00:00 Welcome and Introduction

00:07 The Importance of Attending Church

01:17 Funny Encounter with a Church Visitor

02:10 Memorial Service and Church Experiences

02:53 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 26 and Mark 14

03:23 The Anointing at Bethany

05:00 Judas' Betrayal and the Last Supper

10:47 Jesus' Prayer in Gethsemane

12:16 Jesus' Arrest and Peter's Denial

19:31 Concluding Prayer and Encouragement

20:21 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, y'all.

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It is Sunday.

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So happy Lord's day.

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We hope that you're on your

way to church this morning.

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You should be there.

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You should be there by now listening

to this as you're there before, after,

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whenever, whenever we want you there.

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We want, you should be there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That I agree a hundred percent.

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Yeah, church is important.

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Go to your church, whatever it is.

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If we're not your pastors and

this is not your church, then you

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don't have to come to our church.

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You're excused.

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Yeah.

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But if you do have a

church, you should be there.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Good reasons to Ms.

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Church.

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What would you say on

those pastor around death.

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Okay.

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Death is a good one.

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Okay.

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Sickness.

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Yep.

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You're on vacation, so you're

going somewhere else, which even

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then it would still be good to

find another church Sometimes.

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It's refreshing.

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It's, you know, it's just showing

up and being part of another church

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body and seeing how they do things.

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That's nice.

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Yeah, so I'd say those three things are

the ones that come to my mind immediately.

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I can't think of anything else.

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Can you.

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Yeah.

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No, I don't think so either.

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Things are going to come up, there's gonna

be emergency circumstances and you're

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gonna be like, well, I've gotten an AC

car accident on my way to church, so

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that's, I wasn't there because of that.

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Like, okay, fine.

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It happened to Corinthia.

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She still showed up.

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Yeah, that's true actually.

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She did, she did show up, so, yep.

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It's not an excuse, it's a, nevermind.

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I take it back.

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Tell the ambulance I

gotta go to church first.

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You guys can come in too.

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Sorry.

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Drop me off at the church

and come get me afterward.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So hopefully we'll see maybe we'll

see Ala at church this Sunday.

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We I think it's Abriel Abriel

because it's like Gabe Gabriel Yeah.

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But with, without the G.

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Gotcha.

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Yeah.

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Well, she, we ran into her this

week as we were out having one

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of our pastors meetings and.

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We told her about our church and if

she shows up, she's gonna be surprised

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to find out that we were both pastors.

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Yeah, so here's what happened, guys.

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We were like, yeah, we heard

about this church called Compass.

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Have you heard about Compass Bible Church?

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She's like, maybe I've heard about them.

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Like, yeah, I like the pastors there.

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They're good guys.

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I trust them.

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I respect them.

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They're both dashingly handsome

and just really neat young guys.

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You should hang out with them.

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You know?

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I dunno.

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It was being silly and

so she didn't catch it.

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Nope.

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She was totally oblivious.

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So if she shows up, she's like, these

guys are the most vain men is patting

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themselves in the back so hard.

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Anyway, I won't be there

this Sunday actually.

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That's true.

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You'll be there.

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So hopefully she, if she does

show up, she'll understand.

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That's true.

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In fact, you'll be on your way

back, traveling back to Texas from

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your brother's memorial service.

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I will be, and my hope is that

the reason I delayed my return,

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I could have come sooner than.

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What I did plan on, I should be back

by eight o'clock local time on Sunday.

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And I did that because I was hoping to

attend my brother's church that Sunday.

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Yeah, I wanted to get a

sense of those people.

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And again, I've had nothing but good

experiences with his pastor so far.

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He is been a great dude.

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He's been visiting them in the hospital.

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He is cared for them.

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The church themselves have been

wonderful and been so supportive

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and so I just wanna be among them

and get a sense of these people and

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really also express my gratitude.

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Yeah.

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That's awesome.

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That'd be so sweet for you to have that

connection point to I'd really like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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For him And Mariah as well.

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His wife, right?

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His widow.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's let's get

into our DBR for today.

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We are in Matthew 26 and Mark 14.

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So Matthew 26 is really getting

into the beginning of the end, so

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to speak, of Jesus's ministry here.

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We've been in the

Passion Week for a while.

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We're gonna be, by the

way, two days from now.

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Just give yourself a little bit more time,

because you're gonna be reading John.

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Thir 14 through 17.

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So those are three big chapters, but

we're in the midst of the passion

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week, getting towards the upper room

discourse and everything else like that.

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But Matthew is going to give us some added

detail here of what's going on at Bethany.

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Now, this anointing that takes place

at Bethany right here at the beginning

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of chapter 26, I believe, is the same

anointing that John records for us,

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where Mary anoints the feet of Jesus

and wipes his feet with her hair.

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And yet here.

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Matthew's gonna say that this is

a woman who comes and annoys his

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head with this bottle of perfume.

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So I think it's the same event.

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I think that this bottle of

perfume probably had enough to

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annoy both the head and the feet.

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And perhaps John's illusion there to the

feet had to do with the washing of the

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feet that was coming up and that the upper

room interaction with the disciples there.

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But I think this is the same

event that takes place here.

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Pr your thoughts on that one?

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I know that there are two

distinct accounts where Jesus

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is anointed, and that's because.

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One of the Simons that's mentioned is

Simon, the Pharisee, and then the other

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one that's mentioned is Simon the leper.

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So I know that there are two accounts.

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Sure.

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So don't confuse those, right?

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There are two separate

accounts of this happening.

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This happens multiple times in Jesus

ministry, but this one could fit, John

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12 can fit with what we're reading

here, and that they're complimentary.

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They're not necessarily in

opposition in terms of the details.

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It's just like the angels at the tomb.

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We're gonna get to that soon, right?

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How many angels are at the tomb?

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One is focused in one gospel, there's

two that are focused on in another.

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So is it one or is it two?

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And the answer is, well, there's two.

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Only one is given attention in one

gospel and the other one is excluded.

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But not because he wasn't there.

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Yeah.

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It was just a matter of saying, we're

focusing on this one and not both of them.

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Yeah.

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Now, Simon, the Pharisee, if

I'm remembering that one,

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that's , the moral woman who is Yes.

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Anointing his feet With her tears.

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With her tears and with her hair.

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In her hair.

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Yeah.

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So here again, we're using the perfume.

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She was using the tears.

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Yeah.

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And again, good point.

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We think this is Mary Magdalene who

is the one that's doing this here.

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So from here we, we turn to

Judas plot to betray Jesus.

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And I think more and more I'm convinced

that this is something that's been

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stirring in him as he's gone along,

that he's been disenfranchised

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with the one that he thought was

gonna be this political messiah.

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He's clearly somebody that is, is

greedy and zealous for earthly gain.

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He wants financial gain and he's

got control of the money bag.

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And that's even when he's.

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Inc.

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Sense that she's breaking this

expensive jar of ointment.

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So it seems like the straw has finally

been laid that broke the camel's back.

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And now he is decided he's

gonna go and betray Jesus.

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But this really is the moment of

apostasy for him when he leaves

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and he goes to the religious

leaders and says, Hey I'll do this.

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What are you gonna pay me to do this?

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And they offer him 30 pieces of silver.

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He agrees to do it.

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And then from here we go into the

upper room in Matthew's account

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where Jesus is going to eat the

Passover meal with his disciples.

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And Judas is gonna be back at

this point, but he gives his

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disciples these instructions.

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He says, go there, you're gonna

find a man, and he will show you

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the room where we will eat this.

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And then he goes on to

talk about his in the room.

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Where it happens.

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In the room when it happens.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's for you.

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People out there who

know what we just did.

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If you know, if you know, you know,

but, sorry I took you off your track.

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No, that's fine.

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I it.

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How many times is Judas called

the betrayer, or how many times is

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Betrayal highlighted in this account?

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And it's not just Matthew it's

all of the gospel writers.

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And I think that's when we get into

John and we preach through John.

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John talks about it, but the upper

room is so much more than this.

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In the other accounts, I think what we

gain in Matthew, mark and Luke is we gain

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the intense focus on Judas Betrayal and.

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You understand that because especially

for a guy like Matthew, Judas was

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with him for three years with Jesus.

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And so the intense betrayal that,

that Matthew felt individually

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on top of that, even more so

the betrayal of Jesus himself.

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And so that's gonna be,

that's gonna show up here.

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In fact I circled the word betray

or betrayer or betrayed every

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time I showed up here in Matthew

26 as I was reading through it.

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And it's just a clear

point of emphasis here.

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Yeah, it looks like six

or seven times as I'm.

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Pulling it up on my screen here.

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Yeah.

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So one of the things that's interesting

about Judas is what set him off.

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Yeah.

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As you made mention here he makes

the decisive act to become an

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apostate when he decides to trade

in Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

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But it looks like one of the

things that set him off was the.

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Perceived wastefulness of this

anointment being used on Jesus.

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In verse eight, it says, when

the disciples saw it, what she

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was doing they were indignant.

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So it's not just Judas, you're right.

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But we find out all of them

are pretty upset about this.

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And the response is why this waste

for this could have been sold for

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a large sum and given to the poor.

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And Jesus responds don't harass her.

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She's doing a good thing.

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You're gonna always have the poor,

but you're not gonna have me forever.

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It seems like this is the event that

is the precursor that leads Judas

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to say, I can't handle this guy.

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He upsets me.

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He disturbs me.

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Whatever it is.

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Something about this event in this

act really rubbed him the wrong way.

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But let's just talk about

why this isn't waste this.

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This gal, Mary Magdalene, seems to have

wasted using air quotes here, a lot of

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money on Jesus, and it went nowhere.

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All it did.

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Was provide his body, the smell and the

fragrance of beauty as he prepared to die.

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Why is this not waste?

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Because it seems like

this is bad stewardship.

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Yeah it's a form of honor of Christ.

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It's a form of showing him

that he's worth that to her.

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And so she's willing to give

that, she's willing to sacrifice

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something that was very costly for

her, to honor him, to worship him.

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And so because it's offered

and rendered for him and for hi

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his glory and his exaltation it

becomes something that's not waste.

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Is it ever possible to

waste too much on Jesus?

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I can't see how we could get

there the same here, right?

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I'm with you.

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I don't think anything that you

give to Jesus will ever be too much.

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Right.

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Too wasteful.

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Right.

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Even if you do give something to Christ

and really you can't give him, you

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can't give him anything right now.

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He's in heaven.

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He's not with us.

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You give things to his body.

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You can give things to his

church as an organization.

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And whatever it is, whatever that dollar

figure is whether it's your life or just

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, a lump sum of cash or something like that

you're never giving too much to Jesus.

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He deserves all that

you have in then some.

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It doesn't mean you have to, it

doesn't mean that you have to

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give, expensive, lavish gifts.

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But it does mean, and I think

this is important that you

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look at Mary Magdalene here and

realize you can never outgive him.

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Yeah.

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And you can never give too much

where it's like, oh, you shouldn't

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have done that too wasteful.

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If the Lord leaves you to

do that, never fear that.

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That's a good sign.

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Yeah.

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Even when you think about

somebody like Jim Elliot.

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Who was a young man, brilliant young man,

passionate to reach people for Christ.

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Yeah.

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You could look at him and be like,

well, what a waste of a life.

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'cause he went to a tribe

that was risky and dangerous.

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Right.

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And he knew the dangers there,

and yet he would've wasted life.

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And yet I think anybody who knows the

rest of that story and his widow's

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testimony and everything else would

say, okay, no, that life wasn't wasted.

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And so if somebody can give their

life for Christ, then I don't think

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we could ever say there's a way to

give too much in sacrifice for Jesus.

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Absolutely.

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Jim was 28 years old when he died.

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Which is really young.

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Yeah.

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I mean not, there's lots of

younger people that have died,

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obviously, but younger by the year.

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Yeah.

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28 years old and yet God used that

life to bring other lives to Christ.

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Yeah.

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And I think what a great honor for him.

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I'm sure he doesn't regret that.

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Right.

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Saying, man, I wish I would've stayed

on Earth longer and done this or that.

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Now surely there's other

things he would've enjoyed.

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Sure.

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But life is never wasted

when it's given for Christ.

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Life is never wasted,

money's never wasted.

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Resources are never wasted

when it's given for Christ.

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And so you can feel free that even

if you're giving it to something that

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you know is an imperfect organization

or an imperfect person, man, I'm

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doing this for the sake of Christ.

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I'm not doing it for you.

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This is worth it.

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Mary's doing it for Jesus.

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He's worth it.

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He's perfect, obviously.

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But I just wanna give you the idea here.

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What I think the text shows us is

that giving to the Lord for the Lord's

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sake always worth it, never wasted.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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As 26 continues, you've got communion

in verses 26 down through verse 29.

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This is the institution

of the Lord's Supper.

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You've got his foretelling of

Peter's denials coming up next here

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where Peter says, I will never fall

away, though everyone else may.

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And Jesus says, you're gonna deny me

three times before the rooster crows.

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And then you've got the scene in

Gethsemane, which always just.

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Stands out to me for I think,

obvious reasons, it probably

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stands out to all of us.

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This is the humanity of Jesus is

seen so clearly here in including

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the idea that being both God and

man, Jesus possessed two wills as

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in, in concert with his nature.

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He had the divine will that was always

operative, but he also had a human will.

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And we see that bifurcation here in

this account when he prays to the

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father and says, I'd rather not.

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In my will.

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Honestly, if there's any other way

possible, please let this cut pass for me.

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And then he says, but not what

I will, but what you will.

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And so this is evidence here of the

humanity and deity of Jesus the hypostatic

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union is what it's called in theology.

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And Jesus notice he praised

three times the same thing.

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And then finally after that third time,

he understands, and it's also the time

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because the arrest is about to take place.

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But he is not afraid to pray the same

thing multiple times to the Father.

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And yet, eventually he.

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Doesn't resign himself to the fact he

submits to the father's will to say,

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okay, then this is what your will is.

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And then he moves on into the

betrayal and the arrest from here.

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Yeah.

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One thing that stood out to me, as

it always does, is in verse 30 that

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Jesus sang with his men before he

went to the Garden of Gethsemane.

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He sang with him.

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Yeah.

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I think that's amazing.

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Jesus sang.

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What did his voice sound like?

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Was he harmonizing with them?

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What was it?

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What song did they sing?

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Right.

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Whatever it is we don't know, but we

do know he sang, and that's important.

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That's the one of the last things

that Jesus does with his disciples

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is sing with them, and I think that's

profoundly important, and that's one of

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the reasons why we, as a church sing.

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Because Jesus sang.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's true.

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The be portrayal is a familiar story

and all of the gospel writers record

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the fact that there was a disciple,

an unnamed disciple, except for John,

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who names him for us, who lashed out

and tried to stop this from happening.

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And again, I think this is one of the

reasons why Jesus kept the disciples

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from really understanding what he was

talking about when he was predicting

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his death and the other occurrences

when he did that, he didn't want them

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to overly try to interfere or stop him

from what he was doing, which was the.

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Father's will.

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So you have a great juxtaposition of

Jesus, the one who could have stopped

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this at any point, submitting himself

perfectly to the father's will.

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And then you have Peter who really had no

chance at stopping any of this from taking

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place, lashing out to try to do something.

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And good thing he was a bad

shot because he takes off.

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Malus ear, the high priest servant and

Jesus says, Hey, we're not gonna do

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things this way, but there is a power

in the submission of Christ here that's

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greater than the power that Peter tries

to flex here, because Jesus is submitting

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himself perfectly to the Father's

will, and it's such a good example for

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us to follow him in those footsteps.

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In fact, we're gonna be talking

about that even this morning as

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we gather together at church.

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We're gonna be talking that from

Peter's perspective, actually

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in First Peter chapter two.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting that

Peter responds in this way.

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It shows us that Peter has

his heart in the right place.

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His head is not, and that's

true for a lot of Christians.

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We can have the right heart, at

least the desire to honor God and

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do what we think is fitting with

his will, and yet be totally wrong.

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Now, this is why it's so important

that we be in our Bibles because

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there's so many things that.

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You might question yourself and say,

is this what God wants me to do?

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Is this a right action given the stimulus?

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And it's hard to know sometimes, but

here we have an example in Peter of what

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it looks like to have your heart in the

right place, but have your head in a

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totally different place than it should be.

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Check your feelings with the word.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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After his arrest, Jesus is gonna be

taken to the first of his trials, and

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that's gonna be with the Sanhedrin.

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This, he's gonna appear before the

higher priest, Caiaphas, and the

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other religious leaders at the time.

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And they need to come up with charges

that are gonna stick so that they

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can then turn 'em over to the Romans

for capital punishment for execution.

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Because the Jews were prohibited from

doing that, the Jews didn't have the.

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Authority to execute Jesus.

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Otherwise, they would've

done this well before this.

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And yet they need this charge.

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And they're even bringing in

people that are willing to lie.

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And yet they can't find testimony

from these liars that's gonna agree.

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So finally they grabbed some of

his words and twist them when

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he said destroy this temple.

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And in three days I will raise it again,

which is from John chapter two, verse 19.

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And they say, we heard him say

he's gonna destroy the temple.

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And so that's the trumped up charge the

fabricated charge that they finally get.

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Two witnesses, which was the Jewish law.

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They needed at least two witnesses

to agree to make these charges stick.

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That's what they're gonna hold

onto and that's what's gonna allow

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them then eventually to turn them

over to the Romans, to entrust the

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Romans to do what they're hoping

that they will do, which is sentence

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'em to death and then execute 'em.

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And so this is what's taken place

here with the trial at Cais House.

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From here, we're gonna go to the

courtyard as we kind of zoom out to.

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Meanwhile and we see Peter, and this is

the fulfillment of what Jesus predicted

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back in verses 30 down through verse 35,

that Peter would deny him three times.

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It takes place right away.

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It doesn't take long.

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Peter is met by these servants and other

people that are gathered there in the

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courtyard, and all three times he's

accused of being one of Jesus' followers.

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And all three times Peter denies it

and says no, and then the rooster crows

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Jesus, just as Jesus said it would.

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And it's poignant here because.

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Even the timing of that, right?

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The rooster could have

crowed an hour later.

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The rooster could have crowed three hours

later, but it's right on the heels of

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it and it cuts Peter to the heart and he

goes out and says, and he weeps bitterly.

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Now, Peter's gonna be restored

in the future, and we're gonna

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see that in John chapter 21.

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We're gonna find that.

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In, I think probably tomorrow's

reading or maybe the next couple

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of days, Judas is gonna feel bad as

well for what he is done to Jesus.

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But there's a difference between what

Judas does in response to that grief and

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what Peter does in response to that grief.

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But Peter has definitely

grieved over the fact that he

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has denied his Lord and Savior.

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Yeah.

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And I think one of the things that's I.

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Productive to see here is that a genuine

relationship with God does include pain.

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It's not a pain that none of us wanna

feel, and it's not a pain that we

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welcome, at least in a temporary sense.

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But it, it's a good thing when you

feel conviction and it might lead

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you to tears and it might lead you

to feel a bit of guilt and shame

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for sins that you've committed.

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And now for the Christian, you

could say, well, there is no

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shame anymore for those in Christ.

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And I think that's true in a,

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Ultimate sense, but there are temporary

things that can set us back where

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there is shame, there is a sense of

sadness and sobriety that comes when

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you recognize I've done the wrong thing.

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I have sinned against my Lord.

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I'm sad about this.

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I'm disappointed by this.

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I am ashamed of my sin.

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And so one of the things that

this should do for us when

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you feel conviction is to, I.

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Drive you to Christ to seek again, to

find your fullness your salvation, your

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fellowship with Christ by repudiating

your sin and putting your faith in him.

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Yet again, this is the way

that a Christian lives.

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It's not just the first

time that you get saved.

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There is a first time you repent of your

sin, put your faith in Christ, but for the

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rest of your life, you'll be doing this.

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You'll feel conviction for sin.

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And then you'll turn from your

sin and you'll put your faith in

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Christ yet again for salvation,

for restoration, for righteousness.

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Peter's a good example that even for

those who are most godly among us, and

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Peter's gonna go on to lead and become a

powerhouse in the church, that we're all

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gonna go through seasons of disappointing

Christ and saddening his soul.

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And what that looks like here is

we repent of our sin, put our trust

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in him, and in return yet again.

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Mark Chapter 14 is your other, I forgot.

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We're doing two passages reading

and, but the good news is it's

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it's a lot of what we just read.

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This guy used to doing one a day.

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There we go.

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Yeah.

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So it's a lot of parallel from what

we just read, and so you're gonna

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find pretty much the same things

from a different perspective.

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One of the unique things that Mark

Throw is in though, and a lot of people

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think it's a reference to himself,

is in Mark chapter 14, verse 51.

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Yeah, that's embarrassing.

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In 52 where it says A

young man followed him.

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With nothing but a linen cloth about

his body and they seized him, but he

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left a linen cloth and ran away naked.

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A lot of people think that's a

testimony to Mark saying, Hey, I was

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there, but I was in the background.

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I was a follower on the peripheral, which

might explain why Mark's here writing.

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The gospel because he was,

he had an interest in Christ.

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Maybe he was one of the disciples, but not

one of the inner circle of the disciples.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so he ends up then sitting

down, and by the way, Mark's

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a gospel is Peter's account.

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And so this is mark talking with

Peter saying, Peter, gimme the

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insight to, to what actually happened.

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And we know that because of the testimony

of Polycarp and some others from the.

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Early church history that

testified to the fact that Mark

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was Peter's biographer, right?

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One of the things that I

like here in verse 38 is what

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Jesus says to the disciples.

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I liked what he phrases it

here in this particular gospel.

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He says, watch and pray that you

may not enter into temptation.

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The spirit is indeed willing,

but the flesh is weak.

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Watch and pray.

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We underestimate the role that

prayer plays in helping us to avoid

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temptation, but here Jesus draws a.

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Clear clearly for us, there's a strong

connection between our prayerfulness

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and our ability to withstand temptation

that's gonna apply to you today.

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It's not just Peter, it's not just

the disciples that's for us today.

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So watch and pray that you

may not enter into temptation.

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What temptation do you

think he had in mind here?

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I've always wondered that because

he's telling them, Hey, pray.

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, they don't know what's about to happen.

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Mm.

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And so I'm, I've always been

curious, okay, what temptation is it?

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And we don't know.

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'cause we can't, it doesn't

say, doesn't tell us.

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Yeah.

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That's interesting.

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I wonder if it's about them potentially

falling away defecting, you know?

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Yeah.

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Defecting the same temptation

that snare Judas, maybe he's

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saying, Hey, you're, we're, you're

about to go through something.

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You have no idea what you're

about to watch and endure.

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Right.

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And so pray because you're gonna need it.

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Well, he does say to Peter, Satan

is demanded to sift you like wheat.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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So I wonder if maybe you're onto something

there where he's trying to say, look,

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you don't know what's coming after you.

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Yeah.

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Pray.

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Please pray that you need the

spirit to protect you against

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this, because this is serious.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's do that right now.

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Yeah we do pray that you would

help us to live godly lives.

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We don't want to feel that the grief and

the heartache over sin if we can avoid it

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because we don't want the sin against you.

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And yet at the same time, we do wanna

confess and admit that that grief

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that we feel is a grace of yours.

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It's a mercy of yours that we would

feel that and respond appropriately

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to it through that repentance that

Pastor Adam was talking about.

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So I pray that we would be

a church that is sensitive.

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To the spirit and sensitive to sin,

and does what we should do with it,

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which is to repent of it, to turn

from it, to repudiate it, to not

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pursue it any longer, to put it off

and to pursue godliness instead.

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So, Lord, I pray that you would help

us to do that and to be a holy bride,

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a holy body and that we would be more

effective as a result of that for you.

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And we'll pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said