00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:03 Baseball Talk: Dodgers vs. Yankees

00:35 The Economics of Baseball

01:14 Fandom and Irrationality

04:49 Salary Cap Debate

05:49 Video Games and Moderation

06:22 Bible Study: Luke 10

06:58 The Mission of the 72

08:25 Judgment and Repentance

11:11 The Return of the 72

13:41 The Translucent Creature

13:49 Encounter with a Massive Snake

14:27 Scorpions and Their Dangers

14:48 Mosquitoes and the Brokenness of Creation

16:19 The Joy of Jesus

17:15 The Parable of the Good Samaritan

22:09 Mary and Martha: Choosing the Better Portion

24:41 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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World series game one east versus

west Dodgers versus the Yankees.

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Go Dodgers news.

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Show, Hey, my man boring.

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I'm praying for you show.

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Hey.

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So here's why.

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What are you saying?

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You're such a combustion.

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You love baseball.

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I don't even like baseball.

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And here I am.

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I'm supporting rooting for the home

team, but as a baseball fan, you have

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to understand that the Dodgers and the

Yankees are perennially the evil empires

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and more so the Yankees, because they're

guilty of it longer than the Dodgers,

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the Dodgers were in baseball, irrelevant

irrelevance for largely the last decades.

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What's the problem.

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Well, because they, they backed

up a dump truck of $700 million to

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go buy Shohet Ritani and a handful

of other guys on their team.

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And that just you're upset

that they have resources.

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No, I'm just upset that that's who made

the world series because it's, it's like,

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okay, there's no interest in this anymore.

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It's like, nobody wants to see

the Dodgers or the Yankees.

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When in fact there's a lot of

memes floating around right now.

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That's like who's rooting

for who in the world series.

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And it's the pocket of LA St.

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Dodgers, the pocket of New York

saying Yankees, the rest of the

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nation saying, we just want this to be

over and move on to the next season.

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Why.

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Because there are two uninteresting

teams, their teams that nobody

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likes to have the best teams.

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So uninteresting versus

no one likes is different.

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But that's, but fandom is not about

wanting the two best teams to compete

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at the end, fandoms about one of your

team or if not your team, a team that

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you can feel good about rooting for.

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Totally irrational.

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This is totally preference based.

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This is about being a fan irrational.

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Fandom.

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Yeah, there's a lot of irrationality

and fandom are the same thing.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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There's a lot of irrationality about

fandom, but at the end of the day,

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Uh, a fan wants to feel good about

rooting for a given team and outside

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of the pockets of LA and New York, you

really can't feel good about reading

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for either of these teams might not

because they have too much money there.

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They're large markets and

yes, they have done that.

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They've gone out and they've

they've curmudgeon dinner.

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Not commercial, but they bludgeoned I'm

being the convergent, but they bludgeoned.

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Uh, the sport in the past, by going

out and spending and buying rather

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than developing with, from within

now, the Yankees, I will say this,

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the Yankees have have more to, to

leverage as far as homegrown talent,

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their superstar, Aaron judge.

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They didn't have to back up the

Brink's truck to get him there about

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to cause he's going to be a free agent.

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But they drafted him and

developed him in their system.

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So in that sense, if I'm

going to root for anybody.

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I'd say go Yankees in this, but

I, I rather, Jesus come back in

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this series, never to finish.

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So it sounds like.

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Irrational fans are upset

because these two teams that have

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the means to purchase talent.

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Are utilizing their means and

everyone else is upset about it.

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They're crossing their arms saying,

well, I'm not, I'm just gonna take

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my glove and I'm going home because

these guys, they spent money.

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And I don't like that.

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In a way, except it's it's, it's absurd.

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Now, the Rangers were guilty of

this back in Alex Rodriguez day.

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So the ranger signed a rod back in

the early two thousands, I think,

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to a 10-year contract where $250

million that at the time was the

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most expensive contract that had ever

been given in professional baseball.

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All right.

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Okay.

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10 and two 50 and everyone was

up in arms about that going,

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this is going to re-establish the

market, everything else like that.

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Now 10 to 50, most expensive that

the Dodgers literally just paid show.

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Hey, $700 million.

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You saw that almost a billion

dollars to play baseball.

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I sent them my resume right after

that thinking, you know what?

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I missed my calling.

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Yeah.

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A second calling to go

play baseball, right?

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The only for a season.

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So in essence, yeah, it is.

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It's looking at that, going to bed.

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That's lame.

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Like it's like the big kid, that's

got the, the muscles going out and

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dominating and Peewee football because

he's bigger than everybody else.

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It's like, And Dallas,

isn't a small market.

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So I I'm hoping the Rangers

are backing in competition.

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I want them to go out

and sign free agents too.

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But outside of that, man, This playoffs.

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I was going, give me the Royals,

give me Cleveland, give me Detroit,

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give me some team other than the

Yankees, give me anybody else in the

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national league other than Dodgers.

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And I will put my, I will

throw my support behind them.

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Sounds like.

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Bitter irrational fans just

being bitter and irrational.

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But it's the majority of fandom.

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Outside.

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International.

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Those two markets.

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That's the majority of the random.

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The difference with the bully

though, is that these guys are

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saying, Hey, well, we'll give you

this much to come play with us.

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It's not saying you must come

play with us, but it's a here

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here's, here's the carrot.

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If you want to enjoy the carrot, I

wouldn't fall to do you, do you fall

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these guys for saying, yeah, I'll

play for you for that much money.

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I, yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's insane.

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It's stupid.

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It's stupid money.

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It's stupid.

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Nobody's is worth $700 million.

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Yes.

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He's not the market.

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Tells you what you're worth

in terms of your score?

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That's it.

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The Dodgers set the market and they

set the market by going, it's like

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somebody going, Hey, you know, I'll

pay you 200 bucks for that thing.

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That's probably worth 150 bucks and

then somebody else comes along and it's

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like, I'll pay you $800 for that thing.

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And it's like, dude, that's just stupid.

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Like you're an idiot.

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One show.

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Hey, so in a real sense, though,

the market does establish the value.

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And if the market's

willing to pay that, then.

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Uh, man show, Hey, would be

foolish not to take that money.

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And in the end that the bigger issue here

in what needs to happen is what's happened

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in some other sports, which has prevented

this is there needs to be a salary

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cap levied in baseball that prevents.

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You're such a communist.

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Um, about there, there

needs to be a salary cap.

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Is there going to be like

a moves towards Perry?

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Are you going to do like a Vladimir Putin?

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No, but like the NFL, which is

arguably the most pop, as far

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as audience participation goes.

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It's the most popular sport in the

United States is national footballing.

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Uh, and part of the reason is because

they're parody, you don't have somebody

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going out and backing up the Brinks truck

and bring it in a superstar and, and

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blowing everybody else out of the water.

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Like it's, it's boring is

part of what it comes down to.

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There's no storyline that's intriguing

in this year's world series matchup.

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Like th there's nothing.

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There's no Cinderella team.

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There's no like human

interest story to root for.

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It's boring versus boring, and

like, let him play each other.

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And hopefully Jesus comes back

and, and it, this all ends

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because the rapture happens in

baseball doesn't matter anymore.

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That would be the best outcome here.

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In this world series.

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Well, speaking of boring, let's

continue this conversation

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in a different direction.

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DDO games.

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Okay.

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Give me a quick, cause I'm looking

at a, there there's a calendar here

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that I subscribed to that tells me all

the cool things that are happening.

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Pop culture.

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Call of duty comes out today.

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Call of duty black ops six.

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Yep.

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Um, give me just a quick summary

then of your opinion of grown men.

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Or kids playing video games.

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Everything in moderation.

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I mean, I'm not, I'm not Uber passionate

one way or the other or women.

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Yeah.

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Does that change your opinion women?

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Nope.

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No?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I think there's room for as

long as it's in moderation.

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All right.

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There you go ask them to answer.

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All right.

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Let's jump into the Bible, Luke 10.

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Luke 10.

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We open up in a Lieutenant

with the sending out of the

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72, um, verses one through 12.

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Similar instructions have been given

here as when Jesus sent the 12 out

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at back in mark six and Matthew 10.

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So you're going to just

a different scenario.

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Are these the same, same account,

just different focus or are

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these different scenarios?

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So that it's the 12 then, but I

think there's similar instructions

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given in both accounts.

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Um, yeah, mark six, Matthew 10.

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Uh, specifically focusing on

the 12 earlier the 72 here, it's

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possible that the same accounts.

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I think.

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I leaned towards them

being separate accounts.

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Um, Yeah, part of their mission,

Lieutenant one, to get the town's ready

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for Jesus as he was going to follow after

them, he was going to come behind them.

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He was going to be preaching behind them.

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Uh, Lieutenant to Jesus says something

similar to the cycles in John four,

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following his interaction with a woman

at the, well, when it compares the,

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the, the loss to a harvest that's ready

for, uh, for the workers to go out.

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And so he's instructing them to

pray for workers to be sent out.

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And so there, he's talking about the

Samaritans as they're coming out and

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here, he's just talking to general about.

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Uh, specifically the loss of

Israel, because that's who

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the 72 are being sent out to.

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They're not being sent to

the Gentiles at this point.

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Uh, which would have included

the Samaritans, um, in John

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four in that situation there.

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Uh, but their message was to be one

of comfort for those who receive them

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in a warning for those who rejected

them, because the kingdom was near,

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that would have been a comforting

thought for those ready for the kingdom

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and in a terrifying thought for those

that were not ready for the kingdom.

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Really cool from this section here.

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And verse seven, Jesus says, remain in

the same house, eating and drinking.

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What they provide for the

labor deserves his wages.

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If this sounds familiar, that's good

because you would be thinking of first

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Timothy chapter five, where Paul quotes

this very section of Luke's gospel.

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As scripture scripture says.

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You shall not muzzle an ox.

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He quotes in one, Seth for

the labor, deserves his wages.

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He's quoting Jesus here.

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So even at the time of Paul.

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Whether he's writing in the

sixties or fifties, thereabouts.

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He's already acknowledging that

Luke's gospel is considered scripture,

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which is interesting to note.

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That is interesting.

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Yeah.

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That's.

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Peter says something similar regarding

the writings of Paul as well.

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So it's neat to have

scripture affirms scripture.

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Verses 13 through 16, you get

the threat of judgment, whoa.

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To these unrepentant cities.

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And again, this points to the reality

of, of gradations of judgment.

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Um, Look at verse 16, that the reason for

the severity of judgment was to reject the

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disciple is to reject Jesus into reject.

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Jesus is to reject y'all way.

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Uh, the one who hears you hears me and

the one who rejects you rejects me.

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And the one who rejects me,

rejects him, who sent me.

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So that's why there's such severity.

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Uh, for those that are, are being sent

to you, um, Capernaum tires siding are

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labeled here that that is more tolerable

for them than it would be for Capernaum

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or them than it would be for Chorazin.

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And Bethsaida because of the,

the exposure to him who's given

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much, much will be required.

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And, and because they were exposed

to Jesus directly and his teaching

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through the disciples as well.

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Hey.

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Th th they're going to be held to a

much higher standard than some of these

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other people that weren't, although

judgment is judgment, no matter what,

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it's not a good thing to ever be

under the wrath of God, but there is.

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Variations as we've talked

before on the severity there.

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Would you like to elaborate or at

least comments on the use of the term?

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Haiti's this is one of the

transliterated words that is,

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this is what the Greek says.

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It's Haiti's basically, um, So it's

taking that same word from the Greek

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transplanting and into English.

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But there's different

words that we use for.

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For the realm of the dead

Hades is one of them.

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Is there anything that you

want to comment about that?

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Or are there the same places?

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Haiti's she?

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Oh, is she old and a Baton or

not a bad and there's a, yeah.

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Are these places the same place?

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Let's just start with that.

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Are these the same places

or are they different?

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She'll is, is an interesting word in the

old Testament because it, a lot of times

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refers to death at the grave in general.

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Um, and so we can't necessarily associate

judgment all the time was she'll.

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Although in general has

a negative connotation.

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Uh, Haiti's Gahanna is the

other one that Jesus will use.

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Um, I think it's, it's all

referring to eternal damnation.

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Uh, either way you slice it,

no matter how you look at it.

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And I think when we try to parse

it out too much, I think we get

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into trouble trying to find nuance.

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That's not really intended to be

there in the presentation of it.

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Yeah, it seems like, well, what,

no matter how you slice it, even if

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you're using different terminology,

we use different terms for the street.

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You know, the, the roadway, the street,

I mean, Actually there's distinctions.

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In those usages of those terms.

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And often we don't think about

those things, but we use it.

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We use different terms to kind of

speak to the same thing, and that

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might be what's happening here.

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This is an interesting question.

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And perhaps there's shades of

nuance that have different.

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Connotations.

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Uh, but by and large, what we're

looking at are two separate realms

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of the dead, either the dead.

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Uh, the abode of the righteous

or the abode of the wicked and

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Hades without qualification

refers to the boat of the wicked.

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This is a bad place.

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You don't want to go there.

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Nope.

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Nobody wants to be in Hades.

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Uh, contrary to the Disney.

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Movies.

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I think it was a Hercules.

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I never watched that.

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I never actually have seen it either,

but from what I understand, he

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dabbles in the realm of Haiti's and.

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Yeah.

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It's not a good place to be.

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You don't wanna be there.

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I don't think you just go.

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Well, the 72 come back, uh, which is good.

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Jesus sends them out.

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They come back and they come back

and verses 17 through 20 here.

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And when they return,

they're there, they're stoked

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because they're celebrating.

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Hey, even the demons are subject to us

in your name, which points to the fact

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that Jesus had given them authority.

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Again, the miracle validates

the message and the messenger.

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So Jesus had given them some authority

to be able to send them out so that they

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could be his representatives and that what

they preached and what they taught would

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be listened to by those around there.

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So in verse 18, Um, Jesus tells them,

you know, you're impressed by that.

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You shouldn't be surprised about that

because he says in verse 18, I saw

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Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

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So it was a little surprised that

Jesus, at least that his authority

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employed by these disciples should

see Satan's demons also cast out

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while they're there on earth.

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Um, verse 19, these creatures were

associated with evil, that he talks

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about the serpents and scorpions.

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And so this is not commending

handling snakes in church as the

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end of Mark's gospel might imply

as well or anything like that.

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This is, these were demonic creatures, and

I think that's, what's being represented

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here in Jesus' words that these are.

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Uh, things associated with evil.

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So he's saying you're going to have

power over the evil things, and

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they're not going to be able to hurt

you because they're going out in

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the power of Christ in the power of

the eventually, uh, after the cross,

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the resurrected savior, even so.

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Uh, Luke 20 or 10 20, then even more

impressive than their casting out of

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demons is the greater reality that

their names are written in heaven.

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He.

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Yeah, great.

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You're impressed by that.

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But, but rejoice, even more

that you're saved that you've

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been delivered from your sin.

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Yeah.

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The, the, the more important reality here

is that it's not your ministry success,

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and we should be grateful for that.

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Thank you for that.

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God is blessing them for that.

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But he's saying like the more important

thing is to ground your joy in the

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fact that you're eternally secure

with your lording, with your master.

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That's, that's a better thing because

ministry success can rise and fall

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for some people, God promised, look,

your ministry is not going to be

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successful by the way, Jeremiah, you.

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Isaiah you're going to preach it.

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No, one's going to listen to you.

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So, Hey, this is your job.

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You're going to be faithful, even

if you're not successful in a, in

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a, in a technical worldly sense.

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But ultimately it would be my interaction

with both the scorpions and the serpents

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has amplified since coming to Texas.

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In fact, I stepped on my

first scorpion here in Texas.

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Did you thank you very much,

Texas for supplying that.

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No, it was a baby, which I hear are

more powerful and potent than the.

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And the adults, but it was in

our, it, we went to new Braunfels.

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Yeah, we're having that camp

down, uh, whatever, like that was.

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Yeah, we.

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Maybe score, but yeah,

Kenya, like that's the one.

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Maybe scorpion in our, in our room.

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And for the, for the longest time he

was hiding, like in a corner where

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you couldn't actually reach him.

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That's where there.

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So he was menacing.

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Yep.

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Every time I walked by, he'd be like,

he's looking at me, taunting me,

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saying you want some of this was.

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I like the tan color of the carpet.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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He was almost translucent.

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Actually the very light color.

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Yeah.

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I really wanted to get a black

light cause I want to see them

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under the, I hear that they do glow.

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Right.

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I want to see that.

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Do I saw that?

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And then just the other day, I forgot

to tell you I was walking, not walking.

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I was driving down the road

from, um, what is that Coleman?

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Is it common?

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That's the one that leads us to

the shopping center over there.

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Yep.

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Uh, so, you know, there's a

lot of construction over there.

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Oh yeah.

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Massive snake.

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And the middle of the

road, you run over it.

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I did not.

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I avoided it because I don't

like running over creatures.

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Um, unless there are scorpions in

which case, and I'll make a beeline for

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that dude, but I did it when I'm over.

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I think he was already dead.

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I couldn't quite tell,

but that's all him there.

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And then, uh, on the

way home, once I saw us.

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Uh, a snake in the middle of the road.

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Yeah.

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During that, during on that county

road, that's next to my house.

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I'm just making, just don't

get to my house out there.

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Don't get to my house anyway.

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Are those demonic?

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Can I read them all over?

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Should I run them all over?

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Ah, man Scorpion's might be, and

it may not have been a baby, the

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bark scorpions, which are those

tiny translucent ones there.

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They don't get very big.

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Oh, is that right?

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Maybe it wasn't a baby and they,

they are powerful punch they're.

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Yeah, they're dangerous.

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We had them in our houses in

Arizona and it was not fun.

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Um, and they do, they hide in

like the track of the sliding

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glass doors and the hide.

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Like in the carpet fibers, it's nasty.

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Just waiting to attack.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there's something about looking

at creatures like that and saying,

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and even just mosquitoes, right?

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I mean, we've been sitting outside

quite a bit recently in the

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evenings and it's been beautiful.

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Except for the mosquitoes.

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Why mosquitoes.

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And it goes back to the brokenness

of creation, the fondness

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of creation in the end of.

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At the end of the day, the serpent

and the scorpion and the mosquito.

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Those are created by God for his glory.

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Uh, right now, it's difficult

for us to see his glory in

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the creation of those things.

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We would rather them not exist in than

exist, but we have to go back to the fact

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that that God is the one that brought

them into existence in the first place.

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And so he did that.

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Why for his glory?

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They've been corrupted by the fall.

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So I think if anything, it reminds

us of the brokenness of the world.

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When we see these creatures that

are, uh, at entity with mankind.

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I think that's a good point too.

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Satan's not inventing anything.

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He's not creating anything.

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Exiting halo.

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He's simply taking what God has made

and distorting it and contorting it

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into something evil for his purposes.

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That's a great point, right?

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Which is something to note that

even Satan wouldn't stoop as

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low as didn't have it, a cat.

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So he chose the snake.

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In the garden.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, even he was like, dude, no.

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There's only so much.

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Well, he, his prowling lion.

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He is a prowling.

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Yeah, that's true.

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And that's true.

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So, So there's that.

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But besides that.

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I saw something the other

day in all seriousness, that

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was, uh, was, uh, like a.

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Public service announcement that

was talking about how, Hey, if

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you're allergic to cats, you

probably are also allergic to lions.

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I was like, Yep.

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Um, that makes sense, like in case you

were worried about, well, maybe I'll get.

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I align right.

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Instead of just a Tabby.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the humidity is not doing well.

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Uh, anyways, verses 21 through 24.

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This one, the joy of

Jesus, Jesus rejoices.

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Anytime we see that, man, that's,

that's something to take note of.

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Emotions Joyce in the spirit, right.

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He rejoiced in the holy spirit and

said, It's doing something right.

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And what is your joining in?

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Is that not everybody understands

what he's after and not everybody

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understands what he's doing here.

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Um, very similar style and thought

to John here in this section.

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As that we've been studying recently,

the oneness of the father and the son.

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And Jesus is rejoicing that his

followers, do you understand these things?

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So it's not so much that he's like, ha ha.

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Look at you guys, you don't get it.

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I think he's more sane, man.

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It's so good that you guys do

understand at least what you understand

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at this extent, which was not.

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Which was not much.

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And we know that that so much

of their faith was going to

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be developed after the cross.

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But, uh, but he's rejoicing that they're

understanding some of it right now

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and that he gets to, uh, convey some

of that to them from the father, as

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the father has allowed him to do that.

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Uh, versus 25, then through 37,

we've got a familiar story here.

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This is the parable of the good Samaritan.

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Uh, this parable is told, I think

in response to the question.

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Well not, I think it is.

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Told in response to the question.

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The man saying, Hey, who's my neighbor.

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Um, th the situation

would that, that Jesus.

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Portrays here would have not only seemed

unlikely, but impossibly generous.

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And, and that's kind of the point.

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I think what I was going to say is

I think this is told in response

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in follows on what he's just said

there, because, uh, again, parables

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were used to hide some truths and.

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This seems so out of, out of what's

expected, there's no way that any of

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the Jews there would have said, yeah,

a Samaritan would be the hero of the

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story and that's kind of Jesus's point.

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And when he says you go and do

likewise, I mean, the man would've

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walked away going, that's impossible.

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How could I ever love

somebody to that degree?

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There's no way I could ever

conceive of myself doing that.

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And that's, that's the reality here.

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We're not the hero of the

story in this parable.

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We're not the good Samaritan.

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We're if anything, we're the guy that's

beaten and bloodied on the side of the

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road, or sometimes, unfortunately we're

the Levi and the priest passing by on the

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other side of the road, not wanting that.

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So to show the Christ,

like love to someone else.

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The Samaritan is Jesus, which is such

a fascinating thing that he would

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identify himself as the, the Samaritan.

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Outsider.

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The outsider, the Outkast, which yes,

he was, but this is extreme levels

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and, and it loses some of its impact

on us because we don't have that same.

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Uh, that same disdain for

the, uh, the Samaritans that.

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That the Jews did at that time.

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Although maybe you do

because you, you all.

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As a native Jewish and

ethnic Jewish person.

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I absolutely understand this

resonates deeply with me.

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Here's something interesting with me.

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That I noticed here, so he's talking

to a lawyer and so the lawyers

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seeking to, to enter inherit, enter

to life, he gives a lawyer law.

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That's what he does.

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How do I get internal life?

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Here's the law.

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Here's what you need to know.

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If you want to get to heaven on

your own merit, here's the law.

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How are you doing with that buddy?

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And so of course the guy backs up

saying, well, hold on a second here.

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Who's really my neighbor though.

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Who's who's who's my, who

am I supposed to love?

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And so Jesus drills, it drills

a knife, as deep as it can go.

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That the level of love that's expected

of, of God to you is to love them even to

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the point of great self sacrifice, which

is of course what Jesus himself does.

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I wonder that pastor PJ, if this is the

way that Jesus presents a law to the

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lawyer, In other words to humble him.

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Because he has to come

to the end of himself.

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Is this still valid for the Christian?

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Then you shall love the Lord, your God

with all your heart, soul, mind strength.

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And you shall love your

neighbor as yourself.

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Is this legitimate for the Christian?

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It can, it can a pastor, can a

church say, this is our goal.

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We want to do these things when Jesus

implements the use of this term.

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Now the use of this first,

rather for the purposes of saying

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this is the law, do the law.

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If you want to go to heaven this way.

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Right.

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I think you're onto something there.

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I think it is about what's our biggest

hurdle between us and the Lord.

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And I think that's what Jesus does.

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Not only here, but we're going to get

there too with the rich young ruler.

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When the rich young ruler comes

to him and says, teacher, what

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must I do to inherit eternal life?

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And he says, here's all the commandments.

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He says, I've done all those.

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And then he says, go

sell all you have, right?

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You know, I mean, he's not the, the

moral, there is not for the church

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to say, Hey, go sell all you have.

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And then you're going to be good with God.

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It's Jesus is pressing in like a

doctor does, is he's diagnosing an

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issue or hurt he's pressing where it

hurts for us to say, if this is the

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idol in your heart, then this is where

you need God to, to address that.

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And whatever you're putting your

trust in for your own security.

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Self-righteousness

standing, whatever it is.

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That's where God's going to press in and

say, here's, here's the problem area.

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Yeah.

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And so for this guy, his trust and

his confidence, much like the rich

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young ruler was in, Hey, I know

the law, I'm an expert in the law.

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I've, I've checked the box, at least

on the surface of all those things.

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And so with the rich young

ruler, he shifts subject.

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But here with this lawyer, he goes,

okay, knowing all things and knowing

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that the people and knowing the heart

of this man, that's where he presses

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in and says, let me show you where

you're lacking and where you're lacking.

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This is where you need to be.

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And I think that this guy, he

wanted this guy to get to the end

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and say, teacher, I can't do that.

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How.

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How do I do that?

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And that would have

been the right response.

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Uh, and, and that would have been,

you can't do it in your own right.

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Allowed.

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Uh, the, the sermon on the Mount, right?

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Unless your righteousness exceeds

that of the Pharisees, you'll

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never get to the kingdoms.

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Right.

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So does this apply to us?

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Should we love others this way in.

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Yes.

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From a, uh, a general

principle of scripture.

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Yes.

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This.

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The scriptures, teach us to do this.

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But would Jesus come at

us with the same thing?

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No, maybe he would come at

us with a different thing.

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Maybe it would be similar to the rich

young ruler that we've got the idols

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of comfort or whatever in our lives.

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Right.

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Um, but there's principles for us to take

an apply from these things, nonetheless.

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Yeah, I would amen to that.

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We definitely are called this

well, once you're a Christian, this

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is, this is the marching orders.

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Love the Lord.

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Your God love your neighbor as yourself.

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But prior to becoming a Christian,

if you want to justify herself,

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that's the hurdle, right?

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If you want to be, if you

want to be right with me.

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Okay.

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Just.

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All you have to do is just love God

with everything and love your neighbor.

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Just like the way you love yourself.

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And of course, if you're, if

you're mindful of yourself, you're

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self aware by even just one iota.

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You're going to realize pretty

quickly, you know what I, I'm

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not, I'm not doing well in that.

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Yeah.

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So once you fail at that and you say, I

can't do it, you come to Christ and he

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says, great, I can do it through you.

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And now you're empowered by the

spirit because of your forgiveness

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to do the very things that Jesus

says, Hey, now you can fulfill the

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law in a way that's honoring to me.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Well, the chapter ends here with

a story of Mary and Martha who

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we've studied in John's gospel.

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Um, they're the sisters of Lazarus.

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And so here.

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Uh, Jesus is going to stay with them.

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Uh, reminds us that he had a relationship

with this family and had spent time

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with them even way before John 11.

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And so he comes to their house

and he's there and Mary and Martha

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are there and, uh, Mary is there

and she sits at the Lord's feet.

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She, she wants to be with Jesus.

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She wants to hear him and listened

to his teaching and he's there

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willing and ready to teach.

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And in Martha, meanwhile, it says in the

text is distracted with much serving.

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And so I think we can understand

this and know what this is like.

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Um, somebody is over at your

house and you're thinking, man,

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I've got to get the dishes ready.

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I've got to make sure that the.

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The table has said, I've got to make sure

that everything's ready for the meal.

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And you're spending time with someone,

but you're not really spending time with

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them because you're, you're focused on

doing all of these other things for them.

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And sometimes.

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And we can host people and

they can leave and we can be

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like, man, that was exhausting.

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And I feel like I didn't even really

get any quality time with neighbors.

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Yeah, that's awesome because I was so

busy trying to make them feel hospitable

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and that there's good things to that.

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Then the message at the end of

John 10 is not don't serve people.

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It's not, don't be hospitable.

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But don't do those things to the T.

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The cost of a relationship with Jesus.

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And that's what Mary chooses here.

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Mary wants to spend time with Jesus.

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And that's why Jesus says she is chosen.

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The good portion, which will

not be taken away from her.

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Yeah, I resonate with, with,

uh, With Martha so much.

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I'm the anxious one.

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I'm the one like, Hey, the house

has got to be in the right order.

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And does it smell in here?

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You know, I'm always asking the question.

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What does your house smell like?

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You know, I just me and Martha,

like, I feel like we'd be good

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friends in this department.

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Uh, but it's so important that we

see what Jesus commands here and

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there he is chosen the better thing.

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And the better thing was not

to be up in arms about all this

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is my house clean and an order.

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I mean, everyone, everyone

kinda knows there's the house.

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What your house looks like?

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And when it's presented to people and

those are at your house where that

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looks like the way it looks most days.

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And I think we need to be much more okay.

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With the fact that people are going

to see us in different perspectives

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and to say, look, the relationship is

much more valuable than the clean home.

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Yep.

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And the relationship is much more valuable

than it, than it pristine car or whatever

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else it is that we might tend to idolize.

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And I know.

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Culture like ours, it

people like looking good.

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But like smelling good people,

like having things in order, it is.

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It says something to other people

about your home and it's an order.

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But that might be an idol

we need to get rid of.

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We might be Martha's and we need to

be a lot like Mary in this particular

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sense of saying, you know what?

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Jesus comes first.

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Even if that means I'm not going to

be, I'm going to be super uncomfortable

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with the way that my house looks or the

way that my car looks, but that's okay.

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I'm doing it for the

sake of the relationship.

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Yeah.

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To that end.

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Let's pray.

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And then we'll be done

with the another episode.

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Got, we want to be more like Mary.

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We want to know what it is to pursue a

relationship with you more than to pursue

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the things about a relationship with you.

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We want to find that.

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That's not to overuse

the word, but balance.

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And there does need to be that we do need

to give attention to what we need to do

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and being a good representatives of you.

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We don't want to put any hurdles or

roadblocks in somebody's way of coming

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over to our house and thinking about how

distracted they are about the smell or

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by the appearance or anything else that

they're not willing to, to listen to what

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we have to say or to fellowship with us.

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But then.

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We also want to make sure that we're,

we're intentional and, and not so

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caught up with all those other things

that we put our value in our identity

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and having a house that's perfect

or things just, just right when

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we have somebody over for dinner.

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And that prevents us from ever

getting somebody over or getting to

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the gospel or getting to a depth of

relationship when people are with us.

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So.

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Help us to walk that line and into

the, to do the right thing and, and to

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remind us that man, Our effectiveness

in serving other people is only

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going to be as great as our, as the

depth of our relationship with you.

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The more we love you, the better we will

be at being the Marthas in this world.

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So help us to first be married

so that we can be effective

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as Martha, as we serve others.

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And we pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Are y'all keep, bring your Bibles and

tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcasts.

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Bye.