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October 9, 2025 | Matthew 12, Mark 3, Luke 6
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00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:16 Question on Shepherding and Discipling Children

01:20 Teaching Children About Heaven and Hell

02:03 Balancing Fear and Love in Teaching

04:47 Parental Responsibility and God's Role

07:14 Daily Bible Reading: Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath

10:38 Healing on the Sabbath and Pharisees' Reaction

13:17 Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

16:55 The Sign of Jonah and Jesus' Resurrection

19:50 Sermon on the Plain: Kingdom Ethics

21:03 Conclusion and Prayer

21:47 Outro and Podcast Information


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Folks, welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Well, hello and good morning.

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Welcome back.

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We are thrilled to have you.

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And I'm gonna start us

off with a question.

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Ecstatic, ecstatic.

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I didn't say that.

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Overwhelmed with inexpressible joy.

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I didn't say that.

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I just said thrilled.

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Well, okay.

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Taking it to a whole another.

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I was saying those things level.

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Whole nother level.

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Alright.

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Right.

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So we have a question here and

it's a multiple part question, so

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I don't wanna do it any injustice

by trying to speed answer it.

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In our timeframe.

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So I think I'm gonna break

it off into multiple pieces.

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Okay.

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So this is really about how to

shepherd, how to disciple our kids,

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how to instruct them correctly.

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So a quick bit of context here.

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Now at Summer Camps, it's known at least

for some summer camps, ours in particular.

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There's a lot of pressure to say,

Hey, get right with the Lord.

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And there's a presentation of

heaven and hell and why you should

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avoid one and go to the other.

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You should avoid hell.

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That is yes, in case that wasn't clear.

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And so some people sensitive to

that look at that as a scare tactic

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or scare technique to perhaps, and

they're not using this word, but

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perhaps manipulate someone into,

turning into a Christian, submitting

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their lives and they resented that.

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It seems so anyway, listen, if I'm

reading this story, rightly so, they

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didn't appreciate that there was a sense

of foreboding that was given to them.

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This darkness, if you don't

turn, this can happen to you and

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you don't want that to happen.

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So this is some of the backdrop with that.

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We don't want to.

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We don't wanna manipulate our kids

into salvation, but neither do we

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want to be dispassionate and pretend

like it's not a big deal, right?

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So with that, how do we effectively

instruct our children with that in mind?

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Oh, and this is also related

to our prior podcast where

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we talked about regeneration.

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If this is God's work, he

makes us to be born again.

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How do we keep that in mind and still

reach our kids with truth, with the

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gospel, with urgency without feeling like

we're manipulating them into a decision

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so that they say the prayer or raise their

hand or throw the pine cone in the fire.

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Right.

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And what have you help

work us through that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We do this in other areas.

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You really, unless you're.

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Put your kid on a leash.

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You don't control much

about what your kids do.

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But you're still gonna tell

them, Hey, don't do this.

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For example, you're gonna teach your kid

from an early age, Hey, the stove is hot.

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Don't touch the stove.

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Why are you gonna do that?

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Because you don't want them

to feel the stove is hot.

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And you're gonna say, don't do that.

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And you're gonna hope that they

understand that they shouldn't do that.

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And you're gonna warn them about that.

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And you're gonna talk about how

bad it hurts, and you're gonna talk

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about the damage that it can do.

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And you're gonna talk about all these

things and you're gonna instill a little

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bit of fear in them so that they're

not gonna go near the stove still.

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You're, you can't control

that at the end of the day.

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They could walk up while you're

cooking and just slap their

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hand right there on the stove.

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And so we just, because we don't.

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Want it to give our kids fire insurance

when it comes to their salvation.

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Meaning we don't want

them to only fear hell.

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And that's the reason why they're

turning to Christ for salvation.

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We should just, like, we warn

them about not touching the stove,

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warn them about something that

could hurt them and harm them.

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And hell is definitely

one of those things.

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The reality is hell, the torments of hell

if you love your child and I'm answering

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this generically, I know the person who

wrote this in loves their children deeply.

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If you love your child then

you're gonna tell them, Hey,

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I want what's best for you.

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And what's best for you is certainly

to avoid an eternity in hell.

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And here's how you avoid

an eternity in hell.

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Now, I gave the qualification that

shouldn't be the only reason why

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somebody turns to faith in Jesus Christ.

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And so if we're pursuing our kids in.

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Only thing we're doing with our

kids is saying, you don't wanna

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go to hell, you don't wanna go to

hell, you don't wanna go to hell.

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So trust Jesus then we're missing it.

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And that's where we could fall

prey to this guilt of trying

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to scare them into eternity.

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We should warn them about

hell because Jesus does.

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You read the Bible it's all throughout

the Bible, but we should also

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hold out the loveliness of Christ.

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We should also hold out the desirability.

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We should also hold out God's love,

that God loved them so much that he

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gave Jesus to die on the cross for their

sins so that they don't go to hell.

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And that God's love for them is that he

wants to be with them and he wants to

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bring them to be with him where he is.

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And that's why Jesus came.

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So it has to be the both end.

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Amen to that.

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And I can't deny the fact that

that's a really hard thing to do.

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Oh, for sure.

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We will always in the flesh struggle with

whether or not we're approaching this

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with the right tenor, the right tone.

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I think about Paul in two Corinthians,

chapter five, he says in verse 11,

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therefore, knowing the fear of God.

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We persuade others.

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He's talking not about his own kids.

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He's talking about those who's

evangelizing and how much more as parents

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do we feel that sense of I know the fear

of the Lord, I know the terrors of hell.

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At least I know what

scripture says about them.

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And so of course, I want to

persuade my kids to respond.

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Now how you do that and.

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What conditions in which you do

that and how often you do that.

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Those are all questions of judgment and

wisdom that scripture doesn't detail.

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It doesn't prescribe well, only

three times a week do you just give

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your child and only, once a week

you offer the offer of salvation.

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But even as we said about regeneration.

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God uses means and largely we

are the means that he uses,

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yeah, to draw people to himself.

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That doesn't mean God can use or can't

use something else, but that he largely

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uses the ordinary means of grace in

the family to do something like this.

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So knowing the fear of God, we persuade

others and that includes our kids.

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How you do that's gonna depend

on their temperament on yours.

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How much of the Bible that you know

and whether you think it's a good time

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to call them to repentance yet again.

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I know with my own kids, I am, we're

always talking about these things.

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We're never not talking about them.

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In fact, here's something, if you show

up at my house, one thing that you'll

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hear us talk about often is death.

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Yeah.

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We constantly highlight that.

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And I constantly remind,

I, I meet with my two sons.

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My my older kids, I meet with them pretty

regularly and I talk to them all the time

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saying, you don't know how long you got.

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You don't know.

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One of them has a profession of

faith, the other one doesn't.

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And so I know largely I'm

talking to one in particular,

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but I'm talking to all of us.

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Really.

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We don't wanna take life for granted.

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And so I, I'm okay with using that.

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But that's not my only tool.

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I don't pull out the hammer

and think everything's a nail.

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Sometimes I'm using the screwdriver,

sometimes I'm using the drill.

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Other times I'm using something

else entirely different.

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I guess it really comes down to

knowing your kids, praying for your

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kids in particular, and trusting

the Lord to use you to reach

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them according to his timetable.

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And I'm not gonna use regeneration,

and I'm not gonna use any theology

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to absolve me or abdicate me

of my parental responsibility.

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I'm gonna use all the tools that

God has afforded me and trust that

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it's at his timing and his purpose.

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He'll accomplish it in his good pleasure.

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Man.

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You're using aggressive tools though.

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You got the screwdriver, you got

the drill, you got the hammer.

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I was gonna, the next one

was gonna be a ruler, but I

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thought No, they get the idea.

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Okay.

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Fair enough.

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Yeah, I only sandpaper.

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Yes, that's right.

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I'm going for it, man.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's awesome.

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I am.

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Yeah, it's so important, isn't it?

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And I guess it's funny 'cause I

didn't even think about those things.

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That's what came to mind.

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Yeah.

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Second Corinthians 5 21 too.

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Yeah we implore you be reconciled, right?

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It's not like, Hey, you might want

to be good for you to do this.

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We implore you.

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Or maybe not 5 21.

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I think that's the great

exchange, but 25, 20, thank you.

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Yeah we beg you to be reconciled again.

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And we're gonna use any

means necessary to do that.

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You'll often hear me say this.

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In fact, I said it multiple times

in child dedication recently, that

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as parents, we should do everything.

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Possible to put our kids

in the way of the gospel.

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What I mean by that is not put them in

the way destructively of the gospel,

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but put them in the path of it.

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If the gospel is like the stream, you

want them immersed in the stream and so

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do everything you can to get your kids as

much gospel exposure as you possibly can.

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That includes coming from you.

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It's also from the church.

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It's from, the student ministry.

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It's from Adventure Club.

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It's all of these things.

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Get them in the way of the

gospel as much as you can.

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That's right.

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Alright, let's jump to our DBR and

we will hit more of that question, I

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guess our next episode or in a couple,

we'll see here Matthew chapter 12.

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We've got Mark chapter

three in Luke chapter six.

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So we've got quite a bit of ground

to cover, but in the podcast we're

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going to cover some of it together

because there, there is some.

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Repeated scenes here.

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Now again, as you're reading it, look

for the nuances because these are

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going to be written from the different

perspectives of Matthew, mark, and Luke.

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But there's similar stories here and for

us to pull some app application out of

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them and just to describe them in general.

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I think we can cover a

lot of it together here.

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But in Matthew 12, we open up

what Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath.

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This is gonna show up again

in Luke chapter six as well.

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But Jesus in his disciples are going

along and his disciples are picking some.

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Grain.

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And the reason this is a

problem is the oral law.

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Now that's important.

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That's an important distinction.

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The oral law, which is the additional

explanation of the Old Testament law.

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So this is not directly from God.

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This is kind of the, the commentary

of the religious leaders.

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They had declared that to

pick the heads of grain.

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As you're walking through the field

was to the same as harvesting.

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And harvesting would've been work, and

work was prohibited on the Sabbath.

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So the Pharisees are gonna come

to Jesus and see his disciples

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picking the heads of grain.

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And the reason they're doing

that is because they were hungry.

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And so Jesus is gonna come to them.

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Or the Pharisees are gonna come

to Jesus and confront them and say

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your disciples are breaking the law.

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They're working on the Sabbath.

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And Jesus, in his wisdom, is gonna

respond by pointing to the example of

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David eating the bread of the present.

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And the point there was David was

hungry and his men were hungry,

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and there was a need, there was

a human need that superseded the

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need to follow the strict rules and

regulations about the temple guidelines.

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And so David and his men or the

tabernacle at this time were

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given the bread of the presence.

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That was something that was

not according to law, allowable

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because they weren't priests.

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And yet the human needs superseded

that because God cares more about

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that than he does strict adherence

to the law at the cost of.

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The human need here.

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And so here again, Jesus is saying,

you guys are abusing the people that

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are following you by requiring things

to the detriment of the people.

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The disciples were

hungry, they needed food.

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Jesus is saying, look, man was

not created for the Sabbath, but

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the Sabbath was created for man.

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And you've perverted God's

design for the Sabbath.

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And I really think that's the

point that Jesus is making.

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This is the point that I think

scripture makes and it's that the

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law serves the purposes of God's goal

for you to love him and love people.

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When the law is used to do the opposite,

you're misusing the law, right?

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You are mishandling it.

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This is not the way that God intended

for us to understand the law.

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And I think it still works that way today.

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The law is meant for us to serve people,

and this is what I was trying to get to.

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We've been talking about this now for

several months, interspersed ways.

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Really the ministry that God's given

you life for the purpose of people.

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That is your job is not to make widgets.

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Your job is to serve people.

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Your job is not to preach sermons.

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Your job is to serve people, right?

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Do those sermons right?

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Your job is not to set up chairs.

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Your job is to serve people

by giving 'em a place to sit.

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That's a different framing of what you're

doing, and I think the law's goal is

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to help us love God and love people.

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That's why Jesus says the whole law.

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Sits on those two realities.

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And apart from that, you

really don't have the law.

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The law's purpose is to help

us love God and love people.

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So don't miss the forest for the

trees, is what Jesus is saying.

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Yeah that's super helpful that

clarifies what I was saying.

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I don't mean to say we can abrogate

the law or set it aside because we've

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got a need that we feel like supersedes

that it's, yeah, you're right.

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It's the Pharisees we're using the

law to the detriment of the people

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rather than understanding that

it's meant to be for their good.

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From here, we encounter a, another scene

dealing with the Sabbath, where Jesus

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in Mark chapter 12, or Mark chapter

three, here in Matthew chapter 12, and

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in Luke chapter six, we find this in

all three of them Jesus is gonna be in

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the synagogue here and the Pharisees are

nearby and they're watching, and most

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likely I think this was probably a plant

I because they see what's happening

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and they know what's going on here.

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And so this man approaches

Jesus with a withered hand.

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And Jesus looks around at them and

knows and here's another testimony

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to Jesus's deity and note these

things as you're gonna be reading it.

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'cause it shows up a lot

in our reading right now.

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Jesus either perceives thoughts

or knows what's going on in,

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in the hearts of other people.

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And so he knows that the religious leaders

are looking at him trying to see is he

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gonna break the law by healing this man?

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He's grieved, he's angry.

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This is the same problem

as the Sabbath, right?

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This is here.

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Jesus is saying, look, we need to

care about people and love people,

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and here's a man who had a need.

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And so Jesus is going to ask

them the question, is it okay?

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Would you stop and help

your animal on the Sabbath?

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And the implication is, yes.

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How much more should we help a human

being made in the image of God?

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And so he heals the man.

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But this is the animosity is

increasing and it's not one sided.

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It says, Jesus looked around, I can't

remember if it's Mark's account or Luke's,

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where he says, he looked around grieved

and he was angry with them in their heart.

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So it's not just that Jesus is just

frustrated or like, come on guys.

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Like he's angry at their hatred

of this man who was created in the

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image of God that they would be,

they would rather him continue in

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his suffering than be healed in that

moment, just to keep the Sabbath law.

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Yeah.

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It says here that he looked

around at them with anger.

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This is Mark chapter three.

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Mark three grieved at

their hardness of heart.

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So Jesus' anger is tinctured with grief?

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There's a, so there's a com emotional

complexity in Jesus' response here.

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Yeah.

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It's not just one thing.

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It's not just the other.

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There's more than one thing happening,

and his anger and his grief are working in

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tandem to express his displeasure at their

unwillingness, and I think that's it.

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Their unwillingness to see

things the way that Jesus.

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Wants him to see it, which

is of course, the right way.

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Everything about your life is meant

to serve love for people, and if

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it doesn't, you're doing it wrong.

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Well, the Pharisees are enraged by this

and they have been humiliated now and

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so they're seeking to destroy Jesus.

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It says in the text, and Jesus

knows it's not as our much like

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we find in John in John's gospel.

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And so he's gonna withdraw and

he goes from there, it says, many

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followed him again, Jesus is famous.

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It's just that reminder that all

the crowds wanna be around Jesus.

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He's healing them.

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He's doing all of these things, and

yet at verse 16 it says he was ordering

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them again, not to make him known.

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It wasn't his hour, it

wasn't his time yet.

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And so Jesus is there.

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He's stepping into really the

continued ministry of why God

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had called him out in, into his

public ministry in the first place.

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Now we get to.

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One of the more juicy sections of

the gospel is that creates a lot of

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questions, and that is this section

on the blasphemy of the spirit.

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We find this again in all three,

ooh, well, two of the three accounts.

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We find it in Matthew here in Matthew

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chapter three verses 20 through.

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30.

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Luke will hit it, but not

until a little bit later on.

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But the blamy of the Spirit, what

happens here is Jesus heals a man and the

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Pharisees are there and they accuse him

of healing the man in the power of Satan.

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He does this by the prince of demons,

only by Alible, the prince of demons.

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That's the, that this

man casts out demons.

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Verse 24, notice verse 25.

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Again, Jesus deity, knowing their

thoughts, he responds to them.

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And he asked them a very simple question.

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He says, how can a kingdom stand

of his divided against itself?

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He says He can't.

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And so if I'm casting out demons

then and I'm doing it by the prince

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of demons, then what am I doing?

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I'm working against myself.

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And so then he goes on and he makes the

statement, he says, I tell you, every

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sin and blasphemy will be forgiven

people, but the blasphemy against

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the spirit will not be forgiven.

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And whoever speaks a word against

the son of man will be forgiven.

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But whoever speaks against the Holy

Spirit will not be forgiven either

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in this age or the age to come.

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So the blasphemy of the spirit is

right there and it's unforgivable and

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that begs the question, what is it?

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First it is to attribute the power of

Christ to, or the power of the spirit.

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Specifically working through Christ

to demonic activity to say that

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what God's spirit has done, the

Holy Spirit has done is evil or

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wicked, or enabled by wicked forces.

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That contextually is the

blasphemy of the spirit.

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So then the question is begged,

can we still today commit

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the blasphemy of the spirit?

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And that's something that I've

wrestled with and gone back and forth

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on and I've for a long time said no,

because Jesus isn't here doing these

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miracles, and so we can't do that.

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But I'm not so sure.

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I'm not so sure it's not still possible

to have the same heart posture towards

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the work of God that we see happening.

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That we would attribute what he's

doing through the Holy Spirit to

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demonic forces or evil evil forces.

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When people look at the good things

in the church and they say that it's

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evil and that it's wicked and that it's

depraved and that I can't say a hundred

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percent, that's blasphemy of the spirit,

but I think it's a very close heart.

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Heart to the same heart that

we see here in the Pharisees.

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Yeah, it's at least related and

whether or not you can formally commit

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the blasphemy of the spirit as you

see it here in these two chapters I

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agree it, it's not entirely clear.

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But it is certainly true that you can

reject God's operation of his spirit.

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You can so be dead to what he's doing,

that it's effective in the same result.

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The result is the same.

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The consequence is the same for both you.

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You can't be saved from that.

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Every other sin that you can

commit against Christ can

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be forgiven except for one.

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And I think that can be done today by a

con continual rejection of the spirit's

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operation through the preaching of

his word, receptivity to the gospel.

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In a sense that it can be,

the consequences can still be.

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Whereas I don't know if the technical

blasphemy of the spirit, that is the one

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where you look at Jesus' ministry and say,

that's of the, of, that's of the devil.

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I don't know if that can be done still.

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So I'm with you.

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I'm a bit divided, but I think

this, the warning is still there.

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Beware that you don't suppress

the spirit's operation.

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We're.

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Pressing time, and we still got

quite a bit to get to cover.

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He talks about the tree

is known by its fruit.

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This is something that, that

we talk about in other places

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in the New Testament as well.

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And this is the fact that our faith is

gonna evidence itself that you should

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expect fruit from your walk with Christ.

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That should be evident there.

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And Jesus is making that point here, that

you're gonna have a good tree, produce

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good fruit, a bad tree produces bad fruit.

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But let's talk here

about the sign of Jonah.

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Because the Pharisee say, Hey what

sign do you do to, to show us that

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you can have the authority to say all

these things and do all these things?

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And Jesus lists the sign of Jonah and

he says, as Jonah was in the belly of

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the fish, three days and three nights,

so will the son of man be three days and

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three nights in the heart of the earth.

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So if Jesus crucified on Friday,

we've got Friday, Friday night.

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Saturday, Saturday night,

Sunday morning, he rises.

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That's not three full days

and three full nights.

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So Pastor Rod what do we do with this?

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Do we need to move Jesus'

resurrect Jesus' crucifixion?

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Do we need to move his resurrection?

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How do we need to handle this?

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No.

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You need to understand how Jesus is using

this reference and in short it is possible

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in the Jewish mindset to have three.

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Partial days still be threefold days.

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he's saying, look, I want you

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to appeal to the story of Jonah.

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And just like Jonah endured this

particular thing that is going into

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the heart of the earth and then coming

back being quote, resurrected, that's

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gonna be the way I'm gonna do this.

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And so Jesus is simply pointing out

the fact that he's gonna be in the

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heart of the earth for three days.

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And by our accounting, it would not

be that it's like two days, two and

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a quarter or something like that.

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No, maybe not as a

Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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So three days he touches, but really he's

only in the grave for what, 48 hours?

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Something like that.

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Yeah.

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And so we're gonna say, no, we

don't have to throw out our bibles.

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We have to understand scripture on its

own basis and not try to inject 21st

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century precision when we say three days.

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And we, especially when we say

three days and three nights, we,

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we assume a certain understanding

about that, and that's correct.

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But here we're listening to

how Jesus presents it and what

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he's intending to describe.

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But again, the connection with Jonah

is the primary point here, not

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the actual duration of time that

he's in the heart of the earth.

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Yeah and Les that shake your confidence.

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We understand that today, you go to some

cultures today and there are different

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things like you can make hand gestures

and some cultures today that are.

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Very offensive.

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Whereas here in the United States, that

hand gesture doesn't mean anything at all.

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And so we have different ways of

interpreting and different hand

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gestures that we make, things like that.

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Words mean different things

in different cultures.

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And so this is not.

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That strange for us to think that

back then their accounting of time

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looked different than what our

accounting of time looks like now.

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Let's keep going here.

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As we get into we can

probably move to Luke six.

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In Mark chapter three.

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Again you're gonna read a lot of

the same things that we just read.

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You're gonna cover a lot of the

same ground that we just covered.

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He includes the calling of the

12, and that's there, that's

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also back in Matthew chapter 10.

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So these are the apostles, these are the

disciples, rather that he's calling here.

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And probably of note here

is that he calls those, he.

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Hired, mark says, including Jesus, Judas.

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So Jesus intentionally calls the one

that's gonna betray him, and that's

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part of God's sovereignty at work there.

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That's part of him knowing.

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He lists Bartholomew here.

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Bartholomew probably

another name for Nathaniel.

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And so in John's gospel, Nathaniel is

present, but here he's called Bartholomew.

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Bartholomew probably means son of Timaeus

bar meaning son of and tall MEUs probably

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being the the Hebrew there of his name.

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So Bartholomew could have been.

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The same as Nathaniel there, as we

get into Luke six again, some similar

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territory, Lord of the Sabbath.

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You've got the withered hand, you've

got the calling of the 12 and then

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you've got what we call the sermon on

the plane, and we'll differentiate that

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from the Sermon on the Mount, which

we're gonna get to tomorrow's reading.

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Or the next day, because this says

here that he came out into a wide

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and open plane and there's some

differences here, but there's also

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quite a bit of similarities between

this and the Sermon on the mount.

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And so the sermon on the plane

here is Luke six 20 through 49,

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and in part of this, at least I

think what Jesus is doing is he's.

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Turning expectations upside down with the

blessed statements that he makes here.

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These are things that you would look

at and say, okay, I, that's not how

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I would necessarily expect it to go.

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And yet he's showing that

things are different.

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If you're seeking for the riches,

you're seeking for peace, you're

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seeking for glory, you're seeking

for satisfaction here on earth, then

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you're gonna be left without it.

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But if you're looking to the right things,

if you're looking to the right place

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then you're gonna find that satisfaction.

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You're gonna find the kingdom,

you're gonna find the joy

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that you're looking for.

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You're gonna find the comfort in

the peace that you desire there.

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And so he's.

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He's calling for that.

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And then much like the Sermon on

the Mount, he's gonna get into

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a lot of kingdom ethics here.

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This is what we should do.

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This is how we should live, and

this is the, these are the types

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of things that we should do as

Christians and what's expected of

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the fruit of the spirit in our lives.

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And so similarities between the Sermon

on the plane and the Sermon on the

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mount, but probably different occasion.

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All right, well, let's wrap up this

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, thanks for your word, and we

just pray that you would help us to

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take it and jest it and apply it.

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And Lord, we do pray that you would

help us to be shrewd in how we pursue

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our, not only our children, but any

of the lost people in our lives with

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the gospel, that you would help us to

convey to them an appropriate urgency.

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And part of that does

include warning them of the.

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Penalty of rejecting Christ and

the the dangers of hell that exist.

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And yet we do want them to also

see Christ as lovely and beautiful.

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And we do know, and we confess that you

are the one that opens blind eyes, but

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help us to do everything in our power

to be able to cause that to happen by

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sharing the gospel faithfully with them.

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And we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep bring your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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