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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Questions

00:41 Forgiven Before the Cross

01:26 Atonement and Sacrifice

03:08 Luke 5 Grammar Debate

05:15 Today’s Reading Plan

05:21 Judges Overview and Authorship

06:13 Judges 1 Conquest and Cracks

08:17 Judges Cycle and Warnings

09:23 Angel of the Lord Appears

10:35 One Generation Drift

12:25 New Covenant Resources

14:59 Luke 7 Centurion Faith

17:45 Widow’s Son Raised

19:06 John the Baptist Doubts

20:19 Don’t Be Offended

22:04 Prayer and Sendoff

22:35 Podcast Outro

Hey folks.

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This time, welcome back to Monday's

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We have more questions.

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We asked and you guys asked, we said

we don't have enough questions, and you

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guys stepped up to the plate and just

started sending them in like crazy.

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So thank you.

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Good job.

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We're thankful for the questions.

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We have them now, but keep asking

'cause once we answer these.

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Then we'll be left to

just googleize on our own.

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Well that's maybe an incentive

not to send questions then if

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people like the Googling, because

now we're not gonna do that.

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We have to answer questions

we do professionally.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Well, pastor Mark's not here and

we know that he drives a lot of the

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nonsense on the podcast anyways.

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So typical.

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Yeah.

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Really.

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Yeah.

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So let's get to the question.

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We have a question about the paralytic

who was lowered through the roof, and

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he was laid down there at the feet

of Jesus, and Jesus looks at him and

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he says, son, your sins are forgiven.

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So the question that came in today has to

do with the nature of that forgiveness.

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What did Jesus mean when he

said your sins are forgiven?

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The question says specifically,

what did it mean to have your

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sins forgiven prior to the cross?

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What's the difference between the

forgiveness and atonement in this context?

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It's a great question.

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It's a perceptive question.

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It's one that is, again, as we're reading,

we should be asking questions like this.

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What did this mean?

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You pointed out Pastor Rod, when we

read that and kind of emphasized the

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fact that Jesus recognizes their faith

in that interaction there when Jesus

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forgives this man's sins, we're in

full agreement with this question.

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There has to be atonement.

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There is no forgiveness without atonement.

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And that's something that even

goes back to the Old Testament.

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That's what the sacrificial system in

the Old Testament was meant to point to

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was the atonement that was necessary for

the forgiveness of sins the lifeblood

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in the animal the death of the animal.

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So atonement has to take place.

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My take on this one is that Jesus was

forgiving this man's sins and even

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applying the atonement of the cross.

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In advance in response to the

faith that he perceived within

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this man and his friends.

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That's a, that's conjecture because

we don't know who this man is.

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We don't know what the rest of this man's

life looked like or his friends' lives.

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We don't know if they followed

Jesus, if they became disciples,

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if they became Christians later on.

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But what gives me confidence that

I think they did is that Jesus is

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very much aware that atonement is

necessary, meaning a sacrifice has to

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be offered for sins to be forgiven.

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And that's one thing that

differentiates us from the Muslim

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that may live next door to you.

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The capricious nature of

forgiveness when it comes from.

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Allah, the God of Islam is not based

on any perception of justice that

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way that we understand justice.

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There's no concept of a

sacrifice that has to be made.

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There's no sacrifice of atoning, the

wrath of Allah that's present there.

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But for us as biblical Christians, as

we understand it from the very beginning

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of the Bible, onward, sacrifice has to

exist for there to be forgiveness of sins.

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So that's gonna be true when Jesus

tells this Man, your sins are forgiven.

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I believe my take on it is that this man

did though it's conjecture based, end

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up following Jesus and become one of his

disciples, become one of his followers.

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And so Jesus is ahead of time applying

the forgiveness or the atonement of

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the cross to this man's sins based on

his faith that he exercises through

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him and his friends and their actions.

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Yeah, I think I'm, I

think I agree with that.

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In verse 23, this is chapter

five of Luke, verse 23.

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He says, which is easier to

say, your sins are forgiven.

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He's arguing to the disciples

rather the scribes, the Pharisees.

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He's saying, look, you think I'm wrong

to say that your sins are forgiven?

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You?

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And he's trying to make a point.

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And so he says, look I can either

say I forgive his sins, or I can

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show, I could show you that I can

forgive sins by making him walk.

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I wonder.

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I'm only hesitating 'cause I haven't

done enough research in this to,

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to make a definitive answer so

that's where my slowness comes from.

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But I'm gonna say, I think I agree.

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I wondered if possibly what's

happening is that he's acknowledging

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that his sins are forgiven already.

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When Jesus speaks in verse

23, he says, which is easier?

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Sins are forgiven you.

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That's in the perfect tense, which

in my mind it what's not my mind.

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Greek grammar says this is an action

that's happened in the past with ongoing.

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Effects.

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And granted, he's using that in verse

23 to talk to them after the fact.

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So he could just be talking about

like the past three minutes ago, or

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he could be talking about the past

as in this guy was forgiven already.

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Clearly his sins are forgiven

because of what his faith is doing.

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I can declare he's forgiven based

on the actions that I presently see.

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He was forgiven.

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Maybe that's one way to look at that.

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Another way would be to see,

well this is his faith right now,

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and he is speaking to only him.

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He saw their faith together, verse 20,

but he also speaks only to the man.

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Man, your sins singular are forgiven.

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You Singular.

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It's not plural.

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Yeah.

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Clearly he's talking to the paralytic.

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When he, when that forgiveness is

functional, I'm not entirely sure of

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whether it's here and now or whether

he's saying back in the past I

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could see your faith is legitimate.

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Regardless the atoning work, I think

his future focus, his future pointing

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as all Old Testament sacrifices

were, which would mean that Jesus is

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saying, look, this is the reality.

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Just like a Abraham Genesis 15.

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Abraham believed God and it was

counted to him as righteousness.

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Mm-hmm.

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We say counted to him as righteousness

and we think, oh man, his faith is

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justifying, but included in that would

have to mean his sins are forgiven.

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Yeah.

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It has to mean that otherwise

Abraham wasn't right with God.

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And so in the same way that Abraham

was saved, this guy was saved and

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Jesus is pointing to his soon coming

future sacrifice on his behalf in

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order to declare him righteous.

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And I think that's what's happening here.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's clarifying.

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Well, let's get into our DBR for today.

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We've got Judges one and two, and

Luke chapter seven, one through 30.

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So, judges is a unique book.

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It is not a great book as far as if

you're looking for a lot of warm fuzzies

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judges is not gonna give you much of it.

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It covers the time from Joshua's death

up until Samuel's leadership takes over.

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So, it's gonna lead us right up

to around 10 50 bc give or take.

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In fact, a lot of people, Jewish

tradition included, holds that Samuel

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was the author of the Book of Judges.

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We don't know because the book

doesn't have an author ascribed to it.

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In the book itself, but it would make

sense because there's a repeated refrain

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throughout the book that says, in

those days there was no king in Israel.

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And the people did as they pleased.

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And so that would seem to indicate

that perhaps the author's writing

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during a time when there was

a king that would fit Samuel.

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So it doesn't have to be Samuel.

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I'm not gonna be dogmatic on

that because we just don't know.

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But that's what Jewish tradition has

long held is that Samuel is the author

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of this as he reflects back during

Saul's reign or perhaps at some other.

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Point and he records what happened

in the era leading up to it.

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The book opens in chapter one with

a fairly strong start for Judah and

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for Simeon in verses one through 10.

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As they continue the conquest

in the region allotted to them

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they're going after this guy out

Anai beek, and they end up cutting

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off his thumbs and his toes.

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He ends up dying in actually in

Jerusalem as he's taken there,

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and he ends up dying there.

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But this is a strong start.

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There's an interlude here with Othniel

Caleb's marrying Caleb's daughter here

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and standing up and she must have been

quite the looker 'cause he's willing

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to go to the lengths, the extreme

lengths to be able to marry her.

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And so, he marries Caleb's daughter.

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Othniel is gonna come up later on.

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We're gonna see him as

one of the judges there.

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Rest of chapter one.

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There's more conquest.

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But there's also now some.

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Mixed in failures here.

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In judges one 19, Judah fails

to trust the Lord Foley, which

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leads them to fail to completely

drive out the people of the plane.

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There.

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In Judges 1 21, you see that Jerusalem is

gonna be attacked, but its inhabitants are

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not devoted to a destruction but permitted

to continue living there among the people.

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Again, the these are the beginning

cracks in the facade and the

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veneer here where Israel is failing

to do what God told them to do.

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1 27 through 36 more failures

to drive out completely.

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Israel's disobedience is gonna grow.

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And they're permitting these people to

remain in the land would prove costly.

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In the end, they're gonna be the snare

that God said that they would be.

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But chapter one, open seems

strong, and then we see the

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failures begin to creep in.

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Verse one says that after the

death of Joshua, the people, the

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people of Israel, inquired of the

Lord and I think I take that as

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being part of the problem for them.

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Anytime they don't have strong,

centralized leadership, they go astray.

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They start doing strange things, and

even though they're doing a good thing.

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Going after Adonai beek.

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I, it's terrible.

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The barbarism where they're cutting

off his toes and his thumbs, that's

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not something God told them to do.

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Right?

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Even though he himself did it.

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And he acknowledges that this is

not the kind of ethic that God

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gives them destroying them entirely.

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, that would arguably be more merciful.

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But instead they do what they do and the

silence of God is a deafening silence.

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It's something to me that speaks to God's

disapproval of the situation and the

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further dissent of the chapter reminds

me that this is in fact what's happening.

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The whole book of judges,

everything that you read is suspect.

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Anything they do, you should not take and

say, well, this is clearly an example for

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me to follow the whole book of judges.

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The purpose of it is to give

you a cycle of judges, Israel

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sins, they're delivered into.

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Foreigners.

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God sends them a deliverer to take them

out of their sins and their situation

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only for them to be at peace for just a

short period of time to go back into it.

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They sin, they get delivered

into a conquering people.

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They're delivered by a judge, and

the cycle goes on and on and on.

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At the very last section of the book

of Judges, there was no king in Israel.

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Everyone knew what was

right in his own eyes.

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Yes, I think they, he says

that three or four times.

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So the Book of Judges is not a good book.

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There are lessons to be learned, but

making and drawing application from

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judges is a little more challenging

because it's not as obvious.

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You almost have to make.

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Application by the contrast, like

what would it have looked like

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for them to do this the right way?

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And to your point, PPJ, they're sending

by not driving people out, they're

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not doing what they should be doing.

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And so their leadership, because there's

no one at the helm, they begin to suffer.

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They all go their own way.

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There's no shepherd to care for them.

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And that's again, another

reason why we need Jesus.

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Chapter two opens up with, and Pastor

Mark's not here to argue with us.

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So, if you wanna argue in his

stead, you can, but I think

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this is, again, a Christoph.

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If we wanna call it just a theophany,

that's fine, but I believe this is

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the angel of the Lord acting as God

because of the way that he speaks here.

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And when he speaks as God, you have

angels that come and for example, when

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the angel shows up to Mary, the angel

clearly is not speaking as God, but it

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says that the you have found favor with

the Lord, that the angel is speaking

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on behalf of God, but not as God.

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This is the angel speaking as God.

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I brought you up from the land of

Egypt and brought you into the land

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that I swore to give to your fathers.

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I said, I will never break my company.

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And he goes on and on using the

first person, which leads me to.

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To conclude that the angel of the

Lord the angel of the army of the Lord

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is indeed the pre-incarnate Christ.

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And that's my take again because we see

the Christ as the member of the Godhead

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who does take on human form eventually we,

whereas we see the Father referred to in

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John for as God as Spirit, we see the Holy

Spirit obviously as a spiritual being.

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I believe this to be a Christoph here.

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As the book opens, does

it make or break anything?

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No, God is reminding them of.

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What he's done and then challenging

them and warning them and even promising

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his wrath that's going to come because

they have not obeyed his voice.

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Really sad development is that

it only took one generation.

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For Israel to totally lose it.

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Verse seven, the people serve the

Lord all the days of Joshua and all

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the days of the elders who outlived

Joshua, who had seen the great work

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that the Lord had done for Israel.

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But notice here in verse 10,

all that generation also were

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gathered to their fathers, and

there are arose another generation.

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So we're just talking one, maybe two

generations if we wanna be generous here.

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Another generation arose after them

who did not know the Lord or the

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work that he had done for Israel.

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Now the word no is interesting because

it can be taken in a few different ways.

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No can mean literally like, oh I didn't

know the way that we typically use it.

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But no can also have the, a more

intimate and relational connotation.

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It can be used to speak

about a man and wife.

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Relationship, if you catch my drift.

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He knew his wife Rebecca, and she

bore that kind of idea here and here.

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I think what's happening is

not a knowledge of like, oh,

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we didn't know that, but more

a knowledge of relationship.

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They didn't know the Lord or the

work that he had done for Israel.

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That tells me it's more than

the knowledge of relationship.

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It's a knowledge of what he actually did.

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They were biblically illiterate.

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So multiple layers of failure here.

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And the question I ask

is, how did this happen?

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How did this happen?

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What took place?

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What failure, like what a massive

failure and it only took one or maybe

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two generations for it to take place.

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I think the warning for us is for all of

us, is not to take for granted what you

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might ordinarily be tempted to think, oh,

there's always gonna be a good church.

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Oh, we're always gonna have

the Bible at the center.

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Oh, we're always gonna have

faithful preaching and teaching.

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Oh, we're always gonna have these.

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A rich worship songs that we

sing, those are not givens.

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Decline and drift happens slowly over the

course of time to the point where clearly

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it's possible that it can be forgotten.

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We have to fight to keep our

focus where it belongs, and

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if we don't, we will drift.

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Is there anything in that concept.

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As the church, we have the spirit of

God dwelling within us, which is unique.

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That's not something

that the Israelites had.

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In fact, we see the spirit

rush upon people from time to

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time, but they did not have the

enabling power of the Holy Spirit.

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To help preserve them even as we talk

about the perseverance of the saints.

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We've talked about that a little

bit in one Peter, that God is

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guarding us through power for a

salvation ready to be revealed.

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In the last time you'd look at

Ephesians one, we've been sealed

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by the promised Holy Spirit.

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They had a different relationship to

God than that wasn't as, I don't know

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if preservative is the right word.

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It wasn't as secure as ours

is today as Christians.

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Different.

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I'd have to say it was, it's different.

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Obviously, the future promises of the new

covenant were that you'll have a heart

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of stone removed and you'll be given

a heart of flesh and that speaks to a

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love and an affection for the Lord that

transcends the regulations and the rules.

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Not saying that was all that was there,

but I also see, again, I'm gonna look

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back at Abraham and see his relationship.

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He knew God and God honored him.

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And there was a, there was salvation

there, but it wasn't spirit-filled

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salvation like we enjoy today.

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So yeah, I think there's a difference

for sure, but there's not a

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difference in the level of commitment

and responsiveness to the Lord.

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Sure God expected them to do

this and granted, I would say

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it was probably hard for them.

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Because of their relationship

with God that they had no spirit.

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Like we do the indwelling work

of the spirit to keep us, to

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preserve us, to motivate us.

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But they were still responsible.

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Sure.

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The difference is that God now en

enables us by his grace to do the

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things that he calls us to do.

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So the difference is that they

didn't have the same resources

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and benefits that we enjoy.

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And consequently, because we have

greater blessings and greater benefits,

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there is now greater responsibility.

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Yeah, I'd agree.

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I found it interesting, and I think

it's only here that it says in verse

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eight, Joshua, the son of none.

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The servant of the Lord died at 110 years.

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Moses was called, time and time again.

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Moses, the servant of the Lord.

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I think this is the first time at

the very end of his life that Joshua

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gets the same epitaph as his mentor

did, as Moses did as he's called

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here Joshua, the servant of the Lord.

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'cause earlier it's, it refers to

Joshua, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua, but

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it doesn't give him that same moniker

the way it did with Moses before.

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So maybe a stamp of approval from God.

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As Joshua dies here, that he

recorded that he is like Moses

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was the servant of the Lord.

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It's a good catch.

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One other thing to note in verse 11 here,

it says, in the people of Israel, did

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what was evil in the side of the Lord.

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I, if you underline your Bibles, highlight

anything in your Bible, that's gonna

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be a repeated refrain that's gonna

show up over and over and over again.

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Like Pastor Rod said, the Book of

Judges is meant to show us a cycle

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of judges that people do what's evil.

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God hears their will,

will punish their evil.

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Hear their cry for mercy.

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Show them mercy and raise up a judge.

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And so we're gonna begin to see that

unfold in the coming days here as we get

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deeper and deeper into the book of judges.

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Let's go over to the New Testament though.

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We've got Luke chapter

seven verses one through 30.

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Luke seven, one through 30.

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In Luke chapter seven, we are introduced

to the Centurion who came to Jesus

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while he was there at Capernaum.

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And he came because he had a servant

who was at the point of death.

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And I touched by this because this

was a man who clearly cared about his.

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Staff.

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This is not a son.

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This is not a child,

but this is a servant.

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And yet he cares about him to the point

that he's willing to pursue his healing.

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And so he approaches Jesus sent

to him elders of the Jews, asking

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him to come and heal his servant.

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It says in verse six, Jesus went with.

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Them.

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And so as he was on his way towards

the house, the Centurion sent friends.

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And so this is where we get a little bit

of a interesting situation because one

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account says that the Centurion went,

the other account says that the friends

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of the centurion went on behalf of him.

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And so I think we can probably assume

that it was the friends that were

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sent on behalf of the Centurion, but

they were acting as him in, in, in

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a representative fashion with Jesus.

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And so they come to Jesus and they're

pleading for him to to come and do this.

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But the servant is.

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Is dead at this point.

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And the centurion tells Jesus

if you will just say the word

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I know that he will be healed.

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Is he dead yet?

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Did I misspeak just then?

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I may have misspoken.

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I don't know that he's yet dead.

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I don't think he's yet dead.

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The friends come to him saying,

Lord, do not trouble yourself.

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That's what it is.

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The friends come and say, Jesus,

you don't have to come in.

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In here to my house because I'm a

man just like you under authority.

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Just say the word and he'll be healed.

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And that's exactly what happens

here in, and the servant is healed.

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I get this confused with the son

sometimes and when the son dies.

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But this is not the son.

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This is the servant.

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So now that I've confused you

thoroughly, this is again, Jesus

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demonstrating his power over death

and his authority and his deity.

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Because he heals from such a

great distance this would've

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taken a long time to walk to, to

get to this centurion's house.

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And instead he just says, in response

to your faith, I'm going to go

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ahead and do what you've asked.

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I'm gonna heal your.

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Servant, and that's

exactly what happens here.

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Yeah.

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It speaks to our current prayers and

our faith even today, because Jesus

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is not here on the scene with us.

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He's not physically

present in our churches.

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He's not in your homes.

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And yet we can be assured and

confident that his prayer does extend

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as far as the curse is found, which

would include your home, your living

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room, your bedroom, where you have

a sick child or even the hospital

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room where you have a sick relative.

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Jesus' power is not limited

by spatial constraints.

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It is powerful and effective to do all

sorts of things everywhere in all of

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human creation and even beyond what you

and I would acknowledge as creation.

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The universe is constantly expanding.

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Which leads me to ask,

what's beyond the universe?

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If it's expanding, what's out there?

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What do you call that?

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I don't know what the answer to that

is, but I do know that God's power even

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extends beyond our known limitations.

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And here it's a small

distance by comparison.

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It just shows us our faith is never

in vain when it's in the Lord.

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Yeah.

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This scene with the widow son, which

precedes what happens in the rest of

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the chapter, which is the messengers

from John the Baptist, which we've

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read about a couple times now.

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When John says, Hey, are you the one?

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But before we get there, the scene

with the widow son I think is so

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sweet because Jesus, no doubt.

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There was a lot of death happening

all around Jesus and he didn't

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resurrect every single person

that he came across that had died.

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He didn't resurrect go into the

graveyards and just say, okay, everybody

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up, let's go get back after it.

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But he sees a widow who's lost

her son, and you say, well,

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why is that such a big deal?

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Other than the fact that, man, this

is hard because anytime a parent

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loses a child would've been hard.

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That widow, her lifeline

would've been her son.

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Her son would've been the one

that would've cared for her and

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provided for her, and made sure

that she didn't go into destitute

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state of homelessness and despair.

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And so losing her son on top of

having lost her husband, she was

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really gonna be just totally alone.

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And so when we see here that it says

that Jesus had compassion on her.

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I think this is far more than just

the warmth of here's your son back,

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but he has compassion for her life.

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He values her and doesn't want her

to go into the destitution that she

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would've otherwise gone into, had

her son truly been dead and buried.

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And so Jesus' meeting needs that

aren't even explicitly discussed in

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this paree here, in this scene by

giving her her son back so that she

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would be cared for in the future.

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Yeah, they spoke better than they knew

when they said God has visited his people.

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Truly.

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And not only that, but much more.

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Yeah.

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Well, in the rest of our reading, which

goes through verse 30 today, we again have

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the situation where John is in prison and

he sends to Jesus to say, are you the one?

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And John, understandably, I think,

is showing a little bit of his

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impatience here as he's in prison.

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And this is gonna lead to his death.

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He's gonna lose his head to Herod.

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And he's wondering, is it now?

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This is not a question of ignorance.

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This is a question that the other

disciples would've had as well.

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'cause in Luke 24 that we're gonna

get to in a little while here,

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the two disciples after the cross

they've got the same question.

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They thought Jesus was coming right

then to establish the kingdom.

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So that was a, an understanding that

was there prevalent within the disciples

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and it appears that John had it as well.

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So Jesus sends messengers back

to correct his understanding

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and to say, yes, I'm the one.

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And he does so by quoting from

Malachi three as well as Isaiah 29.

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And.

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Chapter 35 as well to say that, John,

yes, I'm the one that, that has,

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has come to fulfill these things.

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And yes, you are the one, as he turns

to the crowd to say, this is the

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one who is the messenger that was

sent before the face of the Messiah.

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And so this is the statement of verse 28.

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No one is, has been born of women greater

than John, and so Jesus thought great,

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greatly and highly of his, most likely

his cousin here, but he's correcting

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an assumption that wasn't John's

alone, the other disciples had it too.

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I love the way that Jesus responds to him.

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And this is the most famous

guy in the Old Testament, John.

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John is the last part of the old order.

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And Jesus says about him there's

no one greater this guy's it.

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But even the least in the kingdom

is greater than he, he says to this

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greatest figure under the old covenant.

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Bless is the one who's not offended by me.

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I love that because, well, the,

it's actually quite a comfort.

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If Jesus never offends you I

wonder if you're even interacting

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with the real Jesus, number one.

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So there is something good about that.

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If you find yourself offended by him, it's

because you're engaging with the real God.

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If you, God is always in

agreement with you, you probably

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aren't reading the real God.

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You're yourself into God.

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But secondly, I think it warns us.

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To not be casual or formulaic about

our relationship with Christ, to

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have expect expectations of him

that are either ill-informed or

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unbiblically informed, where we have

certain desires that God will do.

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If I just do these things and

God's going to do these things

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for my family, he's going to take

care of my kids in these ways.

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He's going to keep our

house and protect our 401k.

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I think a lot of us may not, we may

not say those things, but we would

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be thoroughly upset and depressed if

after giving and after serving, and

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after going the extra mile, staying the

extra hour, spending the extra dollar,

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God let something tragic happen to us.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think Jesus' words are to

us and for us, blessed is the

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one who's not offended by me.

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Let the Lord be the Lord.

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That's the role that he should play our

role as a servant to say, Lord, as you

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will, in fact, even like Mary, be it

unto me as you say, whatever you want,

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Lord, if this is the path that you want

me to take to honor you, and so be it.

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And John the Baptist path was beheading.

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And if we're in good company with

John, if we're saying we're on

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John's side, we're on Jesus' side.

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We need to be okay with the fact

that God may not do the things

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that you expect him to do.

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And if he says, this is what's necessary

for your good and my glory, that's

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where we need to trust him most.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, I pray that we would have that

mentality that says your will be done.

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Even as we talked about this past

Sunday, as Whitfield said I'd

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rather wear out than rust out.

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I pray that we would get to that place

of always being willing to do good while

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entrusting our souls to our faithful

creator, that we would be pursuing you

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no matter what circumstance you lead us

into, and trusting that you are Lord,

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even as Pastor Rod was just saying.

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So help us to be that type of

church Lord that's faithful

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to you in all things we pray.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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