00:00 Introduction and Halloween Costumes

01:56 Redeeming Social Media

04:22 Biblical Teachings on Divorce

14:18 Childlike Faith and the Rich Young Ruler

19:10 Ambition in the Kingdom of God

21:29 Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

22:26 Closing Prayer and Farewell

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to me.

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Spooky edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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That's right.

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What are you dressing up as?

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Um, You know, I really

wanted to dress up as Reagan.

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And I just never bought the

costume so I could do really

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cheesy break dance moves to.

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And I thought this is perfect.

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It's the perfect time for me to

display my non dancing skills.

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Actually I can, I can dance a little bit.

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I haven't danced in.

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Dozens of years at this point.

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Uh, but I I'm trusting if I did

try, it would not be a great thing

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because I'm out of I'm out of shape.

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Right?

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Reagan for those of you that

are going wait, what is that?

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A star wars character.

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It's uh, it's the person

from the Olympics.

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He did the break dancing.

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It's just desperate to get God.

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Yeah.

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She was the one that was razzed

quite a bit for not dancing the best.

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Let's just say that she scored

all of zero points in both of the

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rounds that she, she competed in.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Not dancing the best.

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That's a kind way to put that.

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Well, I mean, you know what?

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I, as I watched it, Again, and

again, and again, and again.

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Because lots of platforms

made me watch it right.

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There was an elegance about it.

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I'm like, it's, it's so bad.

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It's kind of good.

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Like he knows one of those things

where like, this is just so not

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good that I really want to see it.

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That's one of those things.

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So I was inspired by it.

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I just never bought it.

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I'm like, I don't want to waste

money on it and I'd rather buy candy.

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So I don't think I'm going

to dress up as anything.

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What are you going to dress it as?

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Um, Middle-aged dad sitting outside by a.

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Bonfire passing out candy to.

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With his shirt off.

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Nope, drinking a non-alcoholic beer.

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With a straw hat, new whistling

with a piece of straw and is now no.

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So it's a specific.

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So, what am I whistling in this?

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This star Spangled banner, of course.

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Of course.

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So it should be whistling, buddy.

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Oh man.

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Oh, Oh, you're welcome everybody.

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The.

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It would be called so fast.

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Put the image in your head.

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No, no, that is awful.

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Oh man.

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Hey, I've got a question and social media.

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Uh, how do we redeem?

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There's a big question,

but what are some short.

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Simple ways we can redeem.

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Our presence on social media.

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Cause I know some people are like, I

don't want anything to do with them

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or delete every account that I have.

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And that's fine if you choose that.

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That's fine.

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We're recognizing though

that it can be useful for us.

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I mean, so many people at fall fast,

not to continue to go back to that,

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but so many people were there and said,

Hey, we saw it on fall on Facebook.

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And so we're here.

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That's awesome.

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That's it?

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That's a redemptive use of Facebook.

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What are some ways though that

we, as individuals can redeem

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our social media presence.

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I think rule number one is to be aware

that when the service is free, it's

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because you are the product, your eyes

and your attention are what's for sale.

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And so the, the goal of the platform

is to have you enter in this.

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This tunnel of time, where you forget

your space and place, and you just take

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as much time as you can on the platform.

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That's the goal of every single

one of them, except for, I

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think the one exception to

this rule now is going to be X.

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It's still trying to keep you

there, but now you can pay.

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So as you don't have to pay the advert.

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You're not going to pay

with your advertisement.

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I's you're going to pay with your dollars.

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So you can pay to not see the

advertisements, which will,

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which will play a role in how

and how you interact with that.

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I'm curious to see where that goes.

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But the first, I think, first of all,

is to know that you are the product and

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therefore you ought to be aware that

they're going to play tricks on you to

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make you want to stay on the platform.

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Number two, I would recognize that

your time is enormously valuable

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and you can never get it back.

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So that means that when you go

to your platform of choice, you

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should have a goal for that.

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And one of the reasons I go

to Facebook is because I want

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to see what people are doing.

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I want to see what our church

is doing in particular.

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I want to see what, what, you know, what

they're up to, what shows are going to,

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what they're, what they're doing for fun.

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And I also want to check

it on my community.

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My a.

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My living community has a Facebook page.

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So I kind of keep up on

what's going on there.

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So I have purposes for that.

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And then when it comes to other

platforms like Tik TOK, I track Tik TOK.

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Cause I want to know what's popular.

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I want to know what people are watching.

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And I also want you to know number

three, that you can tailor each of these

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platforms to your needs and your desires.

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So whatever you give attention to is

what the algorithm is going to say.

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Oh, pastor PJ really likes this kind

of content, or he really hates it.

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It doesn't care which one it

is, as long as you react to it.

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And it's going to feed

you more of those things.

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So, if you're going to use it, I'm

going to use it intentionally being

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aware that you are the product.

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Number two, utilizing it

with an intention in mind.

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And number three, being aware

you can tailor how it treats

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you and this train it wisely.

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If you do those three things, I

think you'll be well on your way

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to using it in a redemptive way.

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That's awesome.

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Those are great.

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Helps man.

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Great helps.

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All right, Matthew 19, mark 10

for our time and scripture today.

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I think 19, a one through 12 Jesus.

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Uh, takes on a difficult subject.

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Um, and yet it's a good

thing that he does.

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Jesus, never shies away from talking

about a given topic or subject.

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And here he's going to be talking

about divorce, but noticing 19 one.

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That's he's in an area that's

referred to as beyond the Jordan.

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This is a region that was

known as Perea P E R E a.

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It was not necessarily

part of, uh, of Judea.

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It was in the region

of, but not part of it.

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Uh, politically, this is still part

of Herod's reign and region DOE.

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And so he's going to be there.

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I mentioned yesterday that Bethany

is in this area, which is where

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Lazarus and Mary and Martha lived.

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So it's nearby Jerusalem,

but not quite there yet.

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And so, again, as pastor rod

said yesterday, he's on his way.

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He's on his way down towards, uh,

everything going on there now.

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Matthew John is the only one that

records the resurrection of Lazarus,

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which is unique because that's a

pretty massive event that takes place.

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Here is.

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The dead body coming back to life.

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I'm not sure exactly why John's the only

one who does this, it fit his purpose.

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It fit his narrative, which is that he was

seeking to show that Jesus is the Christ.

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The son of God and that believing

in him, you might have life.

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He says in that context, I'm

the resurrection in the life.

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So it fit that.

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But, but it's all taking place near this

general vicinity and timeframe that Jesus

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is coming in, but he's still teaching.

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And that's the point here?

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And in Matthew 19 verses one

through 12, he's going to be teach

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teaching about marriage and divorce.

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I want you to note verse six.

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So there are no longer two, but one flesh.

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What, therefore God has joined together.

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Let not man separate.

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That is God's view on divorce.

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What God has joined together.

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Let not man separate.

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And so the, the question is asked then,

because the Pharisees recognize that

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Jesus is saying, Hey, Divorce is bad.

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People should not get divorced.

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So the Pharisees then ask

the question in verse seven.

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Well then why did Moses allow it?

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Jesus answers in verse eight, why

divorce was permitted hardness of heart.

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He says because of your hardness of

heart, now not them particularly, but

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the Jewish people in general, Moses

allowed you to divorce your wives.

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But from the beginning it was not.

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So in other words, God never desired this.

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And then in verse nine, we get the

exception clause, the exception

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clause, when he says, and I say

to you, whoever divorces his wife,

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except for sexual immorality and

marries another commits adultery.

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Now, obviously that was a penalty

in this era, punishable by death.

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And so this is, this is weighty.

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This is significant today.

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We've got nonsense websites out there that

are, are aimed at Hey, having a fair life

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is short and an adultery is not considered

what it once was at this point in time.

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And this was not only against the

lie, it was punishable by death.

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And so this is serious,

what Jesus says here.

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And he says, except for sexual immorality.

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And we've talked about that

before in a different passage

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that we've covered recently.

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Um, but, but he's giving this exception

clause and they say, man, this is hard.

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Then it's better not to

marry is the response.

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And Jesus says, yeah, you're right.

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And you know what, marriage,

isn't it for everyone.

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There are some that are going to say

that seems like I don't know that I

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could commit to someone to that degree.

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And for them, they may be kingdom

Unix, which is what Jesus says here.

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Those that are.

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Committing to be celebrated

for the rest of their lives.

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This is not a freedom to go and

sleep around with people and not

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have to commit to one person though.

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This is someone that says, you know what,

I, maybe I'm just going to not marry and

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not pursue anything regarding sexuality.

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Um, in my life, I'm going to be single

for Jesus for the rest of my life.

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And he says there are some that are there.

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And I would say that's probably

the exception rather than

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the rule with most people.

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Are there any other exceptions

besides sexual morality that a

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Christian should be aware of?

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Not that they're looking for outs.

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But for a wise Christian looking for

understanding about the nature of

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marriage and what it's supposed to be.

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Um, for instance, We've come across

a situation where, uh, one spouse

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was upset with the other spouse, for

their engagement, with online things.

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And so they said, well, since the

root word for sexual morality in

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the Bible is pornea, um, seems

like if a, if a particular spouse

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has given to some of these things,

Then that might be an option.

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Alternatively another Christian might

say, well, What if there's a physical

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abuse in a relationship, is there.

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Any situation where you would advise

a Christian to say, okay, this is

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a situation where we're, this is a

kind of abandonment and therefore

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something where a Christian can say,

we're not going to be married anymore.

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Yeah.

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Um,

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First case study there.

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Dealing with that word.

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Um, The online activity there, we would

say that that's not the same as the

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physical act of adultery with someone.

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Um, though Jesus says in Matthew,

Uh, in the sermon on the Mount, Hey,

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if anyone looks with lust than he's

committed adultery with her in her

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heart, but we've got to be careful there

because then it's a matter of, okay.

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Does the, my spouse's thought life,

give me a green light to divorce them.

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And we would say, certainly not.

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So that's why I think we,

we land on the physical act.

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There's something very

significant about that.

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In fact, Paul addresses this

in first Corinthians six.

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With the issue of going to visit

a, um, person of the night.

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If I can put it that way.

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That you are joining in that act, that

physical connection, that physical act,

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you are joining your body with them.

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And if Christ dwells in you, the spirit

dwells in you, you are joining the

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spirit with that person in that act.

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And so there's something very

significant about that act.

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Uh, that is a defining litmus test in

when somebody has betrayed their spouse.

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Now, there are going to

be exception, clauses.

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There are going to be unique

circumstances, and there are, uh,

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counseling case studies that are built

all around those uniques case studies.

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But most of the time, by and

large, when we come across this

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not being a physical engagement or.

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You know, perhaps emotional engagement

and even there again, it's like,

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okay, where do we draw the line here?

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But physical is the main thing

that's being considered as Jesus

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is speaking this in this context.

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Uh, the other situation as is laid

out in first Corinthians chapter

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seven is there may be a situation.

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First Corinthians seven 15.

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If the unbelieving, this is a

believer married to an unbeliever.

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If the unbelieving partner

leaves, if they separate, if

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they file for divorce, let it be.

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So in such cases, the brother or

sister is not bound or is not enslaved.

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God has called you to peace.

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So in that certain circumstance,

you as the one, letting them go,

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not you as the believer, filing for

divorce from the unbeliever, but the

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unbeliever choosing to abandon you.

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You are freed in that sense from that

marriage, those would be the main

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two exception, closets now abuse.

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Is again a super difficult

situation and I've counseled.

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Couples that have been in that

situation and I've count counsel

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couples for the safety and

wellbeing of the spouse to separate.

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Um, in, in.

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In that situation.

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I was pursuing one-on-one counseling

with the husband and there was somebody

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else pursuing one-on-one counseling from

our church, a lady with, with the wife.

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And our goal in the end was to, to

try to work towards reconciliation.

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Uh, they're in that situation.

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Um, Th th that's a difficult one.

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And one that is, is certainly not

a rare, it's not an albatross.

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Unfortunately in our

society, abuse does happen.

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But even there, I think we have to

be careful because our culture has

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hijacked the word abuse to make it mean

anything that they want it to mean.

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I'm uncomfortable.

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This is abuse.

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I'm going to get divorced.

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Yeah.

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Um, I think if we're going to

counsel towards divorce, in a case

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of abuse, it really does have to be

a very crave situation that we're

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dealing with in that circumstance.

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I think that's a, that's a wise

clarification and it's important that

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everybody recognize what's happening

with the word games that we play

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today, because it's going to have a

real impact on the way that we do.

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Uh, application and the way that we even

think about exit Jesus to your point.

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People use the word abuse, so

frivolously, and I'm not saying that

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all use cases are wrong, even right.

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It's applied like salt on everything that,

that, that can be ha that can happen.

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That it becomes really unhelpful to

say, well, I'm, I'm being abused.

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I'd like to pursue a divorce.

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Okay.

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Well, let's slow down.

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Pump the brakes.

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What do we mean by that?

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Right.

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And to what degree is

the abuse taking place?

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I talked to one person.

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Who said that they were being emotionally

abused and therefore they wanted

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separation from their parents now.

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And I was a student.

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Of course they said I don't, I don't

think I should stay in the home.

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I think emotionally abused.

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And I had to clarify,

what do you mean by that?

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And of course this, this opens up a

whole Pandora's box of, okay, well,

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let's, let's challenge what you

understand to be emotional abuse versus

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what your parents are supposed to do.

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And that the same thing can

happen in a marriage where both

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parties are really invested in.

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There's a lot of emotions involved.

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Of course.

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Um, you can imagine that an unkind word

can turn into something really nasty.

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Really quickly, so important to clarify

words and to understand if there's a

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situation that you're encountering,

where this is a possibility.

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Please feel free and encourage him and

to send it up to the pastoral chain,

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that would be most helpful, a hundred

percent and, and hear this and especially.

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Uh, abuse happens both directions,

but I want you to hear this

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ladies listening to this.

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Um, we, as your pastors

are committed to, to.

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To protecting you.

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We will protect you.

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Now we will have scripture as

our ultimate guide and litmus

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test here, but I I've, it.

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It's become an Inn.

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Some of these.

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Uh, investigative journalist

and I use that term so loosely,

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um, you know, Of of the church.

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And of elders and things of that

they have said, you know, elders are

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enabling physical abusers in the church.

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And it's, uh, Uh, masochistic,

patriarchal society and all these terms

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and labels are being thrown around.

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And they're just telling it the

abused and beaten and battered

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wife to go back to her husband.

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And they're putting her life at risk.

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Hear us say this.

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We will not put your life at risk.

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We will work towards your protection and

in your safety, no matter what that looks.

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And sometimes like I alluded to earlier

that may involve separation for a time

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being, um, we're going to make sure

that that when it comes through the

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word divorce, that we are very careful

with that because it is a massively

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significant step to dissolve a marriage.

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And we want to be very.

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Very careful with that.

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But we will do everything that

we need to do in can do to

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make sure that you, your kids.

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Your husband or wife, whoever you are,

are safe in a circumstance or a situation.

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Um, and so don't, don't hear

us say what we're going to say.

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Don't worry about that.

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Build your bridge, get over it

and go back into a situation

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where you might be in danger.

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We just want to make sure that

we're thinking clearly and carefully

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about all of these different, uh,

concepts and parameters as, as we

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give counsel and advice in that.

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From here, he goes on

to verses 13 through 15.

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Um, To talk about childlike faith, which

we talked about in yesterday's podcast.

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If you miss that, you can

go back and hear that.

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I don't know that there's

anything particularly new PR.

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If you have anything in Matthew's

treatment here on, on this.

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No.

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Uh, Mark's going to hit that as well.

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And then he hits the

rich young ruler again.

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Um, same story, same situation.

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Rich young ruler comes up.

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He tells him to go sell all that.

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He has the disciples response

in verses 27 through 30.

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Uh, one of the unique additions from

Matthew is that they are going to

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sit on Thrones in the millennial

kingdom, judging the tribes of Israel.

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As in the days of Moses.

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My thought on that PR I'm curious to get

yours, but this is Matthew he's writing to

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a largely Jewish audience with that focus

on Christ is as the king of the Jews.

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So it makes sense that he would include

in here this part about them during

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the millennial kingdom, reigning with

Christ a hundred percent, he's got the

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intention of reaching his Jewish audience.

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This makes perfect sense and lie to

the audience that he's aiming for.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that's Matthew 19.

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Um, mark 10 mark.

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10 opens up again, a teaching on divorce.

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The parallel here to Matthew

19 one through 12, you get

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mark 10, one through 12.

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Uh, one addition here that mark

gives us is in verses 11 through 12.

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He gives us teaching on not what

constitutes adultery as far as remarriage.

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He says, whoever divorces

his wife and marries another

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commits adultery against her.

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And if she divorces her husband and

marries another, she commits adultery.

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This is why, uh, church in, in so many

instances, except for the two that

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I mentioned yesterday, which is, or

just now in Matthew 19, that we just

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talked about, which is, uh, you have.

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I've been the one that somebody committed

adultery against you and it ended in

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divorce or, uh, you're married to an

unbeliever and that unbeliever leaves you.

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Uh, you are free to remarry

in those two circumstances.

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Outside of that, there really is not a

freedom for you to pursue remarriage.

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Um, this is again the significance

and seriousness of divorce.

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And so when somebody divorces their

spouse, Uh, Jesus is saying here,

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you need to be careful to remain

single because to remarry again.

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If that divorce was not a biblical

divorce or permissible divorce.

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Uh, to remarry again, is to commit

adultery, which again, this context

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of this society, this timing would

have resulted in being guilty

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of a penalty of death, a crime

punishable by death at that time.

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Yeah, the idea here is that

God still sees you as married.

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You may think your district.

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Your marriage is dissolved.

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He doesn't.

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And that's the more important.

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A better perspective on the matter.

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Right?

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And there have been stories of, of

couples divorcing then reconciling

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later on getting back together and

repenting from that sin that led to

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the divorce in, in being reunited.

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So those are cool.

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Um, we don't, we don't want divorce to

happen, so, so we're not cheering for

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those situations except for when there's.

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There's hope there's hope

in every relationship that

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things could turn around.

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Never lose hope for that.

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Yep.

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Yeah, mark 10.

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Then we get to verses 13 through 16.

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Childlike faith again.

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Then in verses 17 through 31,

the rich young ruler shows up

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again here at the synoptic.

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Gospels have so much in parallel notice in

the rich young ruler this time in mark 10.

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And one thing that jumped out to me

in verse 21, it says Jesus loved him.

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Um, that that was special just

to see here's a man who's going

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to go way in by all implications.

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We're I don't think we're

going to see him again.

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Uh, and, and yet it says there that

in that moment, Jesus loved him and

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went after what his real need was.

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Which was to sell everything

in Kevin following.

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Yeah, I would, I would agree

that that's D I think anyone who

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reads this is going to initially.

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Yeah, it's hard to miss that.

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It stands out.

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So, so vividly.

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And I think what's important.

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There is to notice two things.

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Number one, true speaks

true speaks to people.

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Um, and that's what love provokes love

for people will make you of necessity.

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Tell people the truth.

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And this is what Jesus does.

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Now notice here, as you pointed

out, pastor Peter, doesn't look like

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this guy responds positively, right?

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It's actually cited.

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We don't know.

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We don't know that he doesn't don't know

that he does either, but it's silent.

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And if he's not.

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Oh, someone that scripture

would call it the elect.

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It's still goes to show that Jesus

has a love for people that is more

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than just a frivolous, like, oh, I,

I just, I think nice thoughts about,

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you know, he he's pursuing even

the non-electric put it that way.

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And this is an important feature for us

because we, as those who believe in the

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doctrine of election, we who are reformed.

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You should take a lesson and a page

out of Jesus playbook later on,

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he's going to weep over Jerusalem

and say, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

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the city that kills us profits.

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If only you'd known the time that you had.

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Uh, he's crying over these people.

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The Christians like ourselves who stand

in this camp ought to care enough to cry.

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We had to be the kind of people who care

enough about people to weep over them.

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It's easy to do that for our

family members or easier, I

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should say, not necessarily easy.

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Harder to do that for your

neighbor across the street.

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But I think Jesus shows us a better way.

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We can't be the cold Calvinists

who are just saying, well, if

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you're elected, you're elected.

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If you're not, you're not so sorry.

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We had to care about people to

the point where like, Jesus.

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We can love them genuinely,

authentically and care deeply

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about their eternal destination.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, after this verses 32 through

34, you get the third foretelling

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again of the death and resurrection.

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Oh, Jesus.

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Notice in verse 31, cause this is going

to factor into what comes next here.

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So we, we left this off.

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In the rich young ruler, verse

31, many who are first will be

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last in the last will be first.

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Then Jesus talks about

how he's going to suffer.

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He's going to die.

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Verse 34, they're going to mock him,

spit on him, flog him and kill him.

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And after three days he will rise.

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So he says this.

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And then we get tone deaf James and

John coming up to Jesus right after that

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saying, um, Can we talk about seating

in the, uh, the millennial kingdom.

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Can we talk about where we're going to be?

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We, we would like to be on

your right and your left.

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Uh, which were seats of honor.

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And so we're in John's gospel and

we've been holding John up as, as a

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paradigm of godliness in so many ways.

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And he's the disciple whom Jesus loved.

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And yet here, John is.

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John's not doing, not doing her.

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Yeah.

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It's not a good look here.

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Um, They're not, they're not

hearing what he's saying and the

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less we think the others were.

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Sitting in there going, oh John,

how could you, how dare, how could

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you ever think there's things.

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Verse 41 says when they found out

about it, they were indignant.

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Their own pride shows up.

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They're like, wait a minute.

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Why did you get to ask first?

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They didn't have those.

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I wish you would have thought of it first.

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Well, what's it.

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What's so interesting.

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We're going to read about it tomorrow

and tomorrow is reading, but we're

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going to find out that it was their

mom that asked on their behalf.

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Yeah.

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Which makes us even worse.

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It's like they weren't, they weren't

bold enough to say it themselves.

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Hey, mom, you know how we've

been thinking about this?

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New Jerusalem thing.

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And the next kingdom, we have a, we

have a job where you, can you help us?

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So there they're there.

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They're not even doing it themselves.

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If they had, I guess, the goal

to do it themselves, you might.

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Okay.

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Well, I can understand

their, their ambitious.

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Um, but instead their mom

does it on their behalf.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The wife of thunder.

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And the mother of thunder.

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Yeah.

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Well get this and, and I

think it's again, significant.

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Jesus does not tell them your

desire to be great as wrong-headed.

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He doesn't do that.

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And I think it's so important

for Christians to see this.

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He doesn't say, Hey,

don't desire to be great.

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He tells them how to be

great in his kingdom.

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You be great by serving people.

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You be great by.

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By doing what I'm doing, you're

serving you're sacrificing.

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So don't, don't not think,

let me just try that again.

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Don't think Jesus is discouraging

Christians from having a holy

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ambition to the contrary.

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He's telling him you want that.

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Here's how to do it.

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It's not the way that you think that the

world, the way the world teaches you,

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it's this way it's through serving others.

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That's how you achieve kingdom greatness.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We've finished up this chapter then in

mark 10 with again, blind Bartimaeus now.

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Uh, mark and Luke both only record

one person Matthew records to,

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um, and, and that's one of those

situations where we say, wait a minute.

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And if you remember back to when we

talked about the Garrison demoniacs.

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Uh, some recorded too, but mark, when.

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Recorded one.

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And so here again, mark only records one.

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So, uh, this is kind of a pattern with

mark that when there's two, he says, Nope.

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You're just one guy.

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Uh, and the reason again, probably

same thing as back then is he re

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he focuses on the spokesperson.

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And the spokesman here was

this guy named Bartimaeus.

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And so Bartimaeus is the

one that gets the credit.

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He gets the Notability here.

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And he's the one that

says rabbi, I wish to see.

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And Jesus' response there.

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He says your faith has made you

well again, the paradigm of the

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gospel in the healing of Bartimaeus.

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I wish this story was in John.

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Cause I love it.

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It's not, but, uh, but again,

just that paradigm of the gospel

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there is, is so cool to see him

in the healing of Bartimaeus.

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All right.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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Got again, all of us were like Bartimaeus

at one point and you chose to show

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mercy upon us and give us the eyes

to see in that years to hear in the.

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The faith to believe.

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And we're so thankful for that.

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Get we.

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Uh, live in a culture of

divorce and we recognize that.

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Uh, we, we pray that as a church, that

our marriage would be strengthened

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in strong and that we would be a

church quick to forgive and to extend

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grace and mercy to one another.

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And I know that there are difficult

seasons and difficult times in people's

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marriages, but God, you are a God who.

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Love's marriage and you're

the God who said what ma.

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You have joined together.

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Let no man separate.

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And so God, we pray that you would

protect our church in that regard.

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And that she'd be kind to us and help

us to be, uh, people that that are,

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are, are loving and gracious and are

willing to show the grace to others that

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we ourselves have received from you.

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And so we.

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Uh, ask for that.

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We pray for that and we trust

that you're able to do that.

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And so we ask these things in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then.

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Hey, keeping your Bibles tune in

again tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcasts.

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Bye.