00:00 Welcome and Post-Fall Fest Reflections

00:21 Understanding Sabbath and Rest

01:00 Personal Experiences with Rest

02:51 Balancing Rest and Christian Duty

05:22 The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

08:12 Teachings on Divorce and Remarriage

09:46 Guidance on Remarriage and Pastoral Counseling

10:16 The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

10:54 Interpreting Parables: Literal or Figurative?

12:36 Faith and Miracles: Understanding True Belief

13:39 Warnings Against Causing Others to Sin

14:40 The Power of Humility and Service

16:50 Gratitude and the Cleansing of the Ten Lepers

17:29 The Kingdom of God: Present and Future

19:43 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Everybody welcome back to another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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Fall Fest is over Monday is upon us.

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It's over.

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Hopefully you got some good

rest last night after serving.

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I'm always tired.

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We're so tired.

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I was talking to so many people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And this isn't even prophecy.

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Yeah.

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I can guarantee you

that's what's happening.

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We're doing our job.

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That's what we're doing.

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Yeah.

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I was talking with somebody

earlier, uh, this week.

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And we were talking about the concept

of Sabbath and resting Shabbat.

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We're talking about recharging

versus is versus what drains us.

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And we're never going to get

away from what drains us.

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Right.

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Interesting.

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So, For somebody coming off a fall

Fest, that could be something super

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draining, probably for a lot of people.

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That's really draining.

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To be on and to be in an environment

like that with a lot of people there.

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Yeah.

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Help us to understand.

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We would say we're not strict Sabbitarians

in that we would say you have to take

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a full day and observe that each week.

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Yeah.

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But it's, it's wise for us to rest it's

wise for us to recharge through the week.

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And so maybe some of some wisdom

on, on that balance there so that we

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can make sure that we have something

to pour out as we're looking to

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serve other people at the same time.

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So one of the things that Piper said a

long time ago, that still stuck with me

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is that he thinks that you should have

24 hours of some kind of rejuvenating

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activity happening throughout your week.

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So you might have eight hours here, eight

hours there, and eight hours over there,

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or 16 hours here and eight hours there.

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Um, and I think that's helpful, you know?

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And today's day and age.

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Little bit of flexibility

that's required on what we do.

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And I think that's a really

helpful starting place.

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I think the bigger and more

important question is what is rest?

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When we talk about rest, what is that?

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And what is its purpose?

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Where do we.

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What does that concept entail?

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And I think scripture gives

us some clarity about that.

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Part of it is that we're to take one

day aside so that we could be recharged

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so that we could do our work well.

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The rest is there for the purpose of work.

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And God demonstrates that through

the, the, the pattern of creation.

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Uh, what did that means?

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And in practical purposes, Uh,

because some PR people are parents.

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You've got kids that you're watching

after 24 7, you know, people have

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different jobs and occupations.

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Um, and I read a book a while back.

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Uh, I forget the name of it.

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It's by this guy, who's a doctor and wrote

this book about what rest looks like.

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Has you identify as at different

categories in our lives require

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different kinds of rests.

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So for instance, Um, if you're a

construction worker, And you're, you're

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very physically active throughout the day.

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We'll rest for you, then it's

going to look like less activity.

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You're not going to go out rock

climbing or hiking probably, or

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mountain biking because you've

physically exhausted yourself.

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And so you need physical recuperation.

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Conversely.

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Yeah.

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If you're a mom and you've been with kids

all day, rest for you may not look like

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no social activity or social interaction,

but social interaction with adults.

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That's the wrestle for you because you

now get to interact with someone at

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a different level and that's helpful.

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And that's restful, even

though it's a kind of work.

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So I'll, I'll rest includes

just a different kind of work.

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I think that's her theory

or working through anything.

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That's a helpful one.

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I appreciate that.

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Cause I'm on my off days.

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I mean.

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Is it cheating?

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I still, I like to read, I want to

read and I want to charge my mind

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and kind of have different thoughts.

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Percolating.

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I enjoy that.

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I enjoy sitting on the couch and

reading or wherever I'm sitting.

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I enjoy that.

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What I mean.

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What are you?

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What are your thoughts on rest?

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Before we jump into this, I know

this is a helpful conversation.

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Yeah, I'm with you.

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I think that that paradigm of 24

hours throughout the week is great.

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Um, we want to rest in a non sinful way.

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And so we resting is not an excuse

for us to disengage in, in unplugged

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from being an ambassador for Christ.

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And so certainly we don't want to

rest in a way that that is wrong or a

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waste of time or anything like that.

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So I think it's.

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It's helpful for us to

still be constructive, but

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there's constructive way.

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I'll be honest with you guys.

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I spend like three hours on a

Sunday afternoon after church.

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Like just on my couch.

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I.

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I'm like done.

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Um, I'm watching baseball, uh,

football football right now.

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Cause it's it's football season.

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And, and sometimes I'll grab

my laptop and look at what next

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week's passage is going to be.

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Cause I'm starting to percolate there

and everything, but, but it's, it's

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time just disengaged and recharging.

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And that recharges me, but I

need to make sure that I'm not.

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I'm not letting my guard

down as a believer.

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And I think rest.

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W if we're not careful can be.

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Opportunities for a

foothold for the enemy to.

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Laziness laziness.

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Or even for sin and temptation,

if, if we're dereliction of duty.

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Exactly.

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I need to get away.

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Spend me-time.

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Rest, but rest is a Christian don't rest.

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Don't take your Christian identity off.

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When you rest, you may

take off your identity of.

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Of what you do for a job, or maybe

you're not on, in the sense of serving

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the body of Christ while you're resting.

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But you are still a follower

of Christ while you're resting.

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So we gotta be careful with that.

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Yeah.

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And it's interesting because

sometimes the restful things that

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what's restful for, you might not be

restful for the next guy or the next

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gal or your wife or your husband.

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Um, and I think that that requires a

bit of a dance with your spouse and say,

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what's going to be best for both of us as

we enjoy some time together and time off.

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Um, and I think it's even, uh,

recently I was thinking about this.

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You dropped off a lawnmower.

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And I thought, you know,

what is my day off?

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But I wanna, I'm gonna mow the

lawn because I thought this is.

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I'm a desk jockey.

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I'm really not around too much, except for

days like Sunday, when we're talking to

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different people running around and that's

really exhausting cause that's taxing in

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multiple areas, but ordinarily I'm sitting

at my desk or I'm standing at my desk or

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I'm walking slowly at my desk treadmill.

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Not really exhausting, attentive energy.

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So something like that is, is

restful and kind of enjoyable.

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It's a different kind of

work that brings rest.

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If that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That lawnmower that it works so well.

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It doesn't.

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So I still haven't got it working yet.

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It was, it was working and

then it's like, you know what?

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I'm done.

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No, thank you.

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I don't like this guy.

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It's just not working out.

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So I thought I was doing

pastor Ana a favor cause w.

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You have.

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I'm figuring it out.

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Anyways, and I didn't mean to

give you a broken lawnmower.

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Well, I was working, it

worked for a, for a minute.

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I probably broke it.

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What happened?

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Probably.

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That sounds good.

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Okay.

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All right, Luke, 16 to 17.

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Uh, Luke 16, one through 13 here.

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This one's, this one's tough.

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The parable of the dishonest manager.

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I like it.

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And Jesus is so provocative.

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May I get in the provocative points?

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He's not afraid to use something.

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That's just gonna be like,

oh, what do you mean by this?

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Yeah.

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Because this guy's going to lose his job.

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And so before he goes out, he

says, Hey, let me call in the

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debts that are owed to my master.

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And I'm going to have you rewrite it.

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I mean, this is dishonesty stealing.

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Right.

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He's lying.

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He's encouraging other people to lie.

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He's facilitating people's lives.

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He's stealing from his, his boss.

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It's like the casino

owner who's going under.

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He's going bankrupt.

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Yeah.

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And suddenly he starts, you know,

everything's a jackpot or whatever,

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you know, it's something like that.

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It's it's it's city.

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Yeah.

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You don't expect this from Jesus.

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And Jesus point is not go out and

do dishonest things to win people,

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but he says, Hey, if, if the world

can be dishonest in shrewd and.

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And does that in order to gain favor, we

should be able to think as Christians,

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how not to be sinfully dishonest, but

shrewd with our relationships, with

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others to win people for Christ and.

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And particularly with the money,

with the money it's monies that use

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your money to build some friendships.

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I mean, talk about shrewd.

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Yeah.

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The Bible is Jesus is amazing here.

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He's he's saying, Hey, use

your money to buy friendships.

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Don't let money have a hold on.

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You.

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And this is for most

people, money is the God.

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And remember, he's going to say

you can't serve God and money.

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Right.

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So it gives us a couple times.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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And this is if it's, if this

is their God and you're giving

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them access to their guide.

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Well, suddenly you've gained a lot more

social credibility in the eyes of the

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people that are following this God.

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Right?

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And now you have something that

they don't have and they can, they

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can like, oh, tell me, tell me.

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I want to know more

about your life, right?

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Generous, which is unusual.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's interesting, man.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's.

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Yeah.

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We'd like to maybe spiritualize

it more than that, but, but

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that's what he's saying.

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He's saying my Lord,

man, use your resources.

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So why's the earthly Maman

that you have incredibly wise?

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Yes.

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And, and make friends

with it for the kingdom.

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That's right.

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Better speaking to the kingdom, uh, verses

14 through 17, the law and the kingdom

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of God is the title there in the ESV.

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Um, and, uh, and this one is,

uh, Jesus again, confronting

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the hypocrisy of the Pharisees.

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Uh, again, knowing their love

of, as we just talked about

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their love of money and status.

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And so the first season and miss

the forest for the trees here, they

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were so busy opposing the ones for

whom the Lord profits at pointed to

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while others were busy, responding

to his teaching with great passion

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and zeal and thereby in this context,

forcing their way into the kingdom.

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We.

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We saw a similar instance earlier

where that was more about the,

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the oppression of the, the church

and the oppression of the kingdom.

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This is about people saying,

no, we want in, let us in.

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We are passionate and zealous for the

kingdom and for being allowed in here.

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And so that's, what's going on.

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Uh, in, in this context, it's a

good thing that they're trying to

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force their way into the kingdom.

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There.

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Uh, verse 18, then he, again,

highlights and teaches here

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on divorce and remarriage.

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Um, everyone who divorces his wife

marries another commits adultery.

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He who marries a woman divorced from

her husband, also commits adultery.

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And this is why we would say church,

if, if you've committed adultery and

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that ended in the divorce of your, your.

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Previous marriage, you are biblically

bound to remain single or be reconciled

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to that wife for the rest of your life.

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Um, this is not a, uh, well, God.

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Grace is big enough to give me a second

chance at marriage type situation.

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God holds a marriage in such high regard

in our, our values in such high regards,

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in that relationship in such high regard,

that when that sin is committed of

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adultery and that ends in marriage in

divorce, which it doesn't always have to.

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In fact, we're always going to try to

counsel towards reconciliation even in

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those situations, but if it does go there.

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The biblical teaching even here

from Jesus is, Hey, look then.

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Then you are single for Christ

for the rest of your life.

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Uh, at that point forward.

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And so as far as divorce

and remarriage goes.

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Uh, he, he is not silent on the issue.

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What if your spouse dies?

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If your spouse dies.

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Like you're married and your spouse dies.

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You're free to remarry.

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Yeah.

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Totally different scenario.

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Totally.

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This is not you being on

faithful to your vows, right?

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Uh, if, if that happens,

you are free to remarry.

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And, and on that note, if you are the

one that has been cheated on you are in.

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And that ends in divorce.

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Um, You are free to remarry as the,

the spouse who is offended because

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the Bible says, it says though,

the person that cheated on you that

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slept with someone else has died.

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By uniting themselves to someone else.

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And so even, you know,

Metaphorically speaking.

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It's though they've died.

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You are freed from that bond.

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And you are free then as the one who

has been offended in that marriage.

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Uh, to, to marry someone else.

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Um, but all of this, it, as far

as remarriage goes, we would,

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we would commend council.

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Typical council pastoral council guidance.

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Uh, walking through that,

that, that whole process.

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Yeah.

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Ultimately Christ is more interested in

our reconciliation than our disillusion.

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A hundred percent.

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Yes.

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I'd agree.

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I would agree.

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And the gospel is big

enough for that to happen.

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Um, one rightly understood.

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Yeah.

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Uh, then finally, uh, verses 19

through 31, we get the rich man and

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Lazarus there's questions by Selma.

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About, is this a parable?

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Did this actually happen?

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The reason they question is because

this is the only parable that we find

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a name given to one of the characters.

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It's a parable.

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And, uh, and it's Lazarus, and this is not

the Lazarus clearly that we find from John

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11, which we're going to get to tomorrow.

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Uh, this is.

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Okay, this is a, that would be a turn.

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That'd be a horrible time.

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I'm going to be awful.

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What happened to you?

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Oh, well you don't want to know guys.

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It's Luke 16.

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Let me tell you.

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Yeah, I think this is a parable.

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I agree.

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I think it's a parable to, just

with some names from his flourishes.

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Jesus is okay with creativity.

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Right, right.

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Uh, but how much of this do you

think we should take, literally?

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I mean, is there going to be the ability

when we're in heaven to see across this

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chasm, as it's defined and to see those,

or is there going to be communication

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from those in hell to those in the.

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The realm of heaven.

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How, how much of this should we press

on, uh, on a literal understanding?

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See, and that's where I think it's

oh, you're over-interpreting or you're

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you have potential to over-interpret.

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That's something that Jesus intends

for us to, to understand a point from.

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Sure.

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And that's a challenge with parables

that they don't function in the same way

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that, uh, that an epistle might function.

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If Paul were writing an epistle and

he says, these exact words about

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this is what the afterlife is like.

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Well, then you can say,

well, this is probably.

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This has meant to be taken as

a literal statement about the

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afterlife, but this is a story.

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A story about two different destinations

based on two different ways of life.

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And so I think the point is you

can't cross, you can't transcend one

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from one barrier to another, which

I think is instructive about the

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fact that there is no second chance.

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You're not going to go to some kind

of purgatory and then say, okay, now

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you can go to heaven after you've

burned off the sin that you committed.

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Uh, so I think that's true.

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I think there's elements of this

that we could say that's probably an

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accurate way to understand it because

we have other texts that elucidate that.

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Uh, but, but it's, uh, it's a mistake.

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I think.

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Uh, because parables don't work

this way to over-interpret the data.

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What do you think on that?

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I would agree.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Each, each detail is not meant

to be interpreted in a parable.

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Yeah.

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Each person doesn't always represent.

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Another thing.

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Object lesson that's it's a story

it's meant to have an impact a punch.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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I would agree with that.

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I do find it interesting.

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In verse 31 when he says to

Lazarus, he says, if they don't

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hear Moses and the prophets, neither

will, they are to the Richmond.

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Not to Lazarus, but to the Richmond,

neither will they be convinced if someone

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should rise from the dead foreshadowing.

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Um, Yeah, and this is

also I think the answer.

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Why, if you've ever thought, man,

why doesn't Jesus just show up today.

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And and say, Hey look guys, I'm Jesus.

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I'm real.

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Why doesn't Jesus allow us to do

the miracles today of resurrecting

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somebody from the dead or, you know,

healing, somebody or walking on water.

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Because that wouldn't produce faith.

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Faith is not rooted to a miracle.

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It's an act of God that.

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It comes by hearing right by hearing in

that the work of the spirit within us,

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as we talked about yesterday at church.

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So this is in part, the reason why that.

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That Jesus doesn't just show up and

be like today, here I am, because

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that's, that's not going to cause

people to believe that the hardness

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of heart, the veiled, the blind eyes.

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It needs an active God being the

regeneration that has to take

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place for that to occur, which

is why we're a Bible church.

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We want the Bible to be taught because

faith comes from hearing Romans 10, 17.

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And that hearing is not

just a general hearing.

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It's hearing of the word of Christ.

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We think.

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Biblically speaking, our

conviction is that people

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respond through the word of God.

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And I can, I can remember times

and I'm like, well, that's done.

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I heard that word.

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And I was moved by it, or eyes compelled

by the truth of what was being taught.

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And the word is powerful and

sometimes we forget that.

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Yeah.

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We have 17 then.

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Uh, verses one through four, a

good reminder of us just to take

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sin seriously and be careful not

to cause other people to sin.

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When it says little ones, it's not

necessarily referring to children,

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but even a new and immature

Christians, young Christians.

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Uh, we got to be careful not to.

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With anyone.

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Uh, put it, put a stumbling block

in there in their path, or cause

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anyone to send lead anyone into sin.

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Ourselves or anyone else.

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And so this is just a good reminder

that there's gravity towards that.

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And we need to be careful against that.

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And then verses five through six,

then, uh, just the, the call to

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again, faith like a mustard seed.

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This is not about manifesting by the

way we talked about that recently,

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this is not about saying I can

manifest whatever I want there.

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This is governed by the same thing that.

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We talked about John.

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Uh, last week, not this not

yesterday, but a week ago about,

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Hey man, when we're praying, we're

praying for God's will to be done.

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And he's going to answer our

prayers, whatever we ask.

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If it's in accordance with his will.

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And so we gotta be, that's gotta be

our heart, not just saying, okay, well

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I've got enough faith, so I'm going to

believe that this is going to happen.

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And then when it doesn't,

it's like, oh man, I got it.

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I got to have more faith.

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Verses seven through 10, then we get to,

um, just the, this is a little harsh in

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some ways it could come across that way.

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At least from Jesus, he's saying, Hey,

don't pat yourself on the back for doing

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this, doing what you're supposed to do.

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This is one of my favorite things.

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Don't get hung to your high horse

and be like looking out great.

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What can I great.

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I am, uh, because you're

doing what is commended of a

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Christian in the first place?

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I love this.

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I think we, this, this is what it

means to have a high view of God.

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We don't look at ourselves and say,

man, I'm doing such a great job.

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I look at my.

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And I look at myself right now as a pastor

and this many years as a Christian thing.

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I still got so much further to go.

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I'm not even close to

where I need to be yet.

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Um, as a pastor, I'm not

close to where I should be.

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I am who is sufficient for these things.

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Paul will later say, and Jesus here

affirms that understanding of ourselves.

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We are unworthy servants.

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We've only dealt.

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What was our duty?

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It's not like we're

going above and beyond.

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We're doing what's right.

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We're doing this appropriate.

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We're doing fitting according to what

Jesus himself has done on our behalf.

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So I love this.

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I think this is the kind of thing

that ought to capture someone's heart

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and say, this is why I do what I do.

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I can serve mightily, strongly

sacrificially and no, ma'am, I'm

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not doing anything exceptional.

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I'm doing what God has empowered me to

do, uh, and which, and it makes sense.

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It's not excessive.

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There's no such thing as extravagance

when it comes to giving to the Lord,

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because he's already set the bar so high.

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We'll never reach it.

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So then how do we balance that with the.

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Which, what I think is the right thing

for us to do, which is to notice the

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labors of another believer and say,

Hey, thanks for working so hard.

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Thanks for doing this.

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I appreciate what you're doing.

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I think we, we definitely do that.

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Scripture has a place for us

to say, look, we're to outdo

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one another in showing honor.

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So there, there is a place for us

to say, look, I want to honor people

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around me, but even that as I do that

for you, I should, I'm not expecting.

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Someone to come beside me is, Hey pastor

ratcheted, great job honoring that guy.

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What a good T what a good thing you did.

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I mean, if they do, I'm not

going to say it again on my face.

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I'm doing this because I'm

another way to serve it.

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Right.

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But what motivates and compels

me is, is not a sense of I'm

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trying to get your approval.

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Yeah.

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'cause.

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I love my Lord.

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I'm getting his approval from this

and he's going to, he's going to

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commend me when the time is right.

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When the time is right.

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Yep.

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Um, but we should, we should look at

other people and notice them because

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we seek to love God and love others.

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We should honor people.

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We should say you're

doing a great job, man.

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So proud of you for the work that

you're doing, we should do those things.

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They're not, they're not

exclusive categories.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's good.

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From here, he goes on talks about

10 lepers and he says, you know,

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these 10 lepers come to him with

the plague, the disease of leprosy.

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Um, and he heals all 10, but only

one is going to be truly cleansed

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because again, he heals all 10.

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Um, and yet only one is, is going to

come back to him and say, Hey, you

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know what, thank you for doing that.

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And Jesus.

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Uh, it says, and it's, it's, it's,

uh, such an indictment on the rest.

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He says, weren't there 10 of you.

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And yet why here's only

just one of you right now.

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And so this is just about gratitude.

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Something that we need to be mindful

of as well as, as we are forgiven as.

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As we're redeemed that we need to

make sure that we are mindful of that,

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that we never lose sight of giving.

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Thanks to God for what he's

done in our lives, in that.

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Verses 20 through 37, then we

get into the end of chapter 17.

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And here is that the kingdom's arrival.

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And this is interesting.

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Uh, this is interesting because it's

a, a unique, uh, Opening here when

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he he's being asked by the Pharisees.

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When is the kingdom of God going to come?

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And his response.

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He says, the kingdom of God is not

coming in ways that can be served,

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nor will they say, look, here it is.

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Are there for behold?

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The kingdom of God is

in the midst of you now.

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This verse could be taken to say,

well, doesn't that seem to imply

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amillennialism, amillennialism being

odd and then negation, and then

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millennial the millennial kingdom.

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So a non millennial kingdom or a

non-literal millennial kingdom,

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they would say it's a metaphorical.

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Uh, millennium that we find ourselves in.

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Now it's a spiritual

reality that we are here.

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That Christ is reigning

spiritually in our hearts.

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So that seems like that may

be, what's be supported here.

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Look.

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Or behold for the kingdom of

God is in the midst of you.

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But what Jesus was saying there is, he

was saying that because the king was

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in the midst of them, Jesus was there.

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So he's trying to get them to understand.

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Again, his identity as

the king, as the Messiah.

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And even from here, he goes on and

talks about the, the future coming,

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which should imply to us that this

is going to be literal in the future.

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He says when the kingdom comes in the

future, It's going to be obvious verses

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23 through 24 there, they're not going

to have to say, look or look over there.

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It's going to, everybody's

going to see it.

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The lightning is going to flash

across the sky, so it will be

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with the son of man in his day.

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But, but before that, he's going

to have to suffer verse 25.

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And so the kingdom.

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Is going to come, especially upon

those who have not lost their

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life in, in, um, at that point.

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And they're going to be.

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Uh, taken up into, uh,

into, to his presence.

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We believe in, in the rupture prior

to the kingdom, then you've got

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the tribulation millennial kingdom.

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But here, when Jesus says, look,

the kingdom is in your midst.

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He's not implying, this is a spiritual

kingdom and we should throw away the

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future millennial kingdom ideology here.

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He's saying he is the king.

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He's trying to get them to understand

that that, that the Messiah is

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here, but then the future king of

that's going to come in the future.

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And man, there's going to

be judgment with that too.

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Some are going to be taken.

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Some are going to be left behind

those taken, by the way, that's

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not the taking and rapture.

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That's.

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Those that are taking a

judgment at that point.

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Um, when the, the, the kingdom

is, is finally established.

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Helpful.

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Clarify.

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I'm sure it was.

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I'm sure it was all right.

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Hey, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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We thank you for your word.

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And, uh, we, we do want to, even as this

chapter, 17 opened up takes in seriously

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and rooted out anywhere we possibly can.

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We want to be like the one leper that

came back to give thanks for the fact

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that you saved us from our sin and

you've cleansed us and you've forgiven

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us and we don't want to ever lose sight

of that or act presumptively or to

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say, yeah, of course I deserve that.

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And so guard.

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God, I pray that you guard us from

such a presumptive or prideful mindset.

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Keep us humble.

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Keep us grateful and keep us

looking for the return of Christ.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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All right soon.

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Noon tomorrow for another episode of

your, uh, reading your Bibles words.

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Yep.

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Keep, bring your Bible students tomorrow.

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For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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Hear that.