00:00 Introduction and Cold Brew Talk

00:57 Taylor Swift Guitar Incident

02:11 Babylon Bee and Taylor Swift Discussion

03:47 Breaking News: Iran Launches Missiles at Israel

04:35 Biblical Perspective on Israel and Prophecy

08:25 Matthew's Gospel and Genealogy

13:07 The Significance of the Number 14

14:01 Joseph's Dilemma and Divine Guidance

15:24 The Birth of Jesus and Its Prophetic Significance

17:10 Understanding the Genealogies of Jesus

19:38 The Birth of Christ in Luke's Gospel

21:47 Jesus' Early Life and Temple Visit

23:46 Mary's Reflection and Jesus' Growth

26:31 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Wednesday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Well, that's happening.

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You know, The cold-brew that

we referenced last week.

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Now people are asking, everybody's

been asking, man, I'm here to

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tell you it's the real deal.

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If you notice that I've

been a little bit more.

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Beat a little bit more peppy.

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On the podcast.

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I have noticed.

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I've been, I've been better mood that are

looking as high brow, high brow high brew.

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It's high brew.

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Uh, cold brew is it's the real deal.

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I could tell, man, you've been

a little more, I mean the 50

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extra milligrams of caffeine.

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Milligrams of caffeine.

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Which a monster is one 50.

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I guess the ones that we drink,

I'm sure there's ones that are more

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powerful, but yeah, I notice it.

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You were driving very aggressively

the other day when I was, I saw you.

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You didn't know I was watching,

but it brings joy to my heart.

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You ran over the median and

then ran back over it again.

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You know, I just was like,

Hey, let's not, why not?

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I've got an, I've got an

SUV now let's do this.

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The old lady that you

ran up the road, man.

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She had a compass polisher

sticker on the back too.

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That's where it lies.

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These are all lies.

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Hey, this guy.

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But a Taylor swift Taylor guitar

heard about this, um, for $4,000.

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Yeah.

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You know what he did with it?

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Yup.

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The guy that's on the video.

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So you should look this up.

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It's a north Texan guy too.

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So that's why I knew about this.

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He's one of our people, not our people

like our church, but he buys his Taylor

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swift guitar at auction for four grand.

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And you would take me a scam.

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It's really liked here.

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This is what's going to hang it up.

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It's going to put it in his, on

his office wall, perhaps like you.

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He goes up there with a hammer?

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No, no, no, no.

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He actually goes up, takes the

hammer from the guy that sold it

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to him and he just destroys it.

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He's he's whacking away at it right now.

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And the guitarist efficiently

demolished it's like that Banksy

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auction piece that shredded.

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Oh yeah.

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Somebody bought that.

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That's heart wrenching, heart wrenching.

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I feel bad for that guy.

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Uh, yeah.

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You know what, I'm not a fan

of Taylor swift, so I'm okay

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with the guy doing that.

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Well, I thought it was interesting.

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I'm sure it's going to wind

up in a sermon somewhere.

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I can't tell you where maybe yours

there's a better use of your $4,000.

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That is to be sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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I should discretionary income.

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I appreciate that.

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The symbolism there, if you donate.

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Twice as much to your church.

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And I think I might feel okay with it.

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Yeah.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Um, we'll never shed a tear for too swift.

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Yeah.

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I saw a Babylon bee post.

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Uh, woman known for making bad decisions,

endorses the democratic candidate.

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On that too.

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Yeah, that made me chuckle.

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Uh, you know, I've had these

guys that's Babylon Beaman.

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These guys are swinging at everybody.

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They do such funny stuff.

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Well, her, her boyfriend, Travis, Kelsey

with the chiefs has been struggling

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at the beginning of the season.

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So the NFL is beginning to turn on

Taylor a little bit, which I'm all

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for the turn more let's let's let's

ask her from the realms of society.

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Well, Yeah.

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She's dead.

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Yeah, she she's turned a corner

that a corner that I like.

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She's on a CDC, part of the.

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Theological street, I guess.

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Yeah, she's a long way from our

song with a slamming screen door.

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Um, Yeah, she, yeah, no.

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Thanks.

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Bye Taylor.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Can you tell In part of the reason

why I'm frustrated is my daughter

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is right in that wheelhouse of

the range of, of all of these.

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You know, Swifties.

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And I've discipled my daughter away

from such things, but, um, she's

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just such a corrupting influence on

all of these young women out there

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and not, not even politically, just

morally and, you know, Just her.

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Philosophy of life, just everything.

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I just, there, it's just, it's horrible.

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It's horrible.

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And she's not the first, I mean, back

when we were growing up in, in, in high

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school and junior high, we had Brittany

Spears and that whole movement and like,

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It's just, she's not the first, she's

just a latest, but I'm like, can we be

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done with the Taylor swift experiment?

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Can we move on from this now ever?

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Well, yeah, for her it's it's if it's

not her, it's going to be somebody else.

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It's going to be somebody

else I'd get that.

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But I just I'm.

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I just don't.

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I don't like it, man.

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It just is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey news is breaking right now.

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Breaking news, breaking news,

Iran launched missiles at Israel.

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Okay.

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I just took a very different turn on this.

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Well, okay.

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Because.

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I'm looking at my X speed right now.

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Okay.

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Because I remember seeing that clip

and I'm like, oh, let me go, try to

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find that clip of the guy breaking the.

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The guitar.

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And of course, because X.

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There's different things on, on, on

offer at any given time stuff that's

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meant to capture your attention

and it is successfully done.

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So.

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Uh, people are saying,

Hey world war three.

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Uh, world war three is coming.

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So I ran launch missiles.

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Andrew's real missiles towards holy man.

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Holy.

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So hundreds.

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It is, it seems like it's on now.

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And it seems like this might be a,

another sign that things are going

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poorly there and are not going to go

in a good, a good direction for them.

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Uh, your unfiltered.

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Uh, hot takes on this pasture, PJ.

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Yeah.

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As a dispensationalist God

has a future for his people.

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Um, Yeah, there, there has

been a long season of time.

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Uh, where Israel was not a nation.

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And Israel's recognition of a nation

by the world does not necessarily mean

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that this is the reunification of Israel

that is going to proceed the coming

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of Christ in the millennial kingdom.

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It certainly appeared that way.

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And that was what was much celebrated

when Israel was given official

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statehood, I guess it was, uh, back

in the late forties, but, uh, forties.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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47 48.

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Yeah.

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But if Israel is taken off the

world scene again, this does

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not mean that God has failed.

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We still trust God's word.

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And so let's say as a result of

this, um, Israel is, is defeated.

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And let's say that the territory

is turned over to the Palestinians.

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Uh, does this mean that all of a sudden.

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Uh, God is, has failed his people where

God doesn't have a future for as people

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know our timeframe is not God's timeframe.

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He is beyond us.

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And he is unfolding things in

a way that we can't understand.

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So as I'm literally watching these,

this clip of these missiles flying

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through the air right now, um, he

sovereign over what's happening right

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now, and we need to rest in that, not

as a let go and let God, and let's

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bury our head in the sand kind of a

mentality, but we need to rest in, in.

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Preach against our anxieties with the

truth that God is in control of everything

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that's unfolding right now and knows

exactly how it's going to play out.

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Yeah, this is, uh, this,

this big, um, how big it is.

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We don't know yet.

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Obviously only God knows, but

this is a really big deal.

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Um, There are sides on, on this.

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And there's, there's big players

behind both of these countries.

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So if this is in fact, the beginning

of world war three, No, what impact

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should that have on us right now?

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We're seeing this, or you're

hearing the podcast the day after

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some of the news is unfolding.

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Uh, maybe Israel strikes back and of

course, people are upset about that.

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They tell him they should leave.

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Leave Hamas alone.

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Yeah.

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As, as though that they

were the aggressors here.

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Um, how, how should Christians think if we

are on the precipice of world war three?

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Yeah.

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I mean.

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It's hard to say because we, I.

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Neither of us obviously lived.

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Inner through world war II, world war one.

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And even for those that did were

in a totally different realm of

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what warfare looks like today.

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Yeah, absentee war.

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You don't have to be there in person.

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Exactly.

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Uh, th this is, this should

not surprise us or shock us.

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Jesus said as the, in times come,

and I'm not seeing where here it is.

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But he said there's going to be signs.

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And part of the signs are

wars and rumors of wars.

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Right?

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So when we're seeing this take place, this

is what Jesus said was going to happen.

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And he said, this is the

beginning of the birth things.

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So, um, I mean, John said little

children were in the last hour.

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Listen, we have a mission.

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We have a focus, we

have a job as a church.

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We've got something that we need to

be about and that we need to be doing.

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And Iran is launch of

missiles against Israel.

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Doesn't change that, uh, one iota as far

as what our mission is, the church's.

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Uh, you still have neighbors living

next door to you or across the

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street from you that need the gospel.

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And, uh, you know what, Iran firing

missiles at Israel or Israel taking

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out the leader of Hezbollah doesn't

change that they still need Jesus.

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And we have a job to do church, and

that's what Christ has called us to

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do until he returns and calls us home.

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And so the fact that he

hasn't done that yet, yeah.

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These wars are happening.

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Jesus said they were going to happen.

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It shouldn't instill fear

within us or anxiety within us.

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We should be sober by this cause it's a

reminder does shock us out of our comfort

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zone that we find ourselves in here.

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That's so easy to find ourselves in.

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Uh, we're, we're kind of

insulated from so much of this.

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It shocks us into that.

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That's a good thing because

it puts eternity back in

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the forefront of our minds.

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And so that if anything that we

take away from it, maybe that's it.

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Hey, we're not guaranteed tomorrow.

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So let's get after what

God wants us to do today.

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That's a good word.

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And a and a really good

word to start us off.

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Uh, and I mean, is this the first day?

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No, this is not the first test.

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To stay to man.

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I can't believe it.

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I'm still, I'm still

enthusiastic about that.

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I'm loving that fact.

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Some of the problem.

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If I see it right now,

I see a couple of days.

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We're just reading one chapter.

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Hey, where's the rest of

my Bible reading buddy.

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Right?

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Okay.

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Let's let's get serious.

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Be focused on the things that

matter, like scripture, like Christ.

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Like a genealogy, which is how Matthew's

gospel opens in Matthew chapter one.

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And so I've got a couple of

comments on here, but I know

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pastor, rod you're preaching

through Matthew with our students.

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I want to get your insights as well.

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I get a million of them.

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Awesome.

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Well, I'll try to step on as many

toes as I can on the way through.

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Please do, and Rob you

of everything that I can.

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Excellent.

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Let's do it now.

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I think one thing to note.

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Uh, and I think it can be

overemphasized, but it is worth

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noting and it does show up.

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And I think we, we see it with Matthew.

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The gospel writers each wrote with a

specific intention or purpose in minds.

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Right.

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And so for portraits, When Jesus.

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Exactly.

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And with Matthew, you get a

very Jewish portrait of Jesus.

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Uh, Matthew wrote.

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Specifically for the Jewish people.

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And so you'll see things like John.

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We'll include a lot of

parents' medical statements.

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When he says something about something

that's that's Jewish or a feast or

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something, John will give her parentheses

and define what that was because

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John had a much broader audience.

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He wasn't writing to a

distinctly Jewish audience.

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Matthew won't explain as much as John

does when he references Jewish things.

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Also Matthew will have a greater

emphasis on old Testament prophecy.

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Prophecies specifically

messianic prophecies.

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Prophecies do dealing with the

fulfillment of the coming of

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the Messiah and show how Jesus.

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Matches that.

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And you'll notice that in, in Luke's

gospel, you'll hear son of man, a lot

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in Luke's gospel in Matthew's gospel.

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You're going to see son of David a lot.

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Because again, Matthew wrote with

a distinctly Jewish audience in

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mind, trying to show that Jesus

is the long awaited Messiah.

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The son of David, the king.

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Uh, and the one that Israel

had been waiting for.

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So that informs so much of Matthew,

including this opening genealogy,

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pastor, rod, why don't you walk

us through the significance of

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this genealogy beginning with.

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Uh, Abraham.

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Okay.

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Let's walk through this name by name guys.

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I know, I know I'm just kidding, whatever.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So some of the things that need to

stand out to you in this, in this

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Gian, genealogy, a few things,

number one, you saw Jesus Christ,

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the son of David son of Abraham.

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That's going to frame

the whole thing here.

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Uh, that the, the fact that

Jesus is the son of these two

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important Israelite figures.

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Gives you a sense of what

Abraham, uh, excuse me, what,

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uh, Matthew is attempting to do.

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So he traces the lineage

down two important figures.

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He's, he's connected to the,

both the covenant of David

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and the covenant of Abraham.

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And so Abraham marks his way

all the way down the list here.

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Now there's another important feature.

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Uh, Matthew includes some

important female names.

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This is awesome because you

have Tamar here in verse three.

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You've got Ray Hab.

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You've got Ruth.

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And, uh, you got the why for

your riot in verses five and six.

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And so you have some important

ladies that are included here.

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Obviously with the awareness

that these important ladies are

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not put here because they're.

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You know, it was a good situation and

this is Matthew's acknowledgement.

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It's not so subtly that.

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The life of the Messiah came

down a very colorful line.

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Shall we say?

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On top of that, you have a break

here in verse 11, where you

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have the deportion to Babylon.

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The deportation, rather

deportation to Babylon.

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And then you have Matthew's commentary

at the bottom of that in verse

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17, saying there's 14 generations

here and 14 generations there.

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Uh, here's the, here's

the interesting thing.

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Uh, there's there's different

reasons or different approaches

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to why he did these two numbers.

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Why 14 here in 14, because that's

really not what happened, right?

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There's not a literal 14 generations

before the deportation in 14,

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after some have suggested.

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And I.

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I'm not sure where I land on this.

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Maybe you have an opinion on

this password, PJ, but some have

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suggested that what Matthew's doing.

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Is using a numerology.

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If you add up the numbers of

David's name, you have 14.

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So maybe he's trying to say, look

14 here, 14 there David David,

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David from beginning to the end.

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This is the Davidic fulfillment.

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May be.

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Um, or there's some kind of other

theological significance that

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Matthew is trying to give it here.

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Uh, nevertheless, as you read this,

you're seeing a colorful history where

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Jesus, the Messiah has come through.

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He's saying this is a

Davidic heir to the throne.

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Who's also a son of Abraham, obviously,

which means this guy is that he's the

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Messiah that you've been waiting for.

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Yeah, I, the, the numerology thing.

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I get a little bit uncomfortable with

that because I, most of the time I go to

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the Bible code, that book that came out.

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You know, back in the nineties

where it was like, look, we

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can predict all these things.

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Yeah.

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Some of it's legitimate.

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Some of them.

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Uh, seven days completion and rest 40.

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Yeah.

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Testing and trial.

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I mean, there's some of that

in the Bible and even the new

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numerology with the name shows up.

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The number of man shall be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, his name is the number of

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So it's not without precedent.

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It's just, it gets sketchy.

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It does get sketchy.

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And it's, it's, that's plain, the text

says it right there in revelation 13,

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18, the text, doesn't say it here, which

is where you have to start saying, okay.

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Do I have reason enough to believe this?

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Is it a strong enough

compelling arguments?

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And that's where we could just hold

our hands up and say, well, maybe.

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Maybe not right, right.

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I've also heard just the focus on

the, the, the pivotal characters.

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Uh, David and Jack and I are both

pivotal figures in the history of Israel.

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And Matthew wanted to draw attention

to the fact that Jesus would

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prove to be even more pivotal.

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And so it's more about who those ones

are then the, then the 14, but he draws

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attention to the 14 and calls that out.

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And so we've, yeah, we've

got to deal with that.

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And at the end of the day, I

didn't even preach this to the

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students because I thought they're

not going to need to know that.

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Right.

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And I don't have a really solid

answer as to why he chose 14.

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I mean, clearly there was something

in his mind that his initial

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audience would have said, oh

yeah, I see what he's doing there.

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For us a little further removed.

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It's harder to know with certainty, what

he's attempting to do with the 14 and 14.

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Yeah.

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But it is super cool.

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I mean, beginning with, with

Matthew, because he could have gone

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back further than that beginning,

or rather with Abraham, he could

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have gone back further than that.

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Uh, cause Luke does, but he chose not to.

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And Genesis 12 three, which I'm always,

I'm always reminded of Paul in Galatians

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three, God preached the gospel beforehand

to Abraham saying, and you will all

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the families of the earth be blessed.

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And here's the answer to that

right here in Matthew chapter one.

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Hm.

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All right.

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The birth then.

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18 through 25.

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Um, It opens up here.

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We've read about this a little bit.

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We've already covered some of this

yesterday in the announcement of the

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birth and in John, the Baptist and

pending birth and everything else.

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But this time.

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Uh, Joseph finds out that Mary is pregnant

and the problem is they're not married

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at this time and they hadn't done any of

the things that would bring that about.

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So that would be confusing.

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I can understand there.

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Truthfulness.

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Yeah.

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So Joseph.

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It says adjust man.

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And doesn't want to put her to shame.

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Cause we talked about that yesterday too.

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You remember a B.

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Being patrolled.

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Was, uh, more than being

engaged in involved at a legal

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dissolution of that relationship.

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So Joseph, um, is going

to put her away quietly.

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He's going to divorce her quietly.

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He's not going to go through

the public display of things.

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And yet he's worn by an angel.

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Hey, this isn't right.

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Go ahead and take her.

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And this is God, this is the situation.

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And Joseph's commendable in this

because he exercises faith, Joseph.

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Is kind of a background character

in the birth of Christ and that's.

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I'm not, not going to question God's

recording of all these events, but I

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kind of wish we had more insight into

Joseph throughout this whole time.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And we don't find out much about

them because we believe he died.

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Younger.

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And, uh, and that by the time

Jesus hits his earthly ministry, we

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think Joseph is gone at that point.

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Right.

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Um, Yeah.

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Uh, chapter one, verse 20.

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Notice again, the emphasis on

David Joseph son of David is how

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he's addressed by the angels.

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So again, that, that connection there.

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Uh, Matthew 1 21 through 23.

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Jesus is the name that he is to be

given that the baby has to be given

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new Testament form of Joshua God saves.

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Uh, but Jesus is the one that's going

to be the one that's going to save.

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So, um, there's also some parallels

here with Isaiah nine in the

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prophecy about Emmanuel God with us.

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So if you're paying attention, if

the Jewish mind was paying attention

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to this announcement here in Matthew

chapter one, they would have picked

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up on some things to say, okay,

this isn't just some other baby.

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There's a significance here about

this baby, that, that points to

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the fact that he may in fact be

God in the flesh, God, with us.

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That's right.

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And you're noticing here that

he cites Isaiah chapter seven.

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Uh, we, we went through

this not too long ago.

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And you might remember that

this was a sign that wasn't

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meant for, for, for Joseph.

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The sign was meant to point to the

deliverance of the people of Israel.

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And they were expecting, at least we

thought they were expecting a child.

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That would be the sign for them.

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Well, what Matthews here is showing us

is that that sign actually pointed to

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a much bigger and more important sign.

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Namely, the.

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The ultimate deliver,

which is Jesus the Christ.

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So a lot of what happens in the old

Testament, Matthew's going to adopt and

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say, look, you saw it this way, but let

me show you what it actually really means.

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And the greater reality that it points to.

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He's going to do this more than once.

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And Matthew's approach to this as is.

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I don't know, it's going to challenge

us as, as Bible readers, because

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we're going to say, well, hold on.

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Did.

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Does that what they meant.

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And what worked through that as

we get to those places, but just

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know here, this is a big deal.

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He's citing Isaiah seven 14, which

is, uh, it's it's the Messiah card.

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Everybody knows all he's he's,

he's making a bold claim here.

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And, and indeed he is, which

is why he's going to back it up

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with the next several chapters.

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Okay.

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I don't think you hit on

it in your description.

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Forgive me if you did, but

I totally did the genealogy.

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You missed it is.

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As of Joseph.

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Oh, we didn't.

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Yeah, we didn't talk about that.

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Okay.

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So walk us through that.

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Because Jesus was not the

biological child of Joseph.

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So why does it matter who

Joseph's genealogy goes back to?

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So this is going to be a

challenging thing to do, man.

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Okay.

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You have two genealogies.

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And they're different.

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They're different genealogies.

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And so the question for every Bible reader

is how do you put these two Jeanie Jeanie?

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Genie illogical pieces together.

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And Matthew chapter.

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So the most traditional thing that

people are going to say, oh, why

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don't you have one of Joseph and

another Jenna genealogy is of Mary.

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And the evidence in

weight of that is here.

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We have pretty much Matthew saying this.

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This is, this is Joseph.

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Yeah.

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In fact, he says in verse 16, Jacob, the

father of Joseph husband of Mary, of whom

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Jesus was born, who is called the Christ.

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So Jesus is now associated

with Joseph as is.

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Legal father, although not biological

father and scripture would see

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that as totally legitimate as

totally legitimate, even in a.

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And the kind of marriage, if a, if a

brother dies and, and the other brother

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marries his wife, he carries on his name.

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So there's, there's total precedence

for this it's legal, it's, it's valid.

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This would have totally

been an acceptable.

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So most people will say

this is Joseph's genealogy.

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And in fact, I don't think

anyone disagrees with that.

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The challenge of course is at

N and Luke and loose geneal

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genealogical, Luke three, I think.

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Yeah.

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Chapter.

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Uh, Luke three, you have another

gene genealogy, which is different

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than, than what you have here.

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And so the question is, well,

what makes a difference?

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And others are going to say

again, traditional interpretation.

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Oh well, that's, Mary's genealogy.

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It's Mary's line and Joseph's line.

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And guess what he is.

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He has a Davidic

descendant and both lines.

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And it makes sense.

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Maybe, maybe I have my

reservations about Mary's line.

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Um, but it would work since.

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It's a possible, that's a

possible interpretation.

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Um, there's, there's a few ways to go

about it, but I think those are the,

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the, the most appropriate ones for

you to kind of say, okay, top of my

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mind, that that's going to be the best.

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First approach.

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Yep.

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But there are others that are a little

more sophisticated that take a little

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more Bible digging for us to get through,

but that's a good place to start.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And when we get to Luke three, we'll,

we'll address that in more detail.

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That's in a couple of days

here, I think in our reading.

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Suffice it to say.

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Matthew chapter one appears to be

Joseph's genealogy here and, and even

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still, if Jesus was adopted, so to

speak by Joseph, he would have had a

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legal rights of the throne of David

even through Joseph's line there.

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And so if Luke three is married,

then he's got a biological

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claim to David's line as well.

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But.

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Either way.

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I think the point here is for the

Jewish audience, they would have gone.

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Okay.

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If Joseph was his legal father,

then this one is he has a

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claim to the throne of David.

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And in that appears to be the case here.

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Amen.

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Chapter two, uh, oh, familiar story

to open one that always strikes me.

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It's one of my favorites,

Luke chapter two, by the way.

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Uh, yeah, Luke chapter two.

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Sorry, not Matthew chapter two.

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Uh, Luke chapter two, one of my favorite,

uh, accounts here of the, the birth of

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Christ is the visit of, uh, the Wiseman.

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Um, Nope.

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Sorry.

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Jesus.

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Born.

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I was looking at Matthew chapter two.

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Luke chapter two.

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Nevermind.

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You're gonna have to wait until tomorrow's

episode to find out my favorite part.

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Because Luke chapter two is

just about Jesus being born.

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It's only about just, uh, anyways, Luke

again, detail, detail, detail, detail.

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Anytime you're reading Luke pay

attention to the fact that he's

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giving you a lot of detail.

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And so in verses one through

three it's it's unique.

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The.

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The things that he's mentioning here,

Caesar Augustus, the, the census and this.

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Uh, the registration, when Quirinius

was governor of Syria, these are

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things we don't get anywhere else.

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Um, if you're looking for, when did

this happen, let me commend to you.

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MacArthur's commentary either his

actual come through on Luke or,

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uh, his single volume commentary

there on the gospel here.

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Uh, He's got a good breakdown of the

references here to Augustus inquiry.

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Aeneas that will help you

kind of figure out, okay.

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When was this taking place?

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By the way, we don't think we don't

believe that Jesus was born in zero.

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That, that that's when history

pivots, we know it's not right, but

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he, because things like this tell

us that it wasn't right, right.

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And so we think it was probably

closer to four BC or in, or

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around that, that timeframe for.

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Six, I think, yeah.

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But again, MacArthur's come through

helpful, uh, explanation there

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anyways, verses four to seven is the

familiar story he's born in Bethlehem.

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The time comes.

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There's no room for them in the Inn.

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Um, so he's born in a stable now.

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Uh, less, you think a wooden

stable, like you find set up on

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nativities and things like that.

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This would have been a, um,

this would have been a, a cave.

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Uh, if you will, this would have been

something where, um, they would have had

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a cave where the, the, the manger of the

stable would have been in the front of it.

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And that the families, resident

residents would have been in the back.

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So they're not like out in the backyard.

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They're, they're still

part of this dwelling.

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They're just up front where

all the animals would have been

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kept and where the, all the

animals would have been placed.

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And by the way, a manger.

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Is the feeding trough of the cattle there.

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And so that's when he's laid

in a manger, he's laid in that

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because that's what was there.

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Uh, rest of chapter two, you've got

the announcement to the shepherds

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unlikely recipients of the first

announcement of the birth of Christ.

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Uh, the, the shepherds had to spend a

long time out with the sheep in the field.

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They couldn't be in the temple.

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They couldn't be there for

sacrifice sacrifices and

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all the feasts all the time.

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So they were oftentimes considered

ceremonially, unclean as a result.

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And yet they're the ones the angel

appears to and says, Hey, the savior

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of the world has been born to you.

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So that's significant.

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Luke is writing to a broader audience.

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Uh, Gentile audience.

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And so, uh, that, that kind of

is in keeping with that, that

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he would have recorded this

announcement to the shepherds.

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And then there's the temple and the two

profits and that's verses 22 through 40.

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There's a Simeon.

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And there is Ana and as the baby is

brought us, as Jesus has brought.

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Uh, both Jesus and Mary had

obligations ceremonially at the temple.

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And so as, as he's brought there

by his parents to be dedicated

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as the first born son, Exodus 13,

two talks about Simeon is there.

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Uh, Simeon had been told that

he would be able to see that

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the coming of the Messiah.

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So he rejoices in that he

praises God from that and he

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says, now I can depart in peace.

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And then another woman is there.

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Who'd also been waiting.

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And Anna.

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Uh, is this woman's name and she

stands up and she bears witness

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to Jesus as well and rejoices.

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In his arrival.

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Uh, and gives thanks there

in the temple as well.

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Uh, verse 40 Jesus grows.

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I think that's something

worth noting that, that.

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It points to the humility of

Christ that he had to grow up.

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Uh, during this time as well.

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And then there's the familiar

story as the chapter ends of Jesus.

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Uh, at 12 years old now being left

behind at the temple Mount by his family.

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Not in a Kirk Cameron sense.

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Yeah.

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Not, and I can't.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Uh, no, but his parents come

back, they find him in the temple

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and he is holding court with the

religious leaders in astounding them

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by his wisdom and understanding.

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Uh, which is pretty amazing.

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So, and another reference

there in verse 51, 2 is growth.

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The, in this speaks to

the kenosis is emptying.

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Uh, by taking on that, the form of

man, and he was dependent upon God

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and the spirit to grow in wisdom

and stature as he was, was raised.

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So one of the cool things that

stood out to me this time around

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is it red is, is one of the things

that that is said about Mary.

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Um, and in verse 19, it says, Mary

treasured up, all these things,

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pondering them in her heart.

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She pondered the things

that were happening.

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Which tells me that she wasn't just

receiving the revelation, that God was

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granting her through the Christ and the

angels and the star and all those things.

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But she noticed.

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I mean, she was working

them through, in her mind.

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She was thinking about them.

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She was squeezing the lemon for the

juice, as it were to say, okay, what

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does this tell me about God, what

does this tell me about the future?

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How do I understand this?

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And I think that's one of, that's one

of the cool ways I haven't thought of

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Mary this way before, but this gave me a

new appreciation for it because she was

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not a passive recipient of information.

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Now we think at the Christmas song,

Mary Mary did, you know, all right.

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Oh, that was not the melody,

but you know what you want.

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I'm talking about.

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Uh, she did know, she didn't

know everything, but she did

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know because she re recognized,

man, this is God, my savior.

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This is the one that

I need to be saved by.

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And then she starts thinking about the

things that are being said about him.

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She's acknowledging the

trues that are said.

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And as she sees Jesus grew up, did she

has to have an increasing awareness of

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what it all means, knowing that this

perfect kid that popped out of her belly.

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This is never sending.

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That's got to stand out

to you at some point.

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Wait a minute.

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As good as perfect.

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A much to disagree and have his, his

siblings who did not appreciate that.

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I'm sure she'd be more like Jesus.

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All the time.

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Right.

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All the time.

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So he, she she's pondering that.

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I think that's huge

pondering what you see.

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I thought immediately of our

people, I thought of our church

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and saying, man, it's good.

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If we were like Mary,

that we're treasuring.

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What Sue said about God's word.

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I think that says something about the

memorization of it and taking, but it

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also says the meditation of it where we're

squeezing out the juice and drawing out

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the implications and saying, what insights

can I gather from what's being said?

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And I think she provides

such a great example of that.

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And I think.

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Jesus in the temple.

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One of the things that stands out

to me in verse 46 here is that when

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they find him in the temple, he's

sitting among the teachers listening

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to them and here's, what's remarkable.

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He's asking them questions.

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He's asking them questions.

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And I know that that that was a

common teaching tactic of the rabbis.

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Right.

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They taught by question, you.

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The Socratic method kind of thing.

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And I think that's fine.

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That's a great thing.

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You should practice that

yourself as parents.

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Uh, but I think they're asking

him questions and he's giving them

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answers and they're amazed at his

understanding and his answers.

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And I tied it back to the

questions and stuff like that.

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This is really incredible.

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Uh, good thinking most often is

good questions asking good questions

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and driving good answers from that.

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I think we're going to talk a

little about that on the Sunday.

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If I'm mistaken, I.

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I am going to talk about that.

734

I mean, I know we're in the early stages.

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It's only Tuesday for us, but

that'll be fun because I think it's,

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I think you see it here in Luke

chapter two and I'm awed by it.

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I'm excited by it.

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Yeah.

739

Yeah.

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I mean, yeah, to that point, if Jesus

had to grow in wisdom and stature

741

with men, and if Jesus had to grow

in some of these things, I think

742

we're on safe ground to say we should

be growing in these things too.

743

I mean at minimum, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right, let's pray.

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And then we will be finished

with another episode.

748

God, we thank you for the birth of Christ.

749

We thank you for something that we take

for granted that even as we approach, um,

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the season where we remember his birth

and you go to Costco and the Christmas

751

trees are out and everything already.

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Oh, God, we are mindful of, uh,

that this is way more than the pomp

753

and circumstance around the season.

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Uh, that this is way more

than words on a page.

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This is the incarnation.

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This is God eternal taking on flesh.

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And coming for us to live that

perfect life of obedience.

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This is the beginning, even

as he's taken and dedicated by

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Joseph and Mary that's, you.

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Uh, through the actions of his parents.

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Uh, fulfilling all

righteousness for Jesus.

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And then he's going to be baptized

by John and through the temptation

763

is we'll see everything unfold.

764

He is meriting the righteousness.

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We now claim as Christians.

766

And we're watching that unfold

before our eyes in the gospel.

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So we thank you so much for

Christ for that we would enjoy.

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Uh, the season in the gospels,

even as we approach the season.

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To celebrate as Christmas approaches.

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And so we thank you for

all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I'll keep, bring your Bibles tune

in tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcasts.

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Let's come back now, but.