00:00 Introduction and Baseball Talk

02:13 Fall Fest Recap

06:15 Discussion on Prayer and Persistence

09:28 Trusting God's Will in Prayer

10:57 Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee

12:34 Understanding the Heart Posture in Prayer

14:44 Salvation for Children

17:27 The Rich Young Ruler's Idol

18:36 Jesus' Prediction of His Death

19:15 Healing of Bartimaeus: A Lesson in Faith

20:47 Closing Prayer and Reflections

21:43 Podcast Outro and Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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How's it going everybody?

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We hope you're reading your

Bibles, pastor Mark, I know how

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big of a baseball fan you are.

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I am.

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You are the biggest baseball fan that has

ever walked face the face of the planet.

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I was so.

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Monday night, this is a few days ago now.

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There was a baseball game

that lasted 18 innings.

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Yep.

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Did you hear about that?

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I did.

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I did.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I did.

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And Shhe, Tani , broke the record for

the most number of, most times on base.

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Most times on base, eight times.

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If any game, not just posties, right?

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Yeah.

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E ever.

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Yeah.

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The guy's a machine.

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Yeah.

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I'm convinced he's the first robot.

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What are they paying him?

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Like $700 million.

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I feel like that might not even be enough.

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I you, after games like that, you wonder.

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Yeah, you wonder.

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But we're not here to talk about

the evil empire of the Dodgers.

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They're the evil Empire part two.

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I guess the Yankees were number one.

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Now it's the Dodgers.

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Who would you rather win?

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The Canadians or the Americans?

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Oh, the Canadians a hundred

percent on this one.

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Not even a question.

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Not even a question.

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But I feel bad for our

Canadian friends because.

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That game won 18 innings and it

ended at 3:00 AM Canadian time.

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You know, Canadian time up in that.

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Yeah.

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That's a thing that region, they also have

multiple time zones, you know that right?

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Yeah.

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So part of Canada.

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Well for Toronto, though, I'm pretty

sure they're parallel with East Coast.

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Yes, that's right.

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That's right.

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So yeah, 3:00 AM and they lost.

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It's not like they sit up

till 3:00 AM and they won.

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So I gotta imagine there were a lot

of grumpy people on Tuesday in Canada.

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No doubt.

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No doubt.

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Yeah.

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I went to an Angels baseball game once.

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This was a number of years ago.

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Congratulations.

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Yeah.

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It was riveting.

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Yeah.

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That's all games are.

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Yeah.

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At the Angel Stadium, you know, of course.

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We left at the 11th inning.

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Why we stayed that long.

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Don't ask me.

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Yeah.

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But we went home, went to bed,

woke up the next morning and

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had gone to 16 or 17 innings.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, well, good

thing we left when I did.

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During the regular season now, that's why

they do the ghost runner on second base.

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Yeah.

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So every extra inning you start

with a runner on second base because

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they're trying to end the game faster.

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Postseason.

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They don't do that anymore.

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And so that's why this game went 18

innings and that's why they used to

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go so long, but, and they walked shhe

like six times or something, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Something like that.

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It's crazy.

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I think they need to switch to something

like you're only allowed to walk

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intentionally, walk a player once a game.

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But then how do you regulate that?

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How do you make sure that that's, I don't

know, man actually being done, you know?

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'cause you can fake walk somebody.

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You could, yeah.

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You could just, oh, I missed, I

didn't pitch that well enough.

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Yeah, it's crazy.

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It's crazy.

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But hey let's talk about something else.

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We had Fall Fest on Sunday.

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Yeah, we didn't get to talk

about that yet this week.

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And we do wanna recognize that.

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We wanna recognize you guys

out there that served at that.

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Well done.

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We had over a hundred volunteers.

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That's right.

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And it was great.

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Pastor Mark, tell us about a fall fest.

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Well, first please tell Allie thank you.

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I'm sure she doesn't want me to do

that, but Allie put in a ton of work.

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Thank you.

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A ton of thought.

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Into making this event.

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Great.

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So if you get the chance

to thank her, please do.

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Because she really was a faithful

servant in carrying this out.

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But that's Sing her a thank you song.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Maybe to the tune of

happy birthday, but yeah.

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Well, nevermind.

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Yeah, great event and we're really excited

because, we had a lot of people that

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were there because you guys invited them.

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Yep.

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You had people that were your

friends, your family that were there.

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Thank you for doing that.

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We had people from the nearby

neighborhoods as part of the outreach

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efforts that we did that were there.

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So thank you for doing that.

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And I know prayer went into that.

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We are really excited to see God

bring people from that event.

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That's the purpose of that event, right?

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Not just to at least this

is our intention with it.

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It's not just to throw a party for

people to come and get free cotton

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candy, but ultimately we wanna

see baptisms from the this event.

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So be praying for that, be praying for

that, even this coming Sunday with.

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Some of these people who may be

making the decision to come and

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join us or not be praying for them.

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Yeah.

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And if you know them or you had a chance

to reach out to them, give 'em a call.

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Give 'em a, send 'em a message.

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Encourage them to come threaten them,

because that's our ultimate Yeah.

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Well, don't threaten them.

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Yeah.

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Maybe not.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Don't do that.

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You could maybe kind of tell them about

hell through a gospel presentation.

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You could.

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You could.

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Yeah.

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Which is a appropriate threat, right.

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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That's a different question.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, fall Fest was awesome.

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It was great.

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Yeah.

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We're probably gonna make

a few changes next year.

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Maybe we're gonna get a turtle that's a

little less active in the petting zoo.

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Yeah.

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That turtle was wild.

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Yeah I've never seen a turtle.

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Take that many steps ever.

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Yeah.

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And it was going round and round.

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The bunnies were like scared

in the corner, but the

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turtle was trying to escape.

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I don't know what was, I didn't

make my way over there at any point,

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but my son did Luke, and he said

he pet a duck and the duck bit him.

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So yeah, ducks do that.

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Ducks growing up.

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Pet ducks.

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Yeah.

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And then my son told me it felt like

a swan bite or a no, A goose bite.

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Yeah.

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I was like, how do you know

what a goose bite feels like?

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Actually, I do recall he

was attacked by a goose.

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You'll have to ask Luke about the

time he was attacked by a goose.

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Not, not a good time.

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I'm sure it's not a story for

the podcast necessarily, but I

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mean it's entertaining there.

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There is that.

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All right.

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Well, yeah, fall Fest was awesome.

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So good job everybody.

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We, I love doing events like that.

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Can't wait to do it again next year.

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We've got, we'll do extravaganza

back out on that field.

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I think the venue worked great.

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Yeah.

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And that was really great.

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Really cool to be able to do that.

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We had the police officers

there, which was fun.

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Amir showed.

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Yeah, he was dressed

all police officer gear.

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Oh, that wasn't a costume.

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You know, I asked him, I

was like, is your gun fake?

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And he was like, no.

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He's committed to the, I

also said, can I hold it?

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And he said, no.

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So there's that.

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Yeah.

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No I was telling him

though, and Pastor Rod, I.

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I still like when I'm around police

officers, even if I know them like am

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Mirror, I still am like a little kid.

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I'm like, dude, you've got a gun.

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Like that's crazy in handcuffs

you can turn on his lights.

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You've got real, I know, right?

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Like, will you turn on your siren?

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No.

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The the Prosper Police officer that

was there though, officer Jones,

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he's been here for 18 years in

prosper on the beat as they say.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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So he's seen this place go from middle

of nowhere to, yeah, metropolis.

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He said when he first started here, he

was on the overnight shift and there

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were 6,000 people total in the town.

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And if anyone was out on the

road, he pulled them over

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because they were up to no good.

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There was just, by default, default,

there was no other reason to be out

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on the, there's no other reason.

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They were either thieves

or they were drunk.

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Like that's the only reason

that they were out on the road.

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Late at night at that point.

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Different place now.

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Different time.

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Different time.

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For sure.

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Hopefully he's gotten a

couple raises since then.

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I hope so.

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Yeah.

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Seems like a nice guy.

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Yeah.

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He and his wife are having twins,

so we were talking about that.

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Or they have twins.

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They have five month old twins and so, we

were not commiserating, that's the wrong

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word, but we were connecting over that.

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Yeah.

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Talking about that adventure.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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The great adventure.

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Yeah.

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This is the great adventure.

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Alright, hey, let's get into Luke 18.

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And by the way, we have a

question that we're gonna.

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Ask an answer in the middle of

the question in the middle of

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this, because it's been asked

about a passage in Luke 18.

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So in Luke 18, we open up here

with a parable about prayer.

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And this is told in an interesting

way 'cause it kind of almost portrays

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the pray ye the prayer prayer.

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As that's right, as the one who is.

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It's almost a negative connotation.

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Yeah.

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All, albeit not really because

you feel bad for the widow.

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The widow has a need, and so the

widow has this need and she keeps

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going and this need is somebody is

oppressing her and she's asking for

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justice to be done with this judge.

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And the judge keeps turning her way,

turning her way, turning her away, and.

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It says in verse five, yet, because

this widow keeps bothering me, I'm gonna

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give her justice so that she will not

beat me down by her continual coming.

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And then the Lord saidhe what

the unrighteous judge says.

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And will not God give justice to his

elect who cry to him day and night?

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Will he delay long over them?

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I tell you, he will give

justice to them speedily.

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That's difficult because we don't

always see speedy justice administered.

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So, pastor Mark, how do we think about.

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This widow, her persistence here.

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We've seen other things where

Jesus has said, Hey, don't heap up

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empty words like the Gentiles do.

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Your father knows what you

need before you even ask.

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And so is this something for

us to employ, to say, okay, we

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need to be persistent like this.

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How do we understand some of these things?

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Yeah, I think the first thing we

need to remember is that prayer

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is something that's expected

and commanded of Christians and.

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So when we look at that, we can either

look at it as a burden as something

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that's oppressive, even in some sense,

or we can look at it as a privilege.

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And I don't just mean privilege in

the like Christianese word sense

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of that, but truly a privilege.

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Right?

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Something that's a joy to do.

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That's.

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That's yes, commanded, but we understand

that command to be for our good.

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I'm gonna say that this example

of the widow in this unrighteous

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judge is actually an example

of it being a burden, right?

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It's difficult to fight

against somebody like this.

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And then the contrast is that we

don't have an unrighteous judge.

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We have a very righteous judge.

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We have a loving father who is eager, who

has elected us, who is eager to respond

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to our prayers, and it is something that's

necessary for us to do, but it's also.

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A great good, a great joy to do.

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Yeah.

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And I think when it comes to the question

of how quickly does God answer, why does

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God not answer as soon as we'd like in

the way we'd like, I think we have to turn

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to passage like Second Peter that talks

about how the timing of the Lord is not.

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Our timing.

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Right.

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A day to the Lord is as a thousand

years and a thousand years as of today.

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And he's not slow as the way some of us

would like to consider slowness to be.

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I think there's other passages you

go to, but that would be an example

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of one that I think would be helpful.

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No, yeah, for sure.

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And there's other examples

in church history.

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George Mueller is a guy that, that.

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Prayed for the same five people until

they one by one began to be saved.

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But there were two people.

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He died praying for their salvation.

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And you can imagine he's the

persistent widow in that instance.

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Yeah.

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Going to the Lord over and over again,

saying, Lord, please save these people.

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And eventually those

last two did get saved.

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Now that's always not gonna, that's

not always gonna happen that way.

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Sometimes the Lord chooses not to

answer the prayer even when we come

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over and over and over and over again.

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And that's where we have to

have the mentality to say.

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Lord, we're gonna pray this and say, if

it be your will, this is what I'm asking.

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Yeah, that's right.

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And to trust.

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If it's not his will, he's

not gonna give it to us.

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But Jesus earlier talked about the child

coming in, asking his father for a fish.

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And Jesus says, you're not

gonna give him a snake.

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Yep.

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You're gonna give him what

he's asking for what he needs.

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Then he said, how much more will

your father, who knows what your

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needs are, give you good things?

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And so we have to trust

if it's good for us.

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As God defines good,

he's gonna give it to us.

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And we can be persistent.

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We can be bold like this widow

because God is delighted to hear

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the prayers of his children.

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And sometimes God's gonna ordain

our prayers to accomplish his

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will, but it's going to accomplish

his will for that prayer that we

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started praying maybe 10 years ago.

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It's gonna.

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He's gonna choose now the Yeah.

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To be the time to answer it.

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He didn't want to ordain it to happen

10 years ago in his perfect timing,

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but we're gonna persist in that.

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And now today's the day that

he's gonna answer the same prayer

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that you prayed 10 years ago.

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He's gonna answer it today.

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He works that way.

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It's cool to see that and know

that he does work that way.

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Yeah.

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And if you need to practice this and

you're a parent, let me suggest the

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first place to do this is to be praying

daily for the salvation of your kids.

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Absolutely.

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Obviously we're not.

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Not everybody's parents in the

church, but most of us are.

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And if you need a place to

PR, practice this persistence.

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Start there.

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Be praying every day for the salvation of

your kids, whether that's your little kids

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in your house or maybe your adult kids.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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Well, let's go on and talk

about some more prayer.

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And this time it's a story of parable

of a tax collector and a Pharisee.

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Now to, to set the context, understand

the tax collector was considered

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to be an unrighteous individual.

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He was hated by his own countryman.

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He often worked for Rome.

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He was considered to be

a traitor, a turncoat.

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He would most of the time be

a thief as well, skimming off

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the top of the tax collection.

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So this is not somebody that you

look at in any way, shape or form and

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consider to be a righteous person.

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Contrast that you've

got a Pharisee who is.

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The definition of righteousness.

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And Jesus says that there were two of

them, these two men, and they both went

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up to the temple Mount to pray, and

one a Pharisee one, a tax collector.

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And the Pharisees prayer

is given first for us.

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In verse 11, the Pharisee

standing by himself prayed.

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Thus God, I thank you that I'm not

like the other men, extortioners.

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Unjust adulterers, or even

like this tax collector.

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Then he appeals to his righteousness.

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Here's the things that I do.

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And then the contrast is the tax

collector who went up and beat his

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chest, beat his breast and said,

God, be merciful to me a sinner.

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And Jesus says, this is the one that went

home justified rather than the Pharisee.

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So we got a question written in.

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And the question is this, what precisely

was wrong with the prayer of the Pharisee?

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And then the follow-up is, would

you recommend against praying any

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or all of the following examples?

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God, I thank you that by your grace,

you've kept me from adultery, so may

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many others around me have fallen

and I know that I would do the

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same apart from your grace or God.

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I thank you that by your grace

you've kept me from adultery, unlike

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other men or God, I thank you.

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I'm not an adulterer like other men.

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So could all these be good prayers

depending on the heart posture?

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Pastor Mark, what are some

of your thoughts there?

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That last little phrase there is, what's

key is it's a matter of the heart.

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It's a matter of what

your heart posture is.

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Look in verse nine at who's

Jesus is talking to in verse nine.

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It says, he also told this parable

to some who trusted in themselves.

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Yeah.

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That they were righteous, right?

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So he's addressing people who, trust

in themselves who have a heart posture

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that is not relying on the Lord.

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Right.

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That is not thankful for

what the Lord has done.

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Right?

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So if we're talking about being grateful

to God for the righteousness that

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he has instilled in us through the

spirit I think that's a good prayer.

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Yeah.

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When we are trusting in him and not

trusting in ourselves for that, and

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even to the extent when we talk about.

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The sanctification that we've seen in

our life with other Christians, right?

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If we're talking about it as a way

of extolling our own ability, our

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own strength, our own goodness, et

cetera, et cetera, that's a problem.

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If we are talking about it in the

context of the trust that we have in the

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Lord that's a totally different thing,

and that, that brings glory to God.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And so as you give these examples

of prayers, the one I would say.

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I would hold back on is that final one?

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God, I thank you.

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I'm not an adulterer like other men.

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Yeah.

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That's the prayer of the Pharisee here.

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I think the difference is the

first two prayer examples that

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you gave, you said, God, I thank

you that by your grace, right.

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God, I thank you.

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That by your grace.

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And that gets into what you were

saying there that that conveys that

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I'm not trusting my own righteousness.

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I'm not saying God, I thank

you that because I'm so good.

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I'm not like these other people,

but by your grace I am who I am.

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Right.

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And.

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That mentality of saying, but for

the grace of God would I be there?

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And that's a humble prayer, that's a

prayer that's aware of our dependency

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on the grace and mercy of God as

this tax collector was aware of his

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need for the mercy of God as well.

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So, the problem with the prayer of

the Pharisee was, as you pointed out,

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it was a prayer all about himself.

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Mm-hmm.

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And not about the grace and mercy of God.

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And so it was a prayer of

arrogance of pridefulness and

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not a prayer of humility there.

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Yeah.

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The tax collector says, be merciful to me.

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A sinner.

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Right, right.

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It's about his sin, his problem with God.

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It's not about outward comparisons

or other comparisons with people

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and saying, oh, at least I'm not.

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Not as sinful as that person.

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Yeah.

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It's about his recognition that he's

desperately in need of God's mercy.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Rich young ruler.

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Let's jump down there in chapter 18 verse

Oh, can we talk about the little children?

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No, we can't.

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Yeah, yeah.

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No, we can.

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We got, our kids been passed around here.

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Let's do that.

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Yeah.

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Talk, talk to us about

the little children.

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I have a question for you, so hopefully

you've read this passage for you.

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Listener.

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Please read this passage,

verse 15 through 17.

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I have a question for you.

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How young can a kid be saved?

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There is no age limit to salvation Zero.

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There's no age limit to salvation.

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So as soon as I put a number out

there, then the hard thing is there's

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gonna be parents that are gonna not

teach their kids about Jesus until

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that age or whatever it may be.

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We do know that there

has to be the cognition.

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Ability there to understand

their need for Christ.

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Right.

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So your newborn, even Warren, right?

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Warren is very advanced.

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He's almost, you know, dunking a

basketball on a 12 foot goal or a 10

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foot goal, even as that's what it's

actually supposed to be 14 foot, you know?

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Yeah.

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Just making it a little harder, you know?

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And Warren has a sin nature in him.

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In that he wants what he wants

and isn't really mindful of what

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other people need, like sleep or,

patience or anything like that.

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Now we've talked about man, God's

special grace that I think he preserves

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for people that don't have the

awareness or the ability to understand,

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man, I'm a sinner and I need Jesus.

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And I think that, that

is biblically defensible.

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But I think once our kids begin

to come to that recognition

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stage of being able to say.

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Okay, I understand sin

is doing what's wrong.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I understand God's

mad at me for my sin.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I understand that he loved me enough

to gimme Jesus, to die on the cross for

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my sin so that I can be forgiven and rise

again so that I can live with him forever.

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I'm gonna choose to believe in him.

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Man if you get a kid that.

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Understands that and

says, I believe in Jesus.

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Mm-hmm.

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Then I'm gonna point to a pastor like this

and say, Jesus committed childlike faith.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so that's why I would say

there's no age limit to salvation.

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Yeah.

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I mean, technically if you press me Sure.

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There is, like , a child who's 5, 6,

7 months old doesn't have the mental

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ability to understand the gospel.

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Yeah.

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But we don't put an age limit to say,

Hey, you have to be at least eight

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before we think that you can really make

a decision to put your trust in Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And each kid is different.

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Two, you know, there's a hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Kids have different abilities or

even some may have birth problems

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that cause them to not have the

cognition necessarily For sure.

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As soon or maybe it takes a little longer.

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Yeah.

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And so I don't think it's

appropriate to put an age on it.

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I do think we need to have a

heart that is like Jesus, right.

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That is eager for the little

children to go to him, to, yeah.

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And I think we need to be,

expecting that in the sense that

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we know the gospel has power.

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Yeah.

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And it has power even for kids.

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Yep.

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And for us to just take this posture that

the someday or hopefully in the future,

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I think we need to be pursuing it now.

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And we need to do it carefully.

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Of course.

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Yeah.

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But I think we need to be, we

need to be eager for the gospel

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to have its power and its impact

in even the youngest of our kids.

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Yeah.

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I agree a hundred percent.

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When we do get to the rich young rule

really quick here, the one thing that I

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wanna point out is the problem was not.

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That he had money, but that he had his

full confidence and trust in his money.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so that's where Jesus is a

masterful teacher and tactician here,

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because the question, what must I

do to internal inherit eternal life?

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Jesus knew that the money was his idle.

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But first he starts

with his righteousness.

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He says, well, you have to keep the

law, you have to keep the commandments.

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And the man goes, well, I've done that.

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And Jesus says, okay, now go sell

everything that you have and give it to

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the poor, and then come be my follower.

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And it says, the man went away sad

before he had many great possessions.

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Again, the problem wasn't his possessions

or his money, but that that was his idol.

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Mm-hmm.

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And Jesus was saying, you wanna follow me?

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You have to put your idol to death.

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You have to surrender

everything you have to.

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I'm Lord, it's not.

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And we've seen this principle

previously there, but it's just

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reiterated to hear in this story.

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Yeah.

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It's so easy to think that we can have

some of the world and also be a Christian.

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It's so easy to think we can go

to church on Sundays and then

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jump right back into the world

and just like everybody else Yeah.

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The next day.

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And here's yet another example of Jesus

making it clear that's not possible.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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We have another prediction

of Jesus' death.

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The third here, and again, the

disciples are not understanding.

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And part of that is, is they're being kept

from understanding that at this point.

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And the reason why for that is

because if they knew, I mean

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remember Peter in the garden.

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Peter draws his sword and cuts

off Malcolm's ear in the garden.

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So if they really understood what was

gonna happen there, they would've done

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everything they could to oppose Jesus

getting to Jerusalem in the first place.

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So I believe that's one of the

reasons why, even as though he's

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being plain in what he's saying.

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Number one, they're not

expecting him to die.

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And number two they would've tried

to intervene and stop as Peter's

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already done multiple times.

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He's, Jesus said, get behind me, Satan,

to him at one point, and then he's gonna

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cut off Malus ear at another point.

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So, if they had really understood, I

think there would've been problems.

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And then Luke 18 ends with a story that

I think just encapsulates salvation so

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well, and it's the healing of Bartimaeus,

which is the name that we're told.

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I don't know if it's here, but in

another passage, we are given the

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name Bartimaeus in a parallel account.

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Where he's there and he hears that

Jesus is passing by and he cries out.

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He turns to Jesus for what only

Jesus can provide, which is sight.

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And he says, Jesus, son of

David, have mercy on me.

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And then he's being pushed back

by people, Hey, no, you're.

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You be quiet.

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He's not here for you, but he

just cries out all the more.

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'cause he's desperate for

Christ and he knows his hope is

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only gonna be found in Jesus.

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Cries out.

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All the more Son of David had mercy on me.

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Jesus stops and calls him to himself.

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He comes to Jesus and he says,

Lord, let me recover my sight.

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Other translations you, the

older translations would

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say, sir, I wish to see.

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And I just love that language there.

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Mm-hmm.

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For us.

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And Jesus heals him and he

says, recover your sight.

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Your faith has made you well.

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And it says, immediately

he recovers his sight.

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So now he's made to see

and he follows, Jesus.

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This is salvation.

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That those that are spiritually

blind, hearing Jesus'

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nearby, calling out to Jesus.

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Jesus calls us to him.

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We come to him.

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We say we wish to see.

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Jesus gives us the spiritual

sight to be able to see through

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conversion, and then we follow him.

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This is such a good reminder

of the power of God to do what

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only God can do in our lives.

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Yeah.

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And Christian if he has saved you,

then you should go about today,

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this very day glorifying God.

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Yeah.

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You should go about today,

the rest of the day.

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Praising him for what he's done.

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Yeah.

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And saying Jesus did it.

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That's right.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Let's pray.

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God, we are so thankful

for our church family.

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We love our church and we love

everything that happened this

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past weekend at Fall Fest.

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We pray that you'd bear fruit from it.

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We ask that you'd bring families

to our church from that event.

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We ask that even those that are lost

would be saved through an encounter with

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the gospel as a result of this event

that we put on this thing that we did.

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Lord we are so thankful though for all

of the volunteers from our church that

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showed up and gave of their time and

sacrificed Lord, so much to be there

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with us and to serve the community.

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We just pray that you'd.

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Need to allow us as a church to

thrive and do more things like that.

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And we are, as we talked about in this

episode the prayer, the tax collector.

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We wanna be mindful of our need for

your mercy, just like even blind

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Bartimaeus here at the end saying, Lord,

we, we want to see and we need you,

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you to enable us to be able to see.

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So God, we pray that we would follow

you and give you all the glory that

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you're due for the rest of our lives.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, tune in,

get tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you guys tomorrow.

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Bye.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said