"We too also ..." Hebrews 12:1

Roy, let's open in prayer.

My dear heavenly father. We thank you. You rejoice in the opportunity to be able to come in to gaze into the person of your son, to see the work that he has accomplished on our behalf to think of his character of his purpose.

We thank you for the grace provision that you'd given us in and through our Lord Jesus Christ. the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundations of the year we are told God is he was ready. He was committed in the billable for this entire Sim debacle to be taken care of and he took care of it. And then some and so we thank you, certainly father. We thank you for this morning as we gaze into your word. We asked if we would find ourselves change, conformed and encouraged Whatever we might have need of whether it be supporting. Directing encouraging. Lord, rebuking whatever you have in mind. We ask that your scripture, your word would fulfill that purpose, that your sheep may be well, groomed and taken care of. We thank you for your provision. We understand that we need to be walking in the filling of your spirit. But we might be able to have your resources to understand the word of God, not ours, but yours. And so, we take the moment for confession of any known sin, we might be able to walk in Fellowship in the flooring of your spirit is Manor into this time.

With all my heart, I have sought thee, do not. Let me Wander from my Commandments. How can a young man? Keep his way pure by keeping it according to Thy Word, By word, I have treasured in my heart that I might not sin against thee. So dearly father, we thank you for this time. We dedicate it to you. We praise you and we worship you, blessed. Be the name of your lord of our Lord and savior your son. Jesus Christ. Amen.

All right.

Last week, we noted.

Go. Before I do that, let me go here.

so, what I speak to the academic shower and just studying the word of God, and the church setting, Studying God's word is the most serious thing you do during the week, whether you realize it or not. And some people approach this time with the attitude of academic discipline and focus others, haven't learned what that is yet until we extend Grace and we encourage them and point them to do an inside of that. This attitude has been encouraged and instructed from the pulpit and is part of the rigor of the discipline of the study of God's word, we have reviewed the scriptural, precedents and reasons. And of establish, the gods model for instruction, is an authoritative 1, wherein he is the authority, and the study of his word is entered into through the Teaching Ministry of the pastor who has to speak and teach with authority. For example, Titus 2:15, wearied speak, these things. Paul is admonishing Titus as to how to proceed as if I speak these things. What you have learned the readings, the teachings, exhort and rebuke with all authority, lets no one despise you. And other words don't buckle into anyone else's Authority. Telling you how things are with the doctrine is how things are supposed to go. Instead, be aware of what scripture has to say. That's a good good inside their notice. It says speak. Now, these things that is give insight into the scripture, teach the scripture, read the scripture, make scripture, the core of the curriculum and nothing else, and then, he says, tosses them, this little word exhort And exhort means a few things. It means to encourage one another. To actually, when you find exhort or encourage it is typically the same Greek word that we find there. To it means to encourage, but it can mean encourage in a number of ways. There were a number of times and my parents encouraged me. Do do the right thing when I haven't been doing the right thing and so they pulled out the paddle of encouragement and deployed into the seed of learning that I might be able to move forward. Sometimes encouragement means we are speaking. Praise for accomplishments. Do you got an A on the test? That is a good thing. We like A's in this household. Will reward you for doing good working for following through and developing the character and discipline that's needed. Unfortunately I didn't need character and discipline to get a raise. I just walked in and always did so they had to teach me character and discipline another way. So,

And then rebuke with all the authority. So these things are just part of the process of teaching. I was talking last night with a bob Bollinger down in Austin, Bible Church.

Speaking about a few things that we're going to be teaching, and then it always happens with pastors. We talked about the process of caring for Sheet which is primarily teaching But I did admit to him. There are times when I pull the car over and I preach for a few minutes and that could be another way of understanding exhortation where you going to get a little bit not preachy, not trying to be preachy, but just a little bit excited, a little bit flavored by the text, there is just this thing that happens when you immerse something and something else there is an absorption. When I put a towel down on spill coffee, it absorbs the coffee. When I put my towel down on the wet floor because my shower overspray and I made a big mess, didn't get the door shut or something. Then I put the tile down and absorbs the water. The other day I was working on something and I put a little paper towel in a little small container of white vinegar that I was using to soak a little piece of metal in to get all the rust off using the acid to can a take away the rust. In soy to help clean it. At one point, I picked up the paper towels soaked it in the vinegar. So the paper towel was vinegary.

I sometimes had the perspective of certain individuals.

Have been soaked in vinegar or soaked in lemonade and you know, they may have a Sweet Disposition or they may have a tart and sour disposition in life. It's been sad better. When everything smells like Limburger to you and might be that you got a little Limburger and your mustache. We have a tendency to take you and what we are spending time with. And so to house were studying and preparing the text, we tend to soak it up and so there can be those times when we get a little bit excited or we want we want to reflect the flavor of what's there in the tax of what's being taught. No. Also we have a second Timothy 4:2. We're Timothy has been told to preach the word.

Really, that means to Proclaim. To teach it.

To make know that what you understand about God's word, he says be ready in season and out of season, convince rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching that means be patient. You're going to have to do it again and again and again and keep saying the same things. That is the process of Chi-Chi. You inculcate knowledge through repetition, we repeat it and we repeat it and we repeat it. We keep on coming back this, how I change happens, that is how things are absorbed.

No, I know. It is hard to keep up.

At times with the material that is presented in here and I know that the material is not always clear to all of you as it's being presented. No, sometimes that's just me because as they say, a little bit of mist in the mind of the speaker can create a great fog in the ears of the listeners. And so sometimes I'm a little bit Misty, and Not careful about what I say. If she's bought fills the room and I can usually tell him because sudden I get a bunch of blank looks back and leg.

Exactly. So you don't think so. If it does happen,

so high, I appreciate But in this small Church, there is Liberty to enter Jack or to raise a hand and ask a question, which is good. If you do have a question, then someone else probably does too, so thank you for being the one to ask it. We just ask that you exhibited good manners and a little bit of a concern for everyone else around you at the same time. You suspect, you are not following the teaching because you have missed material. Then feel free to ask me after service or email me or contact me whatever. However, what works best for you and I can try to get that teaching material. To you by God's grace, we do have recordings of all the teachings that I have made from this Pulpit going back, several years. So everything that I've taught for some strange reason. I just started recording it and suddenly it's all there. So we have a few years of the material then get your hands on.

More recently. We? Her teaching available with audio and slides that is available so you can listen and watch the slides from your device. As I'm talking you can see the new sloth go across whether a phone or an iPod iPad, a computer or laptop and we are going to work on the way to distribute these teachings and make them available to the congregation. And eventually we will have a website and a space for congregational business and interaction the public facing information, and then we'll have the private information where we can get to our own stuff.

Now, that's an example of what I was talking about.

Here is the URL.

To get to the teaching from last week. So last week, if you type this in So basically at sermons. Faithlife.com and then we say, wack in the computer business that means you're backslash wack sermons. Wack 96 2936, hyphen there for hyphen, we hyphen also hyphen part, hyphen to, and then for some strange reason, there's another hyphen and 3.... You have to have all of that. But if you put it in, put it in your computer, you will be up to and you'll be able to take you in from any browser, the teaching from last week.

No, not yet. Not yet. We don't have your a homepage. We can go to where then you can see all the different items. So at the moment, they're available as one off so we can send you the links for each lesson as it goes out. What we could do is I could just have an email and at the end of Once, it's compiled just sent a link out there, one on email, who wants it? When get to eventually it will be like what you're saying. We can just go to a URL and then you'll be able to see all the teachers that are there.

Kind of but we're in the same pool with 10,000 other churches that are out there doing the same thing. Yeah, so if you just stop at sermons, then you're going to, you're going to get just a great big pool of all the teachings from everyone that's out there. Okay? So you want you want to use all the numbers and everything to get to the right to the right place. And then once you're there, there's ways to be able to see more what's going on, but it isn't real organized right now. So when are you type that into your

Browser. It brings you If that's going to work.

So this is what it actually looks like in a web page. I just thought I'd show you. She had a point of visual reference.

girl, and if you click on the play button and expand out the screen, you get this where you can control

the play of the teaching, you can see we have the play button right here. So you put on volume control, play bars, whatever. Something interesting. It's a little bit dim here but we actually have the entire transcript calculated again for the teaching. So if you're having a hard time following, if the audio was hard to make out the transcript is here now it's not perfect. Captions. Yeah.

It's there the way I have it set up and just automatically generates captions. Yeah. So you don't have to do any CC thing or anything like that and so I do need these gone through and I'm probably going to recruit someone like Linda Young to go through, who is impeccably detail-oriented and she will go through and make all the transcripts actually match cuz we can go in and edit those. Cuz there are places where I say, dear heavenly father and it says, I don't know what it comes up with it just completely baffled with how I get some of the words that it does. But it must be my Southern Oregon accent, that makes it difficult. Leonardo Mario moves forward, the slides change as you go. So you can see the very slide that were talking about. So I think that's that's helpful. Some people are driving their car and all they are able to do is to listen to the audio. That's fine. For people who have the time to be able to be visually and audio engaged. At the same time, you can do this here. This way, the nice thing. Also, about listening to the recordings, as you can speed it up. So it one of my favorite things to do, there are very few people out there who aren't fast enough for me. My name is speed reader and I'm very much a speed listener. So, I turn everyone. I listen to every podcast, everything, with very rare exceptions, I haven't turned out the two two and a quarter times normal speaking speed. I've got special software that will actually flip out all the pause is over. Brakes and everything and just make it go back and that's great for me. So but you can do whatever you want when you're here. So you do have options. Also, I want to mention that our box account is open to public access by using the link the Box account is where all the audio files are. They cannot be browsed to from inside a box or found in a search from the internet in part because those files as well. May need some minor attention editing and transcription work to make use of them better. So I haven't put it all out into the public domain yet. I'm here is what that link looks like. Getting all those letters, copy down correctly. Might be a little bit of a task. It's actually all lowercase letters and the numbers, so even though it's alphanumeric, it's not terrible.

You got it, David.

So why. Anyways, but if anyone wants to link too bad, if you don't have it already, just let me know. I might have posted it a few times in the women's prayer group messenger. I'm your little chat place, so I put it there a couple of times. So people have a reminder, they can grab it again, but if you want it just let me know, email it to you or text you so you can get it in all of the past. That is out. There can be grab, that's all in audio. Only 5 Audio Only format so no slides or anything with that.

. I'm moving forward last week when I started out to say we brought up some vocabulary that some of you were not used to and I want to review that to make sure that I were on a even Level Playing Field. I don't like the feel like I'm rolling Boulders down hill that you have to dodge, get out of the way, you know, just to keep on taking in the sermon. So let's make sure we're on the same page and terms of some of this vocabulary. Some of you may have learned Miss in college. If you'd gone to law school or you've been involved in philosophy, I'm or other. Tracks like that than you are aware of these things. I would think any English literature. Major problem is taking it in any one, who's engaged in the study of the classics. That is classic part. Going back through the Greeks and the Romans etcetera. You you've been exposed to this. So that what we found is that there are three Latin terms that are used in argumentation and logic and then flossophy, which is concerned with understanding. What is what that's my definition of philosophy. What is what that starts with w and he's all about. So then you get to pick you up buckets and then get out your shovel in the scoop up the wet and put it in the cat. Sounds like working in a barnyard, doesn't it?

Might be reason for that are phrases as though he were studying work. A priori All for your rim and there's another term a posteriori. A priori, a posteriori and a fortiori and these are three common words that are used in logic or phrase as I should say. So I'm going to talk through these. I have a couple of points here lined up. So you see that a priori is literally from the earlier. That's what the Latin means from what precedes from what came before or from the earlier. And it is speaking of something that is knowable

something that is understood. So if I have a priori information, it means that it is knowable. You can know it is something but it was defined and this can be understood or known without any evidence being brought into the argument. So we know these things based on logic When we put it into an expression, we put it into a syllogism. Or if you want to think of it as an equation, we say, if the earlier statement is true, then the latter statement is obviously true. So, what's the first thing is true? Then We can say, we know, etcetera were able to come to a conclusion, based on knowledge or facts that are already there.

Look up the earlier statement is true. Then the ladder is obviously true. For example, if I say it's John was at church from 9 to 12:15 or using our schedule from 9:30 to 12:15. Then John was at church at 11 to accept the first premise, which were agreeing is true. John was at church between 9:30 and 12:15. So then we can all agree that John was at church at 11, right? Because we know the first is true then we can ascertain that the second is true

so, we have some

examples.

1st Corinthians chapter 15. We'll work our way down to verses 12 through 19 know if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead.

And here we put in advance. And then how do you some of mine? You say that there is no Resurrection from the dead. So we know what's true. So how can you be saying what you're saying? This is a priori logic. I have a basis. I know something there for, I can come to a conclusion. Now in our example, 9:30 to 12:15 in church, so he's in church at 11 but if I say 9:30 to 12:15 but 2 p.m. so he's not in church at 2 p.m. or we don't know. We only know that he's in church between 9:30 and 12:15. What they're singing in this verse is that Christ has been raised from the dead so why are some of my own you saying there's no Resurrection from the dead Christ was resurrected. You're being foolish. You're not making sense. Christ is an example. He was resurrected from the dead. How can you say? There is no, Resurrection verse 13, but if there is no resurrection of the dead or a priori information, we agree on this. If there's no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. So we take logic, can we apply at the first at the truth? Therefore, we know the second can't be true. And the illustration that Paul is bringing here when under verse 14. And if Christ is not risen, that's why I agreed. Upon fact, then our preaching is empty and our faith is empty. We have no value and what were proclaiming, we have no value and what we believe because it can't be worthwhile if Christ has not risen verse 15 us and we are found false Witnesses of God because we have testified of God. That he raised up Christ whom according to this, thinking you did not raise up. If in fact the dead do not rise. You see how this is going one step at a time. We're taking logic were agreeing on an assumption and based on that. Assumption, we can come to a conclusion.

First 16 for if the dead do not rise or agreement then Christ is not risen verse 17 and Christ is not risen. What we agree to your faith is futile. You are still in your sins. You have not been delivered from Sand. He is saying verse 17, then Verse 18, then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished so he's carrying on. But then conclusion, if Christ has not risen, if he has not been resurrected then all who have died in Christ have perished, they have been going on to life. They have perished, I'm in verse 19 in this life. Only we have hope in Christ.

Then we are of all men, the most pitiable. Now he is using Harper Yuri here and every one of these versus every single statement here is based on the one that preceded it, the one that came before the are priori so it is based on an established assumption. A known point of Truth or something. We are agreeing to, as the point of argument to take the argument forward to an osprey or a understanding means that we agree and we know therefore we can make a conclusion. So that's what all priori means. So, last week, I was talking to blithely on about our priori and most Don't know if everyone but almost no one in the room. Had a clue. What I was talking about because I just assumed that everyone knows what I'll priori is because that's my dumb brain and I apologize. So now we've gone through what that means. But now let's look at All post Yuri.

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That was why I said okay I'll post you worried so back to her screen but is comparing the three, the second line. Now we see a posteriori, which means from the ladder. So the first type of logic means based on the premise, we know what the premise is, we agree to it. I post Theory means we are agreed on the latter know this might take just a second longer to connect with what's going on, but what it means is, we have to investigate and we don't know what the conclusion is. We don't have an agreed-upon basis to come to a conclusion. So the first concept we look at our priori meant. We can agree and we all agree. The assumption is everything is being dealt with is our priority. That is we have a Hey sis. We have a president with a reason we have agreed upon waha roll working from the same books. The entire process of working law is off a priori until you get to the witness stand. And once you get to the witness stand, you are working in the realm of a priori. But suddenly you are dealing with the opto stereorey situation that is Turn the depends on what the results are that are to be found.

Posteriore, this can be understood or known by looking at evidence. So we pull out the evidence and it may be true or maybe fall. So we must investigate further to know, or based on empirical truth or experienced. The conclusion can be made so evidence Experience. Empirical investigative truth. Those are reasons that we utilize a posteriori type of argument because we have evidence to put into the conversation.

So, here's an example.

If a man can hold his breath 33 minutes, we'll use David is our example here. If David can hold his breath for 3 minutes. 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Right. that's all posteriori, because We need to find out if he can, we don't know, but he can right. Let's not assume that he can hold his breath for three minutes. We can't assume that. That's unlike. Most people can only hold their breath about 50 seconds, right? Yes.

Right. Yeah, the premise relies on evidence or relies on experience, or relies on some empirical investigation.

We the first one we know that it's true or for sake of argument, we all agree that is true so we can carry the argument forward. In this case, we don't know there's an investigation. So, to move forward with this argument, we have to have David go. And see how long you can hold his breath. So that's how we move forward. Yes.

Yes.

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Then do another one. I don't want to confuse you with that because that Paradigm doesn't stay true. So you can use all the conditional classes within our priori and you can use all of the conditional license with a posteriori cuz it depends on how the evidence comes in. If it's true, if it's not true, if it's true, we assume it to be true. We can still use the Apple, we can still be wrong. I'm so typically in Greek, you're going to say a first-class conditional unless you are someone who grew up with David. You knew these world-class diver and oyster retriever you know, I do know that while you're sitting in the pub, making this bet. Oh, I bet he can hold his breath for 2 minutes and 45 seconds cuz you already know we can do it for 3 minutes, your then, Making a bat. A wager witches are posteriori for everyone else cuz they don't have the evidence. You've already got the evidence, so, you know, You're betting on a sure thing and yeah cuz you already know how it's going to work out. So now we have examples of this with scripture so we see you in 1st Corinthians 15:20. 1st Corinthians 15 verse 20 but now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. So, How old is making an argument here? It is a argument based on evidence, he's introducing evidence, the whenever you introduce evidence, then you're going to use an odd posteriore argument, which is what he's doing. He's saying Christ is risen from the dead. Because he's risen from the dead. And we have the evidence that this is true. He has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. He is the very first to be resurrected from the dead, but is to New Life to Supernatural life to eternal life, to a glorified body. No other has preceded him in that. Others have been restored to normal, human life. No one else has been resurrected to a supernatural life with a supernatural body. He is the first we know Christ is risen from the dead. Because we have the evidence. So this is an odd posteriori argument. So, when we are dealing with people who don't know, the gospel, we are actually bringing evidence to the table. Because if you walk up to someone who does not know the gospel, who doesn't understand the background behind Christ and his resurrection, and you try to have a priori conversation with them, it won't work. They cannot assume to be true that which you have assumed to be true. So you will always engage them in an awful stereorey argument because you're going to give them evidence, you're going to cite evidence, you may not be able to go very detailed in it or you may you may be able to reference all of the hundreds who saw him in person of the different two, extra biblical, text that certify. Speak to this person who rose from the dead. You might be able to do that in interviews that and evidence. But whatever you do, it will be based on evidence just like when you go into a courtroom you cannot assume anything from anyone. Everything is off posteriore, it is entered into evidence. I made you look at it and you agree. Is a valid or is it invalid evidence?

We also have Luke chapter 1, Luke chapter 1 verses 1 through 4 where we read in as much as many have taken in hand to set in order and narrative. This is Luke beginning, his account of the gospel and narratives of those things which have been fulfilled Among Us. Fulfilled that means, it has come to pass. It is come true verse to Justice, those who from the beginning where I Witnesses and Ministers of the word delivered them to us for 3, it seemed good to us. Also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write you an orderly account. Most excellent Theophilus. Worst for that. You may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed. So what are these four verses about? They're all about evidence. They're all talking about a posteriori reasoning. Rationals thinking argumentation,

Or we can look at 1st, John. Chapter 1, verses 1 through 4. This is a, we'll both our new Concepts, but I'm assuming that all posteriore as a word. It's probably one you haven't heard. It's even less likely to have been heard them off posteriori. The funny thing is the rarest of the three terms off fortiori, who's actually the least likely that any other person in the population of United States that you were speaking population would know. But that's the one that, you know, because you've been taught it over and over and over again. But these far more common terms, you haven't been taught and so we're kind of making sure you're back in the loop on that. So if I slip and I toss out the term that you're not familiar with just off-the-cuff, then you know what it is and I'm talking about. So that's part of why we're going through this first, John wearied 1:1 that, which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which way, You have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled concerning the Word of Life. Gosh, that's a bunch of evidence, isn't it? Handled. Brewstew. The life was manifested. That is he appeared? He was here. And we have seen either, we bear witness and we declare to you that eternal life, which was with the father and was manifested to us bearing, witness testifying. That's all a posteriori reasoning logic and thinking this is actually a very important part of our vocabulary to understand what's going on. This is amazing thing. When you learn a vocabulary word, when you learn a concept, it empowers you to think even more to comprehend even more. So now as we go back through most of the Gospel, many of the pistols, you can break it up. What is actually off? Posterior, what does aw priori what is assumed to be true? Therefore, were making a logical conclusion from it and what is based on evidence from which we can make a conclusion and draw the conversation forward. So you may not have ever thought of it this way but now you can go and Entire New Testament, just with the purpose of putting little letters.

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Not going to work that way. Anyways, you can put whatever initials you find out work for you and write it down. But you can tell her that what you is a priori and that which is awful stereorey and that you can go. And so you can understand the reasoning to the flow, the logic and it actually gives you a better ability to grasp and follow the flow of the conversation. And really, it works ninety-plus percent of the time, there's only a few places, a few things were the Greek is actually changing the meaning so things are a little bit different but you can almost always eyeball it and say what type of a logical argument is it that's very helpful. It's very good for you to have that cognitive awareness as you go through the picking up in 43. He says that which we have seen and heard we declare to you. That you may also have fellowship with us. So he's building his logic is saying we've seen it, we've heard it therefore we declare it so we can witness to it. Therefore we declare it and we declare it. So have him declared it to you. You can have fellowship with us. We provide our witness. So you stand in the same basis that we stand. We have a relationship with God based on these facts that we witnessed, but because we witnessed and told you you to get to stand on these facts as well. Jesus Christ people alive, he has risen. The stone has been rolled Did happen. And he was dead. He was buried. And he was resurrected. When the stone was rolled. He was not in there because he had been resurrected true things, the basis of your faith, the basis of your belief, the basis of your spiritual life or All crew. So, this is very important reasoning for us to grasp first floor, and these things. We write to you, that your joy may be full, because let me ask you this, what Joy would you have if you read that, the stone was rolled and his corpse was in there. All wrapped up. There is no joy there. But based on the fact, the stone was rolled and he is risen as he said.

Then you have joy. You have insurance, you have rest because, you know, your faith is based on something real. So there is that then sandwich. The op posterior are we argument is in ways, more powerful than the, a priori argument. Know, the author priori argument as the basis for all thinking were all truth. We can't move forward with fought without a priori thinking. Let me tell you something that's happening right now. It's been happening for a while. We have this little thing going on all around us and you can see it cuz you turn on the TV as like someone spit in your face. As soon as you turn on the TV, where we have this post-modernism.

Which is basically saying, there is no such thing is off or you're rethinking. You can't draw conclusion because we can't agree to the truth. There is no agreed-upon statement. Therefore we can't move to the next level or they're saying agreed-upon statement is not the one that you won't agree on. We got a different agreed-upon statements. Therefore we're making our conclusion and you come back and say no I'm not agreeing with your conclusion for example.

You're naughty menstrating person, you're not 8. Able to give birth person or a person with a womb you're a woman. You are a man or your woman, they're not 45 different Sexes. There are two that God has created. There are yes a few people out there who have some genetic anomalies in which case, they have attributes of both sexes, because their biology has been messed up by sin, the curse of C

But that does not mean that there are categories of male and female and 25 in between versions that you can just claim that you are, you don't get to claim truth. Truth is so, post-modernism is coming in and what is it attacking a posteriori? It's attacking.

What was the first priority is being attacked? And the witness? The empirical evidence of Truth is being attacked. That's what post-modernism is all about. It's getting rid of any ability to rationally argue through something else. Someone is sitting there and they're able to redact. What just happened me neither able to say you're trying to inject post-modernism thinking into the conversation, which I reject. I don't agree with your post-modernism basis for saying that they kind of pull the plug on the argument. But unfortunately I haven't seen any Senators cuz that's where we typically see this topic. Haven't seen any Senators come up with that kind of argument or language, unfortunately, because what that means is, we are submitting to the postmodern milieu, once you call it out, and Name it and you say you're trying to use puddle, utilize post modern modernism and I don't agree, you're wrong. Post-modernism is not the basis for truth. Then you have taken their Authority and their power away from them. That's important for us to do. So that's why we want to know what these things are. You want to know what the a priori thinking an argument, is because it gives us the ability, then to be in control of a situation and arguments, we had the ability to understand what people are doing, is they're trying to destroy that type of thinking.

Yes.

Right. Truth is real and I think that it's necessary for us to call, I like the little a prism, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck to water was like a duck, it's probably a duck or a person impersonating platypus. But

That's a different story. Again, back to our board. So we have a priori, which we discussed we have the Oppo stereorey, which we discussed. Are we above fortiori? What you guys are much more will acquainted with and off 40 or 8 mi from the greater. So from the preceding from the following and now, from the greater his, an argument from the position of the greater. Now, if something is the greater, Then there is something that is the Lesser, and this is merely a priori logic with a specific condition, put into the mix. If the greater bigger or more difficult proposition is true, then the Lesser easier. Less difficult proposition is true as well. A fortiori is pure logic. Just like our priority is pure logic or all posteriori is pure logic but it is logic of comparison. So in the other cases, we are necessarily using comparison, you're making a point and then logic depends on that point and then making a point and Logic the depends on that point with all fortiori, we have a comparison. So it's like with our priori. With all posteriori, you have an equation with two sides and an equal sign in the middle, okay? With a fortiori like you have a question with two sides and a greater than sign or less than sign in the middle. This statement is a lesser issue. Then this statement, this is less difficult or it smaller or it's easier. This is more difficult or it's bigger or it's harder. So we had to compare, Person in between the two sides to allow us to come to a conclusion. So logic of comparison. So for example, if or example in the room is David did to my 250 lb deadlift weight, then that means he can lift 150 lb, right?

Logically. Yes, so if you can do the greater, he can do the lesser. So now we're looking at the point of comparison. Now, I probably shouldn't have used a point of comparison in my aunt posteriore, but I showed you multiple examples through the biblical texts that just show evidence. He is risen as you said there for evidence and we can move forward. So we have an equal sign there. When this case we have a less than or greater than sign the greater, the greater thing has been done for men can lift 250 or 350 lb or 450 lb. Would you start getting into upper class athletes? Then by comparison. They can do the lesser thing. so we have some examples, I'll just pull out one because, you know, this already from Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 11, if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven? Give good things to those who ask him. It's comparison of Good vs Evil. You see, we are sinful. We have problems if we need being simple, having problems, can you give good gifts to her children? Then how much more will our heavenly father? Give good gifts to those who ask him. We should have no fear of coming to the Lord in prayer, if we do it. Just shows that we are negligent of the truth, but he is greater that he is more willing to respond but he has no evil in him that he has no sin basis. Therefore, he is always receptive to your prayers. Now you may understand, you need the exact opposite of what you're asking for it because he knows you and he loves you and he cares for you, but he is always receptive. Always listening, always prepared to do the good thing about which is best for you to bring your prayers to God, is far better than bringing your prayers if you will, to your father to your grandfather, know, grandparents are pretty close to God, that is they do some amazing things for the grandkids and the grandkids know it. That's just the way life is sometimes. Something to be done. That is over-the-top. I remember my niece Sarah's first Christmas. She was born on December 26th the day after Christmas. So a year rolls on and we get to Christmas Day. 364 days later after she was born.

we have Christmas, and I remember, Oh, I don't know what to do. But I was working down at Harry and David at the time and then I saw it. I went into the Country Village, they're great big store, they have down. There has been working on this whole concept of bears. And so they had little bears, little Huggy Bears they were doing their campaigns and so they were selling Goods with bears and bears was a thing. Everything, you know, they had Bears on labels and bears on this and then everything was it was unbearable. Erin. Then I saw it hanging from the ceiling. Bigger-than-life, it was a huge six-foot-tall while sitting down joy and stuffed bear was not quite. So maybe about 4 ft sitting down and it was a, it was a giant, adorable, lovely. Very high-quality bear and the price was astronomical, but they had it on sale for like 80% off and then I got my employee discount on top of that. So, it was achievable. I got it and I bought the bear. I couldn't find anything to wrap it in or as I gifted with the rapping skills, a little out, someone to take something other than having a refrigerator box, I couldn't come up with anything so I took it and I stuffed it into a trash. Zach. Time it off when I took the trash Zack and I attached a bunch of wrapping paper to it. So it's fine. It's Christmas. We did the whole Christmas thing. We told the Christmas story, we talked about price and we went to open presents and the biggest present there was in the way. So we needed to deal with that and I we got around. We'd opened a couple of presents to Sarah at this point. Already knew what was happening. We got to take off the wrapping paper and get whatever was inside and she knew at a year old, as she was getting things that were hers. And so my brother says okay, let's open this big one and there she is. She's about that but you just really little little girl, you know, you're old. And she's sitting there on his lap and my brother reaches down and he pulled apart some of the paper, it rips apart the trash bag in the head of this giant bear pops out I'm still radulov off of my brother's lap, grab that bear and hung on to it. She knew it was hers. She still has it to this day. She's gotten rid of everything, but she will not get rid of the Big Bear just got married. So I'm not sure, I think the bear is still there, massive, big bear. I used to come over to their house, there was set up over the corner and she would go crawling around going around doing things and she crawled over and she snuggle up against the bear, my brother and sister-in-law. So they always came in and they found her just snuggled up in the bear. It was her, it was her love toy and so If I as an uncle can give a gift like that, that has that kind of connection. We'll just imagine what grandparents can do, who are close to God. And then imagine even more. What I can do there is Play examples a little bit cute and Ludacris but I'm just giving you a comparison that if my example is the far lesser example than imagine how God is the far. Greater example. Wow.