00:00 Introduction and Fall Greetings

01:16 Pastor Rod's Update and Prayer Request

02:41 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 20

02:51 Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

04:19 Discussion on Salvation and Inclusion

06:31 The Request of James and John

07:07 Healing of the Blind Men

08:09 Reliability of the Gospels

10:42 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 21

10:48 The Triumphal Entry

13:17 Cleansing of the Temple

14:44 The Cursed Fig Tree

15:39 Faith and Moving Mountains

17:10 Authority of Jesus Questioned

18:17 Parable of the Two Sons

19:39 Parable of the Tenants

21:19 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy fall.

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Happy fall.

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It's November 1st.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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This is the actual first day of fall.

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Is it?

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in My books?

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This is the first day of fall.

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This is the fir.

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You know what Ellis's falling is?

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Tomorrow.

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We're falling back.

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That's right.

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See?

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And so you get an extra

hour of sleep before church.

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Multiple falls.

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So everybody should be

at church on Sunday.

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Just bright-eyed, bushy-tailed.

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Ready to go.

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Yeah,

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I just have a problem with October being

fall because it's still like often a

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hundred degrees and, but it's not summer.

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October's not summer.

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I don't know.

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I It's more summer than it is winter.

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It depends on where you live

because Yes, that's true.

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There's the country where

October's pretty cold.

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That's true.

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When we in, we're in Kentucky.

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Yeah, it was definitely fall in October

and it was winter in November, so, yeah.

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But here.

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I don't know.

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I don't

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know.

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It's like it's a hybrid.

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No, it's, we should invent a new season.

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You should create a new season

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for this one.

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Well, either way.

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Happy fall.

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'cause it whatever you think.

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Yeah.

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Nobody disagrees that

November is not fall.

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Right.

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Nobody disagrees

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that November is not fall.

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No,

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you, everybody agrees.

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Yes.

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That November is fall.

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That's where it's, yes.

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I was parsing and looking up what you said

in the Greek to try to understand that.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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Yeah.

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So there you go.

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Happy fall y'all.

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and oh, by the way.

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pastor Marks on the podcast, you're

probably gonna hear him through

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Tuesday's edition, but if you're

wondering and you looking for an

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update, pastor Rod should be back by

the time you're listening to this.

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We're recording this on Thursday.

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He's planning to fly back on Friday.

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so continue to pray for him.

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his brother did go to see the Lord,

on Wednesday and so it seems to

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have been pretty quick, once they

moved him over to palliative care.

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But.

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Continue to pray for him, his family.

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any of you who have lost loved

ones, know that the grieving process

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is something that lasts longer

than the initial state of loss.

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and so pray for them.

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pray for his witness and impact

with his family members as he is

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certainly a voice of clarity and,

conviction and strength there.

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And so pray for him to be able

to love them as they grieve,

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but also to speak truth.

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In a situation where there's a lot

of different views on what happens

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with death, even as we talked

about yesterday a little bit.

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but there's a lot of different views

about what constitutes somebody

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who goes to heaven versus doesn't.

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And again, praise God.

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Pastor Rod's brother had a profession of

faith and we believe that he is with the

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Lord, but Pastor Rise dealing with some

family members that don't necessarily.

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Understand that in the same way.

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So just pray for him.

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Pray for wisdom, pray for that clarity

and, and truth to go out there.

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But he should be back with us.

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And he'll be back on Sunday

morning with us at church.

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And so, if you see him, let him know

that you've been praying for him.

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maybe give him a hug.

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Let him know that you, that you love him.

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'cause we do, we love Pastor Rod.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Alright, well let's, let's keep

going with our daily Bible reading.

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We've got two chapters

today, Matthew 20 and 21.

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So we're not jumping from

Matthew to a different gospel.

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We're gonna stay in Matthew.

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And so Matthew 20 opens with

a, a parable and we say, well,

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how do we know it's a parable?

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Because verse one, it says, for

the kingdom of heaven is alike.

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And so that's a huge clue.

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Tells us and signifies this is a parable.

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Sometimes you'll read, Jesus told them

another parable saying, this time it's

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not there, but we know it is because

Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like,

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and then he tells this story of a master

who goes out and hires different people

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at different points during the day.

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And at the end of the day, this master's

gonna pay them all the same amount.

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And the people that worked longer than

the ones that worked a shorter amount

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of time, they feel like they've been

robbed, even though as Jesus points out.

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I haven't robbed you of anything.

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I agreed with you for this amount,

and that's what I paid you.

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But the people who worked longer think

that they're entitled to more than

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the people who didn't work as long.

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And so they're protesting,

they're arguing, they're saying,

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this is not fair, and we deserve

more than what you've given us.

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And so Jesus is teaching.

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I think that, he's going to bring people

from all kinds of different backgrounds

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and everyone is going to be eligible for.

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Salvation.

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The call is gonna go out far and wide.

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In fact, he's gonna tell that in other

parables in, in the future, and those

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that maybe grew up in the Christian home

or those at this time that were growing

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up in, in Judaism, in strict Judaism,

they may be incensed that the offer

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of the kingdom is for people that, got

to the party late, so to speak, just

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as much as it is an offer for them.

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And Jesus is telling them, no it's my

prerogative as the king to be able to

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bring whoever I want to into the kingdom.

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Yeah.

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Do you think this is, do you

think that this is a story about.

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The people of Israel and the Gentiles,

or do you think that this is more

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literally, for lack of a better word,

a description of people who came to

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salvation at different points in life?

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Maybe some at five, maybe

some at 20, maybe some at 60?

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Yeah.

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I think the application is valid

on both of those circumstances.

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I do think.

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Contextually in what's going on

here in his interaction with the

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Pharisees and then you consider

the parable of the wedding feast

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that we'll get to in a couple days.

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Here I think this has more to do with.

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The different mix of people that are

gonna be brought into the kingdom

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than it does what's, what age or

what timeframe somebody is saved.

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Because even at this point they

don't really have a concept

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of a moment of conversion.

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Yeah.

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Because they're

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growing up in Judaism and

so they're growing up.

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Studying the Torah.

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They're growing up, going to temple.

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They're growing up under

the sacrificial system.

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They're not growing up going, well,

I've been a juice since I was, yeah,

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they've always been Totally, it was

a biological, it was a genetic thing.

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Yeah.

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It was a nationalistic thing.

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It was a religious thing as well but it

wasn't a moment in time conversion the

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way that we think of it is, and so I.

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I think what Jesus is more alluding to is,

Hey, there's gonna be people that, that

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are gonna be in the kingdom, and you're

gonna think, man, what are you doing here?

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You don't have any right to be here.

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I, I've been here much longer.

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It's the parable of the

prodigal son, right?

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Yeah.

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So it's not just the Gentiles, but

it's also the tax collectors and

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the sinners that he's talking about

bringing into the kingdom because

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the older brothers thinking, wait a

minute, I've been here the whole time.

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I deserve more than they do.

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And Jesus says, everything

I have is yours.

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And yet this older brother came

back, we should celebrate that.

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So,

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yeah, I'm with you there.

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I'm with you there.

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Yeah.

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And I think if you have been a

Christian, maybe it is for a long time,

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at least in this life or maybe you

come from that Christian household.

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I think it can be tempting

to, to look down on believers.

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I'm not sure it's a common temptation,

but I think it is a very legitimate

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temptation to look down on believers.

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That come from different backgrounds.

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What?

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And that could even be ethnic.

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That could be ethnic.

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Yeah.

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but come from different places.

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Come from different things.

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And you can think of yourself

as superior or better deserving

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somehow of salvation, than others.

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I think that is a temptation we can face.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it's one that we need

to put to death for sure.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Matthew records the bold request here,

and yet he says here that it was the

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mom of James and John who comes to

make the request, the wife of Thunder,

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who comes to, to make the request.

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but still in verse 23, they apparently

are in hardy agreement with this request.

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So whether it was them.

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That made the request or their mom the mom

was making the request on their behalf.

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It's still tone deaf to what Jesus

has been talking about because right

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before this, again, he has predicted

his death and the suffering that's

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going to happen and awaits him.

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And they're going, yeah, yeah,

yeah, that's great but really, who's

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gonna be in the positions of power?

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And so you have that interaction again.

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And then it ends with blind Bartimaeus

again in Matthew chapter 20 here.

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in verses 29 through 34, this time

you've got them approaching Jericho and

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Matthew there in verse 30 says, again,

we talked about this yesterday, but

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behold, there were two blind men sitting

by the roadside and when they heard

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Jesus was passing by, they cried out,

Lord have mercy on us, son of David.

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and so there's two in Matthew's account.

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There's one in Mark's account.

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This is not a situation to take your Bible

and go, oh no, I need to get a new Bible.

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I need to find a new religion.

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I need a new God.

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This is rather us saying, wait a minute.

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Is there a reason here?

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And we talked about

some of that yesterday.

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If you didn't listen to yesterday's

episode, this is a great time

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to say, let's go back and

listen to yesterday's episode.

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'cause we give you some insight

as to why there might be a

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difference in number there.

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Yeah, I think we should be thankful

there's multiple gospels too.

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I think this is a good opportunity to be

thankful for that, that God provided us.

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Abundant evidence of the

account of Jesus' life.

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And he did it through these gospels.

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Yeah.

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And I think we could be tempted

to want just one transcript of it.

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but God and his wisdom gave us

multiple, and rather than doubting,

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I think we should be thankful.

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Yeah.

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No, I agree.

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And it gives us a more, more well-rounded

picture of the life of Christ.

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Yeah.

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And remember and I don't wanna

take this for granted, so you've

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got Matthew, mark, Luke, and John.

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Matthew and John are the only

two eyewitness accounts that were

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penned by the actual eyewitnesses.

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Matthew was there for his earthly

ministry, his death, his resurrection,

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his ascension, and so was John.

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You've got.

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Then Luke and Luke identifies himself

as a physician and Luke was researching

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or looking for to provide an orderly

account to this guy named Theophilus,

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who was probably a benefactor that

to, to say, Hey, okay, I'll look into

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this and find out what happened there.

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Luke has great attention to detail mm-hmm.

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In his accounts there.

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And then you've got Mark and

History teaches us from the very

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earliest times that Mark was

Peter's biographer, so, mm-hmm.

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Peter sat down with Mark, and

Mark was the one that was writing

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down Peter's account of things.

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Still, mark is one step removed because

it's him recording Peter's eyewitness

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account, not Peter directly recording it.

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So the gospels, Matthew,

mark, Luke, and John.

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You've got two written by eyewitnesses

who were on the ground for all of it.

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That's Matthew and John.

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You've got Luke, who was a physician.

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Committed to detail and pro

providing an orderly account.

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And then you've got Mark, who

was, again, Peter's biographer.

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So all of them reliable, all of them

gonna give different perspectives though,

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just based on some of those things.

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Yeah.

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And there's plenty of people that

are skeptical about the Bible out

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there, and they're gonna point

to some of these things and say,

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look at these contradictions.

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Yet, if you go out and study.

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any sort of history, world history,

American history, et cetera,

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you're gonna get accounts that

are far more disparate than this.

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Oh, for sure.

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And there's gonna be a lot of debate about

things that, are far more significant

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in impact than any of the sort of

the things that people will contend.

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Right.

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break the legitimacy of the Bible.

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Right,

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right.

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And just in case you're still.

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Shaken by these things.

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Let me remind you, so Bart Airman

is one of the leading critics

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of the reliability of the Bible.

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He is one of the leading voices that

questions do, did Jesus actually

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say the things that he said?

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But when it comes to the manuscript

reliability of the Bible, he

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points to all of the textual

variants that exist out there.

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All of the, this manuscript says this,

this manuscript says this, and even Bart

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Airman himself claims there's not one

that exists that calls into question.

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Any key tenant or major

doctrine of Christianity.

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Yeah.

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Which is stunning.

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And this guy knows his stuff.

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He does.

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Absolutely.

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He is very smart, very intellectual.

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yeah.

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He's made

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the wrong conclusions.

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That's right.

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But, yeah.

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And he says, your faith should not

be shaken based on sexual variance.

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And that's from somebody

who's not a believer.

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Yeah.

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Who's making that statement.

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So, be encouraged that the bible

that we have is reliable and even

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those that are the enemies of.

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God, the enemies of Christianity have

to admit and have to be brought to the

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reliability of the text that we have.

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Alright, Matthew 21.

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we get here the first, I think our

first account that we've covered so far

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in the podcast of the triumphal entry.

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So this is Jesus entering into Jerusalem.

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This is the kickoff of the Passion week.

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The passion week is the

final week of Jesus'.

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Earthly ministry.

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And so this is beginning, this is the

Sunday before the resurrection Sunday.

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So during this week of Jesus'

life, he is going to have the

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more opportunities for teaching.

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He's gonna cleanse the temple.

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We're gonna see here in Matthew,

I think this is the second

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cleansing of the temple personally.

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But he's going to have that, he's

going to have the upper room, he's

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going to have the betrayal of Judas,

he's going to have the institution of.

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Of communion in the Lord's Supper.

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He's going to have the Garden of

Gethsemane and the prayer time

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there, he's going to have the

arrest by the Jewish leaders there.

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He's gonna have the trials, he's gonna

have the mockery, he's gonna have

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the crucifixion, the resurrection.

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All of this is gonna take place

within a week, and this kicks it

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off here with the triumphal entry.

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Isn't it amazing that

he comes in on a donkey?

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Yeah.

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We think of that as like very humble

and I guess in some ways it is, but.

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A, a donkey spoke volumes to the people

who were there, who were watching.

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it, it says a lot.

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He's not on a war chariot behind horses.

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He's on a donkey, which was commonplace

for people in authority and government.

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And, to write on that was a common thing.

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So during Times of peace.

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During times of peace, right?

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Yeah.

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Not, yeah, not with the war

chariots, but, during times of peace.

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but it does speak volumes to.

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What's happening?

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Well, and I preach this way when I

preach through John, but I still am.

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It's it.

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Flabbergast me that Jesus steps

directly into the fulfillment

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of Zacharia nine, nine here.

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Yes.

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as many times as he

said, it's not my time.

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It's not my time.

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It's not my time.

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The reason the crowds respond the

way that they do is because they

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see him coming on the donkey and

they know being biblically literate.

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That this is the fulfillment

of Zechariah nine.

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Nine.

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Yep.

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And there was so much fervor,

messianic fervor around him to

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this point that now this is them

going, our suspicions are confirmed.

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Yep.

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And even for his followers,

his followers are some of the

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ones leading the charge here.

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And so this is the, that moment

and Jesus doesn't push it down.

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Yeah.

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In fact, later on he's gonna tell

the religious leaders, he's gonna say

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if they don't cry out, God's gonna,

he's gonna make the rocks cry out.

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Yeah.

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So Jesus just steps right into this.

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And yet.

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He came to be a much different

Messiah than these people

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thought he was going to be.

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Yeah.

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And these people also are not missing the

fact that King Solomon rode in on a donkey

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when David placed him on the throne.

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Yeah.

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They're not missing these things.

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Yep.

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I'm sure some of them here, there are, but

the people know these things about, the

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Bible, the people in this crowd, at least.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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After this we get the cleansing of the

temple, Matthew 21, verse 12 through 14.

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Again I think this is a

second temple cleansing.

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Some think that there was only

one temple cleansing, but I

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struggle with that just because.

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I don't think John would've made

such a glaring error to front load

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his gospel with the cleansing of the

temple, right after the turning water

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to wine at the very beginning of

Jesus' ministry and then forget that.

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Actually it was three years later and

it was right after the triumphal entry,

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and it was right before his crucifixion.

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So I think there was.

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Twice that he did this.

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And I think that lines up, Jesus

is bookending his public ministry

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by saying, there's a problem here.

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This system is corrupt and

it needs to be cleansed.

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It needs to be transformed.

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And so he announces his arrival

with that, and then he kind of

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announces his impending departure

the same way by going in and saying,

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we need this needs reformation,

this needs, a total transformation.

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And the cleansing ultimately that he's

gonna provide is gonna come through

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the cross in, in a matter of days.

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Yeah, that's right.

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And he's.

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You could try to metaphorically apply this

in a bunch of ways, but I think we can

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do that and then miss the true point of

what's going on here, which is that, true

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temple worship belongs to God and Jesus

is correcting what's not happening, right?

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He's overturning the

tables for the sake of.

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Reclaiming his house.

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Yeah.

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Yep, yep.

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And this is the point where the Jews

wants to stop the worship of the people.

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And Jesus says there in 21, 15

through 17, he says, Hey if they are

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not gonna praise me, then the very

stones are gonna open up their mouths

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and praise me, as they're leaving.

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Then he passes by a fig tree

and there's no figs there.

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And it wasn't fig season.

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And so Jesus curses this

fig tree, and this wasn't.

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A moment of impetuous

anger for our savior.

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This was a teaching moment for him

because he's really indicting Israel.

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Again, all of this, the cleansing of

the temple, the cursing of the fig tree.

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This is showing.

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What's happening right now, the

present system is broken and is not

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the way that God wants it to be.

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And this is right as he's about to go to

the cross and in this key moment, that is

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the pivot point for the brand new thing

that God's gonna do through, not a system

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of adherence to the law and adherence

to Risa tradition and hypocrisy, but now

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through faith and repentance in Christ.

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So, you've got this fig tree

interaction here that Jesus is going

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to use as a, an object lesson to.

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Remind the people, Hey, there's a

problem going on with Israel right now.

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I know we've talked about this before,

but let me just ask you this question.

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If we have enough faith, can

we move mountains to Texas?

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Yes, you can.

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So that we can go skiing in

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the winter.

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Yeah.

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It's just nobody has enough faith.

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So, I will say this, no.

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However, I will say, I think one

of the dangers that maybe our camp

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runs into is we undersell this.

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I think there's a lot that we

as believers leave on the table

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because our faith is small.

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we talked about divorce yesterday.

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You know, I think there's a lot of

marriages that are broken right now

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that God is waiting to, not waiting

in the sense of, well, if you just,

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then I would, but I think there are a

lot of marriages right now that, that.

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With some more faith in

what God can truly do.

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You could see some pretty powerful things

take place as far as reconciliation and

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lives being turned around in things.

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So, I don't think this is permission

for us to say, no, we're gonna,

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we're gonna see this mountain move.

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But I do think it's something for

us to say, man, faith is a lot more

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powerful than we give it credit for.

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Yeah.

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And we are rightly hesitant about

prosperity gospel teaching, right?

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We don't believe that God is going

to just give you all the worldly

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possessions that you could possibly want.

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He's not going to, give you health,

wealth, and all the things just because

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you, have enough quantifiable faith to

Right, to meet the metrics necessary.

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We don't believe that, right.

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But I think we can, and you make

this point, I think we can, because

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we're nervous about prosperity Gospel

teaching, throw out this entire.

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Truth, right?

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Yeah.

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We can just be like, ah, you know,

Nope, nope, we're not gonna go there.

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But I mean, it's a promise here.

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Whatever you ask in prayer, you

will receive if you have faith.

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Yeah, yeah.

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No, for sure, for sure.

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Well, the chapter goes on and you've got

this interesting interaction where the

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Pharisees challenged Jesus to say, by

what authority are you doing these things?

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He's really flexing big time.

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And so they're gonna say, whose

authority are you doing these things?

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If they'd been listening to him all add

John chapter five, John chapter six, they

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would've known whose authority is doing.

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Things on, and I think they

knew what he was gonna say.

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I think again, they're waiting for, is

this the moment that we can get him and

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accuse him of blasphemy and then nail

him to the cross, but Jesus masterfully

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turns it back on them and says, well, why

don't you tell me about John's baptism?

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And they don't want to answer because

they know that they can't win.

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They don't believe that it was

from God, but they fear the people.

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And so that.

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They don't say that it was from God, then

the people are gonna write against them.

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So they say, well, we don't know.

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And Jesus says, well, it's,

I'm not gonna tell you either.

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And it's not because Jesus didn't

have an answer or didn't want to

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answer, but it's not his hour yet.

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It is his hour in the sense that

it's the beginning of the week that

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is gonna be, that's gonna lead to

his hour, but it's not his hour yet.

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And so he's keeping them at bay with that.

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Yeah.

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This is masterful.

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This is masterful.

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It shows the wisdom and really the

glory of Jesus here in, in his ability

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to discern what's going on and to.

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To succinctly, shut them down.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Then you've got two more parables as

the chapter ends, the parable of the

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two sons, which as a dad, I always

chuckle that because there's the one son

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that says, yeah, sure dad, I'll do it.

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And doesn't do it.

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And there's the other son that's

like, no, I'm not gonna do that.

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And then ends up going to do it.

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And the question Jesus says is,

which is the one that was justified?

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And clearly the answer

is the one that did it.

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Even though initially he was

rejecting he was standing man.

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The one that, that eventually came around

and agreed to be obedient is the one

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that is commendable and Jesus is saying.

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That's what we need to do.

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You've got the Pharisees,

who on the outside seem to

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have all the right answers.

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Look, father, we're here to serve you.

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We're gonna do this, but they're

not obeying the son, which shows

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that they're not really in.

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And then you've got people that may

be on the outset aren't obeying God,

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but then respond to Jesus and they

are gonna obey the son and they're the

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ones that are gonna be in the kingdom.

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Yeah.

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Be careful in your community

groups that you don't say that

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you're doing all these things.

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You don't.

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Use Christianese language, just to

convince other people that, you are doing

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the right things, and the reality is you

go home and you live just like the world.

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Be careful that you're honest, and that

you, tell people who you're close to.

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And I use community groups 'cause that's

how our church is designed to work.

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Yep.

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to build those relationships, build

those trust, be honest with those people.

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Have to be brutally honest,

but, you know, don't fake it.

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when you're actually not doing any

of the things that God has called

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you to do, that's not gonna actually

help you benefit you in any way.

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A hundred percent

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agree.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The final parable then is

the parable of the tenets.

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And this is really about

the history of Israel.

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That's coming to a point at this moment.

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because he tells about

the vineyard and the.

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People that he leased it to, the tenants

being Israel, and he'd sent his servants

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and his servants were the prophets,

the people in the Old Testament, the

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prophets that went to Israel and were

looking for fruit from the nation as

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God expected it and there was none.

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And they abused the prophets.

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They ignored the prophets, they

even killed some of the prophets.

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And so finally he sends his son

and that's meant to land with us.

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As you read that, that's meant

for you to go, wait a minute.

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The son of God is telling this story.

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Who's the son?

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It's the one telling the story, right?

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And so they're gonna

say, this is the heir.

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This is the one.

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So they're gonna kill him and

think that their problem is done.

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And yet they don't realize

that, that is the worst thing

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that they could possibly do.

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And the father's response is

one of judgment and, merciless

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judgment against them that do this.

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And Jesus quotes from Psalm, one 18

There, the stone that the builders

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rejected has become the cornerstone.

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And that we saw in our

study of one Peter as well.

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So, one Peter two, seven.

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That, that is applied to Christ as well.

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And so, the one that was rejected is

really the choice one the precious one.

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And that is Jesus.

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Yeah.

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Jesus knows what's coming to him.

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you can be certain that his

death was planned for you.

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His death on the cross was not just a.

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Coincidence, it wasn't, just, the making

of a bad situation into a good situation.

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This is not just the only place

that demonstrates this, but

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Jesus knows what's coming to him

and he knows what he's about.

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he's the one who, from the very

beginning, is going to deliver that

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crushing blow to the serpents head.

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And he knows that.

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He knows that.

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and here's an awesome place

where he demonstrates that.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God.

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We thank you for your word and for our

time in it today, and we just pray that

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we would be sensitive to live it out.

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We pray that we would please you

in the way that we take these

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truths and apply them to our lives.

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We thank you for Christ.

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We thank you for your sacrifice

on our behalf, and we pray

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for a great rest of our day.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye y'all.

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Bye.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said