00:00 Introduction and Morning Reflections

01:03 Halloween Traditions and Christian Perspectives

08:37 The Temptation of Jesus: A Deep Dive

13:48 Understanding the Order of Temptations

14:29 Exploring the Chronological Approach

14:59 Behind the Scenes with Jesus

15:25 Jesus' Rejection in Nazareth

17:45 The Significance of Oral Tradition

19:45 Peter's Family and Cultural Expectations

22:43 The Progression of Discipleship

24:28 Healing and Forgiveness

27:21 Calling of Matthew and New Beginnings

29:14 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast

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Breton early on a Saturday.

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Ah, Brighton in something on a Saturday.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I imagine nobody's

really up in the dark.

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Maybe they still are.

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I don't know.

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It's been getting dark

or stay in dark later.

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Do you like that?

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I do.

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I enjoy it.

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I enjoy getting up in the

morning and having to still

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be a little bit dark at sun.

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I don't mind it.

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I don't like, I think I.

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I like when there's sunlight.

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Cause then I feel like I can more easily

get the gears going, but I also appreciate

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the dark too, because everything

feels so quiet and serene and right.

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I feel more Christ-like when I'm

up in before everyone else is up.

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I don't know why you would say that.

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I, I know it's weird.

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It's almost like we just

read that yesterday.

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It's almost like also, it

reminds me that the weather's

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cooling off when it gets darker.

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Earlier.

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Statically speaking.

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Yeah.

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This is Texas.

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Oh, yeah.

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You never know.

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Are we an actual fall or false fall?

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I don't know yet.

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I'm still learning the seasons.

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The calendar fall.

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Yeah.

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Well calender.

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Yes, but Texas.

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Yeah.

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Texas calendar pseudo fall.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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Maybe by Halloween, we'll

feel a little chill in there.

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What are you going to

dress as for Halloween?

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Uh, everybody's been asking,

I pastor, I'm gonna address.

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Pastor w Y.

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Okay.

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I'm going to dress as Reagan at the risk.

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Okay.

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At the risk of, of stepping on toes.

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Oh, um, I'm going to be Ray gun.

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Don't don't Disney on that.

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What do people in your neighborhood

put out these like skeletons in

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goblins and ghouls on their lawns?

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Yes.

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When was this, did this become a thing?

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Um, I think in a hot Halloween.

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I just, I don't know, after

I, after the reformation, bro,

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I don't know what happened.

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We just took a dark turn.

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I don't remember growing up there being

a Halloween decorations, like sure.

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Somebody had a pumpkin on their thing

and occasionally you'd walk by the

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house that had like a animatronic,

something or other, but like, right.

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People just turned neighborhood.

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They've got them all in.

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Yeah.

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And it is it's dark.

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It's ghoulish.

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Yeah, that's very dark.

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Ah, Yeah.

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Yeah, that would be a

good question to ask Dr.

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Mohler.

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I bet he knows the answer to

that off the top of his head.

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When, when people started

celebrating, like when did, when

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did Halloween turned into Halloween?

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You know what the scary.

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Spooky goblins.

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And then the skeletons, right?

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My neighbor back in California

would go like all out.

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It was one of the houses to visit.

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He was on the city website and

people would Facebook him and

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all those things because he

was, he had one of those houses.

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Yeah.

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He had this, I don't know

this screaming terrifying.

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Shaking object that I, it.

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It was in the shape of a

person, but very terrifying.

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That was right across the

street from the kids room.

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So every time she would go

off and screech with terror.

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Uh, we had a couple of our kids that

were pretty scared of that dude.

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Yeah.

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I wouldn't be too.

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I'd be like, okay, let's not do this.

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Eh, yeah.

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I don't know what.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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What are your thoughts on that

for, for Christian families?

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Um, I don't struggle with this one.

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This is one of those areas in my life

where I feel pretty like it's clear,

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like this is something that you don't do.

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I don't think there's anything in

the Christian life that would give

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us freedom even to say, I should,

I should engage in the darkness.

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Now, I guess I should.

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I want to qualify that and be precise.

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When it comes to decorating your house

and putting skeletons and putting anything

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that's that's suggests depth and evil.

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I think you refrain from that because

again, it's death and evil and that's

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primarily what that stuff's meant to.

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To demonstrate or at least to create

the facade of, hopefully there's no

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real evil taking place in the home,

but the home is meant to convey

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that with the decor, a Christian on

the other hand, Doesn't celebrate

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that doesn't enjoy death or evil.

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Hopefully that's obvious.

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And so I would feel very uncomfortable,

uh, buying any kind of decor that would

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suggest that well, fall decor, you know,

orange leaves and reeds and hay bale.

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Yeah, great.

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Go do all that great stuff.

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But when it comes to decorating

your house at that, I think that

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that's a line too far for us.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I would agree with that.

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I don't want to make a law where there

is no law in scripture, but I do think

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there is something about what does it mean

to not have any appearance of evil and.

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To your point.

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I think these things are, are

the celebration of, of that.

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They're the celebration of

evil celebration of darkness.

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So.

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So would you then say like going

to a haunted house, would that be.

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Similar different, the

same, same ballpark.

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How do you, or even

watching a scary movie?

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Um, things like that, or are

we talking only house decor?

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Are we talking about adjacent things

like, like the entertainment stuff?

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Yeah.

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There's different.

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There's.

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Yeah, movies there's there.

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So just such a broad category

because you're, you're getting

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into different genres of thrillers

versus horror versus all that stuff.

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And I do think there's the demonic in

movies for sure that in the evil and

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the grotesque, and I don't think that

is wise for a Christian to engage.

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And I don't think we need

to fill our minds with that.

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And in the argument of, well, like

it reminds me of just the evil of the

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world and makes me appreciate Jesus.

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It's like, okay, well, Yeah, you can

look at bad things on the internet and be

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reminded of the purity of marriage too.

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And I don't think that's what

God's intending us to do either.

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So.

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Um, good point.

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Yeah.

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Th there's a line that we shouldn't cross

on that and, and, um, Th that's that's

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important for, so it is beyond Decore.

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Haunted houses, same thing.

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It's like, what is this glorifying?

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What am I I'm choosing to go

and be entertained by this.

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And what is this glorifying?

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Just for the thrill of the jump scare.

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It's like, yeah.

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Ah, Okay.

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I don't think that's what we're to do.

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I think it's darkness not light

and we're called to be light.

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We're called to walk as children of light.

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Um, and I don't think that

is to do those things.

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So if I, if I like getting scared

from that stuff, Do you suggest that.

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I find a different hobby to get scared by.

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Yeah.

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I mean, look at the national debt.

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If you want to every morning, like

do something else to, to get your

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jump scare in better than airplane.

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Yeah.

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I had friends that would, we're

stoked about, uh, what's up.

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As not scary farm.

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Yeah.

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They're all about that.

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The month of October, I think they

even start earlier than that now, but

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they would go to the non-scary farm

because it was like, oh, this is so fun.

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You can walk around a corner.

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And some guy with a chain

saw is running after you.

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This amazing sounds amazing.

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I never did it.

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I just, I was like, I don't,

I don't really care for that.

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I don't want that, but I, I guess I

understand that the idea for a thrill,

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there are people out there that just.

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You know, get off on stuff.

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Yeah, the adrenaline rush.

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Uh, so is there anything wrong with that?

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It's just misdirected energy.

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That should go elsewhere.

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Is what you're saying.

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Yeah, in in again, if it

is celebrating the demonic.

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Yes, that's wrong.

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I mean, I, I think I have, we have to

draw the line there and, uh, you know,

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if it's a werewolf that is that demonic.

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I mean, I don't know.

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It's just it's it's that old age,

old youth question in dating.

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Like how far can I go with my

girlfriend before it's too far?

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It's like, That's the wrong

question to be asking.

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And I think as Christians we need

to, to the spirit world is real.

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Let's not fool ourselves.

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The spirit world is real.

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And as we're engaging with these

things, celebrating these things,

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it's, it's not like God's up there

in heaven going, this is so great.

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This makes me so happy.

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This represents all that my son died for.

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And this is so good.

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This is why I sent Jesus to die for you.

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Whereas you have an enemy.

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That's like, yes, this is darkness.

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This is, this is my realm.

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This is what I'm about.

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And this is awesome.

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It's celebrating what,

I'm what I stand for.

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So.

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Listen, my kids trick or treat.

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So don't hear me say, like, don't send

your kids around the neighborhood.

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Ask for candy, definitely

take their candy right now.

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Especially if they got the big bars.

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Yeah.

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This doesn't need to be a total abstinence

from participating in anything related

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to Halloween, but it does need to be

a wisdom regarding how you participate

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in things related to Halloween.

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I might skip the house

depending, depending.

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Yeah, it.

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I might skip a house.

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You know, some kind of conscience,

conscience issue, but, uh,

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by and large, I th yeah, I do

think I want to be out there.

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Yeah.

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I want my neighbors to come and

hang out with me and talk to me.

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So I want to be out there.

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We're not saying to abstain from all

those things, obviously, but we are

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saying that you should be especially wise.

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And I wonder I was talking

to the students last night.

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Uh, Wednesday night as we're

recording, this was last night.

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And we were talking about how

people make the devil appear

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to be a non-threatening issue.

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Like isn't even real anymore.

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And I wonder if Halloween has contributed

to that sense of, Hey, this is so silly.

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We can just poke fun at it

because it's not real after all.

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And I don't want people to misunderstand

my, my understanding of what scripture

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says, which is that he is very real.

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And then we have a very real

enemy whose whose desire is to

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condemn us to hell with himself.

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Right.

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Right.

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I was out in my neighborhood

the other day on a jog.

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And I ran by a house on my way back.

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And this dad was walking out

to take his kid to school.

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And it was one of those houses that was

decorated and had like this big nasty

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spider on the spider web or whatever.

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And the dad walks out on

the spiders super friendly.

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Guy's like, Hey, how's it going?

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He's got his little five-year-old

little boy that's coming out

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to get in the car with them.

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I'm like, oh, okay.

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The spider I can get by with that.

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Yeah.

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It had like demonic eyes.

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Like it had the red light, glowing

eyes and like, I'm going to get a

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spider and I'm going to put your

face on it and say, come to church.

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Would that be okay?

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Uh, let's not, let's not, but

let's talk about the Bible.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Matthew four, speaking of youth on

Wednesday night, you preached Matthew

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four on the temptation of Jesus.

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Why don't you walk us through this text?

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Yeah.

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One through 11 is what

we're looking at here.

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Notice here, we just ended with

Jesus being commended by the father,

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Jesus being approved by the father.

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This is my beloved son.

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And so the spirit rests on him.

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The spirit, like a dove comes and now

pushes him, thrust him as the wilderness.

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To be tempted by the devil.

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And I want to point out to you first,

first of all, in verse one, that

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there are two wills at work here.

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The spirit of God.

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Uh, but the will to test Jesus and

the spirit of the devil or the person

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percentages of the devil tempting him.

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God himself does not

tempt, but he does test.

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And those are different things.

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So the spirit is testing

and the devil is tempting.

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Both wills at work

God's will will prevail.

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He's fasting 40 days and 40 nights.

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He's hungry as you might say.

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Well, duh.

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Uh, but he's pointing out here that

Jesus is in a very vulnerable spot.

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And then the tempter, the devil comes

and says, look, if you are the son of

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God, some believe that to be that he's

saying since you are, or because you are.

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Um, I tend to think that this is more

of a, of an inquisition, like really?

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Are you, is that true?

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Did what the father just said to you?

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Is that really true?

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I think that's the best read on this.

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Well, he says that two times, if you're

the son of God and the first time he

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says, look, if you're really hungry,

I mean, you're the son of God will.

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Wouldn't it be easy for you to

make food out of these stones here.

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And, uh, he, he cites.

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Uh, he cites scripture and response.

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That's going to be one

of the common themes.

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Jesus says it is written three separate

times and each time he's quoting

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scripture, he's in Deuteronomy six and

eight, which tells us probably where

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Jesus is reading at that point in

time, or that he had studied that and

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he had memorized a great deal of it.

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Um, in this particular instance, he,

he, the second temptation is taking

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him to the pinnacle of the temple.

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Now this is going to be different in Luke.

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But the pinnacle, the temple

here, he says, look, if, if you're

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really the son of God, that how

about you throw yourself off?

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People will see that you're going

to gently glide to the ground,

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and everyone's going to know them

that you are in fact, the Messiah.

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Jesus sees right through this.

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And he says, look, you can't,

you can't use scripture this way.

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Um, you're twisting scripture.

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You shall not put the

Lord your God to the test.

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And so Jesus responds to the scripture or

attestations of the devil was scripture,

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properly interpreted and applied.

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Big point for us there.

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Finally, Matthew loves mountains.

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So the mountain is going to be

a point of something exciting,

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something big happening.

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And so Matthew puts the mountain,

the mountain top experience as

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the last one here, he says the

devil took him to a high mountain.

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And whether this is physical or spiritual

or some combination between, we don't

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know, this is just what we see here.

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It takes him to a mountain, shows

him all the kingdoms of the world.

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So he's seeing in his mind's eye perhaps,

or more, he sings something, a vision.

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Of all the kingdoms and he says, look,

if you, if you'll just bow down to me,

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I will shortcut your way to the cross.

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Uh, from the cross rather, and

give you the glory minus the cross.

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You'll get the crown without the cross.

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How does that sound?

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And Jesus just straight up rebukes a dude.

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Satan is what he says.

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That's how he said it too.

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I.

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I haven't been from authority.

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That's what he said.

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And that's how he said it.

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And then he quotes scripture.

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Again, it is written.

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You shall worship the Lord, your God,

him only say, shall you serve again?

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That's Deuteronomy chapter six.

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The devil flees, as James says, resist

the devil he'll flee from you behold.

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Once he did this, notice this, the angels

who we, we last saw a few verses ago.

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In verse six, the angel show

up and now ministered to him.

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So Jesus waits on the father.

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The father delivers the goods,

delivers the help in his timing.

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And in his way, Jesus

learns humble submission.

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All of this is about temptation,

but ultimately it's about

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Jesus defeating our enemy.

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He succeeds where we have failed.

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And so we can put our trust in him.

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That was my sermon in a nutshell.

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Awesome.

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Did Satan have the authority

to grant the world?

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Did you this?

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I think he did at least in a, in a.

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In a way, I think it's partially true.

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So is it a, is it an authentic

offer kind of, sort of maybe.

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And I think that's how the

devil typically operates.

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He deals in half-truths.

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So, if you remember, uh, when

Adams squandered his, his son ship

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and, and gave himself over to sin.

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He lost the authority.

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Uh, Paul calls the devil

that king, uh, are they.

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Ruler of this world.

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Thank you.

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Ruler of this world.

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So there is a measure of authority

that he has over creation.

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And I suspect that he would have, if Jesus

would've done, it said, oh, here you go.

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Here's here's what you wanted.

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Ha.

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It's not what you thought it

was, uh, tricks tricks on you.

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So this is so yes and no, it was a trick.

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Everything that he says is the deception

and that's pretty much the point.

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Yeah.

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What do you think?

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Um, yeah, God, at this age,

second Corinthians four, four.

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Uh, ruler of this world,

John calls him that as well.

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Yeah, I think there's, there's an element

there, but what he would have been giving

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up is far greater than what he would have

been gaining if you'd gained anything.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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There are shortcuts,

but that's all trickery.

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It's tricky shortcuts.

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Yeah.

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It's like here, take the

shortcut and you're going to die.

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Yeah.

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Yup.

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Yeah, it's helpful.

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Uh, rest of Matthew chapter four.

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Um, Um, he launched his public

ministry verses 12 through 17

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on the heels of the temptation.

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Uh, he finds the disciples

again verses 18 through 22.

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The, again, this, this formal

invitation into discipleship,

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whereas John's account was the

initiation of the relationship there.

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So Matthew four 18 through 22, we

need not pit that against John.

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We need to understand, okay.

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There's a process here of this entering

into a discipleship relationship.

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Uh, versus 23 through 25, then.

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Th th the populous here, right?

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It doesn't take long

for Jesus to get famous.

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Mark.

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We've seen this in Mark's gospel.

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Great.

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CLA crowds are going to flock to Jesus for

his teaching and for his healing, both.

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And so that's what we see here in

the rest of Matthew chapter four.

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Luke chapter four, a then regard

records, the temptation force again.

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And pastor rod, you made, uh, a note here.

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That the order of the temptations

are different from Matthew and Luke.

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So what, what do you think was going

on there and why is Luke's order

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different than Matthew's different court?

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So again, I think Matthew decide,

I think Matthew is the one who put,

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put the order different for the

purposes of his mountain motif.

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The mountain plays a large

role in Matthew's gospel.

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Again, it's one of the places

where big things happen.

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There's revelation.

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There's some big tests as you see in.

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And Jesus's situation here,

but in Luke, I think Luke is

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recording it chronologically.

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He's much more consistent with

the way that he approaches

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his he's he's, he's a doctor.

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He's trying to be an eyewitness who is

offering a legitimate and helpful account

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so that the awfulness may have certainty.

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So I tend to believe

that he's just recording.

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This is what happened.

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And then this, then this, then this, all

of them still massively significant, but

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I tend to think that this is probably

more the criminal chronological approach.

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How about this?

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This seems like a basic

question, but how did.

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How did Matthew know how

to look, know these things?

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Nobody else was out there.

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Yeah, G Jesus would have

had to have told them.

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And that's, what's really cool because we,

we have, we have so much of Jesus' life.

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And when I say so much, I really mean

we don't have a lot of Jesus' life with

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so much to mine that we'll never get

through this in their entire lives, but

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there's so much that we don't have said.

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Yeah.

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And that's, what's so fascinating

about what we have here, because

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that means there were conversations

happening behind the scenes.

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Where Jesus was talking to different

people and sharing situations.

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And.

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I mean, this is where, okay.

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I I'm, I'm not, we're not

fans of the chosen anymore.

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Right.

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But I do like, man, what was it like?

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Yeah, it would have been like

to sit around the campfire with

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Jesus, as he's talking about.

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Hey, you want to hear the town

when he was tempted by the devil?

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Let me tell you about that.

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Can you imagine how fun.

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Yeah, they would have been.

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Yeah.

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Verses 14 through 15, again, the

launch of Jesus' public ministry and

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the back heels of the, the temptation.

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Um, Luca courts, something here

unique verses 16 through 30.

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This is the, the rejection

of Jesus from his hometown.

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He goes to Nazareth.

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Uh, which was where he grew up.

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Remember the Joseph, Mary moved

there after fleeing from Egypt

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and, and come earthling to Egypt.

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And then coming back,

they moved up to Nazareth.

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Uh, and he's teaching in a synagogue

there and he's given a scroll to

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read as the rabbis would have been.

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And he went to Isaiah 61 verses one

through two, and he read from it.

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And afterwards he declared, Hey,

this text fulfilled in your hearing.

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Talking about me.

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And he hands it back to the, the,

uh, the attendant there and the

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people are excited about this.

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There's a lot of murmuring going on.

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They're going to man, could this be

the one, could this be the Messiah?

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And, uh, and Jesus responds

to their initial excitement by

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telling him, warning them that

they would soon be rejecting him.

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And he would go to others as Elijah had

gone to the widow of Zerephath and Elijah

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to the name in the Syrian, uh, rather

than going to the household of the Jews.

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And so.

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That message far less popular.

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Amongst the people and the message.

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Hey, this has been fulfilled

in your hearing and they go to

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drive him off of a cliff nearby.

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Now, funny story, we were in

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drove you off a cliff almost.

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Um, no, but we went to Nazareth and then

they from Nazareth, you go to this place

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called Mount precipice and it's called

Mount precipice there in Nazareth because.

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They tell people, this is where Jesus

was, was driven by the crowds and where

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he was almost pushed off the cliff.

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And so we went there and you could budget.

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It gets it right.

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And I got to preach.

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I think I preached on this

passage while I was there.

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I'm standing on Mount precipice.

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Well, hold on a second.

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And then afterwards we get on the bus.

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Well, as we're all getting on the bus, the

guide, my buddy mashed comes over to me.

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He goes, This actually isn't

really Mount precipice.

496

I was like, wait, wait, what?

497

And he's like, yeah.

498

W w this is the traditional location,

but it's probably not what it

499

actually was based on the geographical

region at the time of Christ.

500

This is where tradition holds

that this took place, but

501

it's not where it actually.

502

How does he, how does he know that though?

503

Is.

504

Did Jesus come and tell him that or?

505

Well, I.

506

You get these, these

guys, they have a way.

507

Yeah.

508

They've got it.

509

They got secret knowledge.

510

Gnostic knowledge.

511

It's funny, man.

512

There's a lot of places over there

where they'll say, Hey, it's either

513

this location or that location.

514

And there's sometimes there's, there's

multiple locations other times.

515

We're like, no, we know for sure.

516

Those are the times that

it was more curious.

517

Like, how do you know

for sure that this is it.

518

And his explanation, which

I thought was super helpful.

519

He said, think about it.

520

From the moment that Jesus

ascended into, into heavens.

521

Th that the disciples and

his followers knew there was

522

something different about Jesus.

523

And so they would have said in

passed on down through history and

524

tradition, this is where this happened.

525

This is where this happened.

526

This or this happened?

527

Yeah.

528

Oral tradition, right?

529

Like you go to Mount of olives, there's

a cave called gifts guest seminar,

530

where you can go in and they're like,

this is where the disciples were

531

on the night that he was betrayed.

532

Yeah.

533

How do you know that?

534

Cause that was a massively significant

event and they point people.

535

This is where it was.

536

No, there's actually a church

built over the very stone.

537

That they believe that he was kneeling

down and, and sweating drops like drops

538

of blood as he was praying to the father.

539

And that stone is there in the church.

540

And you can go in and you can see it.

541

It's kind of on the ground right there.

542

The droplets?

543

No.

544

Okay.

545

Um, but that's one of those, like,

how do you know it was that stone?

546

So, um, but Mount precipice, traditional

location, not the actual one.

547

Yeah.

548

If it weren't Christianity, I would

say, well, there's, there's reasons to

549

believe something else, but Christianity

is built on this concept of truth.

550

Exclusive authenticated truth.

551

Objective, not suit, not

subjective, not emotional.

552

So I tend to think that Christians

had the idea that truth was a virtue.

553

Worthy of, of dying for even.

554

So I would tend to believe that they

passed on information that they believe

555

to be true and that they was corroborated

by lots of different people for the

556

same reasons that you mentioned.

557

Yup.

558

Yep.

559

Versus 31 through 37.

560

Jesus authority is on display here.

561

He's teaching people are amazed at

his, his power, his authority that

562

he's teaching a demon possessed

man is there and he cries out to

563

Jesus calls him the holy one of God.

564

It shows us again that

the demonic theology.

565

Is, uh, is pretty spot on.

566

It doesn't mean that they're

saved, have good doctrine.

567

They also need, uh, the devotion

of, of faith involved in that.

568

But, but they, they knew who Jesus was.

569

Jesus rebuked him, exercise his demon.

570

Those that saw it.

571

We're amazed at, is it the wording?

572

And he continues to heal.

573

He continues to do these things.

574

This is a parallel count in

verses 38 through 44 of mark, 1 29

575

through 39, which we talked about

yesterday in, in that episode.

576

So, uh, early part of Jesus' ministry,

he's healing, he's casting out

577

demons, validating his messages,

authority, everything else there.

578

So one thing that we haven't

pointed out at least explicitly

579

is that Peter was married.

580

Yeah, Peter was married.

581

This has been a perplexing issue for

me because then I wonder, well, he

582

was gone for three years with Jesus.

583

How was he taking care

of his wife and his kids?

584

I mean, I assume you had kids.

585

Um, there's nothing in the text

that tells me he has kids, but

586

it's, it's very natural to assume.

587

And a Jewish man with a Jewish woman,

we're going to have Jewish kids.

588

That's just the way things work.

589

Now that's how they're still around today,

by the way, in case you weren't sure.

590

That's okay.

591

That's how those things happen.

592

But he's got a wife and kids.

593

And I hear here's my only

takeaway from this men and people.

594

I wonder if sometimes we are more

shaped by our culture's expectations

595

of what a balanced and I'm using air

quotes here, a balanced life looks

596

like versus what scripture presents as.

597

What a balanced life looks like.

598

I'm not saying you should leave your

wife and kids for three years and

599

go gallivanting across the states.

600

And don't do that.

601

Please.

602

Don't do that.

603

Uh, but there is something curious

about this, isn't it at least raises

604

questions in your mind of, okay.

605

How did that work?

606

And at minimum, what we can say is Simon

Peter was gone with Jesus and something,

607

some kind of arrangement had to have

been made for his wife and for his kids.

608

It, unless they came with them, which

I guess that's a possibility too.

609

Yeah.

610

There were women that

were with him in the band.

611

Although you don't hear

about kids being with them.

612

Yeah.

613

And the disciples are put off by that.

614

So we know that their kids weren't there.

615

Uh, but there's questions

about this that are, that are.

616

Not quite answered.

617

Yeah.

618

I wonder if this is prescriptive or

descriptive more than prescriptive,

619

because I think about Paul in

first Corinthians seven, and

620

Paul's talking about marriage

there, he's talking about it.

621

It's a good thing.

622

But then he talks to those that

are single, and he says, those of

623

you who are single, you have an

advantage in every way, because

624

your affections are not divided.

625

You're not concerned about pleasing

your wife and pleasing the Lord.

626

And he says, Hey, make sure that

you who are single use that to

627

your full advantage so that you can

run hard and go, please, the Lord.

628

Sure.

629

So I think that.

630

It is still helpful for

us to find that balance.

631

I think the stewardship and not

that you're suggesting it's not the

632

stewardship of our families is an

important stewardship for us as, as men.

633

Um, to care for and love them.

634

This was unique.

635

I mean, this is God incarnate.

636

Um, and, and Jesus certainly

wouldn't contradict himself.

637

Right?

638

So we can't say that Paul is

saying something different

639

than what Jesus is doing.

640

Yes, plenty of people

have argued that wrongly.

641

And that's why, that's why we're

in, we're putting pieces together.

642

Um, We don't want to do

injustice to either one of them.

643

You're you're.

644

You're absolutely right.

645

We need to see that

scripture, the, the, the.

646

Prescription for us is to love

our wives lead our families.

647

Do that.

648

I just wonder if it isn't like this.

649

I think about, okay.

650

The firefighters or the people

who go off on deployment.

651

Okay.

652

I'm leaving my wife and kids

behind for this, this thing

653

that I'm being called to do.

654

Okay.

655

We have at least a precedent in

scripture that shows us that this

656

happened at least in some small way.

657

And some similar way.

658

We don't know what the, if it's a

one-to-one, but it's it's happening.

659

Yeah, it happened in past tense

and Jesus clearly authorized it.

660

Now what that looked like

again, we don't know.

661

We don't know.

662

Yeah.

663

We do know what scripture says

and we see what we have here.

664

So I say that it's our job to see

how we can put those things together

665

in a way that harmonizes nicely.

666

Yeah.

667

Also, Hey Catholics, Peter was married.

668

What are you doing?

669

What are you doing?

670

Well, your first Pope was married, right.

671

About everything, right.

672

Anyways, uh, Luke five,

Luke five, one through 11.

673

I called this section, the

progression of discipleship, because

674

again, we have another story here.

675

Uh, this time.

676

Peter has been fishing.

677

Jesus gets in the boat

and he pushes back a ways.

678

He teaches the crowds for awhile.

679

Then he looks at Peter and he said,

okay, since we're out here, go ahead

680

and throw your nets over the side.

681

Peter says, Hey rabbi, we've been

out here fishing all day long

682

and we haven't caught a thing.

683

Let us do our job.

684

Jesus says, Hey, do it.

685

And so Peter says, okay,

so he throws the net over.

686

He pulls up a catch so large

that the boat begins to sink.

687

Peter immediately falls prostrate before

the Lord confesses his unworthiness.

688

Uh, to even be in his presence and

then Jesus calls him into discipleship

689

again, and Peter and his brother

leave everything to follow Jesus.

690

So is this the same event

as what Matthew recorded?

691

Is this a different event that then we

find that when he passes by and says,

692

come with me and I'll make you Fisher

men is, this is more detail of that.

693

Or is this a separate event altogether?

694

Um, Uh, hard to tell what

specific specificity there.

695

Certainty.

696

Even with certainty it.

697

And that's why I call it the

progression of discipleship.

698

It could be that this is multiple stages.

699

Uh, we're going to see when

Jesus dies on the cross.

700

In rises again, shortly after

that initial resurrection, the

701

disciples are hanging out together.

702

They're like, what should we do?

703

And Peter's like, let's go

back and fish some more.

704

Like.

705

This.

706

So it's not at all unlikely that that even

after that initial colander discipleship,

707

Peter and his brother were like, Hey, we

should probably get up and go fishing.

708

Cause that's what we do.

709

And so maybe this is Jesus

continuing to beckoning them

710

back in them, into full-time

following him as, uh, as disciples.

711

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

712

This is kind of hard to untangle,

but I I'm of the opinion and

713

I'll state it just like that.

714

I think this is.

715

There are compressed events

and there are expanded events.

716

I think this is an expansion of what

Matthew of what Matthew and mark speak to.

717

Yeah.

718

So it's like, this is a longer,

a more detailed account.

719

Yeah, that's possible for sure.

720

Luke five 12 through 16

talking about parallels.

721

This is the healing of the leper.

722

Again, again, he reaches out, he

touches this leper to cleanse him,

723

which shows his compassion, his

love as well as his power here.

724

Um, I mean this, think about the

last time this leper was touched.

725

I mean, whenever the last time that,

that he was without leprosy was,

726

and he had been without that for so

long and, and here comes the great

727

physician to heal him in that regard.

728

Uh, Luke five 17 through 26.

729

Um, I called this one, the greater need.

730

Uh, this is going to be parallel

account that that is recording

731

the other gospels as well.

732

The Synoptics where this guy's buddies.

733

Get them on his mat and they go up

and they dig the hole in the roof.

734

They lower him down.

735

Jesus looks at the guy says, Hey,

your sins are healed, which must've

736

been the most deflating thing in the

world for this guy to hear from Jesus.

737

Because that's not why he was there.

738

And yet the crowd says, who is this?

739

That can forgive sins when

the God can forgive sins.

740

Jesus says, Hey, that's you might know

that I have the authority to do this.

741

I said, you'd get up, take up

your pet, your mat and walk.

742

And he does.

743

And, uh, and so this is a really

important thing for us to realize.

744

Again, the main reason Jesus came

is to heal, not the physically

745

ill, but the spiritually ill.

746

And that's what we see demonstrated

for us here in this, this section

747

with the paralytic friend.

748

Yeah, what's interesting about

this account is that his friends,

749

they, they all have faith in.

750

He commends their faith in verse 20.

751

He that's what he saw.

752

That's initially what provoked him

to say, man, your sins are forgiven.

753

So I'm wondering if the, the, and,

and the, the, your, and the, you are

754

singular, which means he's talking

to the one guy who's on the mat.

755

So I think your point

is like, oh, thank you.

756

Yes.

757

And Lord.

758

Can I, can I ask you

what I was here to do?

759

Uh, so I think, I think that

forgiveness was, was for the team

760

because it's their faith that he sees.

761

And I just, I assume that he's talking

to the guy, but it applies to the men.

762

And also it's interesting too.

763

Is that they asked the right question,

the Pharisees, and this address are the

764

scribes they're saying who can forgive

sins, but God, that's a great question.

765

That's a right question.

766

Yeah.

767

They gave the wrong answer.

768

And that's the danger of asking questions.

769

It came to the wrong place.

770

Not all questions are equal in

terms of their effectiveness to

771

get you to the truth, but here

you have, Jesus responds to them.

772

And, and here's another thing.

773

Jesus initiated both

the forgiveness of sins.

774

And the healing.

775

He, they didn't have to ask there.

776

There was no, there was no, uh,

there was no lights and fog.

777

There was no hype time.

778

There was no people, you know, getting

knocked down and slain by the spirit.

779

There was no white jacket,

waving people down.

780

It was Jesus saying,

I'm going to heal you.

781

And it's exactly what he did.

782

If you know who I'm talking about, keep

that in mind and then just know heal.

783

I think healing still happens.

784

We're not saying that he doesn't do this.

785

God can still heal.

786

But what were, where we would take

issue is whether or not God ordains,

787

healers, Um, whether or not God gives

the gift of healing to the church today.

788

And that's where we would say, ha does

not seem likely, especially given the fact

789

that Peter Paul tells Timothy, Hey, drink

some wine for your frequent ailments.

790

Not go find the guy with

the gift of healing, bro.

791

Yeah.

792

Or let me send, you know, let me send

Joseph, he's got the gift of healing.

793

He's going to be there in six

weeks is going to heal you bro.

794

Right.

795

Or James says, if anyone's sick call for

the elders, that they may pray for him.

796

Right.

797

Not call for the guy in the

church with the gift of healing.

798

Right.

799

Yeah.

800

All right.

801

Uh, rest of Luke chapter five, then

you've got the calling of Matthew.

802

Uh, this was separate from the other

Matthew or Levi here, as he's referred to

803

you, a lot of times they would have two

names, that Jewish name and a Greek name.

804

Um, and he's called, he's

sitting at his tax booth.

805

He's a tax collector.

806

Jesus says, follow me, leaving everything.

807

He rises and follows him.

808

Uh, Jesus is confronted because

he's hanging out with these tax

809

collectors and sinners, but again,

he's hanging out with them in order

810

that the ill, the spiritually ill

might not know that they need to be

811

healed and he's not just hanging out

with them because he likes to party.

812

He's hanging out with them and

calling them into repentance.

813

And so we need to be careful on both ends.

814

Number one, not to, to draw the conclusion

that we shouldn't hang out with anybody

815

who's worldly, but number two, not to,

to respond to that by saying, look,

816

Jesus, hang out with worldly people.

817

So it's okay if I do too well,

Jesus hung out with them and

818

called them to repent it.

819

So are you doing that?

820

Are you being.

821

The light amidst the darkness, or are

you just looking for an excuse to hang

822

out with people that, that like the sin

and you're looking to say, well, Jesus

823

did hung out with those people too.

824

So we need to be active in, in

calling people to repentance.

825

If we're going to cite Jesus

example here, at least.

826

And then the chapter ends

in verses 33 through 39 with

827

a reference to the fasting.

828

And the point here to take away

as Jesus is doing something new.

829

It's doing something that's brand new.

830

That's.

831

That's his illusion.

832

He says no one takes new

wine and puts it in old.

833

Wineskins.

834

It says these things that

you're talking about.

835

It's, it's the old system I'm here

to bring something new, something

836

different that's never been done before.

837

And so, yeah, right now my

disciples aren't fasting because

838

it's not time for them to fast.

839

They'll do that later.

840

Right now they're celebrating the

fact that the bridegroom is here.

841

And Jesus assumes that when he

leaves, which that did take place.

842

That his disciples would fast at

that point would fast and pray.

843

So there's a, there's a place for prayer.

844

And maybe we'll talk about

fasting this, this Saturday.

845

Um, Which is in the past and this and

this podcast right now, because it's.

846

This is Saturday.

847

This is Saturday.

848

It's this?

849

So that'll be, we'll talk about fasting.

850

Because that doesn't

get a lot of air time.

851

I just get a lot of air time and in

a lot of churches, unless you're in

852

more Pentecostal leaning churches

where fasting is kind of a thing for

853

spiritual empowerment, liturgical.

854

Yeah.

855

So maybe we can talk about

that at some point soon.

856

It sounds good.

857

It sounds good, but let's pray.

858

And then we'll be done with this episode.

859

God, we thank you for your word and

thank you for the temptation of Jesus

860

that he was tempted as we are yet

without sin, so that he could be our

861

great high priest so that we can draw

near to the throne of grace to find

862

mercy and grace to help in time of need.

863

We are.

864

Thankful for that.

865

Uh, and to just say, that

seems so empty and yet it is.

866

The gratitude that we will know in such

greater detail and experience for the

867

rest of eternity, when we're in your

presence, we look forward to that day.

868

In the meantime.

869

Help us to be faithful to all

you call us to in Jesus name.

870

Amen.

871

And then keeping your Bibles tune

in tomorrow for Sunday's edition

872

to the Davey Bible podcast.