00:00 Welcome and Intro

00:07 Extravaganza Explained

00:45 Egg Hunt Objections

01:21 Mission and Context

03:16 Christian Freedom Romans 14

05:21 Community Engagement Strategy

07:23 Transition to Readings

07:33 Deuteronomy God Fights

10:16 Moses Told to Stop

13:59 Remember and Imperfect Heroes

16:21 Mark Fig Tree Lesson

18:08 Faith Prayer and Forgiveness

22:27 Authority Challenge Checkmate

23:50 Closing Prayer and Outro

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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What's up folks?

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Happy Saturday.

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Hey, let's talk let's talk

extravaganza for a second.

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Extravaganza is our big outreach

that we do as a church on Saturday.

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Well typically on Saturday.

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Last year we had a, a rain day and so

we moved it, but we've got a rain plan,

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so it's gonna be Saturday in between.

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Good Friday and Easter

Sunday, resurrection Sunday.

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Even the fact that we refer to

Easter Sunday and I know some

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people take issue with that.

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It's only resurrection Sunday.

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That should only be what it is.

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And here we are, we're

gonna do an egg hunt.

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And people are like, what do

eggs have to do with Jesus?

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And you know what about the Easter?

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We're not gonna have the Easter bunny

there that I know of All the Pastor

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Marcus here, he's our Kidman pastor.

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He might correct me on that, but

I'm pretty sure we have 10 coming.

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10, 10 Easter bunnies.

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Okay.

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But let's kick this around for a minute.

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It's the same thing at

Halloween or round Halloween.

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Every year we do fall fest.

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Why do we, some people would look at us

and say, you guys are pandering to the

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culture that you've compromised by doing

this egg hunt and you're distracting

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from what Easter should really be about.

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This is wrong and you shouldn't do this.

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So let's maybe shadow box a little

bit with somebody that might be

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out there and saying, I don't

think that we should be doing this.

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We're spending God's money on this big

egg hunt and candy for these little, you

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know, rugrats that are running around.

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Why do we do what we do and why do we feel

like this is something that we should be

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doing at this time of year specifically?

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I think it goes back to understanding

what are we called to do as

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Christians first and foremost.

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You know, there is not instructions in

scripture about church programming and

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events and how they ought to be run

and what types they, they ought to be.

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So I think it has to go back to

first what is our mission as.

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As Christians, then we need to

begin to consider how do we do that

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well and faithfully in this time.

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How do we do that Well and

faithfully in this time?

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That can look different in, in, in

many different places and times.

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I, if we're missionaries in Chad, doing

extravaganza would probably be unhelpful.

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It'd be why out there'd be helpful.

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Be helpful.

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'cause they have no idea what any of

this would have anything to do with.

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It would be a completely

bizarre thing to do in.

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Texas in 2026.

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There are extravaganzas and there are park

days, and there are all these sorts of

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events that people are very comfortable

with, that people are very used to.

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And I think there's often the term

we can redeem some of these things.

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Does that mean that we're celebrating the

Easter Bunny and worshiping the Easter

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Bunny, whether he's chocolate or not?

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On do by doing an extravaganza.

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I don't think we are.

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I'm very confident in fact that we

aren't perhaps your conscience would

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say that it would keep you from

that, and that may be a conversation

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that you should have with a pastor.

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Come in and talk to one of us and we'd

be happy to talk about that and why

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our church does that in further detail.

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But just because we have an event that.

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That is called extravaganza doesn't

inherently mean that we're worshiping.

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And in fact, I think we very much

are worshiping Jesus when we do

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an event like that because we're

calling people from our community who

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don't know anything about God, who

have perhaps never heard about God.

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There's many that are like that here and.

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We're giving them the opportunity to hear

the gospel and that's what we're about.

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I would add Romans 14

starting at verse three.

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Let the, let not the one who eats, despise

the one who abstains and let, not the

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one who abstains past judgment on the

one who eats for God has welcomed him.

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Who are you to pass judgment

on the servant of another?

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It's before his own master that he

stands or falls and he will be upheld

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for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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One person esteems one day

as better than another, while

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another esteems all days alike.

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Each one should be fully

convinced in his own mind.

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Paul here describes Christian freedom

to make decisions that are not

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explicitly described in scripture,

and this is where I would say.

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Extravaganza fits along with some

of the other things that we do.

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I would not quarrel a lot with a Christian

who has a tender conscience and says,

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I am really bothered that we do this.

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And I would say I understand that.

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I totally get that.

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Let me ask you though, to

share a charitable opinion

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of us as we share a view.

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And I know you're gonna struggle

with this, but I can, I could also

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ask you questions, I think friend,

brother, where I think you would be.

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You might be looking at us and saying,

this is wrong, but I'm, if I looked at

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your budget and I looked at some of your

expenditures, I might be able to point

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out to you though that company that you

support, they're doing things that you

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probably don't know that they're doing.

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It's really bad.

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Mm-hmm.

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There, you can't shop anywhere.

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You can't use any worldly.

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Company without tainting yourself

in some way, shape, or form.

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And so I don't think Jesus desires

us to exit the world entirely.

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That's what his point says.

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I don't want you to leave the world.

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I want you to be in

the world to redeem it.

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So I would say it's a matter of

charitable opinion for both sides

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to look at each other and say, I'm

gonna trust that you're doing what

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you think is right before the Lord.

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I might contend with you in a

helpful, brotherly way and say,

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well, let me ask you this question.

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Let me ask you that question.

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And I want your conscience to be informed.

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But I don't want to ultimately

pass judgment in an unhelpful way.

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And when he says that here, we're

not just talking about putting our

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minds on the shelf and not thinking.

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He's talking about passing judgment as

though God has spoken here, he's spoken.

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You should not be soliciting that company.

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You should not be eating that bunny.

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I don't care if it's dark chocolate.

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Do not eat that bunny.

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It's a matter of.

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Charitable discernment on both

parties ends and it's up to both

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of us to work together to say we're

gonna be okay with one another.

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We're gonna serve them and

loved one another even though

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we might disagree on this.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that, I can't remember

who first told me this, but it's stuck

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with me ever since is that, is if God

ever saw fit to close down our church,

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and Lord willing, he never will, I

would want our community to miss us and.

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Know that we're not here anymore.

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And I think there's a lot of churches

that will shy away from engaging

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with the community because they don't

want to deliver the wrong message.

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But really what that leads to is a general

sense of anonymity in the community.

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The community doesn't

even know you're there.

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And this is one of the ways

for the community around

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us to know that we're here.

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And for us to be a blessing to them, to

be someplace that gives them a positive

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taste of being around, you know, for an

unbeliever to show up, this is a low bar

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entry level for them to show up and come

to our church campus and be with us and

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be around other Christians and be around

believers and we're not just there to

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give them eggs and say, see you later.

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We're gonna have people strategically

there whose job it is to begin

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conversations with these people and to

have those conversations to say, hey.

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You know, do you go to church anywhere?

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Hey, our services tomorrow at nine

11, we would love for to, for you to

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join us for one of our Easter services

tomorrow to come find out what this

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is all about, why we're doing this.

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You know, we're not just doing

this to give your kids candy.

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We love to do that and we're happy

to do that for you, but we're really

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doing this because we wanna love you.

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And the greatest thing that we

could do to love you is to say,

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Hey come see what Jesus is about.

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Come visit our church.

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We'd love to have you there.

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Let me save a seat for

you tomorrow morning.

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Albeit this service, I'd

love for you to join me.

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We want to do that sort of engagement with

the community and this facilitates that.

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So.

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If a church doesn't do something

like this, that's okay.

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We're not saying, Hey, they're evil for

not doing this to Pastor Oz's point.

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We're just asking people that might hold

a position to say, I wouldn't do that.

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To say of us, okay, I'm gonna, I'm

gonna believe the best about them.

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Like one Corinthians 13 tells me, I'm

gonna believe that they're doing this

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because this is really part of what

they believe is the mission that God has

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given to them and that local church there

to try to reach the lost and hopefully

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see some people show up at church.

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That would be a huge

blessing as a result of this.

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Another helpful passage.

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I won't go into it now, but one

Corinthians eight I think is a helpful

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passage in considering and discerning

some of these things as well.

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Let's get into Deuteronomy three and

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Deuteronomy three and four.

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A couple of things that jump out at

me here that I really did appreciate

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in this is across the page, at

least in my Bible, Deuteronomy

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3 21 says this I command Joshua.

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At that time, your eyes have

seen all that the Lord your God

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has done to these two kings.

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He's talking about the two kings of

battle that we've just read about, the

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King of Sahan and the King OG here.

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And so he's saying, your eyes

have seen all that God has done.

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And then he says this, so will the Lord

do To all the kingdoms into which you

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are crossing, you shall not fear them.

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For it is the Lord your

God who fights for you.

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Man, we have no greater ally.

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We were talking about it yesterday.

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The parallels that we can see between

the God of the Old Testament, who

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he is and who he was and then and

who he is today with us in the New

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Testament era and the church era.

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And it's the same thing is true today.

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There is no greater ally that we

could have than the God of creation.

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And he is for us.

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In fact, Paul.

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Asks that question in Romans

chapter 80 says, look if God is

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for us, who can be against us?

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And that's an extrapolation out of this.

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I mean, he was literally

fighting battles for Israel.

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He's not literally fighting battles

for you necessarily in that same

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sense, but man, he's for you.

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And the greatest evidence of that is

the cross is that he sent Jesus to die

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on the cross for your sins so that you

can be forgiven and to rise against so

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that you can live with them forever.

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I mean, God has taken out your

greatest enemy, which is sin and death.

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And he's taken that outta the way.

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If you're in Christ, he is for you,

and what an awesome thing that is.

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In fact, in chapter four, a similar

thing comes up in verse seven, where

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Moses is talking to the people here

and he says, for what great nation

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is there that has a God so near to

it as the Lord our God is to us.

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Whenever we call on him.

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And imagine that, that was back in the

Old Testament times when they didn't

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have near the access to Yahweh that

you and I have through Christ today.

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The writer of Hebrews says we have a

great high priest that we can draw near

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to him at any time through draw near

to the throne of mercy, to find grace

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and mercy, to help in time of need.

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What an amazing reality we can take

away from chapters three and four

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to say, man, this God is our God.

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He's for us.

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He was for them.

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He's for us, and we have such a

good close relationship with him.

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So remember what's

happening here in this book.

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Now, the book of Deuteronomy is a

series of speeches that Moses is

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gonna give just before the people

enter into the Promised Land.

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In chapter one, when we began this, he

began his first speech, and that's gonna

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take us all the way through chapter

four, ending at about 40 something.

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43.

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43 is when he ends his first speech.

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This whole section here is Moses

recounting what God has done for them,

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how he's been faithful, and all the

people that some of them you've seen.

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You've seen the defeat of

King Shan and King Aog.

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You should see some of these things as

as remember, remembrance, markers of

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what you read in the book of numbers.

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Moses is now providing some divine

commentary about some of these

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events, and it's kind of cool to

see inside the mind of Moses to see

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how he interpreted these events.

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What stands out to me?

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At verse 26 of chapter three,

Moses is upset and he's upset at

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them for his disqualification.

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He says, but the Lord was angry with me

because of you and would not listen to me.

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And then he said, enough from you.

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Do not speak.

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Do not speak to me of this matter again.

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And that, okay.

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Several thoughts.

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Number one, it's kind of

funny, I'm sorry, Moses.

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Number two, God told

Moses to stop praying.

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About this.

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Sometimes we talk about praying

incessantly for something,

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but there is a time to stop.

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Yeah, this is one evidence of that,

but Paul gives us another where he

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prays three times, only three times I

should note, and God says That's enough.

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My grace is sufficient for you.

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I don't know if you need to hear this

or not, but maybe there's a time for you

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to stop praying about a certain thing.

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I don't know if there's a clear,

objective way to measure that.

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Only that I see that there's a principle

in scripture that says there is a time.

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For some things,

sometimes to stop praying.

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I mean, I'd say that time comes when

you begin to get angry with God.

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That's a good marker.

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When you become, when you start

be becoming angry with God for not

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responding to your prayer, that

might be a point where you need to

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check yourself and say, is this.

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Prayer in and of itself,

something I should keep doing.

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Do I need to resolve the sin and the

bitterness and the disappointment

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that I might feel before returning?

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And that doesn't mean you can't ever

return to that prayer, but if your

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prayer becomes dominated by a theme of

anger towards God for not responding to

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it, I think you're in danger territory.

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I like that one.

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I wanna know though.

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So it kind of seems like Moses is.

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Kind of maybe retelling this in

a more favorable light than than

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maybe we've seen in previous

accounts of what's going on here.

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What do you guys make of that?

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What do you guys make of the fact

that here, Moses, and actually this

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phrase is repeated a number of times in

yesterday's reading, in today's reading

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that he says it's because of you.

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Yeah, what do you make of that?

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Because that doesn't seem to line

up with what we've already read.

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No, I agree.

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Think it's I think he's looking beyond

just the striking of the rock event.

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I think he's looking at the entirety of

the continued persistent grumbling against

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Moses, against his leadership against God.

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And because I think at the rock there,

I think that's Moses' breaking point.

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I think it's not just in the moment.

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He was frustrated and angry and with

that particular time, I think it was

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just the whole time that he finally

got worn down and was like, I'm done.

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I've had it up to here.

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And he lashed out in an angry

way and struck the rock.

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So I think in that sense, he's looking

at the people of Israel going, man,

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you drove me to the point that I

made a really stupid decision and it

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was my own fault and I'm a bonehead.

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Even though he doesn't

say all that in the text.

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But it was you were such a, a.

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And a greasy wheel.

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Right?

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And I didn't have enough oil to

silence you, and it finally got to

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me where I couldn't do it anymore.

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And so this is you.

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And so that, that's my read on it,

that he's just pointed to the whole

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event of leading them out, the

persistent grumbling against him.

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I agree with you, but let me just press,

can we make that argument with our kids?

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I mean, I know you're, I'm

not saying you're right.

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I'm just saying I think

that's probably his mindset.

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Yeah and I think also remember what

Pastor Rod said, this is a speech

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given to the people of Israel.

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Right?

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Right.

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This is a different type of text than

the historical account that we read

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when we first discovered why God.

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Said that, yeah, you can't answer,

you can't go into the promised land.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if I have a great answer

to that either, other than I think

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it's God's word is not meant to be

seen as everything that's in it is

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meant to be prescription from God.

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We've talked about description

versus prescription.

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I wonder if this is a real response

that Moses is having, and even though

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he is the most meek and the most humble

in all of creation at this point,

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it doesn't mean that he's perfect.

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That's right.

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And so I'm wondering

if there's an in this.

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A bit of deflection where he

should say, I was a bonehead and I

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should have responded differently.

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I don't know, but I do know that

what he says in chapter four in verse

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nine is something to me that always

makes me skip a beat a little bit.

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Only take care and keep your soul

diligently, lest you forget the

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things that your eyes have seen

unless they depart from your

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heart all the days of your life.

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Make them known to your children

and your children's children and

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he goes on to say, I want you to.

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Fear me.

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And he's telling them he's, and it's

funny 'cause in this book he's reminding

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them, don't forget, we need this so much.

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And when we go to church and

we hear the same sermon from

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the same pastor, thanks, man.

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Every week it's the same thing.

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It's Amanda in church and

all these, I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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We need to hear the same things.

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My point, I just, we do, I see

this and I think, man, so many

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times I'm like, okay, I know this.

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I've heard this.

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I need to hear the same things.

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We need to hear the same

things unless we forget.

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It's also a great reminder

that Moses is not perfect.

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Moses is an incredible leader

and in many ways very righteous.

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But we're also looking forward

at this point in history to

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somebody who is better than Moses.

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A prophet like him maybe

we'll read about that soon.

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Prophet, priest and king like him, which

is one of the internal evidences of

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the reliability of scripture because it

does record the faults of the heroes.

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Mm-hmm.

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It does record the low points in the

embarrassing situations of the heroes.

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A manmade book typically doesn't do that.

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The manmade book is gonna take the

hero and say, no, he's the hero.

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We're gonna show him in the

most favorable light possible.

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And so one of the.

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I would say it's a more minor argument

for the reliability of the Bible, but

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it's still there as far as the internal

evidence of the evidence from the Bible

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itself is the fact that, yeah, it does

record the fact that Moses wasn't perfect.

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He did some things that we would look

at and be like, ah, I wouldn't do that.

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Or you think about New Testament, the

we're reading Peter's accountable, life

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of Christ and Mark we're studying first.

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Peter's a perfect example of a guy who.

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You know, records some faults of his

and the other writers records some

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faults of his that normally you, if

this was just a manmade book, you'd

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go, oh, we don't wanna do that.

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Peter's supposed to be

a, a guy in authority.

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So let's not talk about how Paul

had to confront him about his sin.

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Let's not talk about how he

denied Jesus three times.

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'cause that's gonna

undermine his credibility.

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When in reality what it does

is it bolsters our confidence.

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He's a perfect example of imperfection.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And in our New Testament passage

today, we're gonna also see

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Peter perhaps stumble slightly.

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Ooh, that's a good transition.

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Sorry to steal your transition.

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That's transition.

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That was a great transition.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's advanced level of

transition right there.

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Well, we get to our New Testament

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And so we pick up in, in verse 20, and

as pastoral alluded to yesterday, this

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is the bottom bread, or maybe it's

the top bread depending on how you

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look at the mark and sandwich here.

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Which now I'm just hungry.

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But this is about the

lesson from the fig tree.

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So Pastor Rod, you.

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Poked at this a little bit yesterday, but

why don't you unpack it a little bit more.

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Why the fig tree?

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Why cursing the fruit and what this

lesson is that Jesus teaches us here,

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Jesus enters Jerusalem with the desire

to see his people being fruitful.

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A among that is fruitfulness

in reaching the nation.

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So you might remember

any yesterday's reading.

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He says, my house should be called

a house of prayer, a house of.

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For the nations.

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This was more than Israel, so their

mission was so important because

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it concerned their future and

their progeny, but also that of

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everybody else in the whole world.

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This goes back to Genesis chapter 12.

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The blessing of Abraham is that

he would bless the nations.

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They are part of this franchise as

enterprise, and they're totally failing

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because they're not only not doing

that, but they're crowding out the

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very space where Gentiles would be to

pray and offer their worship to God.

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And so he's.

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He's very upset.

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Jesus is unhappy here to put it mildly.

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And so he sees that they're fruitless.

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Fast forward to our text here,

starting at verse 20 through 25.

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He sees that same fig tree that

he just saw the day before, and

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he says, there's no fruit here.

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I'm gonna curse you.

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And then he sees now that the fig tree

has been destroyed, we know that in 80, 70

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Jerusalem would eventually be destroyed.

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And the te.

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The Temple Mount would also be

summarily destroyed as well.

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So this is a forecast of what Jesus

is going to do to these people

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because they did not bear the fruit

that they were supposed to bear.

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And I think that there is,

again, this is j Jerusalem.

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This is Israel.

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But for us, I think he does call

us to be faithful and fruitful.

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And if we're not, that we should be

concerned that we suffer a similar

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discipline, although not quite the same.

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There seems to be a, even a, maybe a

secondary lesson that he's teaching here.

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And that is about just the power of faith.

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The power of, yeah.

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And which is I think what helps us

understand where he goes in, in the rest

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of verses 25, especially here, 24 and

25, because he's talking about prayer.

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He is talking about faith and

this is coming off the fig tree.

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So yes it's about Israel

and the fruitlessness there.

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And then he's peter's amazed.

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He's saying, Lord look at the fig tree.

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Look, you said there's not

gonna be any figs on it.

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And now look it's dead.

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And Jesus says, yeah, it's

almost a, and you will do greater

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things in these that he says.

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Is that in, I should know this.

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Is that in John's gospel?

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But here he's saying if you have

faith like a mustard seed, you'll

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be able to say to this mountain move

and the mountain's gonna be moved.

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And then he says something quite

astonishing in verse 25, he says, whenever

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you stand praying, which was the posture

of the day to, to do, he says, forgive

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if you have anything against anyone

sow, that you father, who also who is

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in heaven, may forgive your trespasses.

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I mean, forgiveness is such

a, an evergreen topic for

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us as human beings really.

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And it doesn't change for us as

Christians, in fact, that it gets.

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Ratchet it up, that may

lack of forgiveness.

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Harboring unforgiveness of somebody

can not only impede your prayer

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life, but it can potentially reveal

that you aren't right with the Lord.

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Because if you don't understand

the amount you've been forgiven,

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I think the implication is here

then how can you expect to claim

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that you're right with the Lord?

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If you're not willing to forgive

somebody else, how can you expect that

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God's gonna hear you, and how can you

expect that God's gonna forgive you?

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Yeah.

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And I just have to point out,

Peter, he, he doesn't remember the

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other teaching that has happened.

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He just sees the tree and is

like, oh, look, there's the tree.

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Amazing.

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Sometimes I like to think like, oh,

what would it be like to be a disciple?

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And I'm like, oh, I would've so

many questions and so many, you

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know, insightful things to ask.

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And I would just, I think it would be

actually probably worse than Peter.

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And if all Peter can do is

just be like, oh, look, hey.

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There's the tree that you cursed.

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Good job.

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Jesus.

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Yeah.

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But what we're seeing here though

is what you guys are saying but

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I think we're seeing the new

covenant becoming a reality, right?

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It's faith that is.

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In God that saves us, right?

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And it is then access to him

through prayer that is something

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that's immediate and no longer

necessarily through the temple,

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through the old way of doing things.

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So I think we're starting to see

the initial, I mean, we've seen it

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already, but we see the initial little

sprouts of the new covenant here

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popping up in what Jesus is saying.

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Yeah.

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And part of that sprouting is the fact

that prayer becomes a much more, I mean,

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not that it wasn't a centerpiece, but

now it's becoming front and center.

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Yeah.

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Jesus is mad because the

Gentiles couldn't pray.

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Mm-hmm.

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Jesus now emphasizes to Peter,

it's because you need to pray and

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then we're gonna see even more

that there's hindrances to prayer.

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So much.

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So much so that our new approach to

God, our new worship, is gonna be

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primarily, I think, prayer centered.

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Mm-hmm.

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Animal censored anymore.

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There's no blood to spill.

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'cause Jesus is gonna spill his blood.

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But there are now hindrances to

prayer that will stifle your worship.

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Mm-hmm.

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Stifle your relationship with God.

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And this is one of them.

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It's a failure to forgive.

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Peter's gonna mention another

where you live with your wife in a

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misunderstanding, a not understanding way.

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And consequently, you stifle

the effectiveness of your

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prayer, of your prayers.

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And so I think what we see here.

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Is how we to how we are supposed to foster

a thriving, active prayer life with God.

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And part of it is that we have a clear

conscience before him that we're living in

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blamelessness, not perfection, but living

with in such a way that we are confessing

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sin and that we are seeking to deal with

those things and not try to hide them.

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And that we.

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Believe that God can and

will answer our prayers.

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We're so trigger shy or so we

are shy about this because of

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the prosperity gospel, right?

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We would say this much stronger

if we didn't have Creflo

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dollar in our background.

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Mm-hmm.

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And Benny hint, if these guys weren't

on the scene saying foolish things,

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we would say, guys, you gotta trust.

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The Lord's gonna act.

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Yeah, trust that he's gonna act

on your behalf and know that he's

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got your best interest at heart.

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And I think we probably should start

doing a lot more of that despite the

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fact that there are risks inherent.

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One of the things that we

should, again, pay attention

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to here is the passage of time.

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So after the cleansing of the temple

there, there was another night

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where Jesus went back to Bethany.

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He's probably, by the

way, staying with you.

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Either Lazarus at his house or Simon,

the leper back there because Mark doesn't

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record the raising of Lazarus, but that's

happened right before the triumphal entry.

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And so he's going back to

Bethany, which was just outside

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the city of Jerusalem there.

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That's where he's staying

and he keeps coming back.

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So he ke comes back the next day after

all this, and that's on their way.

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They see that fig tree again.

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That's why they're seeing it again.

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And he enters Jerusalem and he's

gonna be met by the scribes and

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they're still upset and they're gonna

challenge him and saying, Hey, who

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gave you the right to do these things?

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And Jesus doesn't answer them.

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He says, well, let me ask you a question.

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He said, why don't you tell me on

whose authority did John baptize?

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Was John's baptism from Heaven

or was it just of his own accord?

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Did he just say, I'm

gonna start doing this?

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And the Pharisees don't want to

answer because they know how highly

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John was regarded by the people.

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So they can't say, well, John just

did it out of his own accord 'cause.

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People will be mad, but they also

can't say that it was from God because

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then they're trapped, because Jesus's

question is going to be implied or there.

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Okay, then why didn't you go out to John?

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Why didn't you obey what

he was calling you to do?

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Checkmate.

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Yeah.

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And so they say, well,

we're not gonna answer you.

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And Jesus says, all right, well then

I'm not answer interested in answering

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your question about my authority here.

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So, Jesus is, this is a different

Jesus Now as the cross is drawing

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near, he is on the offensive.

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Yeah.

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Jesus doesn't answer the question, right.

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This is, again, I don't know

that an honest answer to a

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dishonest question is required.

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And it's things like this

that give me that mentality.

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I can offer a answer.

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A politician's answer or I can ask

a question that is meant to exp.

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I'm not as sharp as Jesus.

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I don't know if I'd be able to think of

a good question like that on the spot.

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Right.

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But this does tell me

that in my interactions.

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But some people and granted again, Jesus

knows their heart better than we do.

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There are times when not giving an

answer is an appropriate answer.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Lord, thanks for your word

and thanks for Christ.

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Thanks for the example that he is to us.

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We wanna be as much like him as we can be.

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We're also grateful for what we're

reading about right now, the passion

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week the obedience even to the end,

that he was perfectly submitted to

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your will, even through to the cross.

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And so we're so grateful for that.

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As we study this, I pray that we

would read it with fresh eyes as we

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approach it and not just let it wash

over us as something so familiar that

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we are looking forward to what's next.

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And so I pray that we would appreciate

it for what it is in that light.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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