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April 24, 2024 - Dan Bidondi Show
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Discussing The Book of 2nd Corinthians 10 - The Dan Bidondi Show Bible Series
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truth radio show dot com shalom and welcome to truth radio show dot com and welcome to our comprehensive in-depth study of the bible We are now on Chapter 10 of the Book of 2 Corinthians.
So if you missed Chapters 1 through 9, please go back and watch them in our playlist.
This way it makes sense to you.
So before we get going, we do a specific Bible study approach like always.
Best thing to do here before you're reading the Bible, very highly suggested.
Even at home when you just want to read through the Scriptures, this is what gets the maximum So, number one, we pray for wisdom and understanding.
So, let's pray.
So, Jesus, Yeshua, Messiah, we come before you, and once again, like we say every day, because we do stupid things every day, Lord, and we pray that you could just forgive us of our sins and trespasses and the bad things we've done today and everything else.
We thank you so much for going to Calvary for us, and thank you for everything you do to continue 24-7 to advocate for us.
And Heavenly Father, we come before you and ask you to give us the Divine Holy Spirit once again, the Great Comforter, the Great Teacher, to teach us your Word today.
In this case, 2 Corinthians chapter 10.
Make it true to our hearts, Lord, and just give us the wisdom and knowledge to unlock the mysteries and the Spirit of the Word you have today for us.
Our daily bread.
And I pray that you could comfort everybody that's going through anything mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritual, any kind of problems.
And comfort them, Lord.
Comfort myself as well, and protect us all from the forces of evil.
And we love you so much.
In your mighty name, Amen.
All right, guys.
And what we do, guys, is read the Scripture in context.
Very important.
I am going to repeat this every show.
Very important to do.
Read Scripture in context.
Context is key.
What many churches, ministries, and religions lack doing.
You know, you can't string together a bunch of single Bible verses and expect people to understand it.
You need to read each verse in context.
Unless you already have the understanding of it, absolutely.
But generally, you read the verse in context.
And let the Scripture interpret Scripture.
Don't lean on your own understanding.
Let the Holy Spirit speak through you, and it's a great thing.
And if you're new to the program, like I said, if you missed chapters 1 through 9, please go back and watch it.
So anyway, this is Paul's second letter to Corinthians, the church of Corinth.
And if you've got a Bible, please open it up.
If not, we've got it up on screen.
We use King James Version here.
So, now I, Paul, myself, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
So, I'm gonna, you know, we do this, this is what Bible study is.
So, beseech is, if you don't know what that means, it's to ask somebody urgently, affirmatively, to do something.
So... And I understand a lot of people already know what that means, but... This is the old King James Version, and these words are very important to understand.
And I just want to point that out, guys.
I... I say this seldomly, yeah.
So, I mean actually more than seldomly.
I say this a lot.
If you don't know what a word means, don't be embarrassed!
I gotta express that.
Don't be embarrassed because the thing is, if you say, alright, I'm just gonna skip that because I don't want to look like an idiot in front of a group.
No!
You ask what that word means.
Because if you don't know what it means, it could change the entire outcome of the verse.
And then the whole thing in context.
Very important to understand that.
And, you know, don't ever be embarrassed to ask what a word means.
Like, beseech, right?
Yeah, you don't hear this every day.
These are words you don't hear every day.
Have you had your teacher tell you, I beseech you?
No.
So these are words that we use at one time, you know.
So it's to ask somebody urgently.
Like you're really earnestly asking them.
It's important.
So again, don't ever be embarrassed or feel like a fool because you don't understand what a word means.
Who cares?
At least you got the guts to come up and say, hey listen, I don't know what that word means.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Especially again, this is old English, nobody uses half these words anymore.
Because, you know, the modern day.
But, very important to understand these words, because it could change the entire outcome of the description.
That's why we need to take it verse by verse, word by word.
In context.
So once again, now I, Paul, myself, beseech you.
Like he's saying, Urgently, get your attention here.
By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who is in presence and based among you.
So Christ is with us, he's saying, right?
But being absent and bold toward you.
So, straight up.
Paul's being straight up.
That's what he's saying.
Bold means to be straight up, forward, no beating around the bush.
I'm telling you how it is.
That's it.
That's the way it should be, right?
Not, no, blowing smoke up people's butts or anything, excuse the language for that.
But, yeah, that's not how you teach the Scriptures.
You need to be bold and straightforward, plain and simple.
Don't worry about offending anybody or anything like that.
Tell it how the Scripture says.
If somebody's offended by it, guess what?
There's no truth in them then.
Let them be offended.
So, but I beseech you, again, earnestly, Speaking to you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence.
Wherewith, I think to be bold against someone.
Against someone.
Which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh, right?
So, to speak boldly, right?
But it's not according to the flesh.
Anything to do with the Word of God, guys, it's a spiritual bread.
You know, we have our daily bread.
It's not literally picking up a piece of bread and eating it.
Let me tell you.
You know what I mean?
Ideally bread in the spiritual sense is the Word of God.
To plenish us with the spiritual bread.
Whereas we know it's the Word of God through the Bible.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.
So what does that remind you of, right?
Cross reference to what?
In Ephesians, right?
Chapter 6, 5 and 6.
The basis of spiritual warfare.
You know, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities of powers over darkness.
Right?
So, we're not warring against each other.
Obviously there's wars out there.
You know, countries kill each other, whatever the case.
That's not what he's talking about.
The real war is not against somebody on the other political spectrum, or whatever the case.
The real war is the people behind that.
The spirituals.
The spirits behind that.
And we got all these wars going on between Ukraine, Russia, Israel and Iran.
It's not the people, it's the powers, the principalities behind them.
That's where the war is.
And he goes on to say, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
They're not human.
But money threw God to the pulling down of the strongholds.
So, this is where spiritual warfare comes in big.
If you don't know, you know, anything about spiritual warfare, you're not gonna understand us.
And unfortunately, a lot of churches, like, lack teaching spiritual warfare.
And by the way, I want to apologize for the last chapter or two.
People said the volume was very low.
So I turned it up here.
So hopefully, you know, just let me know how the volume works.
So yeah, I just want to make sure it's loud and clear.
And if you want to know why is there an echo in my voice?
Because I'm in the lodge hall area.
So regardless but I think it sounds better anyway.
Anyway so this is a spiritual warfare right?
And I'm not one to jump all over the Bible right?
So but this is where it's going right?
Ephesians, Paul is basically making reference to this.
Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, right?
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Understand this, because you need to understand this before we go on.
Right?
And he's saying right there, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
They're not human.
But mighty through God to pull down the strongholds.
What are strongholds?
We're going to get to that, right?
Ephesians 6.12 says, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, not against humans, right?
But against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
What does that mean?
Principalities are fallen angels.
Powers are other kinds of spiritual beings as well.
And the rulers of darkness of this world.
These are the world elite guys.
The people behind the shadows.
You know, you got the President, you got the Pope.
All these other people, the physical in the flesh rulers, right?
But the ones who pull the strings are not Conor.
The ones who pull the strings you don't see.
You never even hear of, you don't even know of.
They're the ones who pull the strings of these world leaders.
It filters right down from Satan through his fallen angels and his unclean spirits.
And the high priests of the world, right?
The world leaders have high priests.
And priestess that communicate directly with these unclean spirits.
That relay the messages down to the world leaders.
I'm sorry, the shadow government so to speak, right?
the world that relate to the world front leaders, the puppets, the people on TV as president or king or whatever the case, those are puppets.
They take marching orders from people in the dark shadows that go right up the chain to command to Satan himself.
That's how it works, right?
This is what Paul's talking about.
So we're not actually, when a country's going to war with each other, they use propaganda and all kinds of lies to pit people against each other.
Like Israel and Gaza, right?
Israel and Palestine.
The people in Palestine are great people.
The people in Israel are great people.
But they use warm propaganda.
And I can't say what's on YouTube here.
Because on YouTube, I'm sorry, there are policies.
So I got to watch what I say.
So they stage a lot of stuff, guys.
They push a lot of propaganda to make it look like they're the enemy, they're the enemy.
But in fact it's all the governments are the enemy.
Same thing here in the United States.
Our people are great.
China's people are great.
But our governments are criminals.
Doesn't matter Republican or Democrat.
They're all run by the forces of darkness.
So I just want to give you a brief understanding of spiritual warfare here.
Those are the people who pull the chains.
Not Trump, not Biden, not Obama.
Not the Prince, Harry, or whatever the case, or Zelensky, or Benjamin Netanyahu.
The people behind the curtains pull the strings.
They communicate directly with principalities.
So, I just want to give you a deep understanding.
That's why I named my Friday show, Spiritual Warfare Friday.
To cover these things that churches don't.
Because a lot of churches are locked into a political 5-1-1-C-3.
Tax exempt.
We've done shows on that.
Me and John Pounders and um... A lot of guys from Niagara City TV.
So I don't mean to veer off the subject.
But I really need to get you to understand what Spiritual Welfare is.
What is going on?
Who are these people?
That are not flesh.
That are not karma.
Like I said.
The Satan.
The fallen angels.
The unclean spirits.
And these principalities and all that.
They're wicked.
They're the ones that control the world.
Alright?
Let's put it that way.
So, going back here.
So Paul's urgently speaking to the Church of Corinth there.
To warn people, say, listen, say, For we walk in the flesh, right?
We are in the carnal body, right?
We got a carnal body, we got a carnal flesh and all that.
And we walk in the flesh.
But we do not walk after the flesh.
In other words, that person in the flesh that's on the other side of the camp, he's not your enemy.
Even though the world leaders pit us against each other.
And there are literally wars that flesh kill each other.
That's not what he's talking about.
The real war is the spiritual war.
That's what we need to understand.
So when you go on the streets, right?
You got these all kinds of groups, right?
You got patriot groups, you got communist groups and all that.
Every one of them on each side, they're all victims of their own people, you know, the principalities pulling their strings.
They pit people against each other.
That's what, that's why they do this, cause divide.
God doesn't cause divide.
The only divide that comes out of this is people who rebel against God.
They're the ones who divide from God.
So, once again, uh, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
We don't use guns, tanks, and planes and all that, which is good to have to protect ourselves, absolutely.
I'm a Second Amendment guy.
But in the spirit world, none of that stuff is going to matter.
Look at the battle of Armageddon that's going to come, right?
The scriptures talk about when the kings make their way from the east, right?
When the river Euphrates dries.
There's going to be all-out war.
They're going to have all the world's power there to battle God.
Tanks, planes, nuclear bombs, everything else.
And yeah, none of that's going to have any effect on Jesus returning.
So anyway, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but muddied through God to pull him down to strongholds.
Now what are strongholds, right?
A stronghold is, um, uh, best way to simplify it.
A stronghold is something that, like, a demon would attach to.
In other words, um, let me put it this way.
So, just say, for example, right?
You got this person.
He's in a satanic band, right?
They play music, you know, about Satan and everything else, right?
Now, he comes to repentance one day.
He says, you know what?
I want to give Jesus a chance, right?
And because when you're into the stuff, right, the occult and all that, you get attacked.
I mean, even though you're being used, right?
You start getting sick physically, things stop happening when you stop becoming a relative of Satan, right?
That's why you see all these rich and powerful people that are miserable.
Miserable!
And, you know, a lot of them come out with the stuff that they go through, you know what I mean?
Spiritual stuff, so... And so...
Stronghold, in other words, right?
Somebody says, I want to, you know, learn about Jesus.
So you could pray for that person, right?
Pray with that person.
To break the demonic stronghold.
I mean, I'm sorry, to... If they're possessed, or they want to get away from this stuff, you could help them, right?
But, you need to understand it, and they need to understand this, right?
For them to stay free of Satan, right?
So you could pray and help somebody, right?
And they break free from Satan, right?
But, if they're still participating in that being, Or whatever it is that they, you know, that the demons use for them to do.
If they're still participating and stuff, right?
Those demons are going to come back twice as hard.
And twice as strong.
Because you're providing them a stronghold to do that.
Because while you're still having all the little... You know, as you say in your house, you got a bunch of... Very expensive pentagrams and all that kind of stuff, right?
If you refuse to get rid of them, you refuse to leave the band or whatever the case.
I'm just using this for example, right?
But yeah, you want to come to Christ.
Yeah!
You get delivered from the demonic presence and all that.
And attacks.
But if you don't get rid of these strongholds...
Because what you're doing, the strongholds give them, not that's saying the demons are more powerful than God, no.
What you're doing is by still continuing to participate in the band and have these things in your home, right?
You're giving dominion to these demons to come back.
Choice is strong, choice is hard.
And it's going to be that much harder to get rid of them.
So you need to break all strongholds.
And that's why we have our Spiritual Warfare Show.
So, I apologize for the mean goodness along the way here.
But I just want to give you guys a great understanding of what Paul's talking about.
This is something that churches don't teach.
Unfortunately, it's sickening.
So, once again.
Sorry guys, I just got a stuffy throat.
For we walk in the flesh, right?
We walk in the flesh and we do not war after the flesh.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
Now, what are imaginations, right?
through God to pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Now, what are imaginations, right?
Imaginations like basically something come up in your head and all that stuff that you can manifest.
So if you're thinking, you know, we all guys do, right?
You know, if you're thinking perversion stuff, they're going to manifest them within you.
Not that it actually might happen in your, you know, whatever case, but it's going to manifest in you, it's going to take your thoughts away from the Word of God.
And I'm just using that for example.
You know what I mean?
Because that's the number one common thing with men, especially, like vain imaginations, stuff like that, or lustful imaginations, yeah, they'll manifest.
So in the meantime, you're thinking about a girl, and you know, I'm not going to mention whatever else, right?
Yeah, that is pulling you away from the Lord.
And casting down imaginations, and every high thing, and there's many other examples of this, casting down imaginations.
I'm just using one of many different kinds.
But every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, what's a high thing?
These are principalities, what we just talked about, right?
Principalities, powers, rulers of darkness in the world and spiritual witness against high places.
That's what those high things are.
What they do is they exalt themselves against the Word of God.
They want to be worshipped.
They want to be the rulers.
They want your undivided attention.
They're jealous of the Almighty.
And it comes right from the Father of lies, Satan himself.
The Father of deception, the Father of jealousy.
And bringing it to captivity, every thought... Captivity is like... Literally, captivity is self-explanatory.
Every thought to the obedience of Christ.
So, basically, what is it saying here?
You cast down imaginations, every high thing exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
So, it could be anything from perversion to thoughts of world power.
There's a million reasons, right?
Or, like, evil stuff.
And what it'll do is it'll take your thoughts, it'll capture every thought to the obedience of Christ.
So, while you're in this state of imagination, stuff like that, and I'm not saying it's, you know, don't take it as if I'm saying that it's not It's good to have imagination.
You know, imagination is great.
If you imagine something that's cool, that's going to help people in society, that's great.
And you bring your imagination to life.
You know, vent things and all that.
That's not what I'm talking about.
This is talking about having wickedness.
Because meanwhile, while you're thinking lustfully about that girl, or while you're thinking, oh, I'm going to go out, you know, go attack these people because I don't like them.
Stuff like that, right?
It's taking away That's replacing the thoughts to the obedience of Christ.
So be ready to have revenge against all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
fulfilled.
So be ready to have revenge against all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
And do you look on things after the outward appearance?
He's asking them, do you look at things that have afterwards with that outward appearance?
And if any man trusts himself that he is Christ, let him of himself think again that he is Christ.
He belongs to Christ.
Even so, we are Christ's, right?
And again, there's a few New Agers out there who say, oh, we're God, and the Bible says we're God, and we're God's and we're Christ's.
That's not what he's saying.
He's not saying we are Jesus.
Oh, we have Jesus' power.
We can utilize Jesus' power through Him, but not on our own All right?
So, you need to understand, that's why Paul, his writings you need to, especially Paul, you need to read in context.
That's the paragraph or chapter pertaining to the subject.
Because one verse, people misinterpret all the time.
Like in New Age or whatever, they'll say, oh look, this is, we have the Christ Consciousness power.
No, we don't.
That's not what it's saying, right?
So, he's asking, do you look after these things outward appearance?
And if any man trusts himself that he is Christ, right?
Now this is what they'll leave out.
They'll put this here.
They'll say, oh look, Paul's saying that even so we are Christ, right?
But they'll fail to read the whole verse.
Because he's saying, right here, if anybody that thinks, you know, think of yourself, right?
To do something, right?
And let him himself think, again, if he thinks he's Christ.
You're not.
That's what he's saying.
That he is of Christ, right?
With the apostrophe there.
That means belonging to Christ.
We're not Christ.
We belong to Christ, right?
Even so, we are Christ.
See the apostrophe there?
People miss it.
That's why really examining the word here is very important.
Because if you redo this, you could just misinterpret it a million different ways.
That's why if you look at the grammar and spelling, it's very important to understand it.
Just like in the Bible, when it talks about false gods, it's always a lowercase j. When it talks about the Heavenly Father God, it's a capital J. When it talks about fake lords, it's a lowercase l. When it talks about the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Lord Heavenly Father, it's a capital L. That's why taking your time in the Bible is very important.
And here we are, 24 minutes into the broadcast here, and we're only at verse 7.
Because this is where we need to have a full understanding of the scripture.
Sometimes it's quicker, you know, we could be here for an hour sometimes.
But it's important to absorb the information from the scripture.
So, for though I should not boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and for not your destruction, I should not be ashamed.
And you shouldn't be ashamed, right?
And he says I'm not boasting of my authority to Christ, right?
That, you know, Christ does give us authority through His name for edification.
You know, to explain these things, right?
As we're doing here.
That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by the letters.
So, Paul's saying, I'm not trying to terrify you.
This is the Word of God.
I'm going to be bold and tell you exactly how it's said.
Like, Jesus, He would come out and tell you.
He didn't care, like, not that He purposely tried to offend people.
But He didn't care about offending people.
He went up to the Jews and said, yeah, you guys are hypocrites.
You follow the prophets, but yeah, the prophets told you people about me, but yet you're denying me?
That I'm here now?
You know, it's like... And he didn't care if he offended them.
In today's world, everybody's offended, right?
Well, too bad.
If you're offended, that means the truth hurts.
That's exactly what that means.
For his letters say that our waiting and powerful, right?
Strong and powerful.
But his bodily presence is weak and his speech a contemplative.
Let such one think this.
So basically saying for his letters, it's like his words, right?
Say they are weighty and powerful.
The words of Jesus are weighty and powerful, right?
But his body presence is weak.
You know, he just appears as immortal.
He's not saying that Jesus is weak in that sense.
He's just saying the presence of his body, right, is weak and the speeches are comfortable.
Pleasant and, you know, calm and collective.
And let such a one think this, that such as we are in the word by letters, when we are absent, we will be also indeed when we are present.
So we live in the word, absent or not absent.
You just gotta live in a world where you're preaching or not preaching, you know?
For we dare not to make ourselves of the number, or to compare ourselves with some that commend themselves.
You know, it's that basic talk about people commend themselves, like, oh look at me, patting myself on the back, look at me, I did a good job, you know?
Yeah, look at me, I did this, I did that.
Sounds like the presidents, doesn't it?
You got, um, Obama.
Yes we can, but he's like, oh you glorify themselves.
Trump does the same thing.
Biden does the same, they all do, right?
They all glorify themselves.
So we dare not to make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with someone who commend themselves, right?
But that measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise.
So he's saying, don't listen to these people.
These people who go out there, who compare themselves to other people.
I'm doing better.
Oh, I just do just as good.
And at the same time, boasting about themselves.
And commending themselves.
Oh look, I deserve a medal of honor because I did this, right?
They're not wise.
And what does the Bible say, who people are not wise, right?
They're fools.
Don't listen to these people.
And unfortunately, it's probably half the people on TV.
The televangelists and everything else as well.
World leaders and all that, right?
But we will not boast of our things without our measure.
But according to the measure of the rule of which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
So he's saying, you know, we don't go out there and boast about ourselves.
But we're boasting about the Lord.
Boasting that the Lord's working through us.
And Paul said it many times so, and it's not my word.
And the thing is when Paul spoke on his own, he expressed it.
He said this is not, you know, what Christ taught, this is only my thoughts.
But then when he spoke of Jesus, he goes, this is not my word.
This is what the Lord's taught.
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reach not unto you, For we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ.
So, yeah, let's talk about that, you know, how it sounds to me like going above and beyond the call of duty here, right?
Right.
As we reach not unto you, and yeah, we don't reach you.
For we are come as far as to you also preaching, in preaching the gospel of Christ.
Not boasting, that's bragging, right?
Boasting is bragging and, you know, commending yourself.
Not boasting of things without our measure.
What's that mean?
Without our measure, right?
Again, it should be like, our measure is through Jesus, right?
So if we say, you know, I am bringing you this awesome news through Jesus Christ.
So I am, okay?
I'm bringing you this awesome news, but through measure, right?
It's not of me that's bringing you this awesome news, right?
I'm bringing you the awesome news, absolutely!
But, because it's through Jesus!
That's our measure, you know what I'm saying?
We're not glorifying ourselves, but we're also saying, yeah, we are bringing this amazing stuff where I healed you in the name of Jesus, right?
And it's not me who actually healed you, it's through Jesus.
But Jesus used me as a vessel to do so.
I hope I get the point here, right?
So, not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labors, but having hope when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly.
And to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you.
And not to boast another man's lines of things made ready for a hand.
I'm sorry.
Made ready for a hand.
So bring the gospel.
Preach the gospel anyway.
Even places that are behind you.
But don't boast of another man's land.
Don't, you know, like... Like, I'm trying to explain this very easily.
So, I'm trying to get out the words that would simplify this.
As a point here.
So, you know, a lot of times, like, you recite other people who are great preachers, right?
You recite them, right?
But don't boast about them.
Oh, he's a great man or whatever the case.
He was a great pastor and all that.
Yeah, of course we commend people who do great things.
But when you're preaching the Word of God and all that, just do it in the name of Jesus.
You know what I mean?
And if you recite something, glorify Jesus for it.
And hope I'm getting the right...
Meanings for this what I'm talking about.
Yeah So anyway guys if you got any like a specific verse or anything that you don't have a clear understanding of Because due to time, you know, I mean like we could be if always so I just try to like really manage it without rushing it either You know I'm saying so if you need any clear understanding on the specific verse or something like that, please message me I'm not not in the live chat, but the comment section and Or you can email me at truthradioshowatoutlook.com and I'll get back to you.
And we'll specifically discuss that, you know, paragraph, whatever the case, or the rest.
So, but he that glorifies, right?
The one who glories, right?
Let him glory in the Lord.
That's exactly what we've been saying, right?
If you glorify, right?
That's great!
But don't glorify about yourself.
Don't glorify about another person that you know that's a great preacher.
Glorify in the Lord!
And obviously, if you guys have been following me this long, God bless ya!
Because I'm not the perfect speaker.
I butcher words.
I stutter.
You know what I mean?
I'm far from perfect.
Even though I'm reading from here, I'm far from perfect.
Right?
And you got some people out there that are very beautiful articulant.
They can read this, you know, crisp.
Word for word, without botching it up like I do, right?
I don't know how many times I botched up names, right?
But, you don't glorify yourself.
Like our brother David Carrico from NYC TV, right?
Yeah, he does an amazing job.
But when you witness the ceremony, right?
We don't glorify of ourselves or our friends.
We glorify in the name of Jesus Christ.
For not that he commended himself as approved, but whom the Lord commended.
Right?
So, this here, right?
If you understand it, right?
And for the person that commends himself as approved, right?
Not... I'm sorry, I messed it up.
For not, okay?
For not the person who commends himself as approved.
So if a person says, you know, I commend myself to do something, whatever the case, no.
To get approved is through the Lord.
The Lord has to commend you.
And yeah, there's people out there like these televangelists and all that, right?
They'll fill a stadium full of people.
Like Joel Osteen, right?
If Joel Osteen was on here, I'd probably have one and a half, two million views right now watching the show.
Easily.
Probably tens of millions.
And he'd be like, you know, he approves of it.
And, you know, it's all self-clarification.
But it's who the Lord commends that matters.
You don't boast and glorify yourself, you boast and glorify about the Lord.
And if the Lord's working through you, boast about that, yes.
Glorify that, yes.
But, to make yourself clearly understood that don't praise me, praise Jesus that's working through me.
And I know a lot of people who say, you know, Dan, thank you, thank you so much.
You help me understand this, and I get a lot of compliments, which is great, I love it.
Also, I need to make you understand that it's not me.
It's the Lord working through me.
So thank you for the compliments, but all thanks and glory goes to the Lord.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm not going to sit here and boast about myself and tell people, look I get a bunch of compliments.
I didn't do that.
I get a bunch of compliments and people like my stuff.
But, no.
The glory goes to the Lord.
So, yeah.
Plain and simple.
So, yeah, 18 verses is funny because it took us 36 minutes to read 18 verses, right?
And if you went to any website, you could probably, or the person reading it, or you reading it yourself, if you zip through this, you could probably do this in like, well, a minute or two.
But again, that's not how you read the Bible.
You gotta read it word by word, study the word if you don't know what it means, and put it in context.
And let the Holy Spirit work through you.
It's amazing.
Then you get the message.
And then some.
So thank you all for joining us here on TruthRadioShow.com.
But don't take my word or anybody else's word for it.
Read it for yourself.
Read it with the power of the Holy Spirit and the steps provided there.
And you can't and won't go wrong.
And you don't need to be a scholar to do this stuff, guys.
And doing it this way here?
Let me give you two examples, right?
Sure, you can go to a Bible academy, right?
You can go get your scholarship.
I mean, to become a scholar, I mean, in the scripture, right?
You could be named a Bible scholar, right?
And be an expert among your peers.
Be an expert among academia.
But guess what?
Going through that way, you're not commended by God.
You're commending of yourself, right?
And the society commends you, right?
And approves of you, right?
But it's who the Lord commends.
Not society.
Not a doctrine degree, or some priest giving you a certificate, whatever.
No.
Read the Bible this way.
And you will learn it better than anybody who's in academia.
By far.
So check out truthradioshow.com.
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So thank you for tuning in to Chapter 10 of 2 Corinthians and this in-depth comprehensive study of the Bible.
We will see you for Chapter 11, God willing.
So love you all.
God bless.
Shalom.
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