00:00 Introduction and Listener Feedback

01:05 Meet the Hosts: Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod

05:52 Bible Reading: Matthew 8 Overview

07:32 Miracles of Jesus in Matthew 8

17:13 Old Testament Reading: Genesis 23-24

21:30 God's Faithfulness and Promises

26:17 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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It is January 9th, and you're

back for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Well, Louis, the reviews are

in from our last two episodes.

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They're extremely good.

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Just, unbelievably good.

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We must, does that surprise you?

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No I think we're the most humble

podcasters out there, and I

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think much like the most humble

man to walk the earth, Moses.

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If it's true, then you can still

say it and be humble, right?

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Yes.

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Although we did get criticism, we

did get a criticism, which is that

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what is the term that was used?

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We failed to do any.

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Oh, googly.

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People were asking for the googly.

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Yeah, we just jumped

straight in yesterday.

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I just told them, we are really

excited to talk about the Bible.

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That was what I said, but not that

if there is googly that you're not

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excited talking about the Bible.

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Well, so should we try some of that?

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Should we try some?

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We can as the young people say Googley.

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I'm pretty sure it was not a young

person that came up with that term.

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Oh, well.

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Yikes.

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What did notice, what

does that mean about me?

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Does it make me young or old then?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Well, what I did remember from

yesterday's episode though, is that

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we didn't introduce ourselves at all.

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So if you missed Tuesday's episode

and started listening on Wednesday,

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you would have no clue who we were.

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That's right.

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I'm not sure you would even know who we

were from Tuesday, other than I think

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we said our names at least on Tuesday.

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Well, we said we were

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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That's right.

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So, well, Lewis, tell us about yourself.

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Tell us about yourself then.

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Yeah, well, my name's Lewis

in case you didn't notice.

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But I am the student ministry

director here at Compass Bible

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Church, and it's such a joy.

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I love doing.

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What God has me here for right

now, I'm married to my wife Shay.

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We've been married for a year and a half.

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And that's pretty awesome

'cause she's amazing.

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And where'd you come from?

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Where'd you come from?

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We came, so I most immediately

came from Kansas City.

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I was at Midwestern Baptist

Theological Seminary there.

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Actually at a church that

Pastor PJ used to be at as well.

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So that was kind of fun.

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And then before that was

in Southern California.

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I was in the college ministry with

Pastor PJ at our sending church.

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Pastor Rod was my youth pastor, so that's

really fun to be doing ministry with them.

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And hopefully it's fun for them too to

be doing ministry here with me as well.

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That's a little bit about me.

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That's great.

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That's great.

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And that's where we first met.

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Yes.

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Uhhuh was back in, in California.

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Kind of similar paths.

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Although I'm a few

years older than you, I.

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I came most recently with my wife

Julia, and the kids from Louisville,

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Kentucky, from THE Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Nothing mid, you know,

nothing, nothing mid about it.

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Nothing mid about it.

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we came from the Southern

Baptist Theological Seminary.

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I kid, both are great schools.

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Both are great schools.

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I do remember visiting you when, yeah.

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When you were deciding and

they wouldn't let you come.

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And I think, right.

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That's how it went.

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They didn't want me to go to Southern.

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That's very, so I was at Midwestern.

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I was doing two visits that week.

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I visited Midwestern first and then I

was gonna go to Southern to visit and

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the Midwestern people didn't want me

to leave to go to Southern 'cause they

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were scared that I wouldn't come back.

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But you did, but also, so there's

another Pastor Mark in California

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and he sent me on a super secret spy

mission when I was at Southern Seminary.

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It was actually really funny.

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So there was this book that he needed

for his dissertation, and it was in

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German and it was only at the southern.

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A Baptist seminary library in Louisville.

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In Louisville, and he couldn't get

it anywhere else, and he wasn't

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a student there, so he didn't

have access to their library.

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But Pastor Mark Kogan was a student there.

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So he texts Pastor Mark

Kogan and says, Hey.

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Can you check out this book I'm

sending Lewis while he's on his college

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visit to go take a picture of this

specific page of the book that I need.

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I remember that.

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And so it's a covert mission.

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Yeah.

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So you check the book out.

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I go and take a picture of this book.

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I have no idea what this book's called.

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I just, he just says, Hey, this guy

in Louisville has a book for you.

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You need to take a picture of this

page, like page 17 or whatever.

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Anyway, that was the closest

I've ever been to being in

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some sort of FBI operation.

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Yeah.

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Well, anyways, the time in

Louisville was great for me.

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I got to finish up my

Master's of Divinity there.

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My undergraduate is not in divinity.

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It is in accounting.

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I went to Cal Poly Sim.

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Similar field, not, not quite,

but I'm a accountant, A CPA,

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no longer CPA, former CPA.

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Yeah.

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I went to Cal Poly San Luis

Obispo in Central California

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for my undergraduate degree.

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And you got a trophy instead of a diploma?

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I got both.

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Oh, you got both.

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I see the trophy on your desk.

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I'm like, that's kind of cool that

you got that instead of a diploma.

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It's not supposed to be

called a trophy though.

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It's called a diploma, but So that's

why I thought it was your diploma.

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It's called a diploma.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, that's how I ended

up in Southern California.

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'cause I got a job in accounting

in Southern California.

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I grew up in Albuquerque,

New Mexico by the way.

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And then that's how I

stumbled across Compass.

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And then at my time there at Compass,

the sending church in Elisa Viejo, the.

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Lord put it on my heart and through

several people who influenced me.

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Most importantly, my wife put it on my

heart and pulled me into ministry and

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that was the decision then to go to.

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Kentucky to go to

Louisville, and now I'm here.

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Now I'm here.

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Pastor Rod called me up and said, this is

what we're doing, and I was like, I'm in.

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I'm in.

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So well, we have been introduced.

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The googly has been done, so let's, let's

jump into our, so don't complain anymore.

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No,

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but we were gonna change things up today.

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We'll back again for the next couple days.

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So we'll do our best to do some.

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To do some googly Yes.

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In the next couple days.

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So, alright, we're gonna jump

into our Bible reading that today.

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I'm gonna propose that we actually

go to the New Testament first.

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Wow.

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If that's all right with you, Louis.

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Well, regardless we're doing it,

so, so is that opposition then?

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It's.

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Passive aggressive, subtle.

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Well, we are in Matthew eight.

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Matthew eight.

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You want to give us a kind of a overview

of what's going on here in Matthew eight?

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Yeah, so Matthew is a genius.

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Matthew is such a great author and I think

what Matthew's doing is he is having Jesus

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follow the pattern of the Old Testament.

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He starts with a genealogy, just like your

favorite parts of the book of Genesis.

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You know where in Matthew

eight, not in Matthew one?

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Yes.

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We'll get there, just

gimme seven chapters.

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We'll get there.

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So he starts with a genealogy, and

then Jesus goes into the wilderness and

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you have Herod killing all the kids.

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Just like, you have Pharaoh and Herod.

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There's parallels there.

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Got Jesus goes into the

wilderness out of Egypt.

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I called my son.

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He comes back and he's in the wilderness.

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After leaving, he's tempted.

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And he follows.

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Then he goes.

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To the Sermon on the Mount.

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And he gives, instead of the law,

he gives the true intention of the

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law which is all about the heart.

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And then now he comes down the mountain

and he shows us what type of king he is.

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Much like the Old Testament moves, we

come down the mountain from Deuteronomy,

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we conquer the promised land.

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Israel does that, not me.

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And then we see the king.

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Aspect of what God's plan for

his people is through David.

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So that's, I think where

we're at in Matthews.

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We're gonna see what type of King

Jesus is in chapters eight and nine.

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Yeah.

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And we've gotten the introduction to

that in yesterday's daily Bible reading

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in the very last verses of chapter

seven, right where it says that when

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Jesus finished these sayings, finished

the Sermon on the Mount, the crowds

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were astonished at his teaching for

he was teaching them as one who had.

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Authority.

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Yes, he has one who has authority.

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And so Matthew is going to begin to help

us see what this authority looks like.

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And it's not exactly the sort of authority

that the people of Israel expected.

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In fact, it's very much not.

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And in fact, I think we should

even be surprised by this not

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in the sense that we've never

read this before, but we should.

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Join in the surprise of what kind

of king this Jesus is, and be amazed

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at the sort of authority that is

presented here in Matthew eight.

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So we're gonna see a number of miracles.

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We're gonna see a number of miracles,

and I'm gonna suggest that this chapter

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demonstrates that Jesus has authority.

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To save.

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And specifically we're gonna see

salvation from sin queued up, but

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specifically in chapter eight, we're

seeing the salvation of the body

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and his authority over creation.

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And then towards the end, we're gonna

see his very much specific authority over

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creation that is outside the body, right.

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Through the storm, through

the demons, through the pigs.

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And so that is, I'm gonna contend

the overview of chapter eight.

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What else is going on in

chapter eight though, Lewis?

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Yeah, so the, what's happening here

is the Messiah is in his saving

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power is almost showing that he.

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Defeat sin.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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He's gonna defeat the effects of sin.

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Mm-hmm.

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By healing, sickness and disease,

by casting out demons, by

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having authority over nature.

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But most importantly, he's gonna.

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Defeat the main problem of sin,

which is that we are guilty

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before God, and that's where the

forgiveness aspect comes in as well.

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And also the authority over death

that we'll see in chapter nine.

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Before we get there, starting in chapter

eight, there's three miracles that happen.

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There's the healing of a leper.

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There's the healing of the century

and servant, and then there is the

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healing of Peter's mother-in-law.

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So what do you see here, pastor Mark?

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Well, one of the things that

I think is fascinating is that

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there is touch involved with

the first and the third, right?

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He is.

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Touching the lepers,

which is a stunning thing.

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Yes.

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You do not touch lepers.

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Right.

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These people maybe had never

been touched in decades.

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Maybe by other lepers.

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Yes, that's true.

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But, they are the lowest in society.

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Mm-hmm.

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They're the lowest in society

because of their disease, and they

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haven't been touched by anybody in.

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In any sort of meaningful sense

I'm gonna suggest for a long time.

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But Jesus, who does not have

leprosy, is willing to touch

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them, and in fact he does.

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And then with the Centurion, just

in case you think that Jesus has to

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touch in order to have authority.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's very clear that he does not, and

the centurion recognizes that Jesus has.

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Universal authority, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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He has authority that is not dependent

on his direct presence there.

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And then we're back to Jesus and

Peter's mother-in-law, who in

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verse 15, he touches her hand.

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And that again, I think reflects

Jesus' willingness to step down, right?

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He's in a state of humiliation, not.

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Humiliated is in the sense of embarrassed,

but in the sense of he's a human.

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Mm-hmm.

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But he's willing in love to

touch the leper, to touch the

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sick mother-in-law of Peter.

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And through that he demonstrates his

authority over the sickness, over

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the disease, and over the human body.

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Yeah.

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And Matthew highlights

that aspect of Jesus.

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Entering into the effects

of sin with that quotation.

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In verse 17, he says, it's

fulfilling what was spoken by the

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prophet Isaiah about the Messiah.

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He took our illnesses

and bore our diseases.

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So Jesus is entering into the effects

of sin, entering into the curse

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of sin, and doing something about

it by becoming right, by taking

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on flesh, and I love that opening.

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Miracle he does, because the leper

comes and he says, Lord, if you

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want to, if you can, if you're

able to please, make me clean.

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And Jesus is so willing to.

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Yeah.

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And it reminds me of

that hymn Comey Sinners.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it says that.

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Basically this, it's a song about coming

to Jesus and he'll take away your sin.

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And it's, it shows how willing and

ready Jesus is to forgive anyone

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who comes with humble faith.

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Yeah.

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Jesus is coming though not as the

Israelites expected, not as the Pharisees.

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Hoped as a one to crush the

Romans to set Israel free in this

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particular moment in history.

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And verse 18 through 22 helps us through

a question that's posed to Jesus.

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See what kind of king he is.

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It also prompts us to the

right sort of response to him.

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But we see here, right, that in

this particular point, Jesus is

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making it clear that he has no

place to rest his head, right?

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He is a king that is not.

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On a throne.

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Mm-hmm.

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He will one day be on a throne, but at

this moment in redemptive history, he

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does not have a place to lay his head.

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And that is also paired with a call

for the people who follow him to.

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Leave the dead to bury their own dead.

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Does that mean you

shouldn't have a funeral?

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Is this instruction to not have a funeral?

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Of course not.

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But what it is saying is that if you're

gonna follow this king Jesus, who has

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this true authority, you cannot have one

foot in the world and one foot with him.

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You can't be one who is

hoping in a temporal.

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Redemption of Israel from the Romans.

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You have to be with this king

who is willing to touch, lepers,

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willing to touch the sick.

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And that's true for us today, right?

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We can't be people who are of

this world desiring money and

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wealth and power of this world.

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And also of Jesus, right?

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Right.

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We need to be fully submissive and

eager to follow this king Jesus who

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might not be exactly who we would

ultimately desire in our hearts, at

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least at this moment for him to be.

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Yeah.

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And we can't have Jesus on our terms.

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Right.

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This disciple in verse 21,

he wants to have Jesus.

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Fit into his life, into his

schedule, into his priorities.

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And Jesus says, that's not

how following me works.

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Following me is not about

fitting me into your life.

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It's about leaving everything to

put it at my feet and to follow me.

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And a lot of times, these

responses to Jesus in the gospels.

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Specifically in Matthew, but I think

of it happens a lot in John as well.

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The responses show us a lot

about who Jesus is and about

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how we ought to respond to him.

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So we just had three

miracles and then a response.

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And then we're gonna have another

three miracles in a response.

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And the first two take us

to the end of chapter eight.

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Yeah.

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And those two miracles are,

again, Jesus demonstrating his

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authority first over creation in

the sense of the sea and the storm.

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Right.

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He's able to control that.

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That's not something.

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The people are able to do.

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Mm-hmm.

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That requires the God man that requires

the creator of the world, who is the

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one who has authority over the world

and very much Jesus is that creator and

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demonstrating that he has that authority.

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And in a similar way, he then

has control over another part of

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creation, which is the demons.

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And you also see him controlling the pigs.

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And interesting to your point about the

response, the very end of chapter eight.

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After the people have seen specifically

Jesus healing the two men with the

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demons, the verse 34 says, and behold,

all the city came out to meet Jesus.

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And when they saw him, they

begged him to leave their region.

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You would think, this guy

is getting rid of demons.

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Let's keep him here.

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Yeah.

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Why are they.

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Responding like this, Lewis.

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Well, that's really interesting.

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I think there's a couple

reasons they could be, right.

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One reason we see it elsewhere

in the gospels is they realize,

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this is God, were sinful.

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Get away from me.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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They recognize that this is the son of

God, much like the demons called him the

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son of God, which also is in the gospels.

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The demons know exactly who Jesus is.

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The people are confused, the

people aren't sure, but the

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demons know exactly who he is.

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And they're scared of him.

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Mm-hmm.

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They're under his authority.

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Mm-hmm.

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But these people, they might

be saying much like I think

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Peter does depart from me.

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I'm a sinful man, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Or Samson's parents in the book of judges.

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They say, we've seen God, we're gonna die.

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So that might be one reason.

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The other reason might

be they don't want Jesus.

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They don't want God to come with his

authority and mess up their lives.

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Right.

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They don't want to give up their own

authority, their own way of life,

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and they don't want King Jesus to

come in and run the show for them.

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Yeah.

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And I'm inclined to that second

understanding of this because of the other

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responses that we see from the people

here in Matthew eight, but also in other

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places in Matthew I do think it's a matter

of this authority of Jesus is scary.

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It's a new type of authority that they

don't expect and it's frightening to them.

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And they would, to your point.

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Rather have things just go as they were.

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Even if that means, even if that

means having somebody with a demon

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possession in their midst, right.

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They would rather have that that's

gonna be my read, but I think

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to your point, there are other

faithful interpretations of that.

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Alright.

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We didn't.

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The New Testament.

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First, let's go to our

Old Testament reading.

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Today we are in Genesis

chapter 23 and chapter 24.

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In Chapter 23, we see Sarah's death

and the account of her burial.

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I think.

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There's many things you could pull

from this, but I think one of the

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most interesting things is the

response from the Hittites that

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we see in verse six, verse six.

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The Hittites respond to Abraham

who is looking for a bearing

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place, and they say this to him.

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They say, hear us, my Lord.

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You are a prince of God.

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Among us, and then they say, bury your

dead in the choices of our tombs, I think

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this is perhaps the very first place where

we see the F initial little inklings of

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God fulfilling his promise that through

Abraham, the nations are gonna be blessed.

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I don't know all the details of this, but

the Hittites clearly think, well, first of

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all, they know that he's a prince of God,

but they clearly hold him in high esteem.

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They clearly think that he

is worthy of them giving.

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A small plot of land

for Sarah to be buried.

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So I think this is an initial fulfillment

of what God promised that through

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Abraham, the nations would be blessed.

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I think the other thing you

see here is that Sarah dies.

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What is the implication of that?

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It's just a statement of fact.

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It's a historical account of

that, but why does it matter

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that Sarah dies here, Louis?

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Yeah.

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I think there's two potential reasons.

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One of them is.

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Sarah is the last tie

to Abraham's old land.

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Sarah is, they got married

before Abraham left.

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He left er or Babylon or Harran.

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There's a bunch of different names for it.

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But he left there with Sarah.

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And so Sarah is almost his

last tie to his old life.

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And so it's almost like Abraham

is, there's no going back.

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He's all in.

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Yeah.

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His last connection to

his old life is gone.

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But I think another thing that.

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Is that Moses, the author of Genesis,

is trying to point out here is that the,

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just because you are part of God's people

doesn't mean that you're gonna experience

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all of God's blessings here and now.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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Hebrews 11 talks about how,

I think it's in verse 13.

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Yeah.

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All of these people, specifically

Abraham and Sarah died.

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In faith not having received the

things that were promised, but

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having seen them and greeted them

from afar and so they, right.

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Sarah particularly doesn't get to see

all of the fulfillment of the promises.

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Abraham, neither does Abraham.

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But their death.

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Shows that they are still looking

forward to God fulfilling his

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promises even beyond death.

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That's right.

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Death cannot.

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That's right.

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Stop the fulfillment of God's promises.

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Especially coming off chapter 22.

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We talked a lot about the

resurrection in chapter 22 and

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also I think that's why they.

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Care so much about being

buried in the Promised Land.

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Yeah.

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You see that a lot in Genesis.

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And what other characters do we see

in the Bible that care a lot about

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being buried in the promised land?

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Many Joseph, there's many, many

who are deeply concerned with that.

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Yeah, and I think the other thing

too is, if you are reading Genesis

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for the first time, you kinda have to

put yourself in those shoes, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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If you're reading Genesis for the

first time, hypothetically, you

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see the promise of the one who's

gonna crush the head of the snake,

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and you're looking for that, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And we should be looking for that, right?

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Yeah.

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In this kind of hypothetical

reading of the Bible.

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If we come here, we might think

Isaac is the one to do that, right?

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To undo the curse.

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Right.

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To undo the problem of

death and he's not right.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's not the one to undo that.

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And so Sarah dies, right?

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We, there's clear evidence that

Isaac is not the one because death is

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still very much part of the equation.

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Yeah.

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And that's a big theme throughout

the rest of the Bible, right?

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That.

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Whoever this Israelite leader

is, he's not the Messiah, right?

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Yeah.

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David's not the Messiah.

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Solomon is not the Messiah.

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Hezekiah, Josiah, all of these

guys are not the Messiah.

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Yeah.

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The problem of death continues until

the one and only Jesus Christ, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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And that's a very evident

here with the death of Sarah.

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24 is.

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An amazing chapter.

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It's an amazing chapter because it

demonstrates the gods and he does this

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obviously all the time, but it is a clear,

evident demonstration of God's working

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to protect and to fulfill his promises

to Abraham, I think one of the most.

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Interesting things that you see

here is that Abraham is really

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concerned with who Isaac marries.

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In my reading of the story

of Abraham, I see him growing

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in faith throughout his life.

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Mm-hmm.

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I see him maturing and yes, he continues

to stumble, he continues to sin, but

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I think we see less and less of it.

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And the culmination, and as Moses presents

it, the kind of culminating thing that he

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does is he's deeply concerned with who.

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Isaac marries in verse seven, right?

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Abraham says, the Lord, the God of heaven,

who took me from my father's house and

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from the land of my kindred and who

spoke to me and swore to me, your to your

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offspring, I will give this land, right?

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He's concerned with this

God and obeying this God.

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I think in our Christian

life we should expect.

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We should be hopeful and we should expect

that we become more and more faithful

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and I think at the end of our lives we

should be able to look back and see.

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Yeah, we have made

mistakes, we have sinned.

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We have not trusted, we have not believed

in the promises of God as we should

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have, but we should be able to look

back at our lives and see market growth.

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And I think we can see that

even here with Abraham.

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Alright.

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Definitely.

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I, one thing about that, I think

it's really important that when

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we look at Genesis, Abraham's

spiritual growth isn't linear.

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Right?

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If you're looking at a graph,

it's not just a diagonal line up.

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Right.

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And when you're evaluating your

own spiritual growth, I would

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encourage you not to just be

like, how did I do last month?

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And then make your assumption

about whether you're a

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Christian or not based on that.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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When you're looking at your spiritual

growth, try to get as big of a, this is a

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sports word, but sample size as you can.

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Right.

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It's not even a sports word.

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That's a statistics word.

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I just think of it with like basketball

and shooting luck and all that.

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Anyway, but don't look at your, your

spiritual growth in, the past few days.

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Right.

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Think about it as, okay,

what about the past year?

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What about the past five years?

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Right.

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Because we see that even in

Genesis, Abraham there's some.

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Times he makes mistakes it

seems like he shouldn't make.

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Right.

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If he's throwing a linear

growth path, right.

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He shouldn't have gone back and tried

the the Sarah's my sister, not my wife.

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Right.

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A linear spiritual

growth wouldn't do that.

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But over the story of Abraham's

life, you see that growth over time.

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Yep.

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That's right.

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And.

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We see God's consistent faithfulness

to Abraham and to God's promises.

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He's we're, we won't dig into

all the details of the story.

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I trust that you're reading this yourself,

but he specifically picks a wife for.

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Isaac very clearly, very

intentionally, very much.

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It is very much evident that God is in

control of this situation, and let me

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just observe that this is such a crucial

decision, the very DNA of Jesus himself.

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Is determined by this interaction, right?

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It's very much determined by

this servant and his faithfulness

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to go and find Isaac's wife.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which is amazing to think about,

and it just shows of the course.

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That's true for every marriage

that happens after this,

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that continues to be true.

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But here is just such a pointed example

of God's faithfulness to Abraham and to

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the people of Israel, and ultimately to us

by bringing about Jesus himself through.

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Even these things that happened long ago.

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Yeah.

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And later on in the Bible, when

you come across genealogies, that

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reference moments like this, like

I think of Matthew one, right?

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There's all of these names

and it gets really boring and

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you have to start January 1st.

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We're reading Matthew One

and this big genealogy.

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What do I do?

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Part of that is for us to almost

double click on the names and the

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genealogy and see God's faithfulness in

bringing about his plan of salvation.

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That's exactly right.

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So when you read the

genealogy and you see.

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Isaac and Rebecca in the genealogy you're

supposed to double click on Rebecca's

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name and see Genesis 24 and see man.

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God is so faithful.

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He answered the servant's prayer to find

her and he provided a wife who would buy

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into God's promise to Abraham and Isaac.

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And so I hope that you're doing that

in your own life as well, that you are

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keeping a record of God's faithfulness.

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Thinking back, maybe it's your photos,

maybe it's your memories, maybe it's a

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journal, but something that you do where

you think back, man, look at all the ways

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that God is keeping his promises to me.

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Yeah.

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We see through this narrative.

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That God is indeed working to fulfill

his promises to Abraham and he

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does the same thing for us today.

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It's a different New Testament context,

but God is working to fulfill his

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promises to you, and you should be

encouraged by that, even this very

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day that God loves you and cares

for you in such a remarkable way.

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Alright, let me pray for us as we

wrap up our episode for January 9th.

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We're glad that you joined us.

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Lord.

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Thank you that you are,

that God that I just said.

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You are a God who is able to

fulfill his promises that cares

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about fulfilling his promises.

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Lord, we are people who want to

glorify you for what you did.

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Through Abraham, through the people of

Israel, but we wanna also glorify you

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through what you're doing in our lives.

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Please help us to be a people.

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Help us to be a church that loves you

and loves the type of God you are.

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The type of God who is indeed

able to fulfill his promises.

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In Jesus name I pray.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Amen.

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