00:00 Introduction and Apology

00:13 The Office Setup Dilemma

00:28 Timing Challenges and Podcast Length

01:23 Diving into John Chapter 5

02:02 The Healing at Bethesda

04:41 Jesus' Authority and Equality with God

07:31 The Witnesses to Jesus' Divinity

10:09 The Cost of Discipleship

10:58 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Let's just start off with an apology.

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The last several episodes have

been like 45 minutes, 65, 75.

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Here's why, let me just tell you guys why.

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Pastor PJ has yet again,

rearranged his office.

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Are you surprised by this?

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What was your shit on?

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No, cause we talked not

since the other day.

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Okay.

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Cause I mentioned it the

other day that had changed.

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It's the same setup as the other day.

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And that.

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The rest of the time that I'm working in

my office, it works super well for me.

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We've recorded a lot of episodes

over the short period of time.

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So yes, it is the same this

week, but consequently, I cannot

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see the time on the screen.

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And so I have no idea how

long these podcasts are going.

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I just, I'm just talking,

asking questions.

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What's that thing on your wrist

that, um, It has a screen on it.

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It has some numbers.

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On it.

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Uh, watch, wait a minute,

tell me what time it is.

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Thing on your computer that

has some time that's different.

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A timer is very different.

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I, if I, yeah.

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I have a timepiece.

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I run a timer would,

would take more effort.

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So we launched this one at 3:15 PM.

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If your aim.

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Is to say, I want it to

be a 20 minute podcast.

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You would look at the clock then assume

that we should be done at what time has.

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I am immersed in what we're doing.

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I can't be held accountable for not

being able to keep track of time.

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Um, I'm, I'm focused.

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I'm present.

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You can't be held accountable.

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You can't, you can know because

you keep changing your office.

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This is on you.

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Sorry, everybody I'm trying.

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I hold us accountable to keep it a short.

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A short timeframe.

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All right.

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No, Google-y, let's just jump

right in John chapter five.

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Here we go.

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Here's how to remember John chapter five.

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Here's what remember what's

in John chapter five.

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Okay.

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Five colonnades.

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John five, five colonnades boom.

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You're done.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Oh, see now, you know, Into this

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Can you bring your Bibles

by y'all for another?

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Uh, yeah, no.

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Now you can remember what's

in John chapter five.

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That's how I remember John five.

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If you go there.

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Um, the, those colonnades okay.

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Flags, not still there.

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Yeah.

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Um, but you can go to the pool Bethesda

today and there's no water there either.

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Kind of a hole in the ground

with a bunch of ruins.

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Well, why don't we go?

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We'll bring her on board.

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Maybe they'll have rebuilt it by them.

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Um, Yeah.

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Anyways, Jesus comes up.

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I love this.

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Jesus walks up to a guy that's been

paralyzed for 38 years, almost 40 years.

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Okay.

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Do you, do you want to be made well, W,

what do you think that tells you though?

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Like, I can't help, but

go into this psychology.

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Like, what was this guy thinking?

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And the fact that Jesus asks

Jesus is not just throwing

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stuff out there just for yucks.

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No, totally.

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What's he doing?

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Yeah, it's John does this,

he does the double meaning.

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And really, I mean, Jesus is doing this,

but John draws attention to the double

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meaning so many times in, in okay.

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In his gospel, explain away.

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Double meaning the surface layer there.

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Do you wish to be made well,

And he's drawn that out the

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man to say yes, of course I do.

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In fact, that's the man's response.

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He says, are you kidding me?

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I've been here for 40 years,

but he doesn't say that though.

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He says he doesn't answer Jesus' question.

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He says, this is why I

haven't been healed yet.

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So he doesn't answer.

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He's not like, oh, of course.

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Yes.

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Yes I do.

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Please help me.

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But this.

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But it's implied there.

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It's like, yes, that's why I'm here.

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I don't have anybody

to put me in the water.

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And when I'm going down to the

water, somebody beats me into it.

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So, yeah.

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I just wonder is there, cause he asks.

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It sounds like a weird question.

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Unless this man is.

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In the mindset.

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I'm not going to preach

a sermon off of this.

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You have already, but I wonder what, what

else might be happening in the guy's head?

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I think he's drawing them

into realizing his true need.

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It's it's similar though.

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He does it differently too.

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When the paralytics lower down through

the roof and he says your sins are healed.

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And the guy's like,

that's not what I need.

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He says, get up and take

up your mat and walk.

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Yes, that's what I need.

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Here, this guy is thinking

I need to get up and walk.

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And Jesus says, okay, get up and walk.

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Do you wish to meet me?

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Made well, But really later on,

he's going to fall find the guy.

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And say, Hey, you go and send them more.

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That nothing worse may happen to you.

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Right?

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So do you use going after his

real need at that point saying,

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Hey, you've got a bigger need,

which is that you're seeing here.

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Now, I don't think this guy is a hero.

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I think this guy is a villain.

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Uh, because he wants the

attention off himself because

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it happens to be the Sabbath.

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And again, the Pharisees are very

particular about the Sabbath.

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He's carrying his mat.

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They're going, Hey,

you're breaking the law.

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They're missing the

forest for the trees here.

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And, uh, and the guy says,

well, some guy healed me.

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I don't know who it was

after Jesus finds him.

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He goes back to the Pharisees

of his own accord and says to

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them, Hey, it was Jesus, Jesus.

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The one that did it, you need to

persecute him and, and get off my back.

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So this guy's kind of smarmy to me.

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I'm not a huge fan of the

paralytic by the pool of Bethesda.

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I mean, I can feel for the guy

being there for 40 years, but.

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He's kind of a jerk to Jesus.

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Yeah, I agree that that's not

a, that's not a good move there.

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Not a good look.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Um, From here though, from this sign.

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So he's doing the sign.

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And again, I think that the

sign is, is meant to, to convey.

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We have a deeper need than what

initially meets the either.

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Um, verses 17 through 47, then.

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Uh, this one I've, I've just kind

of titled this section sparring

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partners, because Jesus is engaging

with some of the opponents now.

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Uh, verses 17 through 18

Jesus defends himself.

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When they're coming at

him for breaking the law.

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He defends himself by equating his,

working to the ongoing work of the

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father who Jews believed, continued

with the work of sustaining and

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providing even on, even on the Sabbath.

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So when he says my father is

working until now, and I am working.

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That's what we saying?

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He's saying the father never stops

working because he's always got to

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sustain the existence of the world.

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So Jesus is saying my father is working.

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I'm working because we

are one in the same.

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The Jews get the message there, by

the way, if you ever have anybody

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knock on the door and say, Uh, Hey.

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Nobody ever thought Jesus claimed

to be, God, take him here.

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Uh, we can take him to

John $1 John, right.

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But away from that, but here

you've got a situation where.

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Th he's opponents understand very

clearly what he's doing here, that

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he's making himself out to be equal

with God and he never denies it.

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He just continues to develop the thought.

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And so in verses 19 through 23,

through this series of statements,

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he makes it abundantly clear that

he and the father are indeed equal.

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And the father had given him authority and

power to do the things that he was doing.

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And to reject the son was to

reject the father and dishonor.

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The son is to dishonor the father.

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So pretty amazing statements of.

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The divinity of Christ here.

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Yeah.

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You wouldn't say that if you

were a prophet, you went to that.

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If you're a priest, you wouldn't say that.

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And anyone would say that.

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Uh, unless you are someone

especially unique, like Jesus, who

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is both son of God, son of man.

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He breaks the category for us, which

is why it's so challenging when

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you're reading through the gospel of

John, you can't walk away and say,

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yeah, he's just another good guy.

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Or the great teacher?

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No.

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He's God.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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Versus 24 through 29.

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Part of this authority given to

the son involved the authority

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to grant life into judge.

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And this is going to be seen on a

temporal sense in the resurrection of

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Lazarus, but the true fulfillment of

this is going to occur in the end times.

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Uh, his, his voice is going to

ring out and in the dead are

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going to come out of the tombs.

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Um, some of the resurrection of life, some

to the resurrection of judgment, which

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again, points to a pre uh, if I can put it

this way, pre Christian understanding of

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eternity and in what happens in the end.

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Is this concept of a judgment that was

going to be some to life, some to death.

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Um, that Jesus talks about

here in John chapter five.

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Does this mean then that both

the godly person and the wicked

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person are both going to experience

some kind of resurrection?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Why is it the case?

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Both are going to have

a resurrection body.

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Um, the, the Saint and the

sinner liker both can have a

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resurrection body that the.

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Believers resurrection body

prepared for an eternity of glory.

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In the new, new Jerusalem, new earth.

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The unbelievers body prepared for

an eternity of eternal destruction.

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And that's one of the reasons.

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T to ask the question, well, how can.

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How can a body always be destroyed and

never finally ultimately be destroyed.

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Um, and it dancers because

there's a body prepared for that,

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which is a terrifying concept.

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Indeed it is.

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Yeah.

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Uh, versus 33 46, then.

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Jesus appeals to four

witnesses in this section here.

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And the first one being himself, he

says, look, I I'm bearing witness to who

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I am, but even if you don't believe me,

there's another one, John, the Baptist,

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you were happy to hear him for a while.

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There he bore witness about who I am.

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The third witness being the works that

the father had given him to accomplish

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that the miracles, the signs that he was

doing, Hey, look at those and realize.

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Those say something about

who I am and my authority.

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And then finally, fourth.

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Th the scriptures that they

were so well acquainted with.

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Those were another witness to who he is.

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You say you believe Moses, but

if you believed Moses, you would

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believe me because he wrote of me.

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So Jesus lays out four witnesses right

there before them to say this, this

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is the validation for what I'm saying.

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And we would probably use those

same witnesses and talking to people

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today, we're going to rely a whole

lot on the scriptures to say, this

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is a preserved account of truth.

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Again, not as chronologically

strict as other accounts are,

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but this is a true statement of

what Jesus did and what he said.

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And consequently, we could say,

look, the father's authorizing his

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ministry by the testimony of the

signs, a testimony of his words.

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Um, and we would still hold

someone to a counselor, like the

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scriptures also speak about this.

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So is it fair to say that those

same witnesses are in operation?

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When we give someone the scripture?

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Yeah, or just the scripture, I guess.

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Because they'll say, look,

the signs are evident.

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Yeah.

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In the scriptures, even if they're not

on display right in front of your face.

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Yeah.

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A hundred percent.

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In fact, I think of.

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Uh, not evidence that demands

a verdict that's Josh McDowell.

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But, uh, the, the reporter that

wrote the book about Jesus,

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um, Oh, um, case for Christ.

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Yeah.

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Lee Strobel Strobel.

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He was a guy that was an atheist

that was like in an investigative

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journalist that said I'm going to

set out to disprove Christianity and

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through his encounter with the word.

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I couldn't overcome the witnesses of

the word and obviously God working in

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and through him by opening his eyes.

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You can train them the faith to believe.

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But yeah, the word of God proved

significant for him that, that he wasn't

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able to, to overcome that or refute it.

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Right.

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Amen.

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I mean, and this was

only 10 at 10 minutes.

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Anyone's going to complain.

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Maybe they will.

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That's not true.

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People will hold up verse 44,

then how can you believe me?

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How can you believe rather when you

receive glory from one another and do not

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seek the glory that comes from the only

God, what do you think he means by that?

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Well, he's talking about.

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The Pharisees.

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Right.

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And so he's.

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I talking about how th they're

they're hungry for the praise of men.

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He's confronted them before on that.

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They love the places of honor.

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They love the seats of glory.

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Um, Jesus wasn't like that he wasn't

there to receive glory from them that

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he wasn't fitting their paradigm.

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Um, And so he was after the

glory, that really matter, which

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is the glory of the father.

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And, and following him was going

to look different than what they

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were consuming themselves with

and what they were all about.

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Do you think that this still hinders

people from becoming Christians today?

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Seeing glory from Matt.

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Yeah.

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A hundred percent.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Because of the cost of discipleship,

which we talked about briefly.

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And yesterday's episode.

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Um, what are people going to

think if I become a Christian,

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what are people gonna think?

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If I, you know, Go public with my faith.

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Yeah.

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It may cost.

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Um, almost certainly will.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's one of those

things or you just have to be.

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I get it is worth the count in the cost

because it is going to cost you something,

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some social credibility, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Uh, but the testimony of your life,

um, Of God's glory operating through

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your life is going to be so much

more powerful than anything that you

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would have given up to acquire that.

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Sure.

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Well-worth the cost of admission.

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So don't let that hold you back.

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If you're listening and you're

still dragging your heels

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about becoming a Christian man.

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Let's us encourage you the glory from God.

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As far better than any glory

mankind can, can give you.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Let's pray.

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And we'll be done with a short

episode of the daily Bible pocket.

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Thank God.

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Got we, uh, we are thankful for

you and we are thankful for.

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Your word and scripture in the

conviction that it brings to us as

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believers, to be able to read the word

and to hear these witnesses and to

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be encouraged in our understanding of

who Christ is and to be able to come

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back time and time and time again.

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As we read the Bible and learn more

and be encouraged and, and have

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new thoughts come to mind about who

Christ is and what that looks like

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for us and what it means for our life.

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So we're grateful for that.

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We thank you for that.

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We praise you for that.

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And we ask all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all keep, bring your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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For another episode of the daily

Bible podcast, God willing.

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Bye.