00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:25 New AI Tool in Logos

01:53 Debate on AI and Technology

03:12 Dead Internet Theory

05:21 Forrest Frank and the Dove Awards

07:05 Parable of the Ten Virgins

09:16 Parable of the Talents

11:59 Final Judgment: Sheep and Goats

16:55 Conclusion and Prayer

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If you're curious, you can read more about How Logos Uses AI and its new "Questions to Ask" Feature

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, folks.

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It is Saturday and so hopefully

you're enjoying the weekend.

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What do we have?

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We've got Women's Bible

Study this Saturday.

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That's right.

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Don't miss it.

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And Julia Kogan is teaching

for the first time.

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First time.

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That's right.

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Yep.

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So I know our registration looked pretty

good, and so hopefully our leaders

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are there and they're enjoying that.

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Should be a great time.

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Great use of your time, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Please go.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey Logas came up.

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With an update that has a pretty

cool new tool that I thought

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might be helpful for our people.

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You're smirking, pastor Rod.

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Oh yeah.

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Talk about it, man.

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Yeah, I just, it uses Go off King.

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It uses ai.

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Yeah, that's cool.

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But it's in the Factbook.

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So if you're familiar with logos, Factbook

is a tool that you can type anything into.

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You can type a Bible passage.

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You can type a name.

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You can type a date.

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And it will pull from your

library, everything basically

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that you have on that.

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And it will give you a breakdown of

different articles, different books,

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things like that within your library.

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Well, they added something that's

a section called Questions to Ask.

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And this is super helpful because you

can type in something like, you can

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type in what our passage is today,

which is Matthew 25, and if you hit.

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Enter a return on that, it will come up

and it will give you a lot of questions

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for you to ask the text, which is

one of the best study tools that you

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can do when you come to a passage.

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We talked about it on Sunday.

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The then always now when you're looking

for the, then super helpful for you to

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and really all of your interpretation

to ask the text questions, so.

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AI just did this.

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It kicked back some questions

for us, like how does Matthew 25

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relate to Christian eschatology?

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How can Christians prepare

for Christ's return today?

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How should believers use their

gifts according to Matthew 25?

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Mm-hmm.

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So it's gonna ask a lot of questions that

would be helpful for you to read through

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if you've got a little bit more time.

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I know sometimes we talked about there's

a difference between reading and studying.

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This is probably a little bit more

on the studying side of things.

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It's true, but.

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If you're gonna take a passage

and do a little bit more in depth,

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this is a great resource for you

to have and use towards that end.

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Sounds like you're

coming around to ai, huh?

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Well, I think this is a good use of it.

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Okay.

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I'd still put it back in the box and

throw it into the depths of the ocean.

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No, you wouldn't.

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The Mariana Trench, I

would put it down there.

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I'm sure your car runs on only ai.

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I, but I would turn it in.

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No, you wouldn't.

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I would go back.

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No, you would.

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I would.

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No, for sure.

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Go back.

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Okay.

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I would.

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Alright.

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If somebody was like,

pastor P pj, here's the key.

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And you can turn AI off for

everybody for the rest of the life.

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Oh, okay.

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And yet you have to

give up your car for it.

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I'd do it.

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You're so funny.

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I think you used technology more than

at least as much as me, if not more.

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And it's funny because much of the things

that you use benefit from AI's utility.

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And yet I don't know if

you're calculating it.

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I think you would be really

sad to lose all these things.

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Okay.

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But there's passive AI and there's

the LLMs, the large language models.

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Well, I think this is kind of an LI don't

know what, I don't know what backend ai.

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I, that's actually

probably a good question.

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I wonder what backend AI they're using.

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I don't know.

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But they're using one of

the big guys, I'm sure.

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And they're just saying, use our

database to, to draw up the answers.

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So I'm saying the background

processing AI that has been in,

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in existence for a long time.

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I'm fine with that.

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All right.

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It's the more of the LLMs and the

development of artificial intelligence

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with authority , that are taking

on even personas, personalities.

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Yeah.

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That's where I'm like.

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Lock that up, throw it into the Mariana

Trench and let's be done with it.

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I welcome our AI overlords.

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Hey, you know I did have a question.

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There was this theory going around, in

fact, I think it's still pretty relevant.

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It's called the Dead Internet Theory.

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Have you heard about this?

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No.

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Okay.

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It's related to ai.

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Okay.

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The idea is that the internet is actually

dead, and the reason why is because

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most of the content being written now.

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Is by ai.

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And what's interesting is that

AI trains on that same data.

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So it looks at Wikipedia.

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Yeah.

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Looks at some of the big players of.

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Producing information, and so if AI's

producing all that data, eventually,

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it's like when you see those images where

they say, take it and remake the image.

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And remake the image.

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Have you ever seen this on

X or one of those platforms?

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They'll take someone's image and

they'll put an AI and say, okay.

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Give me an exact replica of this,

and it gets degraded until it becomes

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basically a blob and it's only colors.

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And that's what they're saying

will happen with our data is that

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eventually, because AI is gonna be

so , reliant upon itself, that it

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eventually just leads into nothing.

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That the data becomes corrupted and

unhelpful, and it's all hallucinations.

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That's what's the dead internet theory

is that AI's producing everything and

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eventually it's gonna produce nothing.

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That'll be helpful.

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And then the Internet's gone.

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So it's like the snake

devouring its own tail.

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Yeah, exactly.

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That'd be a good way to put it.

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That, yeah.

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Yes.

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Dead internet theory.

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Look it up.

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Okay.

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Well I know that would be devastating on

a lot of fronts, and yet at the same time,

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there's something comforting about that.

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Not gonna lie, comforting.

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I mean, you don't wanna get

rid of the internet too.

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No, not the internet, but ai.

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Yeah.

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Well.

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I don't know.

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I don't know that we would let

it happen, but I don't know if

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we can stop it at this point.

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The snake is out of the bag.

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No, the cat's outta the bag.

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The cat is out of the bag.

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Yeah.

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I don't know that we can

stop whatever is happening.

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And that's why there are preponderance,

like, oh, what's his name?

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He's that ex Google executive who writes

the books about Dan Mayer futurism.

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Dan Mayer.

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Yeah.

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Danny Mayer, who wrote about the fact

that once we get to the singularity.

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Basically humanity's doomed.

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Forget his name.

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Is it Dan?

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It's not De May.

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What guy name?

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It's De Mayor.

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Anyway, lots of fear mongering about

ai, but I believe God is in control

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and that he's in control even of AI

because he has a plan for the world.

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He does.

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And Jesus is coming back soon.

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Well, according to Fors, Frank, at least.

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What do you think about Forrest

Frank not doing his own award show?

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Yeah, I saw that.

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I think it.

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Okay.

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Let's fill in the listeners.

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Yeah.

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Some of them.

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Okay.

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Forrest Frank is a very

popular young Christian artist.

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Yep.

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Seems like he's got his head on straight.

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Yeah.

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Has his heart in the right place.

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He produces really good,

catchy, modern Christian music.

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People love it and they're They love.

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They love it.

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Yeah.

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And he's a really likable guy.

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Yeah.

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Like you listen to him, you listen to

him talk you, you watch his TikTok.

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He's just a really likable guy.

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You'd want him at your church for sure.

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Yeah, he went under a lot of heat lately

because he said, I'm not gonna show

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up to, I think it was the Dove Awards.

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Do you recall?

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Yeah.

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So he said, I'm not gonna go to this

because I write this music for Jesus.

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I'm not writing it for the accolades.

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So I don't feel good about

accepting an award, and I don't

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even feel good about showing up.

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So he decides not to be part of it.

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And lots of others, including

other Christian artists, are

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like, dude, what are you doing?

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Right?

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Like, you're putting the music

out there, can't you receive honor

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for the music that you're doing?

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It's a good thing.

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And so he responds like, I just

didn't feel comfortable doing that.

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What do you think about that?

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I guess he has to put it out there because

otherwise he's just not gonna show up.

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But on the other hand,

if that's his conviction.

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Okay.

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That's your conviction.

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Don't go, I don't have any

problem with him not showing up.

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But then it becomes its own thing.

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Like it becomes like he's drawing

attention to himself even more

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because he's not going, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's where we have to be careful

not to judge his motives or his heart.

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But yeah, I think that's probably

where other people felt offended.

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It's like, oh you're oh, high and holy.

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You don't wanna go to this thing.

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But those of us who do go and receive

an award for our music, are we

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less than, are we less Christian?

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Are we less godly because we received an

award for this music that we labored over?

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But I agree.

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I think it is a matter of the heart,

and I respect it After hearing him talk

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it through and give some rationale for

it, I'm like, okay, I understand I may

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not make the same decision, but I do

appreciate and respect his decision.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's get into our text today.

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The parable of the 10 virgins kicks it

off, and then we've got more parables,

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parable of the Talents as well.

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And these first two are stressing

what we talked about at the end of

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yesterday's episode, which is Living

Ready for the Return of Christ.

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And so this opening parable is all about a

group of these virgins who are waiting for

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the return of the bridegroom, and five of

them are ready and five of them are not.

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There are those that don't

have enough oil for their lamps

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and those that came prepared.

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And so the ones that didn't have

enough oil as the time grew near,

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they had to go and they had to

refill the oil in their lamps.

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And while they were doing

that, they missed the return.

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And then they wanna be let in and

they are met with depart from me.

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I never knew you.

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I don't know who you are.

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And so this is just a reminder that

we need to make sure that we've

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got our ducks in order, that we're

ready for the return of Christ.

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And we're anticipating that return.

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I think this is a parable where we

have to hold onto the singular idea

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being taught, which is to be ready for

the return at any moment, rather than

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trying to press it too far to say, well,

what is the oil and what do we need

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to have with us beyond just ourselves?

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I think that's where we can get

into too much trouble on this

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as a, as an interpretive point.

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Yeah.

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You're probably in danger of

overinterpreting if you start assigning.

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Symbolic meaning to the fact that

they were virgins or the fact

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that they had certain oil, right?

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Some blacked oil.

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Some were saying, oh, the oil

represents the Holy Spirit, right?

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Five of them had the spirit.

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Five.

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And then maybe I will grant

that maybe that is a point

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that Jesus intended to give.

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I would be less comfortable making that.

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Assertively and saying for

sure that's what Jesus is

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saying here, but you are right.

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Verse six says, at

midnight there was a cry.

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Here is the bridegroom and the point is

for us in verse 13, watch therefore for,

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you know, neither the day nor the hour.

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That's the bullet point summary that

Jesus is intending for them to understand.

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And I think what that means for us is

if we don't know when Jesus is coming,

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that means we have to always be prepared.

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That's the point.

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Yeah.

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We never know when he's arriving

and so we should always be ready

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for his arrival, which means even

now as you listen to this podcast.

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Are you ready if Jesus were to

come back in the next 30 seconds?

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It's an exciting prospect if you ask

me, but we need to challenge ourselves

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constantly and reflect upon our lives

and our work and say, what am I doing

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and am I doing it the right way?

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Is I ladder leaning against the wrong?

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Wall, so to speak.

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And be sure that you're constantly

reflecting on the fact that Jesus could

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come back and, am I ready for that?

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Yeah.

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And that's where in the next

parable he goes to say, and while

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we wait, we don't wait passively.

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That's right.

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We don't wait.

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Just sitting around going, well,

he's gonna come back at some point.

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I guess I'll just wait until he shows up.

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He's entrusted us with gifts.

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He's entrusted us with, the gospel

and a mission as the church to be busy

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doing those things until his return.

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And so that's where we find the parable

of the talents and that there's different

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amounts given to each of these servants.

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And that's indicative of the fact that

we have different things entrusted to us.

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The one who is entrusted much is

gonna be, have much required of him.

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And then the one that is entrusted little

is gonna have a different standard, but

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still be expected to do something with it.

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And that's what we see here.

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So the first two servants, they

take what's been entrusted to them

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and they bring an ROI back to the

master and the master's pleased

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with that and says, well done.

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Good and faithful servants enter

into the joy of your master.

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But then you have the final one who

comes forward and says, I, I was

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afraid of you because I knew you

were a harsh man, and so I took your.

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Your talent and I buried it.

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Here you have back what you

originally gave to me, and this

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one is is confronted by the master.

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He is condemned by the master and

he's judged, he's cast into the

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place of darkness where there's

weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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So this, at least it, it seems

that the very minimum is everybody

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has something given to them.

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And maybe that's the

general call of the gospel.

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And that is something that goes

out to all people everywhere.

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What you do with that is really

gonna be what you're held

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accountable for in the end.

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And this one didn't do what

he should have done with it.

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He didn't respond to that.

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And so even what was given to all,

which is that is taken from him

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and given to the one who has more.

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So this one, in other words, is not a

believer who is gonna suffer loss of

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reward, but still make it to heaven.

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I think this is one who has

rejected Christ and is gonna

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be on the outside looking in.

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Yeah, I would agree with that.

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I think what's being conveyed here is

that for every person who calls himself

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a disciple, there is an expectation

that Jesus will receive a return on

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the investment that he's made in you.

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All of us have a different level

of resources and availability to

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do things times talent, treasures.

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In fact, I think the idea of

stewarding your talent comes from

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this parable that the word originally.

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Did not mean what we use it today.

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To me, a talent back

then was a monetary unit.

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Mm-hmm.

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But now it means like, oh your talents.

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Like, what are you good at?

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What resources do you have?

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And I think that's a fine application,

but it's not what Jesus is saying here.

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He gave them a stewardship, an entrustment

of a resource money, and he's saying

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I wanna return on that investment.

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And so the expectation for every

Christian man, woman, and child is that.

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When God gives us his spirit, he's

not expecting us to just show up

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and say, Hey, I made it Jesus.

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Aren't you happy?

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He wants us to use our lives to

render obedience to him by doing

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good to others, out of love for

Christ for the glory of Christ.

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And so that's the expectation.

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That's what normative

Christianity looks like.

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These guys are not the rocket surgeons.

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These guys are not the A class only.

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This is.

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The normal class for every

Christian man, woman, and child.

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Yeah.

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Well, after this, he then tells a, not a

parable per se, but he does depict what

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the final judgment is gonna be like.

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And he does this by comparing the final

judgment to a shepherd that is shepherd,

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separating out the sheep from the goats.

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And the sheep are the ones

that are going to enter into.

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Into paradise, enter into the joy and the

goats are the ones that are gonna enter

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into destruction and eternal condemnation.

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And there's questions that

are asked there by those that

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are welcomed into the kingdom.

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Lord, when did, why are we here basically?

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And he's gonna say, because

of how you treated me.

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And they're gonna say, when

did we treat you this way?

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And he's gonna say, when you

treated the least of these in

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a way that showed them mercy in

compassion, you treated me that way.

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And then he's gonna.

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Give the opposite to

those that are condemned.

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When they say, well, wait a minute,

why are we gonna be condemned?

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And this is interesting because we could

interpret this incorrectly to say that

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this is somehow a works-based salvation.

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That , if this is social justice,

that if we do these things to those

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that are needy and helpless, then we

will be welcomed into the kingdom.

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And if we don't, if we close

our heart, then we won't be.

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But I think what's what's really

being brought out here is that there

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is a, when we understand how much.

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God has done for us, it will impact what

we do and how we treat other people.

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That this is the fruit that's born from

a life that's truly been transformed.

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Who are the people that you think

he has in mind here when he says

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the least of these my brothers.

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Meaning whether they're believers

or unbelievers or Jewish people.

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Some have suggested that he's

referring to Jewish believers

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during the time of the tribulation,

that he's talking about showing

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compassion to the ethnically Jewish.

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Others are suggesting that

he's referring to the sheep the

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people, his body, the church.

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He calls 'em here, his brothers.

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Do you have a, an opinion about that?

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Strong way.

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I think I've leaned more towards

the church than anything else.

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In fact, I think it's the writer

of Hebrews who says, when he is

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talking about joyfully accepting the

pluming of your property, he says

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you visited the, those in prison.

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You, you, it was as though

you were imprisoned with them.

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Your heart went out to them.

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When we look at you.

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Philippians and Paul talking about

Aphrodites caring for him and

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just those relationships there.

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I think it's the body life of the

church living that out together.

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Amen.

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I would be inclined to agree.

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There's a few other passages that refer

to the church as the brothers of Christ.

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So there's a few that we could

point to that say that that's a

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good understanding of this text.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I would agree, and I think one of

the things that you need to see in this

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is not just that you have compassion for

people in general, that's a good thing.

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And I think the.

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Parable of the Good Samaritan is also one

of those passages that give us a sense of

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love for neighbor, but this one is about

love for the church, love for believers.

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This is one John chapter three,

where if you say you have love for

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someone and yet you overlook the needs

of your brothers in the church or

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sisters, then your love is suspicious.

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It's called into question

because if you did have love.

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For Christ, you would've

love for his body, the bride.

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And so here, your first level of

generosity and thoughtfulness should

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be for those who you would call family.

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And I think that includes not only

your physical family, your physical

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progeny, but also the spiritual

family that God has entrusted you to.

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And so here it is

compassion for his people.

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And this is how you show love for Christ.

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You care for his people in the church and

that's evident if this doesn't happen.

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You either A, need to repent, or

B, you don't have that walk with

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Christ that you thought you did.

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It's so important that he says

here for those who are not part of

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his, those who are not part of his

church, the goats, they're prepared

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for eternal fire where the devil and

his angels are presently residing.

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And verse 46 tells us that they'll

go away into eternal punishment

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and the righteous into eternal life

which we've talked about in the past.

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But let's just rehearse

that a few moments here.

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Talk about the nature of the next life.

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Yeah.

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Eternity here or eternity there.

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Yeah.

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And I think this is one of the verses

that helps with our understanding

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of eternal conscious torment, which

is what our view of hell is, that

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it is not a place of annihilation.

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It's not a place where the

person is destroyed after a

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period of time of suffering.

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But it is a, biblically we believe

a place where the soul is in an

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eternal state of torment that there

is never gonna be any relief to that.

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And that's the contrast here of

eternal life with eternal torment.

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And so, as much as we look forward

to heaven and the new earth and

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the eternal state there being with

Christ, there should be an equal

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fear of eternal condemnation and

judgment that we understand that

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is, is awaiting those that are lost.

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Yeah.

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Verse 46 is really helpful in

clarifying that because Jesus compares

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eternal life, which for us as we

understand it is on and on and on.

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It doesn't end without end

with eternal punishment.

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Yeah, and because he parallels those

two things, we have reason to believe

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rightly so that they are equally ative.

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That they both last for the

same amount of time, right?

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Because he compares them

and holds them in parallel.

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So it's a hard doctrine

to wrap your mind around.

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It's hard for us, and it's hard for us.

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We have a tender heart for people.

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We think about our family

members and people that we care

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about, our friends and beyond.

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But this is what our text says, and

this is why our mission is so important.

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It's important that we don't use

the time that we have right now to.

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Squander it or fritter it away.

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Our job is to be on mission for the sake

of Christ and for the sake of his kingdom.

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And one of the ways that we do that

is we spread his gospel far and wide.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Well, let's pray towards that end.

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God, we want to be those

that are on mission.

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We want to get the gospel out as,

as far and wide as we possibly can.

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And for some of us that looks like

starting in our neighborhoods,

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on our sports teams and our

communities and our workplaces.

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And so I pray that we would Lord,

look for those opportunities and take

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those opportunities when they arise,

that we would be sensitive to look for

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those occasions to point other people

to Christ and that you would give us.

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The fruit that would come from that,

that we would see people saved and

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people bow the knee to Jesus on this

side of eternity, Lord, so that they

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would be part of your church, part of

the sheep and not part of the goats.

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And so we pray that we would

have fruit towards that end.

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We pray 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 Deal.

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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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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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about our Church at compassntx.org.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said