00:00 Introduction and Shoutout

01:18 Redundancy in the Gospels

01:59 Purpose of the Gospels

03:16 Reading the Gospels Chronologically

04:47 Four Portraits, One Jesus

05:26 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew, Mark, and Luke

05:34 John the Baptist's Ministry

09:20 Jesus' Baptism and Temptation

10:13 Mark's Rapid-Fire Gospel

15:20 Luke's Detailed Account

17:57 Genealogy of Jesus

22:06 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

22:52 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey folks.

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Happy Saturday and welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey, special shout out to one of my

favorite leaders from back in Elisa Viejo.

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Mr.

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O, he just turned, oh, I don't

know if I could say his age.

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I dunno if it's a, if it's a gal thing.

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Gals don't typically like that

their age or their weight.

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He just turned an age.

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He just turned an age that was,

and in my mind, pretty significant.

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So happy birthday to Mr.

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O.

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Does he listen in California?

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Does he says he listens most days.

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Okay.

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Many days I think.

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I can't say what, I can't remember

whether he said many or most, but I was

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texting him the other day just saying,

Hey man, I miss you and I appreciate you.

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I was thinking about him recently because.

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I was talking to somebody about leaders

and being good leaders and good, anyway,

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I was talking about him because he

was one of my best in that he kept

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contact with almost every student that

he had go through his small group.

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And so he had guys that had graduated

for years after the fact, still

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reaching out to him saying, Hey,

can you meet up about this or that?

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Yeah, so he just really did a

great job connecting with people

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and I admire that about him.

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He did so well and some, sometimes

many times don't tell the

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students who were in his group.

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We sent a lot of the

challenging kids his way.

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' cause he was just so good with them.

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He would just melt them

and make them love him.

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And suddenly these guys who were,

a little hardened towards some of

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the things that we were saying, they

would come because they love Mr.

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O.

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They knew that he loved them

and he just really set a great

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example for others to see.

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So anyway, shout out to Mr.

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O, miss you hope you and

them misses are doing great.

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That's awesome.

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That's great, man.

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Hey, we're getting into some territory,

as I alluded to at the end of y last

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yesterday's episode where we're gonna

see some redundancy in the gospels

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here, where we're gonna read about

the appearance of John the Baptist,

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and that we're gonna read about

it again in a different account.

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What do we do with that?

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It's one thing when that's.

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The book of First and Second Kings

and First and Second Chronicles.

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There, there's differences there,

different details given different points

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of emphases e even perspective, right?

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You're dealing with a post exilic and the

Chronicles you're dealing with pre-ex iic,

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obviously in the Kings with the gospels.

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You and I were talking

right before we hit record.

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There is a little bit of a downside

to this approach of the chronological

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reading because the gospels weren't

designed to be read chronologically.

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That's right.

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And so unpack that for us, if you will,

a little bit as far as the gospel writers

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each wrote with a purpose in mind.

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So briefly.

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Each gospel is intended to be

read , as in a unit by itself.

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Now they assume, I think that you

have access to the other gospels.

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In fact, John for sure knows that you have

access to the other gospels 'cause he is

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writing far later than the other guys.

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But Matthew, mark, and Luke are

called the Synoptics because

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they write about the same topic.

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They share a lot of the same

material and sometimes they

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share a lot of the same language.

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Almost as if they're borrowing from one

another to put their gospels together.

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Now, why would they do that?

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Because they're, they're using common

sources, it seems and they're using.

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One another probably.

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But on top of that, they have

different reasons for their writing.

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And so even though they share a

lot of the same content, some of

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the structural components, and even

some of the places where they put.

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Certain events seem to be moved for the

purposes of their gospel, and so you

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have to discern as you read the gospel.

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What's Luke's point?

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What's Luke trying to do for me?

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How is Matthew intending

for me to understand this?

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There's similar content, yes,

but even some of the similar

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content we're gonna read.

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Are we reading this today?

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Matthew four.

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Is that today?

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That's, no, that's tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So Matthew four.

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Luke four, they both talk about

the temptation of Jesus, but

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there's a critical difference

between the two of them.

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A significant difference,

I should say, not critical.

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And that significant difference

shows you at least a part of what

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they're highlighting in their gospel.

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And so the downside to a.

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A reading plan like this one is

that we blur that line a little bit.

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We make it less clear what the

individual point of that gospel

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is intending to communicate.

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Now, I'm not saying that we're

doing it wrong by any stretch.

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We're doing it differently

than what they intended.

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So you should know that as you read the

Gospels, it's best to read the gospel

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as a unit by itself and say, what's

this gospel intending for me to see?

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And as you do that, it's far easier to.

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To get a sense of what they're doing,

but as we're reading it, we're doing

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it chronologically, which gives us a

slight disadvantage when we're trying

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to interpret the whole to help our

people because I've heard it and I know

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there's differences in opinion there.

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But for example, Matthew wrote to

show that Jesus was king of the Jews.

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Right, right.

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Largely Jewish audience there, not

only Jewish, but that was his intent.

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We talked about that with his genealogy,

beginning with Abraham, and so that's

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gonna be a lot of his thrust there.

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Mark is writing.

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With a different intent.

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Mark's writing to show Jesus even

as he begins there as Son of God.

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At the beginning, in, in Mark chapter one

Luke is writing, I think with a gentile

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audience in mind that's what's assumed.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Son of man.

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And then you've got John, who is the most

theological of all the gospel writers.

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And that's why he's not one

of the synoptic gospels.

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He's got a different

approach to it entirely.

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Understanding those things is

important for us to understand why

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they included what they included.

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None of them were leaving

things out for nefarious intent.

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None of them were including

things for nefarious intent.

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Right.

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They were just all writing with a specific

audience in mind to try to get the gospel,

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the good news out there to that audience.

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Absolutely.

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And if I could encourage you to read

a textbook, oh, I know no one wants

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to do this, but man, this is one of my

favorite books that I read in seminary

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and I think it'll be well worth.

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In addition to your library, even

if you just read a little bit at

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a time, you don't have to read the

whole thing, but it's called Four

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Portraits One Jesus by Mark Strauss.

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I'm not sure what edition

they're on right now.

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I think I have the fourth

one or the third one.

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Anyway, it's called a Survey

of Jesus and the Gospels.

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That's the subtitle and it's awesome.

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He does a really great job helping

us to understand the role that each

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one plays and what they're trying to.

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Highlight in the gospel.

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Yeah.

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So I would recommend that to you.

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Four portraits.

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One Jesus, a survey of Jesus

and the Gospels by Mark Strauss,

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one of my favorite books.

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Awesome.

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Let's jump into our DBR today.

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We're in Matthew chapter three.

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We are in Mark chapter one,

and Luke chapter three.

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So Matthew three.

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Mark one.

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Luke three Matthew three introduces the

ministry of John the Baptist here for us.

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And this is the ministry that we

often think of when it comes to John.

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In, in John chapter one.

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John the Baptist is on the scene

quite a bit but not in this way.

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This is the traditional way.

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Here it is.

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Here he is he's in the Jordan River.

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He's baptizing people and

his message is Repent for the

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Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

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He's preparing people for the arrival

of the Messiah, the arrival of the king.

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Now, John, and we talked about this.

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In our study of the Gospel of John,

because John looks at Jesus and

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says, behold the lame of God who

takes away the sins of the world.

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I think John often spoke better

than he understood but John was

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nonetheless doing what God had called

him to do and delivering the message

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that he was called to deliver.

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And so people are coming out to.

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In obedience of him be baptized and what's

interesting is they're being baptized

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for the forgiveness of their sins too.

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So they understand that the cleansing

nature of this as well, even though they

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don't fully wrap their lives around,

neither does John, how Jesus is gonna

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bring about this cleansing and that is

gonna come through the death of Christ.

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That's gonna come through the cross,

a different kind of a baptism.

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But some of those that come out

to John are the religious leaders,

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the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

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And man John is a bold voice here,

and that's one thing that we can

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appreciate about John, among many

others, is he was not afraid to

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confront the hypocrisy of these.

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Pharisees and Sadducees, they come

out and he calls them a brood of

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vipers and he says, you need to bear

fruit in keeping with repentance.

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It's easy to talk, it's a

different thing to walk.

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And so John is basically saying,

you're out here presuming to be

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righteous and to presume to be that

the leaders of the people of God.

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And yet you need to.

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Repent and you need to humble

yourself and you need to show the

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genuineness of your relationship

with him through bearing fruit.

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And he says in verse 10, even now

the ax is laid to the root of the

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trees, every tree, therefore that

does not bear good fruit, is gonna

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be cut down and thrown into the fire.

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The tension between the religious

leaders and Jesus is actually

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already beginning to be stoked.

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Not by Jesus even at this

point, but by John the Baptist.

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Jesus is just going to continue it.

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Yeah.

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How important to note here

is that this baptism is not a

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Christian baptism per se, correct?

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Not the one that you wouldn't.

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Do today if you repent of your

sins and put your trust in him.

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This is more like a preparatory baptism.

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It's a symbolic baptism to say,

look, we are in need of repentance

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in response to the Messiah's coming.

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That's why he quotes here prepare the

way the Lord make straight his paths.

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It's, in other words, a way to signify

that the Messiah is on the road.

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He's coming let us be

prepared for his arrival and.

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And that our reception is worthy of his

arrival, so they're turning from their

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sins in preparation for the Messiah.

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This is not the same thing

as a Christian baptism.

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In fact, not only is he on the way,

but this is a even a reference beyond

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the water baptism act to the future

spiritual baptism that's gonna take place.

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In verse 11, he says, I baptize you with

water for repentance, but one who is

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coming after me is mightier than I am.

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Who sandals I'm not worthy to carry.

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He will baptize you with.

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The Holy Spirit and fire.

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So there's a double meaning here.

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First the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I

think is a callback to the new covenant.

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And the idea that the, that Christ is

going to be the bringer about, of the one

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that is gonna fulfill the new covenant.

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We believe that's a partial fulfillment

at this point for us as the church and

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gonna be a full fulfillment in the future.

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But that new covenant relationship

where the spirit of God is

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placed within us and then.

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The second element here, I think

the baptism of fire is gonna be

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the baptism of judgment for others.

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That there are gonna be some that are

baptized ba with fire in the sense that

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they're gonna be, they're gonna suffer.

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And that's verse 12.

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His winnowing fork is in his hand.

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He will clear his threshing floor and

gather the wheat into the barn, but the

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chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

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So we're gonna talk

about tomorrow morning.

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The fact that it all comes down to what

we do with Jesus, that there is a dividing

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line in human history over whether or

not people repent and believe in Jesus

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for the forgiveness of sins or not.

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And that's what John is saying

here right now with Jesus' arrival,

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the Messiah's arrival is going to

mean either you're gonna respond.

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Favorably to him.

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And then you're gonna be

baptized with the spirit.

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Or if you reject him you're gonna

be baptized with fire and judgment.

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And that's what John talks

about right here in verse 12.

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Jesus shows up after

this then to be baptized.

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And John initially says, this

is, what are you doing here?

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I should be baptized by you.

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And Jesus makes this rather enigmatic

statement where he says, let it be.

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So for now, verse 15, for

thus, it is fitting for us

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to fulfill all righteousness.

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And a lot of people have wondered.

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What that was about.

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Jesus is not being baptized for the

remittance of sins 'cause he had no sin.

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Rather, I believe what's going on

here is what we read about in Hebrews

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two 17, that Jesus had to be made

like his brothers in every respect.

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So this is Jesus choosing to

identify with his people by.

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Submitting to the baptism of John.

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And so he's coming out to identify

with his people who are also

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going out to be baptized by John.

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And this is part of his

qualification, to be the Messiah,

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to be the one that represents them.

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And we know the rest of the story.

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The heavens open up and God says,

this is my beloved son, with whom I'm

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well pleased, and Jesus is anointed

with the Holy Spirit, which is gonna

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be significant for the power of his

ministry from this time forward.

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All right, let's jump over

then to Mark chapter one.

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Mark chapter one.

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Mark's gotta be one of

my favorite gospels.

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I know we only have four to choose

from, and I preach John, but I just,

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I love the rapid fire pace of mark y.

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You'll note there's no

birth account in Mark.

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He just jumps right into it.

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This is the beginning of the

gospel of Jesus Christ, the son

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of God, and he jumps straight in.

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He talks about John the Baptist here.

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We just read about this account

in Matthew chapter three, but this

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is John baptizing the wilderness.

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Again, repentance and forgiveness of sins.

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He references Jesus again

here in verse eight.

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I have baptized you with water, but he

will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

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Again.

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The new covenant language there

allusions back to Ezekiel.

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And then you have the baptism of Jesus.

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From Mark, which again,

mark is just condensed.

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A lot of the same material just

condensed down, and so here's the

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baptism of Jesus, the affirmation that

he is indeed the son of God from the

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Father and with you, I'm well pleased.

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Then though we get into the

temptation, and so this is

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Mark's account of the temptation.

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Beginning in verse 12, it says, the

spirit immediately drove him out into

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the wilderness, and so we'll talk more

about this in the longer treatments

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of the temptation of Christ, but

notice that this is God's will, that

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Jesus would go out and be tempted.

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We'll talk about why in the

longer selections of that,

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but he's in the wilderness.

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Again.

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Mark's given a condensed version for 40

days being tempted by Satan, and he was

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with the wild animals and the angels.

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End up ministering to him,

following his temptation.

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He comes back and begins the ministry.

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He's gonna begin the ministry

in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Just like he was led into

temptation by the Holy Spirit.

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He's gonna begin his ministry in the

power of the Holy Spirit, and he's

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gonna begin his ministry by preaching.

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And that's the thing that I

want you to see in John in

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the rest of Mark chapter one.

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He's gonna do a lot of amazing things.

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He's gonna be teaching.

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People are gonna be

amazed at his teaching.

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He's gonna be doing some miracles.

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In fact, he's going to eventually.

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End up at Peter's mother-in-law's

house for the night because

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he rises her and heals her.

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And then all the people keep bringing

all the sick and the lame to him, and

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he stays up late into the night healing

all of them and casting out demons.

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And then he gets up very early

the next morning, he goes to pray

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and the disciples can't find him

and they go find him finally.

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And.

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They say, Hey, you need to come

back because there's another line of

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people that need you to heal them.

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And Jesus says something

that's pretty remarkable that

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we need to pay attention to.

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He says, let's go to the other towns.

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'cause I need to preach there too

for that is why I have come out.

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So Jesus's mission, we often

think about his miracles and

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we often think about the cross.

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But a huge portion of his mission and

why he was here for three years of

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earthly ministry was the preaching

of the good news, the preaching

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of the gospel, preparing people to

follow him as their Lord and savior.

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And so we have some of that.

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We're gonna get to some of that

in the Sermon on the Mount.

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There's the sermon on the plane, there's

the olive discourse, things like that.

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But there was so much more of

Jesus' preaching and teaching that

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I would've loved to have known more

of what the content of that was.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Mark's gospel is unique because of all of

the rapid fire, almost, not dismissive,

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but he's just covering a ton of territory

that where the other gospels Luke and

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Matthew really take their time on.

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And so one of the things that

you're gonna notice that's.

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Pretty typical of Mark's gospel is

the use of the word immediately.

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In fact, you're gonna read

it nine separate times.

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Yeah.

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In just the first chapter alone.

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He uses that all throughout his gospel.

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That's a pretty common word for him,

and he's, all he's doing is just

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keeping the narrative moving along.

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Very action packed, very cliff notes.

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He's, he condenses a lot of it.

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You've already mentioned

some of those things.

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But perhaps one of my favorite parts

of this gospel, especially chapter one,

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is what is, what's happening In verse

35 and following, he highlights Jesus'

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prayer life, verse 35, and rising very

early in the morning, while it was

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still dark, he departed, went out to

OD desolate place, and there he prayed.

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I love this because it highlights

very early on that Jesus was not

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just operating from this wellspring

of energy and self-empowerment.

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Although he could have, he's a

second member of the Trinity.

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He sets an example for us in

showing his dedication to his

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communion with God the Father.

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And therefore he now has clarity.

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He has power.

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He has the ability to navigate through

some of these complex situations

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on earth because he's tapped into

that relationship with his father.

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And I think that's really

instructive for us.

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We ought to be the same kind of people who

make time to pray because we need that.

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Jesus shows us the priority of

his prayer life very early in

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the gospel, and I love this.

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Let's turn over.

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I guess last section of Mark chapter one.

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There, we're gonna see this

repeated a couple times.

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The same interaction here and

it's another commendable element

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of what we see from Jesus here.

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He encounters this leper who

obviously is in great need.

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Leprosy was a horrible disease at the

time that isolated people from community,

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isolated people from loved ones, no

contact because it was a communicable

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disease when somebody touched a leper,

they could contract it themselves.

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So this leper comes up to Jesus and wants

to be healed and Jesus doesn't just.

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Say you're clean.

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Go.

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He reaches out and touches him in

all of the gospel writers who record

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this event, record that interaction

that Jesus touched the leper.

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And I think that's so important.

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It's so significant.

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'cause it shows the compassion of Jesus.

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Who knows the last time this man had

been touched by another human being and

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Jesus chooses to touch him out of an act

of compassion, but also out of a flex

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to show that the disease could not be.

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Transferred to Jesus but Jesus's healing

powers we're gonna overcome the disease.

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And so here we see some of his deity,

even in the fact that this physical

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touch didn't defile Jesus, but

rather overwhelm the defilement of

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this man in cleansing his leprosy.

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And so just a really cool, compassionate,

super cool view of Jesus there.

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Yeah.

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If Mark is the condensed version,

Luke is the expanded version.

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And that's where we go

next in Luke chapter three.

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The opening is gonna be

focused in on John the Baptist.

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Again, much like we read about in

Matthew chapter three and Mark's

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gospel, mark was very brief.

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Luke is gonna expand upon

what Matthew records.

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In fact, Luke's gonna say that

John the Baptist is fulfilling

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more than just Isaiah's prophecy.

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He's also going to point Isaiah 40 verse

three, I should say three other passages

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in Isaiah that he's gonna list here.

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That point to the.

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The fulfillment of who John the

Baptist is and what he was doing.

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By the way, if you're reading

your Bibles, especially in the

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ESV and you note a little letter

or a, sometimes it's a number.

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Check those at the bottom of your Bible or

look for the center column, which where it

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is in my Bible, because those are helpful.

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Inputs there.

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They tell you what these Old Testament

verses are and you can look at

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them, you can look them up yourself.

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You can read them if you want there.

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But remember chapter and verses

weren't a thing when Luke was

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recording his account of this.

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So Luke wasn't gonna write in Isaiah

chapter 40 verse three, we read

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this and this is the fulfillment.

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He's just gonna say as Isaiah

the prophet wrote, or as it's

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written in the scriptures.

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And he's gonna give the citation there.

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So the ESV provides some help on that.

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Luke is gonna record a longer

section of John the Baptist

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preaching to the Pharisees.

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And the sad, he's gonna have the

same thing about bearing fruit

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and keeping with repentance.

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He's gonna have the comment about

the Bruta vipers, but then he's also

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gonna have this interaction between

Luke and between John and the crowds.

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When the crowds are

saying what should we do?

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What does bearing fruit look like for us?

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And he goes through and he gives

very practical application about,

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this is what you should do, and

this is one of the reasons why

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we do that from the pulpit today.

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Because we see it modeled

for us in scripture.

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John is preaching and he's saying, here's

what practical application looks like.

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Some people believe preaching is just

unpack all the details of the scriptures

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and back the dump truck of exegesis

up and dump it on us, and then let

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the Holy Spirit sort everything out.

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I don't think we see that in scripture.

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I think we see the application of this

is what it looks like to live it out.

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Even in, in the letter to the

Hebrews, he's writing to them

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very specific application.

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Hey, don't neglect meeting

together, but spur one another

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up towards love and good deeds.

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That's a Sermonic letter.

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That's why I bring up

the letter of Hebrews.

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John the Baptist is

doing that here as well.

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Luke is gonna record that John the

Baptist is gonna be imprisoned, which

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is significant because that launches

really Jesus's public ministry when

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Jesus, when John is in prison, Jesus.

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Picks up the torch and Jesus

begins going that same day.

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And then the rest of Chap Luke,

chapter three, which we can touch

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on in a second, is the genealogy

of Christ from Luke's perspective.

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But anything on Luke, which

John the Baptist here.

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No love everything that you just said.

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Awesome.

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Can we clip that and Nope.

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Use that over and over again.

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Nope.

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No.

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Okay, so strike it from the record.

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Luke's genealogy here is gonna go back.

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We talked to that Matthew's genealogy

went all the way back to Abraham,

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or I should say, started with

Abraham and went down to Jesus.

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Luke is gonna start with Jesus, and we

know that Jesus was 30 because of Luke's

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testimony here, that he was about 30

years old when he began his ministry.

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And he's gonna trace it all the way back.

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To Adam, the son of God.

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And again, this is where we go

back to the different audiences

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that we were talking about.

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As we open this podcast,

Matthew's concerned to show

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Jesus as the king of the Jews.

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Luke is concerned to show Jesus as the

son of man, as the one that is for all

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of the people, for all of the Gentiles.

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So that's why he goes all the way

back to Adam in order to show,

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hey, Jesus is the son of Adam.

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This is traceable all the way back.

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And because of that, he is the

savior of the world and not just the

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savior of one group of people here.

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Yeah.

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Notice here in verse 23, he's called

the son as was supposed of Joseph.

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So even though Luke identifies Joseph

as Jesus legal bio or legal father,

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he's not his biological father but

he traces that line all the way down,

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verse 38, to being the son of God.

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And so he's making a connection to

Jesus, not only being the son of David,

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which in verse 31, but also having

universal application as the son of God.

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Everyone comes from Adam

and Adam comes from God.

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And so he's trying to show that Jesus

is not just a savior for the Jews,

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he's a savior for the whole world.

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Yeah.

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A lot of people think this is actually,

even though he says, he mentions Joseph

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there, that the line that he's tracing

is actually Mary's line in Luke.

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Possible.

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We can't say for sure, and that's where

I was gonna, I was not gonna mention

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it, but since you brought it up.

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Okay.

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There are multiple ways to approach the

two different genealogies that Jesus has.

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He has one here in Matthew, or

one here in Luke, and one in

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Matthew, and they're different.

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And one way to approach it is once.

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Joseph's one is Mary's, but one of

the challenges here is, as you see

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in this text, this one says Joseph.

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Yeah.

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And the other one is also

considered Joseph's as well.

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So you could say this as Mary's, but

then he is, you have the question.

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Why is he mentioning Joseph here?

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He could have mentioned Mary, that

he's not, in fact, Luke is okay.

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With including women in the gospel story.

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Yeah.

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He does it quite frequently and

it seems like he's doing it on

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purpose to showcase the fact that

Jesus was not, he was not opposed

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to utilizing women in his ministry.

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In fact, some women were supporting

his ministry and they were

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traveling with him in some capacity.

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What that looks like, how he, I don't

know, but that's what Luke says.

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So I think if it were Mary's line,

I think Luke would've been okay.

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With saying this is Mary's line.

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I don't think that would've been an issue.

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So I, I don't know.

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I don't know where to fall on this.

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I just know that however you slice

it there's challenges either way.

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Yeah.

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In fact, Bible Knowledge

Commentary is looking at, it says.

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This on it, it says both of

those views that it's Joseph's or

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it's Mary's have their problems.

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Yes.

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Which are difficult to answer.

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Yeah.

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It says not the least of which is

the fact that the two genealogies

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meet at she LTL and Abel and then

split a second time only to come

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together again at Joseph and Jesus.

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Crazy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that's, what do you do with that?

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We have questions that the text isn't

answering for us, which means that either

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A, God deliberately did not give us that

information, or B, we just haven't figured

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out how to put the pieces together yet.

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And given that we've had 2000 years

to take a crack at this and nothing

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has been preserved to really resolve

these things in a satisfying way.

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Okay.

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God's doing something that, okay.

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He doesn't want us to know.

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That's fine.

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I can live with that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So this shouldn't shake our faith.

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Absolutely not.

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In fact, the very opposite is true.

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Both.

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Matthew and Luke are writing for the

express purpose of Inspiring Faith.

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And so just because we don't have

answers to how something works doesn't

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mean that the answer isn't there.

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We just dunno how it works yet.

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And perhaps there's gonna be some kind

of, I don't know, some archeological

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dig that helps shed some light.

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I don't know.

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We just don't know.

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We.

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What I do know is that so far I've

been able to trust everything.

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The genealogy is a relatively

small piece of the puzzle for me.

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If I look at the whole picture of all that

God has done in his word and through his

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spirit, man, I don't struggle with this.

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I'd like to get it answered,

make no mistake, but I don't

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struggle with it in the same way.

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And I think it's telling also,

and I know we gotta wrap up as

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we're a little bit longer on

this episode, but I think it's a.

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It's telling also that some

of the main challenges to

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Jesus' claim to be the Messiah.

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I don't find a lot out there

from the Jewish camp saying he

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wasn't of the line of David.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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Even there, it shows that they were

accepting of his lineage and the

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connection back to the line of David,

which would put him back in, in keeping

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with the rest of the genealogies here.

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So that's a great point.

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Let's let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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Lord we're grateful for the detail

that you do give us in the scriptures.

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We're grateful for Luke's

attention to detail as a physician.

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We're grateful for Mark's passion

to condense and give us all the

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fast pack to action of what took

place in the life of Christ.

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And we're thankful for Matthew showing

us that he's the king of the Jews.

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Lord, we're grateful for the

different perspectives that

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we get in these four accounts.

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Help us as we read the gospels this.

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Season Lord, not to glaze over a passage

because we've just read the similar

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account in another gospel, but help us

to take it in and to think, and to think

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about the unique perspective of the writer

and what he was trying to accomplish

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in writing it the way that he did.

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And Lord, maybe we never grow bored with

the life of Jesus, with the life of our

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Messiah, with the life of our Savior.

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And so we pray this and

ask this in his name.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you tomorrow.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said