00:00 Introduction and Greetings

01:13 Upcoming Thanksgiving Football Event

01:54 Christmas Music and Personal Preferences

03:30 Transformed Conference Details

05:20 Discussion on Matthew 24

12:14 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to a correction, less.

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Episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Oh, we don't know about that yet.

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Well, we assume so.

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We'll find out fair.

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Somebody may have emailed us and said,

Hey, you messed up on, on this part.

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It's very possible.

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Yeah.

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Just meaning that we don't have anything

we're aware of that we messed up on that.

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We need to come and say, Hey, we,

we told you guys the election was

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over a day before it happened.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Which is a good example or a

metaphor of what it looks like

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to be above reproach, right.

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Because nobody can fully say I'm

sinless at any point in time.

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But it's living a life that when you look

at your life, you're not aware of any

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glaring issues that you need to confess

and repent put off, turn away from right.

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Blamelessness exactly.

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Oh yeah.

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So there you go.

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There's a, there's an illustration

for you right off the bat.

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And maybe again, we're wrong.

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Maybe we do have things

that we need to, to work on.

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But.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, it's a it's Thursday.

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It's Thursday, November.

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What day is today?

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The seventh.

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Seventh.

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Yeah, we're making our

way through November, man.

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Yeah, it's moving quickly.

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We're almost halfway

through the fourth quarter.

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Yeah.

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If you go to seven 11 today that

you have to give them a Slurpee.

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Cause it's the inverse it's 11 seven.

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Instead of seven 11, that'd be fine.

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Would it though?

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I don't know.

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Maybe not.

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But it'd be funny.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, uh, men listening to this.

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If you are of the football playing type,

look out for, uh, an opportunity to play

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some football on Thanksgiving morning.

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Um, it's going to be

pretty casual overall.

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We're not doing a church wide event on

this necessarily, but it is going to be,

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uh, an event where if you're interested

in going out and playing some football.

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Uh, we are going to have an

opportunity to do just that.

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And so if you want to break out and dust

off the old spikes, I know pastor rod

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has his old leather football helmet,

ready to go and get out there and play.

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That's right.

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Um, but that's going to

happen Thanksgiving morning

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and play some football.

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Go back home, enjoy some Turkey.

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And, uh, who knows what's

going to happen after that?

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It's going to be a surprise.

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God knows only God knows.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You don't get injured guys.

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Please don't get injured.

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You've been listening to Christmas music.

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Um, you know what?

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No, I haven't, I've been, I've been,

when I do listen to music lately, I've

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been doing a lot of worship stuff,

just cause I'm trying to, I'm trying

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to get some songs underneath my skin.

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Uh, and, and other times, I, and this

is kind of, it's going to sound strange.

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I think I've said this before.

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I don't, I don't

naturally listen to music.

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I listen to podcasts and audio books.

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So that's far more, I'm going to

turn something on and listen to that.

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Lately, they'll get this.

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I've been driving in silence.

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Okay.

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Just kind of on purpose.

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Yeah.

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I just won't put anything on, I'm

kind of resting and praying here and

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there and just kind of thinking so.

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Lately, I haven't really had

anything on, what about you?

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Yeah, I enjoy that as well.

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You're putting Christmas music on.

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I have a little bit.

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Yeah.

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I've put some on.

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Um, did you start with Mariah Carey?

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She has made an appearance.

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Oh, only one.

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Wow.

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I'll be once.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, no.

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There's, I've got a Christmas playlist

on Spotify that I try to update

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each year with some, some new stuff.

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Cause I like to find new.

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Christmas music now it's hard

because Christmas music is

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such an historic thing, right?

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Used to be traditional, right.

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And so, but even some

new interpretations of.

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Some classics, right?

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Those are our fun.

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And I appreciate those sometimes.

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Just tell him that it

would get along so well.

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You know, I would, I'd

be friends with him.

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I don't know if he's looking for a

friend, but I'd hang out with him.

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Um, but no, there's, there's some,

there's some good ones out there that,

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that stir my affections for Jesus.

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So yeah.

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And the kids Christmas musicals coming up.

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So my kids have been singing some

of these songs for a little bit.

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Uh, that's exciting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So there you go.

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That's a, it's a little bit about

what's going on in our lives.

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Right.

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Yep.

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Getting ready for the

transformed conference coming up.

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That's right.

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It's con.com.

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That's not that.

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Don't do that.

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Uh, yeah, no, the

transformed conference.org.

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Uh, is where you can go and you can

register by the way, the code, the

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discount code 25% offer for $25 off.

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I should say.

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Uh, Providence, all caps there.

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Um, listen, if you're out there and you

registered earlier and you're going, wait

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a minute, I didn't get the discount code.

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This is really the price went up

and when the price went up, it

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went up by the amount that we're

taking off with the discount code.

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So nobody's.

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Paying less than somebody else.

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And not that anybody's banging down

the door on that you guys would

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love one another and that's awesome.

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I'm happy for that.

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But just in case you were curious on

that, but you can use that discount

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code Providence to get $25 off and,

uh, and register for the conference,

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which we really do trust is going to be.

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Uh, great.

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Resource and super helpful,

especially coming off this election.

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Um, this, these are important

subjects, family and parenting.

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Uh, family and marriage.

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These are things that

matter immensely to us.

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And Dr.

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Mohler is going to be there.

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Uh, micro bars are sending

pastor from California's.

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Come out, teaching a message

on disciplining your children.

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That's going to be immensely

beneficial for you as a parent.

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If that's an area that you're like,

man, I could use, I think all of

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us could use a brush up on that.

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But if disciplining your kids is

something that you struggle with or,

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you know, somebody maybe who struggles

with disciplining their kids, you can

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be like, Hey, you should come to this.

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This particular.

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This, uh, this message.

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No, but it's going to be

such a good either ticket.

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Biblical treatment of

why that's important.

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Again, Christmas gift.

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You're going to want to be there for that.

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So that alone, I think, is

worth the price of admission.

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And then, you know, Mueller's

going to be talking to Dr.

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Miller's gonna be talking

about some famous marriages in

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history and what we can learn as

believers from those marriages.

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That should be super good

to just spotlighting some

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stories of these marriages.

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That that will be awesome.

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So it's going to be a great time.

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It's going to be an intimate

setting, would love for you guys

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to register and join us there.

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So the transformed conference.org.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our texts for the day.

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Matthew 24.

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Matthew 24 sounds a lot.

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Like mark 13.

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Today's.

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Yeah.

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It felt like a lot of overlap.

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Yeah.

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There's a lot of overlap.

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In fact, it opens the same

way with the prediction of

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the destruction of the temple.

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As they're going away, the disciples

going, Hey, look at the buildings.

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She's like the buildings

are going to be gone.

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Hey, when is this going to happen?

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Signs of the times

verses three through 14.

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Again, this is the tribulation period

that Jesus is talking about here.

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Um, and again, yeah, the gospel is

going to be preached widely verse 14.

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During this time and it's

going to build on the reach.

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It will have made during the church age.

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And so our job is to go out and make

sure that we're, we're doing that.

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And if you think about the urgency

with which the gospel is going to be

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preached during the tribulation period,

Uh, they're they're gonna, at that time,

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we know that the timer has started.

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Anybody paying attention to the

Bible is going to be able to go.

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We've got three years left.

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We've got two years left.

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We've got one year left.

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We've got six months left.

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And so that urgency to go out

and say, repent belief of the

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kingdom is literally at hand.

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You don't have much time left.

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If you're going to survive

the tribulation, let alone.

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Maybe you're going to dive in

before the tribulation ends.

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You need to repent and believe

in the gospel now today, right?

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That sense of urgency.

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I feel like I was convicted reading

this thinking to myself, man.

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I need that sense of urgency

today with my neighbors, with my

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coworkers, with my family members.

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Hmm, because we're not guaranteed

tomorrow, any more than they're going

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to be guaranteed tomorrow at that time.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that he says

here, Is that in the last time?

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Lawlessness will increase and

the love of many will grow cold.

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And I think that speaks to some of the

things that I'm afraid of for the church.

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Um, even today, because

there's so much change in flux

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happening at any given time.

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And there's so much pull layer,

polarity, polarization, that's happening.

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That it's easy to look at neighbors.

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You know, different party lines or

different ethnicity, a different.

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Religions even, and to say,

well, Hey, I've got me in mind.

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Good.

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We're good to go.

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And even if we never say that that

attitude can be conveyed by our lack

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of attention, to those very things.

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So.

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No.

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Totally.

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A hundred percent agree with you on that.

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Yeah.

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Uh, we then talk about

in verses 15 through 28.

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Again, the abomination of desolation,

that's going to take place again,

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the breaking of the treaty.

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Um, and at the instruction

here is, Hey, run, flee.

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Uh, and, and this is interesting

because this is Jesus saying, this

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is going to be a bad, a bad season.

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And he even mourns in verse 19, for those

who are pregnant during that time, or

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have nursing babies during that time,

because they're gonna have to run.

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And run away from hospitals and

run away from healthcare, run

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away from all of these things.

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Uh, because the, the persecution is

going to be turned up against them and

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he says, don't pray that it's, it's

not during winter or on the Sabbath.

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There's going to be this great tribulation

verse 21, such as, has not been from

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the beginning of the world until now.

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And that's why you may be thinking,

how do we know that this is

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the tribulation period and not

some other time of judgment?

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Verse 21 gives us the answer there.

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It's going to be a great tribulation,

such as not been from the beginning of the

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world until now, and never will be again.

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Well, we haven't experienced that yet.

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And, uh, it's it's yet future.

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We believe that it's going to happen, that

these things are going to be literally

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fulfilled during the tribulation period.

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So he's talking about the abomination

of desolation specifically.

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In verses 15 through 28, it

talks about false Messiah.

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What do we do with that?

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People are going to say,

Hey, look, here's the Christ.

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There's the Christ.

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Um, that's interesting.

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Isn't it?

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Because I think in, in my.

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Memory.

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I think that the one that comes to

mind most often for me is David Koresh

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and Waco with the branch Davidians.

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That, that was him.

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He said, I'm I'm Jesus.

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And I remember thinking to myself, okay.

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That's not Jesus.

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Um, I was offended by that.

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It seems like during the tribulation

period, that's just going to

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ratchet up even more and more

and more, which is interesting.

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I mean, that's been happening

since the time Jesus left.

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That's been lots of people

that have claimed to be Jesus.

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Sure.

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And then, I mean, there are, there

are documentaries, short story

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documentaries about some of these

people that claim to be the new Christ.

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Who act all weird and

just, you know, a theory.

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And they, they portent or

they pretend to be righteous.

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It's such a weird.

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Like what kind of.

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You know, what's happening

in your mind, right?

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Where you're thinking.

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I am God.

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What's going on up there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I think Wikipedia has a,

has an ongoing list of running a

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running list of people that have

been claimed to be the Messiah.

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Yeah.

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And this was even before this predated

Jesus, you had so many people that

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emerged even in intertestamental

period, claiming to be the Messiah

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that Israel was looking for.

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And so this is something that's

happened for a long time.

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Interestingly enough though.

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Look at verse 24, false Christ

and false prophets will arise and

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perform great signs and wonders.

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So as to liter straight, if possible,

even the elect again, the elect here,

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like we talked about yesterday, those

believers during the tribulation period.

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Those that are converted after

the rapture of the church or the

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Jewish believers during that time.

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But these false Christ and false messiahs

are allowed to do miraculous wonders.

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There's spiritual, demonic

oppression, taking place and going

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on here during this this time.

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And when we get to the book of

revelation towards the end of the year

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and study this more in depth in that.

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The ultimate example of that is going to

be the antichrist himself who is going

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to have a wound that appears mortal.

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And it's going to look like he

rises from the dead and there's

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going to be a statue built in the.

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The statute is going to be

given permission to speak even.

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And so there's a lot that's

dark and demonic taking place

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during this tribulation period.

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Which goes to show then that

you have to rely on more than

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just the miraculous sign gifts.

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True.

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Because Jesus is warning us

here right now, when this

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happens, do not be led astray.

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Yeah.

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He's telling you ahead of time,

which then means, okay, then what's

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my ultimate litmus test for what

to understand is true versus false.

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And it's going to be his word, the

word of God and capsulated between

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those two leather covers that you

have, you need to know the Bible.

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Otherwise you'll be susceptible to being

deceived by these false signs and wonders.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen to that.

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Yeah, verses 29 through 31,

then we get Christ returned.

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Right?

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As, as darkness seems to be winning

or have won, the sun is going to

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return again, like we talked about

yesterday to gather his tribulation

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saints before he judges the

antichrist and his followers and a.

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It's going to be that, that scene

of the son of man coming on the

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clouds in glory and the whole earth

is going to see it's, it's not.

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And that's part of the,

the, the reason why.

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You're not going to

believe these other ones.

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Well, you hopefully won't because

you won't be there, but why some, the

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faithful won't believe them because.

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Jesus says here, it's not going to be

mistaken when he appears it's going to be.

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Uh, noticeable to everyone.

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The heavens are going to be shaken.

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He's going to come on the clouds in glory.

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You're going to see it and notice

it and go, okay, that's the Messiah.

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And so as powerful as these

faults besides may appear to be.

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Jesus got to Trump them all with,

uh, the way that he appears.

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Lessons from the fig tree

again, verses 32 through 35.

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If you can see the signs of the fig tree.

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Be able to interpret the S the,

the signs of the times as well.

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And then again, finally, no

one knows the hour or day, just

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like we talked about yesterday.

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This is part of the,

kenosis the, uh, the self.

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Uh, the self humiliation of the sun.

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Uh, veiling his full glory

with his full humanity.

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Um, and the point here is

again for you and I be ready

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for, we don't know the hour.

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We don't know what he's

going to come back in.

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Our job is to be ready and

to be faithful in this right.

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All right.

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Well, there it is.

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That's a shorter episode, but a lot of

overlap there, but hopefully some good

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nuggets to take away from today's reading.

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Let's pray together.

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Got thanks for your word.

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And, uh, though it, it is, uh,

There are parallel passages here.

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We thank you that we can continue to

plumb the depths of it and learn more.

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Every time we come back to it.

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Uh, even year after year after

you're reading the same passages,

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there's going to be new truths there.

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And in part, because of the, the

ministry of the spirit that we're

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going to talk about, even this weekend.

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And what your spirit does within us to

enable us to understand the scriptures.

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God, we're thankful for that.

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And so we just pray.

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They give us the eyes to see that

the ears to hear that we would not

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become dull of hearing or seeing

as we spend time in the word.

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And that you'd be pleased with the fruit

that it bears in our lives as a result.

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So we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all will keep reading your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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We'll see you then guys.