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Chapters

00:00 Welcome

00:15 Listener Question: Conviction vs Condemnation

04:42 Judges 3

07:32 Judges 4

09:33 Judges 5

11:53 Luke 7:31-50

16:55 Closing Prayer

17:30 Outro and Podcast Information

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Tuesday in another

edition of The Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We're glad that you made it to Tuesday.

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I know it's been a slow start to

the week for some of us maybe, but

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hey, you're here and we are back

with you with yet another question

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'cause you guys keep sending it in.

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So, good job.

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We've got a question this time on

the relationship between conviction.

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In condemnation.

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So it's a great question.

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It's perceptive question, and the

questioner says this, how do you

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know if the feelings you are feeling

are condemnation or conviction?

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And if they are condemnation, how do you

move past the feeling knowing that we

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shouldn't feel condemned as Christians

since our sin was paid for at the cross?

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Again, great question.

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I think one that all of us have

wrestled with at one point in

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time or another, Romans eight, one

does say there is therefore now no

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condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

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And yet one of the.

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Ministries of the spirit and the life

of believers as Jesus talks about even

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in John 14, 15, 16, is that the spirit

is there to convict us about things

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that are good and right and true.

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So I think the answer to this comes.

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Back to two figures.

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And again I'm borrowing this, I've

referenced this sermon before, but

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Bobby Blakey preached a sermon called

Everybody Feels Bad about Jesus.

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And I think we see the differentiation

between conviction and condemnation

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in the life of two figures.

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And those two figures are Judas and Peter.

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Judas and Peter both did what was wrong.

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To differing degrees.

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Granted Peter denied Jesus.

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Judas betrayed Jesus into the hands

of the Pharisees and the scribes.

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But at one point in time, both of them

felt shame over what they had done.

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Both of them felt the guilt

over what they had done.

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One of them was realized

through condemnation.

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The other was realized through conviction.

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Condemnation showed up with Judas in

the fact that Judas went and ended up

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taking his own life in full out despair.

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He didn't demonstrate.

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Two Corinthians seven.

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That godly grief that leads to

repentance, that godly grief that

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takes action against that, which

leads to conviction or leads to guilt.

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That godly grief that seeks to

separate ourselves from sin and

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shame and to clear our conscience

from that by not doing it anymore.

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That's not what Judas did.

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Judas gave way to despair

and took his life.

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You look at Peter, Peter felt bad.

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Peter wept.

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Bitterly over denying Jesus.

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And we understand that and knew that

what he had done was wrong and knew that

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what he was had done was bad and he felt

the guilt, he felt the shame over it.

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But that produced a conviction.

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And then in John 21, we see

Peter restored by Jesus.

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And then we do see in the rest of

Peter's life, this second Corinthians

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seven, setting himself to save rather

than ever deny my Lord and Savior again.

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I'm gonna do everything I

can to identify with him.

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I'm gonna identify with him publicly.

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I'm gonna even give my life for him.

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So I think.

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In those two characters, we see a

little bit of a difference between

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condemnation and conviction.

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For us today, conviction

should lead to a godly change.

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It should lead to repentance.

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It should lead us to say, I'm going to,

whatever's convicting me I'm going to

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address that thing in my life, rather

than send us into a spiral of despair

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that looks inward and kind of get so

introspective that we just sit there in

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a pool of feeling like, I'm not worthy

enough, I'm not good enough, and we

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don't move forward in the life change

that should follow with the conviction.

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Yeah.

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To summarize that I'd say it this way.

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Conviction.

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Well, the difference between

conviction and condemnation is best

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seen in its effect, how it results

in something and where condemnation

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leads to shame and despair.

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Conviction leads to repentance and

faith, and that's really when you're

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gonna know what you're dealing with.

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If you constantly are spiraling

in shame, you will probably.

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Well, no, this is not of the Lord.

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This is me piling guilt and

self-flagellation upon myself to atone

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for my sin in some way, shape, or form.

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And that's an ungodly response.

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And I think all of us

know what this is like.

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We've all felt this before

where it feels better to us to.

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Punish ourselves for our sin.

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There's something perverse that we

enjoy about that makes us feel like

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we're paying for the sin, but that's

not the way God wants us to react.

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The right response is not to

punish ourselves for our sin.

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That's what condemnation is.

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The right response is to turn to

Christ in repentant faith and say,

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Lord, thank you that you have.

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Forgiven me.

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And consequently, I'm not going to

try to punish myself to pay and add

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more to what Jesus paid on the cross.

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That would be highly offensive.

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Instead, I'm gonna trust what your word

says, and I'm gonna step forward in

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faith, dust myself off, and trust that

you want me to take steps to grow in my

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faith, to grow in the grace and knowledge

of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Second Peter three.

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That's the job.

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That's our goal.

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So that's my short answer.

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To summarize what you were saying,

I think we're on the same page.

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Yeah, that's great.

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If you've got further questions

or clarifying questions on that,

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feel free to write 'em in and

we'd be happy to address 'em.

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Well, let's turn to our reading

for today, which is Judges three

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through five, and then we'll be

in Luke chapter 7 31 through 50.

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So judges three, one through

six the nations are left behind.

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It says here, to test Israel.

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This is a difficult one.

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It says, these are the nations.

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The Lord left to test Israel by them, that

in all Israel, who had not experienced

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all the wars in Canaan it goes on.

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He says It was only an order that the

generations of the people of Israel

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might know war, to teach war to

those that had not known it before.

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So.

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Part of the purpose in some of the

nations that are there was to make

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Israel a warrior nation, that Israel

would be a nation that would be able

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to defend itself because there was

some amongst them that had soft hands.

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They had not built up the

calluses because they were not

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part of the warrior generation.

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And so God is leaving opportunities

for that here amongst them and.

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Part of the test is also, are

they gonna be loyal to him?

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Are they gonna obey him?

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Are they gonna do what they

should do and drive them out?

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And Israel is unfortunately going to do

the things that are evil in the side of

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the Lord when we read in verse seven.

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And so the pattern the.

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Circular pattern here shows up right now.

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The rhythm, that's the word I was

looking for, because Israel sins,

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God sends wrath in his wrath at

this time, is they're going to go

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into captivity for eight years.

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They're gonna be held captive there,

then they're gonna cry out for

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deliverance, and God is gonna show them

mercy by raising up a judge for them.

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And this judge is off Neal.

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This is the son-in-law of Caleb.

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So oth Neil is going to be raised

up to deliver the people and God

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is going to, Yahweh is going to use

him to do just that, to rescue the

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people outta the hand of captivity.

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But one.

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Thing to note here as you read through

is the time markers, because we can

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read through the book of judges and

it just seems like, okay, we're gonna

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get through the book of judges in

like a week, week and a half here

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in the daily Bible reading, and then

we're gonna be done and move on.

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There's a lot of time going on

here, so eight years of captivity.

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But notice in verse 11, there's 40

years of rest under oth Neil's reign.

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But then right away we get

back to another failure with

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a hood, the left-handed judge.

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The people do evil.

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God delivers them over they're gonna

be enslaved for 18 years this time.

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Then the people are gonna cry out again.

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Mercy, God's gonna deliver

through ah, hood here.

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You've got Shamgar he's gonna

raise up, and then we can get into

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to Deborah in just a second, but

how about chapter three, pastor

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Out, anything else on, on there?

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No, I guess chapter three, the only

thing I would say is that it's interesting

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that even though the period of the

judges is largely because of Israel's

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failure, God still utilizes their

failure to accomplish his good purposes.

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That's verse two.

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It's exactly what you

were ta talking about.

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He'd left them to test Israel and

order that they would learn war.

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So there's multiple things happening here.

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You'll notice the two wills,

the will of Israel was to sin

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against the Lord and to be.

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Rebellious against his command, but the

will of the Lord was to do good to them.

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Both of those things are true.

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At the same time, they committed evil.

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The Lord committed good.

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And even though this is not a

good time in Israel's history, the

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Lord's will is still being affected

even though they're sinning.

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Yeah.

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Well, judges chapter four, by

the way, a ehud is just, it's

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always one of the stories that.

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Especially young boys, young men,

really like the story of Ehud.

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So you can read that with

your family if you'd like to,

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which maybe not at dinnertime.

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Judges four.

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We've got another situation where,

once again, the people do evil in the

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side of Yahweh and eventually this

just becomes non surprising to us.

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It's like, okay, yeah

they're gonna do evil here.

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They're gonna be enslaved to the

King of Canaan for 20 years, and then

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we're gonna have a unique judge arise.

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And this is Debra.

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So Deborah, it's described here in

verse four for us as a prophetess,

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the wife of this man Lapidoth

was judging Israel at the time.

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Now there's questions.

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Why is Deborah in this role?

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And there's a lot of

speculation about that.

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People look at some of the other men that

show up here in this account and it seems

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that there were quite a lot of weak men

that were in, in the surrounding areas.

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And so perhaps people suggest that

Deborah led because there weren't any men

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that were willing to step up and lead.

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And so God used Deborah in that unique

role to lead the nation of Israel.

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Either way.

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Some will argue from Deborah that this

is evidence of the fact that we should

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be okay to have women lead in the church.

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Women should have roles of

leadership in the church.

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One caution I would give to that, besides

the fact that we don't know exactly the

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context that led to Deborah being a judge,

is that this is not the church and Deborah

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is not serving as a pastor, and there are

New Testament commands that do explicitly.

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Prohibit that as far as women serving in

ministry that we need to be careful about

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and make sure that we're not usurping

by appealing back to this Old Testament

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covenant situation with Debra as a

prophetess and as a judge and saying,

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well, she was a prophetess and a judge,

so then we should have women pastors.

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I don't think those two things are equal,

and that's all I wanna say about that.

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I don't wanna make this whole

point about whether or not should

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have been in the role she is.

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God used her and used

her in a powerful way.

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And he also used another

woman in this account in jail.

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Jail is going to be the one that's

going to kill cera because why?

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Well, because one of the other men during

this time in Barrick was not willing to

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go to battle unless Debra went with him.

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Again, Barrick has weak leadership here,

and so God is going to deliver Cice a

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into the hands of jail, and that's how he

delivers Israel as well at the same time.

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In Judges chapter five,

we get another song.

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We've seen quite a few songs

so far in our Old Testament

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reading, and this is another one.

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And this is going to be a song that's

going to sing the praises of of Deborah

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and jail and the praises of God's

deliverance of the nation of Israel from

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the oppression that they were facing.

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The victory over the Canaanites is

described there in verses 19 through 22.

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There's also e.

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Even some curses thrown in here.

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They curse arose, for example,

in verse 23 for not joining

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in the battle and not helping.

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Verses 24 through 27, you get

the blessings on jail for the ex

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execution of cice A and then in

verses 28 through 30, interestingly

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enough, the morning of CSRA's

family is included in there as well.

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So, Israel is celebrating

again, why the songs?

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Because the songs were memorable.

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And so this was a mnemonic device, I

think, to cause the people to remember

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this event so that they would remember

how God delivers in the future.

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Interesting to note here

that in this chapter what is

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missing is Judah and Simeon.

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I don't know why, I guess

they didn't show up.

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That's my best guess.

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They weren't part of this whole ordeal,

but Judah and Simeon are not mentioned.

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If you're following me and you're tracking

the 12 tribes, they're not listed there.

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And not my best yet appear

to the judges again.

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And things aren't going right.

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This is not the way

things are supposed to be.

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Ideally, they're all working together.

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In fact, this is gonna be a

problem later on because they're

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gonna say, who didn't show up?

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Okay, you didn't show up.

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We're gonna, we're gonna get you for that.

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Because there are certain things

that they were to do together.

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And I do think one of the ways that

people look at the peer to the judges

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is to think of it as regional cycles, as

in the different people are experiencing

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suffering at different periods of time.

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Versus a universal kind of judger judging.

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Yeah.

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Which by the way, do, I don't

know if we've defined judge yet.

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But my point is I think

there might be a blend here.

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I think what might be happening is

that there's both regional judges that

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are arising and there's also national

judges, judges who are overseeing

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the whole of Israel, and some judges

who are just seeing a part of Israel.

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That's my best read, and I can explain

that to you later, but a judge is not

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what you typically think of as a judge.

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We're not talking about the Supreme

Court or the local appellate.

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We're just talking about

someone who leads Israel.

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In an executive capacity, who has the

ability to make plans on their behalf.

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Now notice, remember Joshua died.

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So he is not on the scene.

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No sec.

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Centralized leadership judges are

temporary, centralized leaders.

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They're not monarchs,

they're not kings or queens.

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They're temporary rulers who

lead the people of Israel or a

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portion of the people of Israel

until the next leader arises.

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Well, let's flip over to our New Testament

reading as we're gonna finish up.

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Luke chapter seven.

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In our reading today Luke chapter seven.

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Opens with Jesus visiting one of

the Pharisees who actually asked

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Jesus to come and eat with him.

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So sometimes it's helpful for us to

remember it wasn't always contentious

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between Jesus and the Pharisees.

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Here you have one of the Pharisees

actually opening up his home and

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inviting Jesus to come and dine with him.

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And yet at this dinner,

it appears that it was.

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Somewhat open because this woman is able

to gain access to the room there where

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they are, and she begins to wet the

feet of Jesus with her tears and wipe

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them with the hair of her head and kiss

his feet and anoint them with ointment.

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Now there's gonna be another

anointing that happens later

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towards the end of Jesus' life.

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We've talked about that, where

the expensive vial of perfume was.

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Poured out on Jesus' head.

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This is not one in the same.

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This is different.

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And the Pharisee is there, and

the Pharisee sees this happening.

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And the Pharisee, it says there, said

to himself, notice that in verse 39,

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said to himself, if this man were a

prophet, he would've known who and

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what sort of woman this is, and who

is touching him for she is a sinner.

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Now, it's likely that that was

a euphemism for a woman of ill

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repute an immoral woman who.

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Parents, you can catch the drift on that.

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And so Jesus, in response there and again,

this is significant, Jesus said to Simon,

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Simon, I have something to say to you.

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And he said go on teacher.

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And at this point, he doesn't realize

that Jesus is about to call him out, but

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Jesus then gives a story, a parable here.

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And he tells him a story, a brief

one, about a money lender who lent

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money out and he forgave the debt

of two of the people that owed him.

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One was massively significant

and the other one not so much.

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And he says to him,

who will love him more?

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And the Pharisee answers correctly,

the one who has forgiven much.

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And Jesus said, you're right that the

one who has forgiven much loves much.

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And then he calls him out.

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He says, I walked into your house,

you didn't do any of things.

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The things that you should have

done for me as a guest in your home.

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And yet this woman, she came in

and not only did she do these

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things to me, but she anoints it.

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She wet my feet, she washed my feet

with her tears and wiped 'em with her

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hair, not a towel and a wash basin.

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And she kissed my feet on top of that.

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Therefore, I tell you, her sins,

which are many, are forgiven for.

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She loved much, but he was forgiven.

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Little loves little so.

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This goes back to our conversation from

a couple of days ago, I think too on

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or yesterday on forgiveness of sins.

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It's not the fact that she loves that's

earning or meriting her sins being

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forgiven, but it's evidencing the fact

that her sins had been forgiven by

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Christ and her gra gratitude and in.

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Thankfulness for that.

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Right?

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I like the way that he

puts that in verse 47.

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Her sins, which are many, he acknowledges

that her sins are in fact great.

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This is not like, Hey, it doesn't matter.

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We've all stumbled in a lot of ways.

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Your sin is the same as my sin.

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It's not like that.

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He acknowledges and he notices her

sins are many, and yet he doesn't

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pull punches with the acknowledgement

of sin or the forgiveness.

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He says her sins are many.

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They're forgiven.

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That's incredible.

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All the sins that she

committed, they're forgiven.

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And the reason why he knows this,

and sometimes we don't know why.

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Jesus knows what he knows.

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It could just be his accessing

his deity in some way.

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But here he tells us what, why.

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He knows what he knows for she loved much.

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Her love for Christ was all the

evidence Jesus needed to declare.

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She's forgiven and I think it's

gonna be the case for all of us.

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If you think of yourself as a

great sinner, you will think

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of Christ as a great savior.

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There's no exception to the rule.

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If you think of yourself as a

little sinner, you will think

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of Christ as a little savior.

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There's no exception to the rule.

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I will die on that hill.

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Our love for Christ is one

of the best evidences of our

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genuine salvation from Christ.

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If there is a real transformation

in the way that you feel about

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Jesus, that's going to be shown

and that will demonstrate the fact

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that your sins have been forgiven.

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And one of the best evidence, in

fact, I heard RC Sproul say this.

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I, well, I don't know.

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He probably said it, and

now I think about this.

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It could have been somebody else,

but something to the effect of.

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When someone was, it was sprawl.

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I'm thinking about it.

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It was sprawl.

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Someone asked him, how do I know

that I'm a genuine Christian?

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And he said, do you love Jesus?

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Tell me about what you feel about Jesus.

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And he said, well, you know,

he offered the Christian answer

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and sprawl gave him affirmation.

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He said, man you can't love

Christ apart from his salvation.

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It's just not gonna happen.

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And so he was trying to encourage

the young man because your love

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is there and it's real, and

it's for the biblical Christ.

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That's a great.

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Comforting and assuring state of heart.

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And I think that's the point for me.

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She's got great sins, great love little

sins, little love, regardless, wherever

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you find yourself from the spectrum.

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If you have a love for Christ because

of the sins that he saved you from,

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man, that's a good place to be.

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That's the only place

I wanna be, honestly.

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He says there at the end in

verse 50, he says, go in peace.

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You.

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Your faith has saved you.

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And it is the word soso there.

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It's the word that we use for salvation.

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And he's affirming that with her

and that's why one of the reasons

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is that we think that this was

likely one of the women that.

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He's gonna talk about, we'll get there

in tomorrow's episode that were some

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of the women the notable women though

the women accompanying Jesus that

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supported him during his ministry.

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And so it's possible that this was even

Mary Magdalene, although we don't know for

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sure because she's not given the name here

in the text, but your faith has saved you.

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I believe that she then became one

of the band of his followers here.

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And it certainly would seem that way

given what you were just talking about,

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how much she expresses her devotion,

her love for him in this act here.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, help us to love you that much.

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Again, as Pastor Rod was just saying, yes,

to be mindful of our sin, to be mindful

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of how much we've been forgiven so that

we will love you in response to that Lord.

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Not to merit it, not to earn it, not

to justify it, but simply to respond

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to it because of the overwhelming

nature of our depravity and your

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kindness, your grace, your mercy to us.

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So again, we pray that you would

make us more like Jesus with each

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and every passing day as we seek

to love Him with all that we are.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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