00:00 Introduction and Election Talk

00:41 Encouragement to Vote

02:01 Daylight Savings Time Debate

04:34 Discussion on Taxes and Governance

05:03 Biblical Teachings: Mark 11 and John 12

10:15 The Withered Fig Tree and the Power of Faith

10:56 Interpreting Faith and Prayer in Christianity

13:39 The Importance of Forgiveness in Prayer

14:15 The Authority of Jesus Challenged

14:39 The Anointing of Jesus and Lazarus' Story

16:04 The Triumphal Entry and the Greeks Seeking Jesus

19:18 Jesus Foretells His Death and Draws All People

20:18 Unbelief Prophesied and Jesus' Mission

21:26 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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The day before the most important

election of the century of the century.

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Wow.

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I mean, every election is the

most important election of the

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century in some sense, I guess.

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So.

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Yeah, I can't help, but

think that's not true.

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Always.

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Yeah.

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Every year it's like, oh, well

the stakes are higher now.

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I feel like you can always say that.

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And then it's reasonably true.

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Yeah.

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What would it take for

the stakes to lesson?

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Jesus comes back.

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I guess then there's no more elections.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which I'd be okay with that.

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I would be too.

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I mean.

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I imagine the amount of time

you would say not watching

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election campaign advertisements.

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Sign me up.

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Uh, I'd probably years

of my life at this point.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, you know, if, if you're out

there and you're on the fence,

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still listening to this about

whether or not you should go vote.

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Um, for whatever reason, maybe you're

just beat down by election season.

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You're, you're feeling

apathetic towards everything.

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At this point, you feel

like I'm in a state where.

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We know which direction the electoral

college is going to go with this

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state or whatever it may be.

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Let me just encourage you to go vote.

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Um, that's a good idea.

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Yeah.

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Part of who we are as a church

and who we want to be is a

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church that engages the culture.

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And this is a way for us to do that.

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A very, very, very

tangible, practical manner.

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That's right.

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Um, and so it's, it's, it's worth it

to go out and have your voice counted.

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Uh, yeah, you may know which direction

your state is going to go, but at the

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end of the day, It's helpful for those

in the office and those in power to

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look and see, wow, look at how many,

you know, millions of people voted one

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direction versus the other direction

that, and your voice counts towards

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that towards conveying and communicating

something that, uh, that matters.

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And you carry your biblical

convictions behind that as well.

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So, um, don't sit this out.

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Don't tap out and say, ah, it's a foregone

conclusion or, ah, my vote doesn't matter.

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Get out and go vote.

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Um, It's it's, especially in our area.

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It's easy.

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There's plenty of polling

stations that are open.

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It doesn't take you long to do.

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Uh, just go do it, go do it.

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Go register your vote and

get your sticker and go home.

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And then you can write out the results

tomorrow and know that you did your part.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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So daylight savings time.

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Yeah, it happens.

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It did happen.

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Happened.

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Yeah.

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And I'd like to know

how you feel about it.

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I'm for it, man.

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You're for it.

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Yeah.

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I want the clock to stay the stay

where the state, where the time is.

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Don't change things.

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I like it in the fall.

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I'd like us to keep just

getting extra hours.

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I said, you know, what,

if that were the case?

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I think a lot more Americans

would be okay with it.

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If it just continued to go

back an hour would be okay.

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But.

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But it's this switching back and forth.

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I don't like that.

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Yeah.

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I really do not like it, I guess.

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Because.

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Once I had kids like losing an

hour versus gaining an hour.

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I feel like it was all the same.

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They were going to wake up at

the same time, no matter what.

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So it doesn't like it.

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I don't, it doesn't bother

me, impacts everything.

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And the world, everyone

struggles with this.

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There are studies that show

people, just getting heart

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attacks and having more accidents.

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After the spring forwards

time change in particular.

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And I just think let's just

keep, keep the one, please.

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Please for all things.

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Good.

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Please just please governor

Abbott, please just do the thing.

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Yeah.

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Send it up the chain.

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I don't know, man.

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I, it doesn't move the

needle for me one way.

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If they want to push, pause

on one of one over the other.

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Okay.

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Fine.

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I there's.

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I heard rumors though.

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You're alone in that.

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Okay.

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I'm hunting.

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Island all by herself.

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Island PJ.

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With multiple times, it wouldn't be the

first time I'm on an island on something.

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But I heard, I think it was last

year that they were considering.

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Um, Staying on a time zone that would

make us three hours different than

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California versus two hours different.

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Yes.

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So yeah, different types

of daylight savings versus.

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The other one.

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Yeah.

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And I think at the, at the

end of the day, it has to go.

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So all the states have

to send it up the chain.

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And I think it has to, I don't

know who has to ratify it, but.

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It can't be done at the state level.

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Which is what's the holdup.

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And there's bills that have been proposed.

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They have yet to gain, gain traction,

which for somebody like Danny Mayer,

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that'd be rough because currently

he gets up and he's working for a

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company that's based out of California.

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So he's, he's on at 7:00 AM or.

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Whatever.

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And he's going from there.

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And so I think it would,

yeah, that's okay.

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You can take a hit for us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He could, it'd be for

the good of all mankind.

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If president Trump wants to

win the presidency, I think

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he should campaign on that.

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Well, I will streamline.

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It's tomorrow.

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And I don't think he can record

a new commercial in time.

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Uh, he does.

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He just said, just tweet it, man.

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It was just like a pitch black room.

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I'd be like, Hey, everybody likes light.

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And let's just let there be light.

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Yeah.

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And so we're going to keep

the clocks where it is.

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Okay.

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Dude he'd have my vote.

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That alone.

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I would say let's do it.

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I would give him my vote anyways,

but, but probably if, if they got rid

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of property taxes, like that might

bump it up a little bit more soon.

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All Abbott's talking about

lessening the tax burden.

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At least I think that's a good thing.

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So he already had that he already has.

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Yeah.

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He started that it was

a tax refund for us.

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This, I think this year.

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Yeah, for.

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We're part of the taxes, which is great.

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I don't know if I saw that.

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Um, I would call your mortgage company.

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Okay.

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Do you have any insight about that?

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One in a hundred mortgage.

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Uh, help.

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Um, yeah.

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Okay.

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Let's jump into the word.

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Mark 11 and John 12.

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Um, mark 11 triumphal entry

verses one through 11.

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Uh, this is Matthew 21.

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This is Luke 19.

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This is John 12.

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Uh, so this is something that

happens in all four gospels.

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Uh, mark does add the detail that he

went to the temple, but then returned to

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Bethany because of being late in the day.

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And so you referenced, I think in

yesterday's episode, the timeframe.

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And here's where we find out

that, that detail, that, that this

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didn't all happen in the same day.

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But that he went back to Lazarus's

house probably and hung out there

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for the evening and then came back

the next day to do the temple.

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Clinton took clean house.

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Yep.

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Yup.

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Um, yeah.

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And so he went up onto the mountain,

kind of observed everything

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and that's, that's important.

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I think maybe we, we see

something that is helpful for us.

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I know.

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A lot of times I can be reactionary.

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Uh, somebody sends me an email or

somebody shoots me a text and my

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gut is I immediately want to react.

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I immediately want to respond and

Jesus would never do something

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sinful because of who he was.

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But I, I think there's wisdom in him

saying, okay, I see what's going on here.

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I'm going to come deal

with this tomorrow morning.

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I'm going to come back

and deal with this one.

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Things are in a different

situation than there are now.

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Sometimes it's wise to sit on that

email or to sit on that text for a day

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and, uh, and respond when you're able

to, to process things a little bit,

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bit better in respond a little bit

more calmly than perhaps in the moment.

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Probably most of the time

it's wise to do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah.

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From here.

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Uh, we get the victory again, and this

is mark chapter 11, verses 12 through 14.

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So we saw this in Matthew 21

as well, verses 18 through 19.

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Uh, but here in, in mark 11, mark 11,

13 states that there were not any figs

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on the tree, four, it wasn't the season.

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And that's unique.

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What do we do with that pastor rod?

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Because surely Jesus knew.

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That it wasn't fig season.

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He grew up in this area.

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It's not like he was a stranger.

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I would never know if it was

fixed or not, but Jesus knew same.

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Same here.

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So why would he go up to this tree?

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Knowing that it's not fig season

looking for a fig to be on it

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and get angry in, well, maybe

not angry at the tree, but why.

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And then proceed to curse the tree.

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The tree is just being what

the tree is supposed to be.

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Yeah.

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And I think the difference

here is that the fig tree is

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representative of Jerusalem.

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And so he's intending to use

the tree as, as an illustration.

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About the kind of fruit that

he expected from his people.

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Now, even if the tree isn't in season,

there should still be some, some

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kind of, some sign of fruitfulness

and that's exactly what they lacked.

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So Jesus is inspecting the tree

with the expectation, a good

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expectation of seeing something there.

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Some sign of positive response.

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And he's saying nothing and that

frustrates him, angers him, perhaps.

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And he looks at Jerusalem and

he's looking at them saying I

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expect something from my people.

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I expect them to know.

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I expect them to, and this is

so interesting because on the

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one hand, God knows who we are.

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He knows that we struggle.

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And yet on the other hand,

There's still a responsibility.

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He still holds us accountable for our own

lack of fruitfulness, our own sinfulness.

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And if that was true of Jerusalem of old

Testament, Israel, Jerusalem at this time.

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How much more true is that for the

believer, he expects fruit from his

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people and we should be pleased to

bear fruit for his glory and his honor,

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because that's what he's looking for.

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Yep.

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And it's a benefit to us.

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We just talked about this on Sunday.

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If you love me, you will

keep my commandments.

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And then when Jesus said, if you

love me and keep my commandments,

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the father and the son, we're going

to come make our home with you.

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That, that proximity that

comes with obedience.

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We look at obedience.

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Side-eye like, don't,

don't bring up obedience.

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I don't like the idea

of you talking about.

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I know that legalism.

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Exactly.

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And not, we don't realize we, we

throw the baby of, of intimacy out

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with the bathwater of legalism.

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We think, well, legalism is bad.

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Granted fair.

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That's bad.

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If we're up here saying in order to

be saved in order to be justified, you

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have to do X, Y, and Z, and it's beyond

repent and believe in Jesus Christ.

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Guilty.

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That's wrong.

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That's horrible.

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But if we're up here saying scripture

calls us to obedience and says that it's

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a good thing to obey because our obedience

is an expression of our love for Christ.

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And bearing fruit is a good thing because

it fosters an intimacy between us and God.

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That that's good for you as much as

it is something that God desires.

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He's not a cruel task master

saying, Hey, do all these things.

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Cause I want you to be miserable.

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It's in doing this, do this, because

it's going to draw you closer to me.

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And as James says, draw near to

God and he will draw near to us.

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So I think you're right.

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You're right in this.

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This is, and by the way, Jeremiah eight,

13 is running in the background of this.

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Jeremiah eight 13 says when I would gather

them declares the Lord, there's no grapes

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on the vine nor figs on the fig tree.

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Even the leaves are withered.

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And what I gave them has

passed away from them.

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He's talking to Israel, he's saying,

look there wasn't fruit there.

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And that's a common theme that shows up

time and time again, with the Israelites

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inheritors again in Mark's gospel.

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After this, we get in verses 15

through 19, the temple cleansing.

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Uh, this again, Matthew 21, Luke 19.

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This is where Jesus comes back.

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So this is, let's see.

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Sunday, triathlon tree.

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This is Monday of passion week here.

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And so he goes in and he cleanses

the temple and teaches afterwards

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mark 11, 18, the Jewish leaders were

afraid of him because the crowd was

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growing more and more favorable to him.

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Remember, this is probably

right around the time.

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That we studied in John's gospel, where

the Pharisees are meeting together

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and, and you had Gamilia there.

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And give me a little says,

w w w what have we gained?

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The whole world has gone after him.

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Um, and so the thing that they

were fearing was happening, he was

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gaining this large crowd and that's

going to precipitate and accelerate

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their plans to, uh, to, to try to

find a way that, to charge him and

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eventually put them to death there.

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We get victory part two then, uh,

verses 23 or 20 through 26 here.

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And so as they're coming back

again the next day, so this is

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Tuesday now, so in the morning, so

they've gone home back to Bethany.

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The coming back to Jerusalem the

next day, this is Tuesday, the

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passion week they're coming by.

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They see the fig tree, um, and they

point out Peter is surprised to

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see that the tree died so quickly.

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Uh, In in.

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That's fair.

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Right?

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Because you don't expect a treated.

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Immediately.

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Go from life to death.

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It takes a while.

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Even if you're horrible with plants, it.

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It'll still take you a

while to kill the plant.

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That plant will still show

some life for a little while.

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But just like when Jesus was on the sea

and calm the sea immediately, and the

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waves didn't have to slowly die out.

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They were immediately Placid.

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So to hear the word of Jesus,

the creator, when he curses

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this victory, man, it's dead.

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It's gone.

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It's dead.

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Dead.

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Yeah.

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And so Jesus responds in verses

22 through 26 by teaching on

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the power of faith and prayer.

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And so now Jesus, isn't necessarily

dealing with an object lesson of the

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fig tree anymore, but he's going after

another object lesson by telling them

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like, if you have faith, you'll be

able to do things similar to this.

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Um, Verse 23.

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This degree of faith is something Israel

lacked, but Jesus wanted his disciples

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to be different by having a different

faith, a better faith, a stronger faith.

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Uh, verse 24 is going to be one

that is, you'll hear from some name,

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it, claim it prosperity preachers.

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And so pass around.

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How do we interpret?

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Therefore, I tell you whatever you ask

in prayer, believe you have it, and

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it will be yours because that sounds a

lot like what we hear from the shysters

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out there that are like, well, if

you believe enough, it'll be yours.

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I think one of the challenges that, uh,

a Christian faces is, is to actually

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let that text say what it says.

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And I think the prosperity preachers

get closer to it than we might think.

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But they're so far away that you

can't even say, okay, well, you

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can't even give him partial credit.

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But I think they're closer

to it than what we realize.

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I think this is one of the principles

that Mueller lived off of and

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his whole life and in granted.

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I don't think that Mueller's an example

for all of us in every way that he

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lived, but he does provide an example

of the kind of faith that God honors.

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Uh, the childlike faith that he encourages

us to have is a kind of faith that

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says, man, I know the heart of God.

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This would honor you Lord.

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And this is what I'm asking for in bold.

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Expecting faith, but of course, all

of that is qualified with the asterisk

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of, well, what is, what is the gut.

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What does God's word say about this?

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And, and is this really good for me?

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Like kind of person that would exercise

his faith knows God's word so well and

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has such a good relationship with him.

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Uh, an intimate relationship to

call back to your Sunday sermon.

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That they can, they can say, ah, I know

what God's going to do in this scenario.

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I know what he wants to do.

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That might seem.

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Uh, audacious to some of us to see man.

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How can you dare know what God says?

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Well, I know his word.

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If I know his word, I can have some

reasonable confidence that in my

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sanctified common sense, this is

probably the direction God wants to go.

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God, I want you to do this and

I want to do it for your glory.

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And your honor, that kind of faith,

I think, is a faith that God honors.

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And I think that's what

Jesus is calling for.

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Yeah.

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And if you're praying big, bold prayers,

and God doesn't answer them, the.

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The response is not necessarily

that you didn't have enough faith.

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Take Jesus in the garden, right?

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Jesus praise multiple times in the garden.

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Please let this cup pass from me.

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Uh, and yet that wasn't God's will,

and we wouldn't look at Jesus and

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say, well, Jesus, if you had had more

faith, the father would've answered the

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prayer and taken the cup away from you.

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So there are certain times that

we are going to be praying.

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And praying things with, with a lot

of faith there, and yet God's going to

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redirect and go a different direction

there and we can't sit back and go,

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well, if I'd had more faith, God

would have changed his mind on this.

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No God's mind is set.

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He is declared the beginning from the end.

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And so just sometimes we need

to recognize, okay, God, you've

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got some of the better that I

don't understand it in mind here.

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And I'm going to trust you in that.

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First 25.

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Um, This is unique here because he

points out that a lack of forgiveness.

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A hint, hampers are our prayer life.

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And that's something that we've talked

about before that the obligation that

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we have, the duty that we have as

Christians to forgive whether or not

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someone has come to seek our forgiveness.

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And here we see it right here.

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Whenever you stand praying.

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Forgive.

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If you have anything against anyone.

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So that your father who's in heaven

may forgive you your trespasses.

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And so here, Jesus is

making it very clear.

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Hey, we've got to forgive because

if we don't, it's going to hinder

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and impair our prayer life.

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And also God's willingness to forgive

us, which is a chilling concept for sure.

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Versus 27 through 33, then the

authority of Jesus has challenged.

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We're going to see this happen quite

a few times in the coming days.

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And Jesus, again, goes back and

says, okay, let's talk about,

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you want to talk a authority?

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Let's talk about the baptism of John.

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Where did that come from?

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Whose authority was that under?

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Was that from God or was that from men?

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And the Pharisees again,

they're afraid of the people.

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They don't want to answer

one way or the other.

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So Jesus says, okay, I'm not going

to answer you your question either.

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And then he moves on from here.

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John chapter 12, John chapter 12.

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Uh, familiar territory because we've

covered it recently in, in, uh,

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the preaching series here, but it

opens with the anointing of Jesus.

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And this is a, an event that is

probably parallel to when Jesus.

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Is anointed in the other gospels

when his, his head is anointed

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here at his feet that are anointed.

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And the explanation for that

is probably it was both.

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Um, there was enough perfume in this

vial, in this jar that it could have been

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both that happened in this one event.

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So we don't need to parse out to

events or believe that there's

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some sort of contradiction here.

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It's just the point of emphasis

here, but Jesus is anointed.

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Uh, here, this would have been

Saturday before passion week.

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So we're backing up.

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This is prior to the, the triumphal entry.

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And so, um, Saturday before passion

week, we know this because it

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says six days before the Passover.

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So that would have been that Sabbath

day leading up to, so this is right

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before Sunday, the triumphal entry.

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So he's getting ready literally

for, um, the crucifixion in

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everything in front of him.

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And, and so that's why the anointing.

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Uh, takes place here.

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Um, uh, noticing in verses nine through

11 Lazarus has a warrant out for his head.

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It's not just Jesus that thereafter.

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But they're mad at, at Lazarus because

Lazarus had been out there testifying.

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Hey Jesus.

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Look what Jesus did for me.

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He brought me from death to life.

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So the people want Lazarus dead as well.

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And so that's interesting.

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We never find out the rest of

the story of Lazarus, but I

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wonder what came out of that.

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Following the crucifixion of Jesus

stories that we'll only hear in heaven.

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Yup.

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So many of those too, by the way.

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I can't wait.

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It's going to be awesome.

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Versus at 12 3 19, the triumphal entry, a

little bit shorter account of that here.

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We, we preach through that, but yeah,

a little bit shorter account here.

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John 1216 tells us the

disciples were confused at this.

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They didn't fully understand what was

going on and we have to understand

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that they had heard Jesus talking a lot

about suffering a lot about his death.

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And here the crowds were

shouting Hosanna and he seems

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to be stepping right into that.

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And so they're probably sitting

there going, what, what is going on?

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How do we balance all this year?

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Versus 12 versus 20, rather through 26.

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We, I like this section.

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The Greeks sections.

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Why don't you take it then go for it.

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They've heard from me on this.

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Well, Yeah.

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So some Greeks approach them

and they come to Philip.

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And they say, sir, we wish to see Jesus.

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And of course, Philip takes us to

Andrew, Andrew then takes it to Jesus.

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And then Jesus says the

hour has finally come.

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So that as you talked about in your

sermon here, this, this is now the hour.

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This is the turning point.

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The Greeks are now being called the Jesus.

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That Gentiles are now being.

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Drawn to him, which is in Jesus' mind, the

queue, which corresponds to the holy week.

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This is it.

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The hour has come.

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The time for my glorification has

arrived, which means also the time

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for the inclusion of the Gentiles.

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And so he takes the opportunity

to highlight for them what it

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looks like to be his disciple.

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You, you want to see me?

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You want to see what it

looks like to follow me.

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Let me tell you about that.

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And this is a famous section that

you've read in other passages.

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He said in verse, he says in

verse 25, whoever loves his life.

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Loses it.

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And whoever hates his life in this world.

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We'll actually keep it for eternal life.

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And if anyone serves me.

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He says he must follow me and

where I am, there will my serenity.

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Also, if anyone serves me,

the father will honor him.

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So service to Jesus, discipleship

to Jesus looks a whole lot like

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the discipleship that he's already

highlighted in other places.

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Die to yourself, take up your

cross, follow me, do what I say.

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That's what it looks like

to see me or to follow me is

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really what they're getting at.

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So this is a really cool turning point.

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I love it.

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And I loved that.

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The heartbeat behind it

served me wish to see Jesus.

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And I think that's what every Christian

longs to hear when they come to

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hear some preaching, show us Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And sometimes people have a very.

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I mean back to your sermon here, a

very one dimensional view of Jesus.

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Uh, Jesus, that only speaks to their

hurts and their, and their needs,

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which is important, but he also

challenges us as his disciples.

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I'm going to do it in

the gospel of Matthew.

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Jesus is calling his people

to be salt and light.

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Is calling us in the sermon on the

Mount to, to bear fruit, um, as John

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will say in keeping with repentance.

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So I really appreciate this.

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This is a really cool section.

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It is really cool.

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Yeah.

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One of my mentors in.

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Ministry has that emblazoned on his desk,

on his pulpit, his preaching pulpit.

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He has dash part.

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The sir, we wish to see Jesus.

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Oh, that's cool.

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It's there on his pulpit.

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As a reminder, every time he

steps into the pulpit, that one of

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his jobs is to show Jesus to the

people as he preaches the text.

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That's awesome.

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So show us the whole Christ

as Ferguson would say.

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There you go show us the whole

one, not just the partial one.

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Right?

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Which is a challenge.

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And, and cause every time you preach.

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Yeah.

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There's so much about who Jesus is.

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Yeah.

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There's the manifold perfections

of his personality that are really

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hard to capture any single sermon.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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And sometimes that, that Krista

centric versus crystal logical

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approach to a text is what are you?

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Is Jesus the point of every text?

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Or can you get to Jesus from

every text and awards and.

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You know, I think sometimes,

yeah, it's just, it's a, it's

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a tough road to walk and walk.

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In a balanced way to, to do

justice to the historical setting

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and everything else in the text.

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There's a lot there.

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And did.

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Well verses 27 through 36, then

he talks more about the hour.

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Um, the hour has come and he talks

about the fact that, uh, he's troubled

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over this, this impending hour,

but yet this is why he's counted.

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So he's not going to pray that

he would be delivered from this.

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And Jesus says, it's

about the glory of God.

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He prays that God's going to glorify

him and they hear this voice.

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From heaven saying I have glorified it.

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I will glorify it.

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And she's just makes this

enigmatic statement at the time.

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That would be understood later

in verse 32, when I am lifted up

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from the earth, I will draw all

people to myself that all there.

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I think we have to understand

that as all, without.

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Uh, distinction, not

all without exception.

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Jesus is not saying that he's

going to draw everyone universally

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to himself through the cross.

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That would be what we call universalism.

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Uh, but rather he's going to

draw all different types of

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people all without distinction.

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There's no one, including the Gentiles,

which is what would have been the,

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the scandalous thing at this point.

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Uh, that including the Gentiles, the

world that he had just been talking

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to, uh, everybody is going to be able

to come to him through the cross.

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He's going to draw people to himself

through, through that offering

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that he's going to make there.

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Uh, versus 37 through 42, we get

the section here where there's

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unbelief prophesied from Jesus

that we had done so many signs.

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They still did not believe.

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So that what the word spoken

by Isaiah, the prophet.

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Was might be fulfilled.

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And so the unbelief prophesied was

prophesied all the way back from Isaiah.

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In part by Israel, but now also even

more so during the time of Jesus.

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And so the application there from that

text was yeah, in the short term for old

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Testament Israel, but, but also there with

the people rejecting Christ in that day.

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And then finally, chapter 12 ends in

verses 44 through 50 with a statement from

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Christ on why he came to save the world.

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Now he is turned away from the Jews

at this point, he's hidden himself.

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So we're not sure exactly

where 44, 3 50 fits.

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It might be right after that.

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And it might be that this is just Jesus

and his followers, or this could have

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been an editorial job by John where

he's placing this kind of out of order

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from where it actually took place.

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But.

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Jesus is, is staying here

in, in issuing the call.

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Hey, whoever believes in me believes

not me, but him who sent me I've

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come into the world as a light.

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So again, Jesus' mission is reinforced

in verse 40 through four through

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50 in the end of John chapter 12.

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Boom.

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All right, let's pray.

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And then we will be

done with this episode.

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Got to help us to be a light in

this world, help us to be able to

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take the truth of your word to those

around us, help us to show Christ

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to people who are in our midst.

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And that's not just the job of a preacher.

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That's the job of all of us

as your ambassadors, as your.

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Uh, missionaries as though has been

sent with the great commission.

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And so God, we want to be those that,

uh, that go to a world that may not be

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asking like these Greeks did, Hey, show

us Jesus, but they need to see Jesus.

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And so help us to have that mentality.

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And, uh, to bear fruit in bringing people

in and sharing the gospel with people

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to see them come to faith in Christ.

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Pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen reminds me of that

song that show us crap.

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Great.

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Once it gets off, it is a.

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And do that.

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We should do that.

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We have done that.

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Have we?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I think we did it.

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Do it again once.

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We should do it again.

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We should do it again.

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Yeah, we will.

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Alright.

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Hey, can you bring your Bibles to

tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast?

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See you.