00:00 Introduction and Weather Talk

00:25 Ministry and Weather Analogy

00:49 Frustrations with Weather Predictions

01:16 Discussion on California Weather

02:28 Transition to Bible Study

02:45 Plot Against Jesus - Matthew 26

03:19 Anointing of Jesus

05:21 Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

06:47 The Last Supper

10:27 Jesus Prays in Gethsemane

13:01 Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

15:00 Jesus Before the Sanhedrin

15:51 Peter's Denials

15:58 Mark 14 Overview

18:18 Closing Prayer and Farewell

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey, Hey.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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Hey, it's Saturday.

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It's Saturday.

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It's a good day.

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It's been raining a lot recently.

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I don't know if it's ringing

right now as you're listening to

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this, but it's been raining a lot.

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That's good.

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We need that.

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I'll take it.

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Yeah, like right.

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Yeah, we're in that.

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That drought.

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So.

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Getting the rain is, uh, is always,

uh, a perk, always a benefit.

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Due to weather.

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What if a ministry was like weather.

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What if, if you just

didn't have to be right.

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Um, about anything.

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You could be like, Hey,

here's what's happening.

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Maybe.

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And good luck.

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Hey, there's a 30% chance that

God wants you to know this.

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There's a 50% chance that this is

what you're supposed to do today.

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Yeah.

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But I could be wrong.

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I prefer the way that we do it.

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So, yeah.

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I'm glad the weatherman has a

job, but I like our job better.

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I'm with you, but I just I'm astounded.

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I'm astounded.

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Do you ever find yourself frustrated

that the weather isn't what

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they said it was going to be?

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Nope.

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No.

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No don't care.

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You just don't care.

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I just live my life.

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I enjoy what we have, whether

it's rain or sunshine.

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And I try not to get, I mean, I pay

attention to enough to say, okay, is

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there a, is there a tornado watch?

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And should I expect some

really serious weather?

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Cause if so, then we were going to try

to move the cars into the garage and

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make sure everything's buckled down.

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Right.

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But other than that, I mean, whatever.

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I don't need to know a whole lot.

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All right.

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All right.

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That's fair.

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I get frustrated when it's,

it's not getting cold when

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it's supposed to get cold.

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I'm like, and that's why I've

struggled so much in California.

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I was like, I don't

California's weather is.

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By far the best weather.

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That's in the world in that subjective

because it's objectively true

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well, but, but I'm then what am I.

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I would say.

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I mean, what else?

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That's the only logical conclusion.

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Uh, it wouldn't be the first time I've

been objectively wrong on something.

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I just, Christmas time

it needs to be cold.

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I mean, I want to be

cold when I walk outside.

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I don't want to walk

outside and have it be 75.

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Like that's, that's an atrocity.

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But as let's split the

difference, let's do 70.

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Can we hold for that?

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No.

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70 68.

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I could be good with 68.

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No, give me the fifties,

forties, thirties.

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Yeah.

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And not forever.

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I mean, we lived in Missouri for a handful

of years and do that, that got cold.

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They were days that the

windshield was negative degrees.

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Yeah.

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No.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Snowdrifts up.

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Uh, as high as the car, it was crazy.

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I'm good.

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But, um, I'm, I'm not looking for that.

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I just, I want, I like

the seasons to change.

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It's boring to have it just be 75 on.

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Um, year long.

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No, you keep praying about that.

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Well, Yeah.

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Okay.

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Fine.

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All right.

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Well, that's all I got, man.

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You got any, any of the

Google we have this morning?

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No.

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And I am happy to limit now

with less Google-y is what our

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tagline used to be for a minute.

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I don't know that we

actually held to that, but.

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We could be one of those.

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It could be one of those rare episodes

where we have just a little Google-y.

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Okay.

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Not a lot.

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Sprinkle it in.

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All right.

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We'll keep the people guessing jumping

in Matthew 26, then Matthew 26, mark 14.

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Matthew 26, mark 14, Matthew 26 opens

with the, the plot against Jesus.

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Uh, and, and so we're, we're unfolding

in, and this is the same time frame as.

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Uh, we wrote about John, where the

chief priests and the elders were

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gathered together and written,

remember the, the, uh, line that

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Kapha says it's, it's better.

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That one.

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Uh, should die for all, then all

should perish, uh, because of the one.

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And so this is the same context,

same timeframe that's going

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on here in Matthew chapter 26.

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They're deciding this.

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While this is going on as verses

six through 13 unfold for us.

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This is the anointing of Jesus.

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We read about this in John with, uh, with

Mary coming in, anointing his feet here.

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This time, it's his head.

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And again, you don't have to panic about

this or say there were two pointings.

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There was enough in the jar

that she could have done both.

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Um, Mary has not mentioned

by name here, so we know that

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again, through other accounts.

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Um, the, the name of, of Judas is not

mentioned here in this account, nor is it

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mentioned in the other Synoptics, which

is fascinating that John is the light is

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the one that's like Judas was the one.

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He was the one that said it.

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Um, John was wrecked by Judas.

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If you notice, as we're studying in John's

gospel, how many times John points out

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Judas and says the one who betrayed Jesus.

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Here at Matthews, just saying one

of the disciples or the group said,

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Hey, this could have been sold.

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And some others were

in agreement with him.

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And Jesus is that, that line about

how you've always got the poor, but

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you've only got me for a little bit.

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And then that line of verse 13, what

she has done will always be told.

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And that came to fruition

because this is recorded.

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In scripture.

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Right.

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And so it's true.

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It is always going to be

told everywhere the Bible is.

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And as long as we read the Bible

and we read these accounts, we're

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going to read about what she did.

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In this account, which is pretty cool.

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A pretty cool reality there.

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Yeah.

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I think one of the lines that

stands out here is what Judah says.

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One of the, or when the disciples saw it,

they were indignant saying why this waste.

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And I think the best thing about

this particular passage is that.

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Jesus shows us that nothing

is ever wasted on him.

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Every everything there's, there's

nothing that you could give Jesus

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where it's like, oh, that was too much.

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You were too extravagant

with your offering.

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You were too kind and

too generous to Jesus.

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No, because Jesus is infinitely

valuable and infinitely worthy.

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No matter what you give it's like

offering it into a gopher hole.

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And if you dump in 10 million

gallons to a gopher hole, I

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don't think it'll ever overflow.

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They just keep on going.

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And in the same way, when you

offer your offerings to Christ,

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there's nothing that's ever wasted.

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No matter how extravagant it

is, no matter how big it is.

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You're not doing something more

noble than what's necessary.

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You're never going to out

give the worthiness of Christ.

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And I think that's one of the best

lessons from this passage and why this

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ways nothing is ever wasted on Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Great point.

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Great point from here versus a 14

through 16 Judas leaves from this point

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and goes to agree to betray Jesus.

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And so we're getting some behind the

scenes that we didn't get in John.

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And this is the conversation

that he has with the leaders.

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When he says, what will you give

me if I hand them over to you?

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And they said, we'll pay

you 30 pieces of silver.

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Now that's fulfillment, Zechariah 11, 12.

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And.

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Like we talked about in the sermon

from John back on dealing with Judas.

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I think there was a lot going on here,

but probably chief among those was

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Judas was disenchanted with Jesus.

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He thought Jesus was going

to be a different kind of

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Messiah than he was Judas.

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Wasn't hanging around for three

years, waiting for an opportunity

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to betray him the whole time.

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Uh, Judas was initially a follower of

Jesus is probably thinking that Jesus

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was the guy that he wanted him to be.

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He was going to be the Messiah.

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And so that's what kept

them around for so long in.

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As things are pivoting as Jesus is talking

about going to die and go into the cross.

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And.

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Uh, things like this are mounting.

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This discouragement of hate.

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You always have the poor,

you don't always have me.

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That's the straw that breaks the

camel's back, perhaps for Judas, where

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he says, okay, now I'm going to do it.

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So he goes and in his greed, And it's

it's contracted here because he was

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greedy for the profit from selling

this, this perfume with the anointing.

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And now he's his grief turns into an

opportunity to hand Jesus over to the

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Pharisees for 30 pieces of silver.

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Again.

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Fulfillment, even in that

number from Zechariah 11, 12.

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Which has been about four months wages.

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Yeah.

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Give or take.

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Yeah.

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So it's not a small number.

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No, but it's certainly not a large number.

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Right.

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Not enough to turn Jesus

over to the fair season.

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Although for him, it was right.

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Uh, from here we go to

verses 17 through 36.

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This is the upper room.

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Um, Matthew's accounting of it.

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And so there's not nearly the depth

that John goes into, but here.

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Uh, you get the Passover still.

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And so G Jesus wants to eat the Passover.

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He gives instructions to how to go and

find the place that it's going to be held.

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And then during the supper.

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Um, Judas is identified as the

betrayer in verses 17 through 25.

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Uh, he's the one that

is going to betray him.

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One of you will betray me verse 21.

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The sentiment goes as it's written

to him, but woe to the man by

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whom the son of man is betrayed.

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So there's a cursing

that's pronounced on Judas.

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A lot of people have asked

the question over the years.

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Is Judas.

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Saved.

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Uh, or, or did you just

forfeit his salvation in?

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I would say he didn't

forfeit his salvation.

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He was never saved to begin with, but

there was no redemption for Judas Judas.

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He ends in.

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In, uh, in shame.

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And, uh, in infamy and ends by

taking his own life as eventually

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we're going to find, but he

feigns ignorance here in verse 25.

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Judas who betrayed him

said is that I rabbi.

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And Jesus says, you have said, so

we're going to see that statement,

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or you have said that I am.

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Okay.

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A few times here.

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That was a way during this era

of saying yes, basically of

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confirming the statement there.

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And again, we talked about it, John.

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Well, why didn't the disciple stopped?

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Judas will, because this was

probably an intimate conversation

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just between Jesus, Jesus, and

Judas, or perhaps John overheard it.

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But, but this was not something that

he was declaring openly and publicly

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when he said, yeah, you're the guy.

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And I wonder if they would have even.

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You get no indication that the

disciples knew that he was the guy.

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Right.

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So even if they did hear, I wonder

if there would have been enough of a

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pause to say, maybe I'm not getting it.

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Right.

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And Jesus, this one is confounded

them time and time again, it would

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not be unlike Jesus to say something

that they don't fully understand.

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So perhaps if they, if they did

hear it, they would have just

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written it off as a I don't.

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I'm not sure I'm tracking with that.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Well, I mean, how many times?

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Three times, I guess he said,

Hey, I'm going to go die.

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And, uh, what does he mean by that?

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Yeah, what is he saying?

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I don't think I did use this.

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I don't think you know

what you're tracking.

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Yeah, let me rebuke them.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, 26, 3 30 then.

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Uh, he institutes the Lord's supper,

communion, um, and he makes that

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statement in verse 28, which I've

always found to be really cool.

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Uh, none of verse 28 servers, 29.

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I will not drink again of the fruit of

the vine until the day when I drink it.

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New with you in my father's kingdom.

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Um, which is pretty cool that that's

going to be the celebration there.

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That's going to be that moment.

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And that's what communion is anticipating.

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The Lord's supper is anticipating is for

the church, the marriage supper of the

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lamb, but also broader just God enjoying

that to enjoy the fruit of the vine

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together with everybody in eternity.

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Super cool.

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Forgot to highlight something just real

quick for your Bible notation here.

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Uh, the disciples call

Jesus Lord, is it I Lord?

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Mm.

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Judah says, is it I rabbi interesting.

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Uh, you know, where the

words reveal the heart.

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And certainly, I know it seems

intentional to me, but there you go.

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Something fun.

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They say the devil's in the details.

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But the devil was also in the Judas.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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By the way, verse 28, the blood of

the covenant that he refers to, what

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covenant is he talking about there?

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He's talking about the new

covenant in Jeremiah 31.

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That's going to be brought out in

greater detail in Luke's gospel when

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we get to Luke's account of this

event, because he's going to call

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it specifically the new covenant.

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Uh, but that's what he's talking

about there in Matthew 26, 28.

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Versus 31 through 35.

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Peter's denials are four told here.

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Um, he talks about striking the

shepherd in their sheep will scatter.

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That's a reference to also to

Zachariah Zachariah 13, seven.

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And so he's telling the disciples,

you're all gonna flee, but

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Peter, you specifically, you're

going to deny me three times.

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Um, and uh, he says that the rooster

is going to grow three times,

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just like in the other accounts.

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And Peter's bravado again, even if I must

die with you, I'm not going to deny you.

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Well, We'll see what, what

that turns out to resulting.

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And then we get to the garden and that's

verses 36 through 46 garden of get 70.

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Um, he was troubled in verse 37.

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It says again, that word troubled.

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We're going to talk about

that again on Sunday.

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Cause he's going to talk

about that to the disciples.

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He's going to tell the disciples,

let not your hearts be troubled.

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And the reason we don't have

to be troubled is because

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he was troubled for us.

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And that's what we see here in the garden.

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Three times.

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He prays and trusting

himself to the father's.

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Wheelwell asking at the same

time, the cup might pass from him.

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If at all possible.

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Something interesting and important

in our understanding of Jesus.

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Uh, that, that comes up here.

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And that is that in his flesh, in

the incarnation, Jesus possessed two

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wills, uh, and that as he possessed a

divine will, which is the will of the

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Godhead, the will of the father here.

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And he possessed the human will,

which is the will that he had as a

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fully man, as a fully human being.

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And that will is what he's bringing in

submission to the will of the father here.

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So when he says not my will, but

your will, he's not dividing.

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The divine will, but he is.

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Pointing here to the identity

that he is fully man and being

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fully, man, he is a human will.

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And then being fully God, he is also.

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In possession of the

perfect will of the Godhead.

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That's above my pay grade.

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It's tough to wrap our minds

around, but, uh, yeah, there was an

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ancient heresy called mana fits is.

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Mana monophysitism.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Um, which was one will in or one

suitcase in the Greek, which is

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the word for will or spirit there.

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And they would suggest

Jesus didn't have to.

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He only had one, but the hypostatic

union fully God fully man would imply

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that he has two and a passage like this.

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I think the only way to understand

this is to see that he has two

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wills and in operation here.

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Absolutely.

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Uh, sleeping disciples here.

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We talked about the fact

that they didn't get it.

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I think this implies the

same thing right there.

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If they truly know what's about to

happen, they're not falling asleep.

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And so three times they're falling asleep.

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They're not enough when otherwise

they, they should have been on

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guard and praying with Jesus.

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Well, Luke adds a detail that we'll

we'll get to and is that they were

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sleeping for sorrow, which, uh, which

always adds a little bit of color to my

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understanding of what they were doing.

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Uh, you know, there's,

they're so depressed.

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They're so sad about what they're,

what Jesus is saying that they

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just can't keep their eyes open.

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Yeah.

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Really interesting detail

that he adds there.

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But I think there's the, the, the thing

that stands out to me is that there are

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things that are more important than sleep.

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And in this particular instance, prayer.

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I should have been the priority for them.

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And.

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It tells me that there are times

when our bodies are screaming for

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relief, go to bed, get your rest.

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And there are times that we ought to

say, no, prayer is more important than

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me getting Shaddai right now, because

Jesus said three different times.

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Like stop sleeping.

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Pray with me.

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I need you here right now.

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This is for your sake too.

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So there you go.

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Something to think about.

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Yeah.

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Versus 47 through 56, then

the betrayal and arrest.

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Uh, Judas comes to betray Jesus in verse

50, Jesus refers to Judas as friend.

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Uh, which is unique to Matthew and

perhaps intended to drive home the

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gravity of this act of betrayal.

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Um, we're going to find out

in John's gospel shortly.

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Jesus is going to say, I call you friends.

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And so here he refers to

Judas and calls him friend.

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Even as he betraying him.

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And again, I think just driving home,

the gravity and the significance

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of what he's doing there.

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Uh, perhaps even one more active

of grace from Jesus to try to,

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to cause Judas to understand

what he's doing was wrong, even.

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Um, but it doesn't, he

betrays him versus 53 51.

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The arrest was not peaceful.

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Uh, but physical and

even violent at times.

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The cutting off the ear, the high

priest, they laid hands on Jesus.

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This is a physical interaction here.

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This is not Jesus floating through

the crowd and moving on with them

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all the way to kyphosis house.

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Uh, so this is a, a graphic situation

that's taking place first 52.

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Um, he speaks against taking matters

into one's own hands by violence here.

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And, uh, and telling that the

followers, he said, put your sword

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back into place for all those who take

the sword will perish by the sword.

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That's not suggesting pacifism

on the hand of Christianity.

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That's saying, if you're looking to

take matters into your own hands,

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seek your own vengeance, then, then

that's not going to go well for you.

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And so here, he's saying, don't do that.

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Put the sort of way this is

part of what God's will is.

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And then in verse 53,

he makes this comment.

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He says, do you not think that

I cannot appeal to my father?

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And he will want send

more than 12 legions?

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That's right.

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That's over 72,000 angels.

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72,000 angels is 12 legions.

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And in second Kings, 19 35, 1 angel

by himself killed over 185,000 men.

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So 72,000 angels.

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Which tells us that there's

a, there's a little.

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A lot of angels out there.

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Yeah.

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And how many angels are created

and they don't procreate.

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So clearly there's a number, right?

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How many, well, there's at least 72,000.

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How many fit on a head of a pin?

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Well, that's a number we can't figure out,

but we know that there's plenty of them.

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So no need to worry about that.

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Yeah.

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And then you've got Jesus at

kyphosis house in Matthew,

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26, 47, 3 through a 68 here.

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And when we were in Israel, we got to go

see this in there's a place there called

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the sacred pit, which is where Jesus

was held overnight from Thursday night.

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Into, uh, into Friday morning.

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Um, and this is when all of this

stuff is going on in the trials.

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And so in verse 59, they're seeking

out while Jesus is being held.

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They're seeking out false charges

because they have no legitimate charges.

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They can pin on them.

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And so finally, they get two people to

agree about him tearing down the temple

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and they're going, okay, this is it.

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And then in verses 63 through 64,

there's an interchange at the seals,

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the deal for the Jewish leaders.

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They say, Hey, are you the son of God?

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And Jesus basically says, ah, yup.

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And he says on top of that, and I'm also

the fulfillment of Daniel chapter seven.

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You're going to see me coming

on the clouds and power and they

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say, okay, there's blasphemy.

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Jesus speaks truth.

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They hear blasphemy.

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And they declare that he needs to die.

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And then the chapter ends tragically with

Peter's denials in verses 69 through 75.

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Mark 14 contains a lot of the same

information that we just read.

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Uh, it's going to be from

a different perspective.

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So you may pick out some different

things as you read through

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chapter chapter 14 and mark.

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Um, one of those that I noted in the

garden in Matthew 14, or mark 14.

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32 through 42, the guardian,

because 70 the praying.

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Uh, in mark 1436, Jesus praised

during this intense and intimate

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moment between him and God using ABA.

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He calls God Abba.

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Father there, which Paul says

in Romans chapter eight is

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something that we get to do.

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As those that have been brought into

the relationship of adoption to him.

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And so that's pretty cool when

you have Jesus in one of the most

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intense moments of prayer, using a

word to address the father that we

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get to use in our own prayer life.

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What.

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I mean.

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It does not mean no it's a band.

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It does not mean that.

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Daddy.

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It's also not a band.

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It's not.

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They're not a band.

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It is event.

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Yeah.

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Okay, but not here.

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Not here.

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Yeah.

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Um, no, it was a term that was

reserved for familial relationships.

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It was a term of intimacy only

used within the household.

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But it was not the flippant casual, Hey

daddy, God language that some people have

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taken and in kind of a Really attributed

to it, but it was a term of intimacy.

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Like you had to access.

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If you were referring to the father

of the house as ABA, that was

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something for a child to his father.

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Yeah.

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I feel icky when someone says daddy,

God, every time you say it, and

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it as an example, I never like it.

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Nope.

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I don't like it either.

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Someone's getting better.

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You they're going to edit you

and make it sound like you're

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saying that all the time.

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Yeah.

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Please don't.

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It's like the people that edit the

sermons and it's all the breaths.

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Yeah, we should do that to you someday.

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Please.

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Don't see me, please stop very soon.

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Um, yeah, then the betrayal

and the rest section, uh, mark

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14, 15, all the disciples flee.

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And then he adds this detail of

a young man flee naked, and a lot

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of people think that was mark.

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So we don't know who makes sense, but

they think that that that was mark.

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And that's why.

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I want to record it.

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And it's his book.

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So it seems like it'd be

most likely to be him.

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My.

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Most likely.

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Yeah.

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It's not Peter.

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Right, right.

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And then you've got Jesus.

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Uh, kyphosis house and then Peter's

denials again, anything from mark

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14 that, that jumped out to UPR.

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Uh, yes, this whole Dawn.

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Oh, Nope, not here.

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No, it's not.

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It's not in this accounting.

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Okay.

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There you go, then we will hit

that maybe in Luke's accounting.

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Which I believe has comes out tomorrow.

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Yes.

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Tomorrow's episode, but

Hey, keeping your Bibles.

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Let me pray for us.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for, um, This,

we thank you for what Christ

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went through on our behalf.

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Something that we can't wrap our

minds around and we'll spend eternity.

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Probably learning to appreciate

more and more and more in

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the presence of our savior.

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Even in the presence of our savior,

who will still bear the marks of

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the nails on his hands and his feet.

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And that we're not there yet.

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Uh, we, we certainly see it leading

that way and the suffering has

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already began to take place even

from the, the act of betrayal.

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Uh, to the agony of prayer in

the garden to being betrayed and

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mocked and arrested and beaten.

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So many things for the son of God,

second member of the Trinity to

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go forward through on our behalf.

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And so to say we're thankful falls.

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Woefully short of, of our true

response to that, but we want to

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be people of gratitude for what

it costs for us to be saved.

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And so we are thankful for that.

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And for that, we'd learn to

appreciate it more and more

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and more with each passing day.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Uh, keeping your Bibles and tune in

again tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast, folks.