ARE BIBLICAL MIRACLES LOGICAL?

Good morning. We don't usually do Saturday episodes. But this one was requested massively. So I decided why not. Are biblical miracles logical? Miraculous logic? Logical miracles? The modern world didn't reason its way out of biblical miracles. It was trained to sneer at them. And somewhere along the way, well, somebody told us. Somebody told us intelligent people. Oh, intelligent people don't believe seas part. Walls fall. Bread there comes from heaven. Virgins conceive? Or dead men rise. No, intelligent people don't think that at all. I don't know if they were British or whatever, but so and once once that thought gets planted, the Bible stops sounding like revelation and starts sounding something, well, like something we should apologize for.

Know what I'm saying?

Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. I don't know. Won't know unless you tell me. Hello, Tammy. Good to see you. Thanks for joining. You are all in. I love it. You ever feel like that? Like, you know, somebody starts asking you the hard questions. They ask you the hard question about the Bible and faith and all of that. Man, you get nervous. Your mouth gets dry. You're all like, um.

I'm can't I can't talk because of the thing I got. I can't talk. I I would answer you, but I can't.

We've all been there. I've been there. I'm a theologian.

But what if what if that whole assumption is wrong? What if the whole thing is wrong? Could be right. The whole thing could be wrong. Then what do you do? What if the problem isn't that the Bible is primitive? What if the problem isn't that modern people are often too arrogant to read ancient texts carefully? What if what if ancient people weren't gullible children staring at storms and inventing gods because they didn't understand the weather? What if they knew exactly what normal life looked like? They knew water doesn't usually stand like walls. They knew dead bodies don't normally get up. Come on! They knew barren women don't usually conceive.

They knew it.

They knew fortified cities don't usually collapse because priests march around them, blowing horns and whatnot. I think you know. I'm pretty sure you know. And they knew. Right? They knew. So what if biblical miracles aren't random magic tricks? What if they're logical expressions of divine sovereignty inside a real historical world? And and just so you know, if you if you follow me or or you watch the the Monday through Friday through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God, series that I'm doing every morning at 7 a.m. Eastern, live, and then it's available on play back, but we do it live and we love it. If you're watching that, you know. I've told you the the the uh the world wasn't some sanitized place, it was wild. We talk about how dangerous things are now, right? We talk about how you know the the world is so dangerous now. Cain killed Abel. Cain killed Abel, that was one quarter of the population, 25% gone, murdered by hand. Come on. It was a wild place. It was a wild place, it was a dangerous place. The Bible doesn't sanitize that. God doesn't sanitize that through his word. See, that's what we're taking on this morning. Good morning, good morning. That's what we're taking on this morning, right? We're taking this on because it needs to be taken on. There's this impression. We just go by blind faith. Not childish superstition. Listen, we're not going by blind faith. We're not going by childish superstition, not fairy tales with Bible language. We're talking about logic in the miraculous. We are talking about biblical extraordinary claims. And I'll show you by the end, if you hang on, that these aren't just fairy tales. And I I want, if you would, I want you to answer, maybe in the comments, which biblical miracle have you struggled with the most that you know of? Not because you hate God, but because you want to be intellectually honest. You you go, this is the one. This is the one, oh, I all the others. Okay, but not this one. This one I'm so welcome to this special Saturday morning live event of True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. You can call me Sean. This episode is also an invitation, by the way, Monday through Friday. You heard me mention it. 7 a.m. Eastern. We're walking through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. We're not skimming religious stories. Good afternoon from England. Good to see you. Thank you very much for joining us. Man, you had to you had to do some stuff to get up. Oh, wait, what time is it there? Evening, right? So we're not skimming religious stories. Anyway, whatever time it is, I'm glad to have you. We're not skimming religious stories here. When when the Monday through Friday deal, and and also Sunday, so Sunday at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow night at 6.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, I go through the prior week and I deepen some things that maybe we didn't have time to really hit super hard, right? We didn't have time to hit them super hard, so I go back and those who are listening can testify. It's it's it's pretty intense, but it's good. We're not cherry-picking inspirational verses, by the way, in the Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. or the Sunday at 6 30. We're not picking, we're not going through it and picking out the ones that are easiest to talk about or explain. We're not treating the Bible like a pile of disconnected religious sayings. We're walking the story as one unified covenant drama rooted in ancient Near Eastern context, Hebraic worldview, historical reality and real-life application, language, culture, and context. And then we tether it to what we're supposed to understand about that today. I love doing it. It's hard. But oh, thank you, Nicole. Nicole says it's fabulous. I don't know if Nicole said it like that. That'd be cool if she did. I'm I'm imagining you saying it like that. I don't even know what your voice sounds like, but fabulous. That's what I'm that's what I'm hearing. 3 p.m. Oh, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Well, I tell you what, I'm honored that our our friend from England has joined us, Steedy777-C4S. So good to have you. So good to have you all. Welcome. Somebody said to me, You're on the mic for hours and hours and hours every week. And you're you know at this major health thing. How do you do it? And I have to tell you, by God's grace, I do the the amount of time I'm on the uh the Nicole says that was pretty darn close. Fabulous. That was pretty close to her voice. All right, here we go. So I I have to say that this part, very small part. It's the small part. Um the day is spent with laptop open and the other computer open and the studio computer open and and and uh and books everywhere and five different translations of the Bible, and you know, it's a it's a it's a little bit of a mess, but I love to do it. God asked me to do it, and I believe he asked me to do it, and I'm doing it, and I'm not gonna stop until he stops me. And I hope you'll consider joining me. So today, you know, we talked about the Monday through Friday and Sunday, walking in the story of God through the Bible in a year. Today's Saturday, man, is really the doorway. The Monday through Friday series is the walk. Because, you know, when people read the Bible in fragments, miracles can feel strange, right? Random. So random. And and disconnected, really. Flood overhill, a burning bush overhill, a sea splitting right in the middle, people walking there in the middle on the dry ground. Come on. A wow falling down, a prophet calling down far. A virgin conceiving a tomb opening. But when you walk the story in order day after day, the pieces start connecting. The miraculous doesn't become less extraordinary. It's always extraordinary. What it does is it becomes more coherent. How's my sound, by the way? My sound technician is at work, so my wife. And she's not my sound technician, but she sometimes tell me sound is good. Look, it becomes, it doesn't, it we don't, by walking through the Bible, the way that we're doing it, things don't become less wow. They become more coherent. So today we're gonna follow five movements. If you can remember that, if you're taking notes, five movements. First, and I'm gonna tell you what the movements are. Miss Linda, one of my dearest. Oh, I love you, dear. Love you, love you, love you. We're praying for you. We will not stop praying for you. You are a blessing. Blessing. Miss Linda King, thank you, Stevie777-C4S. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. It's a blessing to have you here and it's helpful. Um, so I have no idea, I'm hearing impaired. So you see the ear monitors, and that's just just the sound of the mic. That's all I'm hearing. I don't know anything about the music or anything like that. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. So I take these out and I put my hearing aids back in. It's funny. And then when I take my hearing aids out, this is what's funny about it. I take my hearing aids out. You know, you forget how hearing impaired you are until you take your hearing aids out, and it feels like somebody's putting their hands over your ears, you know. Wild. It's wild, but I thank God for the the technology that we have. So we're gonna do the five moments, five movements. First, and I'm gonna tell you what each movement is so you can write it down if you want. Now, this is not discouraging you from taking notes, but I will say this. True WordFaithforLife.com, true wordfaithforlife.com. How many have gone to that yet? That's a website that I do. I do a companion blog post and study guide uh for for just about each episode. So, and and for the money through Friday uh and Sunday, we do a summation for that. But I did a special one for this episode. It is the most detailed since I think my first or second doctorate, I think my second doctorate, I think, was more detailed. No, no, no, my first was more detailed um footnotes and bibliography. And it's it's close to that. So you're gonna have all the resources that I used. So all the books that were spread out on the table or up on the screens, you're gonna have them. So if you go there, it's free. Nobody's asking you for anything when you go there. But you can buy my book. I wrote a book called True Word Faith for Life. Isn't that something? True Word Faith for Life. You can't see it because it's out of focus. I'll put it right here. True word, faith for life. Walks you through the Bible step by step, and then there's some commentary in there that I could never say here. Leave it there. That's the only thing that costs on there. So, first, the problem of primitive bias. Second, the logic of divine sovereignty. Third, historical anchor anchors in the supernatural. Fourth, intellectual integrity and faith. And then fifth, practical foundations for modern life. That's how I like to button it up. Oh, thank you so much. Nicole says, that's where I ordered your book. It's nicely set up. Need to order a couple more. Oh, that would be awesome. If you live near me, I I will I will sign that book, sign those books and make them instantly worth half. I'm gonna sign Tammy's book. Tammy doesn't live far from me, and I'm gonna sign her books, and they will instantly drop in value. But as soon as I put my signature on it, but it'll be all right. So I like to button everything up with practical foundations for modern life, where we live. Real people like you, like real people like me. I don't live a charmed life. You know, people think, oh, Pastor Thinky. No, no, trust me. I got dents in my halo, you'd just be shocked and oof. So that's the road. So let's walk it. All right, here we go. If you're ready, say I'm ready. I am ready. Section one, the problem of primitive bias. First thing we have to confront, it's primitive bias. It happens. Primitive bias is the modern assumption that ancient people, that the ancient people, they were less intelligent, less observant, less rational, and less capable of critical thought simply because they lived before us. See, we're arrogant. We think we know it all.

Right?

See, I'm sipping my coffee out of this. What is it? I'm not gonna say the name because you know, you can see it. Amazing. Keeps the coffee hot. They didn't have that then. Imagine they had to drink their coffee quick. I don't think they had coffee. I'm just saying. I've got a question about a miracle in the Bible when I get a chance. There's one of two ways, I encourage you to do that. There's one of two ways for you to do that. Um, our new uh uh UK friend, one of the ways you can do it is, yes, you can put it here. I may or may not see it because it, you know, you guys see the thing pretty still, but it's moving. So anyway, bro's so misguided he can't even find his color camera. Well, James Lucas 9461, that's okay. I do have a color camera, and I know how to find it. Watch ya. Watch yeah, but there's a reason. But you may be saturated in sadness, maybe. That might be what it is. You might be saturated in sorrow. Right? Lack. So you worry and you wander all over the internet until you find a faith-based thing that you can take shots at. Right? Because that's what you do, that's how you spend your time. But I encourage you to listen. Just listen. You've only heard a few minutes. Just hang in there. I'm glad to have you. Believe it or not, part of this episode is written for you. Wonder if you'll know which one. Which part? So, we do think primitive bias, we think, well, they live before us, they're ancient, you know. I mean, the population was reduced by 25%. The population of the whole earth was reduced. Oh man, great question. What do you think of when a prophet threw something in the water to retrieve an axe? I didn't understand how the prophet knew to do that and why God mentioned it to us. I tell you what, I want you to send that question to me. I have a detailed answer for you. I can't do now because it's it's elaborate. Send that to me if you go to truewordfaithforlife.com slash contact. Or, you know, there's a little voicemail thing on the right. You only have two minutes on that. Um, and it doesn't cost anything. I pay so you don't have to. But if you put your question in the contact, I promise you I'll get back to you. I absolutely will. And then I'll make it, I'll make an announcement on here. Hey, here's here's the question that our new friend in UK asks, and I'll absolutely be eager to answer it for you. But it is an elaborate answer, and I don't want to shortchange you on it. So, thank you for asking, though. I like it. So we have this assumption that newer means smarter, right? We do. We have this assumption that newer means smarter. It's the assumption that because we have satellites and smartphones, right? Because we have smartphones, we have AI search engines, it's that assumption that we we automatically understand better than everyone who came before us. I mean, let's be honest. We live in a world where people carry supercomputers in their pockets and still fall for obvious lies before lunchtime. Technology doesn't make us soul wise. Information doesn't automatically create discernment. Speed doesn't equal truth. By the way, if you're listening, like and subscribe. Do like the little line says. That's the line of Judah. That's my that's my uh logo. Love for you to do it. Love for you to do it. Like, subscribe, hit the little bell. It's free. So, you know, technology, look, we we're not bereft of information. We are bereft of discernment. Information doesn't create discernment, folks. Speed doesn't equal truth. Access doesn't equal understanding. Ancient people weren't less human than us. They were differently situated. They had their own categories, their legal frameworks, their memory structures, their literary forms, their cultural codes, family systems, covenant obligations, and ways of preserving testimony. So when someone says ancient people believed miracles because they didn't know any better, well, that's not careful scholarship. That's chronological arrogance. That's a modern person confusing confidence with intelligence. The Bible itself destroys the idea that ancient people thought miracles were normal. The people inside the Bible, they're most often shocked. They're shocked by the miraculous. Abraham questions the promise. Sarah laughs. Moses argues with God at the bush. Gideon asks for confirmation. Zechariah. Zechariah. He doubts the angelic announcement. Well, here's one. The disciples panic when Yeshua, Jesus, Walks on the water. Thomas says, Look, I won't believe the resurrection until I see the scars. Look, those details matter. Those details absolutely matter. If the biblical world were full of gullible people who thought anything could happen at any time, the Bible wouldn't need to show hesitation or fear, wouldn't show doubt, right? Wouldn't show resistance, sure wouldn't show astonishment. Extraordinary is extraordinary because the ordinary is already understood. Pretty much we understand the ordinary already. Ancient shepherds knew sheep. Ancient farmers knew farming. They knew fields. They knew crops. Ancient fishermen knew childbirth. Childbirth. No. Ancient fishermen knew storms. They knew how to read the storms. I tell you, knew childbirth. Mothers. It was a deadly and dangerous thing. And speaking of death, ancient mourners knew death. Ancient soldiers knew walls. Ancient kings knew power. They weren't confused about the normal rhythms of life. That's why the miracles shocked them. Now, we need to define a crucial difference. There's a massive difference between blind superstition and intentional biblical narrative. Look, blind superstition was driven by fear. It says, I don't understand what's happening, so I'm gonna invent a power behind it and try to manipulate that power. It's random. It's reactive. Hang in there, not me. Hang in there, not me. Just listen to the whole thing. I know that you have your thing and that drives you. I get it. I get it. But hang in there and just listen peacefully. So Amen. Amen. Thank you, Nicole. Amen. Glory to God. So it's random, it's reactive, it's controlled by panic. Biblical miracles. Look, biblical miracle narratives where they tell the story, they're different. They have a structure, they have a setting. Place where it happened, structure how it happened. They have witnesses, they have a moral consequence, they have covenant purpose. They don't usually show up as decoration. They appear at decisive moments in the story. They function as signs, judgments, deliverances, confirmations, confrontations, and revelations. The miracle asks a question: Who is God? Who is king? And whose word stands? Whose claim is false? Which power is being exposed? Which promise is being preserved? Which future is being announced? That's not blind superstitions, my friends. That's intentional theological history. This is where the ancient fairy tale label collapses, right? That's oh, that's just an ancient fairy tale. You and your skydading. This is where that collapses, that label collapses. Fairy tales float. Biblical miracles are anchored. Fairy tales usually begin with some sort of vague world of symbolic distance. The Bible names people, it names places, real places, it names rivers, real rivers, it names kings, real kings, it names regions, it names tribes, it names enemies, it names true, well-detailed family lines, it gives you well-detailed genealogies, it preserves embarrassing failures. Locates events within covenant promises, land boundaries, imperial pressures, family conflicts, legal customs, worship practices, and public memory. That doesn't mean every question is easy. It's not easy. It doesn't mean every archaeological decision or discussion is settled. There's never been a discovery that disproved anything in the Bible. Only the other way around. But we have archaeological discussions and they go on. I'll tell you what it does mean. It does mean that the Bible isn't asking us to drift into some sort of fantasy land. It's giving us purposeful, purposeful records of encounters with the living God in the real world. Where we live, where they lived. That's why we're doing through the Bible in a year, because when you walk the whole story, the Bible stops sounding like disconnected miracles and starts reading like a coherent record of God's rule, God's judgment, God's promise, and God's mercy. Now here's the thing: the comment um that you made about the worldwide flood, not me, um, I get it. That's a common comment. And a lot of times when you take it, when you take it out of, you just isolate that one thing and you take it out of its context, well, then it's an argument, becomes an argument. Not with me, I don't argument, people, but um, you know, it becomes an argument. But when you do the whole thing through, wow. Opens up a world that you just can't believe. Hey, take a sip of coffee. We're already to section two.

Yummy. I love the Java.

I grind my own beans, do the whole deal. That's my one luxury. So, section two. Oh, hey, Davey3. So nice to have you. Thank you so much. Where are you listening from? I'm curious, and how did you hear about the show? I'm curious about how all of you heard about this. It's so good to have you. It's good to have you all. What a blessing. I hope you'll consider liking and subscribing, hitting the little bell. Be awesome. By the way, I'm on uh all the podcasts, all the podcasts. If you do an audio podcast, you like that. Um, there's also a player on true wordfaithforlife.com. There's a player there, it's an excellent player. Um, and then we have direct links through Apple Podcasts and all that. And but I'm on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music. Thank you, by the way, to Amazon Music. They made themselves available to me, and I said, hey, why not? And I've already gotten messages from people who are listening and subscribing there and or doing the Tavalo thing, whatever the terminology is. iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts, Overcast, Cast Box, and Good Pods. So thank you to you all. We give you a lot of ways to listen. So, section number two, or DOS, the logic of divine sovereignty. The logic of divine sovereignty. Look, the second movement is the logic of divine sovereignty. A lot of people. Hey, Ryan Beans, back again. I would love for you to go to my Atlanta, Georgia. Oh, awesome. I happen to have kin folk living in Roswell. Love that. Um, what's your doctorate in? If you go to true wordfaithforlife.com, you'll see all that stuff there. It's under my bio. Love for you to go look at that. And I hope you do it with joy. You know, living life angry and sorrow and suspicion and degrading people. Looking for arguments. Happy when you find them. That's another way to go through life. But if that's the way you choose, if that's the way you choose, you're welcome to. Just answer. Just go to true wordfaithforlife.com. Go to the about. You'll find it. It's all there.

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So, a lot of people say miracles are violations of nature. They do. They say miracles are violations of nature. And, you know, I get that. I get it. I get why people say it. But that statement assumes nature is an independent machine and that God occasionally breaks into it from the outside, right? That's not the biblical worldview, by the way. In the Bible, creation is not independent from God. Creation belongs to God. Creation is upheld by God. Creation responds to God. Creation responds. Did you hear that? Creation responds to God. The creator isn't trespassing when he acts inside his own creation. He created it all. So he's not a trespass. When he acts within his own creation, he's the rightful king acting within his own kingdom. Look, I'll give you an example. If a programmer, computer people, they write a system or code or whatever you call it, the programmer isn't violating the system by exercising authority over it. I've written two books now. If if I write a story, the author, me, or if you've written books, isn't breaking the story by entering the story. If a king owns the courtroom, the king isn't invading when he renders judgment. Miracles aren't, they're not logical impossibilities if God is the creator. They are logical expressions of the Creator's authority. The real question isn't, can God act? The real question is, did God act here? And what does the act mean? Breathe on that a second. This is where biblical miracles show profound internal, if you're being honest about it in your heart. This is where miracles show profound internal consistency. They aren't random. They serve a specific purpose. They deliver. They announce new creation. If you treat the Red Sea as a random spectacle, you'll miss the point. Red Sea isn't divine entertainment, by the way. It's not just a cool story to tell. The Red Sea, look, it's it's the climax of a covenant confrontation against Pharaoh. Pharaoh claims ownership over Israel. Yahweh calls Israel his son. Pharaoh enslaves Yahweh redeems. Pharaoh uses water as a weapon against Hebrew babies. Yahweh uses water as the path of Israel's deliverance and the judgment of Egypt's military power. Do you see the logic? Do you see it? Come on. It's there. If you're willing to see it, it's there. Once Pharaoh claims ownership over what belongs to God, deliverance becomes the only covenantal logical outcome. The miracle isn't random. It's legal. It's moral. It's covenantal. It's historical. In the ancient Near Eastern world, Pharaoh wasn't just a politician. Egypt's royal theology connected Pharaoh to divine order, cosmic stability, national security, and the gods of Egypt. So when Yahweh confronts Pharaoh, he's not merely negotiating better working conditions for Israel. No. He's exposing the false theology of an empire. Look, the Nile isn't sovereign. The throne isn't sovereign. Egypt's gods are not sovereign. They're not. The military machine isn't even sovereign. So the Red Sea doesn't merely answer the question, can water move? It answers a deeper question: who owns Israel and who rules creation? That's why the how question can't be the only question. Look at well, how did that happen? Well, science says, no, it can't be the only question. How did it happen? And it matters. It does. But why did it happen carries the covenant weight. And look, in that context, the miracle isn't an irrational interruption. It's the only logical outcome when the Creator King confronts a counterfeit king who refuses to release his people. Now, let's look at Jericho. If you rip Jericho out of the story, it can sound strange, right? March around a city, carry the ark, blow trumpets, wait in silence. You know? Shout. Walls fall. Woof! We hear that and we're like, hmm, that's folklore. But inside the covenant story, Jericho isn't random. Israel's entering the land promised to Abraham's descendants. They aren't, they're not entering as some self-made military machine. They're entering as the covenant people, the covenant people of Yahweh. It's the first great city. It doesn't fall because Israel proves its superior strategy. That could hardly be argued. It falls through obedient dependence. Priests, ark, trumpets, silence, waiting, then shout. The victory belongs to God before it belongs to Israel. That's the point. Jericho teaches Israel that the land is gift, not trophy. Promise, not plunder. Covenant, not conquest for human ego. Again, the miracle isn't whimsical here. It's formative. God is training his people not to confuse promise with pride. The shift matters. We usually usually ask, how could that miracle have happened? Again, not a bad question. I don't demean that question, but the the Bible often presses an even deeper question. Why did God act here? What covenant issue is at stake here? What false power is being confronted here? What what promise is being preserved here? What judgment is being revealed here? What deliverance is being accomplished here? What identity is being disclosed here? When Yeshua calms the storm, the question isn't merely meteorological, it's royal. Who is this? That even the wind and the sea obeys him. When Lazarus raises, or when Yeshua raises Lazarus, the question isn't merely biological, it's messianic. Who has authority over death? And when Yeshua rises from the dead, the question isn't merely whether something unusual happened. The question is whether God has vindicated his son, defeated death, and launched new creation in the middle of history. The miracle has logic behind it because the God behind it has purpose. Now we're all ready to section three of five. Hang in there. You can do it. That might be interesting. The third movement is historical anchors in the supernatural. If you're writing it down, you don't have to write it down if you don't want to. Um it's all there, true wordfaithforlife.com. It's under the blog. It's a blog, a very elaborate bro, in fact, probably the most elaborate blog I've done so far. The blog and then the um and then the study guide is right under the blog. So if you click on the blog, just scroll down. It's all there in the bibliography, annotated footnotes, uh, annotated bibliography in Taravian style. And everything I do there is copyrighted, just like everything I do here. So if you use it, just attribute it. Uh, because I created the study guide, and I do this um with the episodes because I want you to be able to study it. And if you have a little group that you get together with or a big group, you know, you can use them, but don't forget to copy the copyright. Um, and you can't charge for them. So that's my deal. Historical anchors in the supernatural. The Bible doesn't ask us to live in some sort of abstract spirituality. It keeps dragging us back into time and place. Egypt, real place, Canaan, real place, Jericho, real place, Babylon, real place, Persia, right now, Edan in the news. Rome, Galilee, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the Jordan, the wilderness, the temple, the tomb. That matters. Biblical faith is stubbornly historical. It says God acted in the world. God called Abraham, God delivered Israel, God gave Torah, God established David, God sent prophets, God judged exile. God promised restoration, God sent his son, Yeshua was crucified, Yeshua was buried, Yeshua was raised. That kind of claim invites scrutiny. Once you name places, rulers, customs, conflicts, and witnesses, you're no longer hiding in symbolic fog. You're stepping into history. Whew, let that breathe a second. Now we need to be careful and we need to be honest here. Archaeology. Archaeology doesn't prove every theological claim. Or it hasn't yet. We can put it that way. A city gate doesn't prove inspiration, a pottery shard doesn't prove resurrection. An inscription on something doesn't prove covenant faithfulness, but archaeology and cultural study can show that the Bible isn't some, it's not floating in imaginary space. That's why I I do what I do the way that I do. I look very deeply in the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context. What was happening here? Who is authoring this? Why are they writing this? Who are they writing to? And then what once you understand? You understand. The Bible starts reading like a movie. And once you once you get there, you start to understand why. You start to understand why. You start to make the connection to you, the world you live in.

Look.

Egypt was a real imperial world with royal theology. Temple economies. Divine kingship claims and gods. Tied to land, river, fertility, and power. Canaan was a real cultural world with fortified cities. Local kings. Territorial disputes. Cultic practices and contested land. Babylon was a real empire that swallowed nations and deported people. Persia was a real imperial power through which exiles returned. Rome was a real empire that executed rebels by crucifixion. Jerusalem was a real city. Temple was a real institution. Crucifixion was a real Roman terror instrument. So when the Bible places supernatural claims inside these frameworks, it's not asking us to believe mist floating over fantasy. It's placing extraordinary claims into the physical world. And that's where the contrast with mythology helps. Ancient myths often portray gods as exaggerated humans. They're hungry, they're jealous, they're lustful, they're petty, they're competitive, they're insecure, they fight because they want power. They manipulate because they crave honor. They behave like human rulers with cosmic muscles. But the God of the Bible is different. He's not merely one more territorial deity fighting for ego. He is creator. He is holy. He is holy. He binds himself by promise. He can't be manipulated by magic. He's not surprised, threatened, needy, or insecure. Biblical miracles don't exist to satisfy divine vanity. They reveal the character and purposes of the living God. That's why they don't function like whimsical or self-serving magic. They reveal holiness, they confront idolatry, they deliver the oppressed, they preserve promise, they announce kingdom, they point toward redemption. The plagues in Egypt show this with force. They're not random disasters. They systematically expose Egypt's false claims to order life and divine protection. The Nile, the land, the animals, the sky, the body, the household, the firstborn, the empire that claimed control is shown to be powerless before Yahweh. And even there, the purpose isn't merely destruction. Well, it easily could be, but it's not. It's revelation. The nations are meant to know that Yahweh is God. This is public truth. This isn't private spirituality. This is not religious mood. It's public truth. The God of Israel acts so that enslaved Israel, arrogant Pharaoh, terrified Egypt, and watching nations will know who truly rules. That's not fairy tale structure. That's not fairy tale structure. No. Fairy tale structure would have put it a whole different way. That's theological history. Glory to God. This is why the Bible in a year journey it matters, folks. It matters. If you only hear the plagues as some childhood story, then you miss the legal and political confrontation. If you only hear Jericho as a marching story, you miss covenant inheritance. If you only hear David and Goliath as this cool motivation, while you miss covenant representation and the failure of Israel's visible king. If you only hear resurrection as Easter inspiration, you miss new creation, you miss messianic vindication and the enthronement of Yeshua. Fragments make miracles sound strange. The whole story makes them coherent. That's why Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. Eastern, we're walking through the story. We're not just collecting stories. We're not just ticking boxes. I'd love for you to join us if you're willing. Welcome, Dr. Do Nothing. Good to have you. So here we are at section four. We're almost there. Section 4, intellectual integrity in faith. This fourth moment or movement is intellectual integrity and faith. Faith isn't intellectual laziness. Faith isn't pretending hard questions aren't hard. They are hard. Look, I have two theology doctorates on the wall and a master's in theology on the wall. And there are hard questions. And then there are questions we don't love to answer. We don't love to be asked them because they're hard to answer. Faith isn't pretending hard questions aren't hard. Faith isn't refusing evidence. Faith is not turning your brain off because someone told you doubt is always rebellion. It's not. It's not. If you grew up in doubt, you had doubt in church, and somebody told you, hey man, you need to put that away. What can I tell you? That's a hard place to be. And I'm sorry for that. But they knew they were doing what they knew to do, what they knew how to do. Don't be mad at them. Don't be mad at pastors who didn't know. Don't be mad at them. Biblical faith can wrestle, folks. It can wrestle. Abraham asks whether the judge of all the earth will do what is just. Moses asks to see God's glory. The Psalms cry, how long? Habakkuk asks why God tolerates evil. Job demands an audience. Thomas wants evidence. The Bible includes those voices. But why? Because God isn't afraid of your honest questions. But there's a difference between honest wrestling and cynical dismissal. There's a difference between going on the internet and looking for people of faith because you're not a person of faith and trying to interject and argue with them and trip them up. No, no, no. They're not the same. That's apples and ardvards. Honest wrestling and cynical dismissal are apples and ardvards. Honest wrestling says, Lord, I'm trying to understand. I want to understand why do you think I'm on my 39th time through the Bible? I got all kinds of sheepskin on the wall. I got millions, literally millions of words written in dissertations and papers and whatnot. Decades of study. And I still say, Lord, I'm just trying to understand. Cynical dismissal says, I've already decided you're embarrassing. These aren't the same. Now let's deal with the scientific method. Because this is really important. Amen, Davey 3. One of the biggest miracles is the Bible, the Bible itself. Amen. By the way, have you guys, if you're just joining, you don't know anything about this, but Moose Works Bible. I have a collection of Bibles. You can't see this because it's in black and white, but I'll switch it over to color here in a bit. But this is beautiful green. My last name is Greener. I know you get it. She rebounded this. Melissa from Moose Works Bible on Etsy. She rebounded this. I have three of them that she did. They're incredible. If you go to truewordfaithforlife.com, go to the blog, this blog, you'll see you'll see pictures of them, and you'll be able to see them in color. Utterly amazing. Utterly amazing. She's on Etsy. It's called Moose Works Bible Rebinding. Anyway, so let's deal with the scientific method. I think it's worth doing. What do you think? So, the scientific method, it's powerful. It's one of, I think, the greatest tools for studying repeatable, observable, testable phenomena. It's excellent. It's excellent at studying regular processes. But one-time historical events, they are investigated the same way that laboratory experiments are investigated. You can't put the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in a lab. You can't do it. Sometimes we wish we could, but we can't. We just can't. You can't repeat the fall of Jerusalem under controlled conditions. You can't rerun the crossing of the Rubicon like some sort of chemistry experiment. Historical reasoning works through testimony, documents, context, corroboration, coherence, explanatory power, and the credibility of the witnesses. This doesn't make history irrational. It means history uses the tools appropriate to historical claims. So when someone says, Well, you can't scientifically prove the resurrection. Well, the answer is you can't prove a one-time historical event through repeatable lab testing. That's not the right category. The real question is whether the testimony is reliable, whether the context fits, whether the claims explain the rise of the movement, and whether alternative explanations are stronger or weaker. This is where the biblical authors become deeply interesting. If you're willing, if you're willing, what they do, they become deeply interesting. They invite scrutiny by including details that well, they don't make their own people look impressive. I'm just gonna tell you. Look, if you're inventing propaganda, usually clean up your heroes. Let's let's be real here. But the bubb the Bible doesn't. Abraham lies, Jacob deceives, David sins catastrophically. No worse than me. Elijah gets afraid, Jonah runs, Peter denies Yeshua. The disciples misunderstand constantly. Thomas doubts. The early church has conflicts. Israel's story is full of failure. Judgment, rebellion, mercy, and restorative repentance. That's not the texture of polished mythmaking. That's the texture of people telling the truth under the gaze of God. Doesn't prove every claim automatically, of course, but it does matter. The Bible doesn't hide embarrassment, it preserves it. And that gives the testimony moral weight. Well, the resurrection accounts push this further. The earliest Christian claim wasn't, well, we felt inspired by Jesus after he died. It wasn't, well, his teachings lived on in our hearts. It wasn't, we had a symbol of hope. The claim was God raised Jesus from the dead. That was preached in the world where Yeshua had been crucified. It was tied to public execution, burial witnesses, proclamation, and suffering. Paul refers to many witnesses, some of whom were still alive when he wrote. The gospels include women. I do a whole thing on this. You can find the episodes on the YouTube channel True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, S H A W N. We have a rumble channel by the same name. You can go through them. They're all free. All free. Amen. Amen, Dr. Do Nothing. All a beautiful message left for us to see and walk toward our true place, the place the sheep belong. Amen. Look, the gospels include women as the first witnesses of the empty tomb. Even though they they wouldn't have, they wouldn't have. They're slow. They're hesitant. They're so resistant. Hello, Amy, my dear, dear friend. Love to you, sweetheart. Love to you. And something happens that transforms them into witnesses willing to suffer. Would you die for a lie? Would you die for a lie? I do a sermon by that series. Would you die for a lie? No one would. But something happens that transforms them from all of those things I said before, resistant, afraid, confused, to witnesses willing to suffer. All they had to do to stay alive was just don't go and say that none of it happened. We know it happened. But just retract your claim that he resurrected, that he came back to life, that he transfigured and rose to heaven in front of over 500 people. What could have happened that transforms people into people willing to say, no, no, no. I know you're gonna kill me, but it happened. It's real. Look, you can reject the claim. You can, you can reject the claim, but don't call it intellectually unserious without doing the work. That's why a lot of times when people come on here, you know they're looking for, they're looking, they they go on YouTube and they look for things they disagree with, and like they're arguers. Um they're perhaps atheists or maybe they've just never looked into it. They've never truly, truly, like we do on Monday through Friday and Sunday, Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. and Eastern and Sundays at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Look, I don't normally do a Saturday deal, but I was utterly compelled to do it. Don't don't be intellectually unserious. Do the work. Do the work. The resurrection isn't some vague religious feeling. It's a historical claim that demands historical assessment. So, we need to move the conversation from can I prove the supernatural in the laboratory? To is the testimony reliable? That's the better question. What did the witnesses claim? Where did they say it happened? What did it cost them? Does the claim fit the larger story? Does it explain the birth of the movement? That is still going and growing today? Does it account for the transformation of the disciples? Does it cohere with the Bible's covenant logic? Does it reveal the character and the purpose of God? This doesn't remove faith. It doesn't. When we ask those questions, it doesn't remove faith. Faith, it purifies the question. Faith isn't the absence of evidence. Faith is trust in the God who has revealed himself. He's acted in history, he's called for allegiance. Everyone lives by faith in something. You have faith when you flip that switch that the electric, that the lights are going to go on. You have faith when you get in your car and you drive down the road that somebody's not going to cross over that center line and hit you head on, like they did me. Everybody lives with faith in something. The only question is whether your faith rests on the living God or on some fragile assumption of the age you happen to be living in. Listen, believers, you need to hear this clearly. Don't defend the Bible badly. Please don't defend the Bible badly. Don't use fake evidence. Don't share memes that you haven't confirmed. Not because it's been shared a million times. Listen, there's podcasters out there of all different genres that are very popular. They have millions of followers, and they're spreading lies. Total lies. They spread them because there's clicks, because they have hatred in their heart, because they don't have truth in their heart. Don't use fake evidence. Just because it's been spread a lot doesn't make it true. Just because a podcaster has great influence or an influencer has great influence, millions of followers, that doesn't make them true. There's no correlation. None whatsoever. Well, they would know. Now they wouldn't know. They wouldn't know anything more. No, they wouldn't. Don't use fake evidence. Resist the urge. Don't spread internet archaeology without checking it. Don't turn every headline into prophecy. It's not. Not every headline is. Don't turn every headline into prophecy panic. Don't confuse. This is gonna hit some of you. Don't confuse emotional volume with spiritual authority. Let that sit with you a little second there. Don't do it. Don't confuse strong emotion in you with spiritual authority. There's not a correlation. Don't exaggerate something because you think God needs help. I assure you, He doesn't. Truth doesn't need our tricks. The Bible is strong enough to handle careful handling. Read it in context. Language, culture, and context. Study the world behind it. Know the difference between poetry and narrative and symbol and event and theology and fantasy and testimony and manipulation. Look, that's mature faith. That's not hype. It's not panic. That's not shallow certainty. Rooted confidence. That's the kind of faith this channel's here to build. True word, faith for life with Dr. Sean. That's why we're here. That's the kind of Faith we're building every morning and through the Bible in the air, walking the story of God, and every Sunday night at 6 30 p.m. Oh, here we are. We're at section five. I congratulate you, you've made it through. Section five.

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Practical foundations for modern life. The fifth movement. We've done five. You're amazing. I'm proud of you. The fifth movement is practical foundations for the modern life that we're living. Why should this matter to me? What's in it for me? My buddy Dr. David Friedman, he's a many times best-selling author. He's got the number one health and wellness uh radio show in the country. He's a phenomenal doctor, phenomenal naturopath, and happens to be, I'm lucky, happens to be a dear, dear friend of mine. Says it all the time. He says, Man, you gotta remember, everybody's favorite radio station is WIFM. What's in it for me? Why should this matter to someone just trying to get through the week, man? Their marriage is shaky, their children aren't doing what they want them to do. They're doing dangerous things. Maybe they're tied up, mixed up in a maybe the maybe you're tied up and mixed up in something you know you shouldn't be. And you're hurtling toward destruction. Maybe you're a person who is look, I I'm just I want to have faith, I want to understand it. I do, I want to have faith, I want to understand it, I want to I want to roll up my sleeves, I want to get into this, but man, I'm working 80 hours a week. Why should a tired parent, a stressed business owner, you're just trying to figure out how to make it, man? How about a recovering or not quite recovering addict? Maybe you're a lonely widow. Or a confused young adult. Or you're someone fighting anxiety. Why? Why should any of those people care about the logic of biblical miracles? Because your view of the miraculous shapes your view of reality. If the world is closed, then you're trapped inside your circumstances. Your visible circumstances. Well then, we've got some doctors listening, medical doctors. The diagnosis is final. You don't even have six months. Until Thursday evening, he lived several years longer. Several years, and he lived well. Look, if you're if your world is closed, you're trapped inside your visible circumstances that diagnosis, then it will be final. The addiction is final. You're trapped in addiction, you don't know how to get out of it. Whatever that addiction is, there's so much that's addictive. God bless you, brother. Blessing to have you. It's cool. And I'm blessed to be friends with them. Look, if all if if your world is shut off. If you have no belief in miracles, the grief is final. You're standing. You're standing at a you're standing at a casket. That's, you know, I I've done all the funerals for my family, that's past. Two brothers, a mother, a father. And many, many other people. But when I was standing there at my dad's casket and the funeral home that has handled all the arrangements for every family member. If they didn't exist, I don't think we'd ever die because there'd be no place to do the funeral. I didn't have a close relationship with my father at all. It was a contentious relationship. It was dangerous and not great. It was hurtful. Then my dad came to know the Lord and he changed quite a bit. But here's the thing: I stood at that casket. And my knees buckled as they were preparing to close that casket because grief is final. That's it. That's what makes it so hard. But if they know the Lord, we will see them again in glory. Look, the algorithm is final. If you have no belief, if you have no belief in in the miracles of God, you have to believe the algorithm is final. We are subject to some machine. Then you believe the economy is final. You believe the empire is final. You believe the grave is final if you don't believe in that miracle. But if the creator reigns, then visible circumstances are real. But they aren't ultimate. Yeah, you're facing tough times. You're I say it all the time. Prayer isn't asking for an easy journey, it's asking for a strong back. Life is hard. My friends, life is hard. I know it and you know it, and we live it and we deal with it. Sometimes it overruns us. But if the creator reigns, not the ultimate. They're not the ultimate. Those circumstances aren't the ultimate. The Red Sea is real, but it's not ultimate. Jericho's walls, they sure are real. But they're not ultimate. Rome's cross is real, but not ultimate. The sealed tomb is real, but not ultimate. God doesn't ask you to deny reality. He teaches you to stop worshiping just the part of reality that you can see. That's a stable worldview, and we need one right now. Can we agree? We need a stable worldview right now. We live in an age of digital misinformation, artificial images, fake confidence, artificial voices that sound like a person, and the artificial image that looks like a person. Fake confidence, curated outrage. That sells, makes money. Collapsing trust, emotional manipulation, and permanent distraction. People don't know what's real and what's not. They don't know whom to trust. They don't know what to believe. My friends, that is a tough place to be without faith. And yet, into that confusion, the Bible offers not merely religious comfort. Oh, and we like that. Doesn't just offer religious comfort, but a coherent world. A world created by God, a world damaged by sin. A world governed by moral reality, a world where covenant matters, a world where truth is not invented by power, a world where bodies matter, a world where history matters, a world where evil is judged, a world where mercy is possible, a world where death is defeated by Yeshua. A world moving toward a new creation. That's not escapism. That's a foundation, and we all need a foundation. When you understand the consistency of biblical wonders, they become pillars for life. The Red Sea teaches you that the thing trapping you isn't more sovereign than the God who called you forward. Jericho teaches you that obedience may look foolish before it looks fruitful. Manna teaches you that daily dependence isn't weakness, it's training. The wilderness teaches you that getting Israel out of Egypt is not the same. It's not the same thing as getting Egypt out of Israel. The incarnation teaches you that God doesn't save from a distance, he's up close. The cross teaches you that God's victory may look like defeat before resurrection reveals the truth. Look, the empty tomb teaches you that death is not the final authority. These aren't dis come on, these aren't decorative stories. They're not. They form a way to live. They teach patience, courage, discernment, humility, endurance, repentance, and hope. Many people don't need a miracle to entertain them. They need to know whether God can be trusted when life stops making sense. You need to know whether obedience matters when nobody's watching you. You need to know whether suffering gets the last word. You need to know whether evil gets judged. You need to know whether shame that you've carried your whole life can be cleansed. You need to know whether death wins. The Bible's miracles answer those questions. Not as isolated stunts, but as revelations of the king. Revelations of the King. The God who acts in Exodus is the God who acts in Messiah. The God who preserves the promise is the God who raises the Son. The God who judges Pharaoh is the God who will judge evil. The God who feeds Israel in the wilderness. Is the God who teaches us to pray for daily bread. The God who brings water from the rock is the God who gives you living water. If you'll drink it, if you'll accept it, the God who brings life from barren places is the God who brings life forth from a sealed tomb. The story holds together. That's why this Saturday Live matters. That's why what you've just been through matters. And that's why the Monday through Friday series matters at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's why Sunday at 6.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time matters. A lot of people know Bible fragments. They know Noah's Ark. They've heard of that. They know David and Goliath. We've heard of that. They know Daniel and the Lions, then, they've heard of that. They know Jonah and the fish. They know Christmas. They know Easter. They know a few verses that made it onto coffee mugs. But fragments, fragments without framework create confusion. And when you walk the story in order, the pieces start connecting. Creation connects to covenant. Covenant connects to Exodus. Exodus connects to Torah. Torah connects to land. Land connects to kingship. Kingship connects to exile. Exile connects to restoration hope. Restoration hope connects to Messiah. Messiah connects to resurrection. Resurrection connects to new creation. And suddenly the miraculous doesn't feel less extraordinary. It feels more coherent. You stop asking, why is this story here? And you start asking, what's God revealing at this moment of the story? And that changes everything. So I want to speak directly to the skeptic. The skeptic that's listening, maybe you came here wanting to disrupt, but something told you, no, I'm just gonna be quiet and listen. I want to speak directly to you. You are welcome here. You're welcome here. You don't have to fake certainty. You don't. You don't have to pretend your questions aren't real. But I'm asking you to bring a better skepticism. A better one. Not lazy dismissal. Not inherited contempt. Not the tired line that ancient people believe miracles because they were primitive. Do the work. Read the text. Study the world. Study the language, the culture, and the context. Come on. My whole life changed. I lived a crazy life that books are written about. Crazy life. It wasn't this. Not even close. And I'm still not a good person. But I am redeemed. And he renews me every day. But you gotta do the work. You gotta read the text. You gotta study the world that that text was in. The ancient Near East, the language, culture, and context. That's why I make it simple for you. I do the work. All you have to do is listen, have an ear to hear. Ask what the authors are actually claiming. Ask why the miracles happen where they happen. Ask. It's a reasonable question. Ask why the miracles happen where they happen. Ask whether the testimony has the marks of invention or the marks of costly witness. Ask whether your worldview can explain consciousness, moral obligation, beauty, evil, reason, sacrifice, longing, and hope. And one more question. I'm asking you one more question. You gotta answer this. I've already answered it. What if what if I'm afraid? Be real here now. Don't halfway this. All in. What am I afraid would be true if the Bible is right? What am I afraid would be true if the Bible's right? That question cuts deeper than most people expect. Right now, I want to talk directly to the believer. You're already a believer. Stop being embarrassed by the Bible. But also stop defending it poorly. Stop defending it badly. Think clearly. Speak honestly. Study deeply. It's worth it. Handle the Bible with reverence and precision. Don't make wild claims. Don't spread shallow arguments. Don't use fake quotes. Don't treat sarcasm from unbelievers as if it was some sort of scholarship. It's not. Mockery isn't an argument. Don't mock them. Cultural confidence isn't truth. A modern look, it's so important to us, influencers. Modern approval isn't the measure of reality or truth. If God has acted, then the faithful response isn't embarrassment, it's worship, it's obedience, it's courage. It's a life brought under the authority of King Yeshua. So here's the summary, if you want a summary. First, primitive bias fails. Ancient people weren't stupid. The Bible itself shows people shocked, doubtful, resistant, and confronted by the miraculous. Second, divine sovereignty explains the logic. Miracles aren't random violations of nature. They are purposeful acts of the Creator King within his own world, tied to covenant judgment, deliverance, revelation, and new creation. Third, historical anchors matter. The Bible names places, peoples, kings, empires, lands, rivers, customs, conflicts, and witnesses. It places extreme. I would even say extraordinary. Claims in the real world. Fourth, intellectual integrity requires the right tools. Don't demand laboratory proof for one-time historical events. Assess testimony, context, coherence, witness, cost, and explanatory power. Fifth, miracles become practical pillars. They teach us that God is sovereign, history matters, evil is judged, mercy is real, obedience matters, and death doesn't get the final word. That's not primitive, that's powerful. Now, here's the invitation. Join us Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. For through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. Trust me, this isn't your normal going through the Bible in a year, ticking off boxes. No, it's altogether different than that. And if you want Bible teaching that takes the text seriously, it takes history seriously, takes your questions seriously, and still calls you to real obedience under King Yeshua. This is your invitation. Bring your Bible, bring your notebook, bring your questions, bring your doubts, bring your hunger, bring your sorrow and your grief. We'll walk through together, not as spectators, not as religious consumers, but as people being formed by the Word of God. This Saturday event is the doorway. Today's the doorway. The weekday series is the walk. And if you miss it live, catch the playback. Start where you are. The best day to begin was day one. The next best day is today. Subscribe. Turn on the notification, share this with someone who has honest questions. Trust me, you're not going to find teaching like this in other places for free. And I want you to come walk the story with us. And as I do every time, I have for you today a challenge and a choice. Here's the challenge. This week, pick one miracle in the Bible that you've avoided. Maybe you've softened it, maybe you've allegorized it, or maybe you've secretly doubted it. Don't run from it. Don't run from it. Study it. Read the surrounding chapters, the context. Ask what covenant moment is happening. Ask what false power is being confronted. Ask what promise is being preserved. Ask what God is revealing about himself. Ask how it points toward Yeshua. Then ask the hardest question. This is a real question. It's a hard question. What would I have to change in my life if this is true? Because that's where the real issue often lives. Most of the people that come here wanting to try to trip us up and put all kinds of stuff in the comments and live chat, they're just looking to get it out of their head that this could be true. Because if it is, it means they have to change some things. That's where the issue usually is. It's in the will. If the Bible's miracles are true, then God isn't distant. If the resurrection is true, then Yeshua isn't merely inspiring. He is Lord. And if Yeshua is Lord, then well, neutrality is over. So here's your choice. You can. You can do this. Certainly you can. If you want. It's your choice. You can keep calling the Bible a fairy tale from a safe distance.

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Do Nothing, I'd love to hear from you. I don't use Discord, so send it to me through true wordfaithforlife.com. Contact. I'll get it as soon as I see it. Boom. We'll connect. I'd love to do that. Friends, you you can you can keep calling the Bible a fairy tale from a safe distance. Or you can come closer and discover that the story is more coherent, more historically rooted, more intellectually serious, and more personally demanding than maybe you were told or that you ever came to believe. Don't choose sarcasm over study. Don't do it. It ends badly. It ends terminally. Don't do it. You think it sounds good, but in the end it's just your own poison you're drinking. Don't choose distance over discipleship. Don't choose comfort over truth. The truth isn't always comforting. Choose the way. The way. The truth and the king. And look, we're gonna pray in a second. And before we do, I want to remind you, prayer isn't asking for an easy journey. It's asking for strong back. My friends, if you've never placed your faith in Christ, I want you to pray right now, whether you're listening live or on playback, whether it's 2 a.m. and you're laying in your bed because you can't sleep, because you're so jacked up from the rough life that you're living, you're looking at your phone and you just happen. Just happened. You just happened to come across this. And you've stayed on it. You normally flick through. Every 10 seconds, every 11 seconds, you're flicking through. But for whatever reason, you've made it here. Whatever reason. I want you to pray this prayer with me today, right now. Don't wait. Right now. Father, I know I've done wrong things and I need your mercy. I believe Jesus died for me, was buried, and rose again. Today, I turn from my sin, my hurts, my habits, and my hangups, and I place my trust in Him as my Lord and King. Please forgive me. Make me new, fill me with your spirit. From this day forward, I want to follow you. In Jesus' name. Amen. If you prayed that prayer today, I'm truly excited because this decision, this is the decision of eternity. It's not the most important decision of your week. It's the most important decision of your whole eternity. And you don't have to figure out the next steps alone. That's the biggest fear most people have is man, what do I do? I'll have so many questions. I'll help you. Go to TrueWord, true word faithforlife.com slash contact. It's up in the upper right. Reach out to me directly. It's free to do it. I will personally help you. I've helped countless people. I'll help you take the next steps, whether that means understanding the Bible, I'll help you decide which Bible to get if you don't have one. I'll help you learn how to pray. I'll help you find a community of believers who are not perfect, by the way. Or beginning this walk with Yeshua one day at a time. You aren't alone. All you need to do is ask. I call it the Aladdin factor. I'm not the only one. The Aladdin factor, you've heard of Aladdin, surely. What had to happen for the thing to come true, for the thing to come to fruition, for the thing, the wish. Yeah, rubbing the lamp just brought about the genie. But you had to ask. And that's all you have to do with me. I'm no genie. But all you have to do is ask. I live to help you. The Bible's miracles aren't. They're not ancient fireworks. They're not childish stories for primitive minds. They are windows into the reign of God. They show creation responding to its creator. They show empires exposed. They show slaves delivered. They show walls falling. They show the dead raised. They show the king is not absent. He is ruling. He is speaking. He is calling. And he's still forming a people who can walk through history with courage, humility, truth, and hope. And if that's you, and something is moving in your heart right now, if this message touched your heart, share it with the world. Maybe your world is one or two people, share it with them. Don't let them go through life without at least, you're not responsible for the results. What they'll do with it. Oh, you're not responsible for that. God will handle that. They have choice. They have free will. They have a challenge and a choice. They can, if you post the link to them on your social media or wherever, they do with it what they will. Think of one person, one person who needs hope or truth today, there are so many. And send it to them today. Listen, Sunday nights, 6 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We do it. And then Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. Eastern. Join us. We'd love to have you. Through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. This has been True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. For more teachings, visit True Word Faithforlife.com. It's all free. Until then. Shalom Basham Yeshua. Shalom Alaikum.