00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:04 Office Banter and Foot Washing

00:49 Concerns About Islam

02:13 Christian Response to Islam

03:48 Trusting in God's Plan

05:28 Bible Study: John 14-17

08:07 The Role of the Holy Spirit

17:04 Jesus' High Priestly Prayer

20:22 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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It's Tuesday and everybody

should be back in the office.

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Well, your kids are today, Lord willing.

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Should they, what was happening?

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Well, where were they?

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Not?

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Well, I be traveling, so I'm just

saying hopefully everybody's back.

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Gotcha.

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Not like everybody.

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All, all over the place.

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Everybody as in here.

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Everybody here in this office?

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Yeah, our office.

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Did you wash their feet today?

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I did not.

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You did not do that?

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No.

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Contrary to all my pleadings.

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This guy's gonna give

us bad ratings again.

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You're gonna yell at me.

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You know, in fairness, that'd

be the weirdest thing you

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could possibly do for us.

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Yes.

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You could take us to Hutchins for lunch.

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We'd be stoked about that.

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Yes.

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You could buy us all a great

coffee mug with your face on

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it or something like that.

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That'd be well received.

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But if you washed our feet, I think.

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I think we'd all be a

bit weirded out by that.

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Yes.

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And rightly so.

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And that's the point of it.

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But it would be funny.

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Yeah.

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So there's that.

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That's true.

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Not worth, Hey, the sky is falling.

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The left, the sky's falling.

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People are upset about things.

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Yeah.

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I've seen on Christian Twitter and a

little less so on Facebook, still there.

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People are concerned about.

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Muslims.

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Yeah.

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Invading the country.

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There's a Muslim mayor in New York.

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Mm-hmm.

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There's also, it seems like, and

I'm not sure this is the internet

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today in 2025, where AI changes

everything and makes everything

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look real and is probably not real.

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I can't even tell anymore.

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In fact, this is another whole

conversation, but I'm just gonna

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tag it and go back to my main point.

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Okay.

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The tag is, I've been duped by

multiple AI posts and thank God for.

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Christian Twitter telling me, Hey, this

post has been tagged as ai, and I'm

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like, oh, thank God for telling me.

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Yeah.

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Because I thought that was real.

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Yeah, that's getting scary, man.

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Yeah.

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I love the internets.

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I'm a tech, I would call

myself a technophile.

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I love that stuff.

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And yet if I'm able to be duped.

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I'm scared.

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It's terrifying.

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I'm scared.

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Yeah, because I feel like I'm

pretty discerning for the most part.

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Alright, that's scary.

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I'm gonna put that in the side.

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Let that sit where it is.

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Okay.

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Back to my original point.

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People are scared that the

Muslims are invading our country.

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They're bringing their religion with them.

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They're clearly electing

people in the office.

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There have been videos, we don't

know if they're real or not.

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But I think they might be where Muslim

imams are saying things like, we're gonna

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be in every home by this particular year

and are, we're gonna do it by getting

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elected and we're gonna get, after we

get elected, we're gonna change this

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teachers and what they're teaching

in the classrooms, yada, yada, yada.

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So sky's falling.

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Help us navigate this.

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What do we do with all these things?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.,

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is Islam a threat , in.

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One sense, yes.

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I mean, it is.

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It's anti-biblical.

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It's antigo, it's antichrist, and it

is a demonic hellbound religion, and

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it is one that we need to not give

any quarter to as far as entertaining

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any of its teachings or thinking that

there's any sort of ecumenicalism that

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can exist between Christians and Islam.

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There's not, is the Muslim

population going to come and take

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over our nation, you know that's

God's pay grade at this point.

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I can't tell you one way or

another for sure on that.

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I can tell you things are a little

bit different here than they are

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in some of the other countries

that you've seen fall to Islam.

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In.

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Part of that is the, our government

in our governmental system here

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now, we did see up in, in New York

City, there was a, an Islamic.

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Democratic socialist that was

just elect elected mayor up there.

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I don't know if that was more

about his religion or his politics,

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but it's shows that Islam can

infiltrate our political system.

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It's happened up in Minnesota as well.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's not impossible for it to

happen here or other places.

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And so two things I would say.

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Number one I think your political

leaders are aware of the threat.

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And I think the, for example, I know

that Abbott is working on trying to

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do some things to limit voting rights

and things like that within our state.

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Abbott is Texas, guys from

California, governor of Texas.

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That's right.

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God bless Texas.

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So I think our political leaders,

those that see the danger.

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They see the danger too, just like you do.

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And so I think that they're working

on that level and you can pray

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for your leaders towards that end.

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You can pray for your governing

authorities that, not just the ones

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that agree with us, but even the ones

that disagree with us, that they would

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recognize the danger and the threat there,

and that they would put pla things in

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place to, to prevent that from happening.

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I think the second thing is

we do need to trust the Lord.

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We do need to.

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Understand that there is no guarantee

that we will live with life, liberty,

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and justice for the rest of our

lives here as citizens of the land

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of the free and the home of the

brave that's not guaranteed to us.

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We talked about that on Sunday.

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The suffering that comes

with Christianity, and I

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mentioned it on Sunday.

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We can't look at the quantity of

suffering we experience and draw

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qualitative conclusions by that.

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In other words, suffering is real.

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No matter if you live in the Middle

East and you're fearing for your

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life or you're living here and you're

going through a difficult situation

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with your marriage, your suffering

is valid in both of those situations.

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And if you're suffering for Jesus, then

it counts in both of those situations.

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But that's not to say that our.

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Quantity of suffering may not go up within

our lifetime or our kids' lifetimes.

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Mm.

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And I'm not saying you should feel

warm fuzzies about that, but this is

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where the rubber begins to meet the

road for us as Christians, as far as

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our faith in a sovereign and good God,

and our prayer life and our evangelism

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and our engagement, even in the

political spheres that he's given us a

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stewardship of to say, okay, what do we

need to do everything that we can to.

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Pursue that, which is good and

right and true, biblically speaking.

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Yeah.

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We only have a short season.

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We don't know how long that season is,

but we have a window of opportunity where

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things are really good and favorable

to our religion, the practice of our

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religion, talking to people about Christ.

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And while we have opportunity

and time, let us not waste it.

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Yeah.

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Let's use it instead of fretting and being

afraid and cloistering in our houses,

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either of worship or our personal houses.

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Let's get out there.

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Yeah, let's be about it.

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And God willing, we can make a dent.

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While we wait for whatever's next.

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And that's the thing we just don't know.

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Right.

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It's hard for us.

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I appreciate it.

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It's, that's God's pay grade.

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We don't know what's happening next,

but we do know he's got it figured out.

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Our job is to be faithful in the meantime.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Well, let's get into God's word together.

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We're gonna be in John 14, 15, 16 to 17.

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Is that it?

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We've got, it's just those four chapters

and we'll do our best to kind of progress

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through in a timely fashion here.

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But I do wanna say, I think maybe

there's a rapture sighting here.

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I'd love to get your thoughts on it.

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Wow.

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Let's see it.

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John 14.

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So right off the bat, Jesus is telling

his disciples, Hey, don't be troubled.

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Believe in God.

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Believe also in me.

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I see it.

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He says, I see it.

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Yeah.

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In my father's house are many rooms.

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I'm gonna go prepare a place for you.

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And if I go, then I'm gonna come

back to take you to be where I am.

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That where I am you may be also.

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Mm.

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The word for take you is Ella Rap Twoo.

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It just getting, it doesn't say that.

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Yeah.

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No, but , this fits better I think,

with our understanding of the rapture

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of the church than it does with

the fact that the next thing on the

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scene is him coming back here to

establish the kingdom here on earth.

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Mm-hmm.

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So, yeah.

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That's a good, that's a great point.

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Or the great, great, good point.

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So.

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Anyways, I accept it.

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First time that jumped

out to me, I'll accept it.

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So there you go.

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There's another thing to, to turn to,

to fight your, a millennial friends

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with a millennial, post-millennial

yeah, man, John 14 is so rich,

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so many good things, right?

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In this context, you've got the

exclusivity of Christ statement where he

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says, I am the way, the truth in the life.

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No one comes to the father, but through

me, we were just talking about Islam.

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This is one of the reasons why.

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Islam, Hinduism, all these other

religions we're gonna look at and

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say, those are false religions.

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Because they're saying the way to God

is through somebody other than Jesus.

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And so the only way, or Jesus

plus or Jesus plus, right.

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The Mormonism Jehovah's Witness.

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Yeah.

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Only.

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Biblical Christianity is

the only option there.

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And that's not a statement of arrogance

and pride, that's a statement of truth.

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It's not arrogant for you

to say, Hey, gravity exists,

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don't jump off the building.

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That's a matter of truth.

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And you're warning somebody

to say, this is not gonna go

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well if you reject what's true.

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And that's what we as

Christians are called to do.

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We're going called to go out and warn

people to say, this is what's true.

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This is what you need to believe.

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That's right.

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The rest of John 14 here is a lot of the

oneness between the son and the father.

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Philip is saying, Hey, show us the father.

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Jesus says, if you've seen me, you've

seen the Father, which is always an

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amazing statement to me because so

often we bifurcate those two and so

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many people want to, they're like,

well, you've got the God of the Old

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Testament, and then you've got Jesus.

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And Jesus is saying, here

we are one in the same.

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If you see me in my character,

my actions, my heart, you've

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seen that of the Father as well.

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And so his reminder there

to the disciples of that.

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And then he talks about

the giving of the spirit.

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And so this is such an encouraging

thing for us because we understand

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it now so much better because

we're on the backside of the cross.

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But Jesus is telling his disciples that

he is leaving them, and yet he's telling

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them, Hey, but it's not all bad because

I'm also going to leave behind the spirit

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and that spirit is going to be with you

and he's going to be in you, and he's

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going to help you understand the things

that I've been teaching you all along.

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Really quick there be before he got to the

spirit, he said something that I think you

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would be helpful in describing for people.

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Sure.

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He says greater works than these.

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He will do because I'm

going to the father.

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So this is verse 12.

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He says, truly I say to you,

whoever believes in me will also

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do the works that I do and greater

works than these he will do.

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In what sense are the works that

disciples after the apostles or

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maybe the apostles plus Yeah.

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Did greater works in Jesus?

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Yeah.

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I think this is probably

quantity more than it is quality.

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I think this is the

expansion of the church.

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I think this is similar to what

Paul says in Colossians when he

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says, I'm filling up what is lacking

in the afflictions of Christ.

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Mm-hmm.

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There was nothing qualitatively

lacking in the afflictions of Christ.

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But what Paul was completing is

the proclamation of the gospel.

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And that's I think what

Jesus has in view here.

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He may have specifically in view

the fact that there are gonna be

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miraculous signs the disciples

are gonna do during the early.

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Era and expansion to the church.

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But I think this applies to us

today to say we're still doing

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great works on behalf of Christ and

through Christ as we go out and share

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the gospel and see people saved.

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Okay, follow up question.

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Now, this one related to the spirit.

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Why does Jesus have to

leave to send the Spirit?

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I.

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Why does Jesus have to

leave to send the Spirit?

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I guess that's the

assumption that I'm making.

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Yeah.

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When he says, here, I'm gonna leave, but

then I'm gonna send the spirit to you.

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Yeah.

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My assumption is that he has to leave.

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Yeah.

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He has to depart in this way

in order to send the spirit.

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Yeah.

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After his ascension.

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Is there a necessity there

that we're not seeing?

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I maybe we, I would go to Hebrew

chapter seven where the author says.

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We are saved to the uttermost because he

always lives to make intercession for us.

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And so part of Christ's ongoing ministry

on our behalf is to be at the right hand

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of the father and to make intercession

for us, which is a perpetual thing

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that he's doing that's part of the.

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Our being saved presently is the fact that

he is there interceding on our behalf,

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so that we will never sin in such a

way that that sin is not covered by his

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intercession, covered by his blood for us.

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Mm-hmm.

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So he's there doing that.

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In the meantime, here we are and we need.

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Help while we're here.

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We need help to be sanctified.

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We need help to continue to

grow, to understand, to have

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enlightenment of the scriptures

and to grow in Christ's likeness.

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And that's the role of

the spirit in our lives.

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The spirit says here, or that Jesus

says about the Spirit in verse

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16, that he'll be with us forever.

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Does the spirits?

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Residents exist not only through our

lives, but after our lives are done.

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So in, in death and in glorification.

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Yeah.

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Does he remain with us for the

rest of our eternal existence?

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That's what's interesting.

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We're kind of parsing

out prepositions here.

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He does say with not in at that point.

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You know that, that's a fascinating

question this morning or as we record

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this, so on, on Friday I was going

through our bible time with my

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kids and one of my kids, Luke, he

said, dad when we get to heaven is,

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are we gonna see like, is it God?

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Are we gonna see somebody like on a

throne or what's that gonna be like?

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And so we talked about the fact

God is spirit and we're gonna be

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aware of the presence of his glory,

like in Ezekiel and like in other.

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Places God with Moses,

we're gonna see his glory.

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And he's not a force, he's a person.

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So it's gonna be an emotion intellect

and will, we're gonna have an interaction

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with him personally in heaven.

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But the only one we're gonna be able to

visibly see in heaven is gonna be Jesus

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the Son, the God the Son, God incarnate

in the flesh in his glorified state.

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There the Holy Spirit is another

mystery for me in heaven.

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He's gonna be there.

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Clearly he's part of the Godhead, but

whether that will be in us with us.

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Maybe that's on the new earth

because we're gonna be dwelling

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across the face of the new Earth.

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Maybe that's how the presence of

God remains with us, even when we're

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not there in the new Jerusalem,

where spatially Jesus will be there.

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The spirit's gonna be with

us in us at that time.

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I could definitely see that.

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That's interesting.

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Yeah.

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If we keep this pace, we're not

gonna finish for like 45 minutes.

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So could you please

just stop slowing down.

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John chapter 15.

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We get into the root of

the fruit, if you will.

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This is where the pro produce

of sanctification comes from.

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It comes from a relationship with

Jesus, and that's what's key.

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Jesus is the vine and we are the branches.

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And if we abide in the vine

that's where we will bear fruit.

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And so that's we even

talked about it on Sunday.

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Peter said that he died on the

cross, that we might die to

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sin and live to righteousness.

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James talks about the

relationship of faith and work.

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And says, look, if you say I've got

faith, but you have no works, he says,

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I'm gonna show you my faith by my works.

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And that's really what this is talking

about, that saving relationship

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with Jesus abiding in Christ and

how do we know we're abiding in him?

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It's almost circular reasoning here

in a sense, but we know we're abiding

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in him when we keep his commandments.

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And that's that evidence of it.

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And so this is so important

for us to remember.

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We've gotta have an ongoing,

cultivated relationship with the Lord.

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That's one of the reasons

why we are so high on you.

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Not just high on we, we are adamant

that you have to be in the word of God.

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We would say that's non-negotiable.

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And we do believe that the program and

plan that we're doing right now, this

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chronological plan is good for you.

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And we would invite you to say,

if you don't have a plan that

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you're doing right now, join us.

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And that's something that if it's,

Hey, I don't have a plan, then I

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would say, you should be with us.

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Join us.

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Join in with us.

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Read this with us, participate with us.

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I know I'm preaching to the choir here

because you're listening to the podcast,

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but at the same time, we need a daily

cultivation of our relationship with God.

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And John 15 is such a

good reminder of that.

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Why, because the rest of John 15, he

says, the world's gonna oppose you.

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The world's gonna hate you again.

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We talked about that on Sunday.

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And identifying with

Christ means suffering.

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That's going to bring opposition.

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And so we have to have this

secure connection to Christ.

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And then he goes on in, in chapter 16

to talk more about the Holy Spirit and

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the fact that's gonna be part of the

way that God protects us through that.

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He makes an interesting comment, though.

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He does say here, and we talked about

it a little bit, that it's better.

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For him to depart, to go be with

the Lord, then for him to stay.

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Because if he goes, then

the Holy Spirit comes.

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And I can't remember the pastor that

first said it, but it's the statement,

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it's better to have the spirit

inside you than Jesus beside you.

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Which is fascinating.

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And I think it's because of the different

roles that they have within the Godhead.

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The role of Jesus is different

than the role of the Spirit.

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The role of the Spirit is there

for our instruction edification.

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Conviction, enlightenment.

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The role of the son is therefore

the atoning death, his ascension,

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his intercession at the right

hand of the father for us as well.

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So, different roles in each, incredibly

valuable, each super important in the

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redemptive history and redemptive process

of us but unique at the same time.

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What's so interesting is that

probably most Christians would, if

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given a choice, choose to have Jesus.

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It's tempting.

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Yeah.

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If I could take Jesus with me, sit in

my car and come to work with me and

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sit next to me and have a question,

instead of gonna GPT, I could just go

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to Jesus GOD and say, what do you think?

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Lord?

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That's good.

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And yet the Lord saw fit

to give us his spirit.

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Yeah.

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Instead he said, this is better.

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Yeah.

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This is from the words of God.

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So I think we're compelled to

say, we probably don't value the

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spirit enough if we're saying I'd

rather have Jesus with me, but God

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is saying this is better for you.

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And so I think we ought to celebrate the

fact that we have the Spirit with us.

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Everywhere.

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All the time.

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He leads us, he guides us, and he

does that most often through his word.

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Yep.

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One of the interesting things he says

of the spirit though that is probably

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worth note here in verse 13, he says,

when the spirit of truth comes, he

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will guide you into all the truthful.

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He will not speak on his own authority,

but whatever he hears, he will speak.

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He will declare to you the

things that are to come.

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He will glorify me for, he will take

what is mind and declare it to you.

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All the father has his mind.

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Therefore, I said he will take

what his mind declare to you.

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I think this is him talking about the

role of the Spirit with the disciples

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specifically and the rest of the

completion of the Canon Church Age the

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unique apostolic ministry that they

were to have and the role the spirit

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was gonna play for them specifically.

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Because the spirit is not giving

us any additional revelation

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beyond what we already have.

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He's helping us to understand it.

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To know it.

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And in that sense, he is taking

what is his and revealing it to

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us, but is not new revelation that

we're getting anymore at this point.

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One quick note here.

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As I read in verse 12 I noticed that

Jesus says, I still have many things to

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say to you, but you cannot bear them.

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Now, this gave me pause because I think

there's oftentimes when I'm interacting

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with people, either counselee or even my

own kids, where I'm just thinking I'm not

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telling you half of what you need to know.

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Because in part you just, you're

just not ready to hear it yet.

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And I think it would do us a lot

of help if we keep this in mind as

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we're interacting with our friends,

our family, our loved ones, whoever.

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There are times when we can't

tell them everything that we know

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and think about a subject because

you're just not ready for it.

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God does it with us.

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He doesn't reveal all of our

sin at once, unless he crush us.

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He gives us a little bit at a time.

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So keep that in mind as

you're talking with anybody.

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Yeah.

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Which is, I think, fits with what I was

just saying too, because the things that

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he has to say are things that Paul's

gonna write in Ephesians, in Philippians

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and Galatians and so forth and so on.

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So, and Hebrews with Melek, right?

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Imagine Jesus dumping melek

on Peter at that moment.

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Their minds has been blown.

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Our minds are blown with Mok still.

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Anyways, he goes on to, to talk

more about his impending departure.

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You're not gonna see me.

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I'm leaving a little while.

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I'm not gonna be here, but

then you're gonna see me again.

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There's an interplay with

the resurrection here.

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That's also, I think, alluding to a.

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The ascension and then

his ultimate return.

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There's a lot of this going on here,

but then the ultimate message in the

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end of chapter 16 is you're gonna

have opposition here, but take heart

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because I've overcome the world.

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I win in the end.

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And that's such an encouragement to them.

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And and they didn't understand

these things at this point because

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they didn't yet know what was

in front of him, but John did.

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As John's writing this.

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And he's writing it in this way.

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Zooming us in here, I think to give us

such an encouraging reminder that when

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we go through the suffering, like we

were talking about at the beginning of

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this episode, Jesus wins in the end.

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John 17.

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The high priestly prayer from here Jesus.

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This is another prayer that, that Jesus

prays, I don't think for his own sake,

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but for the sake of the disciples,

because he allows them to eavesdrop on

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his conversation with the Father here.

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And he's gonna pray before going to the

cross, and he's gonna pray for them.

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He's gonna pray for their faith.

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He's gonna pray for their preservation,

that God will protect them.

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That God would keep

them from the evil one.

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He's.

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Gonna pray, God, I, they're gonna stay

in the world and I want them there.

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He's saying, I'm not asking you that

you take them outta the world because

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there's a mission for them that

they're gonna be doing but that you

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would keep them from the evil one.

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He's gonna pray not only

for the disciples, but he's

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also gonna pray for us.

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When he says in verse 20, I don't only

ask for these only, but also for those who

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will believe in me through their words.

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So he's praying for us, for you and me

right now in this high priestly prayer.

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And Jesus is saying that he's praying that

they would be sanctified and ultimately

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that sanctification comes as he says.

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In the truth of God's

word, your word is truth.

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And so just a sweet moment with Jesus

and the disciples prior to the cross

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where he's praying for them and what a

humbling thing that would've been for

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them on the backside of the cross to

be like, man, some of his last moments

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of speaking to us, were, pray for us.

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Yeah.

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And if you wanna know somebody.

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Listen to their prayer life and

you really get a chance to hear

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and feel their theology and

understand how their mind processes

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through a whole variety of things.

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And so what's really cool here is that

he allows the disciples to listen in.

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Yeah.

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To him commuting with his father.

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Yeah.

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This is sacred territory.

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Really cool that you get to.

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Sneak peek what Jesus is saying.

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And this thing is so rich.

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There's so many things that he

hits on his pre-existence where

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he alludes to the fact that he had

glory with the father beforehand.

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Yeah.

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And he's gonna go back to

it's like what is happening?

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And you're hearing and you're

able to listen in on something

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that is like mind bogglingly huge.

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And so I would encourage you

if you have time to, to linger

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over chapter 17 in particular.

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This is a really rich passage because

of all the things that Jesus is speaking

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about, not the least of which are unity.

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Our protection, all the

things that you talked about.

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But there's so much because this is

Jesus prayer life on display for us.

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And I love it.

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It's, there's so many cool things here.

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And he had a decent theology.

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It was okay.

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A couple things I might say, you

know what, this could be improved.

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I might say it this way, Lord, if

I had my say, I would be the guy.

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I put my foot in my mouth so many times.

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Oh yeah.

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But I would have so many questions.

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Yeah.

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I can't wait for heaven.

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'cause I have a long list of questions

that I can't wait to have resolved.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Yeah.

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And we'll spend eternity

learning even more than that too.

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Do you think in heaven I do.

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We're going to be regularly

interacting with Jesus.

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Like do is there gonna be Yeah,

I, because he's gonna, I'm sure

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he is gonna have a long line.

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Totally.

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I know he's omnipotent and

omnipresent in some sense, but

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he's restricted by his body.

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He's chosen to restrict

himself in that way.

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So how does that, how does it work?

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I'd like for you to explain that.

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How are we interacting with Jesus

in heaven, in the intermediate

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state and in the new Jerusalem

and new have the new Earth?

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If you could just tell us how

that works, that would be great.

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Well, we will but look at that.

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Oh man.

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Look at that.

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We're outta time.

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We'll have to hit that

on a future episode.

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All right.

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Tomorrow's episode.

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I'll let you start with that.

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It's the future one.

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It's open.

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Tomorrow's in the future's.

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Open ended.

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It's open ended.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We'll see.

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Well, maybe someone will

send it into the DBR.

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Question.

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Yeah, the podcast at compass ntx org.

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Yeah, you can ask Pastor PJ that

same question and have answer free or

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Pastor Rod that, that question too.

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Well we both get the email, but you're

the one that's really appointed me.

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Actually, you know what better idea,

so I know you've got a class coming

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up on Tuesday and so do Pastor Mark

is gonna be in, so if you wanna send

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it to Pastor Mark, I think we can

both agree pastors, PJ and Mark, we'd

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both be happy to receive your emails.

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Anyways.

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Let's pray again.

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We are so, to say grateful

seems so trivial, but we.

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There's no better word.

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We are overwhelmed, thankful, humbled

at the thought that you would not only

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die for us, but also provide the spirit

for us to take up residence in us.

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That you would have the third member

of the Godhead dwell within us.

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Lord, what an amazing reality that is.

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And one that we don't

often think about enough.

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And how much do we leave on the table

when we could do so much more if we

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really were truly tapped into what the

Spirit is doing, abiding in Christ, even

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as John has said in John chapter 15.

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So, Lord, help us to grow more

in the sensitivity to the spirit.

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And to be empowered more to serve

by the Spirit Lord and that we would

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just continually be in awe of the

goodness that we find in Christ,

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in our salvation, in the kindness

that You ha have provided a way for

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us to have a relationship with you.

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It's amazing.

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And so God helps us to trust you.

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Even as we were talking about

at the beginning of the podcast.

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This world is changing

before our eyes rapidly.

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Help us to trust you, the one that

is unchanging with our future, the

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future of our children, the future of

our church, the future of our leaders,

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of our nation, of our state God.

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Help us to trust you, and I pray

that we would in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

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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