00:00 Introduction and Weather Update

01:23 Discussing the Final Plague in Exodus

02:43 Significance of the Passover

04:03 Instructions for the Passover

08:39 The Exodus and Its Aftermath

10:45 Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

12:32 Forgiveness and Its Implications

18:36 Conclusion and Prayer

19:16 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Your kids might be at home today.

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In fact, as we're recording this

earlier this weekend, one of the

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local guys, Pete Cus he works

for WFAA, he's their weatherman.

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He was saying maybe even Monday and

Tuesday, potentially schools could be

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closed because of the extent and reach

of this storm and the cold weather.

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So, maybe you're still all at home

as a family and you're choosing

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to, to get together and listen

to this podcast and we just hope.

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That it warms your heart as we talk

about the death of the firstborn, right?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Anyways, yeah, it's supposed to

warm up this week, so I imagine

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everything will get back to normal.

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We're planning to be back to church on

Sunday again with you guys, but youth

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should be back on by Wednesday night.

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I assume plans his way, but the

Lord establishes his steps indeed.

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Proverbs 16, nine.

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We just went over that with

my kids this past week.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Instead, you ought to say, if the

Lord wills, we will live and do this

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or that we live and do this or that.

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Is this still?

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Because yesterday I told everybody

that we're not meeting for church.

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I was just saying that with

your prophetic gift, maybe you

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ought to go and do some things.

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Get start a Facebook industry.

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Building a building.

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Dude, I think you need to

prophesy a really large facility.

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I believe that somebody in the room is

gonna donate $200,000 before we leave.

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Shut the doors.

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Shut the doors.

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The doors.

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Lock the doors.

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Not letting anybody out

here, your directors.

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Anyways.

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Yeah we're looking forward to getting back

into our routine this week though, but.

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We are in Exodus 11 and 12, and

then the rest of Matthew 18.

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So Exodus 11.

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We have one more plague to get to and so

you may have been counting with us so far.

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We've gotten to nine and you may know

your bible well enough to say, okay

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there's 10, and so this final plague is

going to be the one that finally breaks.

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Pharaoh's back, so to speak.

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And so if we look in chapter 11, it

opens up with God's instructions to Moses

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and says, I'm gonna send this one last

plague, and here's what I want you to do.

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I want you to have everybody go to the

Egyptians on the way out, and I want

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you to ask them for gold and silver

and jewelry and everything else.

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And I will give you favor with them.

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And so.

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The people are gonna end up doing this,

and this is gonna be a way that Israel

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is, I think, gonna support themselves in

part, on the, their wilderness wanderings

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and on their way into the Promised land.

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But it's also an act of victory

of God over the Egyptians.

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It's a way for God to gain the

spoil, even though it's not

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necessarily a military victory

over the piece of people of Israel.

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But then here comes.

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The announcement, and he

talks about this great cry.

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And the great cry that's gonna

go through Egypt is because the

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firstborn of everyone, man and

beast alike, is going to die.

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And he says, Pharaoh's still

not gonna listen to you.

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And so this is going to be

the ultimate result of this.

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This is going to be this final plague.

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And sure enough, in verse 10 it says,

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders

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before Pharaoh and the Lord hardened

Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let

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the people of Israel go outta the land.

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So chapter 12 is gonna lay out for us

what's known as the Passover, because

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this is the death of the firstborn.

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Yeah, this is where, okay, let's

back up just one quick second here.

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The Exodus is the most

important significant salvation

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event in the Old Testament.

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The rest of the Old Testament will make

reference to the Exodus as being kind of

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the paradigm for God's salvation over

Israel and eventually our exodus as New

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Testament Christians from the land of

sin and death into new life with God.

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So this is a paradigm for future

salvation, and this is gonna be one

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of those keystones on which you hang

the rest of the Old Testament upon.

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That said, one of the additional layers

in this is the Passover, because the

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Passover is more than just a celebration.

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It's not even a celebration.

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You can call it that.

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It's a time of a wholly time set

aside to, to make clear that.

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Egypt, not Egypt.

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Israel is saved by grace through faith.

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It doesn't say that, but I'm gonna go

out in the limb here and say that's

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what the point of the Passover is.

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They're not saved by

by just sitting there.

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They're saved by active faith.

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Putting the blood over the doorposts.

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I'm sure we'll talk about that

in a moment here, but lemme just.

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Point out, these are really important

chapters because they're a pattern for

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the rest of how you read scripture.

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And a lot of scripture as you read

through, it's gonna point back to this.

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And so it's important for you to

know what's happening here and to

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get a sense of its significant.

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It's gonna have ramifications

for years to come.

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In Chapter 12, Moses is going to

give the instructions to Israel

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as to how they can avoid suffering

the same fit as the Egyptians.

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And it's worth note here that if

they don't, then they would end up.

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This plague would hit them.

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Just like you made the point

that some of the other plagues

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seem to have hit Israel as well.

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This would hit Israel too, unless

they do what Moses instructs them.

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And this is where we get

the imagery of the lamb.

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They're gonna take a lamb, it's

gonna be a lamb without blemish.

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In verse five, they're gonna

take that lamb and they're

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going to sacrifice that lamb.

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They're gonna take some of the

blood of the lamb, and they're

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gonna cover their house with it.

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They're gonna spread it on the

doorpost and the crosspost,

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the lentil of their house.

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And this is going to be a sign

and it says there in verse the.

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13.

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When I see the blood,

I will pass over you.

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And so this is where we get

the language of Passover.

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Now I had this backwards

in my mind for so long.

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I always used to think this is the

angel would Passover as in skipping

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that he'd see the blood and be like, oh

I'm not supposed to visit that house.

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And he would skip over that house.

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But instead, notice

the language that says.

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This is God speaking.

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I will pass over you and no plague will

be before you, befall you to destroy you.

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When I strike the land of Egypt,

this is a protective covering of God.

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That's what it is to pass

over the family here.

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It's not the angel saying,

well, I'm gonna skip that house.

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No, it's God passing over in the sense of.

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Covering them to protect them from

this plague, befalling the house.

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And so this is God's deliverance

by saying, I'm gonna get

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between you and the death.

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I'm gonna get between you and the

judgment that's coming upon you,

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and this is going to be done.

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When I see the blood, when I see the

sacrifice, this is what's gonna happen.

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So that's where we get

the title of Passover.

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It's not skipping, it's more of a covering

over in a protective fashion maybe.

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I don't know.

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I understood it the way you

first announced it, and I

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think that's what it is.

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I'm gonna stick with that.

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Well look at prove it.

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Okay.

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Look at verse 23.

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Right.

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For the Lord will pass through to

strike the Egyptians and when he sees

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the blood on the lentil and on the

two door posts, the Lord will pass

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over the door and will not allow the

destroyer enter the house to strike you.

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Right.

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So.

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Doesn't that do the same thing?

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So the Lord is passing over

to protect and not allowing.

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I think the agent is an angel that's

being sent to execute the firstborn.

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And so the passing over, I think

is the Lord passing over in a,

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covering, in a protection manner.

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The house to prevent the destroyer,

the angel from coming in to take

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out the firstborn of the family.

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There.

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Is this, the angel of the Lord?

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Are we talking about one of

these kind of I see your point.

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I get that.

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I think you can read it that way,

but I think you can naturally read

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it the way that we have been reading

it, and I think it works both ways.

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Sure.

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I just, that's where I'm drawing

it for You asked why hold that?

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'cause I think when it says the Lord

will pass over the door and will

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not allow the destroyer to enter the

house to strike you, there's that.

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The Lord is the defender,

the Lord is the protector.

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And so in passing over to, to

cover over the dean, I do see that.

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I do see that.

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I'm gonna have to chew on that.

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One thing that's worth noting here is.

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For the family to be saved, for them

to experience the Passover protection,

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they had to take in this animal and it

had to be with them for several days.

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Yeah, four days.

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I don't know about your family, but

mine would probably be heartbroken

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when they had to destroy, and of

course they would've named it.

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Yeah, they would've named the lamb or

the goat and then it would've been awful.

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'cause then it's like, well,

hey, dad has to take this outside

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girls, young men, calm down.

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We're gonna, we're gonna have to do this.

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Yeah.

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And I think one of the important

points there is that you, I can't see

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a better way to, to see this other

than saying that faith is doing that.

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It's apprehending the agent of

your salvation and taking it

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in your home and saying, this

is mine, this is my salvation.

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And of course, Jesus

being the Passover lamb.

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We don't just passively

acknowledge him as our savior.

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We take him into our home.

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He's ours.

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He's my savior, he's my redeemer.

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My hope, and it should therefore

also have a similar effect that

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you'd expect a family to have

when they lose a beloved animal.

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When we lose our beloved savior because

of our sin, we have a similar feel.

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It's not the same, but a similar

type of response because he's

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our savior, our Passover lamb.

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So I think that's really cool.

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I'm not sure if that's exactly what

Moses intended or what God intended

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through the Passover, but I see that.

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What do you see?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I have, I've thought about that

in the past as well in the

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preciousness of the layman.

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And it is, they're the ones

that are, this is a bloody event

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and it's still a bloody event.

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The Israeli, do you still practice this?

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No, but okay.

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I think in Israel this last year, they

did they observed the Passover and there

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were lambs that are being slaughtered.

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Yeah, you're right.

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It's meant to the preciousness, the value

and if nothing else, even just that.

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This was a cost to the family to give

up this lamb, to give up something

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that would've provided them food

down the road or, perhaps more

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food or the clothing from their wool

and things like that down the road.

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This was a lamb that was without blemish.

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It was something that was precious.

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It wasn't the leftovers.

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And this was something that

they were to feel as, as costly.

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And I think there's that

connection there for sure.

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The plague comes, and this

we pick up in verse 29.

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The Lord struck down at midnight, all

of the firstborn in the land of Egypt.

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And there was a great wailing and it was

also in the House of Pharaoh, by the way.

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You can go to expedition Bible on

YouTube and you can watch a video that

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he's done on the Pharaoh of the Exodus

where he makes a compelling argument

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for one of the pharaohs who was buried

with his son, with his teenage son.

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And so there's an argument that

the teenage son was the one that

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was taken out during the Passover.

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There.

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Fascinating video.

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You can go watch that

on the YouTube channel.

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Again, expedition Bible.

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But Pharaoh's finally done.

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And so he calls Moses and says, fine, go.

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Just get out.

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And this time there's no

questions, there's no conditions.

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Just go.

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And so God again, flexes because

the Israeli is do plunder

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the Egyptians on the way out.

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And so God wins.

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And it says there in verse 37

that there were about 600,000 men.

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On foot.

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And now this was where we would

get, and I believe you mentioned

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it earlier, that number of one to 2

million Israelites that are leaving

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here because this is simply the men.

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This is not factoring in the women,

this is not factoring in the children.

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So if we take that number of 600,000, we

multiply it by two or three, you can get

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to one to 2 million pretty easily there.

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So we've gone from 70 to nearly 2

million people and yet we also need

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to bear in mind that there were

430 years that has have transpired.

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Between the announcement of 70 people

and the announcement of, one to 2

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million people that are leaving Egypt.

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And so it's possible, especially

with God's hand of favor upon them

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with the Abrahamic covenant that they

could have multiplied to this level.

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I don't think we need to look at

these numbers and say these are

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impossible numbers to sustain.

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I think this is very possible within

what God had promised to Abraham.

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In the time that had elapsed there.

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But they're gonna leave.

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And then following this in the

rest of the chapter, we get some

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of the instructions for what this

is gonna look like for remembering

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this throughout their generations.

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And that's what this was going to be.

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And that's what it still is today even

that God wants the people of Israel to

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remember this situation, to remember

the exodus, to remember the deliverance.

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Like you said, this is the

most significant deliverance

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in all of the Old Testament.

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And this was not just to be a blip on the

radar, but something they kept it with.

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Them and taught their kids and taught

their grandkids and generations

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to come about how God had brought

them out from the land of Egypt.

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Let's flip over to our New Testament

reading, which is gonna be Matthew 18.

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And we are gonna be in the rest of chapter

18 that we didn't get to hit yesterday.

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So we're gonna pick up again in verse 21.

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And this is the Parable of

the Unforgiving Servant.

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And this is really gonna drive home a

lot of what we talked about yesterday,

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that humility and that understanding,

and a lot of our humility before

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the Lord comes from understanding

how much the Lord has forgiven us.

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When we get into this passage, you

have a situation where a man with an

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insurmountable debt that would've, he

never in, in a million years, we have been

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able to repay this amount that he owed.

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He is brought in before the king.

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The king does call him to pay his debt.

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He says, you do owe this, which is an

acknowledgement of the fact that we

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do owe God absolute perfection and.

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The man says I can't do it.

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And the king says, okay,

I'm going to forgive you.

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And so the man then leaves the

presence of the king, goes and

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finds a man, a fellow slave who

owes him a pittance in comparison.

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And he demands that man should pay him.

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And when he can't, he says, you're

gonna go to debtor's prison.

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In other words, he's not willing

to show the same degree of

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forgiveness to the one to the human.

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That he was shown by the superior,

the king to his peer that he was.

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Shown by the king and the connection

there is this, we've been forgiven

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so much by the God of the universe.

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When we hold grudges against one another,

when we have a spirit of unforgiveness

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against other people, no matter what

they've done to us what we're doing

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there is we're in essence saying

that their debt is greater than what.

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Our debt was against God, and that's

illustrated here by the fact that

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this man's debt was nothing compared

to what the first man owed the king.

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And so this is why Jesus takes this

so seriously and why he says so

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also, my Heavenly Father will do

to every one of you if you do not

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forgive your brother from your hearts.

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Because a lack of forgiveness often

betrays the fact that we don't really

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truly understand true forgiveness,

and we may not have experienced

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it from the Lord to begin with.

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Yeah.

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Important to see that this whole section

begins with Peter's question to the Lord.

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How often will my brother sin

against me and I forgive him?

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This stems from the conversation

that they're continuing with Jesus in

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yesterday's podcast where we talked

about church discipline, though,

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well, that also began with verse 15.

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It says, if your brother sins against

you, go and tell him his fault.

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And so Peter's kind of working through

the implications here and saying, okay,

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if I tell my brother his fault, that

means if all things work out well,

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they're gonna ask me for forgiveness,

and I'm gonna extend forgiveness.

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Lord, how many times do

I really have to do that?

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What's your expectation?

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And Jesus' expectation is infinity.

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Yep.

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Which is instructive in several ways.

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First of all, it's this is I, he's

talking to a church audience, or at

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least that's who he has in mind here.

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And that tells me that you're going

to expect when you go to church that

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your brothers will sin against you.

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Let that sit on you, they're

gonna sin against you.

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So often the church is charged with

hypocrisy and that's not a fair

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accusation, but we own the fact

that we are sinners, and that's the

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whole reason we are Christians in

the first place, we need a savior.

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And so here, you should expect that

Christians will sin against you.

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And secondly, you should expect

that there will be Christians who

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sin against you multiple times.

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As many as 77 times Jesus predicts,

and the expectation on our part

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that God has for those of us who

are sinned against in the church

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is that we'll offer forgiveness.

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That raises so many questions

because what if they're sin against

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us in the same way, the same, you

know, in the same kind of pattern.

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Am I to expose myself to this person

in the same way, at the same place

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at the same time, such that this

brings abuse situations to the fore?

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Mm-hmm.

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Do I just forgive my spouse

because they continue to abuse me?

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There's some complex questions there, but

the heart of this is that Christians who

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have been forgiven will offer forgiveness.

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If you have not been forgiven,

you won't offer forgiveness.

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In fact there's a small argument about

this passage and I'd love for you to

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chime in on this Pastor pj, whether or

not who is being talked about here is

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a Christian who is rebelling against

God or just someone who's shown to

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not be a Christian in the first place.

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Where do you.

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Land on that for not forgiving.

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Yeah.

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So the person that Jesus describes

here, the one who goes to his fellow

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servant and says, pay me what you owe.

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And then the judge throws him into

debtor's prison and says, you're not

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gonna leave until you pay the last penny.

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And of course, because his debt

is so large, he'll never pay it.

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I've looked at this as somebody who is.

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Yeah, it's hard to land hard

on one way or the other.

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I think the thing that I've always

taken away from this is if you are,

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have a persistent, hardened heart

towards somebody such that you're not

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willing to forgive, I don't think you

can have a whole lot of confidence

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in your standing before the Lord

that you yourself have been forgiven.

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So in that case, I would say that

this is somebody that is probably

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self-deceived into thinking that

they're a Christian, but their lack

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of forgiveness is revealing the fact

that they're not actually a Christian.

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I'd be inclined to agree.

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It seems here he calls him a wicked

servant and then he says, this is how my

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father will do to every he'll help what

he'll do to every one of you if you don't

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forgive your brother from your heart.

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So I'm with you on that.

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I think this is one of those

litmus testes te testes.

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Te yeah.

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Tess says, this is one of those

shibolet that shows whether

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or not you're a Christian.

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This goes back to my conversation

yesterday about humility.

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Yeah.

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A humble person will know they

have been forgiven far more.

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Than anything that they

will forgive others for.

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And if that's their position, that's

what their self-awareness draws 'em to.

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Then forgiving others is the

natural consequence of that idea.

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Doesn't mean it's easy.

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In fact, here's a,

here's another question.

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Do I have to offer forgiveness

to somebody if they don't ask?

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Because here you have

someone who says, mm-hmm.

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Will you forgive me?

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Yeah.

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And then Peter says I guess I have

to forgive you up to 77 times.

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Yeah.

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Do I have to forgive

somebody if they don't ask?

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This is where I've.

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Talks about it as there's a vertical

component of forgiveness and there's

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a horizontal component of forgiveness.

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There's a vertical component of

forgiveness where we have to be able

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to release the offense that has been

committed against us to the Lord

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and trust that his justice is gonna

be done no matter what, that he's

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gonna meet out exactly what needs

to be done as far as the skills of

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what's right and wrong are concerned.

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And so we can forgive in the sense

that we're turning that over.

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We're not harboring that saying, I feel

like I've been robbed because I don't.

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Get my pound of flesh.

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I feel like I've been wronged

because they've never come to

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me and asked my forgiveness, and

so I don't get that moment of.

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Not gloating, but that moment of

satisfaction I've let that go to the Lord.

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I'm trusting the Lord with that.

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That's a component of forgiveness.

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The horizontal component of

forgiveness, that relationship,

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that earthly relationship that

you have with that person that may

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never actually fully be restored.

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And you brought up cases of

abuse and other things like that.

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And I'd say in those cases,

even when the person does come

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and say, will you forgive me?

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I think Yeah, you're called by.

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In scripture to forgive, but that

doesn't mean that you're called to

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then welcome that person back into

your life in the same degree that they

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were in your life pre prior to that,

or welcome them around your family or

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anything like that, that you're gonna be

there's consequences for sin, and that

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could look like broken relationships.

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That, that remain broken in the

sense that you, the two of, you're

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not gonna be close anymore, but

should you still forgive that person?

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Yeah, you need to let that go.

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And that's where I go back to, I think

the component of your relationship

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with God is the most important thing

here is are you holding onto that

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saying, God, this is mine to take

vengeance on it, or are you releasing

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that and turning that over to God and

trusting that he will care for that.

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Yeah, that's a really helpful distinction.

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And I was taught.

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To define one as attitudinal forgiveness

versus transacted forgiveness,

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and the attitudinal one being the

one that you're talking about.

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Where between you and God, you released

the person Erica Kirk famously forgave

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Charlie, Kirk's murderer on national, I

don't know if it was national television.

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Yeah, but some major thing

she says, I forgive you.

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Something like that.

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That's attitudinal forgiveness because

I'm quite sure that the man who pulled

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the trigger didn't ask for it, right?

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So attitudinally, we are commanded by

God to release those who sin against

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us, release them not as in, you're

gonna get off scot free because God

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will ultimately settle accounts.

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And that's what allows us to do this.

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But the transactive forgiveness

is the one that you pray for, the

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one that you want to have happen.

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That one only takes place when

there's a I'm sorry that I sin

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against you or will you forgive me?

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And then the other person

says, yes, I'll forgive you.

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That's transacted forgiveness that

may not take place in this life.

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But attitudinal forgiveness

that can always take place.

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And I believe God does

command us to do that.

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Yep.

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Well, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Lord, we thank you for the the

forgiveness that we have from you

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that has motivated or compelled us

to say we want to forgive others.

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We thank you for the riches of your grace.

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We thank you for the deliverance that

we have in Christ that we can even

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see as even greater than what we saw

in the Old Testament with the Exodus.

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And so, God, we just pray that you

would help us to live as those that

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are overwhelmed by your grace and your

mercy that are compelled to forgive

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others that are compelled to live

in light of the glorious reality of

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what we have all received from Jesus.

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So we thank you for this.

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We pray for a great rest of our day.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Stay consistent, guys.

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You're doing a great job.

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Keep reading those Bibles and we'll be

back with you again tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Please join us then.

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