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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: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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:Yeah.
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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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:Yeah.
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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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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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these much larger churches saying,
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y'all are on the narrow path because he
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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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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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: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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:He says, slow your real homeboy.
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:I've actually got 7,000 who have not.
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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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not a number, it doesn't still carry
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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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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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the Lord are doing the same thing.
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what God says about himself and what he
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and that I am caring enough to open their
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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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to what I just recently said.
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who have demonstrated responsibility
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say, I'm gonna submit myself to their
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under their pastoral, protective care
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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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:One other point here, this is a good
text for us to do what Paul instructs us
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see whether or not we're in the faith.
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I think is chilling, is in verse.
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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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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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: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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: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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: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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:PJ: Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said