00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:32 Fall Fest Excitement

00:42 Costume Discussions and Event Preparations

02:09 Weather and Community Updates

02:53 Scripture Reading: Luke 14 and 15

04:54 Meditation and Understanding Scripture

06:45 Humility and Seating at Dinner

08:21 True Generosity and the Gospel

09:18 The Banquet Parable

11:01 Counting the Cost of Discipleship

14:30 The Lost and Found Parables

16:10 Celebrating the Lost Being Found

17:20 Engaging the Culture for Christ

17:59 Concluding Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition episode.

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Installment.

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It's the fall Fest edition.

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The night by the night podcast.

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Tonight, this.

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This evening, I guess is there's more.

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We're accurate.

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Yeah.

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Four to 7:00 PM.

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Compass Bible church.

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It's a known temporarily during

the week as founders classical

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academy, because we let them use

our church for their school school.

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Yeah.

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Very generous of us.

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It.

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It is very generous.

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We charge them.

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I think we pay them.

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We do.

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Can you believe that?

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That's generosity.

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Christ's just doing things.

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Yeah.

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That's something like that, right?

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Yeah.

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Fall Fest is going to be awesome.

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It's we're pulling out all the stops.

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What are you dressing

up as, uh, every house?

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I'm dressing up as a pastor.

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Super predictable.

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Super predictable.

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I don't think our kids

are wearing costumes.

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People have been asking,

Hey, can we dress up?

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Can we dress up?

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Yes.

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Feel free.

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I mean within reason, we're

not trying to scare anybody.

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No, no 40 Kruger's right.

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Or glorifying.

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Mike Myers evil.

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At them like that.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, if you want to dress up,

put your kids in their costumes.

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Great.

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Do it.

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Yeah.

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Um, I think we're, we're hanging

around the church pretty much all day.

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Today.

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So I don't think we're going home.

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So I am actually.

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Well at home.

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Back to the office.

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Okay.

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Tip to have a meeting.

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So hopefully.

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Well, we'll see what happens.

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Yeah, I, uh, I don't think I'm,

I'm gonna make it back home.

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So we're gonna hang there, grab

some lunch, help us set up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hopefully have an awesome get.

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Get a lawn chair.

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Yeah.

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Maybe, you know, he's

looking at those lawn chairs.

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I really want one of

those rocking lawn chairs.

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They're like 85 bucks.

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At the hydraulics.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cause you can rock anywhere, right?

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I'm thinking, you know what.

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There are some days in Texas, believe

it or not California listeners.

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There are some days I'm

like, I want to be outside.

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We're kind of in that zone right now.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So I'm thinking I'd

love to just go get it.

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I'd love to have one of those in my

trunk, pull it out and just pull up.

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You know, set up shop in the front of the

office and just call it a day, you know?

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That's still work, but sit

out there and enjoy it.

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Right.

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Because it's nice out there.

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Yeah.

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It is it isn't.

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And as long as there's no drug deals

that go down with us while we're

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outside of the, I mean, that's only

happened one time, only one side of the

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year and a half that we've been here.

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It's true.

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One out of 300.

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Well, how many days is that?

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500 days.

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I feel like that's pretty good.

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Yeah.

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Good odds.

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Yeah.

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I mean, honestly, it's a safe area.

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It's kind of suburbia.

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Super unusual that that happened.

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Super safe area and the gray, I mean,

last year's Halloween or fall Fest time.

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Super cold.

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This year.

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I mean, you might, you might be able

to walk around with some shorts.

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And some flip-flops yeah.

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For this weekend.

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A great week.

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Great week next week, the highs during

the week or in the seventies, the lows

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are getting down to the low forties.

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I saw, I saw ponder on weather, pow,

as he's known on Facebook, talking

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about a storm front coming our way.

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So within the next couple of weeks,

or maybe even the next week, We

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should start seeing some rain, which

I think we really need as well.

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I'm not California, but

we're still in need.

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We're still in drought conditions.

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I think stage one is still in effect.

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Yep.

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I think so, too.

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Um, yeah, so if office is going to be

great, we're looking forward to it.

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It should be a great time.

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Ah, excited that it's on campus this year,

not at a park and, uh, that should be.

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This is exciting.

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It will be your will.

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Well, let's jump into our scripture

reading for today, Luke 14 and 15.

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Uh, Luke 14, we get

another Sabbath healing.

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So Jesus does this quite a bit

and kind of pokes the bear.

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Over and over again.

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And it leads to that question that

Jesus actually asks the Pharisees

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and the Sadducees where he says to

them in verse three, is it lawful

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to heal on the Sabbath or not?

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Um, There.

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They're setting him up at this

point, watching, Hey, look,

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here's a guy with dropsy.

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Let's see what he does.

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Is he going to heal?

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Um, and, and so Jesus, is it lawful?

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Is it lawful to heal

on the Sabbath or not?

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And they remain silent,

they can't answer him.

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And so he says, well then.

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Let's talk about your,

your beast of burden.

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Are you going to help your animal out?

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Uh, if your animal gets, gets in a

tricky spot on the Sabbath, and of

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course the implied answer would be yes.

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And they're putting their place because

they realize what he's after here.

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And he's going to get more specific

on that in another account of this,

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where he's going to say, then,

then how much better is it in.

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He even says this in John.

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You're mad because I made a man's

whole body will, when you know, you

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you'll help a, an ox or you'll help

bind up your, your animal's leg.

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I hope heal this man's whole body.

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So.

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Different circumstances, but

similar concept going on here.

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In verses one through six there.

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So it really quick here,

it seems like Jesus is.

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Well, number one, this, this seems

like this could have been a setup.

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It seems like they had

this guy there that.

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Oh, what are you going to do?

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Jesus.

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You know, so that's the first thing

that you see here, but secondly,

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it seems like Jesus is expecting.

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For Oliver's believers

of the law of the word.

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To not just say what superficially

there, but to understand the

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necessary implications of it.

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Yes.

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Um, which is part of the beauty of

scripture because Christian doesn't

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tell us everything about everything.

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That would be a very big book,

if that were the case, instead of

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he gives us principles that we're

supposed to think through and

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say, okay, how does this apply?

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To any number of situations.

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And I think this is what

Jesus is getting at here.

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You're willing to do it here.

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But you're being inconsistent because

you're not willing to do it there.

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And if you're willing to do it for a

beast of burden, a lesser creature,

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why can't you do this for the

higher creature, which seems to be.

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Closer to the point of the law.

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I think this is brilliant.

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And this is something that I think every

Christian should pay attention to because

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this tells us something about what

Jesus expects and how we read scripture.

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We can't be simpletons.

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We can't simply look at what it says and

say, okay, this is all that it says no

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there's implications necessary deductions

from what the text says that we can

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really be helped by if we're just willing

to spend some time thinking about it.

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So.

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Average lay person out there

listening to this going okay.

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But pastor, rod, I didn't go to seminary.

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Don't have to, I don't have logoff read.

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Well,

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Read better.

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I think this is so the ancients used

to call this meditation, spending time

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thinking about what the text says.

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And I think memorization, if you're

into this maybe for not in Disney.

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This would be a good reason for you

to get into it is to have the, have

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the ability to memorize so that you

can meditate throughout your day.

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Oh, you're showering, walking

the dog, or just going to the

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next appointment or meeting.

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If you have scripture in your

mind, you can start turning it over

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and saying, what does this mean?

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What does this imply?

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What does this suggest if this is true?

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What else is true now?

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And I think I try to do some of that.

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When I ask you questions about

what is this mean about this thing?

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How does this connect to this other idea?

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I mean, we're talking about

conspiracy theories yesterday, right?

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And you're going to talk

about it today in your sermon.

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I think scripture has a

lot to say about that.

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And part of that is I love to read

books that help stretch my thinking

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beyond what I currently have.

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And scripture does that and spades, and

sometimes it just takes a willingness to

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say, let me learn from other Christians.

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And this gets hard too, because not

every Christian book is a good book.

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Uh, but having your pastors.

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Trusted leaders.

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Yeah, that'd be Christian

book is a good book.

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Yep.

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Therefore you should be discriminating,

but, um, there's lots of great works

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out there and all you have to do is just

knock on our door or send us a text.

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We can help you out with that,

but just spending time with

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those scriptures and meditating.

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Uh, and, and I don't mean

meditating in the Eastern sense.

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We should clarify that.

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I mean.

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Thinking about scripture from

different angles, asking questions.

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Who, what, when, where, how, why.

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Right.

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Ask those questions, the

scripture over and over again.

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And you'll, you'll derive much more

value than just a simple reading.

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Yeah.

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Filling your mind, not emptying your mind.

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That's one of the key distinctions

between the Eastern form of

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meditation and what we're talking

about with meditating on the Bible.

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Let's fill our mind with

the truth of God's word.

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So.

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Alright, verses seven through 11, then.

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Total this one where to sit at dinner.

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Th there's there's significance to where

a person sat or reclined at the table.

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We're not in that as much.

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Although we get that, somebody

comes over to your house for

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dinner and you have them sit down.

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And in a lot of times,

people say, is there.

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Where should I sit?

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I just sit at the head of the table.

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I just assume I'm going to be at the head.

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I have a square table.

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What are you going to do that?

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All four corners.

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Um, But so we get it, but not

to the extent that they did, if

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you think back to the upper room

where we were talking about this.

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You had Jesus reclining.

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John was, was right in front of Jesus

and Judas was in the position right

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behind Jesus, which probably was

the position of the guest of honor.

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So ironically.

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Uh, at the upper room as Judas was

about to go and betray Jesus, he held

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the position of honor at that dinner.

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And I imagine that was organized

and put in place by Jesus.

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So.

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There was significance here.

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And so Jesus is saying, be careful

where you sit don't exalt yourself

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higher than your stock, your estate.

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Be promoted by somebody else say, Hey.

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Why don't you come and sit up higher than

you're sitting right now, rather than.

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Taking that spot for yourself.

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Man this'll preach.

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Yeah.

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This will preach because I think

this is one of the greatest areas of.

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I don't want to say weakness, but

this is one of those areas where,

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when someone has been transformed

by the spirit of God, humility is

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one of the clearest indicators.

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The ability to put oneself low.

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And I think that reflects itself in

listening and caring about people and.

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Uh, really putting people as one of the

priorities in your life, humility is

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going to change that kind of person.

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And that's what Jesus does.

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Whenever someone recognizes I've been

saved by a merciful savior, humility

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is one of the earmarks of that person.

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No doubt.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, he goes from here to talk about

a couple of things surrounding this

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idea of a banquet building on the idea

that the dinner table and he talks

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in verses 12 through 14, about what

true generosity should look like.

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And there's a really, uh, an example

of the gospel here in verse 13,

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he says, look, when you give a

feast invite the people that can't

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repay you invite the people that

are needy and that are helpless.

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The poor, the crippled,

the lame, the blind.

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Uh, that's a picture of the gospel.

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That's what God has done for us.

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Through saving us and redeeming us.

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It's it's.

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He didn't save the righteous as

Jesus so often said during his

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ministry in different ways, when he

would say, you know, I didn't come

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for the, well, I came for the sick,

I didn't come for the righteous.

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I came for those that are.

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Our centers and recognize their sin.

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And so God.

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Here.

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And he's saying practically to them, Hey,

do this because this is true generosity,

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but it's also, this is a true generosity

because this is a picture of the gospel.

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When we see a generosity

towards those that can't repay.

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The grace that's extended

to them by the host.

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Verses 15 through 24, then we get this

banquet parable that he tells here.

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And so this is in response to one

of the religious leaders stating

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that everyone who eats in the

kingdom is going to be blessed.

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This guy's like.

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It looked Jesus.

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Everybody's going to be blessed.

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Who does it really matter?

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Everybody's going to be blessed.

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And so he tells this parable to show

that not everyone at the table, uh, there

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presently on earth as eating with them.

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Not everybody at that earthly table

was going to be at the kingdom table.

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Uh, and his implication there, that

there were going to be Jews that

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everybody thought would be there,

that aren't going to be there.

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And instead the banquet

hall is going to be filled.

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But now with who you might expect

it to be filled by, this is going

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out to the highways and the byways.

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This is bringing in the people

that, uh, that you wouldn't think.

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We would fill up the, the banquet

and the reason being, because

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they were willing to come.

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Whereas the religious leaders were

going to miss the point completely

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say, Hey, I'm too busy for this.

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They're not going to value the kingdom.

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The way that those that recognize

their need in their unworthiness

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are going to value the kingdom.

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Notice also that the things

that they say are reasons they

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can't come are good reasons.

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They're great reasons.

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Uh, look, I, I bought some oxygen and

to go and take care of those guys.

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I Tate, man, I just got married.

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I can't come.

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And I mean, these are.

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Hypothetically, and there's a good reason.

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And yet I think Jesus is

making clear two things.

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Number one, that those who were given

the first opportunity are going to

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lose it in part, because they did

not understand the time of their.

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Uh, of their offering.

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We understand that Jesus was there,

but secondly, they had so many

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good reasons why they couldn't go.

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That'd be careful.

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We gotta be careful not to put good

things in the way of the best things.

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This is a Mary Martha situation all

over again, just in this case with

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the Jewish leaders in particular.

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Yeah.

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And unfortunately, They're not going to.

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Learn the lesson.

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Not yet.

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Yeah.

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No, till they say, bless it.

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He is who come bless it.

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Is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Right.

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Which is going to be.

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Triumphal entry.

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Yeah.

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That.

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Yep.

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Uh, versus a 25 30, 33, then.

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Counting the cost considering

the cost cost of discipleship.

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We've seen similar things to

this before, but, uh, Jesus makes

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these statements like verse 26.

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If anyone comes to me and does not hate

his own father and mother, wife and

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children, brothers and sisters, even

his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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Jesus is not calling people

who are, uh, Who are despondent

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in, in isolated themselves from

everybody in who are suicidal.

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That's, that's not his point here.

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His point is that our affection for Christ

needs to ensure that that every other love

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that we have pales in comparison to him.

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In fact, maybe that's even

a hard for us to understand.

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I think that our, our love

for Jesus should, should.

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Pervade in invade every other affection

that we have so that our love for our

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parents or our wives or our husbands

or our kids or brothers and sisters.

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Is a love that we have for them in Christ.

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So that Christ is the one that

we are loving as we love them.

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So it's really still ultimately about

him even more than it's about them.

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And in, in that sense, it's, it's

not about me and my affection

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for my wife competes for,

with my affection for Christ.

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My affection for Christ has totally

consumed my affection for my wife.

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In that as I love her, I'm really

loving Jesus more than I am loving

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her in, in her, for her who she is as,

as an individual, apart from Christ.

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Yeah, you will, you will only, you will

always love others best when you love God.

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Most you said that.

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That's how I said before.

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Yeah.

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And I think it's catchy because you

can remember it easy to use it to know.

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And I think here.

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Just remember that the context, I think.

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Catch me from, uh, if

I'm wrong on this PBJ.

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Uh, Luke 14, this is

mostly the same situation.

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St.

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This is the same event.

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Yes.

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He's talking to the same group of people.

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And sometimes I feel like

the headings helpful.

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But they make us feel like.

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It's a different situation.

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There's a different scene, a

different scenario, and it's

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not, this is the same situation.

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So he just had a guy come to him

and say, look, please have me.

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Excuse.

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I just have married a wife.

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Therefore, I cannot come.

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I can't come to the kingdom

because I married a wife.

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And he says on the heels of that,

Hey, if you're going to be my

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disciple, nothing comes before me.

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Yeah.

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And that's huge.

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I mean, it's.

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It's it's it's offensive.

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Even today.

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I would imagine back in that initial

timeframe, people would be like,

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who do you think you are, bro?

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Right.

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You got.

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Right.

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And that's the point?

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Yes, I am.

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Thank you very much.

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And nothing got to come in the way

between your legions to Christ.

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Above all, even before your spouse,

which is a big deal even for today.

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And I think that's, uh, T to your point,

our love for Christ is consumes even the

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love for others and informs and transforms

what that love should look like.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Uh, he gives some examples of, of making

sure that you have count the cost.

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This is a high calling.

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Um, this is difficult.

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This is not easy.

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And so he says, look, it's like

building a tower, make sure that

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you've got all your supplies in order.

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You're gonna be able to finish the job.

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Or if you're going out to

war, you're going to stop and

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say, can I win this battle?

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And if I can't, then I need to, to

make peace before I go out there.

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So, um, he says in verse 33, any

one of you who does not renounce all

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that, he has cannot be my disciple.

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So it's laying it all down

at the feet of Christ.

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I'm willing to give it

all up to follow Christ.

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It doesn't mean that you will give

it all up, but it means that you've

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got that heart attitude, that heart

posture performed to say, Lord,

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take anything that you need for me,

because you're worth everything.

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Open-handed yup.

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He ends by talking about.

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Um, the, the saltiness in, in salt

without that has lost its taste.

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It's good for nothing.

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It thrown out and trampled under feet.

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Um, it's ineffective and useless as

is the person that doesn't count the

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cost before choosing to follow Christ.

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If, if they there.

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Full of strong professions at the.

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At the outset and then they fall away

because they hadn't counted the cost.

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Then they've, their salt has lost

its flavor there and that's not good.

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Nope.

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Luke 15.

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Man, this one is, is, uh, familiar.

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Uh, chapter two, two stories

right off the bat of people.

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Who've lost something very

valuable to them and then launching

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an all out search to find it.

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And then when they find it,

there's a great rejoicing.

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You've got the.

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The lost sheep that leaves the guy

leaves the 99 to go find the one.

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And then he calls his friends

together and they celebrate them.

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And then there's the woman who loses

the coin, which would have been very

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valuable for her and probably provided

food for her for quite a long time.

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So this is not like dropping a penny on

the ground being like, okay, whatever.

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Uh, no, this would have been something

she really desperately needed.

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And so she searched it.

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She does this all out search

and sweeps, her house and

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everything, and she finds it.

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And again, the response is rejoice.

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And then he tells the

most famous one of all.

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And that's the one that we're well

acquainted with probably more than

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any of the others in this chapter.

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And that's the prodigal son.

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Um, And, uh, and this one.

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Familiar story.

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Uh, but the, the point that, that

this one drives home, like the

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two before it is that it's, it's

not as though God has lost us.

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So in the two proceeding

paragraph parables, So that

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the owners of those things.

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They lost that, but it's in this one.

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It's not as though God has lost us,

but our syndrome is far from him.

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And puts us in a position of great

desperation in need, like the prodigal.

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And so in the story, that's who we are,

um, in, in coming to our senses and

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coming back to the father and coming

back into humility and repentance and

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not expecting coming back, not prideful,

we thinking, okay, well, let me just

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go back and beat your son again, but

St just make me one of your servants.

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And then the love that God

has the overwhelming love of

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the father for the center.

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Uh, that, that he comes and forgives

and restores and, um, and embraces.

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And there there's not a second

class citizen nature there, but

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there's the full forgiveness there.

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So.

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Um, And again, celebration

is the theme there.

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So Luke 15.

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It's about the celebration of the

lost, committed faith in the foil.

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And Luke 15 is the older brother.

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Who doesn't want to celebrate

because he feels like, man, I've

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been with you this whole time.

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And in that can still

happen in the church today.

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You're gonna have somebody that is,

has grown up in the church and has been

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walking with Christ their whole life

and somebody who gets saved later on in

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life after they've done awful things.

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And that person that's been in the

church, their whole life can Harbor

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bitterness towards that person and

be like, man, That doesn't seem fair

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that this person is able to just be

forgiven and get off scot-free now.

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Well, especially if that person is like,

they get, you know, platform, they're

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getting ministry opportunities and

they're getting, you know, Hey, we're

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gonna put you on the front of the stage.

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You're gonna teach a message.

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And his other guys.

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Well, I've been here the whole time.

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I've.

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I've been faithfully serving in

the background and no one's asked

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me have, you know, stage done.

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Killed the fattened calf

from, for me, right.

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Exactly that Pharisaical spirit

can certainly be sitting in

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the pews of today's church.

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Yeah.

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Scary.

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Yeah.

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It's terrifying.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So we need to make sure that we have

the mentality that says maybe we want

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to celebrate with the angels as they do.

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When a loss center is safe,

we want to celebrate as well.

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And that's what we're hoping for

me being a church, exalting Christ.

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Equipping the church engaging the culture.

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That's one of the reasons why

we're doing fall Fest tonight

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is to reach people for Christ.

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W w is somebody gonna get

saved tonight at fall Fest?

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Maybe, maybe there's gonna be a

gospel conversation that happens,

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and somebody is going to be saved.

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That's certainly our desire.

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Totally.

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Or maybe somebody is going to end up

coming to the church who is not saved.

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And they're going to say me

and my kids had a great time.

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You guys have a kids' ministry.

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Yeah, sure.

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I'll bring my kids.

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I want my kids to be raised in the church.

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So many people think that way, right?

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Yeah.

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And they don't know why.

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And so maybe somebody

is going to be saved up.

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That's one of the reasons why we do

this or the transform conference,

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we're trying to engage this

culture in, in be a light here.

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That's why we're doing what we're doing.

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And so we want to do

that and seek out, bring.

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Bring fruit to us from those efforts.

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That's right.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we do pray for tonight's

event, the fall Fest.

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We pray that it would be fruitful.

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We pray that people would

show up and our people yes.

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From our church, but also those

from outside our church, we want

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to see, uh, visitors be there and

be, uh, be confronted with in a

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gracious way, in a loving way.

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The good news in the hope of the gospel.

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So God, I pray for divine appointments

tonight where people would, as they're

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standing around a bounce house or

the cotton candy table or wherever.

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Where you would spark conversations

that will lead to the gospel

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and embolden our people.

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And in Bolden, the believers from

our church that are going to be

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there to have that mentality in

that mindset, as well as we gather.

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And we just pray that your will

would be done through it all.

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And that we would see people, uh, join our

ranks in our church, but more importantly,

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John joined the ranks of heaven.

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Uh, because of this event that

we're doing in, in your grace

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and working through our labor.

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So we pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all keeping your Bibles

tonight against them opera.

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Another episode of the

daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.