00:00 Introduction and Remote Setup

01:42 Weekend Recap and Fair Adventures

03:41 Diving into Luke 11: The Lord's Prayer

08:46 Persistence in Prayer and Receiving the Holy Spirit

11:20 Jesus' Teachings: House Divided and Unclean Spirits

16:05 Rebuking Hypocrisy: Woes to Pharisees and Lawyers

19:13 Conclusion and Prayer

Audio Only - All Participants:

Hey, welcome back to another

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edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Remote edition, remote edition.

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Yeah.

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Why?

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Well, we both, you and I,

I think you're at home.

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Are you at home?

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I'm not, I'm at the office,

but you're at the office.

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Okay.

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I've got, yeah.

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You've got young ones still in, in the

potty training stage, diaper stage.

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So that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, there's, they're both pretty

young, so leaving them alone at home,

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I did think about it, but I decided

to stay home just to, just to make

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sure I was going to leave a bowl of

kibble and bit and some water, but

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then someone advised me against it.

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It's probably good.

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I think the, the people listening to

this, especially the ladies, probably

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Especially your wife, if she's tuning

in from the women's retreat, she's

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thankful that that's not the case.

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Oh, but today's Sunday though.

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Today's Sunday, so they're back.

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Never mind.

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They're not listening

from the women's retreat.

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They should not be.

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If they are, something went really wrong.

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Yeah, or Kelly just preached way too long.

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Kelly Atterbury preached way too

long if they're still down there.

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No, um, yeah, they're, they're back.

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Hopefully we're, we're trusting.

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It's been a good weekend.

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Uh, was excited to, uh, to hear about it.

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So, um, should be a great time.

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I'm excited to hear what

it was, what it was like.

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I mean, it's our first one, so

we know it's going to be good.

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Yeah.

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So there's nothing to compare it to.

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It's not like anybody's going

to be like, Oh, well, it

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wasn't as good as last year's.

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Right.

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So, but no, it's a, they're going to

have a great time at rest, but yeah,

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Sunday we're uh, we're back at church.

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We've got a regular service today.

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No, no special events, no communion

service or anything else like that.

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But um, every Sunday special,

every Sunday is special.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Went to the state fair the other day.

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I don't know if I brought that

up on, on the podcast or not.

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I think I told you, but I don't think so.

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Yeah, it was a good time.

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We, uh, I had a funnel cake.

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That's my go to man.

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The funnel cake is my jam.

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Every single time I'm there.

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I'm sure they're good,

but are they that good?

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Is that, was that worth a 10 tickets?

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Um, I think so.

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Well, and that's how they get you, right?

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Because the tickets it's a dollar to

dollar equal, whatever conversion rate.

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So 1 one ticket, uh, but when you look

at it and you're like, Oh, 10 tickets, it

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seems so trivial to throw out 10 tickets.

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And then you're like, wait a minute.

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I just bought a corn dog for eight bucks.

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I don't think that's worth it.

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Eight bucks a day.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Um, yeah.

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So, but it was good and I, I tried

the cheesecake too, that, that you

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were raving about last year, the,

the, uh, Biscoff cheesecake and

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that, that was, that was really good.

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That was a life changing

situation, wasn't it?

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Yeah, that was super good.

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We were, uh, we were thrilled and

we might go back just for that.

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I would recommend pulling your

kids out from school, playing

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hooky, and going on a non fair day

because it was much more enjoyable.

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There were far less people around.

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I like people, I don't like the

parking, but the more the merrier.

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As long as no one's pulling out guns,

I know last year we had a situation,

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and that's still currently in the

courts, but as long as that doesn't

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happen, hey, the more the merrier.

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I am learning to like people.

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Yeah, security at Gideon did seem

a little bit more robust this year.

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There were like it was robust last year.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I think I went through

the metal detector thing and

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they, they looked in our bags.

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They pulled me aside for a

random, uh, a random frisk again,

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again, a random again, bro.

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Let me tell you anytime

I go to the airport.

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I can almost guarantee that

I will be randomly frisked.

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At this point, I'm beginning

to wonder, uh, is it random?

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How random is this?

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And am I on a no flight list?

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That's just, did I just get a TSA

agent angry with me for some reason?

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Yes.

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A hundred percent.

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Yes.

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No, um, Hey, let's jump into, uh,

our Bible reading for the day.

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We've only got, uh, one chapter

today's reading good at talking.

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So we'll see how that goes.

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We'll see how it goes.

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Yeah.

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Luke 11, and it starts out with,

with quite the, the passage.

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It's the, the Lord's prayer again.

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So Luke 11, one through four shorter

treatment than what we found in Matthew.

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Matthew.

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Uh, six, nine through 15

is the parallel account.

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That's the broader

treatment of prayer here.

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Luke, um, records a similar template

that the Lord gives, but doesn't go

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into as much detail as Matthew does.

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And that's what it is.

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It's a template.

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It's not, I mentioned this with Matthew,

but again, just to drive this home,

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this is not meant to be part of our

liturgy that we recite this rote.

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That's not what Jesus was intending.

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When he said this, he was teaching

them how to pray, which is the The

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question that was being asked by the

disciples, Lord, teach us to pray.

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So he said, okay, pray this way.

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He doesn't say pray these exact words

all the time, every day, all the time,

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five times a day, which should kind

of be a violation of the thing that

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he's telling the Pharisees, right?

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At least heaping up empty phrases.

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So that would be one big reason

that we don't prescribe you to say

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this many, our fathers, this many

Hail Marys, that kind of thing.

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Yeah.

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No Hail Marys.

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We would say, don't pray any Hail Marys.

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Yeah, but, uh, it's, it's not wrong

to pray the Lord's prayer, but where

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it does cross over to being something

that's not helpful or useful is

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when our minds are not engaged.

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I grew up, um, in the Episcopalian

church, which I know my mom

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listens to this podcast still.

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She, she, uh, was part of that

and still part of that, I believe.

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Um, and, There was a lot of the, the,

the liturgy there, the stand up, sit

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down, fight, fight, fight kind of,

but there was no fight, fight, fight.

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It was just a lot of stand up, sit down.

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I would love to be part

of one of those services.

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Yeah, I want to see the

fight, fight, fight part.

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Right.

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And the, the liturgy is beautiful

in and of itself for so much.

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And it's, it's rich.

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It can be, but it can also just lose

all its meaning because you're doing

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the same thing every single week.

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You're showing up, you're

going through the same prayers,

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the same creeds, the same.

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Routine and it can become going

through the motions now on that point.

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So can what we do.

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Um, we can Be predictable and to an

extent we are predictable and it can

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become going through the motions for

us too So this is just a reminder to

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us in this passage a challenge to us

to make sure that we're not Slipping

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into this just wrote going through the

motions when we show up at church on

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sunday But we're giving intentional

thought whether it's our prayer life

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Or the songs that we're singing in

worship or listening to the sermon You

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Uh, all of that needs to be done with

great thoughtfulness and intentionality.

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And, and that's what Jesus

wanted with our prayer life too.

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And here, Luke in Luke 11, do you

think that there's any, I don't

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know, a surefire way to avoid that?

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I know that sometimes I have my

phrases that I go to, I try my best

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to vary the conversation with God.

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I don't want him to get

tired of hearing from me.

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I don't think he ever does it truly,

but I noticed that a lot of the

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same phrases come out of my mouth.

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I say the same things

in much the same way.

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Most of the time.

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Yeah.

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How do I avoid letting that become

just a mindless chatter with God, as

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opposed to as what you're saying here,

kind of that reverential, fully aware,

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fully present engagement with God.

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That's really hard to do.

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Help us out with that.

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Totally.

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It's really hard.

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It is really hard to do.

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It requires, um, discipline.

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It requires intentionality.

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It requires prayer.

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And so, you know, even going into

Sunday mornings, being aware of that,

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that pitfall, that, that danger, that

temptation to just go through the

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motions, to turn the mind off and just

kind of walk through things as you're

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sitting there before the service begins.

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As that countdown is on, on the screens.

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One of the reasons we have the countdown

there is not just to encourage people

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to stop chit chatting in the back, but

to, to help people prepare for when

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the service is going to get going.

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And so if you're sit sitting

there before the service, taking

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a minute or two to, Right.

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It's taking a minute or two to read

the passage is going to be preached

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on that Sunday, taking a minute or two

to, um, to really think about the songs

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that, that we're going to be singing.

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I mean, they're printed on

the inside of the bulletin.

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You put together a Spotify

playlist, I think weekly on, um,

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the songs that we're going to sing.

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And so you can know even our worship, what

that's going to be like ahead of time.

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And so it's, it's being, it's, it's,

you, it doesn't, you can't expect it

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to happen naturally because the natural

default is just to go through the motions.

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It's just to go, okay, I know this song.

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I've heard this passage preached.

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Let me just be here and

kind of sit passively.

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You have to be active.

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There should be a certain level

of exhaustion coming out of

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Sunday morning because of that.

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Amen to that, bro.

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And I think it takes a great deal

of preparation for us to do that.

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I mean, like anything that requires,

I don't know, more than 5 percent

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of your Cognitive awareness,

things like that take effort.

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And I think that kind of mentality

really starts the night before I am

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almost fanatical about getting good

rest the night before I go to bed early.

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I wake up early.

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I try to get a good workout

in before church because I

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want, I want to be present.

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And again, you're, you're

talking about all day, every day.

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I think Sunday morning, I

really want to have that.

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I want to fight for that.

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Cause I know everything's

working against me, but day by

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day, that's really hard to do.

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Um, but it is, it is a worthy, noble

and right goal for us to pursue.

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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From here, he goes in verses five

through 13 and Luke 11 to talking about

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seeking and receiving good things.

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And he uses an example, uses an example

there, um, of a, a friend who comes to one

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of his, his buddies at midnight and knocks

on the door and says, Hey, I need three

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loaves of bread and the persistence and

the impudence and, and, and yet it's that

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persistence that leads the other person

to get up and, and, and provide the,

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the thing that he needs when otherwise

you would never expect him to do that.

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So, um, This is about asking

for receiving good things.

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It's connected to prayer because that's,

uh, that's the, the context here.

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And this is again, when, when the father

said, when Jesus says, you know, the

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father gives good gifts to his children.

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And if you are, who are evil, know

how to do that, then how much more

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will your heavenly father give the

Holy spirit to those who ask him?

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So this is a little bit of a shift

from what we read, uh, about this

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in, in, I think, in Matthew, um,

Because he doesn't say good gifts.

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He says, how much more will the

father give the Holy Spirit?

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Pastor, what are your thoughts

on the significance in that

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shift that Luke has here?

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I think the best good gift God

could give us is his Holy spirit.

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So when Matthew presents it, it seems

like he's giving us a more broad based

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view of the good gifts God wants to give.

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And certainly that's the case.

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He gives us good gifts all the time.

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I, I eat delicious food.

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Almost every single day food.

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That's more than just nutrients.

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It's, it's actually really tasty.

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I love it.

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That's a good gift of God.

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He doesn't have to do that for me.

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He gives me good gifts.

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So asking, seeking and knocking is

an invitation for us to experience

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the best that God has offered.

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But of course, the very best of God's

best is going to be his Holy Spirit,

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which I think Paul kind of alludes to

Ephesians chapter five, where to walk by

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the spirit, where to keep in step with the

spirit, where to, uh, Seek to be filled

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with the spirit, which I think means that

we can experience more or less of the

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spirits empowerment in our day to day

lives, uh, based on how much we engage

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with him and how much we ask for that.

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And yet at the same time, the

disciples had such a radically

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different understanding of that at

this time than we do totally because

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they had not yet received the spirit.

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They weren't going to receive

the spirit until his ascension.

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Um, even in Acts one, eight, he's saying,

my spirit is going to come upon you.

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And so even at that point, I mean, it's

not until Pentecost that the spirit

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descends upon, uh, you Some of the

followers, not even all of the followers.

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And in the book of Acts, you

have some interesting situations.

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We'll get there where the disciples are

going and laying hands on people that

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have apparently already expressed faith,

but have not yet received the spirit.

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And so how does that work?

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We'll cross those bridges when we get

there, but this is an interesting, you,

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you wonder what was the disciples frame

of mind and how did they understand

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these words from Jesus at this point?

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Cause we understand them

through the church age.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Um, good point.

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Um, okay.

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Next section here.

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We've got the, the, uh, the house divided.

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This is 14 through 23.

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Again, this is the accusation of

Jesus casting out demons by demons.

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What's interesting about this is Luke

leaves out, at least in this section,

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in this context, anything about

the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

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Um, whereas the other gospel writers,

the other synoptic writers, um, Connect

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it to this instance where he's casting

out a demon and the Pharisees are saying,

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Hey, you're doing that by demonic powers.

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And Jesus says, Hey, that's,

that's dangerous territory there.

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How can a house stand that's divided?

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If, if demons cast out demons, what's

going on, how does that even work?

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Um, but that's, what's happening here

in Luke, uh, Luke 11, not sure why he

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doesn't bring in Luke doesn't record

the blasphemy of the spirit part, but he

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doesn't, it wasn't part of his research.

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It wasn't part of what came up as

he was, uh, preparing this, this

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gospel and recording it, but the

others do in this, this situation.

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The return of the unclean

spirit versus 24 to 26.

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We talked about that briefly last time.

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This is one of those situations

that's a little odd to read about.

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But again, I think that the target

is the Pharisees and they looked like

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they had had their house in order,

uh, from their external righteousness,

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but because they weren't right

with God, truly, then they were.

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They were vulnerable to be used by the

enemy and they were going to be used

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by the enemy and even greater degree.

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And so this is a warning to them

of saying, hey, lest you think

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that you're clean, understand

that you're not really clean.

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Even as we think about the disciples

in the upper room when Jesus says,

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not all of you here are clean.

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And, uh, and this is another

instance of him talking about that.

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You think you're clean because

you've got the outside clean.

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But really there's, there's a lot of

danger to the inside being not only

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unclean, but demonically influenced there.

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I guess to clarify that, the unclean

spirit is another way to talk

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about something demonic, right?

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Right.

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Right.

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Yep.

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Uh, versus 27 through 28.

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Uh, we, we probably all have Catholic

friends or relatives, perhaps.

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I think this is interesting.

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I think you almost get Jesus rebuking

Mariolatry here when in Matthew, uh,

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or Luke 11, 27, rather, um, a woman in

the crowd raises her voice and says,

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blessed is the womb that bore you

in the breasts at which you nursed.

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And that's referring to Mary.

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Right.

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And Jesus says, In response,

blessed rather are those who

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hear the word of God and keep it.

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And so that, that's an interesting,

I don't, I've never seen anybody

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treat that in regards directly to the

Mariolatry, by the way, that means the

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worship of Mary, um, Mary as an idol.

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Um, I don't think I've necessarily seen

that connection there, but that struck

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me reading that this time around, like.

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Jesus is stopping somebody from blessing

Mary and saying, no, blessed rather

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are those that hear the word of God

and do it, which is similar to when

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the people come to interrupt them

and say, Hey, your family is here.

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And he says, who's my family.

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But those that do the will of God, um,

they're, they're my brothers and mothers.

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Yeah.

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I think Luke has a very sharp angle,

um, not against the family, but when

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he's, when he's ranking allegiance, it's

he's definitely putting Jesus first.

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And I don't know how a

Catholic would respond to this.

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All I could say is that you might

be able to say, well, this, uh,

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he's not saying don't do that.

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He's saying, Instead of that, do

this, this is first and foremost.

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So he's not saying no, never, but no,

not this time or no, not in that order.

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Yeah, of course we would reject that.

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We would, we would still say

that's the wrong, that's the wrong

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interpretation of this, of the sensor.

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But by, by, uh, every measure,

Luke is making it evident.

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Jesus wants our primary highest

allegiance, even over our closest

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relationships, including family.

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And Mary would have rejected it too.

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Um, she was not.

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About bowing up and saying, look at me.

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And we see that even from her song

earlier in Luke's gospel as well.

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All right.

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Uh, 29 to 32.

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This is the prove it to

show us the sign of Jonah.

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We talked about that in, uh,

in Matthew's gospel, um, in the

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situation there where he says, look,

you're not going to get a sign.

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The only sign you're going

to have is the sign of Jonah.

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And remember, we talked about

the, the, the flexibility.

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They weren't as rigid with

their accounting of time

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and days as we are today.

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Um, so the three days, three nights,

it, it, it measures up to the

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present Jewish understanding there.

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Uh, versus 33 to 36.

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I called the section bright eyes

because the, the light, the,

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the eye is the lamp of the body.

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You want your eye to lighten you.

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Yeah.

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Thanks, man.

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Um, you want your eye to be bright.

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I'm just trying to be creative.

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You get on me for not being creative.

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Sometimes that's great to be creative.

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Get to it, man.

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Anyways, bright eyes.

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Yeah.

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So, um, this is in the

sermon on the Mount.

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Back in, in Matthew's gospel.

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Uh, but here Luke introduces

it in, in this context.

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Um, and he just says, Hey, be, be careful

that the light in you not become dark.

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Uh, and that's, that's such an important

thing for us to, to be mindful of what

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our eyes take in, that the eyes have

a huge impact on the rest of the body.

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Um, and the, the, the purity and the

holiness, the godliness, uh, it's, it's

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that input produces output concept again.

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And, uh, he's warning against the things

that we see and he didn't even live in.

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The time that we live in as

far as the the modesty issues

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and everything else going on.

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All right.

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Um, Finally 37 through 54 you get direct

jesus direct jesus because he's going

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to take on the the pharisees and the

lawyers And he issues these woes against

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them the parallel to this is found in

matthew chapter 23 And so in this section

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he is giving woes against the pharisees

to start and then One of the lawyers

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in verse 45 says hey teacher in saying

these things you insult us also and

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jesus says Buckle up, buddy Because then

he turns to the lawyers and he starts

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issuing the woes to the lawyers too.

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So, um, the, the, the word of woe

was a word of, of curse or damnation.

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And so this is strong.

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I mean, this is, that's why

I called it direct Jesus.

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Jesus is rebuking their hypocrisy.

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He's rebuking their, uh,

their self righteousness.

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Um, he's, he's.

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This is serious.

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This is heavy.

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Uh, he quotes in, in verse 49, he

says, therefore also the wisdom of God

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said, I will send them the prophets.

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We're not exactly sure

where that comes from.

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There's no canonical

book that has that quote.

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Also though, there's no non canonical

book that we found that has that either.

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So It may have been a given or

known statement in the time,

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um, but, uh, Jesus says, you are

the ones that have done this.

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You are the ones that are,

are, are guilty of this.

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Uh, and so in verse 51, they're going to

be held accountable for rejecting the,

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the, the prophets from Abel to Zechariah.

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So Abel, interesting that they list

him as, as the, or Jesus lists him

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as the first prophet, all the way

to Zechariah being the last prophet

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before the, the, uh, the end there.

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But, um, Any insights on the, on

the Abel's reference there, Pastor?

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Yeah, no, no, I have thoughts, but

no, no particular insights other than

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the fact that scripture uses the word

profit sometimes in ways that are more

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flexible than I think we would be.

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Yeah.

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And this is one of those times.

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Uh, in what sense was he a prophet?

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I think that's a, that's an

interesting question that I

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don't have a great answer to.

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Or the other thing that came to mind is

that idea that the, the blood of Abel

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cries out from the ground, but the blood

of, of Christ speaks a better word.

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Um, and so perhaps the, the blood of

Abel being the, the prophetic message

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there, um, calling for justice.

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Uh, and, and Christ, the blood

of Christ is, is providing

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mercy and grace in response.

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Who knows?

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Anyways, Jesus doesn't like the self

righteous hypocrisy of the Pharisees

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or the lawyers for that matter.

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And that's how the chapter

ends there with that focus.

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Yeah.

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I think one of the things that stood out

to me here is he continues to harp on

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the same theme, which is good for us.

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Then verse 41, he says,

give alms, uh, give as alms.

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The things that are within and

behold, everything is clean for you.

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Uh, the idea here is he doesn't

want religious conformity.

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Does it want our externals?

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It was, we were talking

about this in prairie.

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Does it want our prayerful petitions that

are uttered in vanity or thoughtlessness?

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Um, God is concerned that

we give him all we are.

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Truly and, and fully and deeply and

to give him something else, uh, to

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give him affectation or to give him

some kind of presentation of what you

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think he wants is playing a fool's

game because he's not into that.

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He's not impressed.

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He doesn't like it.

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He doesn't want it.

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He wants us for who we are.

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Um, and he wants the, the genuine

worship that comes from the

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inside out, not the outside in.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's good.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for this, uh, this time.

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We, we want to be as just as pastor was

saying, we want to be men of integrity.

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We want to be holistic

in who we are before you.

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We don't want to play a game on Sundays

or any other day of the week for that

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matter, before you're trying to impress

you by going through the motions,

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like we talked about previously, and

yet not having any heart behind it.

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And so God help us to be authentic.

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Before you which is a scary proposition,

but by your spirit that you have

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given to us We uh, we know that it's

possible and so allow us to do that.

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We would pray in jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen All right, keep reading your bibles

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily bible podcast.

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We'll see you then