00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:08 Exploring Peter's Denials in the Gospel of John

01:26 Discussing Gossip and Public Failures in Ministry

02:20 The Role of Motivation in Gossip

08:01 Transparency and Accountability in Church Leadership

11:54 The First Miracle: Water into Wine

13:38 Understanding Jesus' Address to His Mother

15:05 Cleansing the Temple: A Bold Act

17:47 The Complexity of Jesus' Character

18:12 The Significance of Jesus' Actions

21:16 The Famous Encounter with Nicodemus

23:54 The Samaritan Woman at the Well

25:53 Healing from a Distance: The Official's Son

26:33 Concluding Reflections and Prayers

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Sunday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Another Lord's day help.

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Happy Lord's day to you.

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Happy Lord's day.

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Yes.

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Um, yeah, we're we're back we're

we're uh, back in the gospel of John

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and talking about Peter this morning.

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And his denials, which is a.

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Interesting subject.

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So if you haven't been to church

yet, that's, what's in store.

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At the end of the church gospel of John.

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Well, we're talking about the prediction.

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So you're going to fall away.

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It's going to be a little bit

different because I'm preaching

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the prediction and then I'm

preaching the fulfillment as well.

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So we're going to John 18, as

well as the end of John 13.

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Wow.

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So are we going to skip John

18 then that section, when we

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get there, are we going to do.

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I'm not going to preach it twice.

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Yeah.

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I appreciate it.

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Out of order a little bit,

but I think it fits in.

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Hopefully I'll.

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If, if it doesn't fit after the

sermon today, then I will have failed.

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All right.

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Well, I will hand out the pitchforks and

all the things that we're going to need

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to create a rabble rouser of people.

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Torches as well.

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I think it's usually

torches and pitchforks.

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Pitchforks for sure.

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I don't want it.

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I don't have the fire code and

I'm not sure if that allows us

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to do that stuff inside the.

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The gym.

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Okay, well, we've got

fire men, Picador church.

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It's true, but I don't know if

they're going to want me to have life

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flier in the, in the, in the gym.

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So we're just gonna stick

with the pitchforks.

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They don't hand out flashlights kind

of give the effect of it, perhaps.

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Okay.

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Not as effective.

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As open flame, but that's all right.

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That's right.

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I'm planning on burning you.

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We just want to scare you a little bit.

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At least not yet to buddy.

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Be on guard.

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Hate speaking about burning people.

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I have a question that was sent in.

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Uh, that I thought was worth

us discussing on the podcast

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because it's just so relevant.

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It's it's still happening.

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I went on my YouTube feed.

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Recently and even on X and I

still see people talking about

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the, the Steve Lawson situation.

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Sure.

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And so someone texted us recently

and I thought the question was

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good enough to get your input on

pastor beach because it's a it's.

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Interesting question.

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And I'm not sure that it had

an answer to this immediately.

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Oh, here's, here's basically

the question in a nutshell.

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Um, this guy wants to know.

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At what point it becomes.

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Uh, in fact, let me just read it.

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How do we think about gossip in

relation to a pastor's public failure?

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Like Steve Lawson's now, at what

point does it become gossip?

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When we talk about it and when

does gossip actually become gossip?

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How do we discern that thing?

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So.

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Uh, if you could just talk to that,

answer our questions entirely and leave

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us no room for any further followup.

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That'd be sure.

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Sure.

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Yeah, no problem.

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Um, this is a good question

just because it does.

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It does.

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I think we cross lines here.

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Uh, without maybe even realizing that we

cross lines, it goes back to that old.

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Kind of joke about, you know, the, the,

the prayer request lady that's like,

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oh, well, you should just really pray

for this person that I'm sharing this

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with you, so that you'll pray for them.

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That's.

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Um, And not to stereotype women is

the only ones that struggled gossip.

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Uh, w we all do, um, eh, This question,

I think comes back to our heart motives

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in this more than anything else.

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I think one question to start

with is why do you, why do

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you want to know these things?

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Um, like, why are you

hungry for this knowledge?

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Is it because you have a voyeuristic

facet, fascination with the downfall?

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And so that's why you're hungry to

know, or is it because you want to.

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You know, pray for the church.

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You want to pray.

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You.

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Informed prayers for him, for his

family, for the body of Christ

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there at Trinity Bible church.

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I mean, why do you want to

know what's the motive there?

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And then the second thing is asking

the question, do you need to know?

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I mean, can you pray those

informed prayers without having

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all the nitty gritty details?

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Can you.

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Do what your response is.

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A believer is in the situation, which

again, is to pray for him to pray for

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his family, to pray for the church.

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Uh, without knowing exactly how everything

played out and what all the details were.

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And for us on this side, Uh,

we're not members of that body.

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Uh, we weren't under the

care of Steve Lawson.

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Um, even if he was your favorite

podcast, pastor, sorry, you

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weren't under his shepherding.

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You just were taking him in through your

headphones or through the car stereo.

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He wasn't your pastor.

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Um, so we don't have the same.

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Claim on knowing the way that somebody

who was regularly being cared for

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him and shepherded by him, we can.

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I think they do have a claim to

know a little bit more than the

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rest of the world knows, but for us.

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I think the majority of us, we

need to be content, knowing what

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they've chosen to let us know.

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And then to say, okay,

then I'm going to pray.

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And I'm going to pray prayers that maybe

aren't as informed as others who are

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on the inside, but still that doesn't

change the effectiveness of my prayers.

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Yeah, amen to that brother.

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The ISBE the international

standard Bible encyclopedia.

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I don't know if you've ever noticed

when you're in new books on time.

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You'll see it referenced the ISBE ISB.

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Yup.

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Um, so it's, it's a book, it's a

resource that you might want to have

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in your library if you have one.

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Um, it's about to, I don't

know, 4,500 pages give or take.

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So I think it's multiple volumes.

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Now I have it on my, on the law.

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I have multiple.

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I have multiple SBS.

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Yeah, I do.

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I have, then I have one of the original

and I have one of the newer resources.

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Anyway, that's not the

point of, this is me.

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It's a, it's a resource that

you, you would benefit from.

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Anyway, the is B, uh, says it like this,

uh, gossip, um, is used to designate

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the spreading of secrets or rumors.

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Usually for the purpose of slander.

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So it goes to what you were just saying a.

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It really has a lot to do

with the motivation behind it.

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So there is a way to talk about.

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Steve Lawson and a way to talk about

the things that he's done or has done or

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things that we still don't know whether

or not he's done it, how he's done it.

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We don't know.

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We don't know a lot of things about that.

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And.

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Part of our hearts desire is to know

all the salacious, dirty details.

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Tell me what he did.

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When did he do it?

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How did he do it?

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And, and really, it goes back

to the saying there's, there's a

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lot of information I don't need.

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I do need, I do think it's

appropriate for the church to know.

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What he's done.

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Um, without the gory details, of course

you want to protect people involved,

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which would include family members

and friends, and even the church.

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Now there is something good about

that, but when you have a public

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ministry, I like his, and you've

made the impact that you have.

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There is a certain sense in which

the people that have trusted you

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that have followed your ministry are

owed a certain amount of information.

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Yeah.

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Um, how much you say now that.

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That's that's a, that's a subjective line.

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And I think there's a lot of

judgment that goes into that.

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But if, you know, if you have a very

large platform, Um, there's something

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that scripture says about that.

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If a, if an elder falls or he sins

and he's doing something grievous,

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then while you rebuke him in the

public, in the public setting.

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So there's something about that there

needs to be reviewed and there needs to

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be a sense of everyone fears, some of that

same falling pattern that he displayed.

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So can it become gossip?

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Yes.

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It has a lot to do with the

heart motivation behind it,

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but it also can be, man.

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What does it feel like in my soul when

I'm talking about this, am I getting

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some kind of sadistic joy out of.

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The gory details or can I do

this in a way where my heart is

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instructed and I am led to pray

for the church to pray for the man.

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I think it's going to look

different for different people.

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So I know that's not the best answer in

terms of like, here's a clear cut time.

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Uh, but gossip happens, I think

primarily in the heart as pastors.

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You and I know bro.

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We have to talk about things

that happened in the church.

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And if you were an outsider listening

in, you might say, oh, these guys

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are gossiping about their people.

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No, no, we're not doing that at all.

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We're talking about the needs

and the situations of the church

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so that we can provide the

pastoral care that's necessary.

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And often that means.

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What do you think about this?

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I'm kind of working

through the situation here.

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You're working to that situation.

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There.

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Um, help me think about this.

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What about this situation?

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What about this passage?

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So we, in some ways we have to do this.

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We're not gossiping.

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I trust, I mean, again, habits in the

heart, so it'd be hard to know, but this

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is part of our call is to talk about

what's happening behind closed doors.

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Yeah.

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And it's a, it's a, it's a heavy one too.

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We sit down for a pastor's meeting it.

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Doesn't.

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You see a name pop up on, on the document.

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It's like, it's not like, oh

boy, we get to talk about this.

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You know, it's like, oh no,

I guess we should talk, say

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that it's not all bad stuff.

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A lot of times.

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It's great.

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It's positive.

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That's a majority of the time is that,

um, but I'm even thinking about our time

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back on the same team in California.

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When we sat down, I mean,

we were at a larger church.

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There, there was oftentimes

where things would come up and.

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You, you, you kind of,

you hold your breath.

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You're like, no, please Lord.

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Not anything serious about this situation.

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If, if you don't know until that moment.

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And if you do know, then you feel

that appropriate weightiness.

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And sobriety going into it.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So hopefully that answered this, uh,

particular, some of the questions.

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I mean, I'm pretty sure there's Morrison.

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There there there's more to it than

that, but I think that's a good start.

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Yeah.

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So.

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Yeah.

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Are we ever going to know everything

in the Steve Lawson ordeal?

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No.

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Um, I know there's, there's different

things that have been posted and

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taken down and, and, you know,

Screenshot it and retweet it.

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People are mad at his church.

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His elders in particular for not

sharing more of the information in.

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Yeah, and I, we do, and I

would say this, I don't think

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his elders have been helpful.

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To the publicly.

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Not that they owe everybody the

same explanation that they gave

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the people in their church.

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But they could have at least come

out and said, Hey, um, we've dealt

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with this with the church body here.

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And so those of you that are hungry

for more information, We understand

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the desire to know, but, but you

need to trust us as the elders of our

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church here, we've dealt with this

with our congregation, with our flock.

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I haven't heard that

from anybody down there.

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Um, I think there is clueless is yeah,

most of the rest people, people I

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tuned into, you know, that, that first

Sunday, after the disqualification in.

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Yeah.

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You know, this wasn't mentioned

except for really alluded to from

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the guy that preached that Sunday.

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Everyone knows what's happened.

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Let's just kind of, so I guess,

benefit of the doubt I wanted to

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say, well, maybe they dealt with

it off the camera with the body.

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Right.

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But again, I think it's fair to say that.

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Too, because this is such a

public figure to say, Hey, listen.

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Uh, we, as, as the elders of this

body, we're, we're dealing with

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this, we've informed our church.

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We've told them more than, than

we were telling other people,

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but know that we're handling it.

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I think they could do that and

save themselves some headaches.

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I agree, and I think that'd be an

appropriate way to deal with that.

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Let's turn off the cameras.

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Let's turn off the recording

instruments, although.

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Someone's going to record it anyway.

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You've heard, you've seen that take place.

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It ends up in the hands of.

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We certainly journalist.

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Yeah.

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And they ended up here's the record.

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Here's a secret meeting

that happened behind cliff.

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And then suddenly it looks like

something far more nefarious

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as opposed to, oh, we're trying

to handle this with discretion.

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And deal with the impact at the, at the

place of impact, rather than saying,

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Hey, let's have a public dialogue and

put, put the church and, and Steve

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and, and Christ into more open shame.

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We're not trying to do that.

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Yeah, which mean.

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I don't want to.

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Reference the, the, the journalist,

but there there's one in particular

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out there that, that thinks that

this person is doing the church,

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a service by kind of playing.

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Gotcha.

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Journalism with, with the church and in.

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Favorite target is, is MacArthur

and grace community church.

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And in some others out

there, I struggle with that.

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I don't know what your thoughts on

that are, but this journalist thinks

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that they have taken the mantle

on themselves to be the defender

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of the purity of God's church.

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And.

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They're there trying to dig up and

find hypocrisy under every stone that

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they possibly can and looking for

things like, well, did you see what,

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you know, John MacArthur's financial

records are and things like that.

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I just, if this person is a believer

and I don't know, I think they

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profess to be a believer, but I,

yeah, I don't think this is what.

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We're we're to be working towards,

is that the body of Christ?

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I think the church should be

transparent and most of her operations.

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And so I do think it's good and wise to

say, Hey, we're going to expose evil.

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Even if it's within our own camp.

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We don't want to allow

anybody to get away with evil.

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Yes.

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I agree with the open about that.

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But when you build your platform

on, on being that, that shade,

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that style of journalism.

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I think it presents a lot of problems.

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I would imagine for that journalist.

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Uh, what's your heart like, man?

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I mean, did you, that's a tough gig.

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Yeah.

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To be a discernment blogger, or to be the

kind of person who's always sniffing out.

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That kind of thing.

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And that that's got to have a place.

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It's got to have a heavy part

of your heart and perhaps have a

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very negative effect on the, the

regular condition of your heart.

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This is why Paul tells us that we ought

to fill our minds with good things.

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Excellent things.

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Philippians four.

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And when this is your constant

pattern of imbibing, this.

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Kind of news and then re

talking about it and then going

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after people online with it.

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And again, I think, I think

there's a place for it.

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I think there is room for.

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Uh, for accountability

and for transparency.

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Uh, but to have a ministry built on

that, I think that's really tough.

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And I would not advise most, maybe

even all Christians, not to, to

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have a ministry just for that.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's a dark place to be.

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Well, let's go to a light

place, which is God's word.

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We are in John two, three and four

today, uh, which should be familiar

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territory with, uh, with us.

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If you've been part of our church

for the last year we've been

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studying the gospel of John.

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And so it's been a little while

since we've been in John two, but

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oh, we're in the gospel of John

we're in the, did you know that.

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Vaguely familiar familiarity.

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Um, yeah, so, uh, yeah, no, John too.

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So we open up, this is the,

the first of Jesus' signs.

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Remember John used the word signs

and not miracles because he.

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Is recording these things as a

sign that points to something

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greater than what you first.

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Uh, observed in the miracle itself.

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It says third day in the text there.

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Uh, there's questions

about the timeline there.

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This seems to be the third day from

the call of Philip and Nathaniel.

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Um, there was about two days

journey to get to where this

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wedding would have taken place.

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Jesus is there with his disciples.

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Uh, long story short, the wine runs out.

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That's a big problem

for the groom's family.

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And the couple itself would have

been massive shame upon them to

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run out of wine and provision.

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Uh, Mary comes to Jesus.

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Jesus says it's not yet

my hour, basically to him.

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He says, it's not my time right now.

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So the first illusion to that, that,

that Jesus has an hour we're we're in

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the sermon series that we're in, we're

coming straight into his hour now,

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but at this point it wasn't there.

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And so Mary says to the

servants, do what he tells you.

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Jesus commands.

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They fill up the jars.

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Uh, there's a question about when

does the miracle actually take place?

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Doesn't take place in the jar.

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Does it take place when the

water is dipped in, in the ladle?

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Fun to think about it is fun to

think about at the end of the day.

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We don't know.

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I don't know, but Jesus

is Lord of creation.

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It turns water to wine and it's good wine.

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The stewards like, whoa,

this is the good stuff.

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Why were you holding this back?

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Right?

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Um, and the disciples in the servants who

were there in witnessing everything that

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was taking place, at least the disciples.

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Uh, began to see the glory of God revealed

through these signs that he was doing.

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Okay.

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So everybody wants to know,

everyone's been asking.

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When Jesus says to his mom, One,

what does this have to do with me?

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Back up.

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Ain't my town home girl.

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When he says that, was

he being disrespectful?

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Well, when he said that, which

I don't know what translation of

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the Bible that you're reading.

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I'm kind of just taking

some liberties here.

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No.

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The, the address of woman

was a common address.

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It's the Greek word?

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And so, um, I get the

word gynecologist, right?

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That is true.

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Yeah.

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And so this is the one, the,

the word QA, and it was a

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common way to address someone.

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However, what is of note is it was not a

common way for a son to address a mother.

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And so there is a little bit

of a distancing say, Hey home,

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Hey, you don't know who I am.

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Right.

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Remember girl, right.

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Right.

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So this is not him.

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Speaking in a derogatory fashion

towards his mother that would have

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been to break one of the commandments.

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Been sinful.

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Uh, rather, this is a appointed

address to her to say, Hey, listen.

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Don't conflate our relationship here.

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Don't forget that there is.

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Th there is separation here.

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Yeah.

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Uh, there is a difference

in my time has not yet come.

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Thank you for clarifying that.

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Yeah, you're welcome.

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Um, Anyways, man, I wouldn't go

around calling your wives goonie.

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Um, yeah, I mean, I I've had, I'm

just doing what Jesus did, bro.

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When I was dating my wife,

I called her Grenache.

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Cause I thought it was a Bible

nerd thing to do and it super was.

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And yet she still made me and thank

you for marrying me anyways, Amanda.

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I appreciate that.

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Wow.

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Um, yeah, so that's the

first time people believe.

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Uh, but, but not everybody who

believes is going to be genuine.

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And we're going to see that a

little bit later on because next

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he goes to the temple and the

temple needs to be cleansed.

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Not because it's dirty, but because

of what's taking place there.

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So in the temple, he finds people selling.

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Uh, the, these animals and

what had happened is, uh, the.

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The purveyors of these goods, these

animals, these sacrificial animals there.

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They had grown tired of setting

up camp outside the temple,

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where they were supposed to be.

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And they've moved their operations

into the temple courtyard,

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into the court of the Gentiles.

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And so the, the closest

that the Gentiles could get.

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So think Cornelius from the book of

acts, the closest that they could get

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to the holy of Holies to the temple

itself, to worship God was now a place

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where they had to compete with the

Dean of animals and people buying and

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changing money and everything else.

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And so it'd become a place of commerce.

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And so Jesus is enraged at this and

creates a whip and he drives them out.

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Now what's interesting is this is

drives them out, along with the animals.

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So he's using the whip and

he's driving up people.

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With the whip here in the

cleansing of the temple.

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Um, this is not the precious moments.

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Jesus.

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Uh, and this actually.

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Uh, this is, is, is we, maybe we

can kill two birds with one stone

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and knock off one of our questions

from the, uh, the men's Q and a

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tomorrow morning or yesterday morning.

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Um, as we're recording this,

maybe we already talked about it,

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but somebody said, should we be

gentle in everything that we do?

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And because gentleness

is a fruit of the spirit.

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I don't think, I think the answer

is no, I don't think this is gentle.

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Jesus.

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I think this is Jesus who is angry,

trusting, and he's righteously

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angry, but I don't think that

every fruit of the spirit is always

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meant to be manifest at all times.

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I think we manifest the

fruit of the spirit.

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At different times in different

capacities, but I think they're called

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for different in different occasions.

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This is not a gentle Jesus,

creating a whip and driving them

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out from the temple courtyard.

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There.

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Yeah, I would have to remember how it

was defined because I think it marks

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the one who talked about gentleness.

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Um, I also, is it possible that Jesus

was exercising gentleness in that.

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He was not allowing the full

expression of his power and

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his authority and might to be.

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Poured out upon them.

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And instead, all he did was

wheeled the whip upon them.

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And so even though he was

exercising, anger, Um, godly anger.

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It was still a gentle

expression of the anger because

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arguably they deserved worse.

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Okay.

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Then what about peace?

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Yeah, he was making

peace by destroying evil.

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I mean it's I I've tongue in cheek.

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Yes.

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I can understand the why you

might laugh at that, but isn't it

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that's the goal is peace, right?

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But this is not a peaceful act.

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Yeah.

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So he's not exuding

peace as he's doing this.

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Uh, Yeah, I had to think about this.

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This is, this is, uh, this is interesting.

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Well, the complexity of his character.

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I see that.

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I appreciate the, the complexity, but

man, I, yeah, this is interesting.

491

Yeah.

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So this is, this is in a sense another

sign because there was not a miracle.

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The disciples see this and they,

they remember an old Testament

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prophecy from the book of Psalms.

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This is you'll for your

house will consume me.

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This is Psalm 69 9.

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And so the disciples remember

this and they think, okay,

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he's, he's exuding these things.

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This really does seem to be the one that

we're growing in suspicion that he is.

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Uh, the Jews on the other hand

say, Hey, what are you doing?

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And he says, look, here's a sign.

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Uh, you need to, um, you need

to realize that that you're

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going to destroy this temple.

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And in three days I'm going to rebuild it.

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Now it says in the text,

he's talking about his body.

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The disciples are going to learn that

later on after his resurrection, but in

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the short term, the Jews think he's crazy.

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They're looking at the temple going.

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There's no way you're going to

rebuild this thing in three days, by

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the way, this is what they finally.

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We'll stick him too.

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Um, when they're looking for

the false charge to crucify him.

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Um, is that they find two people

that say he threatened to destroy

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the temple because they were looking

for some charge that was sticking.

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Finally they found two people that were

willing to come forth and say, oh yeah, he

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said he was going to destroy the temple.

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That's what they condemn him to death for.

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When does this take place?

519

Well, there's the question is,

is there one or two cleansing

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cleansings at the temple, right?

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Because we typically have seen

this at the end of the gospels,

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at least with the Synoptics.

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Yeah.

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Here, it's at the front.

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Is it, is it that, or is

there multiple clinics?

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I think there's two cleansing.

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I think there's two.

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I think there's two.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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What would be your, like, this is, this

is the reason why, because of where John

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puts it or is there more to it than it?

533

Um, yeah, I think, I

think that's part of it.

534

I think chronologically and John,

it does seem to flow right out of

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the, the miracle and Canada, which

John is very clear to say, this is

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the first of the signs that he did.

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So I think if, if this is.

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Later on it.

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I think there's that because it's

also found by the triumphal entry.

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Um, now John does not record one

at the triumphal entry, right?

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So that's why everyone

thinks this has gotta be it.

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Then he just moved it for the, for

the, to make the theological point.

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But there's other things

John doesn't record it.

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Even today.

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We're going to talk about in

the conversation with Peter.

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John doesn't record.

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The fact that Jesus says to Peter

Satan has demanded to sift you like

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wheat, but, or, or all of you 12, but

I've prayed for you, Peter, that you

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would be able to withstand this test

and turn and strengthen your brothers.

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So we've talked about four portraits

when once Jesus, they pick and choose

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what they're going to, going to include.

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Right.

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Um, and so I think it's possible

that since John included the first

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one, he didn't necessarily feel

the need to include the second one.

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Okay.

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That's my take on it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it would be a, yeah, it

would be a splash if he, if he

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started his ministry with this.

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Cause I mean, he just

started his ministry, right.

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At least as we're going along

the chronological planet,

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this is where he started.

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Uh, it would be very hard not to

know who Jesus is at this point,

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because this is during the Passover.

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This is not like, oh, Hey, this is a local

gathering of people just hanging out.

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This is, this is the big deal

everyone's in Jerusalem for this.

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It would have been the

splash of all splashes.

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People would have known who

he was immediately, but I

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think he was already famous.

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Like if we go to mark one, Right

with the beginning of the gospel

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coming out of the baptism, he

begins teaching with authority.

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You know, I mean, he starts healing.

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He does start seeing him, but,

but this is, he has a local, but

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increasingly larger impact upon people.

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But this is everyone from everywhere

who calls himself a good Jew.

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Yeah.

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It's going to be there.

578

So his fame would have spread

all over Jerusalem or all over

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Israel because of this event.

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Yup.

581

Yup.

582

Yeah.

583

Chapter ends in chapter two with,

uh, multiple people following him,

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believing in him, but Jesus not

believing in their belief because he

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knew what was in the heart of man.

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And so he didn't need anyone

to bear witness about that.

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And that we talked about that last Sunday.

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Would you, with our two, two weeks

ago with Judas that Jesus knew.

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That Judas was, uh, one to, uh, to betray

him from the moment that he called him.

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Let's do that.

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All right.

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Chapter three, chapter three, we

get into one of the most famous

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passages that we find in the

Bible, which is John chapter three.

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Uh, 16, which is the verse that

everybody knows, but that's

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in the context of Nicodemus.

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And so in the context of Nicodemus in

John chapter three, Um, you have the, uh,

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the, the coming to Jesus saying, Hey, we

recognize something different about you.

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Um, what gives, can you

help us understand here?

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What are you here to do?

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Jesus says, here's what I'm here for.

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I'm here to, to let you know if

you want to enter the kingdom of

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heaven, you must be born again.

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Nicotine and struggles with that.

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And he thinks physically first cause

Jesus is trying to drive him to the

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spiritual, which is a common theme

in John and in people fail to go from

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the physical to the spiritual plane

and Nicodemus does here as well.

607

Uh, and he can't, he can't process this.

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And so then you get into John

14 through 16, where Jesus.

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Uh, or John and, and that's, I

guess an editor's decision here.

610

Alludes to the type of death

that he's going to die.

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And the reason for that death and

that's the famous verse for God.

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So loved the world that he gave his only

son, so that whoever believes in him

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should not perish, but have eternal life.

614

Um, Verses 17 through 21.

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He didn't come to condemn the

world, but to save the world.

616

And yet.

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Those who would reject him at, at his

first coming, we're going to be condemned.

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They were going to be

judged for that rejection.

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So that's another theme that

Jesus develops throughout the rest

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of the gospel of John as well.

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This passive judgment through the

people that reject him in his ministry.

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There.

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Uh, last part of, of John chapter three,

again, as John, the Baptist testimony,

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people coming to him and he is redirecting

attention from himself back to Jesus.

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At this time, the conflict arises

because the disciples are jealous

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that Jesus' disciples are baptizing

more people than they are.

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And so John says, Hey, listen,

you need to remember that.

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I've always been about decreasing

that he might increase.

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That's the famous line in John three 20.

630

And he appeals to this and says, basically

to his followers, what did you expect?

631

Do you have an opinion about who's

saying the, uh, John three 16 section.

632

I mean, I go back and forth.

633

On it.

634

Yeah.

635

I could see it being Jesus continuing,

but I could also see this being

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John's commentary on the interaction.

637

Yeah.

638

How does it ESB feel?

639

I don't know.

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Do they, do they put that in red or not?

641

I can't tell I'm using my logos.

642

I'm using my longest too.

643

So I don't know, but as

far as the quotations go.

644

Um, let me get there.

645

Hold on.

646

Well, he does use a quotation

mark, so yeah, I guess.

647

Right.

648

Maybe they're leaning

toward Jesus sameness.

649

Yeah.

650

I think they would land on that side.

651

Yeah.

652

And that's totally possible.

653

I think that, yeah, their quotation

goes down all the way through 21.

654

So they would say Jesus, is

there all the way through 21?

655

He's saying this the whole

time others would say no, it's

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it's, uh, John jumps in there.

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At, uh, verse 16 and

begins to commentary there.

658

I think it's Jesus.

659

All right.

660

Well, there you go.

661

Uh, rod agrees with the ESV.

662

I do.

663

Alright, John, for jump

for a woman at the well.

664

Uh, John 41 through 45 is all about the

woman at the, well, Jesus shows up there.

665

He has to pass through some area because

there was a divine appointment there.

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He didn't have to geographically, he

could have gone around the region.

667

But God wanted him there.

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The father wanted him there and he's

there to do the will of the father.

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So he's in some area he's tired

because of his full humanity.

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So he sits down by the well he's thirsty.

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So he asks this woman for a drink,

which would have been uncommon

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and even prohibited for a Jew, let

alone a Jewish rabbi to ask a woman.

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A Samaritan woman for a drink.

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And so she points that out and through

this interaction, Jesus leads her to her

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understanding of her need for salvation,

by pointing to the fact that she had

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been looking for living water from all

of these other sources, mainly from the

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immoral relationships that she had had.

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And so Jesus.

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Uh, being fully God and we see both his

full humanity and his full deity in, in

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John four here, he perceives, he knows

her current situation and he goes straight

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at her need and convicts with his word.

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And then eventually he

reveals his identity to her.

683

This woman at the well is the

first one in John's gospel.

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At least that he reveals that

he is indeed the Messiah.

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He says to her, I who speak to you,

am he, she gets really excited.

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She goes back to her village.

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She gets a bunch of

Samaritans from the village.

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They come back, they end up spending

time with Jesus and they eventually

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say, we believe not because of your

testimony anymore, but because.

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Of what we've heard directly from him.

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Yeah, what a cool idea here.

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The, the it's a woman.

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And a Samaritan.

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I think that's two major

strikes against her.

695

And in John's gospel, she's the

one who's given the privilege

696

of being the first to encounter.

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And Jesus unveiled.

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It's like, he's not using any enigmas.

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It's like, I'm the guy you're looking for.

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Crazy.

701

Yeah, I'm him, right?

702

Isn't that?

703

What the, the.

704

The trendy kids say these days.

705

I'm him, him.

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He's him.

707

Uh, I think that's like a.

708

Like what's your pronoun preference?

709

No.

710

Like dude, that's the guy like,

he's the one, like he's him.

711

Oh, okay.

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How do I, how am I informing?

713

You're the, you're the guy.

714

You've passed your him.

715

And him.

716

Uh, last half of John, then the

healing of the official's son.

717

This is sometimes conflated with the

healing of this centurion's servant, which

718

we're going to get to in a future episode.

719

They're not the same event.

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One is a son.

721

One is a servant in different

people is involved as well, but

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a similar situation, because this

is a miracle that takes place.

723

This is a sign that

takes place where Jesus.

724

Heels from a distance.

725

He doesn't have to be present in, in,

so there, and we see the power of Jesus.

726

Uh, even just in his word to affect

the healing power in the life of this

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child who was sick and is made well.

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Uh, through the kindness and the common

grace of Jesus here in this miracle.

729

Amen.

730

All right, let's pray.

731

And then we will be

done with this episode.

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We thank you for, uh,

just cool interactions.

733

Like we get to see with Nicodemus

and Jesus and the woman at the well

734

and Jesus here in John's gospel.

735

And so many others as well,

but it just reminds us of.

736

The history city of the life of Christ,

that he had moments with people and had

737

real conversations with people and think

about all the conversations we aren't

738

privy to because they're not recorded here

for us, but the ones that were recorded

739

at least by Joel were recorded so that

we might understand more about who Jesus

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is and understand that he is the savior.

741

That he's the Messiah and that

as such, that, that we need to

742

turn to him for eternal life.

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And so we thank you for the gospels.

744

We thank you for the gospel of John.

745

And the clear message that

we see conveyed there.

746

And so we thank you that you did love

us so much that you gave your only son.

747

So that if we believe in you, we will

not perish, but have eternal life.

748

So we pray all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then keep, bring your

Bibles tune in tomorrow for

751

Matthew eight mark, to see that.

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But.