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Feb. 25, 2024 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of 2nd Corinthians 4 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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truthradioshow.com And welcome everybody to truthradioshow.com I'm Dan Bedanti.
Welcome to this in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible, 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
So if you missed chapters 1 through 3, please stop right here, go watch them, and come back to this one, because you won't understand what's going on.
So before we begin, like always, we do a specific Bible study approach.
Number one, and very most important of anything, is to pray for wisdom and understanding.
So if you want to join me right now in the prayer, So Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah, we love you so much with all our hearts and souls.
And we ask you to forgive us individually of any sins we committed, any abominations, trespasses, or transgressions.
And we are sorry, Lord.
And just please forgive us and anoint us with your precious blood.
And help us, Lord, to avoid sin and temptation.
And Heavenly Father, we come before you again to once again ask you for divine intervention and to have your beautiful Holy Spirit, have him write your word upon our hearts today, 2 Corinthians chapter 4 today.
And we ask you to comfort everybody that's going through any kind of pain or suffering or sickness, especially this time of year, and to heal us, Lord.
Heal us spiritually, heal us physically, mentally, and we love you so much, Father.
And we pray that you can protect us all from the forces of evil.
In your mighty name we pray.
Amen.
So that we do not know, we read the scripture in context, because context is key.
And let the scripture interpret scripture.
Don't lean on your own understanding.
So if you got a Bible, guys, please open up to 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
So Continuing on from chapter 3, Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we faint not.
You know, we don't worry, because we have the ministry now, and we received mercy.
So, but, have renounced the hidden things of our dishonesty.
So the hidden things are like the sins we committed, and you know, just You know, the skeletons in the closet, if you want to put it that way.
Renounced them.
You know, of dishonesty.
Not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
So, not walking in craftiness.
Let me see what that means in craftiness.
Definition, Bible.
And two, ability to do anything.
So, nor handling the word of God deceitfully.
So yeah, especially that.
You know, the word of God is a scripture.
And it's written upon the hearts.
And don't ever do that deceitfully, yeah?
By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves.
Manifestation is the Holy Spirit and the Spirit within us.
Manifesting us.
Manifestation of truth.
Commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
So, If you're not living in the Spirit, if you're not walking in the Spirit, right?
You're hiding it.
It's gonna hide to other people, right?
So if somebody says, oh that guy, he's always, you know, good to people, kind to people and all that.
But if you're not showing the glory of the Lord, it's not showing to them.
The people who don't believe, right?
Or the unbelievers, whatever.
That don't know any of this stuff, right?
So if you're constantly doing these good things for people and all that, glorify my Lord, it's going to be revealed to them.
Oh wow!
Let me give this Christian thing a shot.
"...and whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not." So who's the God of this world?
And look, check this out, right?
I want to point this out.
Now, this is really cool.
Because I can use this for so many examples.
So, you got people out there, you got New Agers, you got people in the occult, you got people who just mock the Bible.
They say, oh, well, there's many gods.
And you tell them, no, there's only one God.
Well, your Bible says there's other gods.
No, the Bible does not say that.
Then they'll show a verse just like this.
And you simply point it out to them, right?
If you notice the word God, right here, in this context, the God of this world, is Satan.
The Bible makes that very clear, right?
Notice, take a good note at the word here, God, right?
Notice it's not capitalized.
And I brought this up, I gotta bring it up all the time for new listeners and everything else, to keep our memories refreshed.
Because they're very deceitful, these people.
And I understand a lot of people say, well, they are right, because the Bible does say God's and God's and all that.
It's like, no, if you paid attention.
If you notice, right, you see the word God, God's, and Lord.
We're referring to other people other than God and Jesus.
Notice how they're not capitalized.
When you see the word God, God's, Goddess, or Lord, Referring to anybody else but Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father, they're always lower case.
And anytime you see the word God or Lord capitalized, it's always referring to God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because simple terms, that if it's not capitalized, it's referring to a false God, a false Lord.
Capitalized is referring to the only one true God, the only one true Lord.
And you'll never see a true goddess because there ain't no goddess.
I don't think the Bible mentions that.
Anyway, but yeah.
So just always be wise with this because these new ages, these deceivers out there know the Bible.
Some of these people know well enough to know to trick people like this.
So the God of this world isn't saying that he's Satan's God.
No, not at all.
But here's the point of the God of this world, but not God in the case of being a Heavenly Father, or anything like Him.
But in whom the God of this world blinded the minds of them which believed not.
You see this all the time.
Satan blinds people's minds.
Especially, yeah, unbelievers.
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ Who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
So perfect example, right here.
Boom, right there.
Perfect example, when you're gonna come across one of these people.
Oh yeah, it took more than God's, right?
Look, look at the difference.
Why is the word God with a lowercase G and the word God with a capital N?
It's not a typo, it's not a, you know, nothing like that.
Because it's referring to the lowercase G, right?
Is referring to a false god.
They talk about Satan.
Right?
And, because people worship Satan as God.
People of the world.
And he's known as God of the world, but he's not God, like the big G. The capital G, God, right here, is referring to who?
The Heavenly Father.
And again, and it defines it, the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Alright, just a quick tip there, guys.
It's what we call spiritual warfare, because you've got to be very, very on top of things.
You've got to be on your toes when you're battling these people in debates and all that stuff, or countering them with their lies.
The serpent, Satan, he knows the scriptures better than any Christian out there.
And he knows how to utilize that scripture.
And this is why, guys, this is why we need the Holy Spirit.
Because if we have the Holy Spirit with us, we can outdo these people.
Not on our own accord.
You know, you gotta see like Stephen Dawkins, right?
This guy, for years, has run conferences, lectures and all that.
He sits in a whole hall of people, People pay for this, right?
And he sits there and bashes the Bible, brings stuff up like this.
Knows the Bible very well.
And he can easily deceive people.
Because the dragons with him, the God of this world, Satan.
They work through those people.
They know it very well.
So you're not going out with them on your own.
You need the Holy Spirit to do that.
The Holy Spirit working through you, you could put people like him to shame.
You could put Satan to shame.
On your own accord, you're not going to be able to do that.
Just wanted to point that out in the last chapter we showed, about the Holy Spirit having it written upon your heart.
So, if you have the Holy Spirit, have the Word of God written upon your heart, even Satan himself is not going to fool you.
Without the Holy Spirit writing the word upon your heart, Satan himself is going to outwit you.
Again, in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which don't believe, that's Satan.
Again, Last, right?
The light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine onto them.
For we preach not ourselves, I was just saying this, right?
I just said this.
For we preach not ourselves.
We don't preach, okay, from our own stuff.
But Jesus Christ, the Lord, are ourselves your servants for Jesus Christ's sake.
We don't do, you know, we're not preaching for ourselves, we're preaching for the Lord Jesus.
We're not our self-advocates, we're not representing Dan Badandi or whatever your name is.
We're there in the message of the Lord.
So when we come to people to preach or whatever or tell people, I don't come in my name.
I don't come for my glory.
I don't come for my whatever.
I come in the name of... I'm a messenger in the name of Jesus Christ.
That's it.
I'm not no prophet.
I'm not no person of high stature or holier than thou art.
No.
I am just a simple messenger.
You take the message as you will and that you're accorded to deal with God.
I'm not your judge, jury, executioner.
Jesus is.
So you don't preach not of yourself, but you preach of Jesus.
We are servants, like when the angels, right?
When the angels, you read the scriptures, or even in real life accounts, when the angels came, God's angels, came to people, right?
What do they tell them?
We are here, we're messengers of the Lord.
And sometimes when people see these angels, they bow down, It's written in the scriptures, so they bow down to them and angels tell them right away, no, no, get up.
Don't bow to me, don't pray to me, anything like that.
I am just a messenger from the Lord.
And at times so, you know, when we, when we, okay, when we go out and witness the people, whatever the case, or we teach the Word of God, people tend to say, you know, Christians, they'll like look up to you in high regard.
And when you have a big ministry, this happens to everybody, just about.
And, you know, the people who humble themselves with good ministries, the people who exalt themselves like Joel Osteen and all these 700 club people that have, you know, 10,000 people in their church, whatever the case, they fill auditoriums and all that, are on all over TV, they are glorifying themselves.
They're not servants of Jesus Christ, they're servants of their own.
We always must humble ourselves.
Because even times when people come up to me, they like, look up to me like high regard.
I'm like, no, no, don't do that.
And I gotta keep myself humble as well.
Because all we are is servants of the Lord.
That's it.
Nobody to be recognized, you know, special recognition.
We are just servants of the Lord.
Any special recognition and all that shit go to Jesus Christ.
Plain and simple.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Again, here we go, like the last chapter, right?
In our hearts.
Shine in our hearts, it's written upon our hearts as well.
If we have the Spirit of God, you know, the knowledge of God written upon our hearts, and shine in our hearts, We can give the light of knowledge to people.
Without that, you're not gonna, you know what I mean?
You can go to seminary school, like I was just talking about the last chapter, you can go to seminary school, you can go to college and all that stuff, right?
You're not gonna have that light, you're not gonna have that Holy Spirit's knowledge and wisdom, you know?
You don't have the spiritual applications without the Holy Spirit.
So, but we have this treasure in earthly vessels, that the excellency of power may be of God, and not of us.
Earthen vessels, I'm not roughly, I'm sorry, earthen.
Let me see what earthen message means.
It's used to preserve land and deed.
Let me see.
Bible meaning.
Denotes a plenty of abundance of things precious and valuable.
All right.
So that puts you see, well, I almost messed up because I said earthly vessels.
So I was thinking things of earth, like treasures of the earth and all that.
So this is why it's important.
To really take your time and understand us, because if I would have skipped over that, that would have just deframed the whole meaning of this rest.
Because we, you know, when the Bible says that don't store treasures up in the earth because they rust and mold and whatnot, and deep steal it, you store your treasures in heaven.
So that's what I was thinking of.
So now I stopped myself and was like, no, it's earthen, not earthly, earthen vessels.
The whole different meaning, that's why you need to understand.
No shame in looking at war at all.
So earthen vessels is plenty and abundance of things precious and valuable.
So, but we have a plenty of abundance of things precious and valuable.
And earthen vessels, right?
That's what that is.
That the excellency of the power may be of God in and out of us.
So these earthen vessels are treasures of the Lord.
That gives you, right?
It's not gold, silver, anything like that.
You know, money or whatever.
It's nothing like that.
It's spiritual.
That the excellency of the power may of God be of God and not of us.
We are troubled on every side, but not distressed.
We are perplexed, but not in despair.
Persecuted But not forsaken.
Cast down, but not destroyed.
So, he's showing you, right?
Here on the earth, the world troubles us on every side.
But we're not distressed, right?
The world purposely makes us perplexed.
But we're not in despair.
The world persecutes you, right?
But you're not forsaken.
Because this is God.
You see what's going on?
God's not despairing, you know, He's not forsaking you.
The world casts you down, but because of God you're not destroyed.
Always bearing about the body of the dying of the Lord Jesus.
But I'm sorry, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
So the world, you know, the thing is the world's constantly crucifying Jesus.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's why when you see some churches out, you know, fake religions, they always have Jesus on the cross.
And like the Catholic Church, right?
That's constantly, Jesus rose from that.
Jesus was taken off the cross and rose from the dead.
To have a cross with Jesus on it, guys, number one is a second commandment violation.
It's idolatry.
Regardless if you worship it or not, it's still a second-commandment violation because it says don't make any engraving images that's in heaven or the earth or in the water or anything.
Don't make them.
So to put an image of Jesus Christ on the cross is blasphemy from number one.
It's an abomination.
Doesn't matter what your heart is.
Oh, God knows my heart.
No, that's not how it works.
To have an image of Jesus Christ on the cross is constantly crucifying him.
He's rose from the dead and he's got victory now.
So he's always bearing about in the body of the dying of the Lord Jesus, right?
But that the life is also of Jesus might be made manifest in our bodies.
So he had victory at the cross.
He rose from the dead and he's off that cross now.
And him is now manifest in our bodies, I believe.
Not saying, not saying that we are like Jesus Christ or we have powers like Jesus Christ.
Because we got people who take that way out of context.
It's not saying it.
Because they say, you know, these new age... Oh, you said the Bible says that, you know, God is in us.
We are made in his image.
Doesn't mean we're God's.
This here doesn't mean we're Jesus.
Or anything like Jesus or God.
Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Doesn't mean we're Jesus ourselves.
For we, which live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake.
So, on the earth here, the world wants to deliver you to death all the time for Jesus' sake.
Because they persecuted him first.
Remember they said they hated him first?
Jesus said this.
He said, they're gonna hate you too.
They're gonna persecute you too.
That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
And again, it doesn't mean with Jesus.
He manifests in us, and that's why we're persecuted and nothing else.
For his sake.
Which is a good thing, it means you're doing your job.
So then, death works in us, but life is in you.
So, you get what this is saying?
The world wants you dead, alright?
The world hates you, because the god of this world is who?
Satan.
Because we just read, right?
Verse 2.
Uh, 4, I'm sorry.
So the death works in us, right?
It works in us.
But, life is in you.
And what's that life?
That's Jesus Christ.
John 3, 16.
You know, God so loved the earth, that whoever believes it shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
And it's in the spiritual sense, by the way.
Doesn't mean you're not going to die, because every man is appointed to die once.
But, you go on to the second life.
Eternal life.
If you believe in the Lord.
So, we have in the same spirit of faith, according as it is written.
So, again, that word, as it is written.
So, you wouldn't know what that means, or whatever, anything like that, if you didn't know the Old Testament.
So, we have in the same spirit of faith, Same spirit of faith.
According as it is written, I believed and therefore have I spoken, we also believe and therefore speak.
Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus Christ shall raise up us by Jesus also.
I just butchered that, sorry guys.
Yeah, so uh, because what happens when I read this is all old English and I try to rephrase it, which I probably shouldn't do, but so you understand it.
So, knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you.
So, the Lord Heavenly Father Raised up Jesus Christ, right?
We all know that, he resurrected from the dead.
So, also know that he's got raised also by Jesus, because of Jesus.
And we will be present with Jesus.
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might, through the thanksgiving of many, rebound in the glory of God.
So everything for our sakes, right?
That the abundance of grace, through the thanksgiving of many, rebound to the glory of God.
Grace was offered to us at the cross.
Salvation, right?
For which cause we faint not, but through our outward man perish, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
So, really contemplate on this for a minute here, right?
So, for which cause us not to faint, right?
Which, you know, to faint would be, could be many things.
But, faint is like, uh, give up, or whatever the case.
You know, pass out.
It means different things.
But, through our outward man, perish, right?
So, our body, our flesh is gonna perish.
But the inward man, that's the spirit, is renewed day by day.
Who you are inside is renewed day by day.
We get old, our bodies change and they start, you know, like, you know, and they're gonna die.
But our inward man is renewed day by day.
For our light affliction, which has bought for the moment, worketh for us far more exceeding in the external weight of glory.
Eternal, I'm sorry.
So yeah, our light affliction, Light affliction, right?
Which is but for a moment, works for us as far as more exceeding an eternal weight of glory.
While we look not at things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
What does that mean?
You look to the Spirit.
You look to the God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
Because here's the thing, here's the real fact, and this is gonna blow a lot of people's minds.
So, everything in this world right now, right?
The things you can smell, touch, feel, taste, uh, whatever the case?
Yeah, yeah, they're real in their reality.
But the things that you can't see are more real than what you're looking at on your phone or your computer right now.
Let that sink in for a minute.
It's more real than the clothes on your body, more real than the car you drive.
Now, I'm not saying we live in a simulation or anything like that.
Don't get me wrong with that.
You know, so I'm just saying, we're supposed to look at the things which are not seen.
That's the spirit.
Because it goes on to say, for the things which are seen are temporal.
In other words, everything here you see, the clothes I mentioned, and your body, and the car you drive, the computer, tablet, iPad, or phone you're watching me on right now.
All these things are temporary.
They're gonna one day end up in the junkyard, decomposing, whatever the case, right?
But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Okay?
You get what this is saying.
So he said, don't look at the things that which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
And obviously you gotta look, I mean, yeah, I gotta explain this stuff, because sometimes people just go above and beyond, like, just ridiculous.
I'm trying to be nice about that, but these people just take it to a whole new level.
The Bible here is not saying, okay, that You know, not to drive a car or, you know, whatever.
You know what I mean?
You get the point.
But yeah.
You go about your life and everything else, absolutely.
But what you're supposed to do is look toward the afterlife.
Look toward the Spirit.
Look for the Holy Spirit for guidance.
Things like that.
Look for the stuff in the spiritual realm.
Save, you know, store your treasures in the spiritual realm.
Yeah, people just like, uh, hobble money away and everything else.
No.
You're supposed to store your treasures in heaven.
Your spiritual gifts.
Those don't rust.
Those don't rot away.
Thieves can't steal.
For the things which are seen are temporal.
So everything we got today, as I mentioned, right?
Eventually it's going to go away.
Somehow, someway it's going to go away.
Something's going to happen to it, whatever the case.
It's all going to go away.
Everything you've seen in the world eventually is going to go away because God's going to make a new heaven on earth.
Everything doesn't matter what you have.
Jewelry or whatever the case.
Everything's all temporal.
But the things at which I'm not seeing are eternal.
That's your spirit.
So your body, go look in the mirror right now, right?
Take a look in the mirror, or your selfie cam.
That's temporal.
Your skin, bones, teeth, you know, your face, your whole body's all temporal.
The spirit is eternal.
And it's only through Jesus Christ, by the way.
So, uh, watch you guys, like, uh, go ponder on this.
I just, like, take your time and read the scripture.
Like we said, you know what I mean?
Don't take my word, anybody else's word for it.
Read it for yourself.
Just really take your time to read this, guys.
This is why it took a half hour to read this, because I wanted to really pull out the meat and potatoes of the Bible.
Eighteen verses, heck, you could have read it in, well, pshh, maybe two minutes, not even.
But you don't learn nothing doing that.
You gotta, you really need to contemplate and really understand what these things mean.
Then you fully grasp and understand what the description is saying.
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So, thank you for tuning in to this in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible, 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
And we will see you for chapter 5, God willing.
So, love you all.
God bless.
Shalom.
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