00:00 Introduction and Announcements

00:32 Upcoming Men's Bible Study

01:18 Encouragement for Attendance

02:42 Daily Bible Reading: Luke 24

03:59 Discussion on Recognizing Jesus

12:03 John 20: Resurrection and Appearances

14:56 Restoration of Peter

17:56 Conclusion and Prayer

18:39 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We hope you're enjoying your

Saturday morning and you should

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be planning men for next Saturday

to join us at Men's Bible Study.

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'cause we will be back down at Grace which

by the way is short-lived because we have

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an opportunity with another facility that

you'll hear more about in the new year.

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That's just down the street

from where we're meeting.

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And so Men's Bible study, women's

Bible study are other meetings

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that we tend to have down at Grace.

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Those will be moved up here

to our kinda the backyard of

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where we're meeting right now.

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So that's.

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That's encouraging, but Pastor

Rob, what's coming up next

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week with Men's Bible study?

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So we're in part three of our resolved

series and our resolved series.

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We're looking at men in the Bible

who depicted a resolve to honor

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the Lord no matter what the cost.

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And the person that we're looking at

this week is John the Baptist, and we're

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looking at him from Mark chapter six.

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This is that famous section where

Herod Anus has John the Baptist Behead.

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This happens in the midst of

confusion about who Jesus is.

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Is he Elijah?

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Is he John the Baptist?

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Is he some other prophet?

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And what we're gonna look at is John's

clarity, his conviction and his courage.

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And in particular, what

we're gonna focus on.

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In fact, I think what I'm calling it,

I may change the title by the time next

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Saturday comes, but I'm looking at the

title of courage to confront One of

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our jobs as men is to call a spade to

be men who speak truth and to do so

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with clarity, conviction, and courage.

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And so I think we're gonna call it that.

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I would love to have you there.

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This is an, I say this about all

the time I preach, but I mean it,

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this is a really important sermon.

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I if I say that too much.

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Every sermon's important to like,

well, you say that about all.

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They're all important.

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This is so important.

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We really need to develop a spine that is

biblically based and know how to navigate

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that within the culture that we're in.

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And for some of us that might mean

getting shot, you know, in a public venue.

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And that's okay.

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If that's what God wants for us,

that's what we're gonna lean into.

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But we wanna have the courage to

confront, and there's ways that

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we build that into our lives.

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And we're gonna look at John's life to see

a little bit about what that looks like.

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You don't wanna miss it.

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I'm hooked.

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I'm gonna be there.

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You're gonna be there.

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I will be there.

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Oh, thanks man.

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Yeah.

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Well, if you're going there, you'll go.

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Yeah, there we go.

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You should be there too.

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I'm thinking about it and

the men should be there.

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And ladies listening to

this, you may not be there.

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Well don't.

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Yeah, don't be there.

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But wives listening to this, make

it easy for your men to be there.

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If that means you gotta get your

kids to the soccer game in the

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morning, then do that so that your

husbands can be there because this

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is a good thing for them to be there.

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This is make 'em some breakfast.

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Some coffee.

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There you go.

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Massage his feet.

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There you go.

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All your above.

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Get the paper form.

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Anything else you want?

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Breakfast in bed, with the tray.

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Yeah.

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Welcome back to the Daily

Misogynistic podcast.

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We're your hosts nothing

about women hating in there?

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I'm just suggesting things.

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We're trying to help them

get to the men's breakfast.

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There you go.

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But if they're making them breakfast,

then no men's ever gonna complain

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that there's double, double breakfast.

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Come on.

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Second breakfast there go.

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Alright.

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Hey, let's get into our reading today.

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We got Luke 24 and John 20 and 21.

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Luke 24 is just a fun chapter.

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Not only do you have the resurrection

account, which is very similar and

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you've got the amazing encounter

there with the angels, where they

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make the phenomenal statement.

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Why do you seek the living among the dead?

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He is not here.

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I thought Phil Wilkin wrote that.

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He didn't know the angel did.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, maybe the angel got it from Phil.

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I think the angel got

it from the Holy Spirit.

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Because, and maybe the Holy

Spirit got it from Phil.

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I don't think so.

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I don't think Phil was a twinkle in his

parents' eyes at this point in time.

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Right.

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Neither was his parents.

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That's a great line in the song though.

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It's a great song.

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That's a great line.

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Looking for the living among the dead.

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So good.

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Yeah.

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Well he got it from the

angel, so there you go.

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Alright.

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But it's this whole interaction between

Jesus and the disciples on the road

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to Emmaus, which is fascinating and

comical and also just awe-inspiring

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at the same time to think, man, it

would've been awesome to be them.

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But we see here that it, it took

a little while for people to still

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believe what they were hearing.

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And so Thomas gets a bad rap and

Thomas gets the bad rap because

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he's, you know, doubting Thomas

and he didn't believe and the other

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disciples had told him about this.

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And we're gonna get to Thomas, I think,

later on in, in our reading today.

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But, thomas wasn't alone in his

struggling to believe the report of

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the empty tomb and everything else.

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In fact we see that in Luke

24 with these two disciples.

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Jesus walks up on them and keeps

himself from being recognized by

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them, which even that is fascinating.

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How?

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'cause he's recognizable.

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Because we see other times when people

see him and recognize him, although

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initially Mary Magdalene doesn't recognize

him when she's in, in the garden there

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and he has to speak her name Mary

before she recognizes his rabbi teacher.

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So it's just part of the mystery

of the resurrected body of Christ

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that there's times where can keep

himself from being recognized.

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But this whole interchange is

somewhat funny because they

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say, are you the only one that

doesn't know what's going on here?

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And Jesus just bats the hook.

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He goes, what?

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What do you mean?

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Yeah.

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What things like, he could

have been like, guys, it's me.

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It's me.

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Yeah.

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But he just strings them along for a

little while and it's it's fascinating

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to read the back and forth here.

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I read that maybe what's behind

some of this mystery here.

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Be, because you're right.

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Everyone looks at this and

says, how is it possible?

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How did you miss that?

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Yeah.

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It's kind of like not

knowing who your mom is.

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Right.

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You would know maybe, maybe, and

granted that the voice is still there.

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So that's still a bit tricky

in my mind to overcome.

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But let's just say for example,

they're not expecting this

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fully healed man to be Jesus.

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That's one part.

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Right?

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And if his clothing was gambled

away on the cross, he's not

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wearing his normal attire.

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What, and that's another

question, what is Jesus wearing?

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Because he's not naked, right?

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But he did leave his

grave clothes in the tomb.

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So that's a good question.

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Whatever Jesus is wearing

is not his normal attire.

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But now, today we're used to seeing,

you wear a different shirt every

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day, you wear different pants,

different shoes even, right?

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You have a lot of different choices.

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But that's not the first century man and.

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True.

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They had a lot of the same clothes.

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And so you would recognize someone

not only by their gait and their

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personage, but you would also

notice, oh, that's so-and-so's cloak.

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That's Thomas's cloak.

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That's Philip's cloak.

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So Jesus is not wearing

his normal clothes.

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Maybe he's wearing a turban.

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He's got something on his head

perhaps, and his body's healed.

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He's not limping.

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He's showing no signs of trauma

to his body, so he's fully well.

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I wonder if that's part of it, and

I don't know if that's the whole.

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Maybe there is more happening here.

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There's a supernatural veiling of

himself, but it seems to me that there

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could be some natural explanations

for why they're not catching up,

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catching onto who he is right away.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's absolutely fair.

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So you think he's wearing the

white robe in the purple sash

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now that we always see him in?

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No.

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Maybe, man, I don't know.

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I do wanna know what he's wearing

and where he got the clothes from.

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That's a good.

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Because he's not wearing

the grave clothes.

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Yeah, they're in the grave.

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Yeah.

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It's fascinating questions.

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It's that we don't know,

we don't have answers to.

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Yeah, for sure.

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What we do see here is the despair because

in Luke 24: 21, they say, we had hoped.

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And so notice the past tense here.

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And that reveals, and this goes back

to what you're saying, they're not

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expecting to see the resurrected

savior because they're saying it's

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over basically, is what they're saying.

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Yeah.

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We had hoped, we had thought, and

yet he's just another failed Messiah.

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Jesus in his mercy in verses

25 to 27, preaches the greatest

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sermon ever preached to them.

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As he goes back through the Old Testament

and interprets the things concerning

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himself and how it was necessary for

them to decide to suffer and then enter

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into glory, and then the way that he

reveals himself to them, I just think

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speaks to the love and the relationship

component of the resurrected savior

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because he doesn't, it's not even.

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In the sermon that they

finally understand.

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It's when they see him

break bread with them.

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When they see him in that moment of

fellowship, table fellowship with them,

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which we have to assume they had enjoyed

before in the past with him, even though

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these aren't necessarily to the 12.

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They had been with Jesus in moments

like this and that, just like in his

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affection for Marian speaking her name

to reveal himself to her, I think we see

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the love and compassion that he has and

the fellowship that he desires with them,

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where it's that moment that their eyes

are open, they realize that it's Jesus.

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Yeah.

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This is fascinating because these are

two guys that we otherwise don't know.

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Right.

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And even one of them.

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We only have his name.

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We know nothing else about him.

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Cleopas, he's probably one of the 72

spent time with Jesus clearly enough to

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say, oh, that's Jesus' signature move.

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It's like if Michael Jordan were to

do his famous dunk where he is, his

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legs are spread and he hanging out.

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Yeah.

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You if someone did that, even if

they're wearing all the makeup in

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the world, you'd say, that's Jordan.

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That's who that is.

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Yeah.

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And in the same way, Jesus breaking

of the bread, I guess he did

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this so frequently with them.

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This was his signature move.

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He broke bread for the 5,000 broke bread

for the, what was the other number?

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7,000.

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The 6,000.

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He broke bread for multiple audiences.

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Yeah.

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And so these guys know his signature move.

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And it's like when you say

church, even if you're wearing

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makeup, I'm gonna know that's you.

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I know that's you.

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And that's what's happening here.

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I love that.

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You're right.

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It's relational.

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It's warm, it's amazing.

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But I also notice here it says,

did not our hearts burn within us?

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What's that?

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Is that, so should we experience that when

the Bible being preached burning PRIs?

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You know, I didn't say that.

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Yeah, I didn't say that.

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But I guess if you wanna

address that, feel free.

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Well, yeah.

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That the burning bosom, that's what

the Mormons say You should feel

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to know that Mormonism is true.

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And that's a subjective, trying

to work this up and convince

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yourself that something is true.

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No, I think this is more evidence

of the work of the spirit.

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Even though, and this is interesting

'cause the spirit's not yet.

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In them if we understand the order of

events here, but I do think this is

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still evidence of God's work in them.

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That this is reverse for a few seconds

and just quickly explain more about that.

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The spear's not in them.

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What do you mean?

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Yeah.

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So, Jesus talks about this coming

up the day of Pentecost, the spear's

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gonna fall on them and then even.

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Subsequent to that, you've got the

Samaritan Believers that come to faith

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in Christ, and yet Peter and John

have to come to them and pray for

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them and lay hands on them before they

receive the spirit in, in, in them.

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And we'll talk about

that when we get to acts.

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I think there's reasons for that that are

different than what happens today, but.

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So the Holy Spirit's not

dwelling within them the way

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that he does with us, correct?

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Not yet.

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He will just not yet.

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And that's because Jesus is still there.

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And that's, we talked about that a couple

of, a few days ago, a handful of days ago.

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It's to your benefit that I go

away because if I don't go away,

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then you won't receive the spirit.

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You won't receive the helper.

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Right.

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But I think it's the fact that

this is Jesus preaching to them.

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That is what's causing

the burning to take place.

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This sensation of like, oh man.

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There's something different about this.

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Do we experience that today?

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I would say as a, as an evidence

of the spirit within us.

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I think we know truth when we hear truth,

and I think when the truth is faithfully,

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exposited and preached, I think there is

something within us that's that hungers

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for that says, I want more of that.

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And I love that because

it's exalting Christ.

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There have been a handful of sermons

that I've been in, in my life that

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I've heard where I feel like, man,

my heart is burning within me.

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I can't.

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Quite pinpoint why I, well, I do know

why someone's unpacking the word in a way

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that I'm just like, wow, this is amazing.

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And I think one of the last times

experienced this was with Dr.

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Dr.

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Ware when he, I think he

preached on Isaiah chapter six.

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No, it was 40.

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Isaiah 40.

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It was awesome.

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I felt like, man, this is my God.

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That's amazing.

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My heart's on fire.

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I love it.

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Yeah, I think this still happens.

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I'm not sure what this is, 'cause

it's me guessing and speculating

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what I think is happening.

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Yeah.

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But man I think to your point.

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Because the spirit indwells his word.

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When someone's unpacking it well, and

they're helping me see Christ or the

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Lord better, I think I still, I think

we can still feel something like this.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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After this, he appears to his disciples.

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We're gonna see that in John's gospel

as well, and he shows them, his

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body, shows them the hands that the

marks that he still bears, which is

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another thing that's interesting to

think about with his glorified body.

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And then Luke records the

ascension, which I've always.

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Thought is interesting that he

records the Ascension because it's

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almost like then we get to the book

of Acts and he backs up to kinda get

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a running start in the book of Acts.

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Yeah.

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'cause he's gonna give us much more detail

about the ascension in the book of Acts.

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He just kind of tacks it on

here at the end of Luke 24.

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Well, unlike Mark, he finishes a story.

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He does.

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He's at least ending

with an a good ending.

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That's true.

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This is an ending that would

say, yeah, that makes sense.

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I dig it.

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Do you think Luke knew that he

was gonna write acts as he was

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finishing up the book of Luke?

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I don't know.

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I mean, do you have, I don't know.

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Do you have an answer to that?

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I don't.

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I just thought that because I don't know.

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If he didn't know that he was gonna

write acts, then yeah, he's finishing

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the story and then maybe as he's thinking

about it, he's saying, you know what?

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I can include a lot more here.

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Let me just think about

how to finish this up.

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Yeah.

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And then he starts talking to people

and then he realizes, oh no, there's

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a lot more here than I realized.

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Right.

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I need help.

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Let me reach out to my benefactor

to support this project.

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Right.

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The gets roped in.

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Yeah, he gets routed and actually

no, 'cause he says to the off theus.

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You know what?

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Now that I'm thinking about

this, I think he did know.

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You think he did know?

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I, okay we'll wait till we get to ax.

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Okay.

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Because I think ax gives me at least

a hint that maybe that's the case.

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Okay.

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Sounds good.

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Well, let's go over to John 20 and 21,

which is the rest of our reading today.

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At John 20, you've got the

resurrection account again.

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And here's the moment of

Jesus in Mary Magdalene.

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We've been referencing this and

alluding to it, and here it is where

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Mary thinks the body's been stolen.

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She's weeping.

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Some have suggested maybe the reason she

didn't recognize Jesus is because she's

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weeping, she's bleary eyed from her.

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Got tears in her eyes.

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She's not expecting, to your point,

to see him resurrected at this time.

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Right.

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And so she thinks he's the gardener

and yet she hears his voice.

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And still it's that touching moment

between Jesus and one of his most

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devoted followers where he reveals

himself to her in a very relational way.

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And I think that's so, so

neat just the way that, that

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Jesus cares for her that way.

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Then Jesus shows up in the upper room

with the disciples that are gathered there

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and he shows up behind a locked door.

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And this is where I think, again,

we gotta give doubting Thomas A.

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Little bit of grace because he

shows the, these disciples the

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same things that he shows Thomas.

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So Thomas wasn't there and

Thomas says, in until I see.

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The marks on his hands and the put my

hand in his side, I'm not gonna believe.

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And in, in some essence, that's what Jesus

had already done for these disciples.

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He showed up and said,

look, here's my wounds.

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And then he does this interesting

thing where he breathes on them

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and he says, receive the spirit.

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And when I preach this and.

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John 20 at, I don't know, last year as we

were going through this I don't believe

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this is the moment that they received

the Holy Spirit, but this is rather Jesus

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alluding to that moment taking place.

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He's promising it, he's illustrating

what this is going to be, that

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they're gonna receive the spirit.

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That the word spirit, at least

in Hebrew, is the same word

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that can mean breath ruach.

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And so for Jesus to breathe on

them is is indicative symbolic of

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them receiving the Holy Spirit.

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Much like when God

breathed life into Adam.

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So I don't.

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Believe this is the moment

they receive the spirit because

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Jesus is still with them.

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But I do think it's the down payment,

so to speak, of that reception.

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I would agree with that.

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And that's believe it or not, there's

theological discussions about things

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just like this, where the question is

who sends the spirit to the disciples?

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Hmm.

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Who sends the spirit?

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Is it God?

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Does the, does God the

father send the spirit?

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Or does Jesus send the Spirit or.

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Third option?

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Is it both of them?

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Yes.

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And we think it is both.

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This is one of those places where

obviously the father is the one who

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he's the one who's behind everything.

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He's the, I don't know.

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I don't know how to talk about this

without accidentally spitting heresy.

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He's the one.

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Yeah.

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But through the son the spirit.

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Is sent from the father and

the son, we would argue, and

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that's what's happening here.

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I agree.

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Jesus is giving them the down payments.

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He's symbolically showing

them, I'm sending the spirit

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and this is connected to his.

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Go, wait for me here.

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Wait until you receive the Spirit.

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And that's when all the power comes.

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And that's the book of Acts?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh man, you're, yeah.

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We'll hold off on that.

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There's more we could say about that, but

we'll develop the Trinity, I'm sure more

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as we go along in the daily Bible reading.

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John's purpose is given in John

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purpose statement for the book.

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And that is that we might

believe and believe that Jesus

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is the Messiah believing that

we might have life in His name.

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John 21, we get the, basically the

chapter is about the restoration of Peter.

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There's more to it here, but

Jesus is after restoring.

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Peter, I'd mentioned when we were

on with Pastor Mark a couple days

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ago, just the idea of the difference

between Judas response and Peter's

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response in that sermon that Bobby

Blakey preached and here we see the.

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The repentance.

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That is a genuine godly grief that

Peter experiences here and God's

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grace towards him to restore him.

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And Jesus does that as he

asks Peter three times.

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Peter, do you love me, Peter?

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Do you love me?

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Peter, do you love me?

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And as Peter denied Jesus

three times, I think Jesus is.

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Gracious to restore Peter these three

times and and to launch him into

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ministry when he says, you've got a

job to do with my sheep, and you need

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to tend my sheep and feed my sheep.

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And tend my sheep.

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He's telling him, you've got work to do.

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I'm not done with you, Peter.

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So, okay, you failed, but now you're

being restored and now it's time to go.

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So John 21, again, like Mary,

like, the two disciples on the

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road to AMAs, this is the personal.

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Touch from Jesus with his followers

post-resurrection, to come alongside

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and say, it's okay, I'm alive

and there's work left to be done.

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153 fish.

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I read that perhaps, perhaps suggestion

is maybe there was 153 different kinds.

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Breeds a fish in that lake

and that this is one way that

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Jesus is signaling to them.

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You are now not just gonna be

fishers of fish, but fishers of men.

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All kinds of men, all different kinds.

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I like that.

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I'm not sure if it's true.

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But that sounds fun.

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I like that.

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I'm just gonna go with that for now.

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Secondly.

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You might notice that Jesus cooks

breakfast over a charcoal fire.

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Yeah.

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A couple things.

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Number one, Jesus is eating.

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I love this because this tells

me that in our resurrection

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body, we still get to have food.

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We're gonna eat.

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Yep.

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We're gonna eat.

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Yep.

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Which is an exciting part of being human.

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This is one of the things I like

about being alive is eating food.

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So that's sticking around.

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I'm excited about that.

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But secondly, the charcoal fire.

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The last time that John

mentions a charcoal fire is in.

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Do you know this?

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Yep.

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You guys are answering, hopefully,

hopefully you're answering.

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This is in the courtyard as he

stands before the religious well,

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in the kangaroo court when he's

being tried without any due process.

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So Jesus is rewinding the tape

using the sense of smell and his

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sense of sight to say, remember when

you denied me those three times?

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Let's do this again.

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They're gonna give you a do-over.

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I'm gonna take you right

back into that courtyard.

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I'm gonna let you affirm your

love for me three times now.

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So Jesus effectively restores

Peter saying, I know what happened.

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Let's put that behind us.

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Let me take you and move you forward

and let's try this all over again.

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And this time he commissions him

and says, you're gonna be my leader.

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I want you to lead and I don't want you

to focus on John or the other guy, or

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what his house looks like, or what his

ministry looks like, or her mothering.

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She does more of this and

she does more of that.

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Just you focus on me, trust

me, you get, keep your eyes on

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me and we'll do this together.

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Yeah.

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And it's the charcoal fire, that's

what Peter was standing around

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with, the servants warming his

hands as Jesus was in there.

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And that's where the denials took place.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And if Jesus hadn't restored

Peter, then we wouldn't have a

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book to study on Sunday mornings.

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I.

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What a bummer.

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Yeah.

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I mean, , there would be other

Bible, but Peter's pretty great.

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Peter's pretty great.

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Yeah, he is.

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Anyways, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we are so thankful that you

are God who is a personal God.

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The care for those two disciples on

the road to Emmaus the care for Mary

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Magdalene, the care for Peter and the

care for so many others, including us.

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The way that you.

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Orchestrated events in our lives to

bring us to the place of recognizing

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Jesus as the Savior, as the Messiah, as

the one that we needed, and welcoming

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us into your family by allowing us to

repent from our sins and to believe in

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Jesus for the forgiveness of those sins.

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And so we thank you so much for that.

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And we only know but the fringes of

what that relationship is gonna be like.

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And we can't wait to be with you in

eternity when we will know it in fullness.

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So until that day, may

we be found faithful.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said