00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:07 Men's Bible Study Invitation

00:31 Listener Question: Why ESV?

01:06 Bible Translation Overview

07:57 Deep Dive: John Chapter 6

12:41 Theological Discussion: Belief and Salvation

22:35 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

23:49 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, good morning.

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Happy Saturday.

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Happy Saturday.

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Oh, it's Saturday Men.

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I hope you're at Men's Bible Study.

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Please be there.

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Yes, I would love to see you there and I

can't wait to share some food with you.

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I'm not sure what we're doing,

but I'd like to see you there.

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Some bread.

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Some bread of life, at least

that, maybe even actual bread.

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I'm not sure what else is

coming with us, but we're gonna

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be there one way or another.

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Even if we're fasting, we'll fast

together or break fast together.

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Maybe that, maybe both.

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Yeah.

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Fasting until you get there.

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Okay, we have a question.

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Here's another one.

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This is a fun one.

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We haven't had this one in a little

bit, so this is from a new listener.

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Someone who's new to our

church as well they said that

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they've thanks for writing in.

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Yeah.

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Thank you for doing that.

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Yeah, we appreciate that.

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They're asking that from their prior

church and church history, they've

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always been exposed to the King

James and the new King James Bible.

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They wanna know.

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Why our church has chosen to do

the ESV, the especially sanctified

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version, as some people call it,

or the English standard version.

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So that's the question in a nutshell.

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Pastor Peja, tell us definitively, again,

definitively why we're using the ESV.

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Yeah.

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Well, first off, I think it's important

to establish the reality that every.

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Version of the Bible that we have

is a translation of the Bible.

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Mm.

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Especially any English

translation that we have.

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Unless you're gonna go back to the Greek

and go back to the original manuscripts,

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which we don't even for the New Testament

have the original manuscripts anymore.

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We have copies of the original

manuscripts and certainly the same

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can be true of the Old Testament.

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We're gonna be reading a translation

and so any translation is going to be.

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By nature of the fact that it's

translation interpretive there's

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no one translation that is an exact

parallel to the Greek thoughts that,

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and the Greek words that are out

there because there's a difference.

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'cause we're crossing over.

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Right?

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That's what translation is.

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So.

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For a long time.

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The KJV was the standard and

the King James version was the

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standard of biblical fidelity.

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And it's a fine translation.

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There's nothing wrong with it inherently.

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It's difficult to read for a

lot of people, especially the

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original KJV because it used

the these and vows and the.

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Th is at the end of words and

like hath and things like that.

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So the new King James came along

and said, well, let's modernize it.

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Let's make it a little bit more

readable so that people can understand

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it more readily, and it's appealing

to a new generation, so to speak.

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And so they didn't really alter

any of the meaning of the text.

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They just modernized it

to make it more readable.

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But they were still striving

for biblical fidelity.

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Well, since that time you've had

other translations come along,

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so one of the other leading.

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Translations that was super popular

for a long time and still is today,

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is the New American Standard Bible.

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I believe the dominant version was the

95 translation for the longest time,

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and since then they've updated it once

or twice, but that was even more wooden

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in some ways than the King James.

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And so you read the NASB.

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It's gonna be as faithful to the

Greek, including word order, even in

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some sentences as it possibly can be.

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Besides the NASB, you've got more recently

the LSB, the Legacy Standard Bible.

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Again, a great translation.

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It's very similar to the NASB.

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They've translated Doulos as

slave and they've also translated

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Yahweh and the Old Testament.

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So there's some moves that they've

made along those lines there with

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the LSB and then you've got the

English standard version as well.

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The English standard version

is going to be similar.

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In that it's on the biblically faithful

side that the fidelity is to word for

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word and that's really the two categories,

broad categories that we deal with.

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In Bible translation, you've

got what's known as formal

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equivalence, which is word for word.

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So all the translations I've mentioned

so far would all be formal equivalents.

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That is the editors are striving for

faithfulness to the original text.

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Going for word for word of

what the original text says.

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Then you've got on the other side

of the spectrum dynamic equivalence,

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which is thought for thought.

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So there, the most extreme example of that

is Eugene Peterson's Bible, the message.

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And some would say, that's not even a

Bible, it's just a, an interpretation

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or it's a commentary on the Bible.

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But that's not even trying to get

word for word that's just thought

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for thought or concept for concept.

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One of the more.

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Probably one of the more

faithful translations that

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would be dynamic equivalents.

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That's, that can be helpful

to read sometimes just to

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get a different perspective.

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The new living translation will

give you a different point of view.

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It will save things in a

different way and sometimes that

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can be super helpful for us.

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The NIV is another one that would be

closer to the thought for thought than

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it would be for the word for word.

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Bridging the gap.

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You've got the CSB, the

Christian Standard Bible.

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That's probably closer to

the middle ground there.

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All that to say we land on the ESV

because when it comes to study and when

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it comes to expositing, the scriptures

and unpacking the scriptures on a Sunday

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morning, we wanna land with the text

that's gonna be as biblically faithful

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as we can, and also as accessible,

broadly accessible as possible.

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We find that the ESV kind of hits

both of those notes really well.

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It's not that the LSB is bad, it's

not that the NASB is bad or the KJV

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or New King James, those are great

translations in their own right.

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We just find for what we're trying

to do with the church on a Sunday

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morning, which is not only to study it

on the Sunday morning, but also to put

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it in the hands of our people to do

what we're doing right now, which is

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to read their Bibles during the week.

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We find that ESV is a really helpful

translation to hit the, a broad

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swath of people in our congregation.

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I grew up.

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With a new King James version Bible,

and for the longest time, I loved it.

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It read well.

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I enjoyed it.

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I enjoyed the lofty language.

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It was really helpful for me

to grow up with, and I found

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it to be really, really good.

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In fact, it was my second Bible

that I ever got, and this is

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one that my dad bought me.

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It was a leather bound and KJV

Spirit-filled life application Bible.

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Ooh, spirit-filled.

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Yeah, spirit-filled.

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Okay.

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It was edited, I believe, by Jack Hayford.

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And I really enjoyed that Bible.

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It was one of my favorites.

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I enjoyed memorizing from it.

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If you want to call it that, I guess

a couple phrases stood out to me.

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But all that to say I grew up on that.

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I love the new King James version, and

I still will on occasion go back to it

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just to read it and enjoy it for it's

the way that it verbalizes things.

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But one major difference between a

lot of the translations that we use

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today versus the NKJV or even the KJV,

is the textual tradition behind them.

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So if you want a bigger reason

behind why we choose the ESV.

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Is in part because we believe in

the textual tradition behind it.

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And that's a bigger argument,

that's a little more philosophical.

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Both of those have to

deal with how you treat.

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Ancient manuscripts and whether

you favor the bulk, the majority of

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manuscripts, which many of them are

Byzantine era manuscripts, and they,

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there's a lot of them, and that's what

the new King James version will utilize.

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It's gonna use the majority of

manuscripts that are available,

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and sometimes the shorthand phrase

for that is the majority text.

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Whereas what a lot of other

Bible versions will use is

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what's called the critical text.

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Critical is not a bad word here.

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Like sometimes it's used today.

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It just means that these texts are gonna

be the ones that have the greatest degree

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of oldness, I should use that word.

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It's not a technical word, oldness.

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They have.

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Authenticity and they showcase

to be probably closer to the

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originals than even what the

majority text might otherwise say.

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And so you're getting into what's

called textual criticism at that point.

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But we favor the critical text approach

versus the majority text approach,

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which again, primarily byzantine.

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So if that sounds at all interesting

to you, you might be a great

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candidate to study textual criticism

because there's a lot of stuff that

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goes into it, and we'd be happy to

point you to some resources, but.

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Yes, we love the ESV.

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We love , all sorts of Bible

translations, but we think the ESV is

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a really great, helpful translation.

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Although we know many of you guys use the

LSB and that's fine, but we love the ESV

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and we as a church have chosen to use it.

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So we'd encourage you, make sure

that you bring an ESV to church.

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'cause after you're gonna hear us

preach, yeah, we're using that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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By the way, I've come across him recently

in, in, enjoyed a lot of his stuff.

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I haven't found anything so

far that, that gives me pause.

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But there's a guy named Wes Huff, HUFF.

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He's a good dude and he

has a YouTube channel.

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So if you go on YouTube and you search

Wes Huff, you'll find his channel.

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And he does a lot dealing with the.

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Tradition of biblical criticism and how

we got the Bible that we have and why

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we can rely on the Bible that we have.

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Right.

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And I think he even deals with some

King James questions in some of those

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videos that he has on there as well.

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So Wes Huff, WES, and then HUFF.

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I would commend him to you.

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I think he's super helpful.

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Let's get to our DBR today,

which is John chapter six.

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Rather than getting bogged down in a

ton of the details and maybe pastor

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you've got some questions you can

throw in here, application thoughts

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as well that we can kick around here.

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But what I want you to remember

with John is the most theological

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gospel writer that we have.

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So Matthew, mark, and Luke are.

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Writing for their own distinct

purposes but John's kind of uniqueness

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that he brings to the table, and

it's because he wrote his gospel

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so much longer after the events.

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And so he had so much more time to

think about and to ponder and to

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formulate theological conclusions about

the life of Christ than did Matthew,

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mark and Luke, who wrote much more

in much more close proximity to the

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events that they were recording there.

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This doesn't mean that we call into

question what John's recording.

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It doesn't mean that he's recording

things that didn't actually

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happen or altering things.

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He's just framing it in a different

way and that's why I think so many

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people are attracted to his gospel

because there's such rich depth there.

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There's multiple layers, and I think

that's what we get in John chapter six.

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John Records here.

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The feeding of the

5,000 right off the bat.

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Right.

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Which we've read about

in the synoptic gospels.

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And so a couple of observations here.

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There's no mention by John of the death

of John the Baptist proceeding this

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and what John does do is he mentions

here the proximity of the Passover

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and you wonder, okay, why mention

the proximity to the pass Passover.

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They're not in Jerusalem, so it's

not as though he's saying he was

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going up to the feast to, to do this.

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So why mention that here?

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And it seems to be, this is one of those

theological moments because after the

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feeding of the 5,000 and the walking on

water, John's going to record what we

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know as the Bread of Life discourse, and

that's gonna be John 6 22 through 59.

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And Jesus is going to be talking to

the crowds that have just been fed.

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By him, the 5,000 plus.

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And they're gonna rush to meet him

because they wanna be fed again.

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And Jesus is going to take that

and spin that into their need.

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Not for physical bread but for the

spiritual bread that really he's

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gonna allegorize as his own body.

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He's gonna say, I am the bread of life.

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Whoever comes to me will

no longer hunger or thirst.

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And there's some hard things that he

says in this whole discourse, especially

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that at the very end, people are leaving

and the disciples he looks at the

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disciples says, do you wanna leave too?

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And they say, no.

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Where are we gonna go?

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You have the words of life.

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They get it.

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They understand it, although

not fully, but they're beginning

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to understand it more and more.

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But John is doing this.

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In the concept of presenting

the theological impact here.

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And I think that's why he reconnects

the Bread of Life discourse.

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Right on the heels of

the feeding, the 5,000.

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You happen to have preached through

this book, if I'm not mistaken.

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I did.

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You did.

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So where might somebody go if they want

to hear more about John chapter six?

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They can go to compass ntx.org

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is our slash sermons

website slash sermons.

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And then all of them are there.

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Yep.

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Okay.

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And if I have questions, I can always

email you and ask specific questions

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about the text that I'm reading through.

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Totally.

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Every day.

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Any day.

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Yes.

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Day or night, a hundred percent.

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I can text you on your cell phone

and you'll answer within 10 minutes.

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There we go.

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And my phone number is (555) 555-5555.

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No.

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But on that note I, uhoh, uhoh.

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Here it comes.

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I wanna be careful here.

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Be careful guys here because,

'cause I wanna set everybody's

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expectations appropriately.

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But when I preach.

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I understand that sometimes

I'm gonna preach and it's gonna

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create some questions for you.

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And I understand that there's gonna be

times that I preach and you're gonna

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say, okay, I hadn't heard it that way.

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And I'm hoping that's not gonna happen too

often because that means, again that maybe

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I'm drifting a little bit there, but if

you do have questions, you can email me.

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I'm happy to respond.

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I may I be able to get back to you

right away and if I preach a clunker

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and I get a ton of emails, then you

may be low on the list before I

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get back to either I delete it.

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But I wanna be helpful is what I'm saying.

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I don't want to have a fog in the

pew if there's a fog in the pulpit or

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whatever that statement says there.

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So, if you've got questions on

that then shoot me an email.

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Say, Hey, pastor pj, you know, when

you were preaching you said this

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I, could you clarify more on that?

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Yeah.

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Or that's gonna help me shepherd the flock

better too, because I'm gonna know that.

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Maybe I'm missing the mark.

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We meet so I'm not pre prepping

my sermons in a vacuum.

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Yeah.

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We meet on Tuesdays you and I and Pastor

Mark and Louis, and we all kind of

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together kick the text around and you guys

gimme a lot of helpful insight that helps

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shape a lot of my sermon prep process.

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But, man I'm open to your emails.

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I would just ask, and I trust that

you will because I love you guys and

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I trust your hearts and I know you

guys, if you can do it respectfully,

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you know, not be like, Hey, dear

knucklehead, like, why'd you say this?

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But I'd be happy to try to clarify

things and even learn from some

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of the things that, that maybe

you're asking questions about.

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Yeah, and you can send it to

podcast at compass ntx org.

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That's true too.

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Yeah.

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And then we can kick it around on the

podcast and I can ask and maybe ask

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follow up questions on your behalf.

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Yeah.

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Listeners.

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I hope I do a good job of that.

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But lemme go back to our John chapter six.

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Yes.

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My point was to say, Hey, if

you wanna hear more about this.

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Pastor PGE has at least

three sermons, maybe more.

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I can't, I didn't count.

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But there's several sermons

on John chapter six.

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You're welcome to browse our

library and hear about that.

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Lemme take you to verse 28.

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They said to him, what must we

do to be doing the works of God?

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And then Jesus says, this is the work of

God, that you believe in him, who he has

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sent and what way is believing in God.

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The work is that our work is that is

John's point or is Jesus' point to say,

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look, your work is actually not work.

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It's to believe.

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Help us clarify that.

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I think , our faith is our

first act of obedience.

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Our understanding of.

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A person's salvation is that God

opens their eyes and gives them

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the ability to then put their faith

in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

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And that comes from Ephesians two, that

we're dead in our trespasses and sins.

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It comes from Second Corinthians four,

that the God of the world has blinded

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the eyes of the lost to keep them

from seeing the light of the gospel.

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So we believe that it takes an act

of God prior to us believing, to

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enable us to then be able to believe

once that has taken place, which

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we believe is what the Spirit does.

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John, chapter three, the

regenerative work of the spirit.

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Then our first act, our first work

of obedience for God is to believe in

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Jesus, is to put our faith in Christ.

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And so I think that's why

Jesus says this is the work of

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God, that you believe in me.

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That's where it begins.

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That's not the only work of God

because then that launches us into

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a life of obedience to him, a life

of faithful following of Christ.

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But the, it starts, the genesis is when we

put our trust in Jesus for our salvation.

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Fantastic.

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And.

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Other people will say,

well, okay, fair enough.

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But Jesus, if he really wanted us to know

who he was, he would say, I am Jesus.

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I am fully God, and I'm fully man,

or I'm truly God and truly man.

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Talk to the skeptic

who might be listening.

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And would say, Jesus never

said that he was God.

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If that was really important, Jesus

would've said in the gospels, I am God.

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So I do see here, Jesus says in

verse 35, I am the bread of life.

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Is that something we should read into?

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Is that something we should look at

and say, this is Jesus claiming to be

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God, or is this something different?

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Have Christians

misunderstood this passage?

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How do we see this contributing

to or not contributing to Jesus'?

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Question of divinity.

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Yeah, so there's a connection back

here to the Old Testament, which

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goes back to the Passover as well,

which again was John's comment there.

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Which connects us back to Moses.

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Moses.

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In fact, the leader said, Hey Moses

gave us manna to eat in the wilderness.

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What do you give for us?

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And now that question, they

understood that that manna came.

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From God.

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And so Jesus then responds by

saying, well, Moses gave you manna,

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but I'm telling you something

greater than Moses is here.

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I'm giving you something

greater than Moses gave.

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I'm giving my life, my bread.

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The my life is the bread that

you need come down from heaven.

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So there's layers of Jewish understanding

here that, that contribute to our

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understanding what Jesus is saying.

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Just like in John chapter five, when

we saw Jesus said, my father is working

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until now and I myself am working.

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Yeah.

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And it says right on the

heels of that, that the Jones.

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The Jones, the Jones family.

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The Joneses are man, those guys, the

Jews picked up stones to kill him because

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he was making himself equal with God.

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So there you see, the Jews understood.

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He's saying, I'm God.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so I think that to, to claim

that Jesus never claimed to be God

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is simply not to consider the facts

that we find in the Gospels, though

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some of them are a little bit.

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Require a little bit more digging like

this one about the bread of life and

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the connection back to the provision

of manna and where did that come from?

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It came from God.

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Now, Jesus is saying, I'm giving

this to you, just like the Father

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gave the manna in the past.

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That's a connection that's an

illusion to his identity as fully God.

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If Jesus really cared that we understand

that, why would he say it in a layer

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instead of just being like, Hey, I am God.

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Yeah, because people are

still gonna reject him, right?

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When he heals, when we talked about

it yesterday when the boys lowered

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through the roof and he looks at him

and says, your sin sins are forgiven.

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And the Pharisees look at him

and say, who can forgive sins?

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But God alone?

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And Jesus says, you're right.

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And so that you may know that

I'm God, hey, you who are lame.

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Pick up your bed and walk.

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And the He does it immediately.

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And it's not as though everybody

in the room was like, you're right.

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You're God.

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We believe now we fully believe.

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So there are times when Jesus gives

a full direct disclosure, right?

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Even with the Samaritan

woman, I'm the messiah.

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And yet that's not enough

for a lot of people.

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Still, that's not enough.

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He's going to die and resurrect and

people are going to be confronted with the

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fact that he, the tomb is empty and he's

resurrected and the eyewitnesses of his

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life are right there and still, people are

gonna say, I'm not gonna believe in him.

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So even if Jesus had said, I'm the son

of God, I'm the Messiah, I'm here, I'm

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the fulfillment of all of these Old

Testament prophecies, believe in me.

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It still would not have been enough

for those that have had their eyes

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blinded by the God of this world.

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Yeah.

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For some skeptics, there's no amount

of evidence that would ever suffice.

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Right.

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Their need for certainty.

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Okay.

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How about this verse in

chapter six verse 44?

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No one can come to me unless the

father who sent me draws him.

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Explain what that means.

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Yeah, that's coming back to what I

was just referring to earlier about

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our state prior to regeneration

is according to Paul, in Ephesians

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chapter two, spiritual death.

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It.

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Paul says in second Corinthians

four that our eyes have been

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blinded by the God of this world.

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So he's saying here until the

father operates and works on us,

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we can't come in faith to the son.

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We can't believe in the son.

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So it takes that initiatory act of God.

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Our lives to be able to enable us to

then put our faith and trust in Jesus.

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And so that's why he says no one can

come to the Father to me unless the

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father draws him, but the ones that

do, I'm gonna raise up on the last day.

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Does that suggest then that the

gospel call is an inauthentic call?

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Because if only those who the father

gives can respond to it, it's not a

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genuine call to anybody or everybody.

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Is that right?

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Well it is in that it's a general

call versus an effectual call.

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So the general call is everyone

repent and believe in the gospel.

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The effectual call is those

that God has given the ability

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to come to the son, John 6 44.

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Those are the ones that are gonna

respond in faith and repentance.

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And again, I've said it

before, I'll say it again.

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It's a great mercy of God that he

doesn't tell us who's who in that.

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Mm-hmm.

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That we can go out with

the general call and.

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Pray that it's gonna be effectual for

anyone that we share the gospel with.

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And that's what Paul means in Romans

chapter 10 when he says, how are they

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gonna believe unless they hear and they're

not gonna hear unless somebody preaches.

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And so we need to get out and we need to

preach the gospel and pray and trust that

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God could use it to, to open the eyes

of that person and lead them to faith.

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But this isn't fair, it seems like.

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This doesn't seem like this is right, man.

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Why would God, it seems like

God chooses, he already knows.

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Then what purpose is it for us to do the

gospel and to talk to people about it?

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'cause I, man, I don't know

if he's a believer or not.

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Due to what you just said.

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This doesn't seem fair.

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That's my heart.

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I'm yearned, I'm concerned by this.

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I'm yearning for my relatives,

my neighbors, et cetera.

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What do I do with that?

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Yeah.

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There's the empathetic side

that says, man, this is hard

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and this is not something that

should give us the warm fuzzies.

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But then there's the doctrinal side

that says but this is what is true and.

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Paul identifies this and talks about this

in Romans nine and even anticipates these

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very objections, and he finally comes to

the conclusion of saying, Hey, it, it's

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not on us, it's not our prerogative.

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Or right to, as the clay say

to the potter, how dare you.

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Yeah.

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Which is really hard but this is

why Jesus says what he says here.

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He says in John 6 64, he says, there

are some of you who do not believe,

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for Jesus knew from the beginning,

those who were, who did not believe

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in who it was who would betray him.

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And he said, this is why I told

you that no one can come to me

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unless it's granted him by the

Father, because this is so hard.

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And so this is the things that

Jesus teaches, including doctrines

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like this are so difficult.

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And he's saying, this is why.

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The only way that we can embrace

this is if God enables us to

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embrace this in the first place.

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And that's why he looked at his disciples

and he said, do you want to go too?

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And they said, no.

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We've come to believe and know

that you are the holy one of God,

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that you've got the words of life.

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Yeah.

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I wonder if we're understanding it right.

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If the same potential response is offense,

just like it was for them in verse 66,

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many of his disciples turned back and

no longer walked with him because this

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truth that he just revealed to them

was so offensive and reprehensible to

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them that they couldn't stomach it.

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Yeah.

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They just say, okay, I can't

follow that kind of God.

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I could never serve a God like that.

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Yeah.

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Is what they would say and what many

of their predecessors will also say.

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So it helped me out with that.

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Then.

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God chooses those who

he will draw to himself.

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Now, at least that's

what we're talking about.

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Some people call this Calvinism, right?

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And maybe we might be

okay with that moniker.

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But suppose I don't believe that.

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I mean, maybe I don't, maybe

we could talk about John six

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more, but I don't believe that.

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Am I in the faith?

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Am I out the faith am

might out bounds here.

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How do you talk about those things?

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This is a, what we would

call tier two issue.

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So tier one issues are

a matter of salvation.

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This is a tier two issue, and this

is something where believers can

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disagree with believers on this.

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And so a believer could say, no I,

that's not my understanding of this.

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I believe that anyone can choose of their

own free will to put their faith in Jesus

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and to believe in him for salvation.

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And then you may have our

camp that says, you know what?

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No we believe that the spirit has

to operate to open the eyes of

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that person at the end of the day.

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Both are gonna sit across the table and

say, well, I've put my trust in Jesus.

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One is gonna say, I did that freely.

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The other is gonna say, Hey, God

opened your eyes to be able to do that.

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But at the end of the

day we're both in Christ.

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And then the other thing that is important

to know is at the end of the day, we're

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both gonna pursue the loss the same way.

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We're both gonna say, you know what?

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We're.

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That person could be somebody

that is gonna believe in Jesus.

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So let's go share the gospel with them.

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Yeah.

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So this is something that

is, is a tier two issue.

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This is something that probably

impacts, well, I don't, I

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don't even wanna go that far.

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It, it's a tier two issue.

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It's not, certainly not anything at

all to divide believer from unbeliever

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because this is not a test of salvation.

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Amen to that.

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And I guess I'm convicted about

what we just talked about.

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God chooses.

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That's hard for me to say, but

I'm also very comforted by that.

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Yeah.

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Because then that means if

he's the one who's chosen I

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can't lose what he's gained.

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Right.

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And I would challenge you if

you struggle with this, go

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back and read John six again.

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Yeah.

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This is one of the key texts that we would

point to, to say, it could not be clear.

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Jesus says it and black and white,

and we'd have to do some pretty

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strong acrobatics and gymnastics with

the text to make it say something

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other than what it appears to say.

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So I can understand

this is hard to swallow.

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But as someone who's convicted that

the word is infallible and inerrant,

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I have to take it for what it is

and say, okay, I'm gonna take it.

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At face value and let the Lord work

that into my soul and massage that

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into me so that I can trust him and

say, you are good, you're righteous.

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And even if I don't think you're fair, and

granted he's not, it's not fair for God

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to say that anyone should be a Christian.

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All of if you, God, were fair, he would

give all of us what we deserve, right?

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But by his grace, he's chosen

some to be vessels of mercy.

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And I praise God for that.

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And maybe if you're struggling with this,

you can pray that God would open up your

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eyes and ears to be humble and sensitive

to his word and let him do the work.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this this episode.

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Yeah.

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We do pray for that.

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We pray that you'd give us a greater

understanding and even an ability to say

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at the end of the day with some of these

things, the secret things belong to you.

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And to trust you with that.

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And yet, I know this is such an emotional

subject because we all know people

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that aren't following you right now.

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We all know unbelievers and

none of us wanna think that

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maybe they're not part of.

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Those that you've elected, and again,

I thank you that you haven't given

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us the insight into whether or not

that's the case, but you've called

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us to, as long as we still have

today, go and share the gospel again.

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I'm reminded of George Mueller praying

for 50 years for the salvation of some

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of his friends and two of them not

being saved until after his death.

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And so, God, we never have to sit here

and conclude, well, this person's not.

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Elect or this person's not part of it.

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And that's not the goal of this doctrine.

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Rather, this is more about who you are

and your sovereignty and us worshiping

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you and praising you and standing

in awe of you and relying upon you.

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'cause you do the heavy lifting here.

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And so there's a comfort there for us to

know that as long as we're faithful with

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the message, you are the one that's gonna

do the heavy lifting of bringing faith and

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bringing life to the dead that needed it.

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And so we pray that you would do

that more with those in our lives

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that we know that need that life.

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And so we ask this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your new Bibles.

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edition, the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said