00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:13 Retreat Recap and Church Updates

00:37 The Hand-Crank Miracle

02:38 Matthew 10: The Twelve Apostles

04:31 Apostles vs. Disciples: Understanding the Difference

07:46 The Mission to Israel

09:23 Validating the Messenger and the Message

09:46 Miraculous Acts in Different Timeframes

10:10 Expectations of Miraculous Events

11:27 False Signs and Discernment

12:16 Persecution and Faithfulness

14:56 Loving Jesus Above All

16:06 Understanding Persecution

17:52 Heavenly Rewards and Motivation

20:39 Concluding Prayer and Encouragement

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Yeah, it is Wednesday, October 16th.

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That's great.

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That's what we got.

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That's that's the news today.

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Wednesday, October 16th, 2024.

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And our ladies are back from the retreat.

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They have been for a

few days, but thank God.

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Yes.

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And we didn't know this ahead of

time because we were recording sooner

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than, than we anticipated, but.

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Um, they had a great time.

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So that was awesome.

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It sounds like Waco treated them well,

and the messages were good from Kelly and

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Kelly out of Barry and yeah, it was good.

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I heard they were great.

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Not just good.

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Like great.

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Like Tony, the tiger bread.

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Hey, speaking of great man, that

hand-crank for the tarps on Sunday.

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That was great.

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That's church planter things, right.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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No one else cares about right.

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For us made a difference.

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I didn't get a chance to see it in action.

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I just heard you raising raving about it,

like a lunatic running around like this.

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And you try it.

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Now you try it.

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Don't you want to try it?

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Yes.

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I think you were pulling a Tom Sawyer,

painting the fence kind of thing.

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Like man, this painting

fence is so awesome.

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Yeah.

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And it worked no.

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So if you're in the dark on this one,

Um, so there's black floor coverings

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that go down on the gym floor every

Sunday that your chairs set upon.

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Uh, those are there when we show up.

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In fact, it's just a

bare basketball court.

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In fact, if you're thinking to yourself,

man, it sounds like they could use

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some help in, in setting things up

in the morning and tearing them down.

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Can we can, we would love for you to sign

up for our tear down or set up teams.

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Um,

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Anyways, those tarps get unrolled

from these big giant rollers, and then

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they have to get rolled up at the end.

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Well, we, for a long time had

this, we called it a top gun.

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Apparently it's just called a winder.

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And it looks like a gigantic ratchet.

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It's a electrical ratchet.

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You pull the trigger and it, it cranks

the wheel for you to roll the tarp up.

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Um, well, that thing broke

a couple of weeks ago.

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Like really massively broke.

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Like the power cable just fell off

the back of it onto the ground.

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There were sparks.

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It was, it was tense.

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Um, I was scared for your dad.

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Yeah, he was the one

holding it at the time.

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And so we thought, oh no, this is

not going to be well or be good.

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And in the school said, well, we

can't really replace that right now.

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And that's fair.

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It's an expensive piece of equipment.

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They said use the hand-crank.

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So we showed up on Sunday and I was

like, man, this is not going to be fun.

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But it turns out the hand-crank is like

twice as fast as that ratchet thing.

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Maybe even faster.

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Uh, it might, may be even faster.

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And it worked out the shoulders of some

of the men that were in there doing it.

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Why weren't we doing this the whole time?

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I don't know.

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Get swole while you roll.

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That's the new thing.

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As far as the top crew goes.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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So the hand-crank w those.

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There was a common grace of God,

something that seemed like it

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was going to be discouraging.

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That turned out to be a blessing.

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Yeah, indeed.

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That's the way it works out, man.

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God's taking care of us one way

or another one way or another.

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He's in control.

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So he's got it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we're in Matthew 10 today.

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So, uh, we can jump right in and start

talking about the text, this do it.

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All right.

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Well, we open up with the

12, the 12 apostle 12.

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Okay.

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Help us out here because

there's multiple lists of names.

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Everybody wants to know who's an apostle.

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Who's not how do you, is there a

way for us to remember the names I'd

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like to know that actually have it?

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I have an idea.

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That I got from someone else.

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Okay.

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If you, if you don't have one, I got one.

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I don't have a way.

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I just know that.

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I just kind of hit the 12

and I'm like, there's the 12.

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But off the top of your head though,

could you like name them off?

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I mean, this is one of those, like, yeah.

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Tasks or no, the 12 disciples.

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Aye.

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Recently.

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Yeah, I was talking to somebody.

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It was that church.

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We're having conversations about that.

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I'm like, oh, who's that?

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I could, I could name several of them.

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Right.

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But I could not be confident that

I knew the 12, because some of them

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have multiple names on top of that.

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So I was thinking, I got to

figure out how to remember this.

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And so I found a, an

acronym or known mnemonic.

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Okay.

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PBJ stamp and the JS are, I

think there's five JS, right?

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James.

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Yeah, there's two James's right?

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Yep.

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Two.

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It is one John, and then

there's two Judases.

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Yup.

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Okay, so PBJ.

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So those are the Jays.

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Uh, Peter Bartholomew and then stamp

S T a M P a S Simon, the zealot.

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T Thomas, a Andrew M Mathias or Matthew.

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Rather.

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And then P for Philip.

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Right.

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And there's the 12th,

but that comes later.

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He's an Axe.

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He's the one that writes.

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Places.

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Yeah.

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Judas guy.

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So that's why I got him a visa

for a second, but yeah, there,

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he got PBJ, which is, you have to

think of the five PPG five stamp.

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Yup.

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Well, PBJ is that's.

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That's your name?

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Yeah, that should be easy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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People used to call me peanut

butter and jelly all the time.

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I got pajamas all the time.

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Don't though, if you're out there

listening to that going, that's it.

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I'm calling pastor pajamas to please.

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Don't.

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It's not.

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Just pastor is fine.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's fine.

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Senior pastor.

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Dr.

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Pastor master, pastor, Reverend.

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All of those are great.

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Um, Yeah.

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Okay.

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So apostles verse disciples,

pastor rod, is there significance

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there in the name in the title?

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How should we understand

one from the other.

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Yes in short, the short answer is yes.

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And there's also a qualified no.

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Uh, short answers.

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Yes.

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The 12 disciples are see here in

verse one as a reference to the 12,

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who would be eventually a puzzles.

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Uh, parcels are those who are

commissioned formally and officially

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by Christ to be his representative.

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So, yes.

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They are, uh, they are different.

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They're distinct because they

carry an authority that Jesus

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and trust to them specifically.

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They are the foundation of the church.

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That's what Peter, excuse me.

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That's what Paul says later on.

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It says that.

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The work of the church is

built on the foundation of

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the apostles and the prophets.

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Those who are been given.

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Revelation.

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Uh, everything else that happens

now from them is built upon

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what they have is established.

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So yes, there's a difference, but

when it comes down to it, they're.

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They're the first disciples, but

they're the most prominent because of

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their first in priority, but they're

also first in importance when it comes

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to the role that Jesus gave them.

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In fact, on the foundations of

Jerusalem, it's going to have their

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names, 12 foundations, 12 apostles.

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Which people want to know.

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Who's the 12th.

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Well, I guess.

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I'll let you talk about it at some point.

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Yeah.

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Um, Some people would argue.

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There are still apostles today.

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Uh, in fact.

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There's a whole theological movement.

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I think it's erroneous, but it's

called the new apple stock reformation.

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Sometimes you'll see church.

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Uh, it's not billboards, but

what are those called marquees?

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Yeah.

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With the name of possible, you

know, so-and-so is, uh, is here

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at this church, we would say.

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No.

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Um, that's not, not accurate.

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Uh, the word apostle

comes from the Greek word.

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which means sent one or messenger.

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So in that sense, are there

lowercase a apostles today?

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Well, yeah.

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I mean, every Christian is in that

sense in apostle we've been sent with

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the message of the gospel of Jesus

Christ, but as far as capital apostles,

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A role or an office or a title.

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That is reserved to those that, that

Jesus designated eye witnesses of him

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and his ministry, um, commissioned by

him to go out and build the church.

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And so that's no longer here.

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So if, if you go in drive by a church

that has a parcel so-and-so here, or your,

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your family member attends to a church

where they say, we still think there are

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apostles, it's an important distinction.

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Lowercase eight.

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Yes, we are all sent messengers,

but capital a title, office role.

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No, that's.

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That was reserved for these 12,

that Jesus specifically commissions.

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So can someone use the term.

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If they're calling us as a possible.

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TA Jake's or whatever, or

TD checks, because that's, I

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think he uses that term too.

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Yeah, he's not a good example,

but can someone legitimately use

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it in a non like unorthodox way?

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Should we be concerned if we

see someone who calls themselves

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that I think it's unhelpful.

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Uh, unhelpful terminology because of the

baggage associated with it, um, to, to.

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Uh, employ that.

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Can you, is it possible that

you can mean that in a, in a

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lowercase, a sense of the title?

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Totally.

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But I think because there's so

much baggage associated with that.

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And when you hear the title, apostle,

it conveys authority in office and

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title and in a degree of power.

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That it's not helpful to try to do that.

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I think the better posture, even just.

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From a position of humility.

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If you want to refer to yourself

as one sent with a message.

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Hey.

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I'm a missionary or

I've, I'm an ambassador.

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I'm somebody who's, I'm a disciple

of Jesus called with the incident

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with the mission to the gospel

that I think is far more helpful.

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Than to say, I'm an apostle.

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It would be.

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Well, now I have to

make new business cards.

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Okay.

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Well, good.

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Uh, you should.

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So after the calling of the 12, we then

get, um, the, the sending of the 12th.

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And so this is the, this is an early

sending out an early commissioning.

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And so in, in verses five through 15,

Uh, in verses five and six specifically.

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Jesus knows that they're going to

be sent to Israel and instructed

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here to exclude the Gentiles.

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And that's interesting.

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Uh, that Jesus tells the

disciples don't go to any of

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the Gentile territories because.

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Jesus interacts with Gentiles as

we're going to see in the ministry,

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as we've already seen in the ministry.

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And yet for the disciples, he's

saying only go to the house of Israel,

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pastor, rod thoughts on, on that.

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Yeah.

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Initially I was offended for you

guys, your Gentiles that, you

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know, you're not in the story.

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Felt bad for you guys.

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Uh, at this unique period of time,

this is Jesus sending out his people.

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Again, the gospel goes to the Jews

first and then through the Greek,

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that's what Romans chapter one tells us.

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And so this is Jesus doing exactly

what has been predicted, what happened.

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The gospel has to go first

to the people of Israel.

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They reject him, of course, which

is a sad reality, but after their

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rejection, now he's grafting in the

people, uh, called the Gentiles,

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you and me, most of us anyway.

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And that's, that's what's happening here.

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He's saying we're going to

first, our first, uh, attack.

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Our first strategy is going

to be to the people of Israel.

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the gospel comes to them first.

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They're the ones who are

responsible for the Oracles.

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They get the blessings, they

get the, they get the privilege.

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But of course, as you'll see here in

this particular iteration of history,

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they're going to reject their privilege

and favor for their own devices.

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And consequently, thankfully the

gospel now goes to the Gentiles and

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we're now included because of their.

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Present rejection, which will eventually

be overturned and be there inclusion.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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Notice in verse eight, the disciples

are given power to do some of the

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miraculous signs that that Jesus had done.

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This is cool.

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It's something that dead.

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Yeah.

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A means of, again, validating

the messenger and the message.

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Uh, they're, they're not saying,

Hey, open up your Bibles to the

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gospel of John and read with me here.

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So in order to give the, the, the

weightiness to what they're saying in

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what they're calling people to believe in.

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Uh, they were allowed by God in this

dispensation to do miraculous acts.

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That would cause people to say, you know

what, I'm going to listen to what this guy

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has to say because of what he just did.

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Um, our authority, our power comes from

the word of God, the written word of God

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that we contain in the Bible these days.

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And so it's a different, uh, it's

a different timeframe for us.

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And so we're not expected

to do these same things.

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If somebody dies, we're not going to

go and lay hands on the casket and pray

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that the dead person comes back to life.

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That's not.

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The way that God operates anymore.

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That's not there to, to validate

the message in the messenger.

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Whereas, this is what was taking

place here in this timeframe.

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Is there any ever a time when God may,

uh, for whatever reason bring about.

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Works like this, or I

guess biblically speaking.

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And when are we told to expect the

next rash of miraculous type events

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and times, um, you know, even the, the

prophecy of Juul, the, the visions and

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dreams and things like that, coming

in at the end, the full fulfillment

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of that, it will be in the end.

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Uh, you've got the two witnesses in

the end of the book of revelation

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who were going to be slain, and then

they're going to come back to life.

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Um, th th there's going to be

the miraculous things taking

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place at that stage as well.

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And by the way you may might be

thinking, well, what's normative.

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If you take all of the seasons of the

miraculous events in scripture, there's

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really not as many as we think there are.

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I think a lot of times we think,

man, everybody in the Bible was

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doing miracles all over the place.

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And that's, that's actually

not, that's not the case.

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There were seasons wearing and

it was normative and, and a long.

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A much longer period of time

where it was not normative.

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Um, when you think of the ministry,

have you had it during Moses day?

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You got Elijah and Elisha.

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Um, You had.

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Christ and the apostles.

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And the apostles, and then you're

going to have it in the end times too.

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And there were some other

miraculous events that took

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place, Jonah, in the whale.

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You've got Daniel in the lion's den,

stopping the mouths of the lions.

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You've got things like that

that are taking place there.

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The fiery furnace.

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But the normative periods

where we're not as, as.

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As prevalent as we, we think that we're

one thing to note too, is that Jesus

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warns about false Christ who will appear

with false profits and they'll arise

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and perform signs and wonders to lead

astray if possible, even the elect.

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And so if you see signs and wonders,

You can't automatically assume.

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Okay.

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This is a legitimate

expression of the power of God.

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I should follow this person.

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Uh, Christians are called to look at the

fruit and the fruit encompasses not only

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what they do, but also what they teach.

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We guard against the, the false premises

of the enemy by knowing our Bibles

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really well so that we can discern

is this lining up with what scripture

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says, it's our responsibility to

do that because scripture warns us.

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In fact, that's what Jesus says in mark

13, Matthew 24, both of those texts.

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He talks about being on guard.

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He's I've told you this beforehand

false signs, false messiahs are coming

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to tell you to lead your straight.

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If they, even if it were even

possible, they're coming.

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So be aware of that.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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He says, Hey, stay in minister

where you're welcomed and

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leave where you rejected.

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And that's the sending in sending them.

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He also though it says in verses

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with this, I'm sending you out

as sheep in the midst of wolves.

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And there's a, there's a near

and far term here as well.

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There's there's the short term

that they were going to suffer

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some of this as they were sent out.

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And even in the book of acts,

there's a, I'd say again, a

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short term fulfillment of this.

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Uh, but there's some that, uh,

for instance, Matthew 10 22,

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you're going to be hated by all

for the sake of Jesus' name.

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Um, 19 through 20, you're going to have

situations here of being drugged before.

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Uh, counselors and, and Kings

and, and religious leaders.

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And, and he says, don't be afraid

because you'll be given the words to

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say, There's some that believe in.

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I'd love to get your thoughts on

this, that this is anticipating

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the tribulation period that this

is what Jesus is anticipating here.

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Not necessarily even the spread

of the early church, where there

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was a lot of suffering during that

time, but the final fulfillment of

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this will be the tribulation period

with the believing saints that are

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still around during that period.

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Yeah, I think it's possible

for texts like this to have a

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multiplicity of applications in

terms of the when and where's yeah.

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What, what Christ has

specifically in mind?

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I think it's a hard case to make because

he doesn't offer the same kind of the

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same kind of signs that are attributable

to one specific age of the church.

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It was very possible that it's

Jesus is talking about this.

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I mean, just think about his

starts behold, I'm sending you out

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as sheep in the midst of wolves.

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That's still kind of true today.

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That's true in the first century.

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It's true today.

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Uh, Christians are called to be sheep,

like in our, on our disposition.

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And we're among wolves.

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Those who are desiring

to, to pray on the flock.

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So, I mean, it's, it's hard to

narrow this down and say, this is

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only about this particular picture.

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I wonder if Christ in

his deliberate ambiguity.

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Ambiguous to us, not to him is

intending for this to be like, Hey,

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this is your marching orders for

this dispensation of human history.

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Sure.

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Well, he moves in, in verses 26 through 23

to, to provide comfort at the same time.

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Hey, there's persecution coming,

but, but be comforted by knowing

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that that God is aware of what you're

going to go through and endure.

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The call is instead to stay

faithful, fearing God and not men.

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And this is, uh, that famous line where

he says in verse 28, do not fear those who

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kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.

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Rather fear him who can destroy

both soul and body in hell.

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Um, and so that, that idea of there

of not fearing men and not being in

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a, not being paralyzed by our fear of

what men could do to us, but instead of

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looking forward to the reward of being

acknowledged by Dodd, as he goes on to

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say, if you acknowledge me before men,

I will acknowledge you before my father.

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What an amazing statement that is.

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Uh, that, that Christ could confess our

names and say, yeah, he's one of mine.

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He's one of my followers.

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Uh, and to live for that day to live,

to hear Jesus say her name is, is.

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Just an amazing idea.

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Yeah, what a privilege.

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Yeah.

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Versus 34, 33 39.

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Then he says, I did not come to

bring peace, but division in the

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division Christ came to bring stems

from the call to love him above

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every other earthly relationship.

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I think we're seeing this.

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Uh, level of division more and more in

our culture today where it's so easy

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to love other things besides Jesus.

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And it's so easy to want Jesus to just

kind of fit in alongside all of the other

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things that we love and all the other

things that we're comfortable with and

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all the other things we think define us.

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And T to consider giving them up.

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When right now, in our current

context, we don't really have to,

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because we're not being persecuted.

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I think this is a hard concept for us to,

to understand how can I love Jesus more

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than all the other blessings and comforts

I have in my life when even people, right.

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When really I'm not being asked

to give any of those things up

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to follow them, I can have Jesus

and all those things right now.

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Yeah.

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And I noticed here in the list that he

offers, he doesn't talk about spouse.

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I felt like that was a glaring absence.

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I wonder why.

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No, I don't really have a great answer.

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I don't think he has to say spouse

in order for that to be included.

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Um, but I think generally speaking,

what Christ is intending to convey here

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is that Jesus should be first place.

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Uh, I have to be the one who, who, who

is preeminent in your life and therefore

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that's the case it's going to cause

some friction between your closest

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relatives, your closest companions.

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Did the point that you

brought up about persecution?

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I wanted to bring up one thing that

I forgot to mention here in verse 23.

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Sometimes.

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Christians.

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And I guess let's, maybe we should

even describe or define what it means.

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We used to come from a.

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My old small group, Mount church.

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One of the guys in the group

would often say, Hey, we're

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not suffering persecution guys.

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We're we're, we're not being,

we're not being persecuted.

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This is not persecution.

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There's real persecution happening

in other places of the world.

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And.

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They know what that's like.

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And we were, you know, we're comfy cushy

Americans, and we don't know what that.

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And I understand his point.

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Everybody does right.

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We know that there are lots of Christians

that are suffering far more than we

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are, but I don't think it's fair to say

that we're not experiencing any form.

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It might be a two on the scale of 100

or a 10 or whatever the number is, but

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there's still something about that.

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Nevertheless verse 23.

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He says when they persecute you in

one town flee to the next, which

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is interesting because that means

that there's appropriate times till.

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To leave it to flee, to

run away from persecution.

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If you can avoid it, don't

run to it and say, take me.

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Um, I'm yours.

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Kill me while you have the opportunity.

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Jesus makes it commendable to Rome.

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He says flee.

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And then he says, the reason why.

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I just because I want you to go

through all the towns of Israel

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before the son of man comes.

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I want you, I want you to share

the gross or the gospel elsewhere.

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That is, if there's a door

closed here, go to the open door.

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So I just want to mention that as we think

about persecution, as you think about

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maybe your, your employer is thinking

about firing you or is firing you because

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of your being a Christian or voting

Republican or whatever else it might be.

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Uh, I don't think it's a it's ever off

the table to say maybe I'm supposed to run

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from this persecution because God wants

to plant me elsewhere to be useful there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Good insights.

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Helpful.

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Helpful.

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It's helpful.

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That's really powerful.

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Is it.

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Beneficial.

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It is.

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Uh, yeah.

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Supplemental hundred.

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I can't come up with any more synonyms.

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Um, Reward Matthew 10 43, 42.

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This is going to be worth it.

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Because in the end, you are going

to have a reward for receiving

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Christ for receiving those who,

uh, he sends and understanding that

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that's an extension of receiving.

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Him.

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And then he even talks about, as

we, we give and serve other people,

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we're, we're really serving him.

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Um, and so there's, there's the reward

component that makes all of this in

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the end, truly worth it, which it's

okay to be motivated by eternal reward.

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I think sometimes we get.

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That's not spiritual.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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But it's okay because

the Bible holds that out.

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In fact, Paul even says to Timothy as a

quarter on Sunday, second 24, he says,

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I'm looking forward to the crown of

righteousness, which Jesus is going to

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give me, I'm looking forward to my reward.

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Um, Jesus says, store up

treasure for yourself in heaven.

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In other words, we should

have a mindset of going, man.

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I'm stockpiling it for my cell phone.

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That's right, right.

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That's right.

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Um, issues about that.

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Yeah.

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And yes, it's going to be

for the glory of Jesus.

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Yes.

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It's going to be all.

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You know, for, for him and, and to, to

magnify him, but it's still it's worth it.

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It's, it's, uh, something that's okay for

us to focus on and to, uh, to have as a

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motivator, as we navigate our way through

this life, it would be unspiritual.

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Dare I say.

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To say.

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They're not motivated by your rewards.

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Yeah.

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God wants us to be motivated by them.

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Right.

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He's not putting them out there to say,

look, if you're, if you need this right.

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If I have to appeal to

your flesh and okay.

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Here, right.

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He wants us to do that.

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I'm in fact it's he's well, he wants

it so badly that he's saying, look,

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even if you give a cup of water yeah.

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If someone has you over pass your PJ.

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And they show you hospitality.

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Uh, I mean, what kind of

hospitality might you expect?

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What's what's the norm.

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Yeah.

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Hey, do you need something to drink?

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We've got LaCroix.

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We've got a sodas.

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What do you w what can

I, what can I get you?

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Uh, you know, a normal person might

offer you the LaCroix or whatever else.

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And they're probably not

thinking twice about it.

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Right.

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But make no mistake.

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God is paying attention.

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I'm going to reward you for that

because you served him in my name.

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You're doing it because you love me.

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You're doing it because

you love your pastor.

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And God's saying, I want

to, I want to reward you.

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If Jesus is affirming the use of rewards.

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And so it's not unspiritual guys, please.

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Don't make yourself more

spiritual than God, right?

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He wants us to be motivated

by these things and there's

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no bad thing to do that.

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So please.

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And for those heavenly rewards and trust

that God's got good plans for you, right?

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Because the difference.

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You go back to Daniel and some

people point back there and they're

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like, well, you know, Daniel

said, you can keep your reward.

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You can keep your crown, your.

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Uh, you know, but I'm here to testify

to the greatness and glory of God.

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Yeah, that was human rewards.

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That was human position.

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And especially in the end there,

when he was like, dude, you're,

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you're going to die tonight.

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You can keep your title.

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I don't need it for the few

hours that you've got left.

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It, this reward that we're talking

about, it's real, it's in heaven.

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It's going to be given by God, to us.

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And that's what, what magnifies it and

makes it different would be worth it, man.

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If the gifts here are good.

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Yeah, I love coffee.

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I love.

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I know.

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We've had some beautiful days of

past couple days here in Texas.

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Amazing.

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I've just been so like, this is awesome.

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I love this.

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And if this is, this is heaven

here on this side of heaven.

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I can't wait to see what

real heaven will be like.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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White let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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Got it.

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Keep us faithful to you.

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Right now we, whatever persecution

we are in encountering and facing

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is a, is something that's, that's

real to us in the context in which

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we find ourselves, help us to be

faithful and to persevere through it.

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But if persecution is going to

come in, in greater quantities

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to us in the near future.

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Uh, Lord, make us ready for it.

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I want us to have that same confidence.

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I know often I've thought to

myself, would I have the boldness.

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Uh, for example, thinking back to the

little girl at Columbine who confessed

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Jesus as the gun was placed to her head.

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What would I have that boldness?

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And I think we can take courage

from passages like this when Jesus

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says, Hey, don't worry about it.

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In that moment, God's

going to preserve you.

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God's going to sustain us.

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And so Lord, we pray for that.

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We want to be bold.

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We want to be.

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Courageous.

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And we also want to trust you

and trust that you are going to

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help us stand the test of time.

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Should it come to that?

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Yeah.

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Other than that, Lord, we just

want to be faithful even more.

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So if we get to live out the rest of

this life in the current context that we

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find ourselves, help us to be faithful

to, to be fruitful in that as well.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Aren't you I'll keep you in your

Bibles to it again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.