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October 26, 2025 | Luke 12-13
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00:00 Introduction and Fall Fest Excitement

00:57 Favorite Candies and Lighthearted Banter

01:58 Purpose and Outreach of Fall Fest

04:12 Teachings from Luke 12: Integrity and Fear of God

08:27 Parable of the Rich Fool and Lessons on Anxiety

09:37 Preparation for Christ's Return

15:44 Understanding the Narrow Door

19:35 Conclusion and Prayer

20:21 Podcast Outro and Church Information

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Sunday.

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It is Sunday.

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In fact, it is Fall Fest Sunday.

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So we're excited about that.

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We've got a lot going on today.

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We are going to be at church for

quite a while, and if you're serving

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and volunteering in Fall Fest,

you're gonna be at church for.

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Most of the day today, which is awesome.

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And also thank you.

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We just want to issue a expression

of our gratitude to you before all

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of this happens because we know

that you're given a lot more of

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your time than you normally even do.

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And a lot of you give so

much of your time already.

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You help set up and tear down our church

and everything else that we're doing here.

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So, we're grateful for that.

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And so thank you for laboring So

faithfully week in, week out, and

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thank you for going above and beyond.

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In fact we found out.

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Recently by one of our staff

members, Allie told us that we

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have, I think she said a hundred

volunteers for Fall Fest signed up.

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Sounds right.

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Which is fantastic.

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Such an encouragement to us as pastors.

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Thank you.

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We're are so thankful

for you guys doing that.

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For sure.

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So, yeah, it's gonna be a,

it's gonna be a great time.

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Pastoral, what's your favorite candy?

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Favorites.

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I really like the Lindell.

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What are those called?

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Truffles?

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Is that what they are?

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Yeah.

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Truffles.

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Yeah.

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I love the Lindell truffles.

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I typically get a variety pack

at some point during the year.

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The lint, the L-I-N-D-T, is that

the ones that you're thinking of?

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The ones that are like blue

foil and like red and, yeah.

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Is that what they're called?

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Lint?

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Yeah.

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Lint, yeah.

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Okay.

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That's a weird name.

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I do love those.

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I love peanut m and ms.

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I love.

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I really love chocolate.

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So Reese's is on the list.

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Yeah.

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Although I'm pretty picky.

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I like high quality chocolate,

so, I'll eat the normal stuff.

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Chocolate in the Hershey's, but I

really like the good tasting chocolate,

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you know, the, the good stuff.

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I figure if I'm going to eat

it, it's gonna be in calories.

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I wanna make sure that the calories count.

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Fair enough.

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And I know yours is Reese's.

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Yep.

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Reese's are probably number one.

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Yeah.

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And you also love the little Debbie.

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Christmas trees.

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Yes.

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Which those are out now.

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I saw them actually.

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I saw them at Walmart.

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Saw them too.

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I have not bought any

yet, but I thought of you.

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Thanks man.

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I appreciate that.

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Did you pray for me

when you thought of me?

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No.

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Not the way that you want.

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I was like, Lord, have mercy,

Lord, protect him from too many of

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those, this, this Christmas season.

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Yeah.

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Well, fall Fest is gonna be

awesome, and we're excited.

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We're praying and trusting that

the Lord, I think we're prepped

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for about 500 kids coming through.

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And so it'd be awesome

if we got more than that.

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We'll adjust, we'll gladly adjust.

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Yeah.

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But we're excited to see what the

Lord's gonna do through this event.

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And again the reason why we do this

is because this is a way for us to let

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the community know that we're here.

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A lot of the community, a lot

of the area probably drives by

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that school every single day.

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And they don't realize that there's

a church that meets there on Sundays.

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And so now if they are going to show up

at our Fall Fest, they're gonna realize.

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This is where we have

church on the weekends.

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And so they're gonna be aware, if

nothing else, they're gonna be aware,

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Hey, there's a church that meets at a

Founder's Classical academy in Prosper.

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And that's a good thing.

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And there's still time to invite people.

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I just got my hair cut yesterday

and the lady cutting my hair in

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Montana, I said, Hey, we've got

a fall festival at our school.

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And she was very interested in that at

our church that meets at the school.

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She was very interested, so I gave her

the information and she may bring her

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daughter over there for that event.

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So, very cool.

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Still time to invite people even

today, even Sunday, if you're

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going out to lunch after church.

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Invite your waiter, invite

your waitress, invite the table

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next to you to come to all us.

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That's if they have kids.

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Yeah.

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I guess that's fair.

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Yeah.

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'cause it's really not for adults.

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That's true.

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It could.

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Yeah.

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But it's better for it.

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It's a kids' event.

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Yeah.

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Or family.

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So we'd love to have anybody show up.

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We'll take anybody.

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But really this is for families.

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That's fair.

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Yeah.

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And what are you dressing up again, as

I forget, I'm dressing up as a pastor.

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I'm dressing up as It's supposed

to dress up as something that

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you're not though, right?

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Isn't it the way it's supposed to work?

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No, not necessarily.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So if someone were to bring you a

costume, a no, you would not work a No.

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Depends on what it is though, right?

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Nope.

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Does not depend on what it is.

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Maybe you would reconsider?

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No.

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What if your favorite parishioner

came up to you and said, pastor

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pj, I just spent $5,000 my wife

on this costume for me, my wife.

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My wife knows me better than number one

to spend $5,000 on a costume for me.

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Your third favorite

parishioner did this $5,000.

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They invest, they.

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Your name is Be Jeweled on

the front of the costume.

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Yeah, Dr.

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Pastor pj.

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I would say, you, you know what,

and they request that you wear it.

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I love that you care about the

church so much, but I would really

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think that it, this, I don't wanna,

I don't wanna damage the costume.

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I think you should post this on

eBay, sell it, and then you can

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contribute the, the, the proceeds

to the, the church afterwards.

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That would be great.

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I think you're gonna crush

Dan Mayer's heart Well.

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I think he'll get over it.

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We'll see.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we are in Luke 12 and 13 today

for our DBR and there's a kinda a

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smattering of subjects that Jesus

gets into in these two chapters here.

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As he's teaching, he's teaching

about a lot of different subjects,

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a lot of different topics.

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He begins and notice there

again that the famous.

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Element of Jesus here because the, so

many thousands of people had gathered

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notice that so many thousands of people

had gathered together, so many so that

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he was, they were trampling one another.

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He then turns and tells his disciples

and begins to teach them directly.

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You need to be aware of

the Levin of the Pharisees.

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Now, Jesus is warned about this

before, and so we've seen this already.

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But here he adds and he says this

interesting comment here, which is,

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I think a lot of motivation for a

life of integrity says nothing is

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covered up that will not be revealed

or hidden, that will not be known.

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Therefore, whatever you have said

in the dark, shall be heard in

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the light, and whatever you've

whispered in the private room shall

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be proclaimed on the house tops.

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I think this is an appropriate

setup for where he goes right after

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this where he says, you know what?

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You don't need to fear men.

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You need to fear God.

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Don't fear.

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Men who all they can do is

kill you, but fear him who has

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authority to cast you into hell.

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Yes, I tell you.

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He says, fear him.

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So this is just, Jesus has given us plenty

of fodder for saying, here's why it's

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good for you to live a life of integrity.

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And that's how he begins this

section here in chapter 12.

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Yes.

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But what sense is it that you fear God?

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This sounds like Jesus is

saying be afraid of him.

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Often when I hear the fear of God

talked about, it's usually in the

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just revere him, think highly of him.

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And probably not untrue, but it

sounds like Jesus is saying, Hey, you

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should probably have some legitimate.

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Fear of the Lord in a sense.

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Right.

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Talk about that.

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Yeah.

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And I would compare it to when you were

growing up, if you had a father who cared

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about you and loved you and disciplined

you, which I know is not everybody's

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experience, but if that was true of you,

if the Lord provided that for you, you

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had a fear of the discipline that he could

exact upon you, you had a fear of, I, I'll

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even go so far as to say that the pain

that he could inflict upon you, if you.

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Stepped outta line if

you did what was wrong.

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And so here there's an element of that

with, that we should have with God.

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And the writer of Hebrews capitalizes on

this as well as he warns us as Christians

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of the danger of drifting and the danger

of falling into the hands of an angry God.

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There's a measure to which John will

say perfect love casts out fear.

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We don't fear hell but we do nonetheless.

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Have a sense of fear of

his just wrath against sin.

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And as Christians, we don't want

to suffer the discipline of God.

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That's not a fun thing for

us to have happen to us.

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So there's a fear of that discipline,

a fear of even thinking forward to

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that time when what is said in secret

will be proclaimed from the house stop.

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And the fear of the shame that would

be associated with that, that should

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impact the way we live our lives.

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That should change the

way we live our lives.

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Yeah.

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In verse seven, he says, before,

actually before that, he says.

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Well, no, it is verse seven.

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I take that back.

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He says, fear not, you are of

more value than many sparrows.

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And this gives you a sense of the

kind of fear Jesus is talking about.

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There is a reverential holy fear of God,

but there's also that sense of tenderness

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where God is saying, I care about you.

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Yeah.

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Trust me to care for you.

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And that's the way that we're

supposed to understand this fear.

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It is reverential.

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It is.

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There is a holy fear, but it's also

a sense of I know God, God's got.

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My back.

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Yeah.

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God's got my best in mind.

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Even when I fall or get attacked

or get attacked or get off track.

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He's got our back.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's on from here.

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He goes on and talks about

acknowledging him before the world,

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and we haven't talked about this.

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I think we've read it one

other place before, but this

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is just another reminder to us.

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So the boldness that we need to

have when it comes to our faith

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in Christ that we need to be

careful not to be ashamed of him.

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And again, this goes back to

the fear of man concept that

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we were just talking about.

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It's better to fear God than it is to

fear man and fearing God will look like.

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Acknowledging him.

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It will look like aligning ourselves

with him, identifying ourselves with him,

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even if that puts us in a position where

we're gonna have to defend ourselves.

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And he says at the end of this passage

in verse 12, he says, for the Holy

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Spirit is gonna teach you in that

very hour what you ought to say.

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That we don't have to have fear that,

well, what if I get put on the spot?

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What if somebody challenges me?

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What am I gonna say?

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And there's a.

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Encouraging reality here that

God's gonna provide that.

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Now, that doesn't mean that you're

not gonna be put in a situation

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where you may have a, an atheist

coworker or a neighbor ask you a

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question theologically or doctrinally.

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You don't have the answer for that.

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It's okay to say, Hey, you know what?

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I don't know, but I'll

get back to you on that.

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I know there is an answer.

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It's okay for you to have the confidence

to be able to say, you know what?

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I know there is an answer.

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Let me get back to you on that and

let's continue this conversation.

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Because there is that answer there,

and that's part of the confidence

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that we can have in Christ.

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From here, he tells a parable.

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This is of the rich young fool.

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This is the one that, that stores

up all his treasures on Earth.

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And in the end, basically God says your

soul is gonna be required of you tonight.

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And who's will all of

these possessions go to?

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Your confidence, your trust has been

in your possessions and not in me.

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And so you're gonna lose

all of these things.

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And then we get something very similar to

what we read about in the Sermon on the

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Mount, and that is he turns to the subject

of anxiety and he encourages the people

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not to be anxious, not to be worrisome.

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And to your point about his compassion

here, he addresses that again.

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He talks about the ravens, these

birds and ravens aren't the most

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beautiful animals out there.

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They're kind of ugly.

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They're these black, gigantic birds.

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He says it, even the Ravens,

does he care for how much more

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value are you than they are?

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And he then talks about the.

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Lilies of the field and the

grass that is so beautiful.

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And he says, you're of more value,

but I love, and it's always spoken

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to me directly when it comes to

anxiety, is what he says in verse 25.

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He says, which of you by being

anxious can add a single hour

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to the span of your life?

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In other words, all of our anxiety in

the end, what good does it really do?

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What change can it really affect?

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And the answer is, if we're

honest with ourselves, nothing.

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Right?

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From here, he transitions to the

subject of his return which is

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something that can at times cause

people to be anxious as well.

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And yet his commendation to us is,

his instructions to us is that we

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need to be the servants that are

awake when the master comes back.

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And we need to be prepared for his return.

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And that's true of us

as the church right now.

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As the church.

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We found ourselves currently on

the eschatological timeline of.

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Waiting for the return of

Christ, that's the next thing.

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There's nothing else to that has to happen

before Jesus comes back for his bride.

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And all that does have to happen

between now and then, is that

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the last soul to be saved.

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And that could happen at

any moment, at any time.

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And so we need to be ready

for the return of Christ.

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And.

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He goes on and talks about some more

things along interpreting the times

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and the signs and it, again there's a

lot of different subjects that Jesus

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is talking about here, pastor, I, any

thoughts on how can we read a chapter like

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this seems to have so many disconnected

things and walk away going, okay,

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this is my takeaway from this chapter.

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Several thoughts arise and the first

one I would say is to read the Bible

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much like we are right now, which

is read it with the whole in mind.

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Reading one chapter of one book of the

Bible is often very challenging because

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you have to you have to really work hard

to understand that particular context.

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And it's not a wrong thing.

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You should do that, make no mistake.

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But I would also say reading in the

context of other books that are trying to.

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Try to accomplish the same thing helps

give light to what Jesus is doing.

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So you might read Luke chapter 12 in light

of what Matthew says and that really does

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help fill out the picture a little more.

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Now, in some ways it does complicate it

because then you start saying, okay, well

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what exactly is Jesus referring to here?

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And how are we best to understand that?

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And that's where you have resources.

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Now, just because there's

resources on google.com

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or you could type in anything

on some websites, doesn't mean

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that it's a good resource, right?

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This is where having the

community of believers.

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Who are like-minded and like-hearted

is really a great starting place.

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You can say, Hey, what do

you use for your study Bible?

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What notes do you typ typically go to?

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Talk to your pastors and ask them

for the resources that they use when

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they're understanding their Bible,

and they're trying to get an authority

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figure to talk about this particular

passage, a commentary perhaps.

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So I would say those two things

at minimum reading context and

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reading in the canon of scripture.

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But I also wanted to bring up

a verse that I'd love for you

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to comment on here in verse 37.

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It says, blessed are those servants whom

the master finds awake when he comes.

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He says, truly, I say to you, he

will dress himself for service

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and have them recline a table

and he will come and serve them.

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How do you think we

should understand this?

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It seems to me like Jesus is saying he's

gonna come back and he's gonna serve his

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servants, he's gonna serve his people.

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What are we to make of that?

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I.

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I take a, an angle on this, an

interpretation of this, where I

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look at the marriage supper of the

lamb and I see an illusion here

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to that when he comes back for the

bride of Christ for the church and

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takes the church to be with him.

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This is during the tribulation period.

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And this is one of the things

that's happening during that time

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is the marriage supper of the lamb.

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And this is the illustration that Jesus

himself uses and Paul capitalizes on it,

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is that the church is the bride of Christ.

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And so the marriage supper is the

wedding feast, it's the celebration.

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And what I see here, what I.

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Read here and pick up even by the

table imagery and the serving at the

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table is the idea that Christ, part

of the marriage shepherd of the lamb,

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will Christ will serve his bride.

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Even in that instance,

even in that context.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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Jesus is one who serves his people.

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He came not to be served, but to serve

and to give his life as a ransom for many.

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Do you think there is any sense in

which Jesus serves his people in

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the new heavens and the new Earth?

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Is there.

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Any opportunity or possibility where

that takes place, we often think

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about heaven, where we're serving

Jesus and I think that's gonna happen.

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Yeah.

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Obviously, yeah.

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We know that for a fact.

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Does Jesus serve Christians in heaven

or in the heavenly, the new Jerusalem?

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I don't know.

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I've talked about this before with

others as well, and I struggled to see

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that because I think his serving of,

for example, in the upper room, his

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washing the feet and of the disciples

and his, even his statement, I came not

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to serve or to be served, but to serve.

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Is within the context of his earthly

ministry, that that's why he came.

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And even the washing the feet is the

metaphor the living metaphor of the cross.

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And he's getting ready to go

to the cross once the cross is

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accomplished, and he is exalted.

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In Philippians two, he receives the

name that is above every name, that at

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the name of Christ, every niche, bow

and tongue confessed that he's Lord.

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My understanding is heaven is going

to be fellowship with our savior.

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No doubt.

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And what that looks like.

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It is beyond me.

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We're reading Randy Alcorn's book, heaven

for Kids with our Kids in the Mornings.

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And he talks about this idea of

being with Jesus and being in the

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crowds with Jesus and being in his

presence and listening to him and

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kind of following him and seeing him.

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He's right there and you're

with him and in that proximity.

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But does that mean that he's

going to take on that same

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servitude towards us in heaven?

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And that's where I would say I

maybe, but I tend to think no.

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Because of the place of

exaltation that he has there.

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I don't think it's, I don't think it's

beyond the pale of the potential, but I

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would say that's not my understanding.

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And I suppose it really also boils

down to how you define the word serve

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or how you think about the term help.

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God helps those not those

who help themselves.

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This is, that, that was Ben Franklin.

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That was not the Bible.

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But how you conceive of

God as God is important.

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And I guess I would offer you cautions

as you think about texts like this.

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I took that text and I think it makes

perfect sense to me that God would

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surprise us by doing the ultimate role

reversal and saying, yeah, you're gonna

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serve me absolutely, but I'm gonna shock

you and I'm gonna serve you as well.

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I don't think that's outside the realm

of the possibility or outside the realm

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of God's character, but this is probably

the only verse I think that says that

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God serves us in this particular way.

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So with that said, I don't

wanna build a church on it.

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I don't wanna start my own denomination

calling it those who are served by

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Christ Church or something like that.

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Now careful with how you read scripture.

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It's so good to think deeply and

ask good questions, but in asking

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good questions, you also challenge

yourself by potentially answering.

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In wrong ways.

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Mm.

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So yet again, I'm gonna refer you

back to Canon and the community.

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Make sure you do this in the context of

other Christians who know the Lord, love

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the Lord, been walking with the Lord who

are educated have the languages underneath

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their belts, God willing have years of.

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Practice and discipleship.

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You want that?

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Yeah.

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And then when you have questions

like this, or you're struggling

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with some concept, man, what a good

thing to, to utilize the church that

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God has given you in chapter 13.

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One section that I wanna make sure

that we get to talk about here is

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Jesus teaching on the narrow door.

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And this is one that's difficult

because we live in an area where there

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are a lot of churches and a lot of

people would say, hi, I'm a Christian.

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And when we read here that there's gonna

be few that enter through the narrow door.

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That doesn't always line up with

our perception of reality around us.

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'cause it seems like there's many, I mean,

you look at some of the mega churches

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around us and there are thousands upon

thousands of people that would at least

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claim membership at these churches.

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And you look at what.

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What that seems that even the

culture here and granted we've talked

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about it, the culture's changing.

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There's people from the outside moving in

here that are bringing to other religions

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in here as well, but there's still a lot

of a Christian culture that exists here.

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So Pastor Ru, how should we

understand that and how do we guard

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against becoming cynical against

these much larger churches saying,

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well, Jesus said the way is narrow.

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So you guys, there's no way all of

y'all are on the narrow path because he

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said, few, were gonna find it, not many.

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It takes a whole Bible to

make a whole Christian.

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And so if you were only

ingesting texts like this.

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And you were only reading Matthew

seven and Luke 13 and saying,

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man, there's just nobody else.

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You might get into the Elijah

mindset of saying, I'm the only one.

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There's no one else.

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This is it.

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Lord, just take me now.

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I might as well die.

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And the Lord says to Elijah,

slow your real homeboy.

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This is my translation.

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I took I took Hebrew.

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So that's what it was basically.

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That's a sense.

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He says, slow your real homeboy.

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I've actually got 7,000 who have not.

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Bow the knee to Baal.

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So chill.

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I've got this.

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Yeah.

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Trust that the Lord, even though there

is few and that really, that word, few

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versus many is a comparative word, and

we don't have a reference for that right

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few by what number, by what standard.

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And I grant that just because there's

not a number, it doesn't still carry

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a significance and a weightiness.

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I, I believe that.

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I trust that what that does for

me is sober me into thinking.

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I wanna make sure that I'm trusting

the Lord as he's revealed himself,

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rather than trusting my own intuition

and my spiritual sensibilities.

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That's the first thing.

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Second thing I wanna do is make sure that.

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Others who presumably walk with

the Lord are doing the same thing.

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That there is a sincere searching for

what God says about himself and what he

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commands of us to do in response to that,

and that I am caring enough to open their

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eyes to the same things that I'm seeing.

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And the way to do that primarily is

gonna be through your local church.

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Your local church is the hub

that helps you make sure that

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you're on the right track.

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Which again, I'm gonna go back

to what I just recently said.

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Make sure, you have pastors.

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Who are following the Lord, who are wise,

who have demonstrated responsibility

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and trustworthiness that you can

say, I'm gonna submit myself to their

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leadership and put myself, place myself

under their pastoral, protective care

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so that I don't go off the rails.

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Yeah.

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I wanna do this in community.

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I wanna do this in the canon of

scripture and I wanna make sure,

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again, I have a whole Bible to

make myself a whole Christian.

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Yeah.

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One other point here, this is a good

text for us to do what Paul instructs us

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to do and pause to examine ourselves to

see whether or not we're in the faith.

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One of the things that he says, which

I think is chilling, is in verse.

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26.

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When he says you will begin to

say, we ate and drank in your

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presence and Utah in our streets.

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But he will say, I tell you, I

don't know where you come from.

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Depart from me, all you workers of evil.

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This is similar to Matthew seven,

but a little bit different.

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What they're appealing to in Matthew

seven, they appeal to works here.

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They appeal to proximity.

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They're saying, we went

to church, we showed up.

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We were there every Sunday.

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Yeah, we listened to sermons.

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We heard all I can't remember

who the one that said it

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was , it sounds like MacArthur.

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So maybe it was MacArthur.

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I think it was maybe.

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Who said Judas heard every sermon

Jesus ever preached and yet still.

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Betrayed him, still was able to

deny and betray him and commit the

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ultimate act of betrayal against him.

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Mm.

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So just because we are near the things

of the Lord, just because our history is

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man I've grown up in the church, if we've

never had that transactional occasion

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to put our faith in Jesus Christ as our

Lord and Savior and ensure that our,

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the payment for our sin has been paid.

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It doesn't matter how long you've been

there, how many sermons you've listened

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to, Jesus is gonna tell you the same

thing that he tells these people here.

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I don't know where you come from, because

you have to have that moment of surrender

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to him as your Lord and the Savior.

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So it's a good gut check too for us.

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That's heavy and necessary.

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Well, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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And God make us a church full of

those that are on the narrow path.

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And I pray that you'd keep us like that.

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I pray that we would be a church full

of believers that are in relationship

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with you, not just in proximity to

you, but in relationship with you.

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And that we would as such stand out

and that others would want that, that

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they would be around us, be around us

as Christians, be around our church

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and desire what we have, the hope

that we have, the confidence in you

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that we have and that you would.

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By using us in as a result of

that, that you would bring many

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others to faith in Christ as well.

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So it help us to be a light in this

community even as we have Fall Fest today.

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We may it be a great and fantastic

event where people are shown the

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light of Christ by our church.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep bring your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See ya.

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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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This is a ministry of Compass

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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