00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:18 Question of the Day: The Humanity and Divinity of Christ

01:26 Discussion: Jesus' Miracles and Divine Nature

02:40 Practical Implications for Believers

05:53 Upcoming Events and Announcements

07:18 Bible Reading: The Death of John the Baptist

09:24 Bible Reading: Feeding the 5,000

11:57 Bible Reading: Jesus Walks on Water

17:52 Bible Reading: Jesus' Rejection in Nazareth

20:37 Bible Reading: Peter's Confession and the Transfiguration

24:38 Conclusion and Prayer

25:00 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, it is Friday and we are

excited to be back with you.

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We've got a question for

today and one tomorrow.

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And so if we haven't gotten

to your question yet hopefully

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we'll answer it tomorrow.

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There are just so many coming

in, it's hard to stay on top.

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So let's start with the first one.

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Let's start with the first one.

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Does that make sense?

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Yes.

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Should we start with the second one?

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Let's start with the first one.

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Let's start with the first one.

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Okay, so some ramp up to this.

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There's a great book by Bruce

Ware called The Man, Christ Jesus.

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In fact, if you haven't read that

book, highly committed to you.

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It's a great one.

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Really Anything by Bruce

Ware, you're gonna appreciate.

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I really enjoy his writing.

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He's a great preacher.

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In fact, one of my favorite preachers

that we ever had at Compass Bible

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Church in Eliseo Viejo really liked him.

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Anyway he wrote this book, the Man, Christ

Jesus makes a case for the humanity of

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Christ and what implications that has.

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So here's the follow up.

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When we see Christ perceiving the

thoughts of man, especially in his

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encounters with the Pharisees, do

you suppose that to be like Christ

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tapping into his divine nature.

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Hold on.

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Make sure I read that right.

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Do you suppose that to be like

Christ tapping into his divine nature

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or insight from the Holy Spirit?

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Okay.

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Is it him tapping into the spirit,

leaning on the work of the spirit?

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Or is he utilizing his divinity?

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That's the question at the heart

of it, because if it is him doing

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that, then is it possible that we

can tap into the heart of people

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by the power of the spirit as well?

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Or is it something that

Christ alone can pull off?

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So there's the question in a nutshell.

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Go for it definitively.

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Answer that for us, please.

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Definitively.

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I would say I.

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I've always looked at it as him revealing

some of his deity in those moments.

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For example, when he heals the man

being lowered down through the ceiling

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and he looks at the man and says,

your son, your sins are forgiven.

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And there's Pharisees and there's rulers

that are talking amongst themselves or

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grumbling amongst themselves, and Jesus

answers their grumbling, and we can

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only assume that they were talking in

hushed tones and away from him such that.

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He wouldn't be able to hear them.

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There's other times where

he perceives thoughts.

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I believe when he is in Simon's house

and Simon was thinking to himself

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the Pharisee, if this man only knew

what type of woman this was that

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was washing his feet, he would be

appalled at what she was doing.

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And again, Jesus answers his thoughts.

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And there's other times it

says, knowing their thoughts.

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I believe that's some of Jesus.

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Omniscience on display and there's other

times where I think we see some of that.

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Where's argument that he depends

upon the Holy Spirit for the things

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that he does in his earthly ministry.

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I think by and large is, is helpful.

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But I do also think there are times

where Jesus pulls back the curtain and

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reveals his full deity in who he is.

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And even in the Mera miraculous, I think

there are some things wherein Jesus is

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revealing his full deity and who he is.

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And yeah, I wouldn't go so far as depress

this to say that this in indicates

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that we should be able to perceive the

thoughts or know the thoughts of others.

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Now, can God give somebody

the gift of discern?

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And they, through engaging with someone

in conversation, can discern what may

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be really going on in someone's heart

or in someone's mind and draw that

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out in biblical counseling, like a

brings up here or other situations.

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Yeah I think there are certainly

instances where that would be the case,

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but I would differentiate that from what

Jesus does when he's able to know the

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thoughts that are entering or crossing

somebody's mind and respond directly

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to those thoughts in that moment.

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Yeah, I think I'd be inclined to agree.

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Absolutely.

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We want to affirm Jesus' humanity.

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And I know that's why Bruce, Dr.

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Ware, I should call him.

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I don't call him Bruce.

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B Dub.

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B Dub wrote the book is

because he's trying to.

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Add appropriate significance.

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Not that you're adding anything,

but highlight the significance of

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Christ's humanity and how much of

what he did in his earthly ministry

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was independence upon the spirit.

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We would never deny that, and he's

right to suggest that we don't

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give enough attention to that.

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By and large, we mostly focus

on the divinity of Christ.

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Not that that's bad either but

where's point is well taken.

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What that means for us then is that

we can, by the power of the spirit,

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do a lot of what Jesus does, and this

is why he calls us to do those things.

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Still things that he does by the power of

the spirit that we don't have access to.

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I can't definitively know your heart.

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I do think of the proverb,

I think it's chapter 18.

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The heart of a man is like deep water

and a wise man will draw it out.

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Something like that.

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I think there are times when you

can say, I think I have a sense

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of what your heart is doing here.

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And you'd be pretty accurate about that.

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However, with that said, I'd

still add an asterisk in that you

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really only scratch the surface

of people's minds and emotions.

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Only God knows the full

extent of our hearts.

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And I'm not saying that you can't know it

truly, even if you can't know it fully.

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But that there's still a sense in which

Jesus operates not only by the power

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of the Spirit yes, but by his divinity.

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The role that he has as

a son of God was never.

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Oh man.

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I'm thinking back to Bruce's BWS book.

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I'm thinking back to his book and how good

he, how good, great a case he made for

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the operation of Jesus by the power of the

Spirit in most of his earthly ministry.

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But I don't think he would

say exclusively, and that

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would be my position too.

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Yeah I think for sure we can argue that.

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The dependence upon the spirit is

evident in the life of righteousness

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and obedience that Christ lived,

that his obedience to the Father and

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obedience to the father's will was the

demonstration of what it looks like to

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be fully submitted to the Spirit's lead

in the spirit's guidance in our lives.

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That I think a hundred percent.

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I think when we get into the realm of

miraculous I think it's a little bit less

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clear whether or not the implication is

we should be able to do these things as

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well if we depend upon the spirit enough.

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I think the evidence of

we should be able to.

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Live a life of righteousness if we depend

upon the spirit is translatable for sure.

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But walking on water, I don't

know how many times I tried that

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growing up, just running as fast

as I can off the edge of the pool.

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Even as a believer, even as a

believer with the spirit dwelling

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within me, I still can't do that.

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Right.

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You can.

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So I think there's things that

Jesus does that the point is not.

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Is not necessarily, Hey, if you rely

on the spirit enough, you can do this.

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I think it's more of Jesus is

truly man, but he's also truly God.

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And here's an example of the fact that

this is his true godness peeking out

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from behind the veil of his humanity.

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I heard water walking was

a second blessing that only

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true Christians can do that.

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Well, then I don't have it.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Yikes.

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Cringe.

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Yeah, so good question.

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Appreciate the question.

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We've got another one coming in,

tomorrow's episode, but for right now.

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We do have quite a bit of Bible to

cover in our daily Bible reading,

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so we should jump over to that.

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But before I get there let me just give a

plug and remind you that men listening to

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this tomorrow morning, we hope that you're

gonna join us for men's Bible study.

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And so if you're not yet registered

for that, jump online, get registered

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for that so that you can be there.

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Pastor i's gonna be preaching and he's

gonna be preaching on the life of.

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Joseph Joseph.

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Well, one aspect of Joseph's life.

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Yeah.

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Well, we're not looking

at the whole thing.

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Fair.

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But it is.

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It is gonna be a sermon

that is urgently needed.

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Yeah.

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I would love for you to be there because

it's such an important discussion that we

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have to have, and it's best in a certain

context, and that's the right context.

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Please show up.

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And just to tease to

throw a tease out there.

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You're not gonna wanna

miss his second point.

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I'm just gonna leave it at that.

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You're not gonna wanna miss his second

point, so make sure that they're there.

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I like for one, two, and three.

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Well, I'm sure they're all good.

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All but there's one.

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All of them are necessary.

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One facet of point number two.

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I think they're all good.

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No, and honestly and I'm excited to

be there and listen to it, but I think

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there's gonna be some good overlap and I

think it'll compliment in a good way what

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we're gonna talk about on Sunday as well,

on abstaining from our flesh of last the.

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Fleshy passions which

wage war against our soul.

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That's a great, that's a great

companion to the main event for sure.

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And this is the closest

I'll ever get to cussing.

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Hey, in the second point.

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Yikes.

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So be there that, if that's not enough

of a hook for you, I don't know what

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there is or a reason not to come.

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No, I don't wanna be around.

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I'll be there.

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And that's Grace Church in Fris game.

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So join us Saturday morning.

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Alright, Matthew 14.

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We have not just Matthew 14,

but also Mark six and Luke nine.

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Matthew 14.

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We get the death of John the Baptist.

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And this would've this would've sh

shaken Jesus and did shake Jesus

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even as we're gonna see in the text.

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'cause Jesus and John Jesus

had a lot of respect for John.

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And they were family as well.

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But the thing that struck me this

time is just John was bold and

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he was not afraid to stand up for

what is rights and what's true.

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And we see that in what lands him in jail.

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And that is the fact that

he was telling Herod, Hey.

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You, the relationship that you

have is an immoral, it's an

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ungodly, it's a wrong relationship,

and you need to break it off.

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This is not right.

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This is not okay.

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And so in order to silence

him, harod put him in jail.

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As we learn in this text here, he

was afraid to put him to death.

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And in fact it's fascinating because

Harod even liked to hear from John.

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He liked to hear more from

what John was talking about.

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And so he was entertained by it

at the least, if not slightly

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convicted by what John had to say.

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And yet he makes this promise to this.

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This woman that he's in this

relationship with who uses her

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daughter to say, Hey, I want John's

head on a platter for my birthday.

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Herod has made this oath in front of

his guest and can't go back on it.

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And so he has to follow through, and

that's how John the Baptist ends up

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dead, which just is, I know it's part

of God's sovereign plan and yet it's

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just a tragedy that something so dumb.

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As this foolish and rash oath that he

made in this immoral and godless woman as

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he's immoral and godless himself as well.

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But this woman says, well, I want

John's head on the platter because

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she was upset that John called out the

relationship rightly so that she was in

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as wrong and ungodly and immoral and.

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And something that needed to be ended.

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So it's, it is a, it's a grave thing.

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It's a tragic thing to read about

the death of John the Baptist.

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And yet this is going to be something

that is, is going to put Jesus

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even further into the spotlight as

far as, okay, now he is the voice.

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John was there to be the

forerunner and he did that.

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And now his voice has

officially been silenced.

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It was silenced in part

when he was arrested.

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Now it's fully silenced and Jesus'

voice is carrying on and Jesus is

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stepping fully into the ministry that

John was pointing people towards.

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So John didn't fail, he succeeded.

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But it's tragic how his life ends.

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After this in in Matthew's gospel,

Jesus and his disciples withdraw

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and it says they went to a desolate

place by himself there to pray.

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We can assume and we can con conclude

but even just, I think to mourn

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John's passing here, and yet in the

midst of this, all of the crowds

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show up because Jesus is famous.

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And that's something that, again, we

notice over and over in the gospel,

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the crowds wanna be around Jesus.

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They flock to him.

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And it turns out that

there are about 5,000.

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People there and they get

hungry late in the day.

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Now, a lot of times we only focus on

the miracle, but I think it's worth

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noting that what Jesus was doing for the

majority of the day was teaching them.

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And so we don't know what

he was teaching them.

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We know some of his other teaching that

we find on the sermon on the plane, the

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Sermon on the Mount, the olive discourse.

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And so it's probably

similar things to that.

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But he's teaching them for the majority

of the day, and that's what leads to the

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disciples to say, Hey, Jesus, you know,

this has been a long day of teaching.

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Why don't you send them

away to get some food?

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And Jesus, in a test of faith for

his disciples, said, well, why don't

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you give them something to eat?

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And they say, well, we don't.

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Have enough food, we couldn't have

enough a man's full salary wouldn't

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be enough to buy food for everybody.

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Jesus says, well, what do you have?

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And they find the five loaves and the two

fish, and he takes that and multiplies it

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in a miraculous way and feeds the masses

such that everyone eats and is satisfied.

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And there's 5,000 people, 5,000 men that

are there, but probably much closer to

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a number of 15 to 20,000 people in total

that are fed by this miracle that Jesus

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works here with the mountain crowd that

had gathered in Matthew's Gospel, the.

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Focal point here is that in verse

13, it's after Jesus hears about

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John the Baptist being beheaded.

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That's the context here.

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You're gonna see in a different

gospel that there's a slightly

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different angle that's highlighted,

which I think is complimentary

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and not necessarily contrary.

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It's complimentary, not contrary.

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Verse 13 says that he's.

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In part as you said previously, PPJ,

that he's doing this because he's

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mourning the loss of his cousin.

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He's mourning the loss of a godly man.

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He's mourning the loss of somebody

that meant something to him.

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And yet, despite that, notice here his

verse 14, compassion on these crowds

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provoked him to do something, even though.

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He's got urgent needs to deal with.

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He's got his own heart

to, to wrestle with.

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He wants to pray.

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He wants to be with the Lord.

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He wants to be with his disciples, and yet

he still finds time to be with the crowd.

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Why?

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Because he has compassion.

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His love for them provoked him to put his

own needs aside, at least for that moment.

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And.

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Order to serve the very real and

practical needs of the people.

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So many times we're put in a very

similar situation where there's

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lots of things to attend to.

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There's things that our own hearts need.

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And I'm not saying that

we should do this always.

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We should definitely make time

for ourselves when it comes to

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resting and praying and grieving.

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But there are times, as you see here

in the life of Jesus where even our

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needs real though they may be, are

best put aside to serve the needs,

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the more urgent needs of others.

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Yeah, right after this, we talked

about walking on water earlier.

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We see Jesus doing that here in the

rest of Matthew, chapter 14, where

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he sends his disciples into a boat

and sends them out to the other

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side while he dismissed the crowds.

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And notice it says, after the,

he dismissed the crowds, he

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went up on the mountain to pray.

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And again, just you've pointed out

a couple times and we see it again

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here, just his dependence upon that

communion with him and the father.

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And you can imagine if he still

is in this time of grief, after.

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The death of John the Baptist, that that,

that may have still been on his mind,

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on his heart at this point in time as

he's commuting with the father there.

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We don't know for sure 'cause we're

not privy to what he was praying about.

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But as the evening comes, he

goes to meet the disciples and he

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doesn't take a boat from the shore

to go out and meet the disciples.

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Instead, he walks on the

water and comes to meet them.

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And the disciples see this

figure walking on water, which.

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Again is not a very common event.

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And they immediately are overcome by fear.

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And Jesus moves to comfort their

fear because of his compassion.

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And he does so by revealing who it is.

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He says, do not fear but take heart.

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It is I.

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And he's calling them to

understand who he is at that point.

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That is Jesus.

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Here Peter wants more, so he

says, Lord, if it's really you.

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Let me come out to you.

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Let me come and walk on water to you.

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And so it's the famous scene where Peter

gets outta the boat and he begins to go

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towards Jesus and move towards Jesus.

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And yet the waves become too much

and he takes his eyes off Jesus.

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And he begins to sink.

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Jesus saves him and he gets into

the boat and they they make the

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rest of their journey at that point.

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But this is somewhat representative

of the arc of Peter's actual faith.

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Story as a whole.

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He's bold so much, and yet he, when it's,

it matters most will end up at least.

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Leading up to the cross, abandoning

Jesus, failing Jesus, denying Christ

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only to then be restored by him and

go on to be useful to him in his life.

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So, we see a little microcosm of

Peter's life here in the story.

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I just wanna point out verse 23, Jesus

doesn't postpone his grief indefinitely.

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I just want you to see Jesus does make

time to be alone and to pray about

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the loss of his, of John the Baptist.

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And so Jesus postpones it.

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He still serves people, he

makes time for his own soul.

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And that's appropriate and right and good.

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But he does do that.

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And also Peter here in verse

30 Peter sank when he saw the

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wind and stop seeing the savior.

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And I just want you to see that often our

troubles become far more troublesome when

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we're not looking at the right thing.

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If we're looking at our

troubles, we're gonna sink.

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If we're looking at our

savior, we're gonna do okay.

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So is it right to look at that or

when Jesus calms the storms and alize

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things to be like, okay, Jesus is gonna

calm the storm in my life and when I'm

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going through a trial, I need to keep

my eyes on Jesus and not let my eyes go

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to the trial because when my eyes go to

the trial, that's when I start to sink.

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Mm-hmm.

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What's the danger in over allegorizing

something rather than reading it at its

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face value and saying, this is what it's.

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, do you wanna tackle that?

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I'm not trying to push back.

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I'm just like, are there some

parameters that we can give

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to say, Hey, this is where.

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There's appropriate allegory in

application to be drawn from that.

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Yeah.

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Versus times when we might go too far.

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'cause we would both say,

like when somebody says,

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well, David and Goliath Yeah.

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And I'm David and the Giants in my life,

God's gonna slay the giants in my life.

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And we would say, okay that's a

wrong interpretation of that passage.

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Right.

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That, that David is Jesus.

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David is a type of Christ in that.

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And the giant Goliath is death and sin.

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Like we can allegorize

to that extent, but.

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How do I do it on my own when I'm

reading through my, through the

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scriptures to make sure that I'm

not pressing something too far?

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I've got two Cs for you and then you

can add whatever you want to this.

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I'm sure that you'll

have a lot more to say.

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Canon and community.

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Two Cs, Canon community, Canon A when

you're interpreting things like that, I

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just off the cuff, threw that out there.

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'cause I know that's a really

helpful application point for

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me and I'm sure it's helpful for

some of you out there as well now.

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But I have a decent grasp of the

canon and what I mean by that is the

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whole of scripture it's dangerous

to interpret just one verse in

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isolation to the rest of the Bible.

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And you never wanna do that.

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Whenever you're studying the Bible,

it's always context, context, context.

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And so it's the same principle here.

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If you can say, okay, what is

the context of this passage?

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What is the context of Matthew?

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What is the context of the New Testament?

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What is the context of the whole Bible?

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If you can say all of the boxes,

check, I'm not violating any

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principle of scripture in asserting

this particular application point,

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then you're on good grounds.

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Secondly, community.

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It's not just enough to

have the cannon by yourself.

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Lots of people go astray.

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Even if they have a really seemingly

good grasp of scripture, they could

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still have some really interesting

and unorthodox ideas because they're

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not doing theology in community.

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So you need the canon

and you need community.

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You need other people that are wiser

than you, that have been walking with

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the Lord longer than you to help check

you and say, yeah, that's good, or no,

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that's dangerous for these reasons.

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So I would say at least two Cs,

there's probably more, but canon and

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community, what else would you say?

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Yeah, I, I think just.

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Consistency.

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Which do another seat fits in?

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I've got one more seat too.

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Oh.

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Which fits in with the canon thing.

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But if I'm gonna interpret, for

example, the coming of the storm,

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if I'm gonna say, Jesus always

calms the storm in my life, is that

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consistently true across the board?

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And the answer to that is, is no.

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Sometimes he doesn't calm the storm.

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Sometimes he allows us to find calm

and peace in the midst of trials,

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but it doesn't mean that the waters

and the stormy waters of my life are

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immediately gonna become plad and so

that would be something that'd be like,

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okay, well then maybe there's something

else at work there in this text.

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Because I don't know that I could

say that's an always true situation.

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I think most people say calm

calms the storms in your heart.

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In your heart, yeah.

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Not necessarily the storm of the events.

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I've heard it both ways, but.

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With this one, walking on water

and taking your eyes off Christ.

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I think there is a consistent

principle there that it's never a

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good idea to take our eyes off Christ.

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Right?

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And so I think that that

allows that interpretation.

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That makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Anytime I, I shift my gaze from him and

I start to focus on the circumstances

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of my life, it's gonna cause my

faith to, to waiver or to, to down

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Final C would just be commentaries.

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If you're diving into it.

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And you find an interpretation that

you're making that none of your

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trusted commentaries are making

that's dangerous ground to, to be

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in, that you probably wanna go.

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Okay.

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Maybe I'm mis misunderstanding this

one, which is part of the community

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side of things too, because we,

our community expands to the books.

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Books on our bookshelf too.

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That's right.

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And you should have good community.

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Yes.

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Alright, well Mark chapter six, we're

gonna back up here before we get back

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into the death of John, the baptism and

some other things that we just read about.

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And Jesus is rejected in

Nazareth, which we've seen before.

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But what stuck out to me this time

was that Jesus, it says there was

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marveling because the unbelief

of the people there, which is.

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Is intriguing.

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The fact that God and we talked

about this at the very beginning,

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truly God truly, truly man, that

Jesus could marvel over anything.

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And here he's marveling at their

unbelief and I think this is his

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humanity that we see coming through here.

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The kenosis side of things that, that.

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Is showing up here because God knew

and had or even ordained their unbelief

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and ordained the unbelief of those

that are gonna turn Jesus over for

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crucifixion and the soldiers that

are gonna nail him to the cross.

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So this is not news to him, but

I think in Jesus' humanity, he

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is, he's marveling here at this

and not marveling in a good way.

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He's marveling at people's faith

in other situations here, he's

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shocked at their rejection of him.

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As we go from here we get back into

some ground that we just covered.

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For example, we get into the sending

of the 12, which we didn't cover

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here, but we have covered so far.

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He calls them and sends them out

into the world to go and be his

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witnesses to be on mission for him.

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You've got John the Baptist's

death here recorded in Mark.

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And what's fascinating too is there's

more detail given by Mark than

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there is given by Matthew, which.

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Isn't always the case.

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Usually Mark is the more concise one.

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But here we get more detail than

we find in Matthew's account.

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There of John's death after John's

death, you have the feeding of the 5,000.

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You've got the walking on water, which

this time mark records that Jesus

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meant to pass them by when he's walking

on water, which is again fascinating

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because Matthew doesn't record that,

but it's why would he wanna pass 'em by?

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And I think it's the same reason why he

told, tells them when they're feeding the

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5,000, you give them something to eat.

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I think this is a test of faith moment.

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Do the disciples have the faith to

understand who he is and to trust

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him as he's going on his way, or are

they gonna reveal some of their still

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developing faith . In Mark chapter

six, the hardness of their hearts.

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This isn't a permanent hardness, but

this is a softening hardness that

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they're not quite all the way there yet.

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And so Jesus is leading them to

conclude who he is, and that part

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of that is this inner counter with

him as he's walking on the water.

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That's really helpful.

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Verse 30, can I just

point out to you here?

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The apostles returned to Jesus and told

them all that they had done and taught.

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So in this particular account of

the 5,000 being fed Jesus says

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in verse 31, Hey, let's go to a

desolate place and rest a while.

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So in the previous text, we saw

that it was in response to John

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the Baptist being beheaded.

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Here you have it in response

to their need for a break.

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And again, I'm gonna tell you,

they're complimentary and not contrary

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complimentary in that, of course, you're

gonna need a break, you're gonna need

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some time to, to decompress and to

understand what's happened when you're

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grieving the loss of a loved one.

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So you have two accounts of the same

same situation, but they both focus on

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slightly different angles of the event.

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Here in Mark, we see that the reason why,

at least the one that he states as being

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the primary reason is their need for rest.

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Luke chapter nine.

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We see here again the

sending outta the 12.

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We see John the Baptist death.

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Though John the Baptist death is given

hardly any notice at all by Luke.

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In fact, it just records it more from

Herod's perspective that Herod had

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heard about Jesus and was so fascinated

by Jesus and teaching and the crowds

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that he was attracting, that he thought

John the Baptist had been risen.

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Risen from the dead that he had been

resurrected, which just goes to show how

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significant of an impact John had made

in that region, that Herod would hear

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about the things that Jesus is doing

and think to himself, oh, I wonder if

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John somehow came back from the dead.

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You've got, again the feeding of

the 5,000 which is shows up here.

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This, so again, a miracle that you find

across the board, not only in the synoptic

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gospels, but also in John's gospel.

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So Luke nine, Matthew 14,

as we just read, mark six.

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And also in John six, is this event,

the feeding of the 5,000 Peter's.

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Shows up here in Luke nine 18 through 22.

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And so Jesus and his

disciples do get away briefly.

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It says that he took the disciples with

him and was asking them this question.

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And the question he ask is, who

do the people say that I am?

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And they begin to give their

kind of canned answers.

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Well, we've heard this, we've

heard this, we've heard this.

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And Jesus then may more pointedly says,

yeah, but who do you say that I am?

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And this is where Peter makes the great

confession and calls him the Christ of

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God the Messiah of God, the son of God.

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The Christ of God, rather, this is a

statement that Jesus then takes and

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says, in other gospel accounts, Peter,

you're blessed for having this knowledge

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because men did not reveal this to you.

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But my heavenly father

revealed this to you.

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So we'll get into that as we get into

this confession in other texts here, but.

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From here, Jesus goes on to predict

his crucifixion and then speak to the

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cost of discipleship as well, about

taking up their cross and following him.

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And he makes the statement in verse 25,

what does it profit a man if he gains the

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whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

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Some of this is what.

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The disciples then would remember

post-resurrection and begin to

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understand better because the disciples

at this point don't understand.

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In fact, we know because later

on Peter's gonna rebuke Jesus

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for talking about his own death.

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So we read these things and

understand them very plainly because

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we know the rest of the story.

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But for the disciples, a lot of this

was something that they were gonna have

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to reflect on post-resurrection, and

figure out what Jesus meant by that.

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From here we have the transfiguration

which this is the first time we

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come across that where Jesus takes

Peter, James and John up on the

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mountain and he's transfigured.

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He appears in his full glory before

them and they see him talking with

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Moses and Peter doesn't know what else

to say other than, Hey, this is good.

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So he says, can we build some tents?

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And at that moment, he hears

the voice of God the father,

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declaring that Jesus is his son

and that they should listen to him.

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By the way, notice there's

Trinitarian evidence right here.

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You've got the voice from Heaven

saying, this is my beloved son.

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And so a lot of times Christians

by some sex will be charged

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with believing in something.

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The Bible doesn't say.

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The Bible doesn't say the word trinity,

and that's true, but we see evidence

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of the Trinity throughout its pages.

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And here's another example of that.

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You have Jesus the Son, and you have the

voice of the Father declaring that he

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is his son and that he is authoritative.

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After this, Jesus comes down the mountain.

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A demon possessed boy is brought to him.

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He grieves over the faithlessness, which

it appears to be of the disciples who

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weren't able to cast out this demon.

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And he cast out the demon.

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And then later on the disciples

are gonna ask him about this.

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And at least in one of the SNAs,

he says, is because you lacked

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faith to, to make this happen.

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Another story, he says, it is

because you, you didn't, this kind

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can only be driven out by prayer.

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And to your point about being

complimentary, I think those

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two things are complimentary.

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Saying, Lord, this is more than what

we were given authority to, when

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perhaps Jesus sent us out as the 12,

we need more than what we have to

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be able to see this demon come out.

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Either way, Jesus does it,

foretells his death again.

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And then you've got the chapter kind

of wrap up with the arguing over

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the greatest from the disciples.

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Who's gonna be the greatest?

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And Jesus has just said, I'm gonna die.

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And now they're saying, Hey, yeah

but who's gonna be the greatest?

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And Jesus uses an object lesson of a child

to say the one who becomes like, this

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child is gonna be great in the kingdom.

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And then he's gonna be rejected

by Samaritans towards the

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end of the chapter as well.

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A ton in Luke chapter nine.

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There's so much here in Luke nine.

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Yeah.

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Alright, well let's pray and then

we'll be wrapped up with this episode.

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Lord, help us to glean what we

can from your word and to apply

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it to our lives as we do so.

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And so we thank you for the privilege

of being able to read, to understand,

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to have translations that are helpful

for us in that, and we just pray that

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we would take it and live it out.

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We pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep her in your Bibles tuning

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you then.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said