00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:52 Discussion on False Prophets

04:55 Accountability in Leadership

06:30 The Importance of Community

09:34 Exodus 22-24: Laws and Covenants

20:47 Matthew 20:17-34: Jesus' Teachings and Miracles

26:14 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and good morning.

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Happy Friday.

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Happy Friday.

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And I, man, we predicted that we

would be back in office on Thursday.

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Well, it's Thursday as

we're recording this.

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You are a false prophet.

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False profit.

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Half of us are back in office.

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I drove in, but false profit.

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Yeah, it's guilty.

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Guilty.

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You?

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Well, okay.

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If you're gonna acknowledge

the guilt, then you know the

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sentence we have to issue.

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Stoners and sisters, this is

Pastor PJ's last episode, and we

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are so disheartened by this, but

we wanna be thoroughly biblical.

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So if you wanna be part of

this, you can show up tomorrow.

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Church parking lot

founded Classical Academy.

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Prosper.

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This is not it.

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I tell you what, we're gonna look the

other way this time because we do want

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to encourage your spiritual growth.

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Hey, I appreciate that.

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I appreciate that, man.

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Yeah.

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You shared that long form Mike Winger

video with us on the Shepherds chat on

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his exposure of this guy Todd White,

and I don't know how many people

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other than the fact that he's local,

and so maybe it is worth addressing.

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He's from the DFW area here,

at least that's where he's

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doing ministry currently.

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And yeah, Mike Winger.

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Who is a, I believe a pastor,

but also a discernment guy.

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He is out there engaging with a lot

of false teachers and just helping

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us think biblically about them.

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But speaking of false

prophets and false teachers.

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He has a four hour video.

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I'm about three hours through it.

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But exposing this guy Todd

White and really it sounds like

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just a failure of character.

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He is what a lot of this video is about.

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More than it is even his false

teaching, though it is addressing also.

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The errors that he's

promoting there as well.

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But yeah, if you are looking for something

to buy the time during this, snowpocalypse

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2026 and you've got a commute or

anything else, it might be interesting

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for you to jump on and listen to.

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He certainly is not.

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Part of our ilk, and he

doesn't run in our circles.

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I mean, he's got guys from Bethel

that are involved in his life

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and other people like that.

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But I think what Winger's doing is

helpful here to shed light on this.

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And hopefully, the greatest result,

and Winger even says this multiple

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times in the video, would be to see

this guy Todd White come to repentance,

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but he is local white is in the DFW

metroplex and he is a guy that's

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a wolf in sheep's clothing that.

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Should be guarded against.

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And so maybe you'll hear some people in

our area talking about him or maybe some

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of your neighbors even attend his church.

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He's somebody to look out for sure.

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Yeah, I watched, I don't know, maybe half

of his expose on Sean Bowles and then,

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I don't know, maybe about half or so of

this one that he did on Todd White and.

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Mike Winger.

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I respect the pieces out of him.

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He's such a careful Bible.

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Nerd.

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In fact, his podcast and his YouTube

channel is called Bible Thinker and I

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think he does a commendable job of that.

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I really appreciate his content.

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I think he's a great guy, but you

should know that he is a charismatic,

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he or, I dunno if he'd call

himself that he's a continuation.

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I think he'd probably say that.

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So he definitely believes in

the expression of the gifts.

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He's for that.

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But he also believes that the people

who are at the forefront of this

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movements, particularly those in

the Bethel and Bethel adjacent.

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Camps need to be diligent to clean house.

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And so he's had a lot of people

come to him and say, can you please

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help us expose Sean and Todd?

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And so he's willingly done

this, so he's not looking,

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he's not a discernment blogger.

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He's not the kind of guy to start

firing shots at people, but his

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reporting on this is excellent.

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He has receipts, he's showing

the evidence, and he's

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done a lot of good work.

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He's putting his money where his mouth is.

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He's willing to front.

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Up to a hundred thousand dollars to.

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Fund an investigation on Todd

White's ministry, and it seems

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like, he's a man of his work.

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He does everything above reproach and

he welcomes scrutiny into large scale

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ministries and particularly men and

in this case, women who have large.

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Platforms where they're leading the sheep.

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And so his concern is that the sheep

and the church be protected, not

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just the elite, not just those who

have the money and the ministries,

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but those who follow those people.

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And so I really appreciate his heart.

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I appreciate his stance and

if he were in our camp it is

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reformed and sensationalist.

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I think someone like him

would be a welcomed edition.

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We have a lot of people like

that in our realm where we have

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discernment bloggers and discernment

podcasters and things of the like.

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But Mike just comes off as so

authentic, genuine and willing

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to be scrutinized himself.

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He seems humble enough to let let

people call him out on things as well.

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So all that to say I commend him.

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He's a great thinker.

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He's a great Bible teacher.

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I think he does really good work.

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But again be wise, we're different.

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There's differences between us, and

those differences are not insubstantial.

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They're fairly significant,

but he's still a wonderful guy.

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I hope to meet him someday.

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Seems like a great dude.

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He's back in our neck of the

woods in California, although

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probably further north.

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I think he's in the LA

area, but still a great guy.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And one of the things that I

took away from this expose that

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he's been doing on Todd White is

White's lack of accountability.

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And he even talks about the fact

that, white's got multiple boards and

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accountability boards, but you don't

really know who's on those boards.

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And those boards really don't

have any power over him.

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And that got me thinking

about just our own situation.

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I know often we will tell our people,

Hey it's us as a plurality of elders

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here, but we also have an external board.

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Our external board is, we don't want them

to be this nameless, faceless group of

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people that we're just throwing out there

as this, safety blanket so that you

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can trust that we've got accountability.

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If you wanna know who those people are,

we can certainly share that with you and

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I know them well enough to know that.

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They'd even be willing if you had

concerns, and hopefully you won't

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have concerns to that level, but if

you did, they're not inaccessible.

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And they are truly an

accountability board.

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They're really there for

the good of our church.

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They care about our church and that's

what they're there to help with.

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So, man, the lack of accountability

in anybody's life is a

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dangerous position to get in.

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And I'm thankful that even just

at our local level, autonomously

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here, as we operate as a church,

we have a plurality of elders.

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And the fact that you and Pastor,

mark, and myself all hold one another

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accountable to the work that we should

be doing, and there's not a hierarchy

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of authority in that regard there, but

that we are really co-laboring together

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for the good of the flock and making

sure we're both, we're all doing a.

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The right job that we

need to be doing on that.

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It's funny because I think people

expect that of their leaders

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and should, accountability is.

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A necessary element of anyone's

leadership structure to date, especially

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considering how suspicious people are

of leadership and leaders in general.

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So absolutely give accountability

to leaders, but it's the

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thing that we really all need.

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All of us need someone to say,

here's my life, here's what I'm

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doing, here's what I'm thinking.

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Here's how I'm leading, here's what

I'm reading, here's what I'm washing.

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Often we don't welcome

that into our lives.

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And for that reason, most

of us just don't have it.

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At least not to the degree that we

should until, and unless we invite

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one another into our lives to say,

this is what my life looks like.

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We're not gonna have it and

probably not gonna have it to

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the degree that we need it.

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It's not just that it's good to have,

it's probably in my estimation, based

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on how I read the New Testament.

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The one another's of our

community are not optional.

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They're an obligation in part

because we need each other.

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It's the body mentality.

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If I am really good at being a hand,

I'm still not a foot, I'm still

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not an ear, I'm still not eyes.

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I need every part of the body to

make me complete as a Christian, and

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that really doesn't grate against.

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That really doesn't work well with a lot

of individual Western mindset people.

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We are built because of our

culture into thinking that

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individualism is my highest virtue.

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Living for me, myself and I, even if I

do have a personal relationship with God,

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is something that is, is sacred almost.

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And yet for Western Christians.

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Us, I'm talking about us here.

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It is so important that we press and

move ourselves into discomfort by

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saying, I welcome community into my life.

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This is the only way that we'll ever

experience the kind of wholeness

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and maturity that Christ welcomes

us into by being part of his body.

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Yeah, that man, that's so true.

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And I'm hitting on that

again this weekend.

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I talked about it during our series

on the church about community.

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It's coming back up again this Sunday

because in one Peter three, eight

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we're talking about what really body

life in the church should look like.

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That the key attributes that

should be part of our church if

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we're gonna be a strong church.

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And when you read these attributes

in one Peter three, eight.

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You can't escape the fact that we need

to be involved in each other's lives.

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We have to have that level of commitment

and community with each other.

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Even just the last one that we're gonna

talk about, which is having a humble mind.

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So often what keeps us from

accountability is a lack of humility.

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We don't want to be vulnerable

because we have a concealed

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pride and we can hide that behind.

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I don't wanna burden somebody, I don't

want to, be cause somebody to have to care

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about me and go out their way from me.

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And it's this false humility that

we can have when really what's

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humble is to say I need you.

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I need you in my kitchen.

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I need you in my life.

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I need you asking me about what's

going on in my marriage and things

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like that because that's what God

has designed and left to ourselves.

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We're in trouble.

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We need the voices of other

believers in our lives.

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So we're gonna be talking about

that on on Sunday as we gather in

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person, Lord willing back at our

church for for church this Sunday.

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Amen to that man.

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We need that.

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And let me just encourage you, if you're

hearing that and you're saying yes,

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you have to invite people to do it.

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Yes.

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People will not do it apart from

you saying, please do this and

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then say it over and over again.

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One time is not enough because

people don't know if you mean it.

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Furthermore, when you do give it,

you need to thank them for that.

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If in fact they do offer some form

of accountability, we need this.

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It's a good thing.

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I can't wait to hear that sermon.

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Yep.

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Well, hey, let's jump

into our text for today.

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We're in Exodus 22 through 24,

and then we're gonna be in the

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last part of Matthew chapter 20.

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Man, the moral of the story I

think of in Exodus 22 is God cares

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about how we treat one another.

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We were just talking about this.

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This is more kind of.

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The laws of what not to do.

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And some of these are gonna be

things that you are gonna sit there

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and say, okay, well, I'm not gonna

steal something from somebody.

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I'm not gonna destroy

somebody's property here.

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I'm not going to borrow something

from somebody and fail to care for it.

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And yet the principle behind this is

why when Jesus is asked the question.

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Hey teacher, what's the

greatest commandment?

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And he says, well, the greatest

commandment is to love the Lord your

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God, with all your heart, soul, and mind.

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And the second is like, it.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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And then he says on these two things,

hangs the entirety of the law.

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Well, as Moses is continuing to

develop the law here in these chapters,

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we're really getting the love for.

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Neighbors.

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We're really getting the fact that if we

love God, we're going to love one another.

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And you can't say I love God and yet

not carry out the things that we're,

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you're being called to do here in the

law as it pertains to your neighbor.

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So even though you may look at this and

say, well, my neighbor doesn't have a

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field that they're plowing, so I'm not

gonna be tempted to destroy their field.

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What's the principle behind that?

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We talked about this recently.

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I think you were pressing on.

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When we come to the Bible, we have to

read it in such a way as to not just.

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Look at the letter of the law, but

look at the spirit of these things.

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Okay, what's the heart behind this?

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What does this look like for us today?

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Which to your point, does require a

little bit more legwork on our front to,

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to make sure that we're not just passing

over it and saying, okay, what's next?

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But saying, okay, how do I take

this and apply it to my life?

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Amen to that.

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Chapter 22 really helps underline

something that we take for granted because

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again, we live in a, we live in a Western

culture that already assumes these things.

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These are the things that go, without

being said, but in chapter 22, 1

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of the things that I see that I

appreciate is that God has a sense of.

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Ownership that he honors.

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It's so much here and so much I

think it's obvious that he's saying,

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look, if something happens to one

of your possessions and it's in the

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possession of somebody else, they're

gonna have to pay for that because

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they're taking something unlawfully.

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We take ownership and

property rights for granted.

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Again, our laws facilitate that.

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They support that and encourage

that, but here we have to see that.

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If that was an unbiblical mindset,

well we should do away with it.

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In fact, in Acts chapter two, we're

not gonna be there for a little bit.

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But Acts chapter two, you have

this community mentality where

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the church is selling goods.

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Barnabas is known for being a son of

encouragement because he sells his things.

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He is like, Hey, I wanna use

this to serve the church.

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Well, it wouldn't make any sense

if they didn't own those things.

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If they already had a community ownership,

then it wouldn't make sense to sell them.

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There would be nothing to come in.

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It would be like, well, we sold these

things to fund this other thing.

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But yet what we see in scripture is

that God at least provides a foundation

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for ownership and property rights.

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Something again, we take for granted.

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But I think we see it here and

the reason that we can say we

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see it is because God says when

something is taken from somebody,

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it's unlawful and it needs to be.

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It needs to be given

some kind of reparation.

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There is a lawful repayment and

a lawful making good on what

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was previously taken from him.

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I think that's really valuable

and helpful for us to see.

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Yeah, so if you borrow anything from

Pastor Rob, make sure you take care of it.

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'cause otherwise he's gonna come for it.

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You're gonna have to make a time for that.

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I will hire a lawyer.

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Actually, that's a violation

of one Corinthians chapter six.

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That's true.

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So we don't do that, but we

do honor each other's stuff.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Chapter 23 continues the care for other

people, at least in the initial part of

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it here, especially the vulnerable there.

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And how we care for the sojourners and

even the not bearing false witness.

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These things are important for us

to see that God cares about how we.

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Treat the needy and the

vulnerable among us.

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He's gonna revisit that with the

widows and the orphans, which he's

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already hit on in chapter 22 as well.

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But this is a common theme

throughout the laws, how we

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care for those that are needy.

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But after this, he gets to the

Sabbath and some of the feasts

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that he's gonna institute here.

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And the Sabbath is something you said.

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I don't remember if it was even as we

started this podcast off or right before

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we were talking, but kind of this forced

Sabbath, so to speak, that we've had

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from him over the last week of just being

able to be home and be with our families

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and spend time not in the busyness and

the routine of everything else going on.

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And that's such a good perspective.

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I think that was just us chatting

offline, but if you wanna pull that

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out a little bit more and how it

relates to why God wants his people

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to Sabbath, why God wants his people

to rest, I think that'd be helpful.

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I didn't make that specific

connection, but I did say I

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really have appreciated this.

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We, this forced week off outside

of COVID, which was a manmade,

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it was forced externally onto us.

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This is a God forced time off.

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And one of the things that I've

appreciated about this is that we knew

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it was coming so we could prepare.

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We had water, we had food,

and so there wasn't this.

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This sense of apocalypse where everyone's

freaking out, losing all sense.

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But we knew what was gonna happen and

so we opened our windows, we watched the

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snowfall, we spent a lot of time together.

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We had almost every meal

together as a family.

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I can't think of the last

time that's even happened.

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I.

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We had several meals in a

row where we're all together.

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We opened up the Bible for at least

one of them, and we spent time and we

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enjoyed it, and I prayed all, every time

I had a meal with him, I prayed and I

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said, God, help us to appreciate this.

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This is such a unique season, and

I think in part what God designed.

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Us to experience when he gave us the

Sabbath is to say, look, everyone,

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stop what you're doing and go worship.

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The Sabbath is not just for rest.

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It is for that, but it's also for worship.

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It's a way for us to reset, recalibrate,

and prepare ourselves for work.

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My old pastor used to say.

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We rest so we can work and we

worship, so we can work as well.

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That's one of those things

that they both work together.

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So this week has been a

really great reset for me.

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I feel more energized than I

felt in months, maybe years.

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'cause I've gotten good

sleep the last several days.

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I, I've been able to work out still.

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I've been using the Peloton,

thankfully I still have that.

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We still pay the subscription,

so we've been using that.

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I'm ready to go, man.

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I could run a marathon.

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At some point, but not right now.

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But at some point I could do that.

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'cause I'm ready.

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Awesome.

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Well, he gets into the feasts

here and we're gonna see more

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feast added to Israel's calendar.

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And not all of 'em are here because some

of them are going to be installed later.

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For example, the Feast of

Purim is gonna be around the

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time of Esther, so we're not.

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We're not all the way there

yet, but these are some of them.

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And God is going to institute

these feast as reminders.

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And this is why this is lumped

together with the Sabbath.

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The Sabbath is a reminder of a rhythm

or a pattern of God's provision of

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the need for us to acknowledge God's

presence in our lives in different areas.

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And so you get the feast of unleavened

bread that happens around Passover.

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You get the Feast of the harvest.

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And then you get the feast of

the end gathering there, the

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feast of the first fruits.

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And these are to be feasts where

the Jewish males later on are gonna

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have to show up in Jerusalem, and

they're gonna have to gather there.

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They're gonna have to be

present there for these feasts.

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And that is gonna hold through throughout

the rest of the history of Israel here.

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But they're being installed here

early on in the giving of the long.

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From here.

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He goes on to talk about the.

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Entrance into the promised land and

what his plan is for the conquest.

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And we get that in the rest of chapter 23.

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Here, he talks about an angel that's

gonna go before them, and this is the

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angel that's gonna go in and drive

out the Amorites and the Hittites

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and all the different its here.

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And he's gonna say, you, you can't

bow down to the gods in this land.

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That's gonna be a common thing

in fact, if you jump back, he

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even says that we shouldn't even

mention the name of other gods.

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And in verse 13 of Exodus 23,

he says, don't even mention the

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names of these foreign gods.

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And then later on it says, when

you get into the foreign lands, you

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need to drive the people out less.

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They cause you to end up

going after their gods.

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And if you know the history of Israel,

you know that unfortunately that is

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gonna be what happens because they're

not gonna fulfill all this, but

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they're gonna make no, no provision,

give no quarter to the inhabitants.

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We see that at the end

of chapter 23, verse 32.

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You should make no covenant

with them or their gods.

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That's gonna be significant because

Joshua's gonna not necessarily succeed

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in that as they take the promised land.

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But that's the rest of chapter 23.

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There.

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Yeah.

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One thing that stood out to me in chapter

23 before we jump into 24 is a small

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phrase in verse 29, where he says, I

will not drive them out before you in

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one year, lest the land become desolate

and the wild beast multiply against you.

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And so here again, we see that God's

timeframe for them dealing with their

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enemies, God's adversaries, is little

by little, he says in verse 30,

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and this is a really good principle

for the way that God tends to work.

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Us not only in the conquest with

Israel, but also in the way that he

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helps us grow in our sanctification.

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I lament the fact that my

sanctification is not leaps and bounds.

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I think when I was saved, there was

immediate sanctification that I started

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loving things that I never loved.

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I started spending more time praying,

and I started reading my Bible at least

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more significantly than I had before.

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There are some really clear

markers, but since then, I can only

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think of a few times in my life

where my sanctification exploded.

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But by and large, what I've noticed over

the course of my Christian life is that

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it has been little by little step by step,

day by day, hour by hour in some cases.

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And so notice here the way

that God works with us.

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He knows our weaknesses.

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He knows even the enemy's strategies

and strengths, and so he does what he

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sees fit according to his timeframe.

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We need to trust that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's a good connection

to sanctification.

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I like that.

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On chapter 24, this brings a

conclusion to this section that

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has been about the Mosaic covenant.

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So 19 through 24 of Exodus

really is the Mosaic Covenant.

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Swath, if you will.

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And so in 24, the covenant

is more or less ratified.

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If you look at verse seven,

it says, he took the book of

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the covenant, that is the law.

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And he read it in the

hearing of the people.

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And the people said,

all the Lord has spoken.

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We will do and we will be obedient.

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And Moses took the blood

and threw it on the people.

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And behold the blood of the covenant

of the Lord has made with you in

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accordance of all these words.

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So there's a solemnity here of the

people entering into this relationship

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with God and this relationship

with God, the Mosaic Covenant.

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Is unlike the Abrahamic covenant, going

to be conditional, and we're gonna get

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into that later in the giving of the law.

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Deuteronomy the second law, so to speak.

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We're gonna read about blessings for

obedience and cursings for disobedience.

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And and this is a, this is God saying,

if you do these things, I will be with

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you as you are God and I will fulfill the

things that I'm promising to do for you.

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Whereas the Abrahamic covenant is this

broad, sweeping promise that God is

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gonna bless all the nations of the

earth through the offspring of Abraham,

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and give the land and give the seed.

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That is a covenant that's unconditional.

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That covenant is still in

effect even though Israel

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failed in the mosaic covenant.

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God is the unilateral giver of

the mo of the Abrahamic covenant,

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and that's still in operation, the

Mosaic Covenant, 19 through 24.

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This is the law, and this is

God saying, if you do these

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things, it will go well for you.

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If you don't do these things there will

be punishment for this and it's ratified.

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There's a feast.

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This is fascinating.

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It says in verse nine, Moses, Aaron,

NAAB and Abba, who in 70, the elders

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went up and they saw the God of Israel.

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We know from the, what we're gonna read

later on in Exodus chapter 34, that no

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one can see the face of God and live.

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So this is a, they're in his,

the presence of His glory.

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They beheld him and

they ate and they drank.

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So they had this feast in the

presence of the glory of God.

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What a fascinating thing that would've

been to experience that, to behold that

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this is when Moses has given the two.

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Tablets of stone, at least the first

round, and he is sent back down to the

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people and he goes back down after 40

days and 40 nights on the mountain.

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All right, let's jump over

to our New Testament reading

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then in Matthew chapter 20.

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We are in the back half of Matthew

chapter 20, verses 17 through 34.

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So in Matthew chapter 20 verse 17,

Jesus is going to be again with the 12.

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He's predicting his crucifixion again here

with them and right on the heels of this.

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Comes the request of the sons of

Zebedee, the mother of the sons of

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Zebedee who come up to Jesus and they

say, Hey, we we have a request for you.

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We want our, the mother says

I want my sons to sit on

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your right hand and the left.

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And this is where Jesus says, you

don't know what you're asking.

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But he does not say that has

not been, that's not possible.

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He just says it's not his to grant that.

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And I think Pastor Rod, you've

made the point multiple times.

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And in fact, even recently,

Jesus doesn't say, don't try.

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He doesn't say it's wrong

to aspire to these things.

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He just says, this is not mine to give.

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And so that does imply that there are

going to be positions of honor that

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are there that will be given, and God

is gonna be the one to bestow those.

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And as you've said, pastor Rob,

we wanna live in such a way

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that, that we would do that.

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Paul puts it in later on,

the New Testament I wanna

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run so as to win the prize.

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And that's my goal, that's my aim.

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And I think there's something to be taken

away as, even as we look at the request

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of the mom of James and John here, and

we say, oh, that, that doesn't seem.

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Right.

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And yet it's not so much the

ambition, it's the audacity to ask

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that, especially right on the heels

of his predicting his crucifixion.

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Yeah.

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And maybe if you are gonna go

for heavenly rewards, don't

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have your mom do it for you.

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Just saying fair, fair.

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Throwing it out there just to encourage

people to do it themselves, perhaps.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it's fascinating too because

the path forward to this is not to

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try to run to the head of the line,

and that's where Jesus goes next.

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He says, if you wanna be great.

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You should be a servant.

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If you wanna be first, you should be the

servant, the slave, even as the son of man

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then came not to be served, but to serve

and to give his life as a ransom for many.

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So even in that ambition, we need to

make sure we're pursuing that with that

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humility that's appropriate to you.

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Amen to that.

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Yeah.

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The way that we achieve greatness

in the kingdom and by the

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way, this is after salvation.

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This is not for salvation.

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This is not getting right with

God by doing these things.

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This is after becoming a Christian.

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After being sanctified by the spirit.

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Now that you're in this, in the

family, so to speak, here's how

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to grow in your greatness, in

the truest sense of the word.

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And we do it by following Jesus'

footprints, which is essentially to serve.

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And I love this because he, this

is the phrase that we memorized.

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Typically, Jesus himself came not

to be served, but to serve and to

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give his life as a ransom for many.

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He gave the most.

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He served the most, so

he's exalted the most.

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In a similar sense, if

you want to be exalted.

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In the best sense of the word, in a way

that is honorable and God glorifying.

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You do that by serving and by finding

ways to serve the most just like Jesus.

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Well, the chapter goes on and

concludes with an account with these

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two blind men who are there outside

of Jericho, and they're calling

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out to Jesus as he's passing by.

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Son of David, have mercy on us.

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This is a Messianic title, and

so it's interesting that I think

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it's probably not lost on Matthew

to put this in here and on us.

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We should see it too, that.

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It's these blind men that are recognizing

who he is and they're seeing who he is.

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And Jesus calls them over

him and they say what?

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He says, what do you

want me to do for you?

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And they say, Lord,

let our eyes be opened.

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And Jesus in pity touches

their eyes and immediately.

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They recover their sight.

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And then I think this is the

important part, and it is the last

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two words of this, they followed

him that that's the key here.

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You've got other situations

where Jesus will heal people.

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And that's not the fallout.

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Like you think of the 10 lepers that he

heals the lepers and only one comes back.

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Here Jesus heals these two blind

men and then they follow him.

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And we don't know the rest of the

story with these two blind men.

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We don't know.

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If this is genuine faith, we can

assume and believe the best, I think.

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But at the same time who knows, but at

least initially they do what's right.

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They receive their sight

and they stick with him.

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They're gonna say, we're gonna be with

you, Jesus, for what you've done for us.

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And that's the appropriate response.

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This is a microcosm of salvation for us.

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If we think about the spiritual blindness

that all of us had God removes that

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when we come to him and we recognize

he's the only one that can do that.

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And we say we, we want to see

spiritually speaking, that's faith

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and repentance in, in Jesus Christ.

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And he removes the blinders so

that we can see and believe.

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And then our response needs

to be, we wanna follow Jesus.

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Not that the rest of our life is

like, well, great, we can see now.

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We'll see you later.

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We're gonna go live the

life we wanted to live.

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But no, we're gonna live the

life in full devotion to Christ.

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So I think we see it from the faith

and repentance to lordship salvation.

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I think it's all contained here

in the story of the two blind men

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coming to faith or coming to, to be

able to see here from Jesus's work.

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One of my favorite old school

songs is Open The Eyes of My Heart.

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Remember that one?

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I do that one.

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I do, I do.

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To see You High and lifted up.

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It's a good song.

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Yeah, that's the one.

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That's the one.

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Paul Belo.

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He's got so many zingers, but I think this

is appropriate, even though God gives a

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sight to see him and to see him as savior

and to see him as worthy of our lives.

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There's still a real sense in which we

continue to grow in our ability to see

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him throughout the rest of our lives.

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And there's times when you see him

better and see him worse, not because

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he's any less glorious, but because

our sin often clouds our vision.

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And so it is a whole host of other

things, our selfishness, our our

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inability to be spiritually alert

and alive and vigilant all the time.

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So I think.

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That song's a great song to,

to consider even singing today.

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Open the eyes of my heart, help

me see things more clearly.

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Instead of just saying, now I

can see now I once was lost.

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Now I'm found and once was blind.

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Now I see it's true.

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But there is a progressive seeing

in the Christian life that requires

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constant ongoing improvement.

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Amen to that.

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Yeah.

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That's.

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Again, why we need each other, which is

what we're gonna be talking about again

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this weekend as we gather as a church.

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So, hey, let me pray for us and

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Wanna make us a church that not only.

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Acknowledges that we need

each other, but lives it out.

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Lord, we desire true community.

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We desire our community groups

to grow and to thrive and more

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and more people to join in those.

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And we would, that we would live in such

ways to, to sharpen each other, to love

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each other, to care for each other Lord,

to serve one another even as Jesus calls

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us to, to say we wanna follow his example.

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He came not to be served, but to serve.

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What may that be our heart's

desire as, yes, we do live with

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that ambition to say we want to.

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We want those seats at the right

hand or the left hand of Jesus.

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We want to sit there so that we

would be those that have lived a

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life of faithfulness before you.

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And so honor that ambition, Lord but help

us to live in humility at the same time.

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And so thank you so much for

giving us spiritual sight.

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If you have to those that are listening

to this, we pray that we live our

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lives in full devotion to you as you

continue to develop that sight until

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our faith is turned to full sight.

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When we see you, we pray

this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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I keep reading those Bibles, y'all, and we

will catch you again tomorrow with another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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