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October 5, 2025 | Matthew 4, Luke 4-5
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00:00 Introduction and Technical Difficulties

00:33 Discussing Netflix and Parental Concerns

01:23 Guarding Your Family Against Negative Influences

03:53 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 4 and Luke 4-5

04:13 The Temptation of Jesus

05:54 Jesus Begins His Ministry

08:07 Jesus Calls His Disciples

09:50 The Importance of Prayer

11:03 Jesus Heals the Paralytic

12:04 Conclusion and Prayer

12:38 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Lord's Day to you.

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Happy Sunday to you.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we talked about it briefly

well we did talk about it, but then

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we lost our whole recording, so

this is take two on this episode.

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That's so funny 'cause that

hasn't happened in a long time.

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It hasn't, and.

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It's inexplicable.

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The demons that exist in your

computer just attacked our file.

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They did.

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And destroyed it.

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And they were like, we're

done, we're done with this.

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Well man, the enemy is not

gonna get one on over us today.

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We're gonna rerecord this and

it's gonna be better than the,

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the first's gonna be better.

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It's gonna be better.

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This is gonna be longer too.

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We're gonna go for 35 minutes.

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Are we?

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'cause you So help me, God, I think you've

got a haircut coming up and we're trying

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to, Hey Netflix, we talked about that.

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In the file that we lost.

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We did.

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Yeah, we did.

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We did.

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They did not.

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They did.

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So let me ask you some questions.

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Okay.

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And we'll try to, we'll try to

streamline what we talked about.

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Everyone's been talking about Netflix.

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Yes.

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Because they're promoting things

that are targeted toward our kids.

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And in particular, it has to do with

the revolution about the way that

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people interact with one another.

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And it seems like there's a lot of

content being produced by Netflix that's.

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Meant to undermine the things

that we are teaching our kids.

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So yes, how do we deal with that?

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This is kind of in the same category

as the demon hunter, K-pop people.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the title.

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Yeah.

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Something like that.

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How do we work through this?

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Do we cancel our Netflix account?

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Do we double down and stay in

there because we should know what's

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happening in the wider culture.

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Do we just get filtering software?

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What do we do with this?

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Please help us.

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Signed parents everywhere.

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Signed parents everywhere.

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Steward your children.

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That's the key here.

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That may look like.

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Cutting, ties with Netflix or

Paramount Plus, or NBC or whatever

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streaming platforms you have.

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We're in a world getting darker and

darker, and as Christians I think we need

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to understand that we're headed further

and further towards isolation when it

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comes to that which entertains the masses.

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And so we need to be ready.

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To pull the plug.

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It doesn't mean that you have to,

we're not saying that right now.

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There's no hard and fast scripture

that says Thou must Baal on Netflix,

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but you gotta care about your kids.

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And I know so many of you listening

do, I assume all of you do.

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But , guard your family.

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Know what's out there.

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Know what they're taking in,

know what they're taking.

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And not just through Netflix and the

tv, but also they're sports teams.

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The kids at school that they may be

hanging around, that the neighborhood kids

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that they're gonna spend time with you're

not gonna be able to shelter them from.

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All of the negative

influences of the world.

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But when the world is going after our

kids, we as parents need as Christian

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parents, we need to put the guard up

and we need to fight for our kids.

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Otherwise the world will take them.

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And this is an area that we

need to be on guard against.

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And I would say if you feel con convicted

right now, and the conviction to say,

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I'm gonna give up the show that I

like on Netflix, because of every,

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everything else, the junk on there.

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Then great do it.

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I applaud that.

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That's awesome.

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Again, I can't say here's the scripture

verse that says everyone has to do this,

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but I think we're headed that direction.

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Yeah.

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If you can take advantage of the

filtering software and you're

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ready to pony up for that.

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'cause I know some of them could be

quite expensive, but that would at least

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be a mitigating step to say, I wanna

make sure that when my kids are using

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it, that they're not getting everything

that the world is pedaling at them.

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But secondly, and I think maybe, more

importantly, I'm, as I'm really nervous

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and I'm really bothered by the fact

that Netflix is going after my kids,

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I can understand that they're gonna

pedal this stuff with adults, but when

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you go after the children and you're

adding a 32nd or a one minute clip that

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otherwise you wouldn't see in the show.

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That really bothers me and I think that

you as the parent have to be, especially

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on guard with these things, and not to say

that you have to necessarily cancel it.

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If you wanna cancel it, great, do that.

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Save your money or give it

to some worthy organization.

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But I think especially in this world, you

can't trust anything just 'cause it says

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kids on it and it's rated G or it's rated

E for everyone or something like that.

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It doesn't mean that they're using

the same value system that you're

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using to make these judgements.

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So don't trust the ratings,

don't trust the kid.

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Channels don't trust YouTube kids.

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There's really nothing that the world

is offering right now that you can

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say, I could just close my eyes to this

and let my kid use it as they will.

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It's not the way that we do this.

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We have to be involved and

stay on top of these things.

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Less maybe taught things that

you would be mortified by.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, don't export your parenting to

a screen that's not gonna go well.

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Yeah, yeah, indeed to that.

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Let's get into our DBR.

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We've got Matthew four and

Luke four through five.

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Matthew four and Luke four are

very similar in what they contain.

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There's a few differences here

and there, but very similar.

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But again, remember.

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read them both because they're both

written from different perspectives

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and for different purposes.

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So we talked about that I think in

yesterday's episode, that there's

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different perspectives, different

points of view being offered here.

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One of the main things you're

gonna read about in both of these

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chapters, Matthew four and Luke

four, is the temptation of Jesus.

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Jesus is driven by the

Spirit into the wilderness.

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This is part of God's plan because Jesus

is going to walk in obedience to the

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Father while he's in the wilderness.

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He's gonna be tempted by Satan.

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And that temptation is unique because that

temptation is not arising from within.

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Jesus is not going out there and

suffering from sinful thoughts and and

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desires that arise from his own flesh.

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Rather, Satan is there

tempting him in his hunger.

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Satan is there tempting him for.

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Power and prestige and honor

this is not something that is

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arising from Jesus inherently.

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Whereas if you and I were to be stranded

on a desert island, we'd still battle

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temptation because of our sinful flesh.

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But the temptation of Christ is so

significant for for us, even as the

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writer of Hebrews picks up and says, he

was tempted as we are yet without sin.

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This is him demonstrating his

qualification to be our savior.

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This is him demonstrating that his.

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Perfect Sinlessness could

be our righteousness that we

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inherit in exchange for our sin.

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Second Corinthians 5 21.

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This is such a good chapter.

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It's a great chapter and I wanna point

out to you, as you read, Matthew, one of

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the motifs in Matthew is the mountain.

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And so here the way that the narrative

ends, or at least the temptation

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narrative, is it ends on the mountain.

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And that's because mountains are an

important feature of Matthew's gospel.

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So look out for that.

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It's gonna be different than

what you read and look for.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think this is, yeah.

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I don't know if there's anything

else to say about the temptation.

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This is where there's

a lot of things to say.

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We had a lot of really fun,

exciting, interesting things to say

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and the Lord has seen fit to just

destroy it, take it into the ether.

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We're a little defeated by that still.

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I'm living my best life.

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The Lord clearly did not want you

to hear what we talked about there.

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It's so, that's fine.

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Rest in Matthew four

Jesus begins his ministry.

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He's gonna be rejected from his

hometown, his hometown being Nazareth.

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He's gonna start there.

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He's gonna go into the synagogue there.

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He is gonna read from a scroll, and that

scroll is gonna be the scroll of Isaiah.

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Isaiah chapter 61.

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And Jesus is gonna say, this has

been fulfilled in your hearing today.

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In other words, what

Isaiah wrote is about me.

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It's a claim to a Messianic identity.

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And the people there are gonna

be an have a mixture of awe and

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indignation and mostly indignation.

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They're gonna say, don't we

know this one aren't his?

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His.

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Parents around us, and Jesus is

gonna confront them and condemn them.

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He's gonna say, A prophet is not without

honor except in his home hometown.

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And Jesus is gonna go hard after Nazareth

and Capernaum later because they were

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exposed to the majority of his ministry.

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Most of his ministry was

not done down in Jerusalem.

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It was done up in Galilee,

in the surrounding areas.

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And they're gonna reject him,

and they're gonna be called

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to account for that rejection.

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Later on in Matthew four, we read about

his healing of a man with a demon.

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The demon cries out.

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I know who you are.

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You're Jesus, you're the son of God.

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And Jesus says, be silent

and come out of him.

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Be silent and come out of him.

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Jesus was on God's timeframe

for the revelation of his

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true identity, not Satan's.

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So these demons that begin to cry

out about who he is, Jesus is not

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interested in them being His forerunner.

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John the Baptist was his

forerunner, not the demons.

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So Jesus is not afraid to

step into his identity.

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We're gonna see that in fact in Luke

chapter five, we're gonna see that.

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But for now, he's looking at these

demons who want to shout to the

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world to say, we know who this one

is the holy one, the son of God.

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He's saying it's not the right

time right now for you to reveal my

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identity that's gonna come much later.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes this is referred to as

the Messianic Secret, and that's

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a big point to make is that there,

there isn't a secret per se.

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It's not like Jesus is saying,

Hey guys, this is not about me.

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Don't worry about it.

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Stop spreading my news.

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This is Jesus following

the father's timetable.

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He's doing as the Father requires, in

order to make sure that Jesus doesn't get.

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Sent to the cross before it is his time.

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So a messianic secret.

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Sometimes people use it against Jesus,

like, well see, Jesus clearly did not

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think himself, anyone extraordinary.

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He's trying to shut it down.

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That's not the case.

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Jesus is creating the context where

the perfect timing takes place.

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It's not his time.

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The time will come in the future.

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Yeah.

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And by the way, that was, if

you're looking for that in

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Matthew four, that was Luke four.

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Sorry, my Bible was open

to the wrong chapter there.

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But the parallel accounts are still there.

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Nonetheless.

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It's still the Bible.

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Yeah, it is still the Bible.

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L Luke four.

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The other things that we have taken

place here are Jesus calling the

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disciples, calling the first followers.

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I guess that's Luke chapter five.

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As we get into that, it's Matthew four.

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We see this.

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Luke chapter five, we see this and

this is the formalized invitation

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into being his disciples.

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This is not Jesus's some stranger

walking by the boats, but remember

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in John one, these disciples had

already been spending time with Jesus.

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So this is rather Jesus inviting them

to be the formal followers of his.

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These are gonna be his disciples now.

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And so Jesus is beckoning them much

like a modern day or a, an ancient

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rabbi would've done at the time to

say, I want you officially to leave

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off your profession and come follow me

as your profession, be my disciples.

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And that's what they end up doing here.

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What's important about that, I think

on many accounts is that the men who

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follow him are signing away their lives.

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And in many respects, I mean granted

this is only a three year timeframe

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because that's how long Jesus' ministry

was, but they immediately leave

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their profession and they follow this

nomadic rabbi and Peter has a wife.

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Probably has kids, the other guys

probably we could suspect at least that

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was a likelihood, if not a certainty of

some sort, because that was the normal

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expectation for young men at that point.

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So Jesus calls these young men.

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We often see their pictures with big,

burly men who look like they're probably

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in their thirties, maybe their forties or

maybe cresting the prime of their lives.

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These were young men.

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Make no mistake, Jesus was the first

youth pastor, as I've heard people say.

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So these were young men.

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Simon was married.

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Jesus is making a big claim.

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Here, follow me, I'm gonna call you.

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And he And they do that.

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Yeah.

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Huge.

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Because Jesus is taking

precedence over their family

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relationships, which is massive.

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Yeah.

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And super cool to see.

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Yeah.

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'cause later on we're gonna see in the

next couple days here, somebody's, he's

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gonna call other people and they're gonna

say lemme go take care of my estate first.

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Right.

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Lemme follow you when

it's convenient for me.

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And that's not what

following Jesus is about.

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Nope.

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Yeah.

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Here Luke four, and Luke five we're right

in the same territory as Mark chapter one,

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the opening chapter that we read, I think

yesterday or the day before, where Jesus

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is healing Peter's mother-in-law and then

healing a bunch of people late at night.

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And then he's gonna do this, and

then he's gonna heal this leper.

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And then you made the point about his,

the importance of his prayer life.

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And we see that again in

verses 15 and 16, don't we?

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Here in, in Luke chapter five.

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Yeah, I love this because notice here

that people have needs, there's a great

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crowd that comes to him, and if any one

of us had a great crowd knocking at our

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door saying, Hey, we need time with you.

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USA today wants to spend time

with you and they want to

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interview you, or, big time Mr.

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Beast wants to interview

you for his channel.

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He, he's getting rapid, massive acclaim

and notice the great crowds that are

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gathering to hear him preach the gospel.

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And be healed to their infirmities.

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Jesus says, I'm taking time

away from you so I can go pray.

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This is such a big deal guys.

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Look at what Jesus does.

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He takes all these important urgent

situations and says, I'm gonna

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put that on the side to spend

time with my father in prayer.

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If Jesus, the second member of the

Trinity needed to do this, and we've

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heard this before, so I'm sorry for the

old canard, but just notice Jesus has

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taken time to spend time with the Father

no matter how important his schedule is.

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And even though these are really, really

urgent needs, the gospel needs to be

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preached and people need to be healed.

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He's here for this and yet he prays.

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Yeah.

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So good from here.

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I mentioned earlier Jesus wasn't

afraid to step into his identity.

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And we see that in this next story.

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This is where the, they come

to, to try to get to Jesus.

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And Jesus is famous.

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The crowds are flocking to him.

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They can't get in the door of this house.

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So these friends take their paralytic

friend up on the roof, they dig a hole

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and they lower him down in front of Jesus.

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And Jesus looks at this young man

and he says, your sins are forgiven.

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And the crowd begins to grumble.

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The Pharisees begin to grumble and they

say, who can forgive sins, but God alone?

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And Jesus is saying,

exactly, that's the point.

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And so then he goes on and says,

which is easier to say your sins

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are forgiven, or I tell you, get

up and walk and rise and walk.

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And so that's what he tells them, he says.

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Get up and walk, and so that

you may know that I have power.

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Forgive sins, I'm gonna heal this man.

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And that's exactly what he does.

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So here's Jesus demonstrating

he's not afraid of his identity.

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He's just gonna step into the

identity in perfect o obedience

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with the Father's plan.

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John chapter five, we will get

there in a few days, is gonna say

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that he's there to do the works

the father has for him to work.

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And right now this was the work that the

father had for him to do to heal this

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man and to begin to pull back the curtain

on his true identity as the son of God.

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Let's pray.

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And we will be done with this episode

again for the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's a little shorter than the first time.

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A little bit by about 10 minutes.

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Don't tell them that.

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Alright.

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God, we thank you for your word.

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We thank you for technology.

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We are grateful that it works most of

the time, and we're grateful for the

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ability to listen to your word and

even on audio Bibles, and to listen

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to a podcast and to help us understand

more bits and pieces of who Christ is.

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And we just pray that you'd stir our

affections more and more for him.

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As we spend time in the Gospels this

season, we ask in Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you folks.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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