spirit, The Power of the Holy Spirit.
He says the same thing.
Same exact things as I do.
Well, I'm sorry, he said it first, so I say the same things he does.
And even before I read that book.
Because when I started understanding the Holy Spirit, it communicates to us all.
Then when I read Charles Spurgeon, I'm like, wow.
Wow.
Exactly what I do.
Because he understood the Holy Spirit.
And here's another example before we go, right?
So, you know, I mean, if somebody says, oh, recite, uh, I don't know, um, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 2.
I couldn't even tell you for a whole long.
Couldn't even tell you what that says.
But there's some verses I memorized, yeah.
But not all of them.
You know what I mean?
Obviously.
But when a situation comes up, like somebody's bashing the Bible or something, you know, we need scripture right away or something like that.
It's not me.
The Holy Spirit kicks in and BAM!
It comes right to my head and I spit it right out.
Sometimes I don't even understand what I'm saying at first.
It just comes out.
How does that happen?
And I, you know, when I debate scholars and all that stuff, you know, people who claim to know the Bible and all that, they'll spit stuff out of context and all that, and instantly I know how to counter that.
It's not me, it's the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit's written a word upon my heart.
And I'm like, wow, where the heck did I get that from?
You know, the Holy Spirit.
And I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate, you know, we don't know the Bible up and down, word by word, without reading it.
But when the time comes in need, somebody needs help or something like that too, it comes out.
It comes right out of your heart.
And half the time you don't even know what you're saying at first.
It's the Holy Spirit speaking to you because it's written upon your heart.
Wow, this is an awesome chapter.
So guys, thank you for tuning in and don't take my word or anybody else's word for it.
Read it for yourselves.
And here's the thing too, don't take my word for anything.
I want you to, right now, while we get off this, this is what you want to do.
Pray to the Father, and ask for the Holy Spirit to help you.
And we did that before the video.
But if you didn't really do that, I'd ask you to do that.
Then, go back and read this for yourself.
Go back and read it for yourself, and see where you get out of it.
And please tell me in the comments section, not the live chat.
Because we premiere this, right?
I record these ahead of time and I premiere them.
So this way you can engage in the live chat for the fellowship and everything else.
But when it's over, there's no more live chat to chat in, right?
So in the comments section, tell me what you get out of it.
And if you got any questions, comments, or concerns, or whatever, put it in the live chat.
I'm sorry, in the comments section.
And I'll get back to you.
So, check me out, truthradioshow.com, the Spiritual Warfare Friday shows, our documentaries, all that good stuff, our Bible studies and all that stuff, truthradioshow.com.
And also, thank you for tuning in to the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 3.
So, thank you so much for, you know, just like taking the time to do this, because it's very important.
We all need to keep studying, and I can read the Bible a million times, and You know what I mean?
You can't read it enough.
And the other thing, too, guys, I got a little quote I made, right?
The day you stop learning is the day you should stop teaching.
So the day that I say, oh, I don't need to learn no more, which I would never do, is the day I'll stop teaching.
Because we need to constantly learn.
It doesn't matter how many years you spent in college, how many years you ran a ministry, I can read the Bible day and night over and over again, and I still need to learn.
So again, the day you stop learning is the day you should give up teaching.
Plain and simple.
So once again, thank you for tuning in to this in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible.
I'm Dan Bodondi.
God bless.
Shalom.
And remember, you are the resistance.
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