00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:10 Discussion on Lagos Live Stream

00:56 New Features in Lagos

01:53 Advanced Search Capabilities

04:48 John Chapter 9: The Miracle of the Blind Man

07:45 Theological Implications of Infirmities

09:50 Self-Examination and God's Discipline

11:32 The Good Shepherd and the Thief

13:08 Unity in Christ: Jew and Gentile

14:59 Jesus' Bold Claims and Confrontations

17:06 Conclusion and Reflections

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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All right, John chapters, nine and 10.

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Why were you were.

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I was going to ask you about log us.

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We were talking about the live stream

thing last week and it happened on Monday.

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It did.

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And you watched some watch.

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I watched, I think I watched all of it.

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I just watched it at double speed.

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After because they were live-streaming it.

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And I caught it about three quarters the

way through, and then I just sped it up.

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And I'm excited.

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I like Lagos.

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I'm happy for them.

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I think it's a good move.

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We'll see if it ends

up being a good thing.

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Longterm, I'm excited about the

books that they're going to release.

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And I mean, And so much of it's the same.

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I've been putting money

into this thing for so long.

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It's not unusual for me to think,

oh, I should, I need to keep on

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paying to do this thing because even.

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I was on those up payment plans

where you could violate this

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massive package and pay for it over

the course of like three years.

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Right.

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So I did that several years.

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And I've been on this platform for so

long that I'm just not going anywhere.

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Um, Um, all my eggs are in that basket.

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I plan to keep him there, so

help me, God, and I love it.

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So I'm excited about the future.

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Well, I, I I'm big on aesthetics

of a program of an application.

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So I always look for what,

what's the new releases on that?

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What does it look like now?

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Did they make any changes?

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They did some, um, some of the resources,

some of the books, there's a new toolbar.

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Underneath your, your books now.

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Yeah.

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Like you can play with your link sets

right there and, and by the way, What

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we mean by that is, is you can have a

commentary and your Bible open and you

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can link, set them to a particular letter.

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So if you links at your Bible in your

commentary to both the same link set.

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When you search for a passage in your

Bible, it will automatically jump there

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in your commentary is really nice.

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It's awesome.

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And there's some other books

that work with that too.

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So there's different things

you can do with the toolbar

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there, which is kind of cool.

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That is cool.

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Um, what else though?

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I mean, I didn't.

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Uh, I didn't watch it.

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I was a.

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Yeah, I just didn't watch it.

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Um, any new features that somebody

that's on the fence, it's like, oh, okay.

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Who you guys talk about?

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Log us.

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I don't know.

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I think.

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Anything in that, that stream

that you're like, okay, this

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is a selling point for you.

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If you've never been

in it, here's the time.

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So probably the most cool feature

that you'll find utility out

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of is their search feature.

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Their search feature is

now natural language.

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So you save shit.

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What's what.

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What is sanctification?

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I think that's the example they used.

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And what it'll do is it'll

search their database.

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So they trained an LLM,

a large language model.

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Off of all of Lagasse resources.

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And so they're not using Google,

they're not using, they're not using,

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uh, articles from John DOE average.com.

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They're using their resources, scholarly

articles, and along with pop culture

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books that have been written and

they're using that to train their LLM.

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And so then when you search a

thing in Lagos, it will find.

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And sift through all of their library to

say what, or what's the best information

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that I can give you about this thing.

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And then it'll cite those

resources for you and say,

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oh, I got this from this book.

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And I got this from that book.

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And then.

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Once you have them.

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You can either.

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Thinking on the microphone.

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There's a gnat.

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Flying around and we're trying

to, there's actually two, they

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both came at me just a second ago.

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Did you get one?

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If you did, I you're the hero.

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I don't, I can't tell it's so small.

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Anyway, so it'll search,

it'll search their resource.

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And the cool thing is that you

don't have to own the resources.

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It's searching their database.

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And when it gives you an answer,

it's giving you an answer based

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on all the resources they have.

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Um, and then you can ask

a more refined question.

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It'll give you resources.

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And if I like the resource that they

gave me, one of the reasons I can buy

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it, but I don't have to own it to get

the best answer, which I really love.

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It's one of the best laid level features,

or even a professional ever featured.

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Professional level feature

that anyone can enjoy.

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Yeah.

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So good.

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Actually just did that same search

right now and you just, there.

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They're uh, yeah, that's awesome.

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And if you have the resource, it's great.

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It'll open it up for you, but

I mean, it just, it's pulling

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from all the resources log us.

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Sounds, which is massive.

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I think that's really cool.

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I'm sorry, one of the resources that it

pulled on the answer to the question.

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What is sanctification is written

by somebody named Iris Delgado and

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the title of the book is Satan.

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You can't have my miracle,

a spiritual warfare guide to

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restore what the enemy has stolen.

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I guess not all resources

are created equal.

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Oh, which I appreciate.

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At least I know where it's coming

from and I may not want to use

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that footnote when I'm, when I'm

trying to put together a solution.

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But I think that was in fact, one

of the guys that they interviewed.

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Um, goes to Frisco, uh,

Grace Church Briscoe.

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Okay.

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And they had them on the thing

for like 10 minutes, either

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talking to him about what he was.

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Cause I guess he's one of

the trainers or something.

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So he goes to that church and

they showed a picture of the

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church in the front anyway.

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And I was like, oh, that's cool.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, that book is

published by charisma house.

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Oh, there you go.

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Yeah.

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And they also say Jerry

Bridges twice in there too.

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So, you know, Jerry Bridges,

charisma house, that's all.

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And that's to your point there,

you can refine the search.

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You can say according to this, or

according to this tradition, So you can,

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you can give it more direction, but that's

a really great sampling of what it can do.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

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Yeah, there you go.

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Log us.

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It's it's worth the investment.

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I love it.

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I'm going to pay more money.

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All right, take my money, please.

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I want a larger library.

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Let's jump into our Bible reading

John chapter nine, John chapter 10.

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Uh, John chapter nine really

is all comes down to one thing.

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It's a, it's about one miracle that

takes place early on in the chapter.

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And so, um, Jesus goes by a

man who's, who's born blind.

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And the disciples ask him this question,

which seems maybe a little bit odd

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given our cultural context, but they

say, Hey rabbi, who sinned this man

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or his parents that he was born blind.

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That was a, a traditional belief

held by a lot of the Jews that.

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That somebody with an

infirmity or a disability.

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Either they send in their womb, which,

which came from a rabbinical teaching

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that was, was based on, um, some, some

thoughts in the old Testament that,

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that were loose connections at best,

or, uh, they said, did his parents sin?

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So the thought was that if his

parents sinned, while they, while

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for example, the mom was pregnant,

that God may have disciplined the

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parents by punishing the child.

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And.

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That should cause a lot of red flags

in your mind, if it does good job,

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you're on the right path on that.

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And Jesus corrects them and he says,

look, it's in either of those things.

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Is that the case?

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He said, the reason this man is blind.

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Is for this moment right here that the

works of God might be displayed in him.

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And so Jesus goes on to.

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To give them insight.

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More from here.

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The reactions begin to pour in th

the, the people are astounded by this.

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And they're wondering,

is this the same guy?

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Um, did this actually take place?

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Is.

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Is this just a grand show

what's happening here.

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Uh, they, they bring them to

the Pharisees at that point.

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And this is where the controversy

begins to emerge, uh, because the

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Pharisees are saying, Hey, who did this?

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This guy is saying, look, this,

this guy that I came across and he

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doesn't know who Jesus is at this

point, but he says somebody did this.

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And.

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The Pharisees are saying,

look, this man is not from God.

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He's a sinner.

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And the blind man says, wait a minute.

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How can a sinner do this?

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And so then there's the Pharisees

go from there to this investigation,

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they go to the man's parents and

they say, Hey, is this your son?

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Was he blind?

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The, the man's parents say.

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Yeah, but outside of that, you talk

to him because they're afraid because

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the Pharisees are saying, Hey, we're

going to put you out of the synagogue.

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If you confess that this

guy actually did that.

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That may not sound like a big deal to

us, except it would be during that time,

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the synagogue, that was the, the, the

seat of, of a Jewish religious existence.

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It was where their identity was.

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It was where they would worship.

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It was a lot of times had economic

bearing on the people as well.

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So to be kicked out of the synagogue,

big deal, they didn't want to do that.

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And so the parents are like,

Hey, you got to go talk to him.

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So then they do that.

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They go back to the guy a second time.

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They're like, okay, look, give

glory to God own up to this

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declare this man is a sinner.

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And the guy says, look, I can't do that.

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I don't know him, but I do

know that what he's done.

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I don't think God's going to

allow a center to do that.

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And then after this.

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He's put out of the synagogue.

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Jesus finds him graciously mercifully

comes to him and says, Hey, LIS, listen.

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Um, Follow me, this is who I am.

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Follow me.

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And it's such a cool story in John nine.

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I D.

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One of my favorite chapters in

the gospel of John, for sure.

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So tell us about then this, this.

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This phrase, you kind of, you went

past it and I want you to camp

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on it just a minute more here.

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Um, he says it's not that this man

sander or his parents, but that the

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works of God might be displayed in him.

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So he's born blind.

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Um, we call that a pretty serious malady

that most people are going to say.

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I don't want to be blind.

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I don't want.

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You know, this man was born.

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Uh, invalid, and this

man was born paralyzed.

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This man, or this woman was born with

this or that situation or malady.

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What are the implications about the

fact that Jesus tells us man, that he

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was born this way so that the works

of God might be displayed in him.

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Yeah, that's, it's, it's

uncomfortable because we think,

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man, that, that seems like God's,

uh, an egomaniac or a megalomaniac.

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You know, using somebody's infirmity.

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To glorify himself and yet.

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Really.

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Th that, that puts the, the money where

our mouth is when it comes to us saying

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that we exist for the glory of God.

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Um, do we believe that?

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Do we not believe that?

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Do we believe that every single part of

who we are exist for the glory of God,

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all of our strengths and our weaknesses,

physically, spiritually, emotionally,

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all of those things are meant to

be a platform for the glory of God.

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And in some instances, You have situations

wherein like this man, his infirmity,

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his blindness became in in also, I think

there's a uniqueness to this dispensation.

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As Jesus comes across him with the ability

to give him sight, God knew that was

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going to happen with this man from the

very beginning of his, of his, his life.

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The infirmities blindness maladies.

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It's a result of the fault.

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It's a result of the fact that

we live in a broken world.

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And so that's an

underlying reality as well.

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But in this particular instance, man, This

was going to result in the glory of God.

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And so for us, If you've got

a speech impediment or you've

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got something like that.

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Gotten may use that weakness for

you to be able to boast of him.

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W when the apostle Paul now thrown in

the flesh, there's a lot of questions.

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What was that really about?

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But the apostle Paul said, Hey, listen,

listen, I will boast in that because

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it's going to magnify the glory of God.

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It's going to allow me to point to his

strength and my own weakness and say,

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look, God uses me in spite of my weakness.

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Which is the significant part there.

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How do I know if the malady that I have,

or the issue that I'm going through is.

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Not a result of sin, but as for

the glory of God, that, that

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he might be displayed in me.

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And conversely, how do I know

that the situation that I'm

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going through is because of sin?

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I'm assuming that there are times

when I could say, well, I'm going

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through this situation, this trial,

because I sent, is that true as well?

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And if so, how do I know?

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Yeah, I think it's, it's a

matter of transparency and

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honesty and examining our life.

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It's, it's a matter of going with David in

Psalm 1 39, sing Lord, try me, search me,

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know me and see if there's any grievous

way in me that I might get rid of it.

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That it might repent if.

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If you've done that.

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And at the end of the day, you can

say, I can't see anything that I can

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point to, to say, I feel like this

is why I'm, I'm going through this.

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This is why I'm walking through this.

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And, and maybe it's a good thing to

bring somebody in, who knows you to say,

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Hey, do you see anything in my life to.

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If you've done that.

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And at the end, you kind of throw

your hands up and say, there's

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nothing that I'm aware of in my heart.

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And God I'm asking that you

would reveal it otherwise.

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I think we can conclude that this has

got doing something else in your life

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besides disciplining you in that instance.

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Yeah.

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What a great advertisement for

self-awareness self-reflection.

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Um, and for self-examination Paul talks

about this in second Corinthians 13.

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Uh, it's hard to say with any

degree of certainty like this,

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for sure is related to this.

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It's hard to do that because

there are so many variables.

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If you lost your job because

you were stealing money.

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Well, then I think that'd be pretty

clear that one's on you buddy.

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You did that one.

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Get her a bed.

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Uh, but that doesn't mean

that God couldn't use that.

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In fact, that got a, won't use that as

a way to glorify himself through your

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discipline, do your repentance and do your

restoration, whatever that looks like.

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Um, as a Christian, I think we can take

great comfort in the fact that everything

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that happens to us, he, he, he could

say to us, like, it's not necessarily

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that you sent her this other person,

but Hey, God's going to be glorified

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in your scenario, whatever that is.

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Yeah.

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Um, if it is something that you

brought about because of your sin.

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Make no mistake.

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You're going to you'll, you'll be

disciplined because of the father

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loves those that he calls his own

sons and daughters, and therefore

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he's going to discipline you.

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Uh, but for sure the last part of

that verse is always going to be true.

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The works of God will be displayed in you.

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If you belong to Christ.

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Yep.

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Yeah, John 10, then we get into Jesus.

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Uh, teaching some more and here he's

going to employ a couple of metaphors

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and two in particular, he's going to

compare himself to the good shepherd.

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And he's also going to

say that he's the door.

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Um, those are not one in the same.

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And so he is, he's going to use these

two metaphors that he's going to

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employ here to talk about the way that

he cares for his flock in his sheep.

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And he's going to contrast being

the good shepherd with the thief.

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The one that looks to steal, kill and

destroy the one that looks to sneak

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in that, that goes in not by the gate,

but goes in climbs over the wall.

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Um, the implication there, that's

the religious leaders of the Jews

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thereafter the harm of the followers

after the harm of the Jewish

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people and not their wellbeing.

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Whereas Jesus cares for them.

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Uh, to the extent that the good shepherd

would lay his life down for his sheep

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and protect them to that degree.

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So the first 13 verses he goes through

these, these metaphors he's the door is

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the other one that he talks about here.

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So he is the access point to the safety.

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He's the access point to the sheepfold?

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He is.

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The one that is going to protect

them in that sense as well.

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And then in verses 14 through 18,

he gets into the explanation then

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of these metaphors, where he says

he repeats, I am the good shepherd.

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And he talks about knowing his own.

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And is it.

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The father knows him.

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He knows the father.

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He lays his life down and they

talks about having other sheep.

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Not of this fold.

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That's us Gentiles.

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That's not pastor rod.

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He's.

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I am Jewish.

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Just to remind you guys.

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You're Jewish.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I can prove it.

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Let me pull up my 23 and

me I'm doing it right.

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But the sheep that are not

of this fold, that that's us.

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That's the Gentiles.

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Um, and he says there's going to

be one flock and one shepherd.

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And so, okay.

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Dispensationalism there

pastoral, let's talk about that.

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There's one flock then.

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That's right.

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We believe is dispensationalist that

the church has not replaced Israel.

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That's true.

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So we believe that there's a distinction

between the church and Israel.

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We do believe that.

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So what do we do with

there being one flock here?

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And even Paul, when he talks about

this in Ephesians talks about

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breaking down the dividing wall of

hostility that existed, that there

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would be no distinction anymore.

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That those who are far off and

those who are near have been.

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Or have been both have the same

access to the father there.

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So how do we understand the oneness

with the two distinct peoples.

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So I think you can talk about

unity versus uniformity.

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We are United under the, the same,

the same salvific privilege or

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United under the banner of Christ.

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So there is a unity between Jew

and Gentile that the wall has been

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broken down the wall of hostility.

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Paul calls it.

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And therefore we can say with

confidence, man, we are wanting Christ.

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And the, the joy and the

privilege of being in Christ

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is going to be much the same.

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Of course, I think Jews, the Jews

will always possess a special place

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just by right of God's interaction

with them throughout human history.

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But that unity does not

necessarily mean uniformity.

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We're going to have unity without

being the same and we're not the same.

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And I think that's the

mistake that someone can make.

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It's a category mistake.

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Uh, To think that unity

suggests or necessitates

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uniformity would be the mistake.

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We're not the same thing.

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We're different, but we're

United on the same team.

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So to speak.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's good.

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Yeah.

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So 14 through 18, he's explaining

this, he's talking about this.

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And then in, in 19 through 21, you

get the responses again, there's

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more division that shows up here.

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So again, Jesus is polarizing.

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He's people are beginning

to make decisions.

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Are they going to side with

him or are they going to be

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against him here and here?

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They're still coming off of, of the

blind man, because they're saying,

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Hey, these are not the words of one.

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Who's oppressed by a demon.

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Then they say, can a demon

open the eyes of the blind?

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So they're reflecting back going,

Hey, you're saying he's demon

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possessed, but can you really do that?

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We've.

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Uh, alluded to that earlier with the

blasphemy of the holy spirit as well.

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So it shows back up here.

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And then from, from here, uh, John.

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10 22 through the end of the

chapter, um, you get into his

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focus on being one with the father.

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He he's really going

to double down on this.

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And this is, uh, this is brought

about by the fact that the

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Jews confront him in verse 24.

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They say, if you are the

Christ, tell us plainly.

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And it seems like that's a commendable

thing that they want to know.

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Well then Jesus, just tell

him, yeah, I'm the Messiah.

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And yet he knew what

would come out of this.

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He knew that it would create.

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Further division and perhaps even a ride,

a situation where those that were in

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favor of him would line up behind him.

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Those that were opposed to him.

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Would line up on the other side.

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And there might be

bloodshed at that point.

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I think back to John five with

the feeding of the 5,000 and

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they're ready to make him the king.

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And the reason why he escapes

is he doesn't want that.

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He's not a political militaristic Messiah.

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And that's not what he's there for.

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So they're trying to bait him

into something that's going

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to end up in the overthrow or.

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But perhaps for some of them

end up in there thinking,

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Hey, it's a win-win situation.

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If he is the Messiah, then he's

going to drive Rome out right now.

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If he's not, then, then we'll will.

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Dispatch them.

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We'll get rid of him.

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But there's this confrontation

here versus a 20 23, 24, 25, 30 30.

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He makes the bold claim and

it culminates in verse 30.

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I and the father are one.

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Uh, that, that unity that we talked

about, even this past Sunday, and then

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the Jews get it, they respond, they

pick up stones, they want to kill them.

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They think this has blossomed.

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And he said, I've, I've

shown you many good works.

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For which one are you going to kill me?

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They said, we're not

doing this for a work.

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We're doing this because you being

a man, verse 33, make yourself God.

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So anytime again, you have somebody from

one of these Colts, knock on your door and

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say, well, Jesus never claimed to be God.

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Well, his opponents understood that

he claimed to be God in verse 33.

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Sure did.

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Um, he claimed it, his

opponents claimed it.

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That's why they're going

to try to kill him.

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Uh, and so we've got some, some

sticky wickets to navigate.

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If that's not true here.

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Uh, because Jesus doesn't

say, no, you misunderstand me.

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Um, he actually doubles down on things.

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He says, I'm not doing the works of

the father, then don't believe me.

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But if I do them, even though you

don't believe me, believe the works.

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And so Jesus is making the

strong appeal to the fact that

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he and the father are one.

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And so it says in verse 39,

again, they sought to arrest him.

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But he escapes and he goes

away across the Jordan.

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And they're going to be over there

for a little bit of time until he's

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going to come back to deal with what

he's going to happen in chapter 11,

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with the resurrection of Lazarus.

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Yeah, that's a that's John chapter 10.

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Um, In a nutshell, I guess.

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And it's a good nutshell.

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It is to patch.

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That shell it's a shell.

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It's it's a nutshell.

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I don't know if it's good

or not, but it'll do.

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Yeah, some.

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Just some stuff that you want.

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Oh, by the way we, uh, we

have preached through this.

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And so if you're with us and you're,

you're new listening to daily Bible

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podcast, we go into more in depth.

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In the sermons in John

nine, John 10 and likewise.

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As you're preaching through Matthew as

we've been going through some of this.

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What, what chapter are you on

in Matthew with the students?

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We're on the attitudes as of a tenet.

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Yesterday.

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Whenever.

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Yeah.

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Thursday.

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Yes.

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We are in the bag, although

it's, it's different.

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I, when I approach the students.

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You should expect.

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If you listen to the podcast, you're

listening to a pastor, talk to students.

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But talking to you,

it's gonna be different.

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Yeah, fair enough.

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And yet I know, cause I've talked

to the leaders in that ministry.

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They love serving that ministry because

they get to sit under your preaching.

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Well, as well.

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That's very D thank you.

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It's just, it just, just expectations

because it said them there listened to it.

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I'm talking to students and.

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It'll be very obvious.

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You're going to be like

point number one is skippity.

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Hi ovaries baby.

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All right.

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Yeah, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done.

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I'll give another episode.

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We thank you for your word.

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We thank you for the truth of it.

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And we just pray that we would

hold onto the things that we can.

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Uh, understand he, and that they

would be transformative, that they

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would be shaping us in impacting

us to make us more like Jesus.

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And so we thank you

for John nine, John 10.

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I got to, we thank you.

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That there's hope for situations

in our life that aren't necessarily

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desirable to know that you're going

to use those situations for our

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good and your glory in the end.

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And that there's not this, this

fatalistic nihilism that says, man,

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what's the point of any of this,

but the fact that you do exist.

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And that you do use things for your glory

is something that allows us to keep going

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and put one foot in front of the other.

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So help us to do that.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Y'all keep, bring your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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For another episode of the daily

Bible podcast, you then folks.

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Bye.