0:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:46 Quick Holiday Chat: President’s Day & the Long Weekend

01:37 Today’s Readings Overview: Leviticus 20–21 & Matthew 28

01:54 Leviticus 20: Molech, Child Sacrifice, and a Modern ‘Culture of Death’

02:48 Is It Still Binding? Connecting OT Law to NT Morality (Murder)

03:29 How to Read Leviticus: Moral vs Civil vs Ceremonial Laws

06:23 Don’t Look Away: Shared Guilt When Society Tolerates Evil (and Voting)

08:30 Leviticus 21: Why Priests Had Stricter Holiness Standards

09:15 Holiness as Wholeness: What ‘Blemish’ Laws Were Symbolizing

10:44 Matthew 28: Resurrection Morning—Women Witnesses & the Empty Tomb

11:59 The Cover-Up: Guards, Leaders, and the Thickness of Unbelief

12:45 Why the Resurrection Is the Linchpin of Christianity + Book Recommendations

15:21 The Great Commission: ‘All Authority…All Nations…All I Commanded’

16:54 Closing Prayer, Amen, and Send-Off

17:36 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, happy Sunday.

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We're we're back.

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We're back for another week at church,

and we're still rolling in a series on

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suffering, which man, I'd like to give

you a light at the end of the tunnel.

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I think there's a lot of really good,

rich stuff in one peter about suffering.

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And the reality is he's gonna

continue to talk about suffering for

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quite a while now, and it's, part

of it is just this is the reality

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of what it means to follow Christ.

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And so this is a series I've been

enjoying getting into the word and.

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Mining some things from it.

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Hopefully you're

benefiting from the series.

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But we're talking about first Peter

chapter three today at church continuing

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in verses 13 through 17 about why

our suffering matters in the eyes of

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God and what he wants to do with it.

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So hopefully it'll be an encouraging

message or hopefully it was an encouraging

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message to you if you've already been

there and you are now back at home.

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But yeah, it's a long weekend.

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What is tomorrow?

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Is it President's Day tomorrow?

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Is that why?

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Schools are closed on Monday?

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Yes.

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Do we know which President's

Day this is about?

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I think it's 2026 is President's

Day, if I'm not mistaken.

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Yeah.

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Who was the president that was honored?

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I think they're all honored.

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I could be wrong.

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I don't, I don't.

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I, it probably all I've him a day.

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Yeah.

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It's the birthday of George Washington.

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I knew it was associated

with something like that.

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Oh, is that right?

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Birthday of the original Gub.

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Oh, okay.

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He was born, I guess February 22nd,

technically so we're a little early,

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but it's the third Monday of every

February is the President's Day,

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so I know my kids are off school.

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I assume is Solana closed as well?

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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So, enjoy your Monday.

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If you've got the day off, enjoy that.

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We are in Leviticus 20 through

21 and Matthew 28, 1 through 20.

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Leviticus 20 through 21 has

a lot more just getting into

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the rules and regulations.

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A lot of it has to do with the immorality.

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Of the kind between men and women

and other things going on there.

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But before that, he gets into this

whole thing on child sacrifice

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and the god, the false God mole.

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And I think there are parallels there that

we can see between the death culture that

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we find prevalent in our society today.

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And the God molech, though those that

go to the Planned Parenthood centers

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and others are not necessarily going

there to offer their children in

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a sacrificial act to a demon God.

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They are s.

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Certainly engaging in

something that is of the ilk.

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And even though the God is not identified

certainly this is anything but some,

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a practice that honors the Lord.

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And during this time, this

was an abomination to him.

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The person who did this was to be put

to death, and the Lord was very serious

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about preserving the life of the unborn.

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There's also some instructions here

about mediums and necro answers that's

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gonna come up with Saul as we get into

the books of First Samuel specifically.

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But, this is goddess saying that

babies the children, there's a

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value in their lives and we need

to protect that value at all costs.

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And what would make this a New

Testament principle in your estimation?

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Because clearly we would

still hold to this.

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We believe that this is not just

for Israel's religious worship.

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This is a binding, we would say this

is a binding for all time situation.

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How would you know that?

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I think when we get into the category

in the New Testament, when the command

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thou shalt not murder is reiterated.

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And we would look at this and say,

this is a form of murder, and we

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can know that it's a form of murder.

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Because earlier in the law there

was the command that if a child is

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born and dies premature, is born

prematurely and dies, that is a life

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you've taken the life of that child.

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So, these are children that

are born and then offered.

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To this God.

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And so this is a blatant act of

murder that we know in the New

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Testament is still condemned as well.

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One of the ways that I remember learning

about how Christians deal with some of

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the Old Testament regulations and statutes

that we're reading here are the trifold

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division of civil, ceremonial, and moral.

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Do you subscribe to that?

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Is that something you

feel comfortable with?

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And if so, can you explain it?

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Yeah.

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By and large I would this would certainly

fall into the category of moral,

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something that we would look at and

say, this is morally right or wrong.

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And there were laws about that.

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There were other laws that were civil

or ceremonial, for example, that

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the law about not boiling a goat in

its some mother's milk was probably

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not a moral law as much as it was.

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Part of the ceremonial law.

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And then they had things that were

specific for them as a nation that

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would've fallen into the category

of what was a law for their conduct

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together as the nation of Israel.

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And those things don't

necessarily translate over

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to the New Testament either.

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But I do believe the moral laws are very

clear for us to say, this is something

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that we're gonna preserve by and large.

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And that would include some of the things

that we read about when it comes to sexual

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ethics and even the implications of.

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Of those things.

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When the text doesn't tell us civil,

ceremonial, or moral, then how do

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you know where to draw the line?

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I think that's where

resources are helpful for us.

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Like the ESV study Bible can

be helpful for you on that.

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A commentary can be

helpful for you on that.

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Looking to the outside resources to get

wisdom and glean understanding as to

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what the laws are and how they should

be interpreted is not something that you

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should be ashamed to do if you have to

go outside to understand some of these

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things, especially in the Old Testament

law, especially in a book like Leviticus.

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That can be helpful for you.

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That's right.

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I would also suggest to you too, that

when you're reading your Old Testament,

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I would read it in light of the new.

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You see two pieces put together where

those who received the law for the

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first time, the Israelites, they didn't

have a New Testament to refer to and

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say, oh, I see Jesus is gonna affirm

this in Matthew chapter such and such.

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But we can do that though.

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We can look at the New Testament and

say, okay, how do we put these two

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pieces together such that they harmonize?

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And the threefold division

of the law is a helpful one.

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It has a bit of pushback

here and there from different

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scholars for different reasons.

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In other words it's not a.

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This is the only way to look at this.

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There's lots of people

who see it differently.

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In part because everything God says

has moral implications is the idea.

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You can't say, well, this is only moral

and this is only civil and ceremonial.

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There's overlap.

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It's not clean, but it is a helpful

metric, a helpful framing to look

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at the Old Testament law, and by

and large, if you can look at the

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Old Testament, put it together with

a new there's a lot of symbiosis.

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They both work together and

they help complete each other.

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There are times when we have questions

and those questions have difficult

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answers that we have to do a lot

of heavy lifting with, but to.

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We have lots of resources that help

with these things we do for sure.

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In the last section here of chapter

20, he, God does, reminds the

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people of, again, why all of these

rules, why all these regulations?

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Because he wants them to be separate.

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He wants them to be consecrated

and he doesn't want them to do

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the things that caused him to di.

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Test the people that were in the land

before them, and granted they're not

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in the land yet, but as he's preparing

them to go to the land, he's saying,

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this is, these are the things they did.

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You shall not be like them.

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Instead, you should be holy.

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You should be set apart, you should

be different consecrated, and

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you shall be those things for me.

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And so God is calling them out

from all of those practices.

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One thing I wanna bring your attention

to is in verse four of this chapter,

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he says, if the people of the land do

at all, close their eyes to the man.

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When he gives one of his children

a mole and do not put him to death.

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Then I will set my face against that man

and against his clan and cut them off.

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That is all the people from among the

people, him and all who follow him

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in doing these things after Molech.

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So I think there's a really helpful

principle here to learn, and it's that

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God does hold us culpable and responsible

if we sit back and let a moral evil

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persist without taking action against it.

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In fact, he prescribes the same

penalty that the one who committed the

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crime received and obviously in our

laws, there's different ways to look

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at this, but I do think you should

feel some of the weight of this.

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If you have the ability to

act against evil and you don't

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there's problems with that.

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God wants you to feel a moral

compunction to do something.

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When you have the ability to do

that and to fail to do that is

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a moral failure as God sees it.

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Would we carry that over

into the realm of voting?

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We don't wanna be.

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Necessarily accused of favoring

one party over the other.

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He's such a Christian

nationalist, tongue and cheek.

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I think so.

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I mean, it's different.

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It's very different.

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These are not the same thing.

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Yeah.

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But principally, I would say,

yeah, if you have a vote to cast,

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you should use your vote wisely.

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And with a clear conscience, there's

a lot of, hurdles to jump over,

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but I think that's an application.

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Sure.

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Or an implication of the text,

but maybe not a specific like,

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oh, A plus B equals C situation.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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I would agree with you.

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I think for a lot of people,

this is one of the ways that

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they can do something there.

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There's a lot of people

who otherwise don't.

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Who don't have the means to be

able to give a ton of money towards

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companies or organ organizations

that fight against these things.

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So I think casting our vote is a

good way for us as Christians to be

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involved, which makes it important

for you to know the issues at stake.

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And a lot of times I think we

just vote party lines because

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that's what we've always done.

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But knowing the issues, taking the stance

and or even volunteering your time.

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We brought up that crisis pregnancy

center a couple weeks ago going and

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volunteering somewhere like that.

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Being a counselor or being somebody

that can meet with the ladies, helping

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with intake, whatever that looks like,

that's another way to get involved.

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But I'm with you.

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I think we have an obligation as

believers, as those that stand

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for what's right to be engaged in

trying to push back the darkness

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by participating in those things.

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Chapter 21.

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Then we get into the priests, and

he's going to talk specifically about

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the separate regulations and rules

for why the priests need to be holy.

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And in fact, sometimes even holier

more separate than the common man.

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The high priest that the chief priest

who's mentioned in verse 10, he's

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not even allowed to go while he's on

duty at least, and mourn his family.

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If somebody in his family dies,

he's not even allowed to be present

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with them because he would be.

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Contaminated, he would then defile

himself and not be eligible to

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carry out the service that he

needed to carry out for the people.

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And so, they had a job and their

job was to serve the greater nation.

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And as such, they need to

be ready to do that work.

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They need to be ready to do the work

in the ministry in front of them.

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So they were called to a different

standard of holiness here, or

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at least a more intense standard

of holiness here in Chapter 21.

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One of the things that you should know is

that holiness is symbolized by wholeness.

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So when you see some of these

physical things, again, you're

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seeing 'em at verse 16 and following.

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I won't read those for the

obvious reasons that you'll

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know once you read through that.

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But the physical blemishes

we're not inherently wrong.

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It's not that there was something.

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Morally deficient.

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It was symbolically deficient.

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What God does here is focus on the

physicality of somebody because it speaks,

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it's a symbol of what it conveying, which

is holiness and wholeness go together.

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In fact, there's something

interesting there.

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There is a connection there

linguistically, obviously, you

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hear holiness and holiness.

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I think biblically the idea

of holiness does speak to the

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completeness and the fullness of God.

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Holiness does speak to at least two

things, and the first one being his

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transcendence that God's godness.

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Is a way that we talk about his holiness.

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I think that's what Isaiah six is, has in

mind when he calls him Holy, holy, holy.

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But there is a secondary meaning

that we typically think of when

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we think of holiness, and that

has to do with moral perfection.

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Mm-hmm.

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Spotlessness the

unblemished vitality of God.

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His perfect wholeness and completeness.

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Jesus says in Matthew chapter

seven, that you're to be perfect.

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You're to be the tell us.

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You're to be.

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That word also speaks to

wholeness, completeness.

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You're to be perfect as your

father in heaven is perfect.

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Jesus says, and I think that's kind

of the idea here of what's happening.

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Holiness is symbolized in this particular

text as physical wholeness, and that's why

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you see some of these restrictions here.

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Nothing inherently wrong with them.

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Again, there's issues.

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All of us have physical imperfections, but

the point was, oh, you're not good enough.

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Physically.

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It was meant to symbolize.

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Holiness.

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Let's flip over to our New

Testament reading for today.

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We're in Matthew 28, and we are

picking up after the crucifixion.

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After the burial, the guard has

been placed at the tomb, and now

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we get to the Sunday morning,

and this is resurrection Sunday.

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This is the account where Jesus is gonna

leave the tomb never to enter again.

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And it's interesting here that Matthew

records the first ones to show up.

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The first witnesses of his

resurrection are these women,

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Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.

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Now, if you jump back.

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In your Bibles to chapter 27, verse

61, you'll see that, that they were

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there sitting opposite the tomb.

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They were there.

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They knew where the tomb was.

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One of the arguments against the

resurrection of Christ is, well, they

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went to the wrong tomb and that's

probably one of the more flimsy

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arguments, but still it is made.

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And I think here we see that that

can be set aside because these women

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were present when Jesus was buried.

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They knew where he had been laid.

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And so they come back to that spot.

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They find that the tomb has been opened.

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There are the angels.

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The angels greet them and say, he's

not here for he, he has risen, as he

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said, and then he instruct them to go

and tell the others and go to Galilee.

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Well, meanwhile, Jesus is going

to encounter them and he's going

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to show up there with these

women and he's gonna greet them.

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And he's gonna instruct them, Hey,

go and tell my brothers to go to

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Galilee, and I will meet them there.

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Meanwhile we get this back in, in

Jerusalem, flashback to the guards and the

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Pharisees and the leaders, and the report

of the resurrection gets back to them.

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And the unbelief is so thick

with them that they say that

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Here's what you need to do.

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You need to tell his followers and

tell other people, well, his closest

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followers came and stole the body.

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And that's why the tomb is empty.

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But you just wonder.

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What were they thinking?

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What really were they

thinking at this point?

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Because they, they couldn't have

actually believed that here's the guard's

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bearing witness, giving testimony to

the fact that these angels showed up.

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There was a blinding light.

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There was all of this happening,

and they're being told here, we're

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gonna pay you off to tell people

that you fell asleep and that his

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disciples came and stole the body.

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They knew that wasn't true and the

guards knew that wasn't true, but

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it's just an interesting indication

of the thickness of unbelief here.

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Th this is the single most important

miracle in the whole corpus of scripture.

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And one of the things that can give you

confidence about so many of the other

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things that you may struggle with in the

Bible is this specific, miraculous event.

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If Jesus is who he says he is and what he

said was true, then this is the linchpin

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for everything else that we believe in.

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If the resurrection is true, there's a

lot of things about scripture and about

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how the world works and about evil and

things like that that can cause my soul

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to be grieved and concerned and confused.

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But if Jesus rose from the dead.

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As he called, as he predicted, then I can

at least look at those other things and

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say, I'll figure it out at some point.

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I don't need to be fretful or worrisome

about it because Jesus rose from the

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dead and people rightly attack this.

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Because if you wanna dismantle our

religion, this is how you do it.

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Paul's gonna affirm that in one

Corinthians 15 and say, look, if this

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is not true, then this is a sham.

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Let's eat and drink and be mery.

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So Matthew 28, along with the

other gospels that talk about Jesus

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resurrection is massively important.

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It doesn't get a lot of ink here.

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Surprisingly, it's surprising, as

you say, even about the crucifixion,

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it doesn't get a lot of ink, but it

is worth you knowing and studying.

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You mentioned one of the arguments against

the resurrection being they misplaced him.

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There's a few others out there.

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Mm-hmm.

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But one book I'd recommend that I've

read, and this is an older book now the

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research hasn't improved a whole lot.

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But one book that I could commend to you

is called The Case for the Resurrection

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of Jesus by Gary Habermas and Mike Laona.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's kind of a thicker book.

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It's 352 pages.

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But it is worth having in your library

and perhaps referencing, and maybe

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as we get closer to Easter this

year, maybe you wanna knock it out

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before Easter so that you can more

appreciate what we're dealing with here.

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This is the linchpin of our religion.

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This is everything for us.

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There's a lot of things we might quibble

about and things that we might not be.

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As, as clear or certain

on, but this is it.

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If Jesus rose from the

dead, I can trust him.

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If Jesus rose from the dead,

my salvation is secure.

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If Jesus rose from the dead as he

predicted, I can be confident that

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all the other lesser miracles that the

Bible speaks about, those are fine.

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I can drink that in because

Jesus rose from the dead.

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This is everything guys.

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This is why we celebrate Easter.

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This is why we call it

Resurrection Sunday.

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This is the Super Bowl of the church.

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For this reason, this is everything.

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If you're interested in something that's.

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A little bit more pop level,

and it's the same title.

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The Case for the Resurrection

is written by Lee Strobel

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and Lee's an interesting guy.

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He's written quite a few books out there.

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The Case For Christ the case for, I think

a Creator Case for the Resurrection is

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another one that he wrote, and he is

a former journalist who is an atheist

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who set out to disprove Christianity

by doing investigative journalism

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and came to faith in the process.

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So he has one that's also in defense of

the resurrection that is a little bit more

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pop level if you're interested in that.

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Maybe wet your appetite, start there

and see if that gets you interested,

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and if so, go for the larger volume.

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For sure.

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Well, because this is the

most significant thing.

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He didn't leave his disciples

just wondering, okay, what's next?

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He then goes on to tell them,

this is what you should do in

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light of the resurrection, in

light of what this is all about.

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In light of the reality of

this, you need to go and.

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This is the great commission preached

on this just recently, but you need to

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go and make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them and name the Father,

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the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and

teaching them to obey all that I have

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commanded with you, commanded you.

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And he says, and behold, I'm

with you to the end of the age.

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This is where we get the mission of our

church reaching, teaching, and training.

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It's from this.

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This is the great commission.

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This is the mission of every church

and of every follower of Jesus.

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I love that because one of the things

that we find is that it's not just our

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the mission or the great commission.

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This is a comprehensive call and we

see that from the use of the word all.

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See if you catch them.

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Verse 18, Jesus came and said

to them, all authority in

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heaven on earth be given to me.

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Go make disciples of all nations,

baptizing them in the name of the tri

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triune Godhead, teaching them to observe.

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All that I've commanded you, and behold,

I'm with you always to the end of the age.

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So there's a comprehensiveness

to Jesus presence.

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And his promises with us and for us

this is such an important mission that

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he gives us every assurance that he's

gonna be there with us, guiding us the

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whole step, every single step of the way.

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And it's for us.

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I know some people have argued this was

really about his original followers,

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that he was telling them to go and

do this, and yet that last clause.

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Teach them to obey all that

I've commanded you that would

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include this great commission.

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And so this is the mission that

has been passed down from the

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church throughout the ages.

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It's our mission today, and

it will continue to be our

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mission until Christ comes back.

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Well, let's pray and they'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are so thankful

for the resurrection.

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It is the reason why we can have any

confidence in our standing before you.

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It is the linchpin to our faith.

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It is the foundation of

everything that we believe in.

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And so we are thankful

for it's it's reality.

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We're thankful that it can be verified.

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We're thankful for the evidences,

the proof that we see in scripture

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and ultimately God, we're thankful

that you gave us the eyes to see

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and to believe that Jesus Christ did

indeed raise from the dead forest.

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And so we're grateful for that.

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We thank you that Sunday is the day.

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You that we celebrate week after

week, the resurrection of Christ as

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we did this morning, as we gather

together as the church, and we will

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do so until Christ comes back for us.

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And so we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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in again tomorrow for another

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