00:00 Introduction and Podcast Setup

00:13 The Importance of Unpredictability

01:11 Managing a Busy Schedule

02:55 Theological Education and Podcasting

04:14 Preparing for a Men's Bible Study Q&A

06:35 Exploring the Gospels: Parallel Accounts

08:10 John the Baptist's Message and Role

11:28 The Significance of Jesus' Baptism

12:41 The Significance of Jesus' Baptism

14:21 The Gospel of Mark: A Fast-Paced Narrative

16:16 The Calling of the First Disciples

18:37 Jesus' Ministry and Miracles

20:52 Luke's Detailed Account of John the Baptist

23:01 Understanding Jesus' Genealogy

24:31 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Friday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast up.

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Up this up.

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Yeah, that's just, just there you go.

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That's it.

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That's all just set.

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That's what you get.

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No.

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Hey, Hey.

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Hey.

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No.

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Oh, jumping out of the gates with a, Hey,

let's talk about something controversial.

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I don't like being predicted.

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Let me blind side.

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I like to be able to question which

that's why I rearranged my office

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today for you so that I wouldn't

be predictable, either verbal and

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predictability is not the same thing.

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I'm just going to throw it out there.

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A varied vocabulary and.

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Fun questions or lack thereof can.

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It can be its own sense of.

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It gives the listener something more

interesting to engage with, whereas,

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whereas an office on the other hand,

Uh, confuses the people who visit

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well, but rose them off kilter and it

may cost them consternation, maybe.

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But creates IBS.

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See, this keeps us a

little bit further apart.

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I don't know if you picked up on

that, but we're now lengthwise across

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the desk from each other instead of.

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Yeah.

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This is highly unusual.

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Well, less space.

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I can't, I can't move.

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You can move you back.

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If the door opens, if somebody

busted the door, I mean, you're out.

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Yeah, you're going to get

taken down, but you can almost

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guarantee that's going to happen.

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Isn't it.

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Yeah.

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I mean at this point.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Man.

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Have you ever had one of those

days that you just go meeting,

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meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting,

meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting.

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I haven't had, uh, a really

bad day like that since Avi.

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Yeah.

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Where it was just, the

whole thing was eaten up.

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And actually I learned pretty quickly

on, unless I carve out time in my

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day to say this time is protected.

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Do not schedule anything there.

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Um, and that, that can happen.

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And so I'm, I protect the part

that needs to be protected.

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I learned from.

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Somebody.

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Early on who shall remain nameless.

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Uh, that you're give your mornings

to God, your afternoons to man,

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your evenings, to your family.

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Something like that.

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So, not that I follow that perfectly as

a rule of thumb, but generally speaking,

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I like to keep that, that, that rhythm.

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Because my best thinking is in the

morning, my best to mind and my

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best wherewithal is in the morning.

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And that's when I find to do my

most productive sermon prep, my

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best, most productive thinking or

planning, those kinds of things.

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So when I really need to give time and

attention to something, it's the morning.

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Yeah.

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Um, so I try to, I try to avoid

that, but it sounds like you're,

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uh, you're still on that.

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I am in one of those, at least

today's recording and it's great.

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I mean, those are, those are the days

that I always dread the night before.

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Because you just there's

no traction on those days.

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Like you can't.

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Not in the traditional sense, right?

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You can't find that time to, to really

sit down and get going on a project

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or on study or anything like that.

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Uh, because you are just going from one

place to the other, but during, during

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those days and on the back end of those

days, I always appreciate him because

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it's time spent with people and, and.

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That's always a blessing.

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So.

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Yeah, anyways.

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I don't know where that came up.

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Just thinking about.

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I've had two meetings so far.

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We're podcasting.

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I got two meetings after this still.

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So this isn't a meeting.

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This is fun.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that the same thing?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, totally.

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That's a hundred percent

my perspective on.

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Every time.

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Okay.

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Yeah, no, no.

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It is fun.

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I do.

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In fact, I was talking to somebody this

morning about the idea of, uh, during

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one of my meetings that I had about

the idea of us bringing in some sort of

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format for some theological education.

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Uh, kind of like an adult Sunday

school format, you and I were kind

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of kicking this idea around at

one of our recent elder meetings,

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pastor meetings that we were having.

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And yeah, I asked him, cause I

said, Hey, you know, you're, this is

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somebody who's in, involved in the

church, serving in the church, plugged

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in, in a lot of different areas.

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I said, you know, we're trying

to balance this with number one.

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We feel like there's a need there that

it would be helpful, but then it's

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adding something else to the calendar.

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And you guys are already doing a lot.

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You're involved in so many

different things with us.

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Is there a benefit there?

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Is it too much?

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What does that look like?

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And, uh, it was, it was

good to get his feedback.

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He said he thinks it would be helpful,

but to bring that back to the podcast,

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he said, he feels like we do some of

that with the podcast that it's not just

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summarizing the Bible, but we get into

some theological doctrinal points there.

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So his point was until we're able

to find a venue when we can do

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something more in depth in instruction

and teaching, he appreciates the

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points that we can bring up with.

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With the podcast.

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Yeah.

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That's not the same though.

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They can't talk back to us

and in a classroom setting and

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environment where there, where we

can, you know, do some of that.

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Yeah.

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There's a lot more room

for questions on the spot.

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Thoughts to come up, to come up

and even for some appropriate

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and helpful bunny trails.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah.

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Or rabbit trails, depending

on where you're at.

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Yeah, I like bunnies.

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Okay.

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Hey.

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Uh, speaking of rabbit trails tomorrow, we

have a Q and a with the men's Bible study.

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That's right.

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And I expect most of the Q and A's going

to happen in the moment I have, I had a

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form that I sent out earlier this week for

guys to submit questions ahead of time.

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And that would give us kind

of a running headstart.

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I could start off throwing out a couple

of questions that we got, and some of them

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are really exciting for us to consider.

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Uh, but most of it I think is going

to be at the moment where we're

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going to have guys say, okay, well,

we'd have to answer a few questions.

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What do you have on your minds?

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What comes up?

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So I can't wait to see what comes up.

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I know that there's going to be a,

it's always fun to see the variety

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of things that come up and sometimes

like, oh, that's interesting question.

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So hello.

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Help provide some guidelines.

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What makes a good question

in a context like that?

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Because it's not always going for the

most intellectual or astute question

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that could be brought to the table.

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What makes a good question?

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What are some guidelines

to start thinking about?

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How do I know what to ask?

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What not to ask?

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Uh, I, you know, it's going to sound

trite and I totally don't mean for it

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to be, but there are no bad questions.

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That's.

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Let's just start with that.

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There, there are no bad questions when

it comes to things that you're thinking

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about in terms of your theology.

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They can lead in bad directions,

but ask the questions, whatever your

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questions are, asked the questions.

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And a setting like this, though,

it's better to ask questions

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that you know, are going to be

beneficial for 80% of the room.

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If, you know, your question is

going to be somewhat, I don't know,

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somewhat nuanced and require a

very specific answer for you then.

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It's probably not a good question

to ask in a setting like that.

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Uh, so when we answer questions, if, if

you'll notice, I think hopefully that

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we're going to give a little more time and

attention to questions that are going to

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feel like, oh, this is a good question.

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That's going to apply to a lot of our men.

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Let's let's answer this question

versus questions that are more.

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Uh, you know, specific and

tailored to a certain thing.

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Uh, an intellectual squabble that

you might be working through.

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Not that those aren't unhelpful

or those aren't aren't practical.

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They can be practical.

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And sometimes those are just

teaching questions where it's

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like, okay, let me explain to

you some of the terminology here.

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Um, but by and large, we're looking

for questions that are going to have.

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Closer to an immediate application for

the majority of the people in attendance.

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Yeah.

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And if you have questions that

you're like, you know what, this

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feels like it is more nuanced.

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It doesn't mean don't ask him to us.

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We're happy to answer your questions.

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I mean, either.

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We're always willing to go out and have

a lunch with you meal with you or willing

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to, or even on the podcast and occasion,

we can take some time to do some of those.

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The question in here.

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We'll answer it on this platform too.

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Yeah.

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So good.

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We're looking forward to,

it should be a great time.

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Should be a good time, man.

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Tomorrow morning, Q and

a men's Bible study.

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That's right.

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Well, let's jump into our

text before us for today.

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Mac text.

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Re mark.

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One.

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In Luke three.

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What you're going to begin to

notice is that we're going to

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encounter parallel accounts.

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And so we had some of this

with Kings and Chronicles.

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Uh, and so now we're going to get into

that with, uh, with the gospels as well.

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You're going to be reading things in one

account that is going that same thing

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is going to show up in another account.

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And that's okay.

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That's not a bad thing.

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In fact, I would encourage you.

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Don't skip it just

because it feels familiar.

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Don't skip it just because while we

read the same account yesterday in a

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different gospel, lean into it, because

pastor rod mentioned, these are our

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four portraits of one Jesus there's

different perspectives and different

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things that, that the writers emphasize.

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For example, Even this weekend with

our text in John, uh, for the sermon.

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Th Jesus' predicting Peter's denials.

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There's a passage in Luke, that's

going to come into play in one of our

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points that John doesn't record, but

Luke does record and it took place

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right around the same time as Jesus was

predicting Peter's denials and it helps.

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And it makes a profound point.

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So we're going to be talking about that.

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So, um, don't, don't turn your brain off

when you come across something that's

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like, oh, I just read this in this

account because there's good nuggets

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that are there in other accounts as well.

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So as we, uh, sometimes even the

chronology of the way that they paint it.

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Yeah.

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It could be different.

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And sometimes there's a, well,

not sometimes it's intentional.

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There's.

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Uh, there's a purpose

behind that theologically.

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They're trying to paint a picture

of Jesus that shows a certain side

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of him and that's important to see.

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Yeah, no, for sure it is.

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Um, yeah.

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So tune in, pay attention, no matter

what, as you're going through.

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All right.

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Matthew three, Matthew

three, one through 12.

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We get here, John, the Baptist debut.

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So JTB hits the scene in

Matthew three, one through 12.

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And he is going to be, um, bringing

a message, that message in verse

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two is the message of repent for

the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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And now that's important for

us to, to dissect a little

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bit, the kingdom of heaven.

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What did he mean by that?

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Um, a lot of people have

said, Hey, it's the Messiah.

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The Messiah was near.

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And so, because the Messiah was near

thus, the kingdom of heaven was near with

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him, embodied in the person of Christ.

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And I think we can, we can get there

with that, but there have been others

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that have gone so far as to say this was

a PR, I'm curious to get your thoughts.

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Some of the, the, um, The traditionalist

who are a part of the dispensational

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camp will go so far as to say that this

was a genuine offer of the kingdom to

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Israel, that this was saying, Hey, if

you repent here, Here is the king is

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here in the kingdom of heaven could

be set up in your midst right now.

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And because Israel rejected him

that therefore later on Jesus turns.

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Uh, to the nations and

turns to the Gentiles.

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Um, I'm more inclined with the first

option, just because I recognize that

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it's, it's really hard to distinguish.

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The way that Matthew uses the terminology

kingdom of heaven, it seems to be kind

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of a placeholder for kingdom of God.

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Um, And there's, there's some Jewish

reasons why he may not be doing that.

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God was considered a, you know, sacred.

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And so you wouldn't want

to use his name even today.

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They don't spell his name out.

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They'll use dashes instead of his name G

dash dash or G dash D something like that.

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So I'm more inclined to the

first one, although I don't think

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that the second is impossible.

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It's just less probable in my mind.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The message is interesting.

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We're going to see this.

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Because that's the message

that Jesus is going to pick up.

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John's going to be imprisoned.

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Jesus is going to start preaching repent

for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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And then Jesus is going to be crucified.

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He's going to rise from the dead.

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He's going to ascend into

heaven and the disciples are

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going to go with the message.

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Repent for the kingdom

of heaven is at hand.

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So it's a message that, that.

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The church still owns today.

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Um, this getting ready for eternity,

getting ready for the eschaton and

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we know it better now as the gospel.

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Uh, but.

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Jesus is going to say eventually

in, in mark chapter one, which we're

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going to get to, he's going to say,

this is the whole reason I'm here.

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I'm here to preach.

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I'm here to preach the message

of the gospel of good news.

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And so John begins, and this

is how he's preparing the way.

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And that's what he's doing here.

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Uh, Matthew three.

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Uh, three Matthew's sure to point

out that to his Jewish audience

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again, that JTB is the one to

fulfill the prophecy from Isaiah 43.

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That he's the one preparing the way.

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Uh, verse four John's clothing, similar

to Elijah's in second Kings one eight.

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And so John is identifying

himself with Elijah.

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Whether intentionally or not, I don't know

how conscious he wasn't that, but Elijah.

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It is worth noting,

had similar appearance.

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And John is there in fulfillment as, uh,

playing the role of Elijah and preparing

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the way for the coming of the Messiah.

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Verses seven through 10.

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He confronts the Pharisees for coming

to him in their self-righteousness

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and their arrogant pride.

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Uh, and here we, we find something

key about John's understanding of

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repentance and that's in verse eight,

bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

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Repentance was not

simply a change of mind.

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Repentance.

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It looked like a difference in

lifestyle that produced fruit, that

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bore fruit in, uh, in, in defining

it in, in what it would look like.

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And then in, in verses 11 through 12,

We see his humility here because he

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was preparing people to, to meet Jesus.

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He says, you know, basically

don't be impressed with me.

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One is coming after me.

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Who's going to baptize with

the spirit, which is salvation.

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And with fire, which is most likely

a reference to, to judgment there.

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And then chapter three

ends with Jesus baptism.

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Um, in verse 15 is interesting.

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I'd love to get your thoughts on this.

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When Jesus says this is necessary

to fulfill all righteousness.

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Uh, there is no old Testament command

saying thou shall be baptized.

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And so what is Jesus doing here with John?

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As he says, Hey, this, we need to do this.

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So one of the things that we

know for sure that Jesus is doing

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is identifying with his people.

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He himself doesn't need to repent.

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We know that the baptism itself is

a baptism of repentance, but what we

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see is that Jesus is taking on the.

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Tha tha.

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The role of substitute.

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Um, he doesn't need to repent.

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I repeat, he does not need to repent,

but he does this as a means of

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connecting himself with his people.

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He's T he's associating with our humanity.

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He's demonstrating a willingness to oblige

himself to perfect righteousness so that

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he might be a perfect savior for us.

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So even though it's a bit challenging and

I I've had the idea before that what Jesus

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is doing is he's repenting on our behalf.

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Uh, thereby even making a repentance.

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A gift of his grace where

we never repent perfectly.

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I'm not sure.

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I don't think that captures

all that's happening here.

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Um, so I'm, I'm less has.

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Um, I'm more hesitant to say anything

like that, but when I'm more happy to

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say, and obviously acknowledged here is

that he is doing the will of the father.

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And this is the thing that

he's, he's been called to.

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And this is what provokes the

father's verbal approbation.

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So that's the next, that's the next

thing that's important when you go

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to chapter four, because the devil is

going to challenge that very notion.

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Exactly.

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And, and he is approved by the father

and also anointed by the spirit.

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And that's important too, because

it's the Spirit's anointing that

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really empowers his public ministry.

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Um, Jesus in his, in his humanity

was dependent upon the spirit for

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the things that he did and that

the teaching and the power of his

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teaching and the miracles that he did.

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Uh, that anointing of the spirit

here at his baptism is a significant

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significant event as well.

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Somebody else, I agree with you.

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I think this is about identification.

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Primarily others have pointed to the

fact of something that we talk about

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quite often when we do baptisms.

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And that is that this prefigured,

his own death and resurrection.

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Um, the original audience wouldn't

have picked up on that in the

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moment, but perhaps looking back

on it, we can see that there.

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Uh, but yeah, this is a,

that's a John Matthew chapter

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three, Matthew chapter three.

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Um, mark chapter one.

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Mark is even though we are in

the gospel of John mark, Mark's

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probably my favorite gospel.

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Your favorite?

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I think so.

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Cause this is your artist.

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Ah, yeah, no.

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Uh, no, I just, I appreciate, I.

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I appreciate that it's

Peter's perspective.

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I think that's, that's pretty cool.

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I, Peter, we're going to talk about.

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Because it's your name?

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Yes.

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And that's the only reason.

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It's Peter.

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Totally.

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My name that he get testicle.

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I've been exposed.

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No.

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Um, Peter is such a unique guy.

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We're going to talk about him

on Sunday and the more I get.

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To know him through studying

the gospels and things.

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The more just, I just think

maybe got two peas in a pod.

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Yeah.

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God did some awesome things

in the sense that he was a guy

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that had a foot shaped mouth.

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Totally two peas in a pod.

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They needed God to humble them.

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Totally.

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To be.

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Yeah, a hundred percent.

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But no, I like mark because mark is so

fast paced and that's one thing that

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he's immediately, he's a reporter.

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He's just bullet points.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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You thought immediately.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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That's one of his favorite words in here.

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Yeah.

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And so he writes that church history

holds as Peter's interpreter.

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A lot of the church fathers have, uh, have

made that point and said, he's the one

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that, that wrote what Peter's account was.

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Um, so he opens up again with what John,

the Baptist debut in mark one, two through

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eight a, so he has no birth account.

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He just gets in, he says the beginning of

the gospel of Jesus Christ, son of God.

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And then he gets straight to,

uh, John's fulfillment of the

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prophecy from Isaiah there.

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And so John comes he's baptizing.

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He's proclaiming the, again, the baptism

of repentance for the forgiveness of

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sins there's agreement there notice

in verse five that the impact John

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had all the country of Judea and

all Jerusalem going out to him to be

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baptized by him, confessing their sins.

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Um, and then his, his pointed Jesus

after me comes one mightier than I.

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And so we've get a lot of the similarities

there between this and in Matthew three.

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Mark one nine through 11,

you get the baptism of Jesus.

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Jesus comes forward.

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Uh, you don't get the interaction

between John and Jesus here, because

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again, mark is a little bit more fast

paced, more rapid, more summery style.

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Uh, but there is Jesus baptism for us.

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And then following his baptism, as you

talked about the temptation, but again,

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Uh, Matthew is going to go way more in

detail on the temptation and peer maybe.

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Well, we'll save that until Matthew four.

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He just preached on that.

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So we'll, we'll, we'll save

that until chapter four, but.

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Here the spirit notice is the one that

drives him out into the wilderness

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to be tempted by Satan for 40 days.

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Uh, and he's in the wilderness.

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Notice what mark says in the wilderness

40 days being tempted by Satan.

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I, it seems.

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That the temptation was more

than just the three that we have

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recorded in the other gospels.

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It seems that this was a prolonged

period of temptation here.

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If, if we understand marks.

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Account that way of saying he's there for

40 days while being tempted across that.

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Um, Reading between the lines a

little bit, but I saw somebody suggest

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that this week, I think there might

be some grounds there potentially.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verses 14 through 15 Jesus'

ministry begins again.

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When John the Baptist is arrested

in silence, Jesus picks up the

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same message that he preached.

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Uh, first disciples.

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Now, this is where we get into

a little bit of a sticky wicket

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because here this is going to differ

from what we saw in John's gospel.

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So if you remember, John's gospel Jesus.

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Uh, first finds the two disciples that

John the Baptist sends after Jesus.

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And then they go and find their family.

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And then there's Phillip and

Nathaniel and so forth and so on.

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But here Jesus is walking by the

sea of Galilee, sees Simon and

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Andrew, the brother of Simon casting

the net into the sea for they were

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fishermen and he says, Hey, follow me.

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And I'll make you fishers men immediately.

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Immediately.

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They leave and follow Jesus.

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So why is there a different account here?

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It seems.

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That this is the invitation

into formal discipleship.

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Whereas the, what we read about

in John is the first interactions

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between Jesus and the disciples.

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So they're kind of saying, Hey, we

want to get to know you in John.

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And Jesus says, okay, come on.

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Hang out, spend some time with me.

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This, and then even in one of the other

accounts, Um, The process of being

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brought into formal formal discipleship

was just that it was a process.

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And so I think we're seeing

the various stages of this.

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Uh, that partially explains why

they would be willing to leave their

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nets immediately and go follow him.

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They already had a preexisting

knowledge of who he was.

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Um, and so that seems to be

what Mark's recording here.

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Right.

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And it was the rabbi's decision

who would be his disciples?

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Ultimately the rabbi himself was

the one to seek out his people.

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There is a sense in which I think,

uh, uh, I would be disciple is

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going to come to the rabbi and

say, I'd like to be a disciple,

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but ultimately it was his decision.

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So even if they did.

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Say at that point in time when they

met him, Hey, we want to follow you.

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Does it.

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Um, that doesn't necessarily mean he's

going to accept them as his students.

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This is his verbal approval of them

saying, I want you to follow me.

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And then of course, to your point

here, Um, their willingness to

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give up everything that they've

lived for up to that point.

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I mean, we read it like, oh yeah.

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They gave up everything to find.

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Leave your job, leave everything

that you know, and love and, and do

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everything that I tell you to do.

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That's a huge transition again,

mark compresses it down for,

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for speed and for action.

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But you and I, if someone came

to your job right now and said,

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why did you quit your job?

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I want you to be, I want you

to put up your house for sale.

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Stop that.

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You know, the sub that renovations

are doing in your kitchen.

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Come follow me.

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We've got work to do.

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That'd be huge.

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Yeah.

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Just be a quick one or two

sentences in your life story.

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Massive.

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You pretty massive.

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So that's, what's happening here

behind the scenes, even though we're

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reading it and fast paced, going

home to the wife being like, Hey.

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Um, Pack up.

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Yeah.

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Uh, yeah, 21 through 28, Jesus debut,

he's teaching with a unique authority.

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He didn't need the, he didn't

say, Hey, this rabbi says

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this or this person says this.

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He was teaching.

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He was interpreting the text himself.

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Uh, and so people were saying nobody

teaches like this, his fame is growing.

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He's validating his message with

his unique power of healing.

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Uh, versus 29 through 34,

I caught this Jesus clinic.

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He heals Peter's mother-in-law

and then it just starts healing.

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People like crazy that they're

bringing the, the lame, the

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sick, the demon possessed to him.

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He stays up late into the

night, healing the crowds.

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And then in the next scene, it's.

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ER, early before the sun

comes up and Jesus has gone.

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He gets up to go spend time with

the father, which I was talking with

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somebody else again today about this.

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There is no.

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There's no prescripted time in the

Bible for us to, to do our Bible

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time, to do our daily Bible reading.

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That's true.

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The pattern seems to be early morning.

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I think there's benefit there.

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But, uh, in, in part of the reason we

say that is because it seemed like this

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Jesus gets up before his light and he

goes and spends time with the father.

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The disciples don't know where he is.

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They go to find them

because the crowds are back.

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They want him to heal more people.

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And Jesus says, that's not why I'm here.

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Let's go to the other towns.

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So I might preach the gospel there as

well, because that's why I came out.

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That's such an amazing statement.

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He didn't come.

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We often associate his earthly

ministry with the miracles, but

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really the substance of his earthly

ministry was his teaching and

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the proclamation of the gospel.

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Amen to that.

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And part, part of this is the, the

miracles we're serving that purpose.

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And it's super fascinating that

even the God man, it needed time

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alone to fellowship with his father.

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And that's one of the common points

that a pastor will draw attention to.

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Uh, but it really serves us well

to see that because if he needed

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it, then certainly we do too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I met.

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The chapter ends there with, uh,

an interaction with a leper, which

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Les, we just glaze over that the

fact that Jesus touches this leper

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is significant because nobody would

have done that during this time.

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That would have been to risk being

contaminated with the disease.

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But because of Jesus, his

nature, his power, who he is, the

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disease can't contaminate him.

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In fact, he's purity overcomes

the disease and cleanses the

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leper and heals the leper.

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And so we see this glimpse

into the power of Christ here.

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Uh, in this healing of the leper,

something that the other synoptic

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gospels also record for us, and we will

get to you in the coming days here.

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That's a really cool.

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It is cool.

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Uh, loop three.

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All right.

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We're jumping to Luke three again, Luke

three, one through 22, John, the Baptist.

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Uh, Luke records again,

Luke is the detailed one.

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He's the one that's given us

all kinds of knowledge here.

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So this is either depending on, uh, the,

the date of when Tiberius was, was there.

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Cause Tiberius was a co Regent

for a period of time before

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he took sole possession.

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So depending on if this is being

dated to when he was a co region or

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when he became the sole leader, We're

dealing with anywhere from 25 to 26.

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Or 28 to 29 80.

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Uh, and so Luke is giving us this

information, historical information

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that vets itself out as we get there.

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Um, Luke's recording of the

fulfillment of these prophecies.

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He adds more than just Isaiah 40 as

he also references, I'd say a 57,

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Isaiah 49, Zechariah four seven,

Isaiah 42, Isaiah 45, Isaiah 52.

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All of these passages that Luke is

recording saying, Hey, John, the Baptist

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came in fulfillment of these things.

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Um, it's interesting because

in the section, Luke is focused

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more on John's preaching.

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Then on his activity of baptizing,

he's talking about how John is engaging

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with the crowds and warning the

crowds and confronting the crowds.

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And there's a group of people that asked

John, what do we need to do to repent?

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And in John goes through and

says, look for you people.

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This is what you need to do for you.

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This is what you need to do for you.

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This is what you need to do.

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John is preaching with application.

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We could say right.

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Um, as he's addressing these crowds here,

as he is, he's going through his baptisms.

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Yeah.

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And what's really cool about this.

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The scene.

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Is that because of the detail

that Luke provides, what you have

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here is a much fuller picture,

and this is why I'm loving this.

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This is reading program.

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'cause you're, you're

getting the whole scene.

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And granted, I don't want to diminish

the way that the gospel writers wrote it.

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They wrote it for the way they did for it,

for a reason there's a purpose behind it.

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Usually theological reason.

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But as I'm reading it this way, I hope

you're beginning to see now how big the

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picture is and how much more colors and

how much more detail are in the scene.

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When you read them all, side-by-side.

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And then you can see more clearly.

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Usually what the author was in was

trying to do with mark that fast paced.

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You feel like you're being whip

lashed here and there because he's

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making so many turns so quickly.

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We're a Luke, he slows down

to get to the minute details.

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And, and it's interesting because

he ends this whole section.

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With seeming out of nowhere, genealogy.

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What's up with that PBJ.

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Yeah.

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And the genealogy we talked about,

there's two genealogies of Jesus here.

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This is the second one.

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Why here.

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The I U.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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So here's my best thought.

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I don't have the answer.

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I have an answer.

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He, the father says

you are my beloved son.

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So that the idea of sonship.

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Yeah, I have to think.

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That's what triggers Luke

to say, oh, son ship.

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Let's talk about his genealogy because

he is the son, supposedly of Joseph.

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And then finally at the end of

it, he's a son of the son of God.

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Right.

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So I'm guessing that's where he, or he

gets this idea, but it's like, oh, okay.

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We're just doing.

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Let's just know in a genealogy right

here, but no, Luke's got some purpose.

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It's just, is it, is this the purpose?

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I think that's the connection, right?

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Right.

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And some have argued that this is the

genealogy of Mary, whereas the genealogy

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Matthews, the genealogy of Joseph.

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And we we've, we mentioned that when we

went over those, we're not exactly sure.

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Uh, they're they're in opposite order.

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Um, the one in Matthew goes

from Abraham down to Jesus.

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This one goes from Jesus down to

you, not Abraham, but, but Adam

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actually all the way back to Adam.

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So, um, Luke's purpose was,

was broader than Matthews.

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He was not writing to a

distinctly Jewish audience.

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He was writing to more

of a Gentile audience.

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So going all the way back to Adam,

who's the father of all mankind.

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Uh, was intentional there on,

on that front as he was, uh,

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identifying who Jesus is there.

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Uh, one of Luke's favorite titles

for Jesus is going to be son of man.

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Um, and so that's a, another unique

thing here to go back to Adam.

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Adam means, man.

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And so that was a part of it as well.

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I believe.

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Okay.

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Yup.

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Wait.

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There we go.

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Let's uh, let's pray.

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And then we'll close the

books on this episode.

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God, we thank you for your, your word.

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We thank you for, uh, these multiple

accounts of the life of Jesus that we

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can look at it from different angles,

different facets, and be encouraged.

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Um, to, to learn more about Christ

and we thank you that we can

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never plumb the depths of this.

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And would you pray that we would have

that humility as we approach the gospels

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as we're reading through them for.

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Almost the rest of the year.

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I mean, in December we get into some

other things, but Lord, we're going to

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spend a lot of times in the gospels here.

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So give us an attentiveness.

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To what these books have to say

about your son, about Jesus and

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allow us to learn much and become

more like him in the process.

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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 keeping your Bible student

tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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See it back.