00:00 Introduction and Listener Question

00:10 Theological Discussion: Fully God and Fully Man

01:49 Exploring the Hypostatic Union

05:08 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 16 and Mark 8

05:18 Jesus' Interaction with the Pharisees and Sadducees

07:08 The Disciples' Misunderstanding and Jesus' Teachings

08:56 Peter's Confession and Its Implications

11:59 Church Authority and Discipline

21:02 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

21:53 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey folks, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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And happy Monday.

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Happy Monday.

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Happy Monday.

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Yeah, we hope you're

enjoying your week so far.

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We we have a question that was written

in we talked about the dependence

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that Jesus had upon the spirits

to do the ministry that he did.

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The follow up question to that was we

talk about Jesus sometimes as fully

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God and fully man, but then others will

say things like truly God and truly man.

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And so the question is there precedent or

wisdom in using one title over the other?

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Pierre, what are your

thoughts on that one?

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Or just what's the difference

between the two or what's the

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difference between the two?

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Yeah, I learned this distinction.

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I believe the first person I heard it

from personally was William Lane Craig,

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and he's the one who first I think.

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Showed me to say fully man could

be understood as a logical fallacy.

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'cause you can't be fully

one thing and fully another.

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If you're fully something, then

it excludes other things which

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is what his reasoning was.

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So he said one thing that's theologically

sound and still helpful to say, is that

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someone is truly truly this or truly that.

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So you could say someone is

truly a police officer and

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truly a father, he could be too.

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Both of those things in a true sense, but

to say one is fully this and fully that

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could be confusing and potentially, you

know, logically fallacious was his point.

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So truly then tells us when we talk

about Jesus, we're saying that he

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is truly authentically human and

he's also truly authentically God.

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And so I will often say truly

God and truly human in order to

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clarify what I'm trying to say.

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But I don't have any qualms

necessarily with saying fully

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we've, that's kind of a tradition.

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We've said that for a long time.

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I'm not sure how long the church

has said that, but to say he's fully

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human and fully divine for most

people is not all that confusing.

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But it is confusing when you

start getting into the realm of

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the triune nature of the Godhead.

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That's just hard to wrap

your mind around it.

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I don't know that we're gonna

resolve that anytime soon.

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But to say truly versus fully is to

say that Jesus is truly authentically

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human and truly authentically God.

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Right.

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And this gets into.

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The relation, what's called the hypostatic

union in theological circles, which

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is the relationship between Christ's

humanity and Christ's divinity.

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And there's the old joke about

shampoo and conditioner in one bottle.

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It's like, you can't have two in one.

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It's not all shampoo and all conditioner.

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A hundred percent of both in one bottle

because it wouldn't work that way.

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Hmm.

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And yet that's what we have in Christ.

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You have both natures that

like shampoo and conditioner.

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Yeah.

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Jesus's book.

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Yeah.

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That, that don't mix, that

aren't diluted in any way.

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One is not lessened for

the sake of the other one.

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And they're both present in

their full capacity in Jesus.

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So I'm with you.

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I don't have any qualms If somebody

says fully God, fully, man I think

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we understand, especially within

the context of the church, what

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that person is talking about.

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I think the important thing

to, to remember is that he's

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never not one of those things.

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Right?

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So even like you gave the example of

somebody being a police officer and

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a father, which I think is helpful.

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Like he's truly this Yes, he is

that, and then he's truly a dad

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over there, I guess you could say.

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As far as I, his identity

goes, he's always.

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A police officer even when he is at home.

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Yes.

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But he's sometimes not

functioning as a police officer.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's the he's just at home.

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He's just dad.

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Versus sometimes when he is on the job,

he's always a dad when he is on the job.

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But when he's arresting a scumbag

and putting him up against the hood

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of his car and putting his cuffs on

him, he's not dad in that moment, in

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that context, he's a police officer.

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In that moment, in that context,

with Jesus, he's never not.

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The other, he's always both

at the same time, right?

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He's truly god, truly man.

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At the same time, in all context, what

we see in scripture, for example, in

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John four, when he sits down by the well

being tired, is that there are moments

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in his, what's known as his kenosis, that

is where he's veiled the fullness of his

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glory with the fullness of his humanity.

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There are moments where you see some of.

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The focus shift more towards one aspect of

his nature than the other, but it doesn't

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change the fact that he's still in that

moment truly God, even as he's tired in

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his true humanity, he's still truly God

in that moment as he's sitting there.

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And I think the greatest example

is on the cross as he's breathing

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his last, he's still truly God.

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Even as in his true humanity, his soul

is being yielded up to the father.

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Yeah, and this is where you get into a

realm of a lot of potential dangerous.

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Hazards theologically.

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So it's hard to talk about this and

remain faithful, which is why we benefit

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so much from the 2000 years of church

history that we can rely upon because

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people have thought carefully about these

matters and said, well, how do we talk

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about Jesus then as fully or truly human

and truly God without violating what we

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know to be true about him in either place?

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And this is where it's hard to talk

about it because even still after

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2000 years of trying to hammer it

out, there are still hazards to this

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where we don't wanna say, well, he's.

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Operating in a certain mode, Allah,

modalism we don't wanna say he's

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half of this and half of that.

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There's lots of hazards to this.

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So man, I would recommend, if you

haven't read it yet, I know we

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talked about it as a starting place.

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Bruce wears book, the

Man Christ Jesus has.

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It was one of the best books I read the

year I read it, whatever it was, maybe

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a three or five years ago at this point.

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But well worth their time and attention

because we don't give enough attention

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to the hypostatic union, the strange

combination of God and man together.

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But that strange combination is what saves

us, and we could have it no other way.

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It is the key to our salvation.

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So it's worth your investment, your

time, and your study, and I'm sure it'll

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deepen your love and respect for Christ.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump into our DVR for today.

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We're in Matthew 16 and Mark eight.

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Matthew 16 is kind of a rollercoaster

for the disciples here and

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specifically for Peter in particular.

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But it, before we get there he

opens talking to the Pharisees

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and the Sadducees who come in.

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They want a sign from him, and really

they want a sign from him saying, by what

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authority are you doing these things?

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Essentially?

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And Jesus indicts them.

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And it's an indictment that's.

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Pretty convicting.

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'cause he says, look, you're able to

go outside and interpret the weather,

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and yet you miss the signs that you

really should be paying attention to,

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which is the signs of the times the

signs of the fact that God is on the

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move and that things are happening here.

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And that you've seen plenty of evidence

from, Jesus at this point of his power

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of his authority to cause them at

least to, to see and recognize there's

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something different about this guy.

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Maybe we should pay attention.

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And I'll say this, I think Nicodemus

is an example of what they should have

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been doing because Nicodemus, I think.

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Though not immediately

surrendering in faith to Christ.

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He's going to, he's at the cross.

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He's helping Joseph and Miaa take

the body down from the cross.

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And so, he's beginning to look

and examine and interpret.

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And I think that's the genesis of his

question back in John chapter three

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when he says, Hey, teacher, we know

that no one can do the things you're

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doing unless they come from God.

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So here he's telling the Pharisees,

you guys are just, you're missing it.

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You can't see the, you can tell

the weather, but you can't see

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what's right in front of you.

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And so he's indicting them for

their their lack of perception.

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Notice in verse one, it says here,

the Pharisees and the Sadducees came.

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And they came to test him.

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I see this as them chasing him down.

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Yes.

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I understand that.

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That's, and again, I'm still operating

from the idea here that he was healing,

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not healing, he was healing, but he

was multiplying the fish in the loaves

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in a primarily gentile territory.

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And these guys are so steadfast on their

opposition to him, they're saying, let's

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just go find this guy and let's just

try to discredit him anyway we can.

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So, chapter 16 verse one.

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They came to him, they're trying to pick

a fight with him in order to discredit him

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Well, and the other thing, another example

of how much they hate him, the Pharisees

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and Sadducees did not like each other.

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They did not get along with each other.

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Yeah.

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That was good.

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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Exactly.

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And so they're uniting to

try to take Jesus out here.

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From here we, we see the first kind

of the downbeat for the disciples.

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And that is they get in the boat and they

realize, Hey, we don't have any bread.

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Yeah.

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And Jesus is gonna call 'em out.

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He's gonna say, Hey you know what?

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You need to be aware of the leaven

of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

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And he's trying to get them to understand

that, that just like leaven will.

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Work its way through an

entire lump of dough.

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The teaching of the Pharisees and the

sades had really pervaded and corrupted

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so much of the nation of Israel.

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And even they had been exposed

to a lot of this as well.

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So he's saying, you need

to be aware of this.

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You need to be aware and not

fall prey to the same things.

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They miss it as they so often do,

and they stay on the physical plane.

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They think, oh man, he's mad at

us 'cause we didn't bring bread.

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And that's where I think in

yesterday's episode you alluded

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to the fact that Jesus says what.

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Seriously guys, really

enough about the bread.

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Well, verse nine and 10 tells us that

these two events of multiplying fish and

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loaves were in fact two distinct events.

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That's how you know for sure, in

addition to saying, well, that there's

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different numbers and all those other

things, but here you have Jesus telling

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the guys, get past the bread please.

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And this kinda sounds

reminiscent to me of when.

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Paul and I don't know who the author

of Hebrews is, but saying, look,

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we need to move past the milk.

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Let's get past the milk and

let's talk about the meat here.

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Let's get into deeper things, which

tells all of us, we can laugh at

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them and Pope fun at them, but

you and I would be in the same.

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Boat.

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Yeah.

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Pun intended.

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Yeah.

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We'd be in the same boat.

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We'd be like, Jesus,

tell us more about that.

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We don't get this.

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And if it weren't for chat, GPT and

all the resources that we stand on

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a day, we'd have a lot harder time

answering some of these questions

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that just kind of pop into our minds.

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So as you see the scriptures and you

see more than what the apostles at least

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initially saw, and I thank God for that

and recognize that with all of this

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knowledge comes great responsibility

for us to grow, are we living up to

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the level of knowledge that we have?

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Woo.

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I don't know that I could say that

that's true for me, and maybe it's

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true for you, but we ought to do that.

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Yeah.

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No I'm with you.

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So many times I read and I'm convicted

when I read about the Pharisees

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or I read about the disciples, I'm

like, okay, I need to remember that.

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I probably would've been there too.

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Yeah.

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I probably would've been doing the

same thing that they were doing.

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But for the grace of God, go, we.

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That's right.

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Well, we go from a low point from the

disciples to this high point here in

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chapter 16, and that is the question,

and I think we've seen this once

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before, but here it is from Matthew's

perspective as he records it for us,

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and that's this question that Jesus

asked, who do the people say that I am?

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And they go through the list.

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Well, John the Baptist,

or Elijah or Jeremiah.

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And then he says, but what about you?

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Who do you say that I am?

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And here's Simon's confession in verse 16.

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You are the Christ, the

Son of the living God.

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And Jesus answered him and

gives this blessing to Peter.

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He says, blessed are you Simon

Barone, by the way, BARR.

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In Hebrew means son of, so Simon's,

son of Jonah four flesh and blood

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has not revealed this to you,

but my father who is in heaven.

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And then he has this

statement in verse 18.

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And this has led to one of the

most egregious misunderstandings

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of the text that we've ever seen.

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And the birth of a whole polity that is,

is now corrupt and continues corrupt.

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And that is the idea of the.

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Petrin , headship of the church.

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, Peter was the first Pope.

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And all the popes have descended from

Peter because , Jesus says to Peter,

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you're Peter, and on this rock I will

build my church, and the gates of

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hell shall not prevail against it.

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And the assumption has been,

he's talking about Peter.

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Peter's name means rock, but it

means small rock, like a pebble.

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Mm-hmm.

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The rock that Jesus refers

to is not the same word here.

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And so there's a, an illusion

to say, okay, well, well Peter,

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you're the rock and I'm gonna

build the church on the rock.

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But instead, I think what this

is about is Peter's confession.

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Peter's confession that Jesus is the

Christ, that this is the bread and butter.

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This is the foundation, this is the

message, this is the gospel, and this

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is the very foundation of the church

that Jesus is gonna build and the gates

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of hell will never prevail against it.

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Now he does tell Peter, I will give

you, and he's speaking individually

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here, the keys of the kingdom

of heaven, whatever you bind on

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earth shall be bound in heaven.

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Whatever you loose on earth

shall be loose in heaven.

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Peter, how to up?

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A part to play.

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Peter was gonna have a special role

in this, and he was, we're gonna see

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that in the book of Acts, but I don't

think we can read this to say, Peter

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is the foundation of the church and

there's an apostolic succession from

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Peter that we need to still honor today

as the pope or the head of the church.

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Amen to that.

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And more practically speaking here just

think about what happens after Peter

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says this, Jesus is really gonna go

hard after the leader of the church if

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this in fact is what Jesus is saying.

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And then when you see James operating in.

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In at the Jerusalem Church

in the Book of Acts.

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It really seems like James has a pretty

significant role if he is not the defacto

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leader, which is interesting to me because

I do think he gives Peter a special place.

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But James seems to have a pretty

large place of authority in the

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Jerusalem church, which tells me, I

don't think that they all understood

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Peter as being the guy, right?

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He was not speaking ex cathedra.

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He wasn't declaring this is the

way it is, and you know, he didn't

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have a fancy hat with a nice cape.

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I think that, I think they

just understood, okay.

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What Jesus said to Peter is that.

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As a leader in the band and saying

what he's saying, he's operating.

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Under Christ's authority.

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That is what he's saying.

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And what he's doing.

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This is what Christ blessed, not

necessarily that Peter himself or

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in and of himself was to be some

kind of special authoritative

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leader in and of himself, right.

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With the scriptures, yes.

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But not in and of himself.

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Well, and even Paul is gonna

oppose Peter to his face.

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Yeah.

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For for being a hypocrite.

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Yeah.

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For eating with the Gentiles.

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And then the Jewish Christians show up

and he abstains, he pulls back from that.

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Even that, if Peter's the guy,

I mean, Paul's pretty brash to,

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to oppose him to his face over.

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Yeah.

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He didn't even call him papa or nothing.

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Right?

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Just went right after him.

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Yeah.

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The binding and loosening thing

, that can cause some trouble.

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I think.

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This is not so much about the church

has the authority to determine

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someone's eternal state, but the

church does have the authority given

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by God to help bring that to light.

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Whether somebody is truly

repentant, whether somebody is

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rebelling against the church.

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This is, I think, is part and parcel with

Matthew 18 and church discipline, which

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we're not to yet, but we will get there.

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I, that's, that seems to be what's

operative here behind Jesus' words

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about you have the authority to bind

on earth and loose on earth that the

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church is meant to be there to help.

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People understand, okay, this

is somebody who's unrepentant.

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This is somebody who's truly repentant,

and you should have confidence in the

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forgiveness of sins because we see true

repentance and fruit of repentance in

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your life versus to this person over here.

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You know what?

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We're gonna warn you because

we feel like you're walking and

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continued rebelling to the Lord.

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We've got serious questions about

whether or not you're truly saved.

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What's my take on what

he's talking about there?

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Yeah, I would probably be a tad bit

stronger on that just because in

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verse 19 he says, I give you the keys.

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Keys represent authority.

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And so there is something to the

authority of the gathered body of

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believers in a formal setting here.

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And I'm not talking about

the institution per se.

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I'm just talking about a body believers

where there is a pastor and there

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are parishioners that pastor by the

authority of the church working together,

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they can say, this person's clearly

in, and this person's clearly out.

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Now, this is why the latter half of.

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Matthew 16 talks about church discipline.

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The church has the authority to

say, look, if you keep walking this

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way, you are outside the bounds

of what scripture calls salvation.

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And of course, this isn't their arrogance

saying, you know, if you don't follow our

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rules and you don't follow our traditions,

then you're not gonna be in the group.

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This is about saying do, are you

honoring what God's word says?

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And I think he does give

Peter some authority here.

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I think Peter is the leader,

Peter, James and John.

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He's always listed first.

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So I do think there's something to it.

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I just don't think it's as.

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As broad as what is often presented in

the Catholic church, like he's given

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this second to divine authoritative

position as the Pope of the church.

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This is not the case, but in so far as

he's operating as a pastor, as a leader

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with the word of God as his authority,

he does have the ability to say, look,

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the, this is loose and this is bound.

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Yeah.

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And I guess what I was saying

there MacArthur puts it this way.

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He says, the church's authority is

not to determine these things, but

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to declare the judgment of heaven

based on the principles of the word.

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So the authority being given there is

not that the church is determinative,

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but the church is the mouthpiece of God,

so to speak, to say, Hey, you know what?

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Your persistent rebellion is revealing

that you have an unregenerate heart , so

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in other words it's not excommunication

coming from the authority of the

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individual, of the human being,

but the church is God's tribunal,

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if you will, if that makes sense.

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To.

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To reveal or to communicate the

things that are true based on God's

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rulings about the these people.

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Yeah.

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And I guess that's, that, that's

a difficult position to take

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given the way that it's worded.

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And I know that in the

ESV we word it this way.

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It says, whatever you bind on

earth shall be bound in heaven.

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Or it sounds like it's one versus the

other one first and then the other.

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But I also know that the LSB

translates it like this, and I

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have it right here in front of me.

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Whatever you bind on earth.

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Shall have been bound

in heaven so previous.

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Yes.

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It's going the other way.

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Interesting.

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Which I think is a fair translation.

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Obviously, I'm not gonna charge

the LSB with not doing it right.

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But yes, I think you're right.

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I understand that.

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But if both are fair translations,

I think God does endow his church

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with a lot of authority, whether

it's heaven first and then Earth.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And we'll talk about this more

when we get to Matthew 18.

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I guess the takeaway from this 18

is this, the thing I wanna guard

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against is the view that the churches

can just impetuously decide based

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on people they like and don't like.

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Hey, you're out.

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You're out.

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Right?

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And that's an abuse of this, right?

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But what we do need to hold

true to and hold fast to is that

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the church does have authority.

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And if you're gonna come and be a part

of a church and submit yourself to

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the leadership of the pastors of that

church, then you are submitting yourself

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to the pastoral care, which could

involve church discipline at some point.

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Should you wander?

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Should you veer off the path?

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And that's a good thing.

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That's a mercy of God

to have that present.

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In your life mm-hmm.

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To have the church care for

you to that degree, yes.

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But if you're gonna be part of a church,

but say, yeah, but I would never submit

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to their authority to that level.

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Well then this passage would say

to you then you've got a problem

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with your view of the church.

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Let me take it even further.

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I.

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I'm gonna go all the way.

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Okay?

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I'm gonna give you the whole nine yards.

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Let just alienate everybody.

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I think church discipline

should be happening every day.

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Dude, that's Matt Chandler right there.

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Is that what he said?

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He was the first person I heard

say that he got that from me

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and it stopped me in my tracks.

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I was on a run and I heard him say

that, and I just stopped in my tracks.

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But go on.

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Okay.

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Well unpack.

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I think he probably is looking at my

notes is what it, what happened here.

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Our goal is to see the church built up

in Christ, our desire as the pastors.

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And we speak for Pastor Mark who's not

here with us right now, but we speak for

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all of us and saying that our desire is

to see you built up in Christ, to look

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like Jesus, to follow his way, to honor

his word, to do what he wants you to do.

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And that means.

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If you're doing that right

and you're practicing the one

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another's, you're gonna see a lot

of sin in each other in yourself.

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You're gonna interact with one

another and there's gonna be sin.

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And the appropriate right thing

to do is to say, Hey bro, can

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I point something out to you?

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Hey, I saw you, you did this,

you said that it seems like

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you're upset about this.

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Or it seems like you're, holding

grudges or whatever it is.

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Whatever it is.

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And that's church discipline.

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That's at level one.

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Now, church discipline at level.

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Five or 10, whatever you wanna call

it, is when we say you can no longer

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come to this church or be part of

this body of believers as a member

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if you're gonna persist in sin.

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But at the lower level at the

family level, at the friend

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level, there should be church

disciplining happening every day.

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We confront one another in our

sin because we love each other.

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And that's Galatians six.

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Brothers, if anyone is caught in

a trespass, you who are spiritual,

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restore that person in a spirit of love.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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So we should I'm with you.

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Yeah.

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We should care about one another.

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Have those kinds of relationships

with each other that we can

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see that and recognize that.

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And that's hard because most people

don't feel comfortable with that.

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For sure.

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To get in each other's kitchen

is gonna cost you something.

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Yeah.

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And then as much as you're able

to, I would love for you to

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foster permission with people.

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Yeah.

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And let people know, Hey I

trust you enough to call me out.

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Yeah.

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Please do this if you see it.

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Because people are often very hesitant.

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They're afraid of ruining a relationship,

and so it's really helpful if you as

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a believer in your community group

or with your close friends mm-hmm.

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If you just tell them, Hey, I want you

to know in case they haven't made it

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clear, I want you to call me out so that

I can grow up to be more like Christ.

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That would be such a blessing

to them and a blessing to you.

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I guarantee it.

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Yeah.

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And ask that next question.

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If you've got per request with

your community group and prayer

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requests are kind of all surfacey

and you're kinda going, okay,

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I wanna go to that next level.

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Go to that next level.

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Yeah.

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Seek that person out.

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Sit down next to 'em.

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Say like, Hey, I'd love to

know, how's your marriage doing?

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How's your parenting doing?

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How's your time in the word doing?

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Yeah.

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And even men's Bible study yesterday

or Saturday today, as we're recording

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this, I guess two days ago, as you're

listening to this now you made the

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comment, you said you're not gonna be

able to have that kinda relationship

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with everybody in the church.

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And that's true, but within your community

group, you know, men with men women

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with women, that, that's one of the

reasons why we have community groups.

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We want these types of

relationships to be fostered.

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They have to be taking place.

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Yeah.

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Or you won't grow for sure.

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From here we get another low

point because Jesus predicts his

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crucifixion again, and right off of

his confession of Jesus as the Christ.

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Peter says, Hey you can't do this.

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Lord.

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Quit talking about death.

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And then Jesus very strongly says

to him, get behind me, Satan.

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He Peter rebukes Jesus.

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Jesus rebukes.

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And says, get behind me Satan.

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Satan is the word adversary.

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And he says, you're a hindrance

to me because you're not setting

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your mind on the things of God.

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Peter was standing opposed to

the things of God, and that's

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how he was Satan in that moment.

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He was not Satan personified

but that's what he was doing.

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He was acting in opposition to God's plan.

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And then I think it, it fits with

the way that the chapter concludes

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because Jesus then goes on to talk

about the true cost of following

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him, and he's reminding, I think.

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Peter and the others here.

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Look, if you're looking for the

earthly crown I've got a cross for you.

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Instead, following me is gonna be hard.

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I'm not here to set up the kingdom that

maybe you want in your hearts right now.

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In fact, I'm here to

go to the cross first.

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It's not about victory now.

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It's gonna be victory later.

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And if you're gonna follow me,

you're gonna have to recognize we're

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not about gaining the world, we're

about gaining the world to come.

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And so that's gonna look like

counting the cost, taking up

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your cross and following me.

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So that when the subtle man comes

in glory with his angels, verse 27.

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He will repay each person

according to what he has done.

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So, yeah and then he makes this

statement at the end there that we'll

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dive into a little bit tomorrow.

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Truly, truly, I say to you, there's

some staying here who will not

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taste death until they see the

son of man coming in his kingdom.

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What did that mean?

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You're gonna have to listen

tomorrow to figure that one out.

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Mark chapter.

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Eight, a lot of the same material.

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The one thing probably to call out

here is the healing of the blind man,

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the two stage healing which seems

to have indicated metaphorically

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just a progression of faith.

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And so there's the initial

phase where he does the.

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Step one and the man can see,

but everybody kind of looks

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like trees walking around here.

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And then he gives the man

stage two full sight to see.

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And this is kind of where

the disciples are right now.

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They've got a partial faith.

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They're seeing things about

Jesus that they weren't seeing

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before and that others can't see.

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And yet they're gonna have their

full faith realized in the end there.

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So I think Jesus even uses this healing.

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As an example of of

faith in its progression.

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Well, even where it's placed

in the text is important to see

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because it reinforces your point.

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The verse 21, Jesus says to

them, do you not yet understand?

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Mm-hmm.

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He's asking, do you guys not see yet?

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They're the blind ones.

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And so you have this sandwiched

story between that and Peter's

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confession of you are the Christ.

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So you have the two stage interaction

both in the disciples and in the

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man who is blind, who can now see.

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And I think that's why

that story is there.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then we

will be done with this episode.

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Lord, we are thankful for the church.

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I pray that would be true of all of us

listening to this right now, that we

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would not think of the church as something

that is a hindrance to our faith, but

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something that is there to help and guard

and protect and encourage our faith.

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And I pray that we as pastors would take

that job seriously, that role seriously.

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But Lord I pray that our church body would

love one another, even as we were talking

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about love one another enough to get in

each other's kitchens to talk about hard.

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Things to ask hard questions

and that we as a church body

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would be receptive to that.

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We would be humble.

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That we would say, yeah, we welcome

that because at the end of the

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day, we wanna be more like Christ.

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And if you see something in me that

doesn't make me like Christ, I wanna know.

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And so, Lord, purify your body, make

us a holy church because of the way

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that we love one another this way.

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And so we thank you so much for

Christ and the ability for us

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to do that with one another.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep it in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See that?

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said