00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:46 Men's Bible Study Details

03:25 Daily Bible Reading Overview

04:04 Genesis 38: Judah and Tamar

09:48 Genesis 39: Joseph in Potiphar's House

14:02 Joseph's Rise in Prison

14:24 Interpreting Dreams in Jail

15:01 The Cupbearer Forgets Joseph

15:16 God's Sovereignty in Joseph's Life

17:08 New Testament Reading: Matthew 12

17:15 Blasphemy of the Spirit

21:54 The Sign of Jonah

26:33 Jesus' True Family

27:23 Closing Prayer and Reflections

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Everybody.

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Welcome back to yet another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We're 16 days in.

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We are 16 days.

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It's Friday, and so happy Friday to

everybody who celebrates Fridays.

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I know not everybody observes Friday,

but who doesn't observe Friday?

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If you celebrate Fridays,

happy Friday to you.

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We just had a break and my kids

already have another break coming up.

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Yeah, isn't that funny

because of, what is it?

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MLK Day on Monday.

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Yeah.

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And didn't you have a teacher in

service day or something on Monday when

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they should have been back in school?

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No, you're in this whole week.

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Okay.

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They were in the there.

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Some school districts had Monday

after Christmas, not ours, immediately

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back off, which just seems like it

throws everything up in the air.

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It really does.

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It really does.

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But hey, you know what?

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I enjoy that time with my kids and a

slower day on a Monday is kind of nice.

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That's true.

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Yeah, very true.

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Yeah, but it's Friday.

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We don't have a biblical counseling

intensive going on this weekend,

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so it's a little bit less full.

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Although we do have men's

Bible study tomorrow.

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We sure do.

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So our men listening should be there.

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In fact, we're giving you a little bit

of an extra, I think it's an hour, right?

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It is.

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Because we're at eight

30 now, not seven 30.

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It is in a brand new location.

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Yeah.

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Tell where we're gonna be meeting

and the new location will be great.

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It's the Lighthouse Church.

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My understanding is that Jacob Sealander

can throw a rock from where we meet at

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Founders Prosper to Lighthouse Church.

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Told, I've heard that said, told he

told me that very specifically yes.

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And I, my understanding is he's the

only person in our church who's able to.

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To throw a rock that far, but Lighthouse

Church is just across the street in

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just maybe what, a mile down the road.

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If that even.

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Yeah.

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Even if that and it should

be a really great location.

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I know Frisco has been a great great

place for us to meet for the last couple

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years, but with the move to prosper,

this place makes a lot more sense.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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It does.

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And you know what I, I love about it

is just, it's a good reminder to us and

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hopefully we can pay forward down the

road when God blesses us with a facility.

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Lord willing, someday it's just a.

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Good reminder of the need for

the church to work together.

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Yeah, we've got absolutely great.

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Church was like-minded with us.

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Lighthouse Church is

pretty like-minded with us.

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We've got our differences for sure.

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There's no doubt there.

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But when it comes to the gospel and

wanting to see people saved and wanting

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to see the church built up, man,

pastor Jason there at Lighthouse Church

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I've gotten to have lunch with him.

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Super solid dude.

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And I'm so grateful for their

generosity and saying, Hey, why don't

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you come and use our facility here?

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And same thing with Grace and

and their staff down there.

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It was such a good experience that we had.

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There and hopefully one day

we'll be able to pay it forward.

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Yeah.

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And ultimately right, it's God's

church, meaning his universal church.

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His, yep.

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And of course there's places

that call themselves churches

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that are not churches at all.

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But we do need to think highly of our

church, specifically Compass Bible

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Church, but we also need to think

highly of God's universal church

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and the work that he's doing every.

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Including here in, in North Texas.

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Yeah, for sure.

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You're gonna have a special

treat tomorrow as Louis

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Azuma is preaching tomorrow.

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I think that's his first time

preaching in men's Bible study.

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It is, it's his first time preaching

outside of our student ministry here.

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At least he's preached to adults

in different contexts that

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he's served in other church.

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But for our church, this will be

his first time and I believe he is

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preaching on, and I'm delaying here

because it just totally slipped my mind.

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Not Daniel, no.

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Oh man.

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Come on.

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Oh, Steven, thank you.

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It's Steven.

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Thank you.

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Wow.

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I was stuck in Joe for some reason.

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I'm like, it's not joke.

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I know it's not joke Rod.

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Preach, not joke.

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Yeah, he's preaching on Steven,

so it should be awesome, man.

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Make sure you join us eight 30 tomorrow.

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Saturday morning at Lighthouse

Church there in Prosper,

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so it'll be a great time.

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Well, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading for today.

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That is Friday morning.

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We are in Genesis 38 through 40,

and then we are in Matthew chapter

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12, finishing up Matthew chapter 12.

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As you'll note in this plan, I think

last time with the chronological

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plan, most of it, we finished

a chapter like you would read.

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In the section, and it was

rare that we would split right

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in the middle of the chapter.

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This time around, you're already

getting a sense of this and we're

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gonna do it again with chapter 13.

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Because of the way it's laid out, you're

gonna split in the middle of a chapter

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and that, that can feel awkward at times.

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If you wanna go ahead and read

the whole chapter, go ahead and

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read the whole chapter, it's okay.

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And then tomorrow you can read that,

that last part that they wanted you

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to read or the next part or whatever.

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But that's gonna happen from time to time.

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But we are in the Old

Testament starting back.

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Genesis chapter 38.

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Now we said from 37 on, it's about Joseph,

and yet that's not entirely true, is it?

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Yeah.

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We get a little a little interlude here.

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It's not a good one though.

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It's not, it's not a good one.

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It is not, and in fact it is very much

not a favorable introduction to Judah.

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Yeah.

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Which is, we mentioned this the other day,

but it's fascinating that this is the.

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The line of Jesus.

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Yep.

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But this initial introduction

to Judah is downright horrible.

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It really is.

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And yet, man it's just a sad

situation from the very outset.

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One of Judah's sons

takes a wife for himself.

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And her name, it says there

is Tamar in verse six.

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Mm-hmm.

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And this is gonna be, again, like you

mentioned, she's gonna be in the line

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of Christ in er, or this man, he ends up

dying because he was wicked and the Lord.

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Him to death.

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Well then here comes his brother Onan.

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And you might think, okay, what's

going on with the brothers?

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This is likely, although it's not, the

law has been given the lever it marriage.

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Right.

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So the lever it marriage from the

tribe of Levi, that idea of the law

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and the priests the next in line, the.

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Kinsman Redeemer that should

call to mind the Book of Ruth.

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'cause we see these themes

come up in the book of Ruth.

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The next kinsman redeemer, the person

in line Familially, they would marry

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the widowed woman and they would see

to it that their kin, in this case, the

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brother that his line would continue.

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In other words, Onin would have a

child by Tamar, ideally here, and that

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child would continue in the line of.

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Or not of Onin.

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Now, any children after that

would then belong to Onin.

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But that's what's happening.

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Well, Onan doesn't like that,

so he doesn't fulfill his job.

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We'll just put it that way.

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He doesn't fulfill his duties and he

ends up being killed as well by the Lord.

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The Lord is exacting justice here?

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These things are not right.

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They're sinning against Tamar.

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In this instance, then Judah sins against

Tamar by saying, Hey, why don't you just.

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Wait, and I'll give you one of

my younger sons when he comes of

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age and then he doesn't do that.

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And it implies in the text that he's

a afraid for this guy's life as though

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somehow it's Tamar's fault that these

other two men have died when really

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what we're overlooking there and what

Ju do was overlooking is it was their.

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Character flaws that brought

God's justice against them.

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But then there's a twist in what happens

here and why don't you pick it up from

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there, pastor Mark, and tell us how Tamar

takes things into her own hands and what

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happens with her and Judah from here?

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Let me just make one observation.

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that's interesting, which is this

whole chapter is full of people who

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are not concerned with the lineage.

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That God has intended.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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At the very beginning, right?

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It there's the identification that Judah

saw a daughter of a certain Canaanite.

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Who was Abraham concerned with?

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His son, Mary.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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He didn't want him, he.

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To marry a Canaanite.

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But then again, to your point and to

the discussion of leverate marriage,

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which again, is not enacted here though

but it's still a matter of really

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ultimately the lineage of Christ.

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And I think this is an example though

of God working sovereignly despite

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really every effort to ruin things.

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I think we can see that, and I think

that's why this chapter is here.

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There's are certainly other things

that can be taken away from it,

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but I think that we see that we.

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See God being sovereign

over the situation.

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Yeah.

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Despite every intention to derail it.

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You asked me what you asked

me to talk about Tamar.

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Yeah.

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What happens from here

between her and Judah?

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Tamar, and again, I will just be PG

here, but effectively she exposes.

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Judah's sin, right?

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She exposes Judah's sin in a

dramatic way, in a dramatic fashion.

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We've seen lots of people die

for their wickedness, right?

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We've seen her die, own

and die for being wicked.

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And then we even see Shula's daughter die.

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It doesn't specifically say that

it's because of her wickedness,

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but we don't see Judah die.

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Yeah.

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Despite his wickedness.

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Yeah.

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And I think what we're also

seeing here is that Tamar is ref.

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Revealing that Judah is a repeat

offender, if I can use that term, right?

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Mm.

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I think we can see that this is

a characteristic of him, right

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at the beginning of chapter 38.

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He commits effectively the same sin and

then Tamar doesn't even seem to flinch.

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This idea seems to just come

perfectly natural that this is a trap

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that she can set for Judah, right?

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And then she goes about this

trap and it works flawlessly

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as she intends it to, right?

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And she exposes him for his.

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Sin in a couple different ways.

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Specifically his failure to protect

the lineage, to protect the line,

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and to be to be, well again, lever

law is not instituted here, but to

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do as he should in that way, and

also exposes his sexual immorality.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And Judah, when he's caught in his sin,

it says in verse 26, Judah identified

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them and said, she is more righteous than

I since I did not give her to my son.

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Yes, Sheila.

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He did not know her again.

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So Tamar lives from that time forward

as a, it appears as a chaste woman and

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she's not going to be married, nor is she

going to continue in that role with Judah.

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However, from her womb comes the offspring

that is gonna continue the line of Christ.

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Yeah.

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And so we see that here.

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And these sons are born to Judah here.

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And this is, this is gonna

continue the lineage to your

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point of the line of Christ.

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Yeah.

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And it's amazing that there's

really no hope in this chapter.

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Maybe there's a little bit of a slight

glimmer of hope in Judah's response.

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But there's really not

a lot of hope in this.

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But yet the greatest hope we

could possibly imagine, in

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fact, comes from this situation.

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Yeah.

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Which is ironic.

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Yeah.

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To say the least.

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And I think your observation that man.

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There's a lot of things

that are not in line.

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Like Tamar was probably a Canaanite

as well, and yet God is still

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ordaining and working through it all.

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So in spite of ourselves,

God works his plan out.

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That's his name.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Well, Genesis chapter 39, then

we flash back to Joseph now.

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We left Joseph having been sold by

the Canaanites or by the Mediaite,

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rather into the house of Potiphar.

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Potiphar was a very powerful

man in the house of Egypt.

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And at this point he, Joseph is going

to be rising through the ranks pretty

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quickly and I think the reason being we

can connect this back to the Abrahamic

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covenant, even though the line was not

specifically continuing through Joseph.

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I think the fact that God promised to

Abraham, I will bless those who bless you.

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In those who curse you, I will curse.

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Joseph's presence there in Potiphar's

house causes what is happening

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in pot of her's house to succeed.

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And this is gonna be true later

on with Pharaoh's house too.

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But he's experiencing the the overflow of

the Abrahamic blessings in Joseph's life.

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And so Joseph rises.

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Through the ranks here and basically

gets to being second in, in power only

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to poter himself in the house there.

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And Pot's wife then comes on the

scene and she's a wily woman who

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has her sights set on Joseph.

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And she wants Joseph for

all the wrong reasons.

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And Joseph being a godly and upright man

resists over and over and over again.

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And I remember when Pastor Rob

preached on this to our men,

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he pointed out what Joseph says

there in verse nine where he says.

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Of Potiphar initially, he says, he's

not greater than I in his house.

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Nor has he kept back anything from me

except you because you are his wife.

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And then Joseph says this, how could I

do this great wickedness and sin against?

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And you expect him to say Potiphar, right?

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And yet he says, how could I

sin against God in this way?

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And that just shows us Joseph knew

who was responsible for the blessings

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and who had put 'em in that place.

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Long story short, she frames Joseph

for a crime that he did not commit.

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And here's the thing, man.

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I think Potiphar knew the type of

woman his wife was, because here you

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have an Israelite slave in his full

power and possession, and when she

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cries wolf and when she cries foul on

what she proclaims that Joseph did to

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her any man in his right mind in the

position of Poter at this time, if he

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thought that this was true, would've

had Joseph immediately executed,

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yes, but instead he has him simply.

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Imprisoned, banished, taken away

from his sight, I think to save

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face, but also I think he knows

what type of woman his wife was.

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And so I think that's why

Joseph's not dead at this point.

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That in the sovereignty of God.

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Yeah and I think that's

obviously really key, right?

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And I think that's a repeating

theme throughout all this

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account of Joseph, right?

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It starts in verse two

in this chapter, right?

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It says the Lord was with Joseph in

stark contrast to 38, where there's no

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mention of the Lord being with Judah.

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But in this.

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Passage, right?

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We see that the Lord was with Joseph.

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Do you think that it's

God being with Joseph?

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I guess in some sense it's an easy answer.

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Yes.

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But.

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That makes him successful.

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So I guess the answer to that is

yes, but why is God not with Judah?

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Right.

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And I'm kind of going back to

38, but I think we just see

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such a stark contrast here.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right.

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God could have been with

Judah in a similar way and

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protected him and kept him.

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What do you think Moses

is trying to communicate?

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With these and this re repetition of

this idea that the Lord was with Joseph.

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Yeah, I made that note too.

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It shows up four times in chapter 39 and

anytime the Bible is repeating a phrase

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like that, it's trying to get you to pay

attention and say, Hey, this is important.

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I think it just speaks to the character

of Joseph that there was a difference

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that all of them were sons of Jacob,

sons of Israel, but not all of

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them were equal in their godliness.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we've already seen that with Reuben

and Simeon and Levi they are our.

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Men who, who do wrong

things, who do sinful things.

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And and there's differences

here in the godliness.

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And Joseph was a godly man.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think that's what the

author's trying to show us.

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And there's reward for that.

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Yeah.

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And you see the opposite

thing happening, right.

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Judah?

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Actively pursues sexual immorality.

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Joseph actively pursues sexual fidelity.

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I don't know, whatever.

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Right.

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Faithfulness.

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Yep.

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You see that contrast here?

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And I think your point is well taken that

there's a difference in the character.

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There's a difference in the

faithfulness of these two men.

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And I think it's in strong contrast here.

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Right.

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And then the Lord is with Joseph

and it repeats that and we'll

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continue to see that theme

repeated in this account of Joseph.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 40.

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This is basically what happens here,

Joseph's imprisoned, and again,

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just like when he was in Potiphar's

house, the Lord is with Joseph.

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He's gonna rise in power

even in the dungeon.

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He's gonna end up being kind of

second in command of the jailer,

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and he meets two men in prison.

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And one of those happens to be the

cut bearer of Pharaoh who was in jail.

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And then the other one happens to be

the chief baker for Pharaoh's house.

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And both of them have these dreams.

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And again, here's dreams showing

up in Joseph's life again.

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And the cup bearer comes to

Joseph and says, here's my dream.

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And tells him, and Joseph says, Hey,

well I've got good news for you because

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your dream means that you're gonna be

lifted up and restored to your position

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and even gives him the timeframe

of when that's gonna take place.

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Well, the baker hears that, and

the baker says, this is great.

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Lemme tell you my dream.

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He tells him the dream and Joseph

says, your news is not as good.

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You're gonna be lifted

up only to be executed.

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Your head is gonna be lifted up from

you and you are gonna be put to death.

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As a result of this, and what a bummer.

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Right?

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Exactly.

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The guy's like, oh, nevermind.

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That's not what I dreamed.

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I dreamed the same thing the cup air did.

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And then what's tragic is Joseph says

to the cup Bear, he remember me when you

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are restored to your position, and yet

verse 23 says, yet, the Chief Cup air

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did not remember Joseph Buffer got him.

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We're gonna pick up this tomorrow, but

there's gonna be two years that pass.

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It's fascinating.

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Clearly we've seen God's hand in Joseph's

life his entire life at this point.

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God's hand's here in the forgetting of

the cup bear, and we don't know why.

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But clearly he was wanting.

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Ja Joseph to experience more, to, to grow

more, to trust him more to whatever, more

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while in prison over those two years.

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But yeah, he's gonna be left there.

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And I think, and again, we don't know

quite what God is doing in all the

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details, but I think it's so that Jo

Joseph can show up on the scene when he's

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finally remembered and interpret those

dreams from Pharaoh that we're gonna

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see in the following chapters, right?

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That timing is really imperative in order

for Joseph then to be called by Pharaoh

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to be second in command of all of Egypt.

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And God is clearly sovereign over that.

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Why does God not have Pharaoh

have those dreams and then

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kick off those seven years?

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Oh we don't know.

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We don't know, but you can

definitely see that God is being

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very intentional with these things.

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He's the author of history and he is.

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He's sovereign over every

single one of these elements.

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One of the things I think that's

really interesting that Joseph

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says in this chapter is in verse

eight, he says to them, he says, do

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not interpretations belong to God.

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Please tell them to me.

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I think that's fascinating.

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One interpretation does belong to God.

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Remember that he's the author of Creation.

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He's the author of Morality.

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Crops and everything.

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And so interpretation does indeed

belong to God specifically when it

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comes to the context of these dreams.

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But really we need to remember

that in, in all of life.

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And Joseph remembers that very well.

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It's also interesting that it,

he recognizes that God is the

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instrument, that God has chosen

to do this interpretation.

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Yes, the interpretation belongs

to God, but Joseph also sees that,

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those dreams are to be told to him.

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Yeah.

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Fascinating.

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Yeah.

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We're gonna see that in the

life of Daniel later on as well.

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Daniel's gonna interpret dreams

And God's gonna use those

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interpretations there as well.

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Visions and things.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump over to our New

Testament reading, Matthew chapter 12.

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We're gonna be in verse 22 through

the end of chapter 12 here.

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There's a lot going on here.

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Right away we see this whole section

on the blasphemy of the spirit.

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Now we talked about that last year.

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We did, and probably the year

before during the podcast.

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But this is attributing the work of Christ

to demons, basically saying of what Jesus

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was doing, his teaching and his power,

and saying that's not from the Lord.

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That's demonic.

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And I guess I've always thought

because of that I've said, well,

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this isn't repeatable today.

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I think I'm.

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Altering my view on that a little bit,

not that the blasphemy of the spirit is

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something that we have to fear committing.

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You're not gonna wake up tomorrow

and be like, ah, well, I'm

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gonna blaspheme the spirit.

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And I think that's why a lot of

Christians ask the question, because

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it's this thought of like, oh

man, there's a sin that won't be

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forgiven the blasphemy of the spirit.

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Am I gonna, that's a good

question to ask, right?

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Am I gonna accidentally commit the

blasphemy of the spirit somehow?

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No.

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No it's.

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A very specific sin.

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And I still believe it's very specific.

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I'm just saying, I don't know

why somebody today couldn't still

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look at something that God is

clearly doing and call it demonic.

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And I think at that work time we're

taking the work of the spirit and

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equating it with the power of demons.

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And that's exactly what

was happening here.

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So I do think it's possible to

still do this probably today.

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It's just a very specific sin.

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I think I agree with you.

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I think.

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It seems like sort of a silly thing I

think in Christian circles, but like

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hypothetically, take somebody who reads

Matthew and ignores these passages, but.

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Reads what Jesus does and says, oh,

just like the Pharisees, that must be

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the work of Satan, of demonic powers.

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I could see that fitting within the

context of this warning or even,

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think of, some of the colts today

or anything else, like when you

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have somebody who has a genuine

conversion or an unbeliever, right?

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Somebody who has a genuine conversion

and their life is radically transformed.

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And we as the church are celebrating that.

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And as Christians, they're saying, look

what God has done in this person's life.

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And maybe they've got an unbelieving,

atheistic family member or something

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else and saying, I don't know what's

wrong with them, but they're like,

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and not tongue in cheek, but even

attributing that, something like

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that to something demonic, right?

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Or something evil.

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I think there's a modern

day equivalent even where.

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Real time we could say of the work

of the spirit in somebody's life.

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That's not the spirit that's demonic.

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And I think there's that same

danger of blaspheming the spirit.

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We're not the eyewitnesses of Jesus

public ministry right now, which is

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what specifically was happening here.

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They were looking at what

Jesus was doing on earth.

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We're going, this is by the devil,

and that was the closed book.

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This is what.

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The textbook version of Blasphemy of

the Spirit is, but I think there's maybe

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ways that it could still happen today.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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At the very least though, there

is a, there's a clear distinction

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between something that's done in

ignorance and something that's

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done with careful premeditation.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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There's definitely a

difference in God's eyes.

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And even if you don't think that

blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is

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something that can be done today, I

think at the very least we can see that

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there is very much a distinction and

it's an important distinction that we

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can make mistakes out of not knowing,

out of confusion, out of ignorance.

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There's a big difference when the

Pharisees know these things specifically,

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they have a memorized, they're very

familiar with their Old Testament,

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and then Jesus shows up and says.

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Says the things he says does

the things he does, and then

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you say, no, that's of Satan.

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There's definitely a difference there.

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That is worth noting.

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Yeah, it's fascinating here.

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Also in chapter 12, Jesus is addressing

these same pharisee, these same

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religious leaders and he says in

verse 34, you brooded to vipers.

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Now this is.

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A callback to something that

John the Baptist said when they

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came out to John the Baptist.

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John the Baptist called

them the same thing.

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You brew to vipers.

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The chapter before this, Jesus has

just commended John the Baptist.

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I wonder if this isn't a way

of Jesus even honoring John.

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Yeah.

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By quoting John here, you've got the son

of God quoting something that John said.

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Now.

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John said it led by the spirit,

part of the carried by the spirit

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and everything else like that.

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So who said it first?

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Yeah, that which came first,

the chicken to the egg.

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Still, I think this may be a way of Jesus

giving that to hat tip to John Yeah.

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In how he's confronting the Pharisees

here and they probably remember that.

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Yeah.

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The Pharisees are.

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I think presented as kind of a

sensitive, not in a good way.

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Right.

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And so I imagine that they remember

the rebuke of John the Baptist.

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Right.

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And I suspect they're gonna

immediately make that connection here.

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Yeah.

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It's also ironic that the Pharisees

accused Jesus of blasphemy.

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Right.

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They accuse him of blasphemy.

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Right.

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But then they're the ones actually guilty.

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Yep.

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Guilty of it.

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Yeah.

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Hey, pot.

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You're the kettle.

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I'm black.

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You're black.

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Yeah.

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Whatever.

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Pot calling the kettle black.

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I, everybody knew what you meant.

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Thanks, man.

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I butchered that, but I appreciate that.

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Anyways.

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Yeah.

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And then you got this sign of Jonah thing.

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The Pharisees want a sign.

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We wanna see a sign for you.

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And why they're asking for that is they're

saying do something that's gonna make

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us go, oh, okay, we'll listen to you.

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Well, he's done plenty

for them to say, oh, okay.

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We'll listen to you.

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And that's why one of the things

he says to them is you unbelieving

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an adulterer generation.

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There's not gonna be a sign given to

you except for this the sign of Jonah.

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And he references three

days and three nights.

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Now that's caused a lot of problems 'cause

people have said, well, he wasn't in the

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grave for three days and three nights.

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And that's where the, again, the Jewish

reckoning of time, and Pastor Rod

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and I have talked about this before

in the past it was not as precise

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as you and I count time today, a

partial day or a partial night was

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counted as a full day or a full night.

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So, this is the.

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Reference here.

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Not expecting them to get their

Timex out and go, okay, atomic clock.

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Ready, let's mark starting now

we're looking for three full

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days and three full nights.

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Rather, this is him saying, you're

gonna see this sign fulfilled

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just like it was in Jonah.

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You're gonna see it fulfilled in

me, and this is clearly an illusion,

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lest we get caught up in the timing

to his death and resurrection.

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Yeah, Julia and I, Julia is my wife.

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For those of you who don't know,

we always have a hard time agreeing

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on the amount of time that has

passed because I always round up.

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And she accuses me of generously

rounding up, but I always round

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up, she always rounds down.

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So, you know, when we're retelling

things, we always have a different

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number When we tell those things,

it's similar to what's going on here.

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You're waiting for her

to get ready for a date.

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You're like, that took you 45 minutes.

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And she's like, no, took me 15.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Somewhere in between, somewhere

in the middle of that.

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And the reality is it's 30, right?

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Yeah.

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My argument is it was

31, so, round up, right?

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It took an hour.

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Fair enough.

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We'll give it to you.

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We'll, it to go over doesn't go

over well all the time, yeah.

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One of the other things that's

amazing here is that Jesus makes

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the specific point that they

repented at the preaching of Jonah.

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Mm-hmm.

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They specifically repented

at the preaching of Jonah,

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which was not a long sermon.

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It was, yeah.

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Not a long sermon at all.

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At least the way we are

presented in the book of Jonah.

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Pharisees have heard of the

prophecies of Jesus to come.

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They have heard John the Baptist

preach of the coming of Jesus.

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They have heard Jesus's teachings

and they've seen miracles.

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And they still reject Jesus.

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Yeah.

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They still full scale reject Jesus.

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I think it's amazing that this

foreign land, this foreign city of

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Nineveh is willing to repent just

at the mere preaching of Jonah.

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When the Pharisees, God's

very own people get way more.

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And then continue to reject him many ways.

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Right?

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Right.

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And he's addressing their

self-righteousness, which is where

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he goes in verses 43 through 45 with

this kind of enigmatic address here.

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When he talks about this unclean spirit

that leaves and it passes through waters.

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When he comes back, he finds the

house put back into order and swept.

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And yet, then it goes and brings seven

other spirits more evil than itself,

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and they enter and they dwell there.

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And the last state of the

person is worse than the first.

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What's going on here?

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Jesus is confronting the idea

of self-righteous moral reform.

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Mm-hmm.

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That doesn't really happen

by the spirit again.

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Mm-hmm.

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This started in the passage that

we're reading today with the

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blasphemy of the spirit here.

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Jesus is saying, because you don't

actually have the spirit of God,

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you're trying to clean yourself up.

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This.

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Is akin to what he's gonna get to in

Matthew 23 with the whoa statements.

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He's saying you're cleaning

the inside, but not mm-hmm.

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The outside, but not the inside.

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And so he's saying, you, you've got

this wickedness about you that, okay,

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yeah, you're cleaning it up to, to make

it look okay on the external, but then

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what's reality is it's not gonna last

that the decay in the moral depravity

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is going to eventually take over.

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And the state that you're gonna be in,

in the end is far worse than the state

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that you were in at first, because

you're rejecting the spirit of God and

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what the real hope and solution is.

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When he says at the very

end of that section.

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So also will it be with

this evil generation?

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What?

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What does he mean by generation?

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So he says this evil generation,

does that mean just the people

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that were living at that time and

that one generation, generation.

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A alpha, whatever was way back then.

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Generation one, generation one.

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He's, I think he's primarily

got the Pharisees and sades

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in mind in earshot there.

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And this is where we got the original

audience and then us reading it today.

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And there's the dual application for us.

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And I think as good be, we

need to understand there's

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an application for them.

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There's an application for us too.

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I think the application for us is a

little less specific, but still the same.

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To say, okay, I gotta make sure that I'm

being transformed not by moral reform,

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but by the spirit of doubt within me.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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And I do think he specifically talked.

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About that generation.

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But I do also think he is hinting at

the fact that this is the, there's

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a new era, there's a new age, right.

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And it's, there's gonna be this

problem continuing on even past

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the literal generation that

we see at the time of Jesus.

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Yeah.

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The chapter ends with this interaction

between Jesus' family and his.

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Ultimate family who he points to there.

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And this is a good verse

for us to consider.

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This is a good section for us to

consider for this weekend's sermon.

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'cause we're gonna be talking about

the churches as the family of God, the

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need to have real relationships there.

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And Jesus even was looking at his

mother and his brothers and saying,

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you know what, who my real family is?

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My real family are those that do

the will of my father in heaven.

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And I know it's not a popular message,

but in, in a lot of ways, that should

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be our mentality as the church too.

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Our true family, our ultimate

family are those that are our

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brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Now, ideally, Lord willing, the, that

involves our blood family as well, and

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our kids and our spouse and everything

else, but it doesn't always for everyone.

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And in those instances the people

you will spend eternity with are the

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people that you go to church with.

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And so that's a helpful thing

for us to think about there as

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uncomfortable and hard as it is.

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Let's pray and we'll be done

with this episode of the podcast.

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God, thanks for your word and for just

the hope that we have in the spirit of

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God doing the heavy lifting of cleansing

us and making us holy, making us godly

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that we're not trying to do this on our

own, like the righteous the self-righteous

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Pharisees and Sadducees were, but that we

have the spirit of God working within us.

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If we're in Christ, we're so grateful

for that reality and we are grateful

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for the reality that we will one

day be with you because we have seen

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and heard the message of faith and.

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Open Jesus crisis, our Lord's Savior.

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We've repented and put our trust in

that reality, and so we pray that

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you'd be pleased with us the rest of

this day, whatever's in front of us.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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