00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:07 Reflecting on the Year

00:44 Encouragement to Finish Strong

01:10 Yard Work and Neighborly Advice

02:35 Clarifying Podcast Content

03:38 Unexpected News and Reflections on Life

04:30 Introduction to the New Testament

08:21 The Birth of John the Baptist

10:40 The Birth of Jesus and Theological Insights

18:56 John the Baptist's Testimony and Calling of Disciples

20:14 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Wednesday and happy October.

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Wow.

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It is now the fourth quarter.

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It is.

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We are in the final stretch of the year.

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Does it feel like that to you?

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It does not.

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It does not, no.

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Not here either.

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No.

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The the weather's getting a little

bit cooler, but not enough yet.

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The leaves are still on the trees.

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We don't really le lose leaves

here all that much in, Texas

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until it gets really cold.

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Then everything just goes barren.

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Yes.

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And brown and everything

goes to sleep or whatever.

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I'm not sure how that works, but

it's not very attractive at this

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point in the year right now.

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It's great.

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Yeah.

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Later, less so, but I'm so surprised.

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It's 2025.

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It's the end of 2025.

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It is.

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We're more than halfway through.

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Yep.

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We're on the final decline.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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It's terrifying.

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Finished strong.

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Finish strong.

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And in fact if you know you haven't

been hitting your Bible reading

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very much recently then there's

still time to finish strong.

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I know a lot of times with Bible

reading plans, we can think, ah, well

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the, year's wrapped winding down.

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I'll jump back in next year

and I'll do better next year.

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Don't wait.

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In fact, right now is a great

time to jump back in because

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we're just now starting the new t.

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And so you can jump in with us afresh

and finish strong throughout the

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last section of the year with the

New Testament and read with us.

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Hey, this week I got motivated on Monday.

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So I went into my front yard with

some clippers and I just started

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going out my trees out there.

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Oh, right.

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The branches were hanging down,

they were getting in the way.

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And I took 'em all off and then I

realized I had to do something with

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the branches after I took 'em all off.

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So you put them in the garage?

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No, we managed to parcel 'em

out into trash cans and Wow.

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May have borrowed my in-laws,

trash cans for without their

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notice without their notice or.

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They're not here.

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So we're like, well,

they're paying for trash.

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We might as well use their trash cans.

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That's a good point.

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But my neighbor came out and

he's a former police officer,

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and so he saw me doing that.

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He was like, wow, you guys are

making quite a difference there.

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I was like, Hey, thanks for

the backend to compliment on.

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It looks much better than it used to.

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But he told me this.

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He said, A good rule of

thumb for your front.

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Yard is tree branches.

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You want 'em at least six, six feet off

the ground from a security standpoint,

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he said six feet off the ground and

bushes no higher than four feet.

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And the reason being is it gives

a line of sight that nefarious

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types don't want to be seen.

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So if you've got branches that are hanging

down lower than six feet and that are

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creating ground cover and bushes that

are higher than four feet, it becomes

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much easier for people of nefarious

intent to hide and to conceal themselves.

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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But what if you want privacy?

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You gotta sacrifice privacy if you want.

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Safety.

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Yeah.

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I felt like those two

usually go together though.

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Although most people have

blinds and things like that.

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Yeah, I guess, yeah.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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Hey, I wanna be clear if there's ever

an e next to this podcast title, is it

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true that we're cussing it is not true

that we're cussing, we're not cussing

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on this podcast even a little bit.

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We are not.

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Not even a little bit, even

if we get heated, is there

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any chance that we're cussing?

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No chance.

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There's a couple platforms

that seem to think that we are.

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Yes.

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And we are certainly not using

potty language on occasion.

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Maybe the transcript is mist

transcribing our words, in which

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case you should know we are not

using any kind of potty language.

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Thanks for pointing it out to us.

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Those of us or those of you rather

who let us know, we appreciate

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that we're unsure of how to fix it.

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'cause some of this is just not our fault.

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Yeah.

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Some of the providers.

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Auto transcribe what we're saying

or what they think we're saying, and

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it's just not accurate all the time.

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Let that be the, let that be

a caution to you to trust ai.

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It's not always good.

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Yeah.

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It's not always accurate.

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Yeah.

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I looked up where somebody was that I used

to fall on YouTube the other day and they.

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Told me the guy died and it was not

him, it was somebody else, but they

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were like, no, it was that guy.

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He died.

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Yikes.

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I don't think so.

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So yeah, trust, but verify

and definitely try to verify.

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Speaking of death, and this one

we do have verified voting, man.

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Yeah.

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What gifts?

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Yeah.

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Did you know about this?

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I did.

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But not, I knew it happened.

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Yeah.

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Same here.

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Incredible.

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Yeah.

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Do we know anything about why?

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I think it's traceable back to, I think

he had heart surgery not long ago,

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and so he had heart complications and

it seems like, dude, it didn't work.

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He, oh man.

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I guess there's other

people that you expect.

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Yeah, because.

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There's ages and there's limits that

God has put on mankind that are natural.

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His is one that hit kind

of outta left field.

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Yeah.

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It did not expect it.

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And according to them, to at least what

founders put out, it was pretty sudden.

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Yeah.

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Which is a good warning to us.

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All our lives are not guaranteed.

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For sure.

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Life is a missed in a vapor.

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It's only here for a little time.

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For sure.

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Take advantage of it, man.

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Read your Bible.

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Get into it.

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Yeah.

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Good job.

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If you're here with us,

you've been with us all year.

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Well done.

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Stay at it.

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You're not gonna regret time in the Bible.

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No.

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Ever.

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Nope.

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It's eternal investment, for sure.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Let's get into the Bible.

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Speaking of that, we're in Luke

chapter one and John chapter one.

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We're in the New Testament.

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Wow.

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You made it.

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You made it through the Old Testament.

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Now we're in the New Testament.

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Man, I hope you're having some cake

steak today to honor that cake steak.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of man, where's my cake steak?

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I know.

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I didn't get choose cakes, steak.

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I was promised a cake steak today.

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Now that, think about it.

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I forgot.

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You owe me a cake, steak.

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Raw meat.

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I don with frosting is coming at you.

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I don't know what it is, man.

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I'll take the raw meat.

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I'll find a way to use it.

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Yeah, I'll take off the frosting.

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Hey, we were listening to a podcast

that I think was helpful for all

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of us just in how to think about

the framework of the Bible and.

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This guy, his name is Herschel York, he

put out there and I think it's apropos

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we turn the page to the New Testament

that we not forget about where the Old

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Testament has been and where it's taken

us, but a way to think of what's called

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redemptive historical activity by God,

which is all of creation from creation

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all the way through consummation.

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And so the way you can break it down

is you can think about it this way.

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You can think about creation.

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So we've got back in Genesis and

then the fall, so that's part two.

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So creation part one.

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Then the fall, part two, that's

obviously Genesis three, the

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fall of mankind, and then.

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After the fall, you have this period

of what's known as anticipation or

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longing, and so this is the time

period from the fall all the way

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through the rest of the Old Testament.

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That was the majority of the

Old Testament that we read.

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This is the time of the judges, the time

of the kings, the time of the prophets,

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the time of exile, the time of post exile,

everything that we've been going through.

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This is anticipation and longing for what?

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For the results of the fall to be undone.

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There's things that are developed through

that time but this is that third part.

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So part one is creation, part two, fall,

part three, longing or anticipation.

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Part four then is what we're getting

into right now, and that is the gospel.

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That is the redemption part.

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That's the story of Jesus.

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That's the death on the cross.

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That's the resurrection.

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This is gospel.

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After this comes part five, which is

the church, and that's what the epistles

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in the New Testament are all about.

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So beginning in Acts you're gonna read

all about the church and then the epistles

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are the letters written to these churches.

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And then the final part, which is part

six, is consummation, and that is the,

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and that's when the eternal state comes

in and when we will be with God forever.

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So you can slot the various things

that we've been reading into

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one of those different buckets.

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And it will help you remember that there's

one theme throughout all of scripture and

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it's all moving in the same direction.

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Yeah.

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I read this or heard about this in

seminary, sometimes it's referred to as

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the grand meta-narrative of scripture.

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Sure.

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Or sometimes just meta-narrative.

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But yeah, that's a really helpful

framework because we're in a story, and I

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think that's important for us to recall.

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As humans, we are part of a story

that God himself is writing.

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In fact, I'm not sure if this is

on purpose or not, but some people

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have noted that the word history is.

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His story.

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It's God's story on human

creation, how our lives are going.

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And interestingly, the Bible

tells us how it's all gonna end.

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So it's future history,

as you sometimes will say.

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And that's what we see in scripture.

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It's all one meta-narrative, a grand

overarching story that tells us

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how it's started, how it's going,

and how it's going to finish.

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You're in a story.

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Don't forget that as you read your Bible.

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Yeah.

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So as we get into Luke one, we pick up

from the, if you remember in Malachi,

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there was a reference, hey, that the day

Elijah is gonna come before the coming day

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of the Lord, and we're gonna meet Elijah

right off the bat in Luke chapter one.

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After Luke's introduction, Luke is

writing to say, Hey I'm doing this.

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I'm writing these things so

that you may be certain about

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the things that you believe in.

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And so Luke is gonna take

painstakingly careful a

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painstakingly careful approach to.

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His biography of Jesus.

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He's going to record details that we

don't find in some of the other gospels

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because Luke was a physician, a scientist.

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He paid attention to these things and

he wanted to make sure that Theophilus,

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now we're not sure whether Theophilus

was a historical person or just a

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stand in for his general audience.

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Those that are lovers of God,

which is what Theophilus means.

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I lean towards person.

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Do you have a take on that?

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Yeah I went to person as well.

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Yeah.

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It just seems like Luke is too

scrupulous to invent somebody.

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Yeah.

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He's trying to be thoroughly

historical, so I lean on a person.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I would agree.

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And so Luke introduces himself and then he

gets into the birth of John the Baptist.

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Now the birth of John the Baptist happens

with his, this situation where his mom,

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Elizabeth, had been barren and his father

Zechariah was on duty in the temple when.

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The angel shows up to him,

Gabriel, and tells him that his

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wife is going to have a baby.

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And it just so happens that zacharia

much like we've seen in other instances

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in the past where a woman was beyond

childbearing age and he was getting

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old himself, Zachariah has trouble

believing this and questions the

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angel and says, how is this gonna be?

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And the angel says, well,

you're gonna be mute.

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And so this is how you're gonna know this.

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You're gonna be mute

until this baby is born.

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And that's exactly what takes place.

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He ends up not able to speak and he

is not gonna have his tongue loosened

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until we'll pick up later on when

John the Baptist is going to be born.

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But in the interim, here in Luke chapter

one, you have Elizabeth after she is

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conceived and has John the Baptist

within her, by the way, the Holy

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Spirit in dwelt John from the womb.

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That's something massively significant

there about this child and about God's

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electing purposes too, that we see there.

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And.

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Elizabeth has a cousin and her

cousin's name or is Mary and Mary

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is the Mary of Mary and Joseph.

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And so Jesus is, his birth is

gonna be predicted to Mary.

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And Mary's gonna question just like

Zacharia did, and I think last year

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I asked the question, what's the

difference and why is Mary given a

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pass on her question where Zacharia is

punished seemingly for his question.

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And I think the difference is this,

I think Zacharia was unbelief.

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I think Mary is awe.

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And that's what came through

as I was reading it this time.

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It's a good distinction.

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Yeah.

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That Mary is saying how is this

even possible considering that I'm

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a virgin, not, this is impossible.

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Whereas Zaria was more along the lines

of this is physically impossible.

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What are you even talking about?

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Mary's is more of on, I think

that's why she's shown a different

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response from the, an angel there.

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Amen of that.

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Yeah, and I think that'll help us work

through some of the things that we're

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working on in terms of scripture.

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There is such a thing as faithful

questioning, faithful doubt,

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if you wanna call it that.

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Yeah.

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And I think Mary's a really good

example of what that looks like.

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Her awe is in combination with her

genuine question, it's just gonna work.

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How are you gonna do this versus.

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Exactly the skeptical and maybe

even cynical approach of, come on.

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Yeah.

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Tell me, how's this really gonna work out?

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So Amen to that.

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Yeah.

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As part of the prophecy to Mary, as

you know, Mary is a virgin, and it

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says very clearly in verse 35, the Holy

Spirit will come upon you and the power

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of the most high will overshadow you.

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Therefore, the child will be

born, will be called holy.

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This is why the virgin birth is so.

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Necessary for us because this

is what allowed Christ to be

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born without the sin nature.

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This is what allowed him to be born

without the same corruptive, inherited

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sin, nature that we all have from birth,

that we inherit from our F Father Adam.

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And it says very plainly here, the Holy

Spirit's role in this is gonna allow

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him to be born holy, the Son of God.

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And so that's why we can't compromise

on something like the virgin

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birth, as some want us to do and

instead to understand that this is.

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A key part of our understanding

of the birth of Christ.

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Mary's character is seen in her response

to this as she worships the Lord.

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She's a well-versed young woman.

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She knows the scripture, she

knows God's promises, she knows

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theology, and she knows doctrine,

and that comes out in her magnifica.

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There in in chapter one,

starting in verse 47.

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After this, the scene shifts back

to Elizabeth, her cousin, who is

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giving birth to John the Baptist.

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John is born, and at the time,

the people looked to Zechariah

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and they know he can't talk.

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And so they think let's just honor

his father, as was the custom of

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the time and name him Zechariah.

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Zechariah says, no,

we're not gonna do this.

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He gets his whiteboard and he

writes on it with his expo marker.

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His name is supposed

to be John Na Zacharia.

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And at that moment, his mouth is opened

and he launches into a prophetic app.

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Praise of John.

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Of God and in prophesying about

what John would do in relation

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to the coming Messiah Question.

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How did Zacharia get a

whiteboard and an expo marker?

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That's a good question.

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Target probably.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you're right.

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Yeah.

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I just wanna point out here, verse 47.

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Mary says that she rejoices in

God, her savior, which is important

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because that suggests to me that Mary

recognized she needed a savior and

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that she herself was not sinless.

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Mm.

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Hashtag Catholic theology.

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Yep.

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Yeah, that's a great point.

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Yeah.

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So Luke chapter one records

this in great detail for us.

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John chapter one, which is our

second part of our reading today

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also records the birth of Jesus,

but from a much different point of

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view, a much different perspective.

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And so when we go to John chapter one,

if you were with us from the word go

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with our church, we preached through

John ch John as our first book together.

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Felt so long ago.

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I know it's.

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Two, two plus years ago

now when we started.

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Yeah.

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But John opens with what's called the

prologue in verses one, one through five.

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And this is all about the deity of Christ.

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The word was in the beginning with God.

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The Word was God.

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These are the key things for us to

appeal back to to impart, to help prove

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that the deity of Christ, the word

laga, he's the self-disclosure, the

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self revelation of God, and he's the

that in that the greatest degree he's.

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Mission is laid out for us in verses

nine through 13, that he would come

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to bring life to the world and to

make a way for those who would believe

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in him to become children of God.

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And so these spiritual offspring, these

children of God would come to Jesus in

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faith because of God's activity there.

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They're born of God.

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They're not born of the will of

the flesh, nor of the blood, nor

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of the will of men, but of God.

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And then we come to John's birth

story, and that's John one 14.

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And this is why it's from

such a different perspective.

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Everything we just read in Luke chapter

one, summarized in John one 14 in one.

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One verse.

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It says, the word became flesh and

we have seen his glory, glories of

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the only begotten from the father.

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And so there it is.

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John says, here's the

birth story right here.

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Jesus is born.

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The word became flesh.

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Alright, so some people came to

my door and they're wearing suits

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and tis look very attractive.

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And they said that John chapter

one is mistranslated in our Bibles,

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and here's what it should say.

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And I'd love for you to comment on it.

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John chapter one, verse one in the

New World Translation, which is a

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translation of the Bible, actually,

I'm gonna use air quotes here.

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Yeah.

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Translation of the Bible from the

Jehovah's Witness perspective.

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And here's what it says.

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In the beginning was the word,

and the word was with God.

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So far so good.

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And the word was a God.

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Emergency break.

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Yep.

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Tell us about that.

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Yeah the, their argument is there's no

article, there's no definite article

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before the Greek word theos there.

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Yeah.

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And there's not, they're right on that.

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If you go to the most reliable

Greek manuscripts, you're not

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gonna find a definite article.

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But that's actually on purpose from

John, because if John had put a definite

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article in there, what that would've

done according to Greek grammar, is

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equate the word exactly to the father.

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So in other words, it would've

been, the word was the God.

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There's no distinction whatsoever.

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And there is a distinction because

the Son, the word the son is not

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the same as the word the Father.

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They're both God or the word.

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Sorry, back that up.

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The word the son is not

the same as the father.

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They're both.

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God, but they're distinct

in their personhood.

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And so to put a definite article in

there would remove the distinction

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between the personhood of the Father

and the son, which is what we know as

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Modalism, which would, in other words,

argue that God is sometimes the Father.

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Other times he's the son, and

other times he's the spirit.

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So John intentionally left

out the definite article, but

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beyond that, this is common.

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There's plenty of other instances

in the Gospel of John that we

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could point to and say, look, the

definite article is not present here.

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Right.

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Yet you still don't

translate it as a kingdom.

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You translate it as the kingdom.

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Because we know contextually the clues

would argue this is what's meant to

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be there and intended to be there.

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So the argument that is mistranslated,

that you should have a God in there

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is only evidence of the Mormons

bringing a perverted theology into

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the mix by trying to apply that,

is there a simple way that we could

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communicate this to Jehovah's Witness

who comes to our door, because this is.

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Obviously one of our go-to texts.

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Yeah.

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We're trying to say, look, Jesus is God.

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That's the biggest difference between

what you believe and what we believe.

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We believe that he is

a son of God incarnate.

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You believe he's the Archangel

Michael, I believe is what they teach.

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How would you communicate this

without some of the theological.

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Seminary training that you have.

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I think there's other passages

for us to turn to where Jesus

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does claim, in fact to be God.

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Even later on in John, in John

chapter five where we'll get there,

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he says, the father's been working

until now, and I myself have been

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working, and it says there, the Jews

picked up stones to stone him because

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he making himself equal with God.

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There's other instances when

he says, for example, in John

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eight, before Abraham was, I am.

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This is not the only instance that we have

in the Bible where Jesus is put on the.

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Level playing field with the father.

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When Jesus says later on in John, you

need to honor me as you honor the Father.

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If you don't honor me, you

don't honor the father.

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These are claims of equality

between the son and the Father.

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So I think there's a good grounds

for us to, to appeal to other

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passages beyond just this one.

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To point to the fact that, hey, there

are other instances where we see

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that Jesus is God, but I think here.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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Would you suggest then that our

listeners maybe not go to John one

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when they're trying to make a defense

for Jesus being God in the flesh?

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'cause it's because I agree.

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There's other passages.

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I think this is probably one of the

few passages that comes up first in

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someone's mind when they're thinking,

how do I defend Christ deity?

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Would you suggest they go to John 8

28 instead or something like that?

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Or 8 58 rather not 28.

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That's Romans.

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I think here's the thing at the end of

the day too to understand when you're

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engaging back and forth with Mormons and

I'm not saying you shouldn't, you should,

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but you all should know that they've

been trained to respond to a lot of what

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you're gonna, what you're gonna bring up.

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Yeah.

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And that's why a book like Reasoning

from the Scriptures with Mormons

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by Ron Rhodes is super helpful.

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R-H-O-D-E-S, he's gonna give

you a lot of really good

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health . Helpful information there.

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That's why going to a

website like Carm, CAR m.org

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and reading some of their articles

on Mormonism, super helpful

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information contained therein as well.

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I think you can go to John one and just

say, you know what, grammatically Yeah.

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The definite article is not

required in the Greek, and if you

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look up Greek grammars, you're

gonna find out that that's true.

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The definite article

is not required there.

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And in fact, there's other

instances where it's not.

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Present.

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And we don't translate it as a,

we translate it as the, yeah.

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And literally here, Kai and God

was the word, is what it says.

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Yeah.

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So we're translating it

differently in English just for

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the sake of smoothing it out.

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But it's quite literal.

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Yeah.

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That says God was the word.

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Yeah.

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There's no escaping that.

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Anyway.

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One, one additional recommendation

on top of what you said.

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All those are so good.

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I love watching people like.

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Jeff Durbin interact with

Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons.

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He's a really fun study

just to watch him do that.

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He'll record it in a way where they

don't know that he's recording and

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take your ethics aside on that.

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But it's helpful for the average

watcher to say, oh, how does he do this?

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And I think he does a really good

job using his Bible and also.

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Some plain theological reasoning.

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Yeah.

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So if you're interested at all,

look up apology pastor and Jehovah's

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Witnesses or pastor and Mormons,

you'll find lots of options there.

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Yeah.

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In the rest of John chapter one,

you've got John the Baptist testimony.

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He is bursting on the scene.

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He's meant to point people to Jesus, and

that's what he says of his own ministry.

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And even when the Jewish leaders come

to him and ask him, are you the Christ?

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He defers, he says, I'm not the Christ.

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And he says I'm here to bear witness

about him and bear witness about Christ.

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And then we see him actually do that with.

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Two of his own disciples, he points to

Jesus and says, behold the lamb of God,

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who takes away the sins of the world.

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And he says this twice and

encourages these two disciples

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to go and follow Jesus.

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One of them we find out, ends up being

Andrew Simon Peter's brother, and he

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ends up following Jesus, understanding

who Jesus is, and he goes and gets

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Peter, and then you've got the calling

of Philip who goes and gets Nathaniel.

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You've got the scene there when

Nathaniel says, can anything

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good come out of Nazareth?

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And Philip says, come and see.

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And so he's beckoned to come

with him to come and meet Jesus.

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Now we have to understand what's

happening in John chapter one as the

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informal call of these disciples, and

that's gonna help us understand what's

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gonna come in the coming days, readings.

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'cause you're gonna see where Jesus calls

them away from their boats and says,

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follow me and I'll make you fishers.

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And men, there's a progressive.

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Commitment to Jesus that we

see in the lives of these men.

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There's a formal call,

there's an informal call.

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This is their informal introduction to

Jesus, and this happens before the boats.

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This happens before them mending

their nets and leaving their

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father to go and follow Jesus.

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This is them getting to know who

Jesus is before Jesus formally

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calls them into discipleship.

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And that's the rest of John chapter one.

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Man.

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Stay tuned.

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Lots of fun stuff ahead.

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Yeah, let's pray.

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God, we are thankful for the framework

that we talked about of your word, that

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we can understand it from beginning

to end and we pray that we would

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apply our minds to do just that.

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And we thank you that your word

is reliable and trustworthy.

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That even when those that wish to

promote a false gospel would come

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and say, we've got the Bible wrong.

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We can have a confidence based

on manuscript evidence and

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tradition and looking into the

word and studying these things.

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We, our translations are reliable.

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We can bank on them and we can not

just bank on them for debates against

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Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, but we

can bank on them for debates against for

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eternity to, to put our full confidence

and trust in what your word says.

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And so give us such confidence.

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We pray as we continue to read

through the New Testament between

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now and the end of the year.

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We pray that we glean much from it.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See y'all.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said