00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:21 Halloween Candy Talk

02:20 Peppermint Bark Ice Cream and Eggnog

04:18 Parable of the Wedding Feast

09:02 Challenges to Jesus' Authority

15:53 Jesus on the Offensive

17:24 The Widow's Offering

20:05 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Good morning, good afternoon.

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Good evening, and good night.

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Yeah, there it is.

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We're done.

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We'll see you guys later.

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Have a good one.

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Well, I don't know when they're listening.

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Well, no, and that's, so that

was an universal greeting.

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That's fair.

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It just, you know, it.

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It's like, okay, we're done.

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We're done.

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It did sound that way.

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I'm sorry.

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Yeah, I'm sorry.

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Favorite candy Halloween

was just this last weekend.

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What was your favorite candy?

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Which candy did you steal from your kids?

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Sour Patch kids.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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My beef there.

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Thanks a lot.

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Inflation is, there's like

three of them in a package now.

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Oh, it's ridiculous.

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Yeah.

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I opened one up.

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And it literally had four of them in it.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, what has happened?

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It's crazy to our world, what

has happened to our world?

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I need all the corn syrup,

not just a little bit of it.

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Right.

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You we're in a little bit.

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We're gonna open it up and

it's gonna take money from you.

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She's gonna be like, gimme money

and you're gonna have to put

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Sour Patch kids into the bag.

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Right.

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Man, that's crazy.

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Sour Patch.

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Kids are good.

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What's your favorite?

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I'm Halloween.

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Candy's hit and miss for me because

I like Reese's, but , nobody's

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giving out the Reese's Pumpkins.

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No, that's right.

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Or the Reese's Eggs or the

Reese's Christmas trees.

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They're not that generous.

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They're not that generous.

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At least not where we go.

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So I, yeah.

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Halloween candy for me is hit and miss.

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I'll grab some outta the bucket every once

in a while when I get a sweet tooth, but.

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It's the double stuff.

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Four wheels and a glass

of milk for me, man.

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That's where I'm at yeah.

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There's not too many Halloween

candies that I like either.

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Yeah.

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There's only a select few that

I will take least favorite.

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What's the one that you're like, really?

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Why, why do we have those?

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I would say, when the chocolate gets

mixed up with the with the other stuff

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for too long and then everything loses

its flavor, you open it, it's like gray.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That is the worst.

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And sometimes I wonder if it was

last year's Halloween candy that

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they just passed out again this year.

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That's the worst.

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Yeah, that could be.

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That's the worst.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm not a big too roll fan.

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No.

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Especially those extra flavored ones.

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The regular ones aren't great.

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Yeah.

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But then they make like vanilla

ones and strawberry ones.

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Those are.

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Yeah, those are, those are like

also rans in the life of Candy.

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It's like, oh yeah, there's

TSI rolls over there too.

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It's like, okay.

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Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

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It's like those candies, did your

grandparents ever have those candies

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that like the Jelly Center in the dish?

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Like the strawberry ones?

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Yes.

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Yeah, like those Intie rolls, same vibes.

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They're just kind of, they give the same.

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Impressions.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Not fans.

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I agree.

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You know anything with caramel too?

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I like caramel, but not in candy.

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Not in candy.

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It just, it just is.

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Ah, okay.

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Just it doesn't do it.

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You know what season it is though?

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And this is good.

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We talked about Christmas

yesterday, so it's not just that

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but Bluebell has its peppermint

bark ice cream back on the shelves.

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Oh, that's so good.

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That with homemade hot fudge.

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Mm, I'm done man.

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Gimme that.

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And that will, even if I have access

to that, I'll set the Oreos aside.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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Amanda will make Wow that

it rises to that level.

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Yeah.

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Amanda makes this homemade hot fudge.

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Not often enough, but she does.

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And it's it with pepper

and bark ice cream.

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It's like game over.

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Yeah.

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That sounds phenomenal.

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Yeah, , I know that ice cream very well.

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Yeah.

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But I've never done homemade hot fudge

on it, so I need to level up, I guess.

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Yeah, man.

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And we have to ration that stuff

some, especially with five kids.

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So sometimes we'll send the boys to bed.

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And then it's like, alright, now

we're gonna bust out the good stuff.

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And sometimes they catch us.

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They're like, Hey, wait a minute.

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We're like, well, it's okay.

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Yeah.

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Your mom and dad.

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Something to look forward

to when you get older.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Hot fudge and peppermint ice cream.

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That's right.

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What do you feel about eggnog?

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I mean, I know we're around

the corner from it still.

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It's there and I like.

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I like the idea of it because it's festive

and it's about, the Christmas season.

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I just I don't think I can,

somebody called a egg milk the

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other day and I was like, yep.

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That, that's, that's why Yeah,

it pretty much is egg milk.

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Yeah.

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, we've made it before and it's

actually much better when you homem

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make it, but , it's also terrifying

because you see how many eggs go into

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it and that it truly is egg milk.

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Well, you're just, it's just,

you're just drinking the yolks.

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It's just like with some sugar.

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Well, don't think about it that way.

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How can you not?

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That's what it is.

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They even, they don't even

hide it on the carton egg nod.

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Like, somebody could have

called it like, yeah, yeah.

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I like reindeer milk or something.

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Something festive like that.

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Like reindeer milk.

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Yeah, like santa juice.

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I, I don't know.

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I mean, okay.

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Well just think of it as

Santa juice and that'll fix.

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I don't think that helps.

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I don't think that helps.

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I don't want, yeah, eggnog.

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I, I feel like Santa juice

might be worse actually.

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Yeah, it's probably, but, so there you go.

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If you guys like egg milk or eggnog

or whatever it's called, or say juice.

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Then en enjoy it.

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But for us, for me, in my house, we

will serve the Lord without that.

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But peppermint, bark,

ice cream and hot fudge.

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I'm there, I'm there.

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Speaking of there, let's go to the Bible.

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Let's go there.

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Let's what a smooth transition.

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Matthew 22.

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I'm actually paid to do this.

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I don't know if you knew that, but

yeah, you should have seen him preparing

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for that transition all morning.

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I was like, how am I gonna, I don't know.

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Where am I gonna pivot Matthew 22.

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That was flawless in Mark 12.

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Mark 12.

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Every time I come to the gospel of

Mark or the name of Mark, I'm reminded

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of the inconvenience of your name.

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So I just wanna let you know,

I'm sorry that having the C and

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not the K is just really one of

those things that I'm like, why?

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But we've talked about that before.

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It's fine.

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I'm over it.

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I'm over it.

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But we're gonna be Matthew 22.

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Fair enough.

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Matthew 22, the opens with the

parable of the wedding feast.

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And this is another one of those that

is going to rile the Pharisees up.

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Because Jesus is gonna say there,

there are some that are invited

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at the outset that are gonna be.

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Rejecting the invitation, they're

gonna say thanks, but no thanks.

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And then the rejection of the

rejectors and the inviting of the

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unexpected is what's gonna follow this.

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So, the initial invitation is most likely

an allusion to the fact that Jesus and

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the father sent the prophets mm-hmm.

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Ancient Israel and said, Hey,

you guys need to get right.

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And they rejected the prophets.

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They did not respond to God's

invitation for them to repent

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and to be restored as his people.

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And so now he was going to

those that were unexpected.

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We've talked about that a little

bit in the last few days, that there

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are other situations where Jesus

appointed the fact that he's going

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to those that are the unexpected.

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And this is exactly what we see

taking place in the wedding fees.

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Now, something else

that's important here is.

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He's calling everyone.

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In fact, the text I think says

at one point he's calling the bad

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and the good, but that is not a

reference to the salvific call, the

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effective call, but the general call.

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So this is an open invitation

and that's how we understand it.

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So when we break down soteriology,

that is the study of salvation.

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There's what's known as the

General Call of Salvation.

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That is the general call of the

Gospel, which goes out to anyone ever.

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For far and wide that this is the

call that everyone is eligible to

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receive both the good and the bad.

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You could look at that as the invitation

to the wedding feast here and yet it's

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only those that are part of God's elect.

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Those that receive this special call,

those that are drawn, those that

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are able to believe in Jesus Allah.

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John 6 44.

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That are the ones that are

truly welcomed into the feast.

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They're the ones that are welcomed

into the feast and given the wedding

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garment, if you will, for the feast.

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And so that's why as this parable

winds down, there's a person there that

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didn't have the wedding garments on.

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They didn't have the thing that

marked them as part of the feast

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as part of the festivities.

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And so, the host of the wedding

says, how did you get in here?

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And the man doesn't have an answer.

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And he hadn't bothered with with any of

the preparation or anything like that.

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And so this man has taken and

cast out from the wedding feast.

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And so it's a reminder that there's

preparation that you, that there's

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distinguishing marks of what it looks

like to be part of the kingdom of God.

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And that's all God's work within

us, but it is gonna be known.

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In the end, who is a part of the kingdom

and who's not part of the kingdom.

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And it's important we read it that

way because if we read the bad and the

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good as the elect, then this is really

confusing because the, if it's the

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elect and then somebody doesn't have

their wedding garments and then gets

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thrown out and clearly thrown into.

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Into hell, we're gonna be in a

totally different doctrinal place.

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Mm-hmm.

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So you're exactly right to make sure

that we understand that rightly,

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because otherwise, this actually

ends up being really confusing.

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Oh, for sure.

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And you may say but how did you get

in for the first, in the first place?

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And I think the answer is.

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Part of the requisite, for

lack of a better term, was when

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you came to the wedding feast.

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You had to have the wedding

garments on for the feast.

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Mm-hmm.

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You have to repent and believe in

Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

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You have to be willing to surrender

your life to Christ, and that is a

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work of God in our lives, but that

is still a requisite for salvation.

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Mm-hmm.

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We have to repent and believe in

Jesus' Christ as your Lord and Savior.

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If you want to just simply.

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Add a little bit of Jesus to your life.

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If you just want the easy believism,

if you just want the good things, but

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you don't want him as Lord, that's like

showing up to the wedding ceremony without

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your wedding garment on, and you're

gonna easily stand out and say, wait

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a minute you don't belong because you

don't, you haven't dressed appropriately.

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You haven't prepared appropriately.

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You haven't repented and believed

in Christ as your Lord and Savior.

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Yeah.

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And in that day of judgment, it's gonna

be super clear sometimes, right now

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in this time it's not as clear right.

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Who's.

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Saved and who's not.

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But in those days, it's

gonna be super clear.

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I mean, if you've ever gone to a

wedding and you've been underdressed

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you know how awkward that is.

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Yep.

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And I think that's the

point Jesus is making.

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And on that day, it's gonna be

abundantly clear the faith that you

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had and the works that came from

that faith or the lack of Right.

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And it's like the other parable that

Jesus told her, the wheat and the weeds

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and the angels come and say, or the.

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The servants come and say, do

you want us to pull the weed,

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the weeds from the field?

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And he says, no.

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Lest you uproot.

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Mm-hmm.

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The wheat along with it, but

it will be known on in the end.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which is which.

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So from here he goes on and what

we're gonna find is there's a series

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of challenges to his authority, as

again, the Jews are trying to trap him.

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They're trying to catch him

so that they can charge him.

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And so the first question is

about taxes and the Pharisees.

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Are gonna partner with an unlikely group.

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And that is the Herodians.

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The Herodians loved obviously Herod

the Greeks they loved the Romans.

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They loved that side of

the political sphere.

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And so you've got the Pharisees

who were on the opposite end of

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things, loving Israel and Israel's

independence and yet they're gonna

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partner together to go after Jesus.

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And so this is an unlikely pairing.

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And they come to Jesus and

they ask this question about.

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Paying taxes.

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And so they feel like they've got

'em because if he says don't pay

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taxes to Herod, well, the Herodians

now have grounds to charge him and

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sentence him to death for insurrection.

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If he says, well, no pay taxes to Caesar

and forget, God's desire in this, well,

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then the Pharisees have him because they

can turn 'em against the, turn the crowds

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against him and so forth and so on.

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But again, Jesus answers.

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Perfectly.

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He says, why don't you bring me a

deary eye and then I'm gonna ask you a

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question, whose likeness is on the coin?

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And they say, well, it's Caesars Render

to Caesar, that which is Caesars.

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And to God, that which is God's,

which is a bigger answer than

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is what appears on the surface.

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Because what belongs to God is everything.

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So Jesus is essentially

saying, you owe God everything.

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You can give Caesar what, Caesar's.

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But now even in doing that,

you're really ultimately giving

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God what's God's, because God

is the one that owns everything.

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Yeah.

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, I don't wanna oversimplify

this but pay your taxes.

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I'm not saying you have to pay too much.

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Typical CPA pay extra, I'm.

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Legally required to say, I'm not a

CPA, I'm a former CPA, so you can

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actually, I'm not sure it's legal,

but you know, I can What's a CPA?

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Always a cpa.

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Isn't that?

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No, that's not how it works.

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No.

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Okay.

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I don't wanna get you in trouble.

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Okay.

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But as a former CPA, right, and as

a pastor, you know, I mean, again,

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I don't wanna over reduce this, but.

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Recognize that there are things that

belong to Caesar, and you can be

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tempted, especially in the way our

system is set up to, to cheat, to lie.

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But ultimately, everything

belongs to the Lord.

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And we've talked about this in

other contexts and even in recent

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sermons, but we need to render to

Caesar what a Caesar's in, in a

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very practical, in a very practical

way and simplistically even.

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Yeah.

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Now that said there are.

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Tax laws that give you

the opportunity to pursue.

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Paying as little taxes as you possibly

can, and I think that's appropriate

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absolutely for a believer to steward

his resource as well, to say, okay,

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how can I set this up legally to

pay as few taxes as I possibly can?

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Yeah, that's not wrong.

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But yeah, at the end, Jesus

is clear here, you need to pay

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taxes to whom taxes are due.

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From here, he is gonna be challenged

again this time by the Sadducees.

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In the Sadducees, there's a descriptor

that says that they deny the resurrection.

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And so they're gonna ask a

question along those lines.

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They're gonna paint a ridiculous

scenario where a woman is married

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to seven different brothers, one

after the other dies, and then

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they say in the resurrection,

who's she gonna be married to?

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And then Jesus responds and says, you

don't understand the scriptures, nor

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do you understand the power of God.

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Essentially, he says, in the new Earth

relationships are gonna be different.

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They're not gonna be the

same as they are here.

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And so he says, people neither marry,

nor are they given in marriage.

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On the new Earth, but rather he says

they're gonna be like the angels.

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That does not mean androgynous.

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That does not mean that our gender is

gonna disappear when we get to eternity.

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That does not mean we're still not gonna

have distinctions of male and female.

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It just simply means angels don't marry.

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We're not gonna marry.

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That said.

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If you're married and you're sitting

there going, oh man, that really stinks.

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'cause I like my spouse.

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Great.

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And you should like your spouse.

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I fully believe that you're

gonna have a unique relationship

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with your spouse in eternity.

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That will still be different than

your relationship with other people.

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And I, I don't think that you're all

of a sudden gonna be like strangers

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or you're not gonna be, you're

gonna live on opposite ends of the

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new Earth from the other person.

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I think God is kind and this

relationship is so significant

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here on earth that I cant.

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Imagine an eternity where you don't still

have that connection with your spouse.

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Yeah.

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I run into many Christians who have this

idea that somehow this life is going to be

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entirely scrubbed from our memories, and

we're gonna be starting over from scratch.

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I don't think that's the case.

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Oh no, not at all.

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And this is not saying that.

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So if you do think that.

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That be comforted by the fact that

the relationships you have now with

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believers, of course are going to matter.

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And they're gonna, they're

going to, they're gonna remain.

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And as you enter paradise, right?

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And even, I think.

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You know, pastor Ron and I have

talked about this before on the

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podcast, but we may have memories

even of some of the things that we

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did that weren't great, that mm-hmm.

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Some of the sins.

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Mm-hmm.

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Not in a shame inducing sense, but in

the sense of always remembering the

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greatness of God's grace to save us.

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Yes.

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The greatness of his mercy.

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That for eternity, we're gonna have an

awareness of, man, God is so merciful

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to me, so gracious to me, so kind to me.

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So, yeah I totally agree.

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And again, it's not.

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To our shame, we're not gonna

feel that at that point.

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Right.

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'cause E, everything will be done.

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The books will be closed.

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But it will, I think, prompt us to be

thankful, to be grateful to, to praise

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God for what he did for eternity.

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Yeah.

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Oh no, for sure.

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For sure.

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It will.

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For sure.

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Well, well, one point that, that

Jesus makes theologically towards the

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Sadducees who deny the resurrection

is he appeals back to the Old

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Testament there and he says, what did

Moses say back this is Exodus 3 36?

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Or what did God say as he revealed himself

to Moses when he said, I am present tense.

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The God of Abraham, Isaac,

and Jacob, those that had

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already gone before and died.

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And yet God reveals himself to

Moses saying, I am the God of

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those people still presently.

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And so he says, he's the God

of the living, not the dead.

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So some ex of Jesus, a little

sermonizing there from Jesus on the

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Old Testament to silence the Sadducees

objection to the resurrection.

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From here.

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There's another test at least

at the outset where an expert in

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the law comes to Jesus and says,

what's the greatest commandment?

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And Jesus answers and he answers,

according to the shaman, the

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Deuteronomy six, four, and five,

the hero, Israel, the Lord your God.

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The Lord is one.

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You shall love the Lord your

God with all your heart.

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With all your mind, with all your soul.

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And then he gives the second one.

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The second is like it.

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You should love your neighbor as yourself.

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He says on these two things,

the hang, the whole law.

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Now in Mark's account

of this Jesus is gonna.

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Have this interaction go a little bit

further because the one who asks is

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gonna say, you've answered so well.

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Like you, you've, yes.

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That is such a good answer.

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And Jesus is gonna say to that one,

you're not far from the kingdom, which

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I've always has always puzzled me.

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I'm like, tell me more about that.

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Like, what happened to that guy?

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Who is it?

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Where did he go?

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And maybe we'll see him in heaven

and maybe he will come to that point.

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But that's an amazing statement to

Jesus with this expert of the law

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who initially was trying to trap him.

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That seems to have been.

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Put in his place and humbled by

Jesus in an appropriate way to

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say, yeah, you've answered well.

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Yeah.

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And this also demonstrates that

there is continuity between the Old

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Testament and the New Testament, and

we have to be really careful about

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how we understand that continuity.

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It's a particular type of continuity.

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It's not the same thing clearly, but there

is there is continuity between the two.

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Yeah.

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And it's amazing to see that God is

the same God of the Old Testament

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that he is of the New Testament.

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Yeah.

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And that the Old Testament problems are.

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Are resolved with the

New Testament solutions.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Jesus is then gonna go on the

offensive he's been on the defense

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and it says in the text that nobody

wanted to ask him any more questions.

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So Jesus says, okay, well then

I've got a question for you.

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And he takes them back to Psalm 1, 10, 1.

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And there's the question that

he asks of David saying that

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he, the Lord said to my Lord.

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And so Jesus says if.

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The Messiah is supposed

to be the son of David.

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How can he also be David's Lord?

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And how does that work?

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And so he's implying there's a deity

here that David is recognizing that

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he is subservient to his descendant.

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And the only way that he would be

subservient to his descendant if his

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is, if his descendant is the son of God.

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And so Jesus is on the offensive

saying, oh, hold on guys, before

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you go, before you retreat, I've

got a question for you this time.

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And he does.

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Offer that that challenge.

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And the Pharisees know

their Old Testament.

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They do dare do I say

better than you probably do.

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Uhhuh.

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They know these things.

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They know these particular words.

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They have it memorized.

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And so when Jesus challenges

them on these things, it's coming

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right to the top of their brain.

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Yeah.

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And they are put to shame by the

fact that they don't actually have.

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An answer to this quandary.

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Yeah.

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And he goes even further on the

offensive mark records for us.

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Much of Mark 12, by the way,

is what we've just read.

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But the end of Mark 12 verse

38 through 40, he warns about

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the scribes in the Pharisees.

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He says they like to walk around.

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They're all about.

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The external, and they're also oppressive.

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He says in verse 40, they devour

widow's houses for a pretense.

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They make long prayers.

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They will receive the

greater condemnation, not

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commendation, condemnation.

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And so Jesus is again on

the offensive with them.

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And then he goes on and he points

out this widow right on the heels of

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saying they devour widow's houses.

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He points out a widow who goes up

and she puts in just two small coins.

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Into the offering box there on the temple

Mount and he commends her offering.

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He says that she gave much more than

those that have contributed outta their

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wealth 'cause she contributed out of

her poverty, out of her need, and put

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in everything that she had to live on.

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MacArthur makes the point, and I've

kind of come around to it, that this

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is not something that he's saying,

this is what somebody should do, that

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somebody shouldn't give everything

that they have to live to the temple.

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At least not under this leadership

of the temple here, but rather this

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is illustrating what he's just said.

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It's al as though he's saying,

look, this is what I mean.

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Here's a woman that the

Pharisees don't care about.

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They care more about the two coins

that she's putting in the box

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than they do about the person.

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About her.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which almost goes back to the Sabbath.

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The Sabbath is not created for man, but

man for the Sabbath or the Sabbath is

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created for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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And it's the similar thing here.

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Should people bring

their ties and offerings?

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Yes.

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But should you give everything that you

have so that you've got nothing left

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and you're not gonna be able to live?

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No.

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No.

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You're gonna find some pastors out

there that are gonna preach that some

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of the televangelists, the health,

wealth, and prosperity people, they're

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gonna say, Hey, in fact, I saw a reel

the other day that was ridiculous.

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This woman had brought in

a checkup and it was just a

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ridiculous scenario to begin with.

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People were bringing their tithes

up and handing it directly to the

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pastor, which if I, if you ever see

me do that then it's time to move on.

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And she brought up a check to the

pastor, and the pastor looks at the

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check and he says, this is only $1,200.

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I told, I need $2,000 from everybody.

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And she's like, well, I don't

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I'll make up the rest of the 800.

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He is like, yeah, you're right,

you will, but you need to

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under, I didn't ask for this.

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I asked for two thou.

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That's the modern day example of

what Jesus is talking about here.

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That's hideous.

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It's obscene that somebody would.

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Would do that.

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And this is again, just an indictment

of the perversion of the religious

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leadership there and how bad things

had gotten as Jesus is getting ready

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to go and turn the tables at the cross.

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Yeah.

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And God doesn't need that money,

but the televangelist or the

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scammer, whoever that is, right?

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Obviously Sinfully, but

they need that money, right?

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And so they're after that money.

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God is not after.

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Dollars and cents.

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Right?

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He's after hearts and

obviously their church.

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Our church needs money to operate.

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Yep.

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We need money to operate, but ultimately

God takes care of those things, right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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It's a good thing to give.

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We're not, mm-hmm.

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This is not saying it's bad to give,

this is just saying, man, number one,

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for the Church of Leaders, it's bad to,

to oppress people to give out of their

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poverty such that they can't take care

of the needs that they need for survival.

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And number one and number two, this

is not why stewardship, what this

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woman demonstrates here, because she

had been taught that in, in oppressed

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by that way, by the Pharisees.

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So, alright.

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Well, hey, let's pray and then we

will be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for the

example that we have in Christ.

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Just his boldness, his ability

to answer the challenges to his

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identity, the challenges to his

authority here that we read about in

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Matthew 22 and Mark 12 and even his.

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His pivot is going on the

offensive here to challenge those

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that were coming against him.

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And we thank you, Lord, that we worship

and serve a savior who is strong.

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Yes, he was meek.

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Yes he was lowly, but he's also strong.

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And he was not afraid to stand for what

is right and to call out what is wrong.

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And we see that from Christ here.

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And so we wanna follow in his example

in that even as we engage with the

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world around us to be able to in love.

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Call out that which is wrong to

speak truth and to say this is what's

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right and this is what's wrong.

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And we want to be obedient

ultimately to Christ.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said