00:00 Election Day Announcement

00:17 Jesus Reigns Supreme

00:32 Encouragement for Parents and Neighbors

02:00 Election Day Incident

03:14 Christian Conduct and Representation

05:24 Parable of the Wedding Feast

10:42 Paying Taxes to Caesar

11:52 The Marvel of Christ's Message

12:13 Marriage in Heaven: A New Perspective

15:40 The Greatest Commandment

16:15 Jesus Challenges the Pharisees

19:55 The Widow's Offering: A Lesson in Generosity

22:51 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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It is officially that day.

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It's election day, final

data Castro ballot.

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Yep.

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Final day.

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And, and we're going to call it right now.

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We've got all the votes in.

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We've got a hundred percent in

and here here's here's the result.

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Let me just tell you what's going

to happen for, with confidence.

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Yep.

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Zero margin of error here.

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Yep.

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Here here's the results.

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I know Jesus wins.

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Yep.

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There it is.

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I was wondering he's on the throne.

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He rules.

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He reigns no one has dethroned him.

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He remains no matter who's in the office.

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Undefeated.

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On defeated.

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Undefeated.

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Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no, and that's true.

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And that is a comfort to us.

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No matter what the election

results are today and a.

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Let me just encourage you.

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Especially parents.

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Uh, your kids are watching you

as you watch these results.

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Come in.

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Uh, and so bear that in mind, um, or if

you're watching him with your neighbors

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or whatever, You are a witness for,

for your, your faith in God right now.

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And your faith in God, as pastor

rod was just saying is not anchored

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to the person that's going to end

up in the oval office after this.

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I understand desires.

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I understand.

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Hey, it would be better if this scenario

happened to believe me, I get that.

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I fully embrace that and agree with you.

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However, um, we need to not just

preach that before the election, but

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we need to preach that afterwards too.

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No matter what happens, no matter

who is the Victor here today.

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I understand that, that your testimony

has to continue to remain faithful

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and constant, no matter what.

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And so we, we need to be,

we need to be steadfast.

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Uh, we need to be not unsteady tonight.

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We need to not be anxious.

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We need to not be burdened.

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Uh, with things that are

bigger than what are ours to.

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To to control.

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God has not given it to any of us to

control the outcome of this event.

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Other than to say, Hey, I cast my vote.

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It's in his hands.

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And, uh, and the, the one that's

gonna win is, is part of his plan

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for what's going to happen here.

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So keep that in mind, your kids

are gonna watch you, uh, your

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neighbors are gonna watch you.

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They're gonna listen to you and

listen to the things that you say.

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And, uh, and we're called

to be salt and light.

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Um, and so we need to be

that as we see these results

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rolling later on this evening.

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Yeah.

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I saw a video of a guy that went

to go vote and he was wearing a

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hat that said, let's go Brandon.

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And one of the poll

workers was upset with it.

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She says, you can't wear that in here.

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You, you can't, you can't

vote wearing this hat.

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And he says, it's my

right to wear this hat.

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I can wear this.

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This is America.

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You can't tell me to take it off.

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Did you see this one at all?

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So she gets up in a tizzy, of course,

at this point, both passions are flaring

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this guy and it doesn't help at all.

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This guy's a Caucasian gentleman and

the woman that's arguing with them.

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I mean, most of the

staff there were, were.

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African-American.

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Yeah.

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So now you have this other dynamic that's

adding to it and making it feel much more.

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I mean.

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This is awful.

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It was awful to watch.

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So he gets upset.

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Get this, the poll worker.

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She takes a swing at it.

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And she makes some contact.

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I mean, it wasn't a great hit, but

she makes you took a swing at, it.

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Strikes him in the face.

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At this point, he gets here.

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He starts squaring up.

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Now I don't know what he's going to do.

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He doesn't, he doesn't

like square up and start.

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You know, lining up his re his

fist or anything, but he's, he's

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walking toward her and there's

now ladies, they're all ladies.

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I didn't see a guy in the thing.

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And if there was a guy there shame on

you for not stepping in between them.

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Right.

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But he starts whirling up to her and

he's like, you can't do that to me.

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So he takes his hat throws into

the hallway and she says, no,

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you can't leave that there.

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You gotta go pick that up now.

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So I was like, I can't win.

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I can't vote.

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So let me encourage all y'all.

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Please don't wear a, let's go branded hat.

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Let's start with that.

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That's not, that's not helpful

to your Christian, but you know

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what hat you could wear though.

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Is there any hat that you could think

of pastor patient that might be helpful?

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Like a compass Bible, church hat.

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That's a good hat.

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It's a good quality hat.

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It's a good looking hat.

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It could represent your church

and more importantly, represent

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Christ as you go and vote.

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That'd be a great thing.

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Please don't fight the poll workers

would encourage you not to do that.

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Uh, but please be, don't be

unnecessarily offensive at the same time.

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That would be a good idea.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Exactly.

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So many reasons, so many reasons why.

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It was a bad video.

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Um, unfortunate.

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Yeah, I mean, Yeah, let's go Brandon.

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Right?

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I, again, being above reproach that we're

going to talk about that with the men

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in the spring, we're going to do a brand

new study with our men's Bible study.

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Right?

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Yeah, qualified, qualified for colony.

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The qualifications of being a

man of God above reproach, right?

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I mean, We all know what let's go,

Brandon references and what it stands for.

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I think at this point, most people do.

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Yeah.

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And.

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And if you don't be careful looking it

up in a place where there's little ears.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And so if you wouldn't wear a hat with

what that phrase actually is supposed

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to represent, what are you doing?

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Wearing the hat with the phrase on it?

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Uh, that that says, let's go,

Brandon, you're conveying the

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same thing you're causing everyone

around you to think that word.

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And in the, bring that to mind,

that's an example of what it

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is not to be above reproach.

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And it seems innocuous because

you're like, oh, well it's a joke.

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And it doesn't say the word.

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And so it's okay.

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No, it's not.

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Yeah.

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It's still.

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The appearance of evil is, is all over it.

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And we're as Christians

called to be different.

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We're called to stand out from this.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, you expect vitriol from,

from people, certain people camps.

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Um, and it's not in the Christian camp.

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Christians are called to love her enemies.

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And I man, as much as we

might try to get around that.

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Uh, loving our enemies means

that we respect people as image

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bearers, even if we vehemently

vehemently disagree with them.

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And that's not to say that if we

actually had real tyranny or there

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was real threats to life and limb.

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That we wouldn't defend our families or

defend our churches, but man, certainly

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the way that Christian speak in a

context like that is going to speak

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volumes to what you believe and who

you believe is really ruling the world.

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Totally.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, let's jump into our text to them.

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Matthew 22, by the way, if you're

tuning in tomorrow to find out

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from us who won the election.

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Um, you're gonna have

to wait until Thursday.

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Well, we even know Thursday though.

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I don't know.

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Who knows.

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I don't know that.

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So if you're tuning into us to find out

who won the election, Ah, there's better.

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There's better options.

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Options.

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For that.

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I wouldn't talk about the Bible.

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All right.

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Hey Matthew, 22, the

wedding feast, parable.

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Uh, this one opens up verses one

through six with the rejection of

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an invitation that Jesus sent and

the, the, the abuse of the servants,

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the murder of some of them as well.

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This is a, this is pointing to.

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At least in my opinion here.

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Uh, the profits in the fact that Jesus

is alluding to the, to the reality

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that God had sent the invitation.

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He had issued the call to Israel time and

time and time and time and time and time

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before, and Israel had rejected and even

abused and murdered some of his messengers

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that he sent with this invitation to be

restored to a right relationship with him.

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Well, that rejection verses seven

through 10 of, of the rejectors or

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that rejection is going to lead to

the rejection of the rejectors there.

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Um, and the inviting the

invitation of the unexpected.

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Jesus says, forget it.

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Then I'm not inviting you guys

to this wedding feast anymore.

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You know what we, we need the halls

filled anyways, go to the highways, go

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to the byways, go to the hedge ways.

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Go in and bring in the people that you

would least expect to show up at a wedding

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and have them come in and sit there.

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Uh, and, and be a part of this.

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And so that's the gist of this.

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And that's the part that is, is

shows up in, in parallel accounts.

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For example, in Luke 14.

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But then Matthew throws in this unique.

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Uh, part in verses 11 through

14, where he talks about.

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The, uh, wedding guests that shows

up not dressed for the wedding.

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And there's a couple of

different views on this.

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Uh, the one view that I've heard

preached before is that the host was

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responsible for providing wedding

garments to those that came and attended.

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The problem with that is we, we don't

necessarily have any historical precedents

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for that, that we can point to, to say,

Hey, here's an example of, uh, that being,

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uh, a tradition during this timeframe.

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And so I, I get it, it preaches, you

know, w we get our guard, we get our

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righteousness from God, but I think we

might be reading a little bit of a more.

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Developed eschatology into Jesus'

parable here than, than existed at the

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time for them to be able to understand.

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Instead, I think what, what this

is pointing to is that the people

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that were invited the implication

is they would've gone home.

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They would've cleaned themselves up.

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They would've put on their, their

wedding clothes and they would

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have showed up to the feast.

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And here you have a guy that

hadn't bothered with that.

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He had just come in,

straight off the street.

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He had come in with his

grubby work clothes.

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He had not come in.

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Uh, prepared for this.

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He had not taken care of himself at all.

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This I think is what this is

doing is representing that.

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That concept of easy believism that

man, I can, I can show up to the

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wedding dirty and tottered in, in,

in the, the, with the worldliness

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dripping off me and it doesn't matter.

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Because, you know, I got the

invitation that's issued to all.

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So here I am.

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I'm here.

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The wedding.

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And so what Jesus is doing

is saying, Hey, you don't.

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You don't belong here.

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You, you, I don't know how you got in,

but you shouldn't be here without having.

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Without looking the part.

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And again, not that we're earning our way

into heaven, but, but there is a measure

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of that when we are invited to the, to

the feast and we respond, then, then we.

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We.

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Pursue this, this, uh, the sanctification.

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Um, This, this holiness, this godliness

throughout the rest of our lives there.

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Uh, and so we, we enter

into heaven and yes, our

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righteousness comes from God, but.

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I think that's what's going on here.

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PR your thoughts on, on that.

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Yeah.

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I'd be inclined to agree.

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And I, I think of this in terms

of how Paul develops the, the, I

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don't know what you'd call it, his

understanding that the geology of

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living worthy of the gospel of Christ.

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Yeah.

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I would put this in that category and I,

I, yeah, I could be wrong in this, on, I'm

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not going to pound the gavel and say for

sure, this is what it is, what it means.

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This guy lacked something.

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What that something is it's probably

subject to debate, but I think this

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is a matter of living worthy for

Christ, Christians who have embraced

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their justification will of necessity.

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embracer sanctification, which is

going to look a lot like saying

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I want to live worthy of Christ.

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I want to run in such a

way that he's pleased.

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I want to be dressed in a

way that it pleases him.

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And that even extends quite literally

to the way that you dress people.

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I mean, I was just talking to the

students about this on Wednesday.

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Uh, living as salt and light, and Jesus

calls us by the identity of salt and

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light and salt and light must have

an impact on the world around it.

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Or he says, if you're not

salty, then you're just going

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to get tossed in the grounding.

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Deduct, stepped all over.

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There's a value list, kind

of discipleship there.

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And so the point I think is

that we need to be dressed in

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the righteous robes of Christ.

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Yes.

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But that's going to have a very

practical effect on the life of the

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Christian, which is going to result

in us living worthy of Christ.

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Yeah, I think we see this in a, in

first John three, two and three.

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Uh, first John three,

two and three beloved.

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We are God's children now.

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And what we will be has not yet

appeared, but we know that when

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he appears, we shall be like him

because we shall see him as he is.

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And here's John's conclusion there.

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And everyone who thus hopes in him

purifies himself as he is pure.

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And so there's that active?

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We want to beat with Jesus.

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We want to be where he is.

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And, and yes, ultimately we have the

purification that is going to be ours in

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Christ, ultimately, but in the process,

in the meantime, in the interim to

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get there, Uh, we, we want to purify

ourselves as much as we can because he

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is pure because of our love for him.

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Like we talked about

on Sunday, we love him.

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We want to be more like him to be more

like him means we need to fight sin

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in, grow in godliness and holiness.

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There.

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Alright verses 15 through 22,

we start to talk about taxes.

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So again, here, this

confrontation wants more.

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We've covered it.

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I think mark 12 already, Luke 20.

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Uh, it shows up there as well, but

this confrontation once more reveals

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Jesus's shrewdness and so they come

to him and they say, Hey teacher,

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um, uh, do we, do we pay taxes?

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Do we not pay taxes?

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Uh, and this time Jesus says, Hey, you

know what, get a coin for me, pull it out.

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And so they do, and they say,

Hey, whose image on is on it?

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And they say Caesars, and they G Jesus

responds here with something that is.

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Is more telling than

initially meets the eye.

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He says fine.

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Render to Caesar the things

that are Caesar's into God,

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the things that are God's.

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This wasn't Jesus.

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Just simply saying, Hey, pay your taxes.

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This is actually Jesus saying

fine, whatever, pay your taxes

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here, but then understand that.

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What does God own?

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What are the things that are God's.

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The answer to that is everything right?

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And so everything belongs to him.

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So, yeah, fine.

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Give Don, give Caesar his money

for right now, but understand

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that God owns everything.

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So God is do God is worthy of

receiving everything from us.

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And in the same way that his image

is stamped on the, on the coin.

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So is the image of God stamped on every

person, which means that the whole person.

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Your whole life is, is, is Christ.

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Everything in all creation belongs

to him, certainly, but you,

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especially because you bear his

image, you now owe yourself to God.

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Yep.

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And that, that's why it says in the text

that they Marvel as they go away from

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him because the message was received.

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They got it.

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They got what he was saying there.

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It was a great illustration.

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It is.

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He nailed it.

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Yeah, jeez.

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Good job, Jesus.

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All right.

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Uh, marriage in heaven.

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Let's talk about that for a second.

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Verses 23 through 33, the

Saudi sees come up to Jesus.

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Now the Saudi seas were a group

who denied the bodily resurrection.

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And in fact, there's a quote, according

to Josephus that said they believe the

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souls disappear along with the bodies.

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Uh, which fascinates me

because I'm thinking to myself.

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Then what's the point.

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I've of everything that you're doing.

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Th they were those that were just,

they believed in nothing afterwards.

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Annihilationists here.

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Uh, but not just for the unbeliever

for everybody, they just didn't

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believe in the resurrection.

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And so they're talking to

Jesus and they present this.

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Ridiculous scenario, trying to trap him

by thinking, okay, here's something that's

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going to be impossible for him to answer.

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And it's this woman who has.

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Who marries, uh, seven brothers by the end

of it because each brother ends up dying

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and she marries the next one in line.

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Next one on line.

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That's a good movie though.

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Have you seen that one seven

brides for seven brothers?

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Such a good movie?

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Yeah, I was actually in

that musical in high school.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Which brother were you?

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I was a suitor.

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I was one of the bad guys.

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Figures.

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Well, bless your beautiful height.

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Thanks, man.

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Keep it going.

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Yeah.

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You know.

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So Jesus' response is, is one where he

indicts their error as one of ignorance

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of the scriptures and the power of God.

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And he redefines things for us.

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And he says, looking in

heaven, people don't marry,

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nor are they given in marriage.

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Um, it's not going to exist in

eternity the way that exists today now.

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I'm of the belief that we will have a

unique relationship still with our spouse.

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Any eternity that is, is not necessarily

a marital covenant relationship, but.

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We'll still be snuggling on the couch.

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I don't think you're

going to be like, dude.

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Hey, life was great

with you, but peace out.

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I'm going to go hang out

with other people now.

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Um, but it's not.

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Marriage has meant to mirror the

gospel and that's his purpose here

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on earth and in heaven and eternity.

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It's not needed in the same way.

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So yeah.

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Um, I'm not here to bear commentary

on exactly what your marriage is going

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to look like in heaven or what your

relationship with your, your earthly

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spouse is going to look like there.

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I don't know.

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I guess at the end of the

day, I do know people.

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You're not going to get there

and be like, here's your wife.

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Because even for those that have had

multiple spouses here through the

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death of somebody and they remarried.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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I mean, that's kind of that's,

that is the situation here.

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And Jesus is saying, that's not going to

be an issue there, which is why I don't.

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I think he might still have a.

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The close relationship in the sense

that you and I might have a close

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relationship there that'll, that'll still

extend beyond our natural life, but.

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It would be hard to conceive of that,

given what you just brought up, because if

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you have a closer jury sitting between the

two that you married in, in life, right.

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I would, I would think that you wouldn't.

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And as much as it pains me to think

that I have to trust that God's

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gifts are going to be greater in the

new, the new heavens and new earth.

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Then what I presently

experienced is it points to that.

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It must be that the consummation of Jesus

and the church is going to be so good.

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And so transcending of

my current understanding.

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That it will be like, well, this

is obviously the better way.

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As much as it hurts me to think my

relationship with my wife will be

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fundamentally different in heaven.

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Um, I have to believe it's

going to be a better thing.

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Yeah.

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Fair I can.

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Yeah, I see that.

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I see that.

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But Jesus is basically knocking

down their, their opinion there.

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And then he quotes from the old Testament.

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Uh, to say, Hey, you guys don't even

understand the scriptures because.

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God y'all way reveals himself to

Moses as the God of Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob, which is present tense.

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And that's the point there he is the

God not, I was the God of them because

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they're dead, but he is implying that

he's the God of the living, not the dead.

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In other words, that they

are not dead but alive.

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And if they're alive, where are they?

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They're with him in that instance.

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Uh, because he is still

presently there done.

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All right from here, we get the

greatest commandment verses 34 through

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40 famous section here where Jesus

again, is the attempt to trap him.

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And they say, what's the

greatest commandment.

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He says, you know, it, the

greatest commandment is the love

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the Lord, your God, with all

your heart, mind and strength.

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And the second is like, it.

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To love your neighbor as yourself

on those to hang the entire law.

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So Jesus answers perfectly

again, defeats them in that.

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And there's a lot there that we

just don't have time to dive into,

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but I mean, love God love others.

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That's what it boils

down to for all of us.

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In fact, all the 10 commandments

classify themselves in one of those

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two categories, they're either

love for God or love for others.

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And that love for others is an

overflow of our love for down.

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Versus 41 through 46, then,

uh, Jesus then turns the tables

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and asks a question himself.

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He says, Hey, whose son was David?

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How can David say that the

Messiah would be his son?

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And yet also his Lord.

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And so he challenges them.

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They're unable to answer the question

themselves, but really what, what

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Jesus is after there is he's after

showing, Hey, th the, the concept of

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the Messiah as the son of God, which

you guys are all up in arms, that I've

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been calling myself, the son of God.

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But if.

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David referred to his son as the Lord.

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Then, you know, There's

something there that maybe you

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need to rethink on that front.

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All right, mark 12.

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Uh, mark 12, we have a lot

of parallel ground here.

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In fact, most of it is I think

in except, uh, just the very end.

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So it opens verses one through 12 with

the tenants, parable attendance, again.

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Um, the, the tenants here

are those that, that.

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Uh, we're entrusted with property that

belongs to God and, uh, or to the king.

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The ruler that killed those that were

sent, they abuse those that were sent

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in and ultimately they kill the son.

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Of the, the owner of the vineyard.

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And, uh, they, this parable Jesus

says, was told in relation to the

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leaders and they get it verse 12.

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Uh, they were seeking to arrest him, but

fear the people for, they perceive that

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he had told the parable against them.

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So they left in one away.

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So Jesus is not just defending

himself, but on the offensive

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in this section quite a bit.

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Yeah.

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And it's, it's interesting to

note that they, they, they do

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get some of what he's saying.

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It's like they, they understand enough to

be offended, but not enough to be trans.

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I don't know, transformed by what he's

saying, because there's so much here.

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I wish I could.

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And if I had a time machine, I would

love to just sit and watch how this

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actually happened because my mind's eye.

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I struggle between thinking like they're

these no, at all arrogant people versus.

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I don't know.

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They, they, they they're, people

they're fully, orbed complex people.

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And I would love to have seen how

he interacts with them in person.

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So much of what Jesus has to.

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I would love to hear the tone

in which he says these things.

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Um, I imagine it's patient and

kind and gentle, but there are

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times when he kind of just.

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Tongue lashing them.

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Anyway.

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It would have been interesting to see.

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Is my point.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you.

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I would agree with that.

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Although, wouldn't you be tempted

to like jump out of the corner.

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And be like guys, guys, guys.

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No, no, no.

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You don't understand no way I would.

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I would watch it and

savor every moment of it.

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In fact, I'm hoping that there's like

a, uh, you know, virtual reality,

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something where I could kind of

scroll back in time and watch it all.

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I think that'd be a great gift,

apple vision pro in heaven.

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I I'd accept that.

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Yeah.

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Although it wouldn't be apple

probably cause the whole garden.

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Eating thing.

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Bye.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Uh, the greatest commandment or, well,

he goes taxes in verses 13 through 17.

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Again.

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Render to Caesar.

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What is Caesar's to God?

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What is God's?

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And then again, his interaction with

the Sadducees about the question of the

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resurrection that's verses 18 through 27.

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So this is what we've just covered.

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Um, Then it gets greatest

commandment again.

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Now mark expands the, uh, the response

from the person that Jesus was talking to.

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And Jesus actually commends this guy.

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It's a fascinating statement.

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He says you are not far.

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From the kingdom of God.

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Uh, and so you wonder maybe

this guy was one of the ones

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that eventually came around.

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Just trust in Christ at that point.

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It's an interesting

statement to include it.

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If, if not, Um, But who knows?

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Maybe we'll get again, a story in heaven.

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We'll run into the guy and he'll be

like, I'm that guy I'm going to ask.

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Yeah.

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Find out.

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Yeah.

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Uh, versus 35, 3 37, then we get

back to the, who was David's son.

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Um, how can you be David's son?

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David's Lord again, like we just

talked about there and then the

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warning of the, about the scribes.

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Now this is going to be

detailed much more for us.

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I think in tomorrow's

episode with the woes.

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Because Jesus is about to go off on them.

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Um, but he's warning them.

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Uh, the disciples about listening

to them about following them

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because of their hypocrisy, their

arrogance, the pride fullness.

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And then he says they devour

widow's houses, and then he points

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after this to a widow's offering.

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And that's how the chapter ends.

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Um, in verses 41 through 44.

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Uh, and in this Th there's been

conflicting interpretations here.

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Some people say, man, this

is Jesus is condemning this.

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Seeing this is horrible, that

they're, they're even forcing this

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widow to give her last two mites.

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Uh, to what was going on in the temple.

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I, I don't see that.

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I think Jesus is commending

this, I think she's the same.

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She's getting more.

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Uh, which is what he does say here,

that then all of the Pharisees combined,

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um, and, and you even see the, her

generosity, she's got two coins.

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I think there's significance there.

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She could have kept one coin back for

herself and she had need, and yet she

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gives both, she puts both in the, the.

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Uh, the box there and, and Jesus

seemed, this is a good thing too.

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Uh, her trust, her confidence in the

Lord to provide for it is worth so much

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more than what the fares would offer.

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I could see how someone could

come from the other direction.

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Cause he D he.

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He does acknowledge what she's doing

as, uh, giving out of her poverty.

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But I could also see how someone would

see this as being part of the predatory

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practices of the scribes, the Pharisees,

and saying, look, you have to give

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when she was the one who deserved that.

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She deserve the help.

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And you don't.

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I mean, yes, he does say that

I'm with you on that part.

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He does say they in contributed

out of their abundance.

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She contributes out of her poverty.

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And he does.

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This is a, he does say blessed

are the poor in spirit.

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So I could see how maybe there might

be a connection there, but man,

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I struggle with saying this as a,

as a, as a way to say, look, you

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should give like the widow gifts.

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I think she's commendable.

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Right?

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But not because.

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Uh, her, her soul is right, even

though the action I think is wrong.

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Yeah, I think it's a both end.

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Um, Yeah.

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And part of it comes

down to how we interpret.

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She has put out of her poverty

has put in everything she had

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is that she had to live on.

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Right.

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Is that a hyperbolic

statement or is that Jesus?

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Saying, you know, This is

literally everything that she had.

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This is every last penny that she had.

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Well, she's called it poor widow.

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Yeah, and then they can, she

contributes out of her poverty.

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And then he elaborates

everything she had to live on.

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And then he says it again

to clarify or everything.

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She had comma, all she had to live

on, or it seems to me like he's

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going into as a way to say, look.

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She's obliterated.

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Yeah, she's going to die.

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Unless someone steps in.

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Right.

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That's my impression.

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And that's why I, yeah, I can understand.

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I as MacArthur who got

me on this, like, okay.

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I think he's right.

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Because the context sounds like he's,

he's, he's excoriating this grads

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for making this predatory practice

something that's living this poor widow.

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So vulnerable now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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He's one of the few that, that

make that note, um, RT France.

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Doesn't neither does a.

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Um, William Lane, Craig,

um, well, William Blake.

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Or William Lane.

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Sorry.

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And I was going to say.

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William Lane in.

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And I see.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah, it's possible.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, do it.

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That what you will.

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Uh, but let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for marriage on earth.

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As I'm thinking about having

just talked about the fact that

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marriage in heaven is going to be

so different in, in non-existent.

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Uh, we, we trust that you're good

in that, but in the meantime,

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Thanks for marriage on earth.

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Marriage is so good here, and it's such a

blessing to us to have that and to be able

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to, to enjoy that into mirror the gospel

through our relationship with our spouse.

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And, uh, we just.

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Because that guy, I guess, to

stir in us a greater affection to

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be with you to same in heaven is

going to be even better than this.

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And that's going to be so good

and so amazing and so much better.

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And so we, we long long for

that, we confess our inability to

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fully wrap our minds around that.

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But we trust you in that.

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And so help us to do that yet.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I attended again tomorrow for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast by.

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Bye.

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Bye.