00:00 Welcome and Weather Talk

00:27 Reflecting on Last Year's Halloween

01:24 Transition to Bible Discussion

01:53 John the Baptist's Death

03:44 Feeding the 5,000

05:18 Jesus Walks on Water

06:27 Jesus Heals in Gennesaret

06:53 Rejection in Nazareth

11:36 The Importance of Voting

14:58 Jesus Walks on Water

15:43 The Disciples' Hardened Hearts

16:50 Sending of the Twelve

18:47 Peter's Confession of Christ

20:24 The Transfiguration

23:14 Healing the Demon-Possessed Boy

24:17 True Discipleship and Humility

27:43 The Cost of Following Jesus

28:30 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey, welcome back to another

addition to the daily Bible podcast.

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What's up.

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Uh, the sky.

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Good answer.

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Yep.

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That's correct?

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's a, yeah.

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We were talking about the

weather yesterday on the podcast.

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EDS.

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Really nice out.

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Did we took photos on Monday.

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I heard.

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As I mentioned previously, that

way we're going to do that.

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We did it.

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We went during the golden hour,

use my iPhone, took several photos.

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And the weather was perfect.

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Hot and sweating.

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Over the last year.

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About this time, it was really cold.

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Um, which I'm kind of hoping

the weather stays as it is.

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Cause remember on the October 31st

of last year, we are freezing.

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It was cold.

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I remember having my heater.

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Yeah, I hear her outside.

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Uh, next to me, as we were trying to hand

out candy to our non-existent neighbors.

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Hopefully they show up this year.

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So we handed out big candy bars.

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Yeah.

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We were handed the whole, we

were trying to get people there.

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Costco size bars.

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Yeah, no, I don't know if they were the

king size, but they, yeah, the, the,

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the whole candy bar who we were saying.

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We're we're trying to make an impact.

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I'll come this year.

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Okay.

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Well, I'm going to buy less this year.

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So.

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We'll see.

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I'd like to run out.

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I don't want to have leftovers.

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So I have only.

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Only a few boxes, but

anyway, all that to say.

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The weather was wonderful.

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Took pictures, had great weather.

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We were happy were done

in like 30 minutes.

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We.

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I mean, we took longer than we

needed to, but it was great now.

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I was just so thankful for

the weather these days.

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Yeah.

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It's a beautiful time of year if you're

considering, if you're not part of our

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church and you're from outside the area

and you're considering a move to Texas,

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this is the time to convince, is it.

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Yeah.

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It's a time to come October,

Texas flexes in October.

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Mm.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Hey, we've got three chapters,

so we should just, we should

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just dive in now with less.

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Google-y.

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Podcasts daily Bible podcast.

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For 10%, let's Google it.

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I was jumping, uh, Matthew chapter 14.

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Hashtag no promises.

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No money back guarantees, whatever

you paid for this episode, we'll,

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we'll double your money back.

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Um, they paid in their time.

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So, oof.

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Yeah, well, that's fair.

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Yeah, we can't give you your time.

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I do triple speed.

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Yeah, no one can, uh, Hey Matthew 14,

John, the Baptist death is what we

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opened with in verses one through 12.

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And so we learn here again.

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That, uh, Herod the,

tetrarch heard about Jesus.

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He's concerned that John the

Baptist is come back because a.

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He had had John executed and, uh, in, in,

uh, uh, pretty smarmy way because he had

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imprisoned John and we knew about that.

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But then John had confronted him about

being married to his, his brother's wife.

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And there was some weird

things going on there.

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And John said, this isn't right.

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She wasn't happy with that.

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And so.

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The daughter comes out dances

and Hertz is what he wants.

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And she says, well, I want

the head of John the Baptist.

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Um, and so he feels like he's obligated

to do this, to save face with his,

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uh, the, the attenders at this party.

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And so he executes John and

John meets, uh, uh, pretty.

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Pretty bad end here in, uh, in, in this.

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In this instance, uh, that we, we find

here it's, it's not a glorious end.

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That's for sure.

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Uh, it's, it's not even, you know, you

think of the Peter crucified upside down.

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You think of some of the famous martyrs,

this doesn't, he was a martyr in a

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sense, but this doesn't even feel

like a martyr's death because of the.

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Just how grotesque.

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An awful.

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It was, is in glorious for sure.

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Yeah.

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And this is kind of what Jesus

alluded to, although he never

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said you're going to get beheaded.

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When John's asking, are you the guy?

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And Jesus says, Hey, go

tell him what you hear.

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Here's here.

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Here's a quotation list from Isaiah.

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And Jesus is telling you, yes,

I am the guy, but I'm not going

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to meet your expectations.

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Not here.

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Not now.

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Right.

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So I think John is somewhat mentally

prepared for this because he did

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get that pushback from his relative

cousin who knows what he is.

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Exactly.

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Cousin Jesus.

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Now telling them, look, this

is what's going to happen.

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So this is an Inglorious ending, but

make no mistake, John, after he was dead,

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was transported to heaven, whatever that

is, whatever that place is right now.

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Right.

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And is now in the, in the presence of

God, the father and joining bliss and joy.

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So granted I'm sure it was not a good

ending, but it was a great finisher

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after it was all said and done a

hundred percent, a hundred percent.

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And so we get something unique

after this because it's right on

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the heels of this that we read

about Jesus feeding the 5,000.

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This is unique because this

is one of the few instances

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recorded in all four gospels.

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So we studied this in John chapter six

verses one through 14 back when we were

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preaching through that portion of John,

what we didn't have there recorded

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in John is what we just read about.

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The death of John the Baptist

did that precipitated this

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event of feeding the 5,000.

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In fact, When Jesus goes to two.

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To the police that he's going, he's really

retreating with his disciples to get away.

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And I think part of that was the

morning for his, his family members.

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Just sit with this feels right.

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And he wanted to beat with the

disciples and, and get away.

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And yet.

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He can't because all this crowd presses in

and that's where we feel much more of a.

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The gravity when she's, this says,

or when the gospels record that he

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felt compassion for these crowds.

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He wasn't annoyed.

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He wasn't put out, he wasn't like,

can you guys just give me a break

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because I'm trying to mourn for, uh,

my, my relative here who just died.

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And he moves into meet their

need and, and feeds the 5,000.

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And again, we, we talked about this,

uh, We, we, we went through it in John's

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gospel and John chapter six, we will.

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Uh, again, in the Synoptics as we go

through, this is going to be a story

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that shows up in all of them, but in

Matthew's account, at least notice

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that Jesus is morning when he goes

to, to meet the need of the food.

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And what's leftover is 12

baskets full, which happens to

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correspond with the number of

disciples slash would be apostles.

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There are 12 baskets.

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In other words, I think there's

a, there's a point being made

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here to the apostles themselves.

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Again, I'm gonna provide for you.

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Uh, and the fact that there's

12 in my mind is not a mistake.

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It's something that Jesus intended as

a, as he multiplied the fish and loaves.

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Yeah.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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The following this, you

have Jesus walking on water.

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And so he sends the disciples out.

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We read about that in John, he, that the

crowds remember in John's gospel, they

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were ready to take him and make him king.

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So he retreats up the mountain to

get away, sends the disciples ahead,

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comes walking to them on the water.

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And, uh, and, and when they see him,

they're afraid and, and so Jesus

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immediately moves to, to ease and calm

their fear by revealing his identity.

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He says, do not fear it's it's me.

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It's Jesus.

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Eh, Peter though.

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Oh, Peter wants more.

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He wants to find out.

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Is this, are you legitimate?

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And so he proposes this test.

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He says, Lord, if it's really you,

let me come out to you on the water.

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And you know, the story.

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Peter's faith is initially strong,

but falters when he sees the waves.

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And I think that's representative of

the arc of Peter's faith as a whole.

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It's, it's strong for a long period of

time, but when the waves come at the

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crucifixion, as we just saw recently in

John's gospel, bent Peter falters there,

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and we're going to see that, that much

like Jesus reaches down and grabs Peter

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and pulls him back up and doesn't let him

fall completely or drown completely here.

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Jesus is going to do the

same thing with Peter.

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At the end of John's gospel.

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And so this is really kind of a mini story

arc of Peter's whole discipleship here

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in, in, uh, the walking on water incident.

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Hmm.

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Chapter 14, then 34 through 36.

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Jesus sets up camp there in Vanessa.

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And he begins to heal and

people are, Jesus is famous.

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That's, that's the phrase that keeps

coming up, coming to mind here.

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People want to see him.

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Be healed by him.

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Be in his presence.

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And so the crowds are flocking to him.

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There at the end of John

or Matthew chapter 14.

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All right, mark.

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Chapter six, then.

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Matthew 14, mark six and then Luke nine.

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So mark six, you have the, uh, Jesus is.

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Is rejected by the

people in Nazareth then.

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So again, a prophet is not without

honor verse four, except in his

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hometown, among his relatives in his

own household, the people were saying,

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isn't this Marian Joseph's gate.

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Where does he get off?

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Doing all of these things and,

and you know, how dare he, you.

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Put himself out as, as better than we are.

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We know as mom and dad, we watched

him grow up and so Jesus is

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confronting them and it says there.

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In mark six, five.

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He could do no mighty work

in there in their midst.

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Now that's an interesting phrase.

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Jesus.

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Can't do things.

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Yeah, he's limited.

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Yeah.

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He can't.

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I think the best explanation I've

found is so often his miracles were in

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concert with or response to the faith

of the people that, that were there.

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Um, and because there was such

a lack of faith in who he was.

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That's what there was no.

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There was no grounds to do the miracles.

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There was no nothing to do the

miracles in response, or to

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confirm or affirm in the crowds.

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Jesus didn't do the

miracles to impart faith.

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He so often did the miracles

in response to faith.

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Uh, when we see them doing

these things in the gospels.

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So, this is interesting that there is a

sense that a sense as is not the whole,

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but there is a sense in which Jesus can

be constricted in our lives by our lack

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of faith or lack of obedience or lack of.

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Uh, willingness to

surrender to his leadership.

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Um, Talk, I guess.

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Yeah.

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Hello.

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Help us put that in context,

because it says here.

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It doesn't burst out.

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He could do no mighty work there.

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Yeah.

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And yet he's the Lord of all creation.

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He can do whatever he wants.

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Right.

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And yet he chooses to restrict himself

according to our faith and our response.

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So.

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What would that look like

in today's day and age?

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I think we can think of it as

quenching the spirit today.

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I think we have an ability to, as the

Bible calls it quenched the spirit, which

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would be that, that we harden our hearts

towards the prompting of the spirit.

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And so.

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Taken to the fullest extent you can

get to the place of searing your

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conscience, even to where you lose

a sensitivity towards sin or any

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sensitivity of the Spirit's voice at all.

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And, uh, and so there's

an ability to do that.

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Can the spirit be louder than our flesh?

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A hundred percent.

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Yes.

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If God wants to, he can get our

attention in the spirit can do that.

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With ease.

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And yet he allows us sometimes as,

as parents, sometimes we let our

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kids eat a little bit too much candy.

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So God will allow us to, to impede

if I can put it that way though.

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The work of the spirit in our lives.

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Bye quenching the spirit so that

hopefully we're brought to the place

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under the discipline of God to repenting

and turning away from those things.

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Yeah, we play a real it's.

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This is hard to, as we think about

the way that we understand God

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operating with humanity, but we

have a real decisions to make.

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And those real decisions

have real implications for

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the totality of our lives.

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Whether we're benefited by the words

of God or whether we're hindered

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because we're not obeying them.

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Uh, it's, it's a real decision

that you have to make every day.

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It's a real decision to say.

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I want to cooperate with

what God is doing, because

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I want him to bless my life.

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I want him to bless what I'm doing.

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So there you go.

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Something to think about.

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Yeah, as good Calvinist.

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So this is what we think is true.

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Yep.

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Yeah, from here, we get

what we just talked about in

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Matthew, sending out the 12.

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Um, they're, they're commissioned

they're ambassadors for Christ

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there again, we are not apostles

were his, his emissaries were him.

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His ambassadors is.

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Is missionaries.

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Uh, and so sending the 12 mark six,

seven through 13, I think we talked

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about that in yesterday's episode.

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Uh, John, the Baptist death

mark six 14 through 29.

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Then again, we just talked

about that today's episode here.

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You get more detailed

than Matthew's account.

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Again, Matthew compresses,

some details, mark.

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Unravel some, and it pulls them out

a little bit more, but, but generally

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speaking the same story here.

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Um, as we read about the, the, uh, the.

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In prison of John and then

ultimately his execution there.

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Talk about the fact that John is

commenting or commenting or calling out

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sins at the governmental lever level.

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What happened to separation

between church and state?

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Uh, yeah.

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Th that's, that's, uh, an

invention of, uh, the, the

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constitution of the United States.

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Um, in fact, I'm not even sure

that that's a constitutional

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amendment in the United States.

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No.

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It's an invention of things,

something Jefferson said.

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Yeah.

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But in any case, John's talking these,

he's talking about the king, right?

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This is wrong for you to do right.

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And he's calling out people even

from, I don't know where his

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pulpit is, but this is his pulpit.

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He's preaching about this.

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Should a pastors do this today.

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I think we have to be, we

have to be careful with it.

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Um, because there's there's

protections that we've received.

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As.

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Churches in our nation that allow us to

operate in such a way that that help us

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tax exempt policies, things like that.

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That we've agreed to, to say,

because we're a 5 0 1 C three

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and non-profit organization.

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There's certain things.

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And stipulations that come along with

that, like, I can't stand up from

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the pulpit on a Sunday morning and

tell you, this is who you should.

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You should vote for.

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Um, the flags are.

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Thrown on the play.

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We could lose our tax exempt

status and so forth and so on.

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And so I don't see that

as bowing the knee.

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I don't see that as compromising,

because I think there are plenty of

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ways for us to talk about voting and

how to vote appropriately and how to

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vote in a way that is honoring to the

Lord and, and to all, but say, Hey,

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look, here's, here's your candidate.

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Go vote for this person.

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Uh, without putting at risk something

that helps us do a lot of other

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ministry and helps us do, do things

in a lot of ways that are beneficial.

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Um, I do think it's appropriate

for pastors to say, Hey, you

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need to get out and vote.

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I think that's that's right.

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I think that's good.

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I think.

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In this upcoming election, that's

going to be here in just about

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just over what two weeks now.

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Uh, if you're not calendar.

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Yeah.

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If you're not planning on

voting that that's a problem

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you need to get out and vote.

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You need to get out and have

a voice in this election.

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Uh, you can't, you can't tap out

and say, I'm not going to cast a

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vote because I don't feel strongly

convicted that either one of these

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candidates is, is godly enough.

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For me.

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You're never going to

be able to get there.

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And so if you tap out

on this selection, your.

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You might as well tap out on every

election from this point forward.

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Especially given today's

society and culture.

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You may look back over your shoulder

at times in the past and go, I miss

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the, the elections of the past.

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Well, the difference is they

didn't have social media and

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they didn't have 24, 7 news.

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If they did.

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They would've been just as much

mudslinging and everything else

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going on back then is there is today.

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Um, you need to vote along

your convictions with

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what's going to do the best.

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W with the candidate, that's

going to provide the, the

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best hope for us as a church.

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And also for us as a culture, who's

the one that's going to protect the

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unborn the most so forth and so on.

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So.

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Uh, yeah.

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I think we do need to speak to it.

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I think we do need to

encourage people to vote.

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I just think we need to do it wisely.

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We're a representative Republic.

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Um, we have an electoral college.

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And so some are going to say,

look, my vote doesn't even matter.

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I'm a, you know, I'm a, I'm a red.

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I vote red and Texas.

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And in my district, it's going to be red.

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Like there's just, even if I were, you

know, the opposite of, for something

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else, it doesn't matter if I'm a

California in and I'm voting red.

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I know there's not a chance.

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Anywhere that I'm going to get a red

vote for the electoral college from

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the electoral college in California.

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So talk to that Christian who thinks,

you know, it really doesn't matter.

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Pastor PJ.

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Yeah, I would say if that becomes

the widespread embrace mentality of

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everybody, then all of a sudden what

you're assuming is the reality is

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no longer going to be the reality.

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Um, if everybody in the red

state who votes red says,

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well, my vote doesn't matter.

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And they begin to, to

lay out and not vote.

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Then all of a sudden, the people

that are voting to try to turn the

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tide on that, they become the ones

that, that when the elections.

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So the reason why your vote on are

in a red state, quote-unquote may

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not matter is because you are voting

because you're, you're, you're

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casting your vote that direction.

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And that's, what's keeping the

state in the general, uh, political.

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Slant that it, that it is.

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And so for us to all lay out

on that doesn't make any sense.

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We would see everything flip-flopped in

the, we would lose our majority there,

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but the other thing too has got given you.

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An ability and responsibility to do this.

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He puts you here and this is

something that has a citizens.

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Of our nation we get to do.

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And so we should do it.

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We should participate in it.

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It's something that's right for us to do.

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Um, so Castroville and ultimately

realize that that you're doing

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your civic responsibility.

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Is that vote?

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Gonna sway, anything who knows in the end.

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But you're doing what you need to do.

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And if you don't, then you're

participating in something that if

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everybody buys into that mentality,

Then we're not going to want

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to live in that reality either.

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Someone would say that's helpful.

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I'm going to say that was a beneficial.

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Comment.

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That's good.

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Cause I don't want to be too super rapid.

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Repetitious.

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I don't want to rap either.

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I don't want to do that or be repetitious.

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So.

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Your, your comment was very timely.

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And beneficial and useful.

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That's.

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That's good.

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Advantageous even get out the

vote for the right people.

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All right.

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So John, the Baptist death.

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Alright.

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Feeding the 5,000 mark, six 30 through 44.

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Again, we covered this.

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Uh, th there's, this is on the

heels of John, the Baptist death.

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And so again, Jesus and

morning when he comes here.

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And so he's still moving to meet the need.

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He's still moving, moving

to feed the people.

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And on the heels of that

interaction is when we find him

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walking on water, something new

that we find here in mark 6 48.

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He meant to pass by them.

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And so I've, I've always read

that and kind of been like what.

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Jesus, which is going to like walk on.

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Walk on by, Hey guys.

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See you later.

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Uh, no, I think that'd be a funny joke.

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It would be a funny joke.

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I think what we're meant to

understand here is similar to the

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or similar to the times that God

would pass in front of its people.

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It was this idea of

reassuring or comforting them.

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And so before he's even able to

do that, they see him and they

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have the opposite response.

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They think he's a ghost they're afraid.

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And so he moves to reassure him.

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Their hearts are, are, are terrified.

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They're petrified.

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And so he moves to cover

them by saying, Hey, it's me.

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You've got the whole interaction

there with the rest of them.

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He gets in the boat.

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And everything is calm then, but

noticing in mark 6 52, it says

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that their hearts were hardened.

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They did not understand that he got

into the boat with them and the wind

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ceased and they're amazed, but they did

not understand because their hearts.

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We're hardened.

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And when we read that that's not

hardened in a perpetual state, in

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a permanent state, but it reveals

that at this time, they're not yet

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ready to understand these things.

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Uh, the, the Bible knowledge commentary,

you said they were spiritually

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imperceptive, uh, which is something

that first Corinthians two Paul talks

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about having the, some truths in

scripture that are spiritually discerned.

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And we read this and we get, well, of

course this Jesus look what he's doing.

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But part of that is because you're in

dwelt by the spirit and you're able to

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understand things in a different way.

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They at this time were not

in dwelt by the spirit.

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They didn't have the, the eyes to

see to the same degree that you are.

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And so that's why so often in the

gospels we read, they understood

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these things after his resurrection,

they understood these things.

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When they look back at the events of

things after the crucifixion and the

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resurrection, because then they were given

the eyes to see what they needed to see.

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Uh, mark 6 53 through 56.

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Again, Jesus is famous, more

healing there from Jesus.

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He's doing the same thing.

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They're getting necessary.

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That he, uh, that we read

about in Matthew chapter 14.

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All right, Luke nine last chapter

today, last chapter today, a

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couple of unique things here is

not what it opens out up with.

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It opens up with the sending

of the 12th, which again, the

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acronym there is PBJ five stamp.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Very good.

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Let's just try it by the way.

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Some someone would ask,

what about that Aegis?

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Cause I didn't mention this.

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Uh, Thaddeus has an alternative name.

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Um, Judas can understand why they

don't want to call them that.

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Right.

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So that he is well, and he actually

has another name besides that.

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It begins with an L I forget it.

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But Thaddeus is also known as Junius.

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And I forget from where, but it's it's

so, so that's why you got five JS.

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And I said, Thomas has said it that, yeah.

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So PBJ stamp.

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PBJ five stamp.

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You got it.

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Yeah.

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I want to get a shot, Peter James.

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PB J oh, Peter bought.

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Bartholomew.

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James.

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Uh, Judas Judas James and.

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You got it.

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We got it, John?

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Yes.

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Yep.

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All right.

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And then stamp.

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Uh, not Steven.

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Steven.

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Simon the zealot.

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Yep.

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And then Thomas.

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Good.

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And then Andrew.

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And then Matthew Natty.

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And then Peter.

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No.

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Peter Phillips.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Nailed it.

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We've got it, guys.

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There you go.

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You're welcome.

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We're not even gonna charge you for that.

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Yeah, well done.

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Yeah.

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There you go.

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Now we've got a memorized.

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Alright.

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Sending out the 12, uh, there J

uh, John, the Baptist JTB, uh,

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JTB his death there in Luke 9 79.

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So much less.

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Uh, territory given to that by Luke.

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Y, uh, we can ask him when, when we get

there, it didn't fit the context for what

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he needed to do there, but he does record.

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That John the Baptist had died, that it

was a significant historical marker in

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the progression of Jesus's ministry here.

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Uh, feeding the 5,000.

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Um, Luke nine, 10 through 17 here.

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I just noted just consistency

amongst the gospel writers.

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I mean, you read these stories in the

five loaves and the two fish, five

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loaves, two fish, five loaves, two fish.

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Uh, there is another instance of

feeding, which we're, we're going

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to get to where he feeds 4,000 and

things are a little bit different

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there, but that's another instance.

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That's not this.

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So there's two massive feedings

for Jesus in his ministry.

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There.

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Uh, Peter's confession.

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This is new for us verses

18 through 22 here.

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Uh, he confesses that Jesus is the Christ,

the son of God, the Christ of God, rather.

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And this is where, and maybe you already

know this, but just in case you don't.

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The word Christ is, is not

a name, but it's a title.

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And so the word Christ is from

Christos in the Greek, which

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means Messiah or anointed one.

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So Peter's confessing.

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You are the Messiah in reviewing that

that's who they expect them to be.

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And what they expect them to,

to do is to accomplish that.

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And so that fast forward

to Peter's denials.

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Again, I think part of the reason

Peter denied is because when he

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saw Jesus going to the cross.

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He was going, wait a minute.

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This is not what the Christ

of God is supposed to do, at

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least in his own understanding.

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And that led to some of

his, his faltering there.

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True discipleship then is what I call

this next section verses 23 through 27.

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Uh, what it looks like to truly

follow Christ to count the cost.

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Uh, Self-denial dial

dying daily to yourself.

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Um, There's so much here that, that,

again, we know, but it's so good

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to be reminded of this verse 25.

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What does it profit a man, if he gains the

whole world and loses or forfeits himself.

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This is similar context to when he

talks about coming to bring division

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in, not to unite to set again.

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Do you love Jesus more than anything else?

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Is the idea here.

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And then verse 27, he says, Hey,

there's some listening to me right

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now, who we're not going to taste death

until they see the kingdom of God.

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That would imply cool on reading.

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That he's coming to set

up the kingdom of God.

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But on closer inspection.

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What we read about when we see this, when

this verse shows up and it shows up here

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in, in, in a couple other gospels as well.

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What happens right on the

following of that in Matthew 17,

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mark nine and here Luke nine.

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Is the transfiguration,

the transfiguration PR.

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Do you wanna walk us

through the transfiguration?

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What happens here?

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Sure.

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So you have, and notice here,

verse 28 says this is eight

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days after saying these things.

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So this is not an immediate, it turns

around you remember when you reading

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your Bible to pay attention to the time,

marker, because it helped get you a

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sense of the pace of what's happening.

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But he takes with him only Peter, John

and James or Peter, James and John.

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Uh, up to the mountain and he's praying

with them and just notice here, a

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few verses earlier, they asking him,

Jesus, show us how to pray, right.

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Teach us how to pray because

he's, uh, he's praying.

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This is Jesus' ministry takes him

up on the mountain, Moses and Elijah

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show up and they represent both the.

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Uh, the profits and the.

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Although the law and the profits is what

we're trying to get at Moses and Elijah

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show up to the law and the prophets.

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They see Jesus up there.

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They're conversing.

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I want to know what they're talking about.

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I don't know.

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We don't have anything here.

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But Peter says to him, master,

Hey, it's great that we're here.

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Let's make some tents and.

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I have one for you, one

for Moses, one for Elijah.

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Maybe he's thinking the

tabernacle, something of what

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happened in the old Testament.

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But I love what Luke puts here.

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Cause I think he's the only

one who says this in verse 33.

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Peter says this, not knowing what he said.

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There's no idea what he's

actually talking about.

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And he's just saying things

just to say things I suppose.

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But after this, after this

event happens, God, the father.

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Uh, enters into enter the

world and he overshadows them.

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And then he says to them,

this is my son, my chosen one.

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Listen to him.

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And then after that, every it's

like everybody disappears and

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they're just left alone, probably.

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Jaws on the floor, wondering

what to do about that.

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And then they kept silent and

told no one in those days of

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anything that they had seen.

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So this only came out after

Jesus had ascended and they had

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conversations after the vaccine.

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Do you guys didn't even know

what we experienced when

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we were having that thing.

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And then when we were praying on the

mountain, you have no idea what happened.

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So this is really cool.

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They all record basically the same things.

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Again, Moses and Elijah

representing the, the.

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The, uh, law and the profits.

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So it's like all of revelation

is being coalesced into the one

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person of Christ and the father

affirms that this is my son.

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This is my chosen one.

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This is now the re the revelation, the

highest revelation, Hebrews chapter one.

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Long ago at many times.

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And in many ways, God spoke to

our fathers by the prophets.

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But in these last days, The highest,

best and clearest revelation is by

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his son, which is one reason why we

don't believe that God still speaks.

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Now that we have the candidate

scripture, because the highest

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and best revelation with Jesus.

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What more could we ask for?

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Nothing, nothing.

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That's right.

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It asks for anything else?

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Yeah, we do know what

they were talking about.

664

At least content.

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We don't know what they said, but Luke

9 31, they spoke of his departure, which

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he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

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So they're talking about the crucifixion.

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They're talking about the resurrection.

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They're talking about the Ascension.

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But see, and that's

where I feel like, okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They, they talked about what was coming.

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Tell me more, please.

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Right?

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I want to know precisely

what you guys were saying.

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I'm so intrigued at this.

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Give me more than that, especially

for Luke the doctor, who's

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like he's recording details.

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The detailed buddy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I'm going to have to ask

later, I guess, so that's fair.

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Take it up with him.

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Yeah.

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Well, right on the heels of this, he

comes down the mountain and there's a

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demon possessed boy brought to him and

the father says, Hey, no one can help me.

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Uh, get this demon out of my son and

Jesus laments that, but it's also

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revealing that, Hey, Jesus is the

one with the power and the authority.

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So what the, the three had just

seen and now he's coming down and

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he's going to validate this some

more by this healing of this boy.

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Uh, but it's also pointing to the

fact that as no one else can help this

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boy, no one else can help us either

from our sinful state and sinful

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condition, we need the power of Christ.

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The way that this boy

needed the power of Christ.

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Uh, to heal him, we need the power

of Christ to deal with our sin.

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We can't do it by our own efforts

or by the efforts of anyone else.

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Uh, we need Jesus and that's

something that we can take away

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from this demon possessed boy,

that's brought to them here.

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Uh, versus 43 through 45

for telling his death.

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Um, Jesus did not hide this.

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Uh, he, he said in verse 44, the son of

man is about to be delivered into the

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hands of men, but they did not understand

the sing and it was concealed from

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them so that they may not perceive it.

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Why would it have been concealed

that they might not perceive it?

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Well, because remember what Peter

does in the garden, he draws his sword

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and attacks the high priest servant.

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I think if Jesus had made this known

in the way that they would have

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understood either one, they would have

all been afraid and deserted him way

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earlier than, than they should have.

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Or two, they would have risen up and

followed Simon the zealots lead and

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tried to, to stop it with, with force.

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And neither of those things

were God's will at this time.

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And so Jesus is being plain, but

they're not gonna understand it.

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So later on looking back, well, they

clearly didn't, uh, did not understand

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because of the next verses they're

arguing about, Hey, who's going to be

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the best guy here who can lift the most.

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He's got the biggest dead lift.

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It's so funny, he's talking

about, I'm going to die, guys.

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This is good.

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This is not going to go well.

723

And then they're like, Hey, on that

note, Jesus, who's the best among us.

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Just to real quick, if you could

just settle the score for us.

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Come on, guys are so dead.

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I mean, come on.

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We can all resonate with that.

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We can relate in some way, shape or form.

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Right.

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Which has evidence that they probably

were adolescent boys at this point.

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Right.

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Who could jump the highest

Jesus could imagine.

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Jesus is rallying all these

young guys to come on.

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Just stay focused.

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Yeah.

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Trying to tell you what's happening here.

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Yeah.

738

Yeah.

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Well, and then, I mean, even just that

idea of, of admonishing and encouraging

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humility, because right after that

too, they're like, Hey, listen,

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Jesus, somebody, who's not one of us.

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They're cast.

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They're casting out demons.

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They're doing other things.

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We try to stop him because he's not one

of us and Jesus saying, let them go.

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For the one who is not

against you is for you.

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So again com.

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Confirming that humility that they

needed to have not making this

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something that's competitive one

against the other, but saying.

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Well, E w even how he responds

to them, he doesn't tell him,

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Hey, don't try to be great.

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I, I think that's important.

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He doesn't tell them.

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Don't try to be great.

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He just says low you for

thinking about greatness.

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Here's what it really looks like.

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Right.

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So I think in his own way,

Jesus affirms the fact that

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they should pursue the greatest.

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It can be talked about rewards.

761

Is it, but if you want to be great,

it's he, who is least among you, the one

762

who's serving who will be the greatest.

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And of course, Jesus sets the

record for what that looks like

764

because he humbles himself the most.

765

And consequently he's highest, most

highly exalted Philippians chapter two.

766

So I think it's a great thing to say.

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If you want to be great in the

kingdom, that's a great ambition.

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Yes.

769

Amen.

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Be great in the kingdom.

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I mean, I remember reading

some of, uh, I mean, I can't

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even remember who it was now.

773

Maybe it was moody.

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I remember reading something about

moody, who said something to the effect

775

of, and I'm going to butcher this.

776

So please don't don't quote

me or him on this, but.

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He said at any one moment in human

history, there's always gotta

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be a godliest man in the world.

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I want to be that man.

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I read something like that.

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And I thought, ah, yes,

I want to be that guy.

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I want to be the godliest

man on the planet.

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That was my heart.

784

I still feel that a lot of the time.

785

And I think there's nothing wrong

with that kind of holy ambition.

786

I think we should aspire to that and

even stoke that because Jesus says,

787

look, it's fine to have that, but just

know this is what greatness looks like.

788

Redefine it.

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Don't don't don't deny it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And they still don't get it because

then from there he goes, On an and

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he's passing through Some area.

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And I think what leads to the

projection is what we read

795

there at the very beginning.

796

Verse 51.

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He said his face to go to Jerusalem.

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And the Samaritans obviously were not keen

on Jerusalem because the racial tension

799

between them and the Jews and in which

location was the proper place of worship.

800

And if Jesus is passing through, they're

saying, Hey, I've got to get to Jerusalem.

801

Uh, that's part of the reason why they're

going to reject him there, but that the

802

disciples in verse 54 Lord, do you want

us to tell fire to come down again?

803

Consume them?

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These are the top guys, by the

way, this is top of the class.

805

It is heater James and John.

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These are the big three, and this

is the guy who's going to write

807

the chapter all about love later.

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I mean, not, not.

809

Yeah.

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Uh, yeah, John, the love guy, right?

811

Yeah.

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Everyone loves John because

John's all about love.

813

He's trying to call

fire down people, right.

814

He showed us Sodom and

Gomorrah these guys.

815

Right, right.

816

And he turns and rebukes them.

817

He doesn't tell us what he said, but

he just turns around, rebukes them and

818

then they go on to another village.

819

Probably some lady y'all are knuckleheads.

820

Right.

821

Come on right?

822

In, in not accidentally right after this,

he talks about the cost of following him.

823

As the chapter concludes here,

he says, look, this is what

824

it looks like to follow me.

825

It's not about you.

826

It's not about being great.

827

It's about dying to yourself.

828

Um, the great in the worldly sense.

829

Yeah.

830

Great.

831

In a worldly sense.

832

Exactly.

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And we've talked about this before,

but this is the same context that

834

somebody said, you know what?

835

I'll follow you wherever you go.

836

But, but first let me go

deal with my, my father.

837

Let me go bury my father.

838

Let me, you know, W where

are you going to be?

839

Well, I don't have anywhere to,

to leave my lay my head down.

840

Uh, someone says, let me say for world

to those at my home, she said, look, no

841

one who puts his hand to the plow and

looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.

842

It's about following Christ and

keeping your eyes fixed on him.

843

Being willing to sacrifice everything.

844

To go after him and, uh, in.

845

And be a, his, his disciple, his follower.

846

Amen.

847

All right.

848

Let's pray.

849

We thank you for these three chapters.

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And we want to be that we want to be

your, your followers, your disciples,

851

who follow you and count the cost and set

our hand to the plow and not look back.

852

And so help us to do that.

853

God, no matter what the

cost may come our way.

854

Help us to be fine.

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Found faithful to you.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

858

All right, I'll keep you in your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow for another

859

episode of the daily Bible podcasts.

860

Yeah.