00:00 Introduction and Greetings

01:09 Casual Conversation and Banter

03:13 Diving into John 7: Jesus and the Feast of Booths

05:39 Jesus' Authority and Teaching

06:34 Confronting Hypocrisy and Judging Rightly

09:39 Confusion and Questions About Jesus

10:10 Impending Departure and Arrest

10:56 Confusion Among the Crowds

11:19 Imagining Jesus in the Modern World

12:03 The Significance of Water in the Feast of Booths

13:20 Division Among the Religious Leaders

13:57 The Question of Nicodemus' Faith

14:52 Debate on the Authenticity of John 7:53-8:11

18:47 Jesus Defends His Testimony

20:13 Jesus Confronts the Pharisees

22:05 Jesus' Bold Claim About Abraham

23:00 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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What's up.

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Let's do this.

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Let's jump into it, John seven.

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Whoa.

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Okay.

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Just right into it.

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Five minutes.

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No.

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It would not even be that, you

know, that once you get started,

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it's really hard to stop the.

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Target started.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I see.

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I'm the pepper and the salt.

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You're the meat here.

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I get to salt and flavor.

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What you're saying.

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It's color commentator vs.

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Play by play.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Yeah.

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I'm asking the questions.

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Everybody has.

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You're saying the things it was.

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Oh, okay.

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Interesting.

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Let us, let us ask you about that.

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I represent the people and

you represent the pastor.

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So that's very convenient, how

you get to, to have that role.

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And I did have this role.

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I chose it.

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And no one denied me that that

choosing of that position.

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So this is it.

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So this, whether I like it or

not, this is just what it is.

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Do you like this kind of what

naturally happened in his and

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it's worked out pretty well so far

people, people love the dynamic.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, Um, I don't know

if I do, but that's fair.

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That's fine.

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That's fine.

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Yeah.

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Okay, well, I mean the Buck's

got to stop somewhere, right?

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Hey, how was the bowling

this past weekend?

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I know it's been a few days ago, but

yeah, it was a couple of days ago at

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this point, but it was still good.

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We have a great time.

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A lot of fun.

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I'd love laser tag, man.

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Let me just tell you.

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Um, that's one of my

favorite things to do.

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I.

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I mean, I, I don't do it very often,

but because I'm in youth ministry,

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of course I played laser tag.

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And I always enjoy that.

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I mean, it's always fun.

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The only downside this

time was I got a bum.

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PAC the first time.

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So I was.

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Trying to shoot and hitting people

and I'm like, nothing's happening.

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So.

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Yeah, I had to exit the arena

and then the guy said, oh yeah,

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I guess someone does this one.

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Doesn't work.

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Thanks for letting me know.

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So he gave me another one and

then, uh, I still, I was, I

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was off my game at that point.

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Yeah.

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So all the, all the intentions of

my heart were basically blocked

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and I could not shoot all the

students that I wanted to shoot.

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So I was kind of upset by that.

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It's at a good time.

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And I was hoping for more,

but I always love laser tech.

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I, in fact, one of the things that

I was telling the students, like

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once we have our own facility,

we're going to build one of these.

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In, in or adjacent to the youth

room, they might be the same thing.

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We might use it as, as an auditorium

for the youth ministry that also

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doubles as a laser tag arena.

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Um, when we're not preaching, that'd be,

that'd be fire as the kids say, right.

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Is that what they.

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I think they're beyond that now.

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Are they?

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Okay.

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Well shows where I'm at.

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They're close.

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All I know is Josh came

back and he told me that.

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In laser tag, his accuracy was like 2.5%.

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It is harder than you expect.

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I don't know, it's dark in there.

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And like the laser has

to hit the, the targets.

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It's harder than you expect.

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And if you're just

spray, firing everywhere.

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You're not going to get

a high accuracy number.

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That's for sure.

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That's for sure.

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That's great though.

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Well, good.

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I'm glad it was good.

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Yeah.

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We had a great time.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I, yeah, so, well, good.

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Yeah.

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We, uh, we're glad that

you do events like that.

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I'm glad that you do

events like that, man.

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It's fun.

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I mean, it keeps me young.

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Yeah, just me humble.

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Yep.

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Uh, sometimes the kids

do beat me at things and.

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When that happens.

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I am humbled at that moment.

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And that's it.

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All right.

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Well, good to know.

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That's the only place that's.

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I try to help them.

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I'm here to humble you not.

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The other way around.

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I'm just getting no, it's always fun.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into the text.

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John seven.

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Sometimes we got a lot of Googling.

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Look, here's the day that

we just, we don't have much.

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There's not much there.

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Not much Googling.

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Yeah, John seven.

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Um, We've been in this recently

with our study on Sunday mornings.

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And so anytime we're in the gospel

of John, which is both today and

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tomorrow on the podcast, Um, it

should be familiar ground force

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for now, but a John seven opens up.

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You've got, uh, the Jesus and that the

feast of booths is that ESV titles.

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It there.

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Um, the first 13 verses

here, you've got this.

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Interesting scenario between

Jesus and his brothers and the

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feast of booths is happening.

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One of the feasts, by the way, that

all Jewish males, 13 and older.

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We're we're we're required.

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By old Testament law to show up and

be present in Jerusalem for the feast.

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So the question was never whether or not

Jesus was going to go with the question

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was when and how was Jesus going to go?

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And so his brothers want him to go

with them and they want it to be a

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grand show and they want to ride in

too much pomp and circumstance would

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Jesus being there and they want this

to be Jesus' triumphal entry moment.

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Uh, but Jesus knew better.

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Jesus knew this was not his hour.

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And so when he tells his brothers,

I'm not going up to the feast at

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this time, he's, he's not telling

them he's not going up at all.

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Because again, th the,

the law required this.

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And so for Jesus to fulfill all the

obligations and requirements of the

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law, to be the, the appropriate and

sufficient and qualified substitutionary

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atonement for us, he had to be there.

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And so the, the, the question was

not whether or not he was going to

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go just when he was going to go.

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And so he goes up.

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At a different time in a different

manner, a different fashion.

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And that's how we can look at

this and say, okay, Jesus was

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not lying to his brothers.

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But he was telling his brothers,

rather, I'm not going with you at this

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time, the way that you want me to go.

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Yeah, important to see here that when

Jesus says this, he he's saying I'm

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not doing what you're doing in the way

that you're saying for me to do it.

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Jesus had an entirely different

motivation, an entirely different time

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structure in an entirely different method.

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So in at least those three areas, what

Jesus intended to do was different than

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what his brothers wanted him to do.

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So.

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Super important.

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And in fact, as you're looking at your

Bible, you might notice that there's

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a little number next to the word

not, or Jesus says in verse eight,

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I am not going up to this feast.

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Some manuscripts, add the word yet.

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And you can understand why

a scribe would do that.

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He's like, oh, they must've forgotten

to put yet because Jesus goes

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up in the next verse over here.

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Uh, trying to fix what seems to be a

problem there, but Christians can read

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this and say, this is not a problem.

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He's not.

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He's not saying I'm not going no,

never, just not in the way that you're

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telling me, which is why verse 10 says

then he went up, not publicly, but in

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private, in other words, not the way

that his brothers want to know to.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Verses 14 through 18, then

you've got Jesus authority.

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He begins to teach on the temple Mount

and speaks to the grumbling crowd by

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claiming an authority, not as own,

but the one that comes from God.

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And so here, this is something that, that

we're still dealing with in John's gospel.

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Well, I guess not, not as much

anymore in the upper room, but.

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Leading up to it just about Is this.

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This confusion in this, this, this

chaos where the religious leaders

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especially are challenging, where

does Jesus get this authority?

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And so here he is, he's teaching.

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The reason he's able to see these things

is he says in verse 16, my teaching

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is not mine, but his who sent me.

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If anyone's willing to do God's

will, he will know whether

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the teaching is from God.

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We just talked about this, this last

Sunday, that Jesus and the father are one.

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And, and he's making that.

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If anyone's seen me, they've

seen him, the things that I

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say I say as from the father.

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And so he's teaching those things and in

telling that to the crowds here in verses

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14 through 18, Verses 19 through 24,

then this is Jesus standing his ground.

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He confronts the crowd, specifically

the Jewish leaders over their

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hypocrisy concerning his healing.

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Of a man on the sat, but that

goes back to John chapter five.

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And so, as Jesus is talking

about this healing that he had

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done, and he says, you're mad at

me because I made a whole body.

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Well, he's talking about John chapter

five, the, the healing of the paralytic.

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And he's saying, Hey, listen, Um, you

are, are, are hypocritical in what you're

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doing here and you need to not do that.

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You need to not judge hypocritically here.

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You need to judge with right judgment.

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Um, as I do, do not judge

by right appearances, but

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judge with right judgment.

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And so he's, he's confronting

them for their hypocrisy there.

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Uh, as they were angry over the fact

that he had healed this guy who was

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a paralytic on the Sabbath and made

him walk and remember, that's the

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guy that said it was Jesus, Jesus.

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The one that did it, go get him.

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And now they're there.

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They're coming to get him.

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And help us put together these two

passages, John chapter seven verse

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24 says, do not judge by appearances,

but judge with right judgment.

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But Matthew says, judge,

not that you be not judged.

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And lots of people like to utilize this

one when they're talking to Christians

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and they're saying, Hey, this is sin.

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This is righteousness.

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And they'll respond with something like

this, judge not doesn't it say, judge,

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not judge, not who says right there.

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So help us put those two pieces together.

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Yeah.

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This is all about.

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Hypocritical judgment.

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And we know that by a third passage,

which is found in the sermon on the Mount,

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when Jesus says, Hey, you know what.

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Before you judge remove the speck from

your, or remove the log from your own

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eyes that you might see clearly to

remove the speck from your brother's eye.

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So that the judgment that was being

executed by the religious leaders, by

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the Pharisees that Jesus sinked judge,

not in the way that you're judging

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right now is this hypocritical judgment.

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That's judging by man's standards

rather than by the standards of God.

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And also.

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Judging by man's standards while harboring

their own sinfulness, that they're

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not recognizing in their own lives.

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That is revealing that they're,

they're hypocrites in the way

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that they're going about that.

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So it's not a prohibition,

it gets all judgment.

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It's just, we need to, to judge

anytime we do so with humility and

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also careful all I, Galatians six, when

it says, Hey, we need to be careful.

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Lest we fall on ourselves when we're

confronting a brother that's cotton,

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a trespass there, uh, in that passage.

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So there's plenty of texts, Galatians

six being one Matthew 18, even to

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bring somebody to bring charges

against somebody is to judge someone.

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So.

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So the standard that says we'll

never to judge us as Christians or

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Christians are supposed to be judging.

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That doesn't hold up to the

full Corpus of scripture.

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So just to be abundantly clear, then.

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True or false scripture

calls Christians to judge.

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True.

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True.

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Yeah.

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It's true.

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I don't know why this is such a problem.

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Every, everyone gets upset

at Christians for doing this.

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Unaware, perhaps of the cruel irony

that they're doing, the very same

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thing they're charging us with.

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I don't understand that, but what

about whatever, that's what it is.

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Christians are called the judge we're

just called the judge differently

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than the world itself does it, we

don't, we don't judge by appearances.

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We don't judge, according to our own

personal preferences, we judge according

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to the word of God and we do so.

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Got a willing with humility and without

hypocrisy, those are the qualifiers.

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Christian, you are called

to judge user discernment.

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Make sure it's biblical do so with

humility, but recognize this is your call.

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Yeah, I think a lot of times the

world comes at us because the

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world is saying we don't have a

book that tells us not to judge.

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And so they're misquoting our book saying

you do have a book that tells you not to

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judge, so you can't against us, right?

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Versus 25, 30, 31 then.

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Confusion and questions.

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Nobody really knows what to do with

Jesus, except for his immediate followers.

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And even them.

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You know, as we're watching right

now, they're with them in the upper

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room, they're going to be running

for their lives in the garden

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here in just a matter of hours.

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And in context of what we're

studying, nobody knows at this

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point what to do with Jesus.

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Some believe that he's the Messiah.

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Others want to arrest him.

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And Jesus just kept up the

consistent messaging that

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he had come from the father.

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So Jesus.

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Is the only one that's really

steadfast and consistent through

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all of this in John seven.

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Versus 32 through 36, then.

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Uh, the impending departure here,

officers are dispatched to arrest him.

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And so the heat has been turned up now.

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Now it's just not, it's not

a matter of confronting him.

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It's not a matter of trying

to undermine his teaching.

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It's not a matter of accusations.

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Now we're looking to actually

sees him and put him under arrest.

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And so this is the first kind of.

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Inkling in John's gospel that

Hey, things are, are, are moving

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towards a, uh, a climax in.

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In a face off between Jesus

and the religious leaders.

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These officers are

dispatched to arrest them.

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They're not going to do their job

as, as we know, um, they get held

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up there kind of on the outside of

the crowds, listening in for, for

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most of what happens from here.

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But Jesus declares to the crowds

that he's going to be leaving them.

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Anyways.

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He says, look, I'm going somewhere

and where I'm going, you can't follow.

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And that proves to be a concept that

they're not able to follow either.

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They don't understand

what he means by that.

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Is he going to the Gentiles?

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Where's he going?

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Where does this man intend to go?

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Um, Jesus is going to pick that up

with his disciples, as we've just

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talked about recently in our study, uh,

later on and tell them, and, and even

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this disciples, aren't going to fully

understand what he's talking about there.

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They're still trying to wrap their minds

around that, but the crowds, certainly

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at this point, again, the confusion,

the chaos, the questions they're,

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they're not sure what to do with Jesus,

for what he's talking about here.

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Imagine if Jesus came today,

imagining the kind of.

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I assume.

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Uh, taking out all the knowledge

that we have about the new Testament,

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assuming that he showed up today.

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I mean.

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If, so why is it him to come here?

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Because now with all the AI and

all the fake stuff and all the

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things that are happening online,

you would be like, who is this guy?

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Who is this crazy person?

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I mean even here where they,

they had tactile experiences with

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them, they were able to see him.

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They were able to use your

eyes and touch them with their

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hands as John one talks about.

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And yet, I mean, they struggled with this.

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Yeah.

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It's understandable.

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On the one hand, from a human

perspective, understandable.

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From the spiritual perspective, we can see

it now looking through the lens of our new

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Testament saying, what were they thinking?

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Uh, don't take that for granted.

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We're separated by many years, but we

have, we have a distinct privilege here

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and an advantage by having the word.

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In the text.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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Well, John 7 37 through 39.

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There's something going on here

that I don't know that I did a good

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enough job bringing out during the

sermon, um, in, in that is that

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what's going on with the water.

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And so during the feast of boobs, one

of the things they would do is they

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would go and get water every day and

they would bring it up during the feast

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and then they would pour it out at the

altar and in doing so it was a symbol of

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hope in the future days of the Messiah.

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So you go to a passage like

Zechariah 14 H 14, eight, not H.

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It's not a thing.

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Uh, 14, eight, which we studied

not long ago in our DVR.

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And it says on that day, living

water shall flow out of Jerusalem.

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And so during the feast of booths is

there, which reflected the Exodus, the

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deliverance of Israel from slavery in

Egypt, they're looking forward to a

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future deliverance that would come from

a Messiah greater than Moses, and they

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would pour out the water on the alternate.

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It was a symbol of the fulfillment of this

promise in Zechariah 14, eight of water,

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living, water flowing out of Jerusalem.

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And so it's against that backdrop.

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That Jesus stands up and says, if anyone

thirst, let him come to me and drink.

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Whoever believes in me, out of his

heart will flow rivers of living water.

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And we said, this is about the spirit.

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So there's new covenant layers and

new covenant language going on here.

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He's the fulfillment of all these

expectations back into ZQ as well.

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And so there's a lot, that's, that's

really weighty and really massive

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going on here in verses 37 through 39.

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Versus 43 52, then this

one's just more confusion.

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Uh, division continues to arise.

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Uh, this is focused on the, on the crowds

and on the leaders and everything and

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what their response is going to be.

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And what are they going to do?

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And so even amongst the religious leaders,

they're not sure there's, there's ardent

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voices wanting to arrest Jesus while

others are willing to consider his claims,

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including Nicodemus from all the way

back in John chapter three, Nicodemus

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continues to be hanging around on the

peripheral, and we're going to see him

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in a very significant role later on.

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Uh, even from where we

are on Sunday morning.

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So, um, there's, there's confusion

that people are are, are not

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sure even amongst the religious

leaders, what to do with Jesus.

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Just nickname as a Christian.

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Uh, at this point or today I'm sure.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I, I think he probably is.

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I think when we see him in Joseph

at the, the cross willing to, to

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help prepare the body for burial.

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I think nicotine is there.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's why John focuses

on him because nobody else does.

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Right here.

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A unique character to the gospel of John.

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And I think when with John's

purpose, I think John is saying,

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Hey, look, even this guy.

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As you trace him his journey.

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I think.

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Was one that, that came to

believe that he is the Christ.

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The son of God and that believing

he would have you turn a light.

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Can we say that with absolute certainty?

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No, but I would say probably is it because

you're influenced by the chosen notching,

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the chosen that you thought this now?

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No.

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Just making sure.

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No.

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No.

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No.

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Okay.

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So my Bible says here, the earliest

manuscripts do not include 7

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53 through eight 11, correct?

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Um, why does my Bible say that?

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Yeah.

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Um, you're gonna see that here.

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You going to see that at the end of mark

16 to, um, and, and the reason is, is

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because that's, that's actually true

that the best manuscripts, the earliest

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manuscripts and there's there's questions.

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Are the earliest ones, always

the best, not always, but

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a lot of the time they are.

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Um, th there's there's reason why

we would believe that this is not

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original to the gospel of John.

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Um, that this was added at a lot of time.

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Even the language, the style, the

writing is not, is not allow what

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we find in the rest of the gospel.

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It's.

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It's different.

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When you write an email, you write in

your voice, you have a style, you have

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a particular way of writing vocabulary

that you use language that you use.

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Other things like that.

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That all comes out and how you write

emails or text messages or anything else.

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If, if somebody jumped on your phone

and sent a text from your phone, but

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they were using words and language

that you never use, and they sent it to

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your, your spouse or somebody in your

family, they would Oh, wait a minute.

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Something's off here.

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It doesn't feel right here.

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Remember that the old church,

I would get emails from past.

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Pastor Mike.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Greetings.

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Meetings beloved.

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This is your senior pastor, pastor

Michael The Lord has requested

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of me to ask you to go and get me

these gift cards from best buy.

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Please bring me three, $500

gift cards from best buy.

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As I do not have time at this very moment.

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The Lord bless and keep you comma.

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Dr.

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Michael right.

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That's a great example.

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And you'd read it and

you're like, there's no way.

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That's from him.

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There's no way that's original.

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I would reply like, Hey man, tell

me, tell me more about that PM.

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Can I do this a little later?

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What do you need it right now?

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So I'd keep them going.

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I played a little bit with those guys.

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I think Danny did too.

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I think he was trying to uncover

their IP address and everything.

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I one time had an ongoing

conversation with them.

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I was, I was playing the

disgruntled pastor saying.

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You always do this to me.

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I want a phone call right now.

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It was like, just buy the gift

cards first and then we'll talk.

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Okay.

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It was so good.

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The difference in that scenario is

there's, there's nothing nefarious

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in the first part of Johnny.

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Um, we didn't, I didn't preach it.

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And the reason I didn't preach it is

because again, when I stand up and preach,

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I have to be able to say with confidence,

thus says the Lord, and in this

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passage, I don't think we can say that.

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I don't think this is inspired.

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I don't think this is God-breathed.

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Uh, did this actually happen?

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That's a good question as well.

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Even with that, we're unsure.

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We're uncertain.

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It's possible.

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It did.

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Um, but it's.

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It, we, we can't be 100% certain that

it was even a historical account.

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There's nothing in it that undermines

anything else about the gospel?

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Anything about Jesus, anything

about God, there's nothing

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out of the character of Jesus.

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Which is why it's, it's probably here.

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Um, it was included in, in some

of the, uh, earlier English

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translations, not really a Greek

translation, but English translations.

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And that's one of the reasons why

it's, it's been preserved even with

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brackets and some of our texts.

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So, what you're saying is

that this is not scripture.

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Yes, I would say this is not scripture.

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That's it.

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That's your opinion on that other

people would disagree with you?

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Yes.

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And some do some, some are some

vehemently disagree that no, this is

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in fact this is supposed to be there.

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God authorized it.

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Preserved it through all

these people, et cetera.

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Uh, but we're saying that

we don't think it is.

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Um, but the fact that it's in our Bible,

well, if that's what you're saying

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is true, then why is it still there?

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I guess I could look at it.

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My Bible right now, my

physical Bible is still there.

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I'm looking at my ESV on log us.

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It's still there.

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Right?

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And I think it's because the potential

of it being something that was at least

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historical is strong enough that the.

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Uh, the, the editors of the text, no ones.

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No one wants to be the first

person to kill social security.

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Nobody wants to be the

first person to take out.

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John 7 53 through eight 11.

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Um, I think there's just that idea of,

of taking something out that has been

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in our English Bibles for so long.

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It makes people uncomfortable.

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And I get that.

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But at the end of the day, I don't

think it's, I don't think it's biblical.

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I don't.

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I don't think it's part of the original.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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All right, John eight, then 12

through 20, as we jumped over that.

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And, uh, we, we get into this next text.

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We have, we have Jesus challenged here.

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And in this, in this passage,

Jesus is defending his testimony

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and his judgment as true because

of his oneness with the father.

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The content of his messages were

true, no matter what, but according

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to the law witnesses, We're required.

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And so Jesus was pointing to

the witness of the father.

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Believe me, not just because of, of

what I say, but also believe me because

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of the father, believe me, because

of the testimony of the father here.

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Um, and so the, the.

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Again, they're challenging him.

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They're looking for

ways to undermine them.

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Jesus continues to meet the challenge

in an answer them adequately.

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So that they're left with

without really any ability to, to

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discredit him the way they want to.

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Versus 21 through 30 then, um, Jesus,

again, declares, he's going away and

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the Jews can't follow him because

they're in their sin and they're

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from below and he's from above.

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But if they will believe in him, they're

not going to die in their sins, he would

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be lifted up and they would realize

what he said was true later on verse 28.

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And so here, Jesus is identifying

their problem, which is sin.

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The reason they can't follow him is

not because he's going to the Gentiles

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or not, because he's going to, as

they imply here, take his own life.

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But because of their sin and they

needed their sins to be dealt with.

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And Jesus here mercifully even to

his opponents is saying, Hey, I'm

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here to deal with your sins so

that you can come to beat with me.

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Um, and some listening to him

here, I'm sure did listen to that.

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Hear that and follow

after him after this, but.

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He's challenging the fairs, easy

standing up to them and, and.

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Versus 31 through 47 pulls no punches.

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Uh, here, he escalates it even

further and says, not only do you

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have a problem with sin, but, but

you claim Abraham is your father.

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Abraham is not your father.

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Satan's your father.

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You are offspring of Satan because

their adversaries to God, they're

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standing against the plaintiff.

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God.

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So even though they could direct their.

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They're biological lineage

all the way back to Abraham.

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That Abraham had children that were

not necessarily just biological

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and that's where Paul's going

to go and Galatians as well.

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So here Jesus is saying, yeah, you may be

able to go biologically back to him, but.

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But God is able to raise up

offspring of Abraham from the stones.

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If he wants to.

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Ah, that's no big deal.

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He says that your problem is you

are spiritually fathers of, or

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children of a different father.

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And that is the, the great

adversary of Satan himself.

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So Jesus is, is.

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Toe to toe in, in going full

bore at these Pharisees.

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One of the things that stands out

to me is the fact that he puts his

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word as the central thing, that if

they were responding properly to his

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word, then he would have confidence.

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I mean, from a human perspective that

they were his, his truly, his people.

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And in verse 47, he says, whoever

is of God hears the words of God.

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Um, which is one way that we talk about

regeneration, a receptivity and even

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a desire for the words of Christ are

one of the greatest evidences that

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you've been regenerated by the spirit,

because no one who's in the flesh.

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Is going to look at the

word of God, say I love it.

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I just, I I'm eager for that.

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Uh, one of the, one of the best

ways I can tell that someone has

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been transformed is that man,

they start loving the word of God.

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They want it, they need to read it.

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They, they read it and they

don't just see words on the page.

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They see life in there and

that's the same thing here.

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Jesus is saying.

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It's because you can't

bear to hear my word.

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Um, unbelievers have a really hard

time with hearing what God says and

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responding favorably because it's

convicting them left and right.

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It's accusing them.

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It's condemning them for the Christian.

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They welcome that.

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They receive that.

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They long for that because they know

in that same word is not only the con

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condemnation for their sin, but also.

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The remedy for their sin.

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Namely of course, Christ himself.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And speaking of, of Abraham, he ends

this by even making an even bolder

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claim than, than, Hey, you guys are

of your office of your father, Satan.

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He says, Hey, Abraham

rejoiced to see my day.

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Meaning.

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The eyes of faith when Abraham

believed God, and it was credited

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to him as righteousness, he was

believing in something that he didn't

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really know how it was going to work

out what it was going to look like.

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But Jesus was saying, man,

Abraham rejoiced to see this

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too, to realize the ultimate

deliverance that was going to come.

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Uh, through Christ and through

the sacrifice that was going to

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be the ultimate atoning sacrifice.

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You remember, Abraham was ready

to sacrifice his son, Isaac, and

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he watched as God provided a Ram.

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Well, God was going to provide

the lamb in, in the, the,

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the greater reality of that.

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Abraham looked forward to that long fat.

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And then they say, you know, you, you

know, Abraham, how do you know Abraham?

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And he says before Abraham was, I am.

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And that's just that, that claim

to eternity, that claim to Deedee,

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that claim to being fully God there.

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As we find in the, uh, the

end of this chapter here.

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Let me pray and then we will be

done with another episode here.

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God, we thank you for this.

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We want to be faithful in the

way that we handle the word.

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We do want to be people that love the

word and in desire to be in the word

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we want to be unlike the brothers of

Jesus at the beginning of John seven.

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And we want to have your agenda in

mind, your plan, your will in mind,

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and never confuse that with our own.

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And so give us a.

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As a word, saturated mindset.

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To be able to practice that into

praying for the right things and to

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seek the right things while we're here.

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And so we, uh, we thank you for this.

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We thank you for this time today.

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Pray for a great rest of our days,

wherever we are, whatever we do.

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And we ask in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right guys, tune in again tomorrow

for another episode, keeping your

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Bibles of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.