00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:44 Listener Question: Interpreting Matthew 10:23

02:47 Discussion on the Mission of the Disciples

06:55 Old Testament Reading: Genesis 42-43

15:43 New Testament Reading: Matthew 13

22:32 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Sunday's edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Happy Sunday.

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Happy Sunday.

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Hopefully you are at church on your way

to church, or you've been at church.

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You know, it surprises me how many

people listen to this before church.

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Yeah, but I think it's because

since I'm a dad and our house

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is full of little munchkins.

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I think it's a little bit harder for me on

Sundays mornings, to get everything done.

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So, yep.

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It surprises me, but maybe it's

just my life stage, you know?

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It happened to a bunch of kids, especially

this Sunday as you are flying solo.

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Yes.

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That's right.

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Yes, that's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It can be difficult, but I think

a lot of people listen when they

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get ready in the morning too.

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Yes.

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Just in general.

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They throw it on in the

background, whatever.

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And they're listening

as they, they prepare.

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But speaking of our listeners,

we had a question submitted.

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We've had quite a few questions.

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And listen, if you've written

in a question just bear with

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us 'cause we'll get to it.

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But it just bear with us.

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'cause there's a lot of questions

that have been submitted and

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we're gonna work through them.

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But this one was submitted and

I think it's a helpful one.

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And I'd love to get your thoughts

initially Pastor Mark on this,

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but this comes from Tim peon.

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Who wrote in about Matthew 10 23, and

he said, how should we interpret what

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Jesus says to the 12 disciples, that they

will not have gone through all the towns

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of Israel before the son of man comes.

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And then he says, my study

Bibles pointed to this being a

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reference to Jesus's second coming.

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I know Jesus uses similar phrases

throughout the gospels, which

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mostly refer to as second coming.

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But he says basically, what

should we do with this?

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How should we wrestle with this

subject of him saying, look.

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You won't finish going through

all the towns of Israel

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before the son of man comes.

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I do think it, it is apocalyptic,

I guess in some sense.

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I do think that that is initially

a right place to begin to understand

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what exactly is going on here.

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The beginning of the section, he

says, I'm sending you out as

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sheep in the midst of wolves.

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And then he gives them

specific instructions.

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I do wonder, I do wonder if

there is an aspect of this, which

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is that as he calls them to be

aware of men he's talking about.

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The people of Israel, the people

of Israel, and the salvation

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of Israel does not happen at

this point in history, right?

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The people of Israel reject Jesus.

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They reject the Messiah.

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And so the very direct context of this is.

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That and we see this and we're

gonna continue to see that.

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And we're a little bit further on in

Matthew as of today's reading, but we're

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gonna continue to see that the people

of Israel reject God and they reject

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the Messiah that he has sent Well.

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There is coming a day

when they will be saved.

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The people of Israel will be

saved, but we're not there yet.

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So that's my initial read.

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But you threw it at me.

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So I'd love to look into that a little bit

more and study it a little bit further.

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So it's interesting in

context he's talking about.

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Visiting the villages in Israel, he's

talking about persecution and he's

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talking about right before this, the

one that's gonna endure to the end.

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And so there's a measure to which he's,

I think implying that the task for these

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disciples is so large that when they

go to one village and they feel like,

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oh man this village here is rejecting

the gospel not to stay in over labor.

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The fact, but to go on because they've

got a mission that's quite large.

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Even if these Jewish towns, as he's

listening them here are not are

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not only global, but just Palestine

here, that's a tall order by itself.

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And so I don't think

this is implying that.

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The, by completing the Jewish talent,

so to speak, that they're getting the

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gospel to every single person or that

every single person is getting saved.

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I think Jesus is telling this

disciples, the mission is so large

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and he's being honest with them.

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You're not gonna finish reaching the

talents before the son of man comes.

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Now they're going to, to all

die before the perusia, before

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the second coming of Christ.

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But this is a, I.

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Think casting the vision for the

disciples that are gonna be sent out.

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And now for us today as the church too,

that man the task that we have is so

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large that we need to keep going because

we're not gonna be able to exhaust it.

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We're not gonna get to the place

where we're like, well, we're done.

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What's next?

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Jesus.

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And I think that's kinda

what he's driving at here.

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Yeah.

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There's a book on Matthew by a.

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Theologian called Matthew Garland,

and I think he says something

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else that's helpful here.

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This section is about practical

instructions from Jesus and Matthew

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Garland, at least his conclusion on

this is he says that Jesus is giving

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them warnings and helping them to

smartly prudently deal with what

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they're gonna face with the persecution

they're gonna face and gives them

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instructions on how to flee to the

next town when they are persecuted.

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There's some out there who think that you

need to stay in whatever place you are.

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Until you're martyred.

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There's some who will hold that, but

I think this teaches us in part that

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this whole section teaches us in part

that that's not what Jesus calls us to.

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And then he also reassures them that,

and this is Garland he reassures them

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that they will not run outta places

of refuge before their vindication.

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Right.

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Before the son of man comes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So there you go, Tim.

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Hopefully that clears that up.

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And as you can tell, this is a.

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This is a tricky one.

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There were many commentaries that I looked

at in, in consulting this that said, this

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is a controversial passage or this is a

difficult passage to understand and it is.

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But good job reading and reading,

curious and reading to try to get

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as, as much as you can out of this.

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I think when we come to something like

this and we walk away, maybe we say

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to ourselves, well, that wasn't as

satisfying as I would like it to be.

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I think we can remember what Peter said

about some of the writings of Paul when

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he said, man, some of these things are.

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Difficult to understand.

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And I think we find a similar

principle at work here.

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When we look at passages like this

and other passages there're gonna

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be things that sometimes we're

gonna have to say, okay, Lord, I'm

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gonna depend upon your spirits.

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You can be the best understanding of

what to do with this as I possibly can.

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But just because scripture is

understandable, it's written in

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language that we can know and

understand, doesn't mean that

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all of it is equally clear to us.

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And so there are some things that we may

not fully understand until we get there.

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What do we know from this?

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Well, we know that Jesus is about

reaching people with the gospel.

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That's what he came to do.

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That's what he commissioned his 12

disciples to do, and that's what he's

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commissioned to us to do as well.

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And so that's one thing that we can

take away is saying, okay, we've got

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work to do as well, and none of us

are gonna get every single person

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that needs to hear the gospel before

the Lord comes back or before he

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calls us home, either big picture.

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We're hoping and praying that he's

gonna do that with the whole church

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at large that the gospel's gonna get

as far and wide as he wants it to get.

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But in the meantime, we know what

we're supposed to do, what our job is.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And it's fun to work in

kids' ministry 'cause you get

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to see all the kids who are.

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Not grasping things.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it can be then though, so easy.

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And I even find this doing, I have

to get, I'm like, I'm arrived.

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I'm an adult.

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I figured out all these things.

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Well, the reality is our faith

is not gonna be expended even

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by the point of our death.

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Yeah.

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And that's true for everybody.

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And so we should be.

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Kind of excited almost when we come

across things like this when we're like,

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oh, I don't know what's going on here.

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And just like a kid, we don't

necessarily understand the full depth

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of everything the first time we hear it.

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And so be patient and expect God to reveal

truth to you through his word, through his

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revelation over time, even as an adult.

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Yep.

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And write in questions to the podcast even

when we can't answer them all that well.

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Anyways, let's get into

our Old Testament reading.

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We are gonna be in Genesis chapter 42 and

43, and then our New Testament will be

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Matthew Chapter 13 the second half of it.

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But as we get into to Genesis 42

there's another passage that I think is

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good to have in the back of your mind.

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And that is Hosea 11 verse one.

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And then this is also picked up in the

New Testament and applied to what happens

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after Jesus is taken to Egypt by his

parents as Herod is trying to kill the

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toddlers at that time in that area.

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Jose 11, one says this, out

of Egypt, I called my son.

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So why do I bring that up as

we're in Genesis chapter 42?

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Because this is God working

out his perfect plan.

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His plan was always Jose 11

to call Israel out of Egypt.

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Well, Israel had to.

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Get to Egypt before he could

call them out of Egypt.

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And so thereby we see that even all the

way back when Joseph's brothers conspire

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and they sell him to the Ishmaelite,

who sell him to the Midianites, who

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sell him to Potiphar, and then he's in

jail, and now he's in Pharaoh's house.

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This is all part of God's plan to do

what he's gonna do with the nation

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Israel, but also it's part of his

plan for what he's gonna do with the

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Messiah, with his son, with Jesus.

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And so in chapter 42, we see the beginning

of the process of getting Israel into

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Egypt so that God would eventually

be able to call Israel out of Egypt.

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That's right, chapter 42 does pick up

with the famine and Jacob found out that

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there is grain in Egypt available there.

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He has no idea that this

is because of his lost son.

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The son that he thinks is dead and gone.

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But he sends his other sons

down there to get grain.

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Now they go not expecting to

encounter anyone like Joseph or

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any, or have any trouble at all.

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And the whole scenario is set

up where Joseph kind of plays

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with his brothers a little bit.

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And I don't think this is so much

Joseph being hardhearted as much

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as I think this is Joseph trying to

figure out if they've really changed.

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I think he's trying to figure out, okay,

are they the same guys that sold me?

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Are they the same guys that abandoned

me or has there really been some

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change in transformation here?

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So he sets up these different scenarios.

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He asks questions.

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He asks if Benjamin's still alive,

and basically he says, look, you

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need to go bring back your younger

brother and bring him to me.

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Otherwise, none of this

is going to happen.

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You're not gonna get what you want.

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And there's the whole scene here of

them finding the grain in their sacks.

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And then they go back to their father

finding their payment still in there.

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They go back to their father and

say, Hey, he won't see us unless we

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bring Benjamin and Jacob's bereaved

and grieved again, because he thinks,

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oh, surely now Benjamin's gonna die.

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And so it's just an interesting

interplay between Joseph who knows.

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Everything going on in his brothers

and it's a microcosm of the fact that

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God often knows everything going on in

our lives, and we're like the brothers.

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We're the ones that are like, wait

a minute, what's happening here?

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As God is the one moving the chess pieces.

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Yeah.

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So do you think, Joseph, I think

you already tipped your hat to this,

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but do you think Joseph is wrong to.

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Not be fully honest with them.

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In some ways he deceives

them in some ways.

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He holds back critical information.

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You may already tipped your hat

towards that, but what do you think?

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Yeah, man, I'm not in the place

of God to be able to say I fully

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condone Joseph, or I condemn Joseph.

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The Bible doesn't condemn Joseph either.

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And what we've seen of Joseph to this

point is he's a man of integrity.

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Yeah.

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He's a man of character.

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He's a man of godliness.

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So I don't think there's

an evil heart here.

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It, I do think he's putting his

brothers to the test though.

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And honestly, they deserve to be put to

the test 'cause of what had happened.

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Yeah.

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And I don't think he has any

reason not to put them to.

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To the test.

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And I think the way that he's

presented here in the narrative

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to your point, is up until this

point, he's been a righteous person.

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He's acted in godly ways, and I

think it's appropriate to continue to

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read even into chapter 42 that he's

continuing to be somebody like that.

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We don't have any indications in the text

that we should read him as something else.

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Right.

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And so, I believe the appropriate

way to read this is to say

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that he is doing something

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that is right.

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Yeah.

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Maybe you question whether or

not he should have deceived them.

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But I think the way that the narrative

is presented and his presentation to this

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point indicates to us that we should be on

his side for, to put it in a simple way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it is fascinating that he

is, I think he is testing them.

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I think it is.

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I think it's wise.

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And he's specifically

looking to see if they're.

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Honest, that's what it says in verse 19.

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He's looking to see if they are honest.

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And why is he doing that?

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Well, 'cause to your point, he

has very good reason to think

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that they might be dishonest.

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The last time we saw Judah, he was

certainly acting a deception, although

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Joseph wasn't witness to those things.

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But when Joseph last.

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Saw them.

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They were conniving, they were deceiving.

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They ended up lying to their

dad about what had happened.

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And so I think he has every

reason to believe that.

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Also notice Benjamin isn't here, right?

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He he's probably pretty

suspicious of their story about

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what is going on with Benjamin.

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'cause remember Benjamin

is his blood blood brother.

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Mm-hmm.

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Almost combine those two words.

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And both of them were

sons of the favored wife.

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The rest of them were probably

bound together in, in some

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sense by the fact that they were

sons of the less favored wife.

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Yeah.

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So I can see exactly why he

would be wanting to test to

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see if they were honest or not.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Towards the end of the chapter,

we see a little bit of a shift

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in, in Ruben and then his mm-hmm.

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Willingness to put forth.

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Although, thanks dad.

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Hey, take my two sons if I

don't bring 'em back to you.

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But there's some more seeing some

leadership here and in chapter 43,

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we especially see it with Judah.

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'cause Judah steps up in chapter

43 because initially Jacob

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says no, no one's going back.

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We are holding steady.

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We are not going back.

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Which is unfortunate for I believe it's,

was it Simeon that they kept there?

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Who did they keep there?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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What a bummer.

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Yeah, it's like, well, sorry, dude.

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And they don't, it doesn't, it's

not clear exactly how long there

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was between those two trips.

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Right.

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But it was definitely a period of

time's, no doubt about it, and that

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they threw the grain they brought,

and in fact they, it said that.

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They would've gone back multiple times.

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So they probably rationed out that grain.

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And at the, we know it was

no more than two years.

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'cause eventually Joseph is gonna make

it clear that two years of the seven have

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passed, but still even two years with no

communication, no idea what's going on.

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Yeah.

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What a bummer.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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In chapter 43 they do

end up having to go back.

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And this time because of Judah's

leadership and him saying, look,

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I will be a pledge verse nine.

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You can require his safety of me.

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If I do not bring him back to

you and set him before you, then

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let me bear the blame forever.

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And so here's Judah's leadership there.

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And finally Jacob sees that he's kind

of being forced into this because

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there really is no other option.

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Do they all just stay and starve

or does he risk sending his.

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Youngest son and not seeing him again.

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And he basically says, okay, so be it.

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Whatever happens, happens.

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But they do, they go back.

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And this time Joseph gets to see his

brother, he sees Benjamin, and this is

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gonna be a pretty emotional response.

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And initially.

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They're brought in and the men confess

and they say, look we found the money

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in our sacks and we didn't mean to.

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And so we've brought double back.

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And then Joseph says,

don't worry about it.

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We receive payment, you're good to go.

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And then he brings Simeon back

and gives Simeon back to them.

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And they come together and Joseph

again sees Benjamin, his mother's son.

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It says there in verse 29, and he

says, it's this your youngest brother.

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And then, so Joseph's

overwhelmed, he's over.

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He runs out of the room and

he weeps because of this.

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Meanwhile, they have this meal together

where they're served and the brothers

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are amazed because they're served

in birth order as though Joseph is

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toying with them a little bit more.

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And and yet Joseph sits apart from them.

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They're not yet fully

reconciled at this point.

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Yeah, all of these things could have

been resolved if the brothers had done.

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One thing differently, and it's not super

clear, it's not stated explicitly in

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the text, but had they turned back when

they found that money in the one bag,

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if they had turned back and gone back to

Egypt and said, here's the money right.

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That would've resolved a lot

of these problems, right?

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They wouldn't have had to ration their

food, they wouldn't have had to be

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stressed and have this whole situation

hanging over them for multiple years.

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But I think this is ultimately

a test of their honesty.

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Did they lie?

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They obviously didn't know those money

bags were included in the grain, but.

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There is a sense in which they were

partially dishonest and the reason they

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were hesitant to go back I think is

because they were partially dishonest.

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So they're put to the test here and

ultimately their honesty has proven true.

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But man, they could have made

this a lot easier for themselves,

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given themselves a lot more food

accelerated this timeline quite a bit.

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If they had been quick to go back

to Egypt to make things right, yeah.

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Although they probably thought,

man, if we go back with our money

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and our sacks, they're gonna think

we stole it and we might die.

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So yeah.

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I.

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It's a bad situation all the way around.

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No doubt about it.

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Well, let's jump over

to our New Testament.

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We are in Matthew 13.

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We're picking up with

the rest of chapter 13.

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And so as we get into the rest

of chapter 13, there's gonna

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be more about the parables.

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There's more parables told.

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There's more parables explained,

including the parable, the weeds,

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which Jesus is gonna explain to

them, and he's going to tell them

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that the judgment is going to come.

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The harvest is the end of the age.

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He says in verse 39, verse 41, the son

of man will send out his angels and

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they will gather out of his kingdom all.

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The causes of sin in all lawbreakers

and throw them into the fiery furnace.

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In that place there will be

weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Jesus teaches on hell more than

he teaches on really any other

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doctrine that he teaches on.

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And this is one of the examples

there is he's talking about the

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parable of the weeds, and he

contrast that with the righteous.

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He says, then righteousness will shine

like the son in the kingdom of their

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father which always just makes me.

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I say, man I want to be

there and duh, right?

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You don't wanna be in the

weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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You want be where the righteousness is.

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But man, I want to be there.

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And the question is, and I ask my kids

this question all the time, how can

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we know that we're gonna be there?

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And the answer is, through faith

and repentance in Jesus Christ.

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It's his righteousness, not our

righteousness that gets there.

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And so we need to make sure

that we've got the gospel right.

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That's one of our hu huge takeaways

of the parable of the weeds.

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We gotta make sure that we're

not self-deceived into thinking

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that we're right with God when

really we aren't right with him.

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We are still far from him.

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Yeah.

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This also always makes me think of

two Peter three, nine where it says

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the Lord is not slow to fulfill

his promises as some count slow

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slowness, but is patient towards you.

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Not wishing that any should perish,

but that all should reach repentance.

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If God brought judgment on these

weeds a hundred years ago I would

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have, personally, I would have

no hope of salvation, but God is.

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Is kind.

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He's slow in, in one worldly sense, right?

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Not actually, but he's, he seems slow.

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But at the same time what a rich gift

that is to, to you and I that in our

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lifetimes, we were able to be born

and be able to hear the gospel and

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a final day of judgment is coming.

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But what a blessing.

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That we have that opportunity.

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Yeah, no, for sure, for sure.

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I love the parables of the hidden

treasure and the pearl of great value too.

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My favorites just because it stresses

the value that we have in the gospel

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that once we dis discover the truth

of eternity as you were just talking

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about there, it's worth everything.

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Mm-hmm.

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That we would be willing to

say, Lord, take everything.

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This is surrendering, this is Lordship.

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This is saying, you are the

one that owns it all now.

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And it's not that God is gonna

ask you to sell everything

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and give up everything but.

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If he did, would you in exchange for that

glorious reality of knowing that you're

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gonna be with him for all of eternity?

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And so it's when we understand the

value of what we have, man it makes

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everything else pale in comparison.

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It does.

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One thing I don't understand

is dual citizenship.

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How can you be truly a citizen of Brazil

and a citizen of the United States?

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Real?

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I know that's a thing in our modern

world but how can you actually.

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Be that it's a weird thing, but I

think we're seeing here too, right?

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There's no dual citizenship in the kingdom

of the world and the kingdom of God and

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we're called to make that trade, right?

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We don't get dual

citizenship across the two.

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Rather we are to sell everything, right,

to give up our old citizenship and to be.

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To be citizens of the

kingdom of heaven, right?

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Which is what the New Testament develops

even more during the epistles when it

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says, Hey we await from heaven where

our citizenship is our true citizenship.

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We wait that kingdom that's coming.

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So we're here, even as Peter has called

us as aliens and strangers on this earth

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and to live in light of that, and of

chapter 13, we see again the tragedy of

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the rejection of Christ by those that.

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Saw so much from him.

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And it's interesting here it says

they were astonished at his teaching.

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You might think, well,

isn't that a good thing?

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If you're astonished at it, isn't

that you're impressed by it?

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And that's not what that word means here.

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It's more than awe or being impressed.

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It's actually more of a

skepticism and a cynicism.

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And that's why Jesus judges this

town when he says a prophet is

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not without honor, except in his

hometown and in his own household.

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And he did not do many mighty

works there because of their

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unbelief other versus other.

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Accounts say he could not do

because of their unbelief which

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doesn't limit the power of Christ.

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It's just saying they're

not responding in faith.

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It doesn't matter how many more miracles

he was gonna do, he was only gonna heap

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more judgment on them if he exposed

them to more miracles rather than

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just wrapping things up and moving on.

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At that point, we should be really,

really concerned about the health,

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wealth, and prosperity gospel That is

a massive distortion of the reality of

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the gospel and the hope of the gospel,

but it, you can see how somebody

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might distort something like this.

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Passage to conclude that it's

just based on our belief in and

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of itself that produces God's

healing power, these things.

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So we have to be really

careful about that.

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But I also think we have to, on the

other hand, not void, all of that.

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I think we have to not just

be so scared of the health,

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wealth and prosperity, heres.

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For lack of a better term that we

just ignore passages like this.

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It is fascinating that it is

because of their unbelief that

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he did not do many mighty works.

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Yeah.

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So you're saying if we have

more faith, then you're gonna

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do some miracles on Sunday.

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Yeah.

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Healing actually today.

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Yeah.

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Go to Pastor Mark, find

him a church today and be.

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Mark, I believe, I believe.

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What are you gonna do for me?

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And then you're gonna leave disappointed.

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Yes.

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Because he's not gonna be able to,

he's not gonna be able to pull off.

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But you're right.

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And we've been talking about that

with our kids a little bit because

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we're reading through the book of

Proverbs together in the mornings.

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And so much of the book of

Proverbs is promising things like

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long life and riches and things.

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And yes, it's easy for us as Christians

to say, oh, but that's all about eternity.

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But it's not just about eternity.

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There's a reward to be found in following

him now and responding to him now.

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So, yeah.

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And we have to be careful, right?

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And again, I think it's worth observing.

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We have to be careful that we're measuring

these things based on what God believes

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is good, not based on what we think is

good, but there are aspects in which it is

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good for you to be able to feed your kids.

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And God promises that he will,

you don't need to be anxious about

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tomorrow what you'll eat or what

you'll drink or what you'll wear,

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because he's gonna take care of you.

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Right?

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So it, we have to be super careful

that we don't fall into the trap

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of health, wealth, and prosperity.

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But we also need to recognize that

there are connections between belief.

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How God cares for us.

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Yep.

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By the way, kind of a little bit

of a confusing one we skipped over

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here, but lemme back up to verse 51.

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Have you understood these

things they said to him?

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Yes.

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And he said to him, therefore,

every scribe who has been trained

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for the kingdom of heaven is like

a master of a house who brings

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out of his treasure what is new.

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And what is old.

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And so Jesus was bringing

this new teaching.

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He has been since back at the Sermon

on the Mount, when he's been saying,

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you've heard it said, but I say to

you here, he's saying, you know what?

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You don't need to despise

the old or the new.

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Mm-hmm.

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They both work together.

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There's good to be found in the

teaching both from what you know

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to be true and this teaching

that Jesus was bringing as well.

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So that, that can be a little bit of a

con confusing interchange there, but I

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think that's what Jesus is driving at.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word and even

the difficult parts to understand,

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and we thank you for a church

of good bes that are reading

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well and asking good questions.

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We pray that we would apply ourselves

to understand as much as we possibly

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can, and when we get to that place

where we say, man, this is more than

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I'm able to understand, I pray that

we would have the humility to be able

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to recognize that and to trust you.

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God, we don't want to be.

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We don't wanna be lazy with that.

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We want to work hard to understand

and apply ourselves, but at the same

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time, Lord, we want to get to the

place of being able to say, okay

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we know what we can draw from this.

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And just like Peter said at Paul,

there's gonna be some things that

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we find hard to understand in

the scriptures and that's okay.

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We will spend eternity learning

more and more about these things

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when we get to be with you.

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And we look forward to that day and

I pray that you'd hasten it even.

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And so thanks for this day.

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Thanks for church.

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Thanks for gathering us

together as the body of Christ.

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We pray all this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Have a great rest of your Sunday.

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Have a great rest of your

Sunday, and keep your new Bibles.

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We'll see you guys tomorrow.

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Bye.

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