00:00 Introduction and Banter

00:21 Weekend Baptisms Recap

00:48 Discussing the Gospel of Luke

03:49 The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold

09:16 The Annunciation to Mary

10:51 Understanding Mary's Response

11:16 Jesus and John Meet for the First Time

11:39 Mary and Elizabeth Celebrate

11:50 The Significance of Mary's Blessing

12:57 The Birth of John the Baptist

14:27 The Deity of Jesus in John 1

16:21 John the Baptist's Role

19:24 The Calling of the First Disciples

20:38 Preaching and Teaching Philosophy

22:21 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Hey, welcome back to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Y'all.

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Episode.

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Did you?

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I did.

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I caught it picking up

what I'm putting down.

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I think so.

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Yeah, I may want to put

it back down though.

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And what it is.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we had baptisms this past weekend.

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We, um, just full disclosure are

recording this before they happen.

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So.

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Well, yeah, I think they did.

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We trust that everybody who

went under came back up.

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And, uh, he could, that'd be good thing.

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Yup.

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We probably make the news.

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If that didn't happen.

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I would imagine.

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So.

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Which.

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I mean, there's been enough churches

in the news recently for bad reasons.

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I don't think we need

to want to join that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, but, uh, we're here

to talk about the Bible.

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Yeah, we got two massive thick.

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Juicy chapters today.

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And we've had a lot of Googling

in the last two episodes.

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Maybe some would say too much Googling.

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Yes.

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I would say that maybe we should,

maybe we should limit the Google.

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I ended up getting the word just today.

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Just not every day.

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We're not promising forever.

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Not forever.

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Just today.

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Alright.

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Alright.

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Hey.

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Uh, Luke chapter one.

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Uh, Luke chapter one.

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I notice we're not starting

in the new Testament.

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Matthew, why?

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We're not starting in the new Testament.

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Matthew we're starting in Luke.

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Um, because Matthew and Luke both deal

with the birth of Christ, but Luke.

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Jumps into some of the narrative ahead

of what Matthew does, and then we're

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starting a job because John starts.

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Even before that does.

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Uh, John starts all the way

back in the very beginning.

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Genesis chapter one, right?

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Come on John, right?

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Which in our reading the order on your

car, it actually says Luke one, John one,

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which I'm, I'm kind of, if it's kind of

logical, why wouldn't they say John one?

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Luke one?

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Well, you're just being too nitpicky,

but we're going to follow the order.

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Nitpicky.

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So Luke one.

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Uh, Luke 1, 2, 3, 4.

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We get the approach of Luke to,

uh, his gospel in Luke writes

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as a biographer of Jesus and.

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Uh, probably.

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More, um, as a reporter than any of

the others, he was not an eye witness.

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He was not there.

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I witnessed that's a big deal.

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It's a huge deal.

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Yeah.

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And in fact, we don't think Marc

necessarily was either it's possible that

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mark was part of the band of, of the one

who ran away naked, broader disciples.

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Yeah.

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But mark records Peter's account

of what happened, which is pretty

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fascinating to think about.

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But Luke was on the outside loop.

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Didn't come along until later.

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And so as he does, so.

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The disciple of Paul's though.

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So he's outside, but inside with Paul.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Because he traveled with Paul

during his missionary journey,

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which is why we accept his, his.

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His gospel account.

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Yes.

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Because it's either an apostle or

a close confidant of the apostle,

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which is why we'd say, okay,

this is still acceptable to us.

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Yeah.

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Dr.

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Luke.

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Yeah.

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He was a doctor and he opens any he's

writing to a man named Theopolis.

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Now there's question, whether Theopolis

was a historical person or if this

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is a moniker, a title, uh, because

the awfulness means lover of God.

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And so it's, it's possible that

this was a title and nickname given

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to somebody or that somebody was

truly named the office is kind.

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Nicknamed it is a cool nickname.

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Like Barnabas cool names.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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That's a great name too.

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And so he wants to set

out an ordered account.

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And so you're going to notice that in

Luke, almost right away, you're going to

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notice the detail that you see in Luke.

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And so.

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Uh, that's the setup.

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Luke is introducing, he's

saying I'm doing this.

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This is the approach that I have.

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Um, verse four, though,

that you may have certainty.

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It's super important that

you may know for sure.

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And there's questions.

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I take the approach that I

think Luke is a believer when he

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writes this, but there's yeah.

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There's questions.

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Some have suggested that he, that this is.

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Uh, part of the process

of his coming to faith.

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Interesting.

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He's a, proselyte like, he's kind of

like the like Cornelius in that sense.

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He's getting there,

but he's not there yet.

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And through this process,

he does come to faith.

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I think he's already a believer at

this point as he writes, but he's

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writing to say, Hey, look, I want you

to have certainty about these issues.

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Verses five through seven, you get

the setup of what's going to happen.

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And the setup begins.

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Uh, with a pair of righteous

parents who until that time had

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been unable to conceive, and

that is Zechariah and his wife.

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Elizabeth.

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And in verses eight through 17,

this angel and we learned later that

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it's Gabriel shows up to deliver an

announcement to, uh, Zachariah while

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he is in the temple offering insets.

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Now, this was something that was kind

of a once in a lifetime opportunity

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for a Levi to be able to do this.

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Um, he was selected by lot.

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And usually after you were selected, once

you weren't selected ever again, no mass.

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And so this is obviously.

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I got things that he's ordaining

all of this to take place,

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but he goes into the temple.

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He is met by this angel and this

angel says, Hey, uh, Zachariah,

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your wife is going to have a child.

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And it's an amazing statement.

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What do we do with this

pastor, rod, Luke, one 15.

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He's going to be filled with the

holy spirit from the wound daily.

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This is so cool.

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I am floored by this.

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I have to think that this

is an exceptional situation.

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That John the Baptist was a believer

before he was even a believer that he was

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sealed by God for his particular purpose.

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He is the one that

Malakai four talks about.

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He's the 4runner.

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Uh, he's the one in the

spirit and power of Elijah.

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But man, I, this is my theology is tested.

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I think he's exceptional.

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I, that is, I don't think he fits in

a neat category because if he's filled

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with the spirit before he's even born,

it has to mean that he's got some kind

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of special anointing upon his life.

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It would have meant early on in his life.

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From a very early stage.

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She would've been cognizant, man.

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My life belongs to Yahweh.

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I am his servant.

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I'm here to serve something like that.

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I mean, that's, that's my

biggest thing, I think.

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And.

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Furthermore, what does this tell us about

the preborn like, that's a huge debt.

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Too, because now, now you have the

scriptures talking so highly about someone

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who's not even out of the womb yet.

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This is huge.

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This is why we're pro-life.

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I mean one of the applications here,

but what would you do with that?

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Yeah, I would agree with you.

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My note was, man, this is not normative.

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This is not something that, that

we expect for everyone out there.

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Um, can I say with certainty, this has

never happened in, in human history with

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anyone else besides John the Baptist.

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Uh, we don't have it recorded

and it's certainly not normative.

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So I, I would be led to say,

I think John's unique in this.

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What makes John different from Jesus?

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Um, You know, Jesus is

conceived by the holy spirit.

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John has the holy spirit.

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Uh, In dwelling him

from his mother's womb.

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I think that the difference is John is

this does not imply John's sinlessness.

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In fact, we're going to see that, that

John is a frail man, just like, oh, sure.

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At any other human being is this

does not imply that there's anything

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supernatural about John or his.

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His birth, you know, God,

and I think that's miracles.

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Right?

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We talk about miracles.

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Yeah.

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Um, people who struggled who

have the baby, all of a sudden

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they, they have a baby, right.

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And they'll say, this is my miracle, baby.

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Yeah.

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Um, we would.

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We as, as, as believers, separate

miracles out into different categories.

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And if you were with us in

California, they were known as

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um, GT one got thing.

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One is a miracle that

suspends natural law.

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There's no logical

explanation for this, right?

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You don't have a uterus.

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Right.

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And you have a baby, right?

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America would be a miracle.

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Um, yeah, walking on water

that that's a miracle.

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When we see things happen, like a

previously infertile couple, have a baby.

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We understand what they mean when

they say this is my miracle baby.

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And you don't need to be

like, well, actually, yeah.

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My pastor told me.

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Yeah.

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Podcast pastor, but

Providence it's Providence.

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Yeah.

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It's God's work for sure.

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But is it suspension of natural law?

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No, we wouldn't go that far.

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Well, I think what's interesting about

John here is that he, he presents

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something that I think is helpful for the

reform, the reform thinker, because John

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is evidently regenerated before he's born.

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I think that, that that's

what you have here.

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He's so there's something about, I don't

know if he's saved in the technical

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sense, but he certainly regenerated,

which would mean that he will be saved.

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So, if we're going to talk about how

someone becomes right with God, it seems

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like regeneration is going to come first.

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We think that has to

happen because you're dead.

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You have to be alive to

respond to the call of God.

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So regeneration, that is the awakening

of the holy spirit upon your life.

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Or in this case, you're going to

be filled with the holy spirit.

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Um, it has to happen first.

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Jesus is different because

he is born from the spirit.

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He doesn't have an earthly father.

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And so I think Jesus is

in a whole other category.

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Yeah, but that's also true in

some case for John, even though

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his is early way earlier on yeah.

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And there's so much here because the

disciples are going to be filled with the

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holy spirit until the day of Pentecost.

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Right?

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Right.

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I mean, John is so unique and this is one

of the reasons why Jesus says among those

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born of women, there is no greater John.

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Um, the greatest.

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The goat.

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Um, Yeah.

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Anyways, so.

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John's going to be born.

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If we're going to go this fast.

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We're going to need about

45 minutes for this.

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Okay.

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We're just having too much fun.

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We're going to keep going.

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We're going to get faster than,

um, He talks about before him,

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he's going to go before the Lord

in the spirit, the power of Elijah.

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So we just talked about

that in yesterday's episode.

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That the last prophecies from

Malakai are going to be fulfilled.

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And John the Baptist and here

we see in the opening, the

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announcements is Zechariah that

that's, what's going to happen.

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Well, Zechariah, Zechariah response

in doubt he questions, he says.

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He says to him, how am I going to

know that this is going to be true?

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He's looking for a sign.

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He's looking for the fleece,

basically from the Lord.

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I want some evidence.

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I want to guarantee that

this is going to happen.

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So in response, the angel

says you want a guarantee.

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Fine.

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You're not gonna be able to talk anymore.

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So is that right?

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Is rendered mute until you ask for.

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The birth of a son.

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Exactly.

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And so, uh, Versus 21 through 25.

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Uh, Zechariah and his wife conceived.

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She has, uh, John and

developing, growing in her womb.

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And keeps it a secret for five months.

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When the meantime, in the meantime,

verses 26 through 27, we flashed back to

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a different setting in a different setup.

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Uh, during Elizabeth six months of

pregnancy, the same Adrian angel Gabriel

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visits, a young woman from Nazareth,

a Virgin, which by the way, twice in

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these verses is she called a Virgin.

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Named Mary, who was be trolled

to be married to Joseph.

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And I use that word intentionally, not

to sound like the high Kings English.

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But because it wasn't the same thing

as engaged, we could say engaged,

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but in, in it's tragic when it

happens, but I'm sure you've known of

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engagements that have broken off sadly.

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Yeah.

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And when they do, there's no legal

proceedings to break off an engagement.

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Right.

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But in this context to be betrayed to

another person was a legal arrangement.

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They're pre married, right.

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There had to be a public proceeding.

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And that's what leads next.

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When.

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Later on when Joseph finds out about this.

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This is a divorce or to divorce her.

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Right.

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Even though they're not married yet.

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So she's patrolled to be married to

Joseph so that the angel shows up

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verses 20 through 33, announces to Mary.

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You're going to have a son

named Jesus, and he's going to

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be the son of the most high.

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And he's going to sit

on the throne of David.

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Uh, can you imagine her just

trying to comprehend all of this?

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Who's going to reign over Israel and

his kingdom is going to have no end.

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And so there's a lot about

Isaiah seven, 10 through 17,

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that that comes to fruition here.

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A lot of, a lot of the, the messianic

prophecy that that is picked up here,

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the side of a manual God with us.

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Uh, as the Angel's announcing this.

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Mary expresses a question too.

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She doesn't say though, how am

I going to know this is true.

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She simply says, Lord, how can this be?

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Um, and so there's just, she's not given.

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Speech problems, right?

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There's a difference in her question.

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It's not as much she's saying, prove it.

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She's saying, can you help me understand?

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I'm failing to grasp how all this can be.

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And I think that's the difference

there that leads to not her mute.

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Her punishment, her discipline.

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But the fact that, that she's given

an explanation by Gabriel who says the

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holy spirit is going to come upon you.

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And he's going to do this thing.

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Uh, and so he announces also to Mary

at the same time, Elizabeth pregnancy.

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Yeah.

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Next section Jesus and John

meet for the first time.

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And this verses 39 through 45.

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Uh, Mary shows up to Elizabeth home

and John leaps in Elizabeth womb.

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Dave in the presence of his

savior, which is first person

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to acknowledge Jesus as savior.

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I mean the first person to welcome.

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He T knows who he is, right.

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Is the preborn right.

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That'll preach.

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That's why.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, Mary and Elizabeth,

they celebrate together.

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They rejoice together.

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Elizabeth seems to know that

there's, this is significant what

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Mary is going through as well.

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Um, yeah.

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Uh, Luke 1 42.

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Uh, this is important for those

of us who have Catholic family

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members or Catholic friends.

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Uh, you've heard these words before.

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Blessed, are you among women?

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Bless it as the fruit of your womb.

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What do we do with that?

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Um, well, th th.

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Long story short is this, the expression

was not meant to exalt Mary, but to

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magnify the blessing she had enjoyed

as the one who would bear the savior.

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It was not saying Mary is uniquely

favored amongst all people, but man,

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Mary has received amazing blessings here.

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Um, giant JL back in judges,

chapter five, verse 24, she's

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called blessed of women as well.

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And nobody looks at jail and

says, well, we should pray to JL

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because she's blessed of women.

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And so this is not a term to say we

should worship Mary, all that to say.

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But Mary does worship and that's

in verses 46 through 56 Mary song.

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And this is one of humility and

confidence enrich theology that

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she has in here for a young woman.

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She knew the promises of God and

she knew the story of Mary smart.

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As I've been reading through, I've

been realizing me, varies a thinker.

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I like her.

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She has some things to say when we

get to a certain part, but good.

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Okay.

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Well, if I, if I miss it, stop me.

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Oh, no, this is not even in this chapter.

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Oh, okay.

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Eventually, I was like, wait a minute.

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Um, all right.

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So then versus a 57, 360 6.

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I mean, we're leaving so much

on the table, but that's because

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these are huge chapters here.

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Versus at 57 to 66, John is born

and Zechariah the originally, like

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let's say Zachariah, Zachariah

is like, And so they give him a

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tablet and he writes, no, no, no.

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His name is supposed to be John.

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And then Zechariah is able to talk again.

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It's an iPad and yeah, it is.

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It is.

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Cause he wouldn't have used Android.

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There's no way.

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Um, he's able to talk again and that's the

birth of John and when he's able to talk,

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he gives a prophecy and that's verses 67.

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Uh, all the way through 79, that, that

the Lord had sent his delivery and

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fulfillment of his covenant with Abraham.

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He talks about how John is going to be the

forerunner of the Messiah, the wonderful

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Phil Malakai's and Isaiah's prophecies.

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He's going to call the people to

repentance and prepare them to

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receive the knowledge of salvation

provided by the ultimate deliverer.

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Jesus.

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So, uh, Zechariah has just good

words for us to pay attention

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to, as he's talking about John.

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Yeah, I guess one interesting note

is that it came across as I was

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reading through this is that I

noticed for the first time that the

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naming of the child was associated

with the circumcision of the child.

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But the young man.

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So the eight day.

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The eighth day, they, they don't, they

don't receive their names formally until

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the eighth day when they circumcise,

which is a really interesting traditional,

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uh, part of the, that, that the text.

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But it's there.

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So pay attention as you read

through it, to be an interesting

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thought, as you look at, look at it.

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Yeah.

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We're we'll get there when

Jesus is taken to the temple.

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I think in the next few days, right.

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Um, right.

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And that's significant because

Jesus, even as an infant by God

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using Mary and Joseph is allowed

to, to continue to fill, fulfill the

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obedience to the law, through their

obedience, to the law, which is cool.

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All right, John one.

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Um, we're going to jump backwards.

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I'm gonna let you have this one.

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You're preaching through

this on right now.

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It's been a while in a minute.

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It's been over a year now.

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Uh, yeah, John one.

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Uh, in the beginning, right?

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This.

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Don't repeat your sermons, bro.

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No.

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We just want you to talk through.

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No, I w in the beginning,

So he goes all the way back.

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This is the introduction.

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This is meet Jesus.

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Right?

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And he starts earlier.

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He says John was, or Jesus was there

in the beginning, which implies

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he was there before the beginning.

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And that is why he concludes that he was

not only with God, but he also ease God.

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And so these just.

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You guys, if you've been around

the church, if you've read the

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guy, you are familiar with this.

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Uh, this is a clear and important

section for the deity of Jesus.

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One that cults will often attack.

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Um, and we'll say that our translation

is wrong because it should read that

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he was a God, not that he was God.

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And the points of the fact

that there's no article there.

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They'll say, look your Bible.

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See there's no article in

the Greek in, in before God.

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And so he's just saying

the word was a God.

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Uh, the right.

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There's no article there in the Greek.

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And the reason is because if there was,

then this would be heresy from John.

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Uh, he would be arguing this.

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He would be arguing against the, the

Trinitarian understanding of God.

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He would be arguing that Jesus and

the father are exactly the same

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being that there's no distinction

in persons there, which is what

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we would refer to as modalism.

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That God is sometimes the father,

sometimes the son, sometimes the spirits.

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So if John put an article in

to say the word was the God.

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Yeah, I get that.

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The English speakers would

say, okay, we get that.

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It's saying he is God.

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But in the Greek language that

would have been to equate them in

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a way that would have been heresy.

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So that's why there's no article there.

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But there are plenty of other

instances where there's no article

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and yet the exclusivity of the one

being referenced is understood.

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As in most things, the context is

what's typically going to determine

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the way that you understand

or grammatical construction.

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So the Jehovah's witnesses are

wrong on a number of levels, but

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not the least of which being.

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To, to do something different would

have said something different.

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And that wasn't the point.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, verses six through eight,

we're back to John, the Baptist, John,

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the Baptist is here and yet this has

grown up John, the Baptist and his job.

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We found out it's going to

be, to point people to the

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light because you didn't John.

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One, one through five.

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Jesus was referenced as the light as well.

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And that's our common theme.

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We've talked about a lot in

the preaching series on John.

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Uh, but his job was to point people

to the light that they might believe

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through him through the light.

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And remember that's why John the author,

not John the Baptist, but John the author.

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That's why he wrote the gospel of John.

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So he's introducing his purpose even.

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Here at the beginning of the book as well.

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What was Jesus' purpose verses nine

through 13, he came to bring life to the

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world and to make a way for those who

believed in him to become children of God.

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Uh, and so these spiritual offspring

would come to Jesus in faith

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because they have been born of God.

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And so we there's so much theology there.

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If you're wondering.

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You can go back and listen to my sermon.

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You can listen to plenty of sermons

on this that are diving into so

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much of what's being communicated

there in verses nine through 13.

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But Jesus came to bring life

to the world, basically.

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Um, and his own rejected

him, unfortunately.

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Which speaking of your sermons,

we're going to have transcripts

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for those pretty soon.

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Aren't we.

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I believe that's the plan

we're working on that.

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We have transcript so that we

can search them on our website.

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Just look up, like, what does

pastor Peter said about this?

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Let me just find it out.

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About dancing and alcohol.

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Well, not another podcast, right?

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The servants, right.

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Anyway.

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Cool.

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Uh, next we get the, we get John's

Christmas story and that's John one 14 and

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the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

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And we've seen his glory glaze

of the only son from the father.

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Um, We're going to talk about that.

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Or we did talk about that, I guess

this last Sunday, the glory of

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Christ, the glory of the father,

how those two things work together.

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Uh, it's a pretty amazing relationship

there, but, uh, that's the Christmas

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story and John, the word became flesh.

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And we read about that in Luke

and, uh, The beginning of that.

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And then we're going to see

the fulfillment of that later.

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Uh, versus one 18 that is similar to, we

hear the word was sent to XG the father.

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Um, this is still part of this

that he came to explain the father.

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John the Baptist testimony, then it

shows up in verses nine through 28.

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The people come and they

want John in the spotlight.

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They want to know, is he the one?

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And he just continually rejects.

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The spotlight says I'm not the guy.

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I'm not the guy.

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I'm not the guy that just came

to point people to the guy.

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And he said, I'm here to, to be the

one to fulfill the prophecies of, of

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Malakai and Isaiah again, which is so

helpful that we just finished with that.

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Uh, he's going to do that.

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He's going to be that one.

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Versus a 29 through 34, when he

says behold, the lamb of God who

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takes away the sins of the world.

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When I preach this, I said, I think John

knew better spoke better than he knew.

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And I still believe that.

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I don't think he had an understanding.

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Cause later on, he's going to say, Hey

Jesus, why aren't you doing the things

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that we expected the Messiah to do?

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Um, but here, at least he understands

that part of his mission was to save

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his people from their sins, which

is part and parcel with his name.

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And I wonder if he knew that because

Elizabeth told him that story about his.

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Uh, family member, because Mary had

told Elizabeth, Hey, we were told

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the name of Jesus because he would

save his people from their sins.

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It's the angel announces, who knows

why he knew exactly, but he knew

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something there that he was able

to say, and he was exceptional.

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And you have the spirit of God as a baby.

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That's true too.

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I think I might've, but probably not.

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Might've had the spirit.

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I might've had the spirit as a baby.

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Fair enough.

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Yeah.

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Well, we can't.

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I mean, you do now.

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So we can't, we can't Candace.

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Exactly when we don't know what happened.

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Um, yeah.

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Versus 35 then down through

51, the calling of the first

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disciples, which are so cool.

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I mean the whole idea

of come and see right.

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Hey, we, we found the Messiah

and that begins from the F.

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The first two.

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Who John's tells them, Hey, go follow

Jesus, quit following me, go follow him.

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And they go follow him.

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And then Andrew gets Peter.

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And then the next day he calls Philip

and Philip goes to get Nathaniel.

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And the thing you'll says can

anything good come out of Nazareth

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and Phillips has come and see.

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And Nathaniel walks up and Jesus says,

behold, an Israelite with whom there

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is no guile and Nathaniel confesses

and says, you must be the one.

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You're the one.

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So, uh, and he says, you're going to see

things that are way better than this.

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So just buckle up Nathaniel, but just

a cool opening there in John one.

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Yup.

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There's a reason why it's a well beloved

gospel or one of the most well beloved

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it's, it's the one that we typically tell.

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Believers or new believers

and unbelievers read that one.

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That's a good one.

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And the funny thing is that

John's challenging is that so

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many profound things he does that.

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They're simple on the surface, but the

more you think about what he says, the

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more challenging you're like, what.

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What on earth?

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How John, what do you mean.

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It's so deep, right?

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And you're preaching it and you're going.

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There's so much in this, this passage

that I'm preaching, but we also

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don't want to spend 20 years in John.

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So I don't think some would object.

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You could do two verses a week and let's

take some people would be okay with that.

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I mean philosophically, right?

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I cause maybe you're out there and

you're wondering that about us.

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And why we do things the way we do.

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I think.

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There's there's.

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Benefit to that.

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I know, you know, MacArthur has

done that and he's done that well.

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Uh, but I also think.

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And I have a responsibility as,

as your pastor to preach the

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full counsel of the word of God.

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And I think there are a lot of

things that are valuable for

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us to preach in, in many books.

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And so I think we.

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We lose something by keeping out only in

one book for such a long period of time.

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And also I'll, I'll tell you this,

you have to be a really, really great

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expositor to keep people's attention

and to keep the momentum and to

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keep the cohesiveness to a series.

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And go through that slowly

and I will be the first to

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admit, I don't think I'm there.

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Um, and so you often will tell young

preachers, Hey, don't, don't choose

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like one verse, choose a passage.

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And there've been times of preach

one verse and that's fine, whatever.

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But a mid MacArthur is MacArthur and

no one else is going to be him and

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I, my goal is not to try to be him.

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I I'm not him.

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And I, I get that.

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And those of you going

Dell, you're not him.

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I listen, joined the crowd.

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You you're late to that party.

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I've already well understood that.

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Well, in the past, Um, I

am who I am and, uh, yeah.

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But by God's grace.

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Um, no, but, but that's why we're

doing what we're doing and that's

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what we're trying to get through.

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I don't mean that to be defensive.

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I'm just trying to tell you, Hey,

look, if you're wondering, why

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don't we go a little bit slower?

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And camp out more that that's kind of

why that's the, the idea of why they're.

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And honestly, one of the best ways to

do that is by yourself to kind of go at

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your own snail's pace, pick a book to

study and do that, tan it through, and

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then always now do your Bible study time.

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That's a really helpful

practice for you to do.

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And even if your pastor doesn't do it the

way you like it, that's, that's certainly

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something you can do in your, in your own

private stuff, which is probably a better.

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Better altogether, because you could

pace yourself the way you want.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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All right.

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Y'all.

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That's been a lot, but Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you for the birth of Jesus.

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That is something that just seems so

obvious to say as Christians, and yet

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we want to stop and recognize that

that's what we're reading about here.

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We thank you for Christ that he came

to take away the sins of the world.

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And we thank you for calling

us into discipleship with him.

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Those of us that are saved.

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And we pray that you would

do that for more as well.

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Those of us who have kids, we pray

that for our kids, those of us who

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have family members who were lost or

neighbors, whoever, God, we want more

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and more people to come to know Jesus.

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This one that came to be

the savior of the world.

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And so help us.

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Uh, use us towards that end.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all will keep her in your Bibles and

tune in tomorrow for another episode

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