00:00 Introduction and Halloween Discussion

00:32 Alternative Halloween Activities

01:55 Listener Question: Near-Death Experiences

07:04 Biblical Perspective on Divorce

16:49 Jesus' Teachings and Disciples' Reactions

23:17 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to a spooky edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Are we allowed to say happy Halloween?

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I wouldn't say happy Halloween just

because I'm not really a big Halloween

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guy, but I'm not like convictionally

opposed to somebody saying it.

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I always feel weird when the

predecessor to whatever the holiday is.

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Happy, I mean, happy Halloween.

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I don't know.

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It's just odd.

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I don't say it 'cause I think it's

weird sounding, but again, I don't

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have any convictions like you do.

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Or you don't?

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I don't, yeah.

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No, I mean, it's one of those weird

cultural phenomenons and, and we talked

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about it I think a week ago or so,

or Yeah, that's earlier this week.

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And our sending church does

their fall fest on Halloween

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night, every single year.

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And they, they do that to provide

an alternative so that kids can

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come to the church and get candy and

be around the church and positive

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things rather than being out, you

know, celebrating and dressing up

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as GULs and goblins and things.

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It.

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Also, on the flip side of that, it

pulls us out of our neighborhoods on

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a night during the year when there's a

lot of people that are out and about.

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So I know our family's planning

on going around and knocking out

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some doors and getting some candy.

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Not that they need any more candy.

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After fall fifth, I saw how much Luke

had, dude, he showed me his bag and.

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I think the bag might've

weighed more than he did.

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I am just saying we, I think Amanda

went around to all of the people

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and we're like, don't have pity on

them because they're pastor kids.

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You can tell them No.

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In fact, have less pity on them

because they're their pastor's kids.

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Well, that didn't work because I saw saw.

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I know, I know.

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So we're gonna go do that.

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Around the neighborhood and then

we're gonna just come back and,

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and have a fire pit outside on our

driveway and, and greet neighbors

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as they come by and pass out candy.

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So, yeah.

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And we're gonna, we're gonna go as well.

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We keep it pretty simple,

low key, but yeah.

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We think it's worth, knocking

on neighbor's doors and getting

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to know them a little bit.

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Yeah, I think it'll be good.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Egg some cars.

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Yeah.

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Teepe some trees.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Commit some.

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It's not COVID anymore.

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Misdemeanors.

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Toilet paper is reasonable.

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That's, you can, I remember during COVID

it was like, you remember when we used

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to take this stuff and throw it on trees?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was crazy.

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It became more, more valuable

than gold for a minute there.

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It did, man.

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It did.

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Hey, we do have a question that was

written in and we, we addressed this

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a little bit here, but, this is on

behalf of somebody who's in high school.

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And they wrote in, instead of if

someone were to die for 10 minutes

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or any amount of time and then be

brought back to life, what happens

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to their soul during that time?

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And the follow up to that is how

do we understand the stories of

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people that have experienced coming

back to life with more clarity?

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So how should we understand these things?

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I remember.

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Back in I don't know when it

was, early two thousands probably.

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There was that book, heaven Is For Real.

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And it was written by the dad of this

little boy who died and came back

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and purportedly, according to this

dad told him all about what heaven

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is like and what Jesus is like.

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And so the dad wrote this

book, heaven Is For Real.

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There were T-shirts I think there

I, maybe there was even a movie.

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I can't even remember, but it's kind of

the sensational thing that came out there.

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And I had students at that time, I was

a, a youth pastor, and then even in

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college ministry, ask me, what do we do?

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Things like that.

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And, and I would kind of borrow the title

of the book and say, heaven is for real.

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And then I'd follow it

up with How do you know?

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And the answer is because

the Bible tells me so.

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Right.

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I mean, that's it at the end of the day.

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Do people have out-of-body

experiences when their heart stops

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and then they're brought back?

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You know, there's a lot of people,

there's enough people out there that

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have said, yes, I had that experience.

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Yeah.

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I haven't had that myself, thankfully.

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Right.

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But there are lots of people who say that.

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Right.

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And based on that, I don't know who I am

to sit here and say, no, you didn't, but.

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I think what makes me

uncomfortable is two things.

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When people who have that

experience look to profit off of it.

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Yes.

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Or off of their five-year-old

little boy's experience.

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And then that's a red flag for sure.

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Yeah.

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And then the second thing is when people

are putting more weight in this out of

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body experience than they are in what God

tells us happens to the soul after we die.

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That's right.

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Right.

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And the Bible doesn't clarify this for us.

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It doesn't clarify it for us.

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So we don't have an.

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Absolute answer, right?

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I think there's things that we can

experience that that may be legitimate.

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There's also things that are

profitable on and you know,

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turned into salacious stories.

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Yeah.

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And we do know a couple things.

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We know, for example, that the Bible

tells us to be absent from the body

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is to be present with the Lord.

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Yep.

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Second Corinthians chapter

four in five indicate that.

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When we, when we die here,

we, we go to be with the Lord.

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And so that's when Paul is saying,

whether we're at home or away, we

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make it our aim to please him at

home, being here at home on Earth.

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But away is when we go

to be with the Lord.

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We make it our aim to, to please him.

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And so we know that when, when a

Christian truly dies, and I use

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the word truly there, that they're

going to be with the Lord and.

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There are exceptions where

somebody physically, biologically

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their, their body dies.

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They're going into cardiac arrest, their

heart stops pumping, things like that.

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And, and it can be a prolonged

period of time as well.

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And then they're resuscitated, right?

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And they come back to life.

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And I would look at that and say,

okay, there's in the eyes of God,

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that was not their true death.

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Because they came back, they were

resuscitated, they were brought back.

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In other words, God was not yet

done with them here on Earth.

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So I think we have to be careful to.

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Normalize anything or draw any, you know,

broad sweeping applicational points from

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these near death experiences because

those are the exception, not the norm.

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The Bible's clear.

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When we die, truly die, our

souls gotta be with the Lord.

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And then we await our resurrection bodies.

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So these people that have the near

death experiences, some of 'em

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talk about a bright light, some of

'em talk about feeling at peace.

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There's others that go

into more vivid detail.

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I don't know, but I'm not gonna anchor

my hope and my confidence and my trust

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in what happens to us on their accounts.

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I'm gonna look at the Bible and

say, the Bible gives us the,

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the teaching on what happens.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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And I mean, it would be great if we

could hear an account of what Lazarus saw

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after Jesus called him out of the tomb.

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Well, you'll be able to someday.

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That's right.

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But not today.

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Right.

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Right.

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And so if that's you out

there and, and you say, Hey.

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Look, I had one of those

out-of-body experiences.

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I had one of those, you know what?

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Great.

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And that's great.

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I just would even for you say your hope

in heaven can't be even that experience

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primarily, it's gotta be the word of God.

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It's gotta be, I believe that

I'm gonna go and be with the Lord

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because the Bible tells me so.

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Because that's the more certain

thing that we have to hold onto in

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situations and instances like that.

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All right.

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So anyways, all that to say

have a good time tonight.

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If you're gonna go out and trick

or treat, if you're gonna take your

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kids around, if you're gonna pass out

candy, if you're gonna be involved,

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if you're gonna go hang out at

somebody's house, it's Friday night.

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I don't even know.

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I, the world's here, I

think starts back up.

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Maybe on Friday night.

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I don't know.

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The Dodgers are about to lose though.

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That's exciting.

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And maybe I'm gonna eat my words, but

hey, I'm just saying that anytime,

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and even though it's Canada, I'm

still saying, Hey, the Dodgers losing.

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That's a good day.

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That's a good day.

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I don't know.

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The Canadians winning gives me

deep trouble in my soul, so.

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Well, you know, well.

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Although it was, yeah, whatever.

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I don't know mean I, have they

ever won anything ever before?

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So maybe we should give this to them.

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I mean, maybe we should give it to 'em.

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They won like the battle of the pancakes.

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I don't know.

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We'll give it to them.

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Yeah.

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Who knows.

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Anyways Matthew 19, and

Mark chapter 10 is our.

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Reading for today.

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So Matthew 19, we're talking about right

outta the gates, a pretty controversial

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topic within the church, although

I don't know that it needs to be as

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controversial as we make it out to be.

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And that is the subject of divorce.

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So Pastor Mark summarized for us, what

do you think Jesus is teaching on divorce

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amounts to here in the first dozen or

so verses of Chapter 19 I think we see

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clearly here that God hates divorce.

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Yes.

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And I use that word

strongly intentionally.

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Tell my kids not to use the word

hate unless it relates to sin.

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That's just something we do in our house.

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But I think it's a demonstration

that God hates divorce.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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And, and so Jesus is teaching here

and the crowds are following him.

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And, and so the Pharisees you'll note

here, and we're gonna read quite a

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few times in the coming days about

the Pharisees trying to trap Jesus.

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They, they are wanting to destroy him, and

they know in order to destroy him, they

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have to have something to charge him with.

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So they're constantly sending

more people to him to try to.

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Trap him in his words.

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And so they're gonna ask Jesus

here, is it lawful to divorce

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one's wife for any cause?

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Some of the questions are,

they're looking for the gotcha.

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Some of the questions are just looking

to set the crowds against Jesus.

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They're looking to turn

public opinion against him.

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So they're gonna ask this question, is it

lawful to divorce a a man's wife for any.

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And Jesus responds and very plainly

says this, and he gives God's

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definition of marriage right here.

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He says, the two verse six are

no longer two, but one flesh.

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What therefore God has joined together.

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Let no one separate.

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So that's the standard right there.

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Unity, the, the union of husband and wife.

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And then they say in verse seven,

well then why does divorce exist?

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Why did Moses allow for divorce here?

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Tell us that.

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And Jesus in a masterful turn here says

something that's pretty astonishing.

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In verse eight, he says, he said to

them, because of your hardness of heart,

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Moses allowed you to divorce your wives.

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But from the beginning it was not so.

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In other words, Jesus is saying this,

God's plan from the beginning was

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that divorce would never happen, but

because of your unwillingness to forgive

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is really what it amounts to here

because of the hardness of your heart.

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Moses allowed in certain circumstances to.

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Allow for divorce to permit divorce.

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And then Jesus says in verse nine, the

only exception clause that he gives there,

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he says, I say to you, whoever divorces

his wife except for sexual immorality

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and marries another commits adultery.

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Yeah.

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Look how integral our design and God's

intention of us being male and female is

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in the relationship it has to marriage.

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I mean, you cannot separate those

things from, from this you see right.

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In, in verse four, him talking about

us being made male and female, right?

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And then he talks about

from the beginning, that is

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an integral part of this.

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And obviously you can get into questions

of like the lgbtqia plus world when

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it relates to these things and what

marriage is intended to be by God.

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But I just want you

to make sure that you.

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See how important it is that

marriage is part of our nature,

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it's part of our original design.

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It's part of who we were

made as male and female.

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And one of the key things that

God made us to relate to others

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with, specifically our spouse.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now, maybe you, you're.

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Throwing a flag here going,

this sounds pretty harsh.

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I've heard that there's more than one

exception to the rule that you can divorce

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the spouse in, in multiple situations.

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And number one, I wanna say this as

believers committed believers in

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a marriage between two believers,

we should never be saying how many

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exceptions are there to the rule here.

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Yeah, it's a good point.

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Yeah.

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Number two.

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There is, and you're right on that.

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In one Corinthians chapter seven, the

Apostle Paul expands here and says that

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there's another occasion where somebody

is free from the marriage relationship.

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And that is if, if an unbelieving

spouse abandons them, if an unbelieving

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spouse does not agree to continue

in the marriage, when you've got a

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believing spouse then the believing

spouse is free from the marriage.

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There's debate there about whether

or not that freedom permits the.

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Believing spouse to then go and remarry,

or if they have the freedom to simply

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terminate the marriage and no longer

be, be bound to them in that legal sense

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of the marriage relationship there.

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Jesus says here in Matthew, except on the

grounds for sexual immorality, I think

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that is the only case where there is.

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A strong degree of confidence for

us to say, if this has taken place,

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you can divorce and then you're

free to remarry in that situation.

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But even then, we're still going

to counsel towards reconciliation.

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And so if you are in a tough

situation, tough spot in your

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marriage, number one, please get help.

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Yeah.

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Get counseling from your pastors.

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That's why we're here.

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We're not just here to preach to

you on Sundays or for men's Bible

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study or, or anything like that.

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And we're here because we want

to help you and shepherd you.

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So if your marriage is in a tough

spot, come and meet with us.

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Seek counsel from your pastors,

but know that we are going

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to fight for your marriage.

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No matter what that that is

gonna be where we're gonna land.

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The majority of the time we're

gonna fight for your marriage.

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That doesn't mean we're gonna

keep you in a foolish situation.

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I know there's a lot of questions

that come up with the, the safety of

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the spouse or the children involved.

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And if there's issues there, we're

going to counsel you to take appropriate

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measures to make sure that you are

protected and that you are safe.

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But we are always going to, because

God does hate divorce and the

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love's marriage, we are always gonna

say is this marriage salvageable?

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And really unless it's the

immorality or the abandonment.

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I mean, God is telling us that,

that it should be salvageable or

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man, this is gonna be about you.

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Coming to that reality of going,

my marriage really isn't about me.

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It's about me honoring the Lord

by being faithful to, to the roles

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that he's commanded and given

to me for the rest of my life.

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And that's a hard thing.

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That's a sobering thing.

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We're even gonna talk about

that a little bit this Sunday.

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'cause Peter's instructing

people to submit to.

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People who are in authority,

who may be harsh or unjust.

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And I think there's something to say

about marriage in that situation.

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But Jesus loves marriage.

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God loves marriage.

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We love marriage.

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And so I don't want you to shy away

from coming to meet with us because

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you're afraid that, well, they're not

gonna gimme the green light to divorce.

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I want you to come in and meet

with us because we wanna help you.

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But I just want you to know under

no false pretenses, we are going

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to fight for your marriage because

we believe that God loves marriage.

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Yeah.

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And we.

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Hate divorce.

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I mean, because God hates divorce.

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We hate divorce.

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You can see the damage so

abundantly in our culture, society,

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and even in the church today.

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Oh yeah.

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And it's a serious issue.

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And so we hate divorce.

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Not, I mean, hopefully someday we'll hate

it as much as God does, but we hate it.

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We hate it.

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And we're not gonna, we're not

gonna just casually let it happen.

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Because it's such a serious issue.

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Lemme ask you this.

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Why is it.

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The one exception.

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Why is sexual immorality

the one exception?

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Yeah, it's going back to

the two, becoming one flesh.

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I, I believe it's, the clearest perversion

of that that exists is when you leave

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that and go and join yourself to another.

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I mean Paul even talks about in acts

of sexual immorality being, joining

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the Holy Spirit, in relationships

that are not God honoring.

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So I think that's why,

that's the exception clause.

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It's the greatest.

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Again, perversion, undermining

of God's design for marriage.

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That really exists out there.

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Now I wanna come back here.

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When you hear us say We hate

divorce I want to clarify.

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If you've been divorced or you're

in that situation, we don't hate you.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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We love you.

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And there's a place for people

in the church, whether you're

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coming outta that or you're coming

outta alcoholism or you're coming

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out of something else like that.

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The church is a place for

grace and forgiveness.

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And there's different standards, even for

somebody who went through these things as

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an unbeliever versus somebody who goes,

who chooses to pursue these things as a

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believer you're a new creation in Christ.

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And so there's a lot of.

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Layers to all of this, it is

multifaceted in that regard.

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But man, we do love marriage and,

and we are gonna fight for marriage

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and we are gonna love you and

your spouse through that process.

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And we're gonna call sin sin and we're

gonna call for repentance and we're gonna

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seek the wellbeing and physical wellbeing

and safety of tho all those involved.

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But man, we love marriage and

we're gonna fight for marriage

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because gal loves marriage.

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That's right.

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And I'm glad you bring that

clarification up 'cause I, I,

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that is an important thing to.

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Make sure that you know it's

also true that god loves you.

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God has died on the cross to, yes, to

solve these problems, right, to solve

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the problem of sin, that causes divorce.

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And God, God loves you.

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He doesn't love your sin, but he loves

you believer enough to go to the cross

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to die for, for the, the cost that

these things are that you experience

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if you're divorce in your life.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The rest of Mark chapter 19 is very

similar to what we read yesterday.

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He does talk about childlike faith there,

which again, we covered that Pastor Mark.

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And so your, kids, men

pastor duties are are.

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Our boxes checked there.

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And then he talks about the rich

young ruler, which again, just as a

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reminder, Jesus is pressing on his idol.

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Yes.

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And so if this was somebody that

wasn't wealthy, but somebody who

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had a different idol, Jesus would've

said, you need to go and do this.

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And you would've gone after

that idol in that man's life.

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It just happened that this

man's idol was wealth.

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The disciples are astonished

at, at this, by the way.

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They're shocked who can, who can

enter in because they looked at.

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Those that were wealthy is those

that had incurred the favor of

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God, that God had blessed them.

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And so that's why they were wealthy.

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That's why they had possessions,

especially the Pharisees

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and some of the others.

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They would look at those things

and say, okay, well then somebody

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with wealth, clearly the hand of

God's favor is upon their life.

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They must be okay.

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And so I think that's some

of their astonishment here.

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Yeah.

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And, and we need to not miss the

application on our own lives.

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Maybe it isn't that we literally

have to sell our possessions, but

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we do need to have hearts that are.

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Eager, ready to leave everything.

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Yeah.

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Whatever it is.

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Whatever it is in our lives,

we need to be eager and ready

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to follow Jesus at any cost.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Mark chapter 10, as we flip over

to our next chapter for today.

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A lot of this is, is parallel.

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What's interesting here

is when Jesus gives the.

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The, the charge, he does not give the

exception clause a sexual immorality, and

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that's just of note in verses 11 and 12.

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He says whoever divorces his

wife and marries another,

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commits adultery against her.

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And if she divorces her husband and

marries another, she commits adultery.

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So there's no exception clause

given here in Mark's account.

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We know the exception clause was

there because of Matthew's account.

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Matthew was there.

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He was an eyewitness, an

ear witness, if you will.

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Mark is using Peter's account.

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And so for whatever reason, Peter

didn't relay that as a qualifier

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there for mark, but if you're

looking at this going, why isn't the

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exception clause here, but it's there.

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It's also reiterated and confirmed for

us in one Corinthians chapter seven.

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So we know that this was part of

Jesus' teaching about divorce and

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remarriage because it was there.

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It's, it's in those,

those other locations.

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We have the childlike faith.

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We've got the rich young

ruler in Mark chapter 10.

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And, and then we get to another

one of Jesus's statements

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about his impending death.

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And, and again, I think the disciples

are being kept from this because

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they would've, they would've drawn

their swords and charged the castle

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at this point to, to protect Jesus.

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And so I think they're being

kept from understanding so that

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they don't overly interfere with

God's plan and his his hour.

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That is for Jesus to

eventually go to the cross.

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But right on the heels of this, you, you

get tone deaf James and, and, and John.

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This bold request, can we sit at one

at your right hand, one at your left?

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And, and this is bold.

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When you consider that Jesus has just

been talking about dying and the first

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shall be last and the last shall be first.

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And then the other disciples,

they're not any better off because

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they find out that they're asking

for this and they're incensed.

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And so their own pride shows up.

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And so then Jesus corrects

them and, and goes after them

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and goes after their heart.

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He says, look, it shouldn't

be like this among you.

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This you're acting like the world rather.

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Whoever wants to be first must

be the servant or slave of all.

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For even the son of man 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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So that that paradigm of following

in Jesus' example that way.

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Yeah.

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What an amazing, amazing thing.

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And you know.

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It just shows the, the disciples who,

you know, we constantly expect to have

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some sort of upper hand on these things,

just getting these things wrong and,

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and frankly embarrassing themselves.

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They don't have the Holy Spirit.

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That's part of it, but.

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Also you know, they, they're, this,

these things are new to them in a

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way that they probably shouldn't be.

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So I think, you know, Christian, we

need to, one, rely on the Holy Spirit,

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which is a gift that we have to, to

not make these sort of blunders, but

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also to you know, we, we need to.

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Take this as an example.

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We need to hear these stories, see

these things that were said by the

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disciples, and be cautioned to not do

those same things in our own lives.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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And, and Mark chapter 10 ends with

the story of a blind Bartimaeus.

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And what's interesting in this one, and,

and maybe you noted this, but Matthew

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records two blind men but Luke and

Mark only record one, and Mark gives

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us his name as, as Bartimaeus here and.

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There may be a, a concern there to say,

well, why are the numbers different?

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And this is, is similar to the Demoniacs

and we, we talked about this when it

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came to the Demoniacs, that there was

probably a spokesman that if there were

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two demoniacs in the land of the gne, then

one of them was the one speaking to Jesus.

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And that's why in, in one of the

accounts, it's only the one that

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is there in speaking to Jesus.

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And I think that's probably

the same thing here.

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There may have been two blind men

and I don't think we need to doubt

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Matthew's record of this, but.

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The one, and that's the one that

stood out here to Luke and to Mark

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as they were recording this, the

one is the one that spoke and, and

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he's his name, theirs is Bartimaeus.

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And he says, you know, we wish

to see rabbi, I wish to see.

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And Jesus says to him, your

faith has made you well.

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And then from that day on, he

went to go and, and follow him.

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So I don't think we need to panic over

whether or not there was one versus two.

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I think this is similar to the

healing of the, the, the democ there.

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This is the one that.

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Is, is the spokesman.

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It's also possible that this is

similar to the, the 10 lepers.

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Jesus healed the 10 lepers and only

one came back to him to say thank you.

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The, and Jesus said, where the other nine?

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So perhaps there were two.

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But in the healing process, the, the

other one didn't express the same

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devotion to Christ that Bartimaeus does.

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And Bartimaeus is the one that's

going to end up joining Jesus

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and, and following him as part

of his band as a result of this.

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Yeah, I think one temptation

might be to say like, oh, these

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are just different accounts.

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You know, on a casual reading you might

just be like, oh, there's discrepancies.

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These are just different accounts.

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I think that's a difficult place

to, to suggest given the textual

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criticism that is done on these,

I think they are the same.

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Account details.

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Yeah, the details of the text.

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Yeah.

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The details are clear.

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They're going to Jericho

and all the accounts.

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Yeah.

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I mean, yeah.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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But, and I think we talked about

it before, this is such a, a good

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microcosm of the gospel here.

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The, the blind needing only what

Jesus can give and that is the,

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the spiritual side that we need.

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And he gives the physi physical side here.

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Yeah.

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And it's the faith that

has made him well, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Alright, well there you go.

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You're all Bible up.

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So now you can go out.

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And you can knock on doors and

ask for candy and not worry

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about anything happening.

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That's right.

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And if, if you go blind because you ate

so much candy, I got a solution for you.

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Well, we're not, oh,

that's not how that works.

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Yeah, no, we're, we're cessationists.

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We're cessationists on that one.

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So of course not jest.

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Of course I jest.

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But yeah.

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No, and, and we don't mean to make

too much light of, of Halloween.

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I know there are people with

very strong convictions on that.

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And if, if this is an area where

your conscience doesn't allow you to

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participate in this because you believe

it's it's participating in, in the

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darkness and things like that, then by all

means do not sin against your conscience.

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And that's, that's totally fine.

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There's no problem with that whatsoever.

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I would caution you though,

against looking at any believer

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who does participate and say, well,

they're in sin for doing that.

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That's where we get into the

problem of the weaker brother and

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applying what is something that's

a matter of conscience for us.

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That may not be a matter of conscience

for somebody else, and that's not.

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Explicitly stated right or wrong in

the Bible, we gotta be careful on that.

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So we do recognize that, that for

some, this is a, a day of the year

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that is verboten and this is, we just

want to go to bed and get through it.

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And I understand that.

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And that's fine.

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But if you do choose to be outside

and, and be around other people

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tonight, try to make it redemptive.

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Try to point them to Christ.

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In fact, invite them to church.

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Friday night, we got Sunday

right around the corner.

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What a great time to be able to say, Hey,

what are you doing on Sunday, by the way?

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We'll give you more candy if you show up.

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Yeah, that's right.

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That's right.

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Alright y'all, let's pray in then

what we're done with this episode.

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God thinks for Your Word and for just the

encouragement of being able to read it.

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And Lord, we are grateful

for the gift of marriage.

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I think everybody listening can,

can say that that marriage is a good

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thing, whether we're married or not.

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And marriage is, is a good thing.

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It's the foundation of,

it's the, the cornerstone of

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culture and society at large.

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And we know that marriage has been

under attack for so long in our

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culture and our society, and I think

we're suffering as a result of that.

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But I pray that as the

church we would be different.

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I pray that as a church, especially with

us at Compass Bible Church, you would give

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us strong godly marriages, Lord, that,

that are thriving and growing and where.

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Forgiveness is quickly offered and,

and receipts are not kept, and where

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we can continue to build into what is

a, a relationship that's meant to model

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Christ's relationship with the church.

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And so we thank you so much

for the opportunity to do that.

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And we pray by your grace and your

mercy that you would en enable us to

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have just a strong, strong church full.

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Godly marriages that, that are

doing great things for the kingdom.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bible.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye everyone.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said