00:00 Introduction and Technical Glitches

01:06 Discussing Hurricane Milton and Climate Change

01:59 Christian Perspective on Environmental Stewardship

05:39 Navigating Political and Biblical Views on Climate

06:46 Prayers and Support for Natural Disaster Victims

07:45 Bible Reading: Jesus and the Sabbath

11:11 The Value of Compassion and Creation

12:07 The Role of Animals in Humanity

12:53 Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

16:53 The Sign of Jonah Explained

20:12 Returning Spirits and Pharisees

20:46 Jesus' Family and Followers

24:19 The Sermon on the Plain

25:01 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode of

the daily Bible podcast and a pastor.

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Rod will be with us in just a second.

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He had to run to go do something.

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So here I am and where this is

just vamping, just professional.

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There he is.

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He's right there.

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He's back.

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And we are back with you.

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Uh, in fact, man, Crisis averted.

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I was, if, if we had not checked, no.

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No.

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Yeah.

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If we had not checked the sound before.

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We actually recorded then.

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You made another one of those

emails Sunday or email days, we'd

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be getting emails from people like,

Hey, the podcast sounds weird.

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What's going on with the podcast that.

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And my wife would have

been doing the interview.

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Like, yeah, he went for a

run and never came back.

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I don't know what happened to him.

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Pastor rod was.

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Threatening to direct.

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I read them over.

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So, no, we, uh, we just narrowly

avoided not having the microphones.

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Actually connected to the computer.

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So that happened only once

that's happened a few times.

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Maybe that's been the thing most

of the time, maybe that's it.

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I don't think so.

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I can think of one time that that

particular issue has happened.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Hey, here's a question.

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We caught it.

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Yeah.

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Um, Hurricane Milton,

which is supposed to hit.

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As of today, I believe.

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Yeah.

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I woke up.

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This morning being Tuesday.

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Uh, so it's supposed to hit

tomorrow, Wednesday when you're

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listening to this it's today.

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Yeah.

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Track with that.

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Um, anyways, woke up Tuesday and my ex

feed was full of people talking about

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just the severity of this hurricane.

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It's one of the biggest ones since.

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Well, I'd make the, I guess the last one.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And even from the secular field,

people are taking note of this.

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In fact, I saw one from Marquez brownie.

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Who quote, tweeted somebody talking

about how the eye of this hurricane

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is, is so small, which I guess.

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Suggests that there's going to be even

greater damage because the majority

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of this mass is high-level wins in.

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Straight leg, straight,

wind and everything else.

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And he was saying, yeah.

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So explain to me again how we're

not damaging our climate right now.

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So how should climate control.

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I'm a change.

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How should we as Christians process

this idea that, that, uh, we live

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in a world that has these storms and

natural disasters and everything else.

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Is climate change, something

that we should care about

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that we shouldn't care about.

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How do we navigate that?

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So I'm sure we have several things to say,

because I know that what comes to my mind.

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My head immediately, is that

for any Christian to say,

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look, we should care about are.

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Climate.

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We should care about the creation is to be

automatically assumed to be a leftist or

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a liberal, or to be a shepherd for sale.

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So let's start off by saying, I

think it's perfectly reasonable

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for Christian to say, look, we

want to care and be good stewards.

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Uh, of the environment God has given us.

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Yeah.

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Now what that looks like.

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You're gonna have a lot of varieties

of opinions on that, but to just,

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just call it what it is, scripture

calls us to be caretakers of creation.

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I pointed out several places where

God cares about the animals that

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humanity's history or humanities.

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Future history is tied up with creations.

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If future history, our destiny is

shared, um, creation, groans, and waits

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for the revealing of the sons of God.

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So it's, it's important.

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Christian should care about creation.

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Christian should care about what's

happening to animals and care.

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Obviously the people that are injured

in, in situations like this as well.

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So I think point number one.

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God wants us to care for his creation.

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I don't think that should be any, any

bit controversy or, uh, be assumed to

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say, oh, you must be one of those guys.

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I think that's as biblical as it gets.

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What w what would you say to that pastor?

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Because would you add anything to that?

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Qualify it?

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Yeah, I think the second point is, is

just, you know, it, it feels like all

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this stuff is ramping up and that's

the narrative that you'll hear a lot

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of times from the, from the people

that are on the left side of this.

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Imminent tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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And look at it.

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You know, the, the polar ice caps are

melting and everything else like that.

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Part of this.

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And we've touched on this theme

before in other areas as well.

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And it applies to this too.

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We are more aware of these things than

we ever have been at any other time in

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world history, measuring them, we're able

to capture it and social media, you know,

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24, 7 news feeds all of these things.

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Other instruments.

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More aware.

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Of these disasters than we ever

have been at any other time.

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Does that mean that there's not

differences now in the climate then during

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Jesus' day, that, that, you know, that.

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We haven't done some things

to, to change some things.

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I know.

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Certainly certainly.

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Um, but.

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You know, the, the scale of that we're,

we're, we're, it's not a fair comparison

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to say, well, it's, it's much worse today

than it was back in the 18 hundreds.

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We don't, we don't know because we

didn't have the same ability to track.

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But I think my bigger concern is, is okay.

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There's there's a different, the storms.

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These things are bad.

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Wherever you stand on this.

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What's the take home for us as Christians,

what should we sell our motorized vehicles

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and, and buy electric vehicles and, and

only drive Teslas and, and Mark's okay.

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And the rest of us are in trouble.

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And.

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Um, no.

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Because people are looking

at those going okay.

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But when you consider all the mining

in the environment that needs to take

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place to produce these massive batteries

that are needed for the electric.

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Recycle them.

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Can't recycle it.

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Yeah.

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Hazardous and all those.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And so there is really no

win at the end of the day.

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No.

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Unless we want to go back to just

riding on horses, but then, you know,

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there's the people that are concerned

about the tutes from the cows that

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probably wouldn't be happy about it.

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Horses are still hearing about that.

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I don't know what the answer is.

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Other than as Christians, we get the

ability to, to trust and in a sovereign

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God and to the best of our ability, be

wise stewards of creation and make sure

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that we're not going outside and taking

styrofoam and lighting it on fire.

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Just for fun, just to

be like, ah, look at us.

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We don't care about those artifacts.

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I mean, w we just live our lives

and be wise, and we're not going

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to be enslaved to any of these

things, no matter what it is on what

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side of the equation you fall on.

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Uh, we just need to be careful about it.

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So I think it's a long response

to say, Hey, everybody who

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believes in this is stupid.

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I think it's also a wrong

response to S to, to be.

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Panic-stricken and governed by fear.

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Uh, that the world's

going to end tomorrow.

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Yeah, that's it, that's a really

helpful way to, to posture it.

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And I think the error that most

Christians fall into is okay.

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If I'm a conservative, if I vote

Republican than man, I should

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be totally good with, you know,

Chimney smoke here and there.

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And we should all be, you know,

Doing whatever we want to the

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atmosphere and the environment, just

because it's part of our platform.

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Um, I, we want to be biblical.

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We don't want to be Republican.

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Being a Republican might be a result of

your being biblical and that's fair, but

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be biblical first and foremost, which

means that we're stewards of creation.

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And to your point.

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I think that suggests at least some

level of awareness and no one has all

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the time necessary to read through

all the studies and all the books.

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I mean, I get that.

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I feel the pressure to

say, I want to know more.

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And yet my time is limited.

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Should I spend it there?

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I think you have a few trusted

resources and do enough to help

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your conscience feel like, okay.

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I'll at least go in the right direction.

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As far as I know.

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And I think what you just said earlier

is the best as, you know, as best as

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you're able to, to do the right thing.

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Whatever that looks like.

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And to be distinctly different from the

world and the way that they approach it.

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And I think that speaks to your, your idea

that we're, we're not looking for the end

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of the world because of climate change.

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We're looking for the, the Messiah.

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Of the world to change the climate

and everything else on top of that.

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So I would say that.

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On that note though.

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Every time.

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I see a news article about the hurricane.

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I'm praying for people

praying for the churches.

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I'm praying for people that I

know that live on the east coast.

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Um, we're not there.

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And I just always thinking about us

the other day, like being in Texas,

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where we're probably not likely

to get some of the same effects at

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some, these people are saying, right.

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But a tornado rolling through.

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I mean, that's happened before.

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Our church could be devastated

tomorrow, our people and all the things.

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And I'm certainly going to feel

a lot of comfort knowing that my

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friends are praying for me, right.

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They're sending aid and that they're

doing what they can to support us.

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One of our neighbors is actually going to

travel down to east coast to help with.

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Surveying and insurance claims.

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Uh, I guess he's Surveying

roofs and things like that.

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And then helping with the claims

for, for the insurance company.

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So now whatever you can do.

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If you have resources to donate to

reputable ministries that are doing

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work there, like Samaritan's purse.

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Uh, great.

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You should do that.

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I would encourage you to do that.

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Yeah.

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If you can't don't feel obligation,

uh, if you can't then don't, but

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if you can and you feel led to men.

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But then, then do good.

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Yup.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with that.

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Yep.

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All right.

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Hey, let's uh, jump into our

Bible reading for the day.

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Yes.

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Matthew 12, mark three, Luke six,

Matthew 12, mark three, Luke six.

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Right.

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Hey, did we decide on

this plan for next year?

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We did.

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We did.

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We're going to do another year in a row.

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We're giving it back.

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And of the two or three or seven of these.

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I can't wait, maybe we'll

go backwards one year.

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Start from the revelation.

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Chronological.

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Interesting.

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To Genesis.

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Let's start at, like at the last

chapter of revelation and work

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your way backwards in every book.

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I I'm, I'm not in favor of this.

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Okay.

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Fair enough.

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Yeah, that would not be good.

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All right.

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Um, Yeah, Matthew 12, we opened

up with Jesus Lord of the Sabbath,

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which we've encountered before in.

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In some of the other reading that

we've done, mark chapter two.

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Uh, 23 through 28, Luke

six, one through five.

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He says similar statements there.

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But he rebuts the Pharisees here with

their accusation that he's breaking

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the Sabbath with three points.

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Number one, he says, Hey, David

ate the bread of the presence.

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And so he ate the holy bread

because it was more about

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the sustaining of human life.

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That was more valuable than the

tradition or the ceremony there.

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Number two.

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He said, look, the priests continued

their work in the temple, on the Sabbath.

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And so if the priest continued

to work on the Sabbath, then.

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You know him as the Lord of

the Sabbath, it's okay for him.

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And.

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His followers by extension to, to

continue to do what they need to do.

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And then the third point that he makes

here is Jesus is greater than the temple.

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He says something greater

than the temple is here.

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So, um, yeah, Jesus is making that

point that it we've talked about this

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already, that the Sabbath was made

for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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And so he's pushing back on the Pharisees

and the religious leaders that are saying,

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Hey, you, your disciples are breaking the

Sabbath by doing what they're doing here.

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Uh, next up in verses nine through

14, you've got the man with the

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withered hand, from a withered land.

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Uh, yeah.

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Anyways, no.

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It sounds like.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Or fairytale nursery rhyme.

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The man with the withered

hand, it just sounds like.

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Spoken word, some hip hop, go for it.

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The little lady who lived in a shoe.

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Yeah.

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With her pants.

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Anyways, um, So here comes this man

and the Pharisees again, this is, this

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whole section is about Jesus interacting

with the opponents about the Sabbath,

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because the main comes forward.

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It's on the Sabbath they're watching

and they're waiting to see, okay,

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are, is he going to heal this man?

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What's going to happen here.

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Jesus confronts their cruel

hypocrisy by saying, Hey look.

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Wouldn't you help your, your animal,

if your animal was indeed on the

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Sabbath and yet how much more value

is there in a human being, which

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there's a point about the sanctity

of life that is to be made there.

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Um, as he's, he's pointing to that.

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And so he says how much more

valuable basically as a human life.

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And so he, he heals them and they're

left silenced because they can't

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rebut him and their animosity as

a result increases against him.

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Um, Yeah, verses 15

through 21, then Jesus.

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Uh, Talk to you about why he came.

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He withdrew from there, order

them not to make him known.

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And this was to fulfill what

was spoken by the prophet.

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Uh, but he says, there he goes,

look, I'm here to bring the good

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news and not just to the Jews, but we

should note here verse 21 in, in his

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name, the Gentiles will have hope.

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That's good news for us because

we except for you pastor up.

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Thank you.

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I was going to say it.

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I was going to say it so well.

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He thinks it's coming.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, but Jesus came to

give Gentiles hope as well.

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And so he's even alluding to that

already at this point in the gospels

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and that's of note, because Matthew

was writing to a Jewish audience.

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And so this would have.

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Hit them in a different way than it does

anybody else, but he's there to fulfill

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the prophecy that comes from Isaiah 42.

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Um, the pointed to the type of Messiah

he came to be not political, not

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military, but a meek compassionate.

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Uh, Messiah, not just for the Jews,

but also for the Gentiles as well.

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What good point I want it.

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I'm going to draw your attention to

is the, is the arguments that Jesus

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makes about the value of a sheep.

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He says, look, you can show compassion

to a sheep that falls into a pit.

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You know, that's not

gonna be a good place.

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He can't stay there.

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Can't feed himself.

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Can't drink.

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Maybe he's injured.

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Now you're going to have compassion for an

animal and therefore pull the animal out.

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Obviously, even on the Sabbath,

he says, you're going to do that.

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And it is if that's true for the

animal, how much more so for the man.

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Uh, just a small point here.

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And maybe you haven't thought of it

this way before, but we're not vegans.

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And part of the reason

that we're not vegans.

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Um, in addition to

animals tasting delicious.

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Yes.

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Is that we believe animals are here to

serve people and not the other way around.

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Now it's good that you have animals.

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It's good that you take care of animals.

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Good.

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That you show compassion animals.

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As Jesus says here, he

elucidated verse 12.

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Um, however, we never want to get the

order mixed up, or we want to say,

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hell, you know, the, the monkey is

more valuable than the person or the

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dog is more valuable than the person.

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And we, we never would say

that at least not most of us.

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Some people would say that some

people would say that you're as

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valuable as a dog, as the monkey,

as the pigeon has the Crow.

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Uh, Christian.

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So say that we believe animals

serve the purpose of humanity.

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Our job as a steward them for the

greatest good for the greatest number

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of people for the glory of God.

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That means it animals serve our

purposes, not the other way around.

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So FYI, if you're thinking about becoming

vegan, for reasons like this, don't do it.

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Yeah, I would, I would, I would discourage

at least from the biblical standpoint.

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I don't think the Bible would

support, uh, of the vegan ethic.

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Not that it's bad to say.

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I don't want to do it if, if that's

your, if that's your situation,

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but I don't think you could

use the Bible to support that.

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Yeah.

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Fair.

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Uh, yeah.

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God told Peter arise, kill and eat.

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Yeah.

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He told me, kill the animal.

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Yep.

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It's people going to lots of

visions, not the same thing.

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Well, but he actually did do,

they actually did eat the animals.

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Yeah.

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After that happened.

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So Paul talked a lot about eating meat.

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Yeah.

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Meat comes from sacrifice down.

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I don't even know less.

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Yeah.

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Uh, yeah, verses 22 through 37,

then we get into the section

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on blaspheming the spirits.

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So what happens here is Jesus heals

a demon possessed man to begin

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all the hooplah in this chapter

and that the Pharisees looked to

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disparage him and accused them

of doing this by demonic powers.

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So Jesus.

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In response points out the absurdity

of demons, casting out demons.

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He says that that doesn't make any sense.

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A house divided cannot stand.

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And so he then goes on to talk

about the blasphemy of the

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spirit in verses 31 through 32.

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He says every sin and blasphemy will

be forgiven people, but the blasphemy

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against the spirit will not be forgiven.

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And whoever speaks a word against

the son of man will be forgiven,

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but whoever speaks against the

holy spirit will not be forgiven.

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Um, and so we find out from other

passages that this blasphemy of the

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spirit is specifically attributing to

Christ power, um, or attributing Christ

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power to demonic forces saying that

rather than doing things by the power of

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the spirit, which is what he was doing,

that he was doing things in the power

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of the devil or the power of his demons.

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That is to blast you in the spirit.

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That is what Jesus says

is the unpardonable sin.

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This one will not be forgiven.

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The blasphemy of the spirit, which.

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Is it possible then to

blast feed the spirit today?

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Is it possible for someone to read the,

the events in the new Testament and

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to say, okay, I think Jesus did all of

these things in the power of the devil

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and not in the power of the spirit.

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I guess categorically, it may be.

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But most of the time when people

fear blaspheming the spirit,

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they're not fearing what Jesus is

defining blasphemy of the spirit.

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As here in this, this context blossoming

in the spirit was, was a unique situation.

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We're in there, again, looking at what

the holy spirit was doing through Jesus

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and saying a demon did that instead.

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And so that's the blasphemy

of the holy spirit.

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It's not somebody who stands up

and says, I repeat my beliefs

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in Jesus and walks away.

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Now there are other passages that speak

to the danger of doing things like that.

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But as far as the unpardonable,

my thoughts, I think it's,

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it's unique to this context.

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Yeah, I'd be inclined to agree with that.

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Um, I saw a video not too long

ago, several years ago at this

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point, but not too long ago.

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And the grand scheme of things.

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Have a bunch of atheists trying, trying to

commit the blasphemy of the holy spirit.

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And they're saying, look, I, I

care so little about this religion.

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I hate it so much that I'm going to,

I'm going to blasting the holy spirit.

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So they, they were saying

things like, I blast him.

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You holy spirit.

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So.

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Clearly not entirely sure what they're

talking about, but the point remains

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what they wouldn't recommend that.

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Exactly.

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We wouldn't tell you to do that.

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Um, But I would agree.

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I think this particular form of sin

was probably only available to do in

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this form during the time of Jesus.

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Now, my only caveat to that

would be first John five 16.

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Where he says, if anyone sees his brother

committing a sin, not leading to death,

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he shall ask God to give him life.

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To those who commit sins that

do not lead to death, but there

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is a sin that leads to debt.

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I do not say that one

should pray for that.

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I wonder if that's connected to this.

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I have no conclusive evidence to say that

that for sure is what's happening here.

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But besides that text, I think.

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My heart is at least right now.

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As of today.

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I think it's only committed

at that point in time.

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Although you still can't harden

your heart against the word

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of God gets the spirit of God.

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And have a similar effect.

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Yeah, but this one is saying, once you

cross that line, there's no coming back.

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You're sealed and that's forever.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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For 30, 30, 3 37, then Jesus then turns

to an illustration of a tree and its

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fruit, a tree is known by its fruit.

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It's either going to produce

good fruit or bad fruit.

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And he says on the day of judgment,

People will give an account for

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every careless word they speak.

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And this is for, by your words, you

will be justified by your words.

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You will be condemned, which.

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It may sound a little odd because we're

justified or condemned by our words.

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What about Jesus?

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The reason being, because the words

reveal, what's internal, the words

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reveal what's going on inside.

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That's the point that he's

making in this passage?

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The, the input influences the output.

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And when the output is corrupt,

it's a sign that, that, Hey,

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the whole person is corrupt.

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The whole tree is bad

when the fruit is bad.

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So.

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Um, that's his point here in this passage?

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Yeah, it's terrifies me verse

36 on the day of judgment.

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People will give account for

every careless word they speak.

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And that doesn't cause you to tremble.

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I don't know what will, right?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no for sure.

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Alright, verses 38 through 42, then, um,

I titled this section, show us, prove it.

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I titled the sign of Jonah.

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Okay, well, that's,

that's very ESV of you.

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Thank you.

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And it gets from me

probably standard version.

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Um, yeah.

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Uh, title this, prove it or

show it because that's, that's

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what they're asking for teacher.

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We want to see a sign from you.

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Not because they're looking to be

entertained, but they want to see

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something in their eyes that would

allow them to say, okay, we believe

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you, we believe your authority.

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And so Jesus confronts their unbelief

because you'd already done plenty

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to show you where you been guys.

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Right?

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Are we talking about?

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Yeah.

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It's like, I'm not going to do anymore.

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In fact, you want to sign, I'm

not going to give you any other

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signs other than the sign of Jonah.

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Uh, Jesus declares that that would be

the only one they would receive that

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he just, as Jonah was three days, three

nights in the belly of the great fish.

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So will the son of man be

three days, three nights in

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the heart of the earth now.

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Pastor rod, this goes back to

something that I think you were

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talking about last episode or the

episode before that there was a.

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Uh, flexibility in the Jewish reckoning

of time that we don't have the.

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The same.

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They didn't, they didn't have the

same rigidity then that we have today.

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Um, that there was a portion of a

day, for example, in this situation,

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because you might be saying,

wait a minute, but he wasn't.

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In the belly of the earth for

three days and three nights.

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Um, and so how do we do this?

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Well, The Jews would have understood

this as, as emphasizing three days, the

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Jewish reckoning considered part of a

day to be equivalent to the whole day.

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Right.

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So there's no need to create a scenario

in which Christ died on Wednesday or

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Thursday to accommodate a modern literal

reading of three days and three nights.

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Rather, this was a little bit of a

colloquial colloquial expression.

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Say that 10 times before I was

even thinking about that word

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going, okay, get it right.

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And I still messed it up.

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Colloquial expression or a Jewish

expression emphasizing three days, he's

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saying this is gonna be three days.

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That's what's going to happen here.

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And so we know historically when Jesus

died, this is not something we've talked

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about this before with historical sites.

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Nobody's going to forget when Jesus died.

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They're not going to be like,

oh, I think it was Thursday or

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Friday, or maybe it was a Tuesday.

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I can't remember.

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They would've known.

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In fact, the early church

organized themselves around the,

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the events of the crucifixion.

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They celebrate it on Sunday

because he rose on Sunday.

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Right.

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And we know he died on Friday because

it's recorded that way for us.

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So this is not erroneous.

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This is not a problem for us.

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We just have to understand that

the Jewish reckoning of time is

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different than our reckoning of time.

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Right.

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And one of the ways that you

can see that too, to improve

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what pastor PJ saying here.

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I was in the book of Esther, Esther,

chapter four and chapter five, chapter

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four, verse 16, Esther calls a fast.

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Remember she's about to

go see the king Ahasuerus.

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She says to them, go gather all the

Jews to be found in Susa and hold a fast

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on my behalf and do not eat or drink.

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Here you go for three days, night or day.

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There you go.

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So there's the idea of

night or day don't drink.

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Have a fast.

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And then if you, if you move on forward to

just a two chapter five verse one on the

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third day, Esther put on her Royal robes

stood in the inner court of the King's

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palace in front of the King's quarters.

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While the king was sitting

on his row, threatens at the

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bottle, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And the king sought, saw

her one favor in his sight.

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So the third day she can, they

consider the whole day, uh,

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even though it was partial day.

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So the, on the third day she

went to go do this, but she

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said three days, night or day.

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So if she's being consistent, she should

say, well, the third day she can't see him

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until the end of the third day, perhaps.

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But no, she goes and

sees them on that day.

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And they're still fasting.

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They still consider that rather a

three-day fast, even though she's

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technically from Western concept of time.

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And precise in the way that she says it.

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All right.

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Man we've still got two more chapters.

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To go after this will be more concise.

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All right.

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Uh, versus 43 through

45 returning spirits.

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The Pharisees essentially here.

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The idea here.

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Is that the fair seats that had

looked like they cleaned house.

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They were, they had all the external

things looking good, looked like

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they were organized and everything

else, but because their, their

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trust wasn't in the right thing.

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There wasn't any true conversion.

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They were prone to

being used by the enemy.

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Is, I think what's going on here with

the returning spirits as they come

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back, they find the house put in order,

but then they come back with seven of

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them because it looks like it's okay.

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But really it's, it

hasn't truly been cleaned.

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The weight needs to be cleaned.

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And so I think this is a comp

confrontation continuing with the

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Pharisees here in this passage.

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Uh, versus 46 through 50,

then the family shows up.

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And the family are outside

Mary and his brothers, and they

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attempt to interrupt Jesus.

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And it seems probably that they're

concerned with the family name,

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that they're worried about Jesus

bringing shame on the family name.

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And so he declares in response to that.

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Any who do the will of

the father or his family.

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So he says, these are my family.

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So he's redefining relationships

similar to when he looked

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at Mary and said, Hey woman.

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What does this have to do with me Guna,

as we talked about in a previous episode.

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Uh, mark three mark three verses

one through six, opens up with the

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man with the withered hand again.

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Um, we saw that previously, the only

thing of note here that I want you to

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pay attention to, it says Jesus was

angry and grieved at the hardness of

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heart that he saw on the Pharisee.

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So a different nuance provided here from

Mark's account than Matthew's account.

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He was angry over this, as well

as being grieved because of.

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Their lack of care and concern

for the human being there.

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Uh, versus seven to 12, then we

see here, Jesus is famous, the

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crowds flocked to him because he

teaches and heals and instructs.

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Uh, then in response to tell

no one, because it wasn't yet

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is our, and yet nobody's paying

attention to him on that part.

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They're just going to, they're

going to tell everybody they want to

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tell they're like, no, this is it.

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We're gonna, we're gonna get this

out as far and wide as we can.

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And so that's what goes on here

in verses seven through 12,

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that the crowds are flocking.

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Jesus is growing in his fame.

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Uh, he's going to call a specific

number though, to follow him.

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And that this is the 12th.

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This is mark three 13 through 21.

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He calls those.

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He desired here.

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Notice that in mark.

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Uh, chapter three, verse 13, he

called to him those whom he desired.

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And that would include Judas.

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We talked about that a few weeks

ago in our Sunday sermon that Jesus.

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Knew what was in the heart of men.

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He knew Judas before

he called Judas there.

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Uh, and so verse 18 here, and

we talked about this briefly.

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Uh, in one of our previous episodes,

I think Bartholomew who shows up here

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is Nathaniel from Johnson county.

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I think this is probably Nathaniel

Bartholomew bar means son of tall MAs.

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So son of Ptolemaic would be Bartholomew.

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And so it could be Nathaniel

Bartholomew is the guys.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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And that I, I that's,

that's, that's new to me.

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I will, uh, I will.

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I'll take the sounds is reasonable.

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I'd like to think that, and

he's associated with Philip

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here in the context with.

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Phillip.

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And if Daniel were paired

together in John's gospel, right.

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And that's, that's how I remember.

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Cause he's the guy that's

like, oh man, you're the guy.

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Yeah, that's great.

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That's a great insight.

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I'm going to sit on that.

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Okay, Joe, on it.

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There you go.

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Uh, blasting the spirit again,

shows up in verses 22 through 30.

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Like we just touched on.

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Mark makes it a little bit more clear

here in this passage, because he

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does directly apply it to the sin of.

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Uh, saying he has an unclean

spirit that's verse 34.

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They were saying he has an unclean spirit.

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So that explains what

blasphemy of the spirit is.

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At least in this.

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This particular context.

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Again, versus 31 through 35 family shows

up says, Hey Jesus, what are you doing?

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They're concerned for their name.

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They're, they're embarrassed by Jesus.

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At this point just shows us that.

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I mean, there was a progression

that was going to take place

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even with his, his family there.

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All right, Luke six, man.

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This is our, one of our

longest episodes almost.

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Luke six he's Lord of the Sabbath.

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Okay.

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We've covered that a couple of

times already shorter account

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than the one found in Matthew.

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Interestingly, usually Luke is a little

bit more verbose, but this time Matthew is

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a, and so Luke is a shorter account there.

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The withered hand shows up again

in Luke six, six through 11.

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He doesn't record Jesus is angry like mark

does, but here he emphasized the anger.

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The Pharisees felt in response.

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And so there's anger there,

but it's the anger of the

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Pharisees, not the anger of Jesus.

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Uh, the 12 are called in Luke six, 12

through 16, just like we just saw in mark.

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Uh, the 12 are chosen out of many

disciples that were many that were

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there, but, but he chose 12 in

particular, then verses 17 through

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19, the crowds flock to Jesus.

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Now.

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We don't have time to get into

depth on this next section, but

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just know that this next section,

there's a lot of parallels between

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this and what we're going to cover.

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I think in tomorrow's episode,

which is the sermon on the Mount.

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So Luke 6, 23 49 is what's

called the sermon on the plain.

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These are two different sermons.

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These are not the same thing.

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Jesus taught similar concepts

in multiple locations.

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So as you read these and you read the

blesseds, the similar to the beatitudes.

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Or the woes or you, you.

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Read about giving to other people.

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Uh, this is, this is similar to what

Jesus preaches in the sermon on the Mount,

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which is all of tomorrow's episode, which

will give us time to flush out a lot of

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these details in more depth tomorrow.

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Some of these details.

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Oh, yeah.

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Some of them.

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But that's what's going on here?

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This is the sermon on the plane.

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Amen.

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Awesome.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll, uh, we'll be

done with another episode.

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Got so much here and, uh, I just

pray for, for us to, to be able

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to, to, to treat this in a way

that's helpful for our people.

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Um, we don't want to rush

through the end because we give

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too much time to the beginning.

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So help us, even as we talk and

I'm praying for myself more than

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for pastor rod, there's two.

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To be less, uh, less wordy and

more succinct in what we're dealing

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with, what we're explaining here.

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But, uh, we're, we're grateful for

your word and thankful for seeing that

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the parallels here between all the

different accounts it's, it's helpful.

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It gives us a fuller picture.

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Of Jesus in his ministry.

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And so we thank you for this.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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In man.

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All right, guys.

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Keep, bring your Bibles tune in

again tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcasts.

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Bye.