00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:05 Upcoming Events: Compass VBS

02:24 Discussion on Cleanliness and Godliness

05:26 Leviticus: Cleansing Rituals

08:51 Matthew 26: Jesus' Arrest and Trial

12:57 Peter's Denial and Reflection

14:10 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and good morning.

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Hey, I saw something the other day,

hit our social medias and I believe it

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was a save the date for Oh no, compass.

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VBS.

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Oh yeah, that happen, happen already.

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Well, let me look in it.

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Sign here.

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I wish I was more sign you up.

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Yeah.

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You know what?

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Whatever the cost is,

you're gonna pay double.

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That's how much you're behind this.

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I am I double.

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For each person of your family.

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And even for those who are not

part of your family, you're

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gonna pay double for them.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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It is July 13th through 17th.

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So Compass VBS, July

13th through the 17th.

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Those are dates here in mm-hmm.

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In Prosper.

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We're up here this year.

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Last year we were getting ready to move.

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In fact, we had moved.

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We had moved from That's right.

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Frisco up to Prosper.

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And then we confused everybody and

went back and then we went back there

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'cause it was better to, because we

had everything designed for that.

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Well, this year we're gonna be here.

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And so we're looking forward to that.

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So I know July feels like

a long, long time away.

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We're already in Feb, February there, so

we're dealing with five months from now.

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And so July 13th through the 17th,

mark your calendars for that.

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You're gonna wanna be a part of it.

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Exciting.

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You can start to tell neighbors about it.

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Hey.

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What's the game at VBS?

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It's, I it has so that the future,

something to do with being a shepherd.

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It's something to do with

Ireland and sheep and things.

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Oh yeah.

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We should get the Gettys to come

do a concert for us on that Friday.

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I'm sure they'd be available.

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Let's do it.

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Yeah.

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You wanna call?

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Well, I'll go to one of

the Trails Sunday services.

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I'll talk to Pastor Matt.

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Say, Hey Matt, we need a favor.

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Can you get your friends, bring 'em here.

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I'm sure he'll say yes.

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I'm sure.

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And then we'll do that.

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Yeah.

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Alright guys, if they need put

it in your calendar, you could

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be like, Hey, you know what?

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If you're wondering why you should

come here, your wife's name is Kristen

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and Keith's wife name is Kristen.

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She spells it wrong though.

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Oh, well then nevermind.

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Yeah, I take it back.

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I'm not gonna, I was gonna

go for the commonality there.

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It's not gonna be my leading point.

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Okay.

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But I will say Pastor PJ guarantees that

the Gettys will be here on that Friday,

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or his name will be legally changed.

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To Sally?

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No.

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Neuter Meyer.

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No.

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She will do it guys.

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What in the world?

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She will do it.

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The world.

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What?

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In the world?

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If you guys needed any evidence

that we do not map out these

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podcasts s out before we hit record.

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There it is for you right there.

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Sally Neuter Meyer.

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Yeah.

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Did you know Sally Neuter Meyer?

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I did not.

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Up did Just came to mind.

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Just came to your mind, huh?

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That's what years of improv

comedy will do for you.

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Okay?

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Just learn how to say

whatever comes to your mind.

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It's with bad.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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Alright, wait, we can jump in.

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We've only got one chapter

in Leviticus again today.

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And then we've got the

rest of Matthew chapter 26.

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We are continuing to talk about skin

disease and skin disease in houses,

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but we're talking about cleansing.

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So at the risk again

of over spiritualizing.

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Yesterday we talked about the fact that

leprosy has a connection there to to sin,

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and we should see that connection there.

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Cleansing was a big deal,

clean versus unclean.

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Let's talk about that for a second.

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I know it's metaphorical,

spiritually speaking, being clean

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versus being unclean, but is there

something about that as Christians,

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we should value cleanliness?

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As an extension of what God is saying

here with regards to these laws.

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Well, let's be clear here.

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We're not talking about personal hygiene

when we say clean and unclean, right?

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The biblical prescription here is

about ritual cleanliness, right?

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Being ritually acceptable.

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But I suppose, yeah, there's gonna

be an overlap to saying, generally

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speaking, we wanna be clean.

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But standards of cleanliness

and even what that all entails.

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It is different by culture.

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Yeah.

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And I'm learning that

more and more these days.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I just think it's interesting

because God could have said,

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you're evil or you're good.

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Or you're outside.

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Or you're inside.

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He just used the language

of clean and unclean.

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And we think about purity.

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We think about spotlessness white, clean.

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Yeah.

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There's that well-known saying

cleanliness is next to godliness.

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That idea there of.

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Things being clean.

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It's just a fascinating thing to noodle

on as far as in eternity, is there

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gonna be dirt in on the new earth?

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Are people gonna get

stains on the new earth?

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What's that gonna be like there?

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Are you suggesting that maybe

there is a legitimate connection

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between cleanliness and godliness?

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I maybe like physically clean.

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Yeah, like your pit smell good clean.

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Yeah.

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I mean they, you wanted to be e even

bef, he cared about the aroma, right?

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He wanted a pleasing aroma.

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Right?

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The incense being burned

in the tabernacle.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's, it is interesting because so

much of our perceptual experience,

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our sensual experience, I don't mean

sensual in a sense that you might be

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thinking it sensual as in our five

senses, our sensual experience of

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the world is still tainted by scent.

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Yeah.

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There are good smells, there

are bad smells, there are good

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sites, there are bad sites.

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So I think you're onto something.

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There is something about there being

the perceptual awareness of a new

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and beautiful heavens and earth

and something that pleases God.

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Imagine the world without sin.

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I don't know if you've ever

been driving on Preston Road.

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Or any of our major roads here and, one

of the construction trucks is, pulling

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out those big plumes of black smoke.

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Yeah.

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And you're smelling it like, ah, yeah,

that's my fresh Texas air right there.

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I've often tried to roll up my windows

and not quite fast enough to stop

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that smell from entering my car.

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But there is a bad smell

and there's a good smell.

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You can, the difference is when you

go to open field in Texas and you can

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smell some of the fresh greenery or

some of the, I don't know, whatever

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it is that you're smelling I think.

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I think you're onto something in

that there's good smells and bad

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smells and some of this tainted

smells and sites that we experience.

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And even the prickly things

on the rows thorns, yep.

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Yeah, I think that's from sin.

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In fact, thorn thorns and thistles,

it will start producing Genesis

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chapter three because of sin.

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So I think, yeah, some of that stuff

that we experience is clean and unclean

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is probably connected to, are inevitable

And a future renewal of creation.

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Well, when the Leos were cleansed in.

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Chapter 14.

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One of the things they had

to do is they had to go and

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they had to offer sacrifices.

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And these sacrifices would've been

part of the cleansing process again to

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pastor Rod's point, ritual cleansing.

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Not necessarily these sacrifices

are making them physically clean,

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but one of the things that they

had to offer is a guilt offering.

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And that's interesting.

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Why would they have to offer a

guilt offering for a disease when

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I'm sick, when I have a cold,

when I have a flu, when I get.

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Sick.

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Ill I don't feel guilty for being

sick or like I have to bring to atone

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for sin because of my sickness here.

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So any thoughts?

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I've got one, but I'm curious, pastor,

what your thoughts are as to why

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they're offering a guilt offering here.

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I can think of two off the top of my head.

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I didn't think about this

beforehand, but it's a good point.

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I could say one that they're, it is very

likely they send apart from the camp.

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E even though they were isolated,

so they're still sinners,

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they're still doing things.

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And so if you're gonna be grafted into

the camp, well now we have to take your

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sin guilt seriously and deal with this.

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And prior to your cleansing,

you couldn't come to the temple.

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You were restricted

because you were unclean.

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So that would make sense to me.

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That'd be the first one.

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The second thing I can think of is

perhaps it's speaking to a larger

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reality, that I am plagued with

sin and I still need cleansing.

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And even though this

leprosy wasn't my fault.

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It still speaks to my

sinful, fallen flesh.

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Now that's importing a lot of New

Testament theology onto the Old Testament,

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but I think it still could work.

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What's your idea?

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Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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I think it's the same.

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they couldn't participate in worship,

so this is almost making up for the

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things that they should have been

doing and sacrifices they should

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have been bringing previous to that.

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Right.

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And then along the lines on the same

thing, one of the things he does, if

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you look down in verse 14, the priest

shall take some of the blood of the guilt

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offering and the priest shall put it on

the lobe of the right ear of him who is

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to be cleansed and on the thumb of the

right hand and on the big to of his right.

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It's almost like consecrated.

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Yeah.

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Con re consecrating them, saying,

you're back in the camp and here's

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what you're, whatever you, you hear,

whatever you say, whatever you do,

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wherever you go, you need to be set

apart from I'll be there for you.

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Right?

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Yes.

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I'll be watching you.

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That's the one.

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Yes.

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I'll be watching you.

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Every step You take every movie you make.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Every, what's the last part?

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Every breath you take, move.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's the one.

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Yeah.

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Is that the police?

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Yeah.

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Sting in the police.

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Yep.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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And so I'm with you.

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I think that's part of it.

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I think it's, Hey, you're coming back.

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We need to make sure that you're right.

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And as you're reentering into

our society, you're reentering

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with the right expectations here.

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You know what, that

song is kind of creepy.

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Now I think about it.

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You belong to me.

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Like, oh, can't you see you?

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If God was saying that to Israel.

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Totally appropriate.

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Yeah.

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But this is some creeper stalker

guy talking to his, I guess his

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love saying, man, you belong to me.

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So how about this then?

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Oof.

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How about you take it and let's redeem

it and we can sing it on Sunday to God.

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Oh.

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As though God was talking to us.

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I feel like he might have God

would have problems with that,

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but so would Sting, I think.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Probably, probably.

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Well, it wasn't just the people that

needed to be cleansed and the people that

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could get leprosy, but strangely enough,

the houses could get leprosy as well.

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And I think the reason being is

you have to think back to this time

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they're using natural elements to

build and construct these homes.

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And so it could get into the walls, it

could get into the fabrics of clothes.

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It, this is mostly I'm like today.

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Yeah.

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We use natural stuff too.

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It can get, mold, yeah.

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Mildew things.

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Like that you would have

a similar issue here.

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Yeah.

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You'd say, how do we get rid of this?

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You'd have to dry it out.

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So all these things apply to

them as it does to us today.

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Right.

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And just like with people, the issue

was, did it go deeper than the surface?

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And that's what the

priest was looking for.

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And if it did, man, that sometimes

it was just a section of the

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house that had to be taken out.

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Other times it was the whole house

had to be taken down in order to be

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that it wouldn't spread in the camp.

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So, laws about the lepers,

this is chapter 14.

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We're bringing that to a conclusion there.

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Let's jump over and finish

up Matthew Chapter 26.

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Then, for the rest of our New Testament

reading today, or the rest of our time

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today, as we get into the New Testament

here, we're picking up in verse 55.

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So we left off at verse

54 like you pointed out.

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Jesus acknowledging this is all happening

in accordance with the scriptures.

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And then Jesus confronts them and he

says, you've come out against me as

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though you're coming out against a robber.

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And yet I was with you day after day

in the Temple of Teaching and you did

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not sneeze, seize me or sneeze you.

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God bless you.

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Remember that when the religious leaders

got together, they got together to plot

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how they could take Jesus by stealth,

and think about the context here.

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They're coming to Jesus at night.

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They're coming to him under the

cover of darkness, and they're coming

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to him with their Roman soldiers.

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The reason is because they feared the

people and remember the people not.

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What, four or five days earlier had

welcomed Jesus in with shouts of Hosanna.

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Blessed is hee who comes in the name

of the Lord, and so the Pharisees

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and the Sadducees are afraid of

what the response is gonna be here.

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They want to go ahead and take

him into custody where they can

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control the narrative rather

than arresting him out in public.

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And Jesus is calling on out on that.

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He's saying, look, I was

with you all the time.

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Why are you coming to me like this?

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What?

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What about who I've been has

conveyed to you that you need to

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come to me with such a force and

with so many people in this manner?

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One of the things that always was a bit

weird to me and maybe it might be weird to

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you as you read this here, Jesus is asked

a question and they say, I adore you.

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This is legal language to say I'm

putting you under oath to speak the

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answer to this, to say the truth.

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And to this point, Jesus has been silent.

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But then Caiaphas asks him he says,

I adore you by the living God.

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Tell us if you are the

Christ, the Son of God.

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And Jesus said to him, you have said so.

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And that's a weird way to answer that.

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It sounds like you're saying,

well, you said it, not me.

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I'm not saying anything about this.

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So help explain that this is confusing.

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Why didn't just you, why

didn't Jesus just say yes?

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Yeah.

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This was a way of saying you've

borne witness to this and yes.

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That your testimony is true.

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It's.

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Common at that time.

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It was a cultural way of acknowledging

with an affirmation saying yes.

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That is indeed what you

have said is in fact true.

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And so he's justifying Yeah.

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You as the high priest, you've

made the statement, what

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you've said is actually true.

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Yeah.

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It's a colloquial way

of saying affirmative.

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It would be like someone in Texas

saying, you bet your britches.

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I'm gonna, you say this all the time,

pastor bj, you pitch your bottom dollar.

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I do, yeah.

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Yeah.

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What's her name?

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Peggy Polly Pollyanna.

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What?

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No.

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Who's that?

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Shirley.

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Shirley Temple.

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What's that girl that says bet

your bottom dollar that tomorrow,

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uh uh, Annie, or is that Annie?

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It's your daughter's name.

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Yeah.

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You should know this.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Colloquial way.

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There it is.

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We understand colloquialisms

really easily.

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Y'all versus, I can't say

that word, versus humans.

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Yeah.

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We under, well, we understand what the

board means even if we can't say it.

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Yeah.

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And we, when we start looking at

the text like this and we say,

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that doesn't sound right to me.

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I'm not, what is he saying?

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Usually what's happening is that

there's a cultural expression there.

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Mm-hmm.

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That for them makes perfect sense.

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Perfect sense.

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They understood that Caiaphas

understood this as an affirmative.

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Of course.

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Jesus says more than you have said so.

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Yeah.

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'cause he says you've, I tell you

from now on, and then he quotes

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Daniel chapter seven and 13.

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Actually, he alludes

to it more than quotes.

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Quotes it.

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But you see here, Jesus is affirming it,

and it was evidence to everybody around.

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It's less clear to us in 2026

America, because we don't have

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that same figure of speech.

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But for them it was totally obvious.

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And often when you see these

issues, if you read the context,

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that usually resolves it for you

and you can probably figure it out.

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But on occasion, if you stumble over

things like that, just recognize

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you're reading a different culture.

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Remember the past is a foreign land.

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It takes time and effort and energy

to understand what's happening.

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Yeah.

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The reaction of the priest,

of tearing his robes.

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This is a state of mourning,

and he's making a grand show

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and he's declaring blasphemy.

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And he utters the sentence here.

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And remember, this is in the

context of the Sanhedrin.

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So they don't yet have the right

or the authority to crucify Jesus.

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But they're going to make

their decision right here.

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They're gonna say he deserves death.

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And so that's in verse 66.

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After this.

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They're gonna have to get the

Romans to get on board with things.

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And that's gonna be our

next reading in chapter 27.

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But at this point, the Sanhedrin, the

Jews, they're saying he deserves death.

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This is condemnable.

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But they did not have the authority

under the Roman rule at this

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time to carry out that sentence.

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They needed the Romans to participate,

and that's why they're gonna move on in

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the tran in the the trials order here.

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What's fascinating to me, and

I'm reading this now with a.

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What's a book behind me

as I'm working through it?

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One of the things that gives Peter

away, and this is fascinating,

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is that he has an accent.

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He has a local accent.

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Maybe as Texans you have twang and people

can tell, oh, you're not from here.

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Or if you come to Texas and you don't

have any twang, people know, oh,

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you're probably from somewhere else.

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His accent is what makes it

evident to the people around him.

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Oh you're not a local.

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Remember, he's a Galilean and he

has a Galilean dialect, I guess.

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Something about the way he says words.

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We see this also with the shibboleth.

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This word is used earlier to identify

people that weren't insiders.

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So here the accent betrays him

as an outsider to that community

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and an insider with Christ.

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Notice that in verse 74, that

he invokes a curse on himself.

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Now, don't think about

modern day cursing you and I.

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When someone says, oh, that guy was

cursing, you think of the profanity laden.

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Line of whatever, right?

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You know what thele is.

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I don't think that's

what's happening here.

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And you can correct me if I'm wrong

in this PPJ it's more likely to

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saying, may God strike me dead if,

and then he fills in the blank.

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I don't know this guy.

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Something like that.

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So remember as you read to maybe

do a little bit of digging.

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He's not cursing in the way that

you and I might curse today.

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Hopefully you're not cursing let no

corrupting talk, comment your mouth.

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But he's cursing in other words,

saying, may the Lord strike me

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dead, or may the Lord do to me.

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And even more so if this is not true.

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Yeah, I with you a hundred percent.

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Let's let's pray and we'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for just the

encouragement that we find in it.

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We want to be those that are faithful

to you to the end, and we don't

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know what that's gonna look like.

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We know there's suffering.

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We know there's trials and we know

that you restored Peter and Peter

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went on and did great things for you.

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And we're even studying that through

our time together on Sunday mornings.

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And first Peter Peter knew what

suffering was and Peter would

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suffer himself under death.

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And so we want to be faithful like that.

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We wanna have such a.

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Us confidence in you and confidence in

following your will for our lives, that

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we can go all the way to death with you.

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And even though that was Peter's initial

boast, and he failed initially, Lord, your

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grace and mercy was active in his life.

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And so, Lord, help us to be prepared

and ready for whatever comes our way

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and whatever the cost is of following

you as we move forward, as your

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disciples who pray this on Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Keep reading those bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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I'll see you then.

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