00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:13 Current Events and Government Shutdown

01:02 Tragic News: Church Attack

01:12 Understanding Mormonism and Christian Love

05:00 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew Chapter 1

11:07 Daily Bible Reading: Luke Chapter 2

13:51 Reflections on Jesus' Early Life

16:28 Mary's Role and Significance

18:46 Conclusion and Prayer

19:31 Podcast Outro and 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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Hey, hello.

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Good morning.

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Good morning to you.

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Afternoon as well.

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And in case we don't see you.

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Good night.

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Good night.

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Yeah, but hopefully not.

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Good night before you listen to this.

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Yeah.

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What is it?

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It's it's Thursday.

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Thursday the second.

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October 2nd.

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Not sure what's going on right now.

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Probably who some other major catastrophe.

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More probably, although the

government shutdown down.

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Has that been averted?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I listened to Moeller on that a couple

days ago and he basically like meh to it.

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Yeah.

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Did you hear that he like I did.

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I did.

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He said this is kind of posturing

and theater and he said, unless

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you're really planning to go to a

national park or Washington, DC's not

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really gonna impact most Americans.

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That's probably a good thing.

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Yeah.

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And beyond that, he said it really plays

into the hands of the Republicans in

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a lot of ways because the Republicans

presented, this clean proposal to

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say, Hey, W let's just keep things

the exactly the way they are.

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Then we're not gonna add anything into it.

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Let's just extend the budget and

keep things exactly the way they are.

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And it, some people said, no,

yeah, don't wanna do that.

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Yeah.

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Government shut down man.

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It is crazy.

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Hey on a related note,

speaking of news, yes.

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Something tragic happened.

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Church of Ladder.

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Yes.

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints was attacked, set on fire.

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People have died.

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Let's briefly talk about this because

I think it's important that people

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understand that there are distinctions.

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Yes, you can still have love for.

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Our fellow man and have love

for our Mormon neighbors.

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Yeah.

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But let's let's add a couple

clarifications to that, if you don't mind.

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Yeah.

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I think the source of sorrow for

us is that this is a tragedy.

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If this was a movie theater and somebody

drove into the movie theater and

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started shooting a bunch of people and

lit it on fire we would feel the grief

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over this sense of a loss of life.

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I think that what.

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Creates the conflict within the believer's

heart is the fact that Mormonism is a

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false gospel and it is a false gospel.

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So what we have to guard against is

those that want to extend the ecumenical

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branch to the church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-Day Saints and call them

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Christians and say that this is an attack

on Christianity and attack, on Jesus.

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It's not even if that was the shooter's

intent he misfired because the Mormon.

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Church is not a church.

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The Mormon gospel is not the

true gospel of Jesus Christ.

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It is a workspace gospel that denies

salvation by grace alone through faith

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alone in Christ alone as it's revealed

in the scriptures of the church.

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That said, we still grieve the fact

that these are people, men and women

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who were created in the image of God

that lost their lives as a result of an

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act of violence carried out upon them

by somebody who committed murder by

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somebody who broke the commandment of God.

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Thou shalt not kill.

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This was a deranged

individual who did this.

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It was evil, it was wicked.

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It's.

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Absolutely condemnable in every

sense of the word and it's wrong.

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And we can rally behind that

and unite behind that and say,

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this is a horrific tragedy.

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Made worse because those

people that were cut down

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didn't bow the need of Christ.

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At least not that we know of.

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Right.

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Otherwise, by all indications, I don't

think they would've been in that building.

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It's awful.

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It's horrific, it's tragic.

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We can all agree upon that.

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We just don't extend that level

of saying this is an attack on

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the church itself because the

Mormon church is not the church.

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Important for you to know that.

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This doesn't in any way limit or

challenge our love for Mormons.

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In fact, I'd say the opposite.

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We love Mormons.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We had some Mormons over for

dinner not too long ago for food.

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We didn't eat the Mormons.

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We invite them for food.

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Don't know.

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That was necessary for clarification.

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You never know.

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Okay.

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We didn't eat them.

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We love Mormons is my point.

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Yeah.

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We care about them.

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We pray for them.

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We can partner together on a lot of

helpful things, and we could say that

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it's good to do good things together.

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On the other hand, we are clear and

clarity is a gift that we give to people

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that we do not believe the same thing.

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We don't believe in the same Jesus.

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And so this doesn't change the fact

that we lament for them, that we weep

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with them, that we care for them, that

we do what we can, that if we have an

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opportunity to help them rebuild and.

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Not necessarily rebuild the church.

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That's not what we're looking to do,

but to support them, let's say their

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house gets torn down by a tornado and

you're the neighbor and you have the

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opportunity to host them or to contribute

to them rebuilding man, do that be

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helpful to your Mormon neighbors.

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Be helpful to your Muslim neighbors.

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Be helpful to your Hindu neighbors.

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Your love for your neighbor doesn't

change even when, and perhaps, especially

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when we say we disagree with you.

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And that's not a bad thing

for us to acknowledge that.

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Some people feel like disagreement is

the height of arrogance and the height

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of violence, but that's not true.

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Disagreements is a gift because it

tells us where our lines are, and doing

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that doesn't compromise our ability

to love our neighbor regardless.

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So our hearts go out, for our

hearts, go out to our Mormon

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friends and those who lost people.

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We care about them.

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We're gonna pray that God be kind

to them and merciful to them.

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But again, that doesn't change the fact

that there are strong lines between

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us and we believe they're wrong.

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And it's important to know

they believe we're wrong.

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That's okay.

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We can disagree and we should disagree

helpfully and biblically and let

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the ships fall where they will.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's a winsome way to disagree.

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Yeah.

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We were talking about speaking truth and

love recently in different context, and

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I think that's what we're talking about.

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It's not loving not to speak the truth.

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It's not loving to continue to

create a facade of unity when

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there's no unity there to be found.

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So true.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let's jump into our DBR for today.

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We're in Matthew chapter

one and Luke chapter two.

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Just as a heads up, tomorrow,

you've only got one chapter to read.

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Wow.

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So whatcha are you gonna

do with all your free time?

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Maybe you wanna read a little bit more.

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Go to Disneyland.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, that too.

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You should read more.

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You could, for example, read

the next passage up in first

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Peter two, four through eight.

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You could start, could do that.

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Pay attention to what's

coming this coming Sunday.

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You could read ahead in the DBR.

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You're just not gonna have the

podcast with you to walk you

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through if you have 18 hours.

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Let me just encourage you in hours.

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If you wanna drive to Florida and go

to Gideon's Bake House, Gideon's, buy

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us a few cookies and bring them back.

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Yeah.

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Much like one Ali Trinidad did.

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Your life will be forever changed.

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Yes.

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And you can thank Ali for that and

a golden fleece while you're at it.

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Please do.

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Yeah.

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Both of those things, I,

they probably sell them.

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You could get a building with a

golden fleece that might help us.

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Sure.

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Actually it would help.

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Yeah.

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Alright, Matthew, chapter

one, we get the genealogy of

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Jesus, the genealogy of Jesus.

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This is a list of a lot of names here,

and yet this is a list of a lot of

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names who are massively significant

because they fall in the line of Christ.

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And so it begins with the genealogy

of Jesus Christ and that it says

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this, the son of David, the son of.

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Abraham and he's gonna start in verse two

with Abraham and work his way up to Jesus.

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We're gonna come across another genealogy

later on that's gonna start with Jesus

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and work its way all the way back to Adam.

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This one starts with Abraham, and the

reason being is Matthew is particularly

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concerned with demonstrating that

Jesus is the king of the Jews, the

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king, and the long expected Messiah.

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And so he goes back to Abraham

because Abraham was the one who

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was given the Abraham a Covenant

in Genesis 12, three Even.

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The blessings that would come

to all the earth through one

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of the offspring of Abraham.

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And what Matthew's doing here for

his readers is showing that Jesus

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traces all the way back to Abraham.

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And so you're gonna recognize

a lot of names here.

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You're gonna get into a place where

you're gonna start to not recognize some

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of the names, and that's where maybe the

log is Fact book or something like that

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could help you if you've got questions.

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Who is this person, for

example, who's Ram and who's Ab?

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Beda and n Sean and Salmon and, okay.

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Boaz, I recognize Boaz and Rahab.

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But there's gonna be other names in

here that you may not recognize as

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easily, and so it's good to have a

a help out with you, a commentary or

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Log us' Factbook that you can hover

over and see the, that information.

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But you'll see some names that you'll

recognize, including in verse 12.

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There's Zabel.

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We just saw Zabel as we

wrapped up the Old Testament.

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Here he is in verse 12,

the son of Sheel Teal.

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That's Zabel.

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And he ends up in the line of Christ

himself, and this is gonna go all

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the way down through Joseph, the

husband of Mary of whom Jesus was

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born, who's called the Christ.

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This is Joseph's genealogy, and that's.

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Interesting.

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Because Jesus wasn't

biologically related to Joseph.

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Ooh.

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And yet because of Joseph's

being his adopted father, legal

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father, his legal father, yeah.

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He was eligible for the throne

of David because of that.

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Mm.

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And so we're gonna see, I

think through Luke's genealogy,

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there is a connection to Mary.

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And so there's a genealogical

right to the throne as well.

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But there's also this legal right to

the throne through Joseph, which shows

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us that God honors legal adoptions.

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Yes, the fact that God would qualify

this is acceptable tells us that

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an adoption, a legal adoption, is

something that God honors as binding,

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which is good news for those of us

who are adopted in Christ because that

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means our adoption into Christ or into

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. The Christian faith through

Christ is legal and binding.

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Yes, we are the adopted sons and daughters

of God, and we see that worked out

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here in the first chapter of Matthew.

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Matthew's Gospel.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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In Matthew chapter one, verses 18

through 25, then the rest of the

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chapter, we get the birth of Jesus.

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And this is the familiar Christmas story

Mary is found to be with Child Joseph.

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Being a righteous man, wish

to put her away quietly.

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The penalty that Mary deserved according

to the law, by all appearances, and that's

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what's key, his appearances was death.

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But Joseph.

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Loved Mary and didn't

want to see that happen.

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And so he was gonna just put her away

until the angel showed up to Joseph and

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said, Hey Joseph you need to not do this.

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You need to go ahead and take her

as your wife because she's with

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child by the Holy Spirit and by God.

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And so, he's told when he's born,

you will name his name Jesus, for He

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will save His people from His sins.

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From their sins, from, yeah, sorry.

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Thank you.

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That's a key clarification.

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Jesus.

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Save anybody from his sins.

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That's right.

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From their sins.

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Which is another interesting note

here as Matthew's writing to a Jewish

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group because they were looking for a

political messiah, militaristic Messiah.

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And here from the very word, go God is

telling Joseph and Mary very plainly,

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his name is gonna be Jesus because

he is gonna be the Savior, not.

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Politically or Militaristically,

but specifically from the greater

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need, which is from their sins.

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That's right.

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And the chapter ends with his birth.

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There's no better gift than that.

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Amen.

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Especially during Christmas,

which is only 84 days away.

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84 days till Christmas, just so you know.

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There you go.

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Start shopping now.

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Under 90 days.

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Under a hundred day.

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Yeah.

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I mean, wow.

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It's right around the corner.

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84 days time to start

listening to Christmas music.

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Is it?

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Is now acceptable time?

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Uh, no.

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For me it's November 1st.

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November one.

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Okay.

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So here's our problem.

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We bought a fake tree last

year for the first time.

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Oh man.

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You heard about that.

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Welcome to the club.

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Yeah.

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But it's kind of sad.

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It's a little sad except now we

have it and so now like we always

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used to start Christmas music,

Christmas movies like November 1st.

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Yeah.

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But we wouldn't really put up our

tree until after Thanksgiving.

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Yeah.

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'cause you wanna preserve

its freshness, right?

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All the smells.

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But now we have it.

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Now you got it.

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And so if we're gonna start listening

to Christmas music, November 1st,

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you might as well throw up the tree.

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Do we throw up the tree November 1st?

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Absolutely.

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I think some people would revolt.

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I know of people in my community group

that would perhaps refuse to come to

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community group with my Christmas tree up.

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That's the only reason

I need to put it up.

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Then I would love to poke

at people in that way.

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I wouldn't, I just don't I don't know.

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I'm an after Thanksgiving kind of guy.

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Okay.

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But we have a fake tree

and I'm not opposed to it.

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Yeah.

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I just think, oh, that's a good time.

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I wouldn't build a church on it, but I do.

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Yeah, maybe I would.

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If you put it up early,

I would consider it.

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Maybe we'll have that

agreement together maybe.

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And then we'll say to the church, Hey,

you need to do, as your pastors do we just

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need to get pastor marking on that too.

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You know.

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Does he do fake trees?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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We'll see.

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He seems like a real tree kind of guy.

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He does seem like that.

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Strapping it to the roof of his

Tesla driving down the road.

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He would, the Tesla would do it itself.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Get me a tree, Elon.

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That's right.

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Luke two, we get into Luke's

account of the birth of Jesus.

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And Luke again is just so detailed that

every time I come to it I'm just impressed

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afresh at the level of detail that we

have contained in the Gospel of Luke.

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In those days, a decree went

out from Caesar Augustus.

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There's a detail that the

world should be registered.

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This was the first registration

detail when Rinus was

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governor of Assyria of Syria.

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Detail.

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All went to be gathered or to Reg

be registered each to his own town.

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Joseph went up from Galilee Detail

to the town of Nazareth, detailed

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to Judea, to the city of David.

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He's just packing so much in here, which

just reminds us and shows us that he

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was very intent on making sure that this

was, that people could fact check him.

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Yep.

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Luke is saying, Hey go.

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Look you, you want to

know that this is true.

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Go look.

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You can do it.

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Jesus is gonna be born in verses four

through seven here in Luke's gospel.

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And then right after this, the

announcement is made to the

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shepherds this unlikely group

of recipients out in the fields.

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They would've been away

from a lot of society.

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Sometimes people looked at the shepherds

as though they were the outcast of

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society, even sometimes, even as

those that were perpetually unclean

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because of their job and their duty.

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And yet these are the ones to whom

the angel shows up and announces

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this heavenly host and just what

a sight that must have been.

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And they come in telling the

people about the Messiah.

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The first evangelists are the shepherds

who come in telling everybody what

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they've seen and what they've heard.

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And they come and they find the

baby and they tell Mary and Mary

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treasures these things up in her

heart, which she does quite often.

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From here, the scene shift to the

temple as they're bringing baby Jesus

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in at eight days old to fulfill the

law and they bring 'em into the temple.

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And there's two people there

that are given specific, I

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think honor by the Lord here.

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And that is Simeon and that is also Anna

and Simeon takes the child up and God had

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revealed to Simeon that he would not die

before he saw the consolation of Israel.

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And Simeon recognizes that

consolation in the baby Jesus.

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And he announces that

and rejoices over that.

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And then you've got Anna who

came and she was waiting as well.

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And she seems to have been a

widow for quite a long time.

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And she sees the baby Jesus and

she rejoices over Jesus as well.

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So I think Simeon and Anna, just

a sweet glimpse by God to honor

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these two people who really.

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From this time forward, have no

bearing on the life of Jesus.

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They don't show up anymore.

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They're just mentioned right here,

but it's their faithful waiting

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for the coming Messiah that I

think is honored by the Lord here.

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Amen to that.

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And I find it interesting and

Anna's called a prophetess.

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Yep.

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She's one of a few in the

Bible to be called such.

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So she's given multiple distinctions

of honor in addition to holding

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baby Jesus and honoring that.

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But just notice here, God is

making so many different signs that

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make it easy for us to identify.

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This kid is more than just a kid.

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He is unique, he's distinct.

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There are people that are.

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Calling out his distinction.

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And this is what Luke's

trying to do for us too.

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He's helping us to see that

Jesus is more than a mere child

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who has a unique identity.

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He is truly the son of God.

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Yeah.

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We fast forward now to Jesus at 12

years old for the rest of this chapter.

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And an interesting situation happens

where Joseph and married gone up

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to the temple and they were there

in Jerusalem for the Passover.

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And Jesus stays behind,

they leave they leave to go.

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And this is clearly not

Jesus disobeying his parents.

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Because we know the nature of Christ and

we know that the rest of the testimony

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of scripture that Jesus was sinless.

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So it's not as though Joseph Marion said,

Hey Jesus, make sure that you're with us.

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And he had said, no,

I'm not gonna do that.

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Instead, Jesus is where

he was supposed to be.

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He was with his father in the temple, and

he's holding court there and he's amazing.

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The religious leaders with his

understanding and his perception

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and his wisdom and his ability

to ask these questions and.

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And and to give answers.

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And so eventually Mary and Joseph

realized Jesus isn't there.

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They go back, they find him there.

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Jesus asks a question, which also

shows us that they should have known.

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And again, they're 12 years in

and they had the announcements

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from God as to who Jesus was.

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Both of them knew.

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Who the true father of Jesus was.

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And so when Jesus says, should

I not have known that I would

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be in my father's house?

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This isn't him being snarky or passive

aggressive with his mom and dad.

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They should have known that because

of the nature of his identity

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and who they knew him to be.

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And I think a lot of what we probably

don't know of what it was like to raise

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him for the first 12 years of his life.

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And boy, do we have questions?

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Oh yeah.

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Wouldn't it be so

fascinating to drop in on.

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Mary and Joseph interacting

with the boy Jesus.

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Oh, very.

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How interesting that would be.

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One thing to note here, verse 50 they

didn't understand what he was saying,

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but there is clearly an understanding.

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At 12 years old, he knew who he was.

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Yeah.

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He wasn't guessing and trying

to figure out who he was.

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He doesn't go through the typical teenage

or pre-teen angst of saying, who am I?

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What kind of identity do I have?

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No.

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Jesus was not addressing emo, right?

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He knew who he was from

the very earliest stages.

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How early?

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I don't know.

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Right?

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We don't know that answer, but we

knew, at least at 12 years old, he had

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a pretty clear understanding of who

he was and what he was there to do.

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And verse 50 again reminds us

that, it's at least common even

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for parents of the son of God to

not quite understand their kids.

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So if you're in that boat, you're in

good company press on and endure here.

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Jesus shows that even for a perfect child,

the parents may still not understand

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and just, I think, Paul and Philippians

chapter two talks about the emptying.

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Of Jesus.

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And that's often referred

to as the kenosis.

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And it's less of an emptying,

more of a veiling in a humility.

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And I think we see that in verse

51, right after that verse, it says,

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he went down with them and came to

Nazareth and was submissive to them.

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There you have the boy child of

God, Jesus Christ being willing

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to go with his imperfect.

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Parents that he had a hand in creating

and sustaining their very life.

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And he's willing to go with them.

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Be submissive to them and say,

okay, yes mom, yes dad, I'll do it.

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People have asked the question,

Mary, did you know, what do

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you think Mary would say?

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Today?

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What would she say?

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Well, no, back then Mary, did

you know that your baby boy

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would someday walk on water?

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There were the prophecies that.

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Of the pain that she was gonna

experience, as a result of him

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turning many to the father.

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But yeah, that's a great song.

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I don't care who you are.

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I don't think that's a great song.

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Yeah, I don't think she,

she knew something, man.

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Her Magnifico shows that she

had a pretty good theology.

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It always says she treasured all these,

verse 51 again, his mother treasured

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up all these things in her heart.

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She was contemplative, she was wise.

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But I would say if the disciples who

walked with him and heard from him

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directly for the three years of his

earthly ministry couldn't have anticipated

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what was in front of him with the cross.

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I think Mary probably had, maybe at

the foot of the cross, she's having

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flashbacks to all of these things.

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We don't know.

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Yeah.

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That's how Mel Gibson presented it.

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Yeah, I think that's what happened.

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Yeah, probably.

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Probably.

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Dude she is such a rock star.

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Mean granted, absolutely.

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Granted as Protestants, we don't give

her the same deference and honor and

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worship that others might, but man,

to talk about a young woman who is

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selected by God to carry the son of God.

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Yeah.

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Talk about trust.

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Talk about honor.

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Yeah.

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Talk about distinction and

she's a thoughtful young lady.

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She's treasuring things in her heart,

which tells me that she's taking

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in truth and not just passively

receiving it, but thinking through it.

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She's Psalms chapter one.

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It, she's she's cogitating upon it.

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She's meditating, she's rolling it

over in her mind to derive insight

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from the truths that God has given her.

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And clearly, she's a theologian

in her own right now.

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She's not a disciple in the same

way that the apostle that is, she's

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not an apostle in the same way that

the men are that Jesus chose, but

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she's clearly someone very special.

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Protestants we're okay with saying

that she's special, she's chosen she's

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selected to, to carry on a very important

mission, but it does not mean that she's

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without sin or that she is a cox, right?

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Those are not taught in the scripture.

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Evidently, clearly not taught.

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So please don't be deceived

by those things, right?

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She's not interceding for you, neither

is any other in the Catholic church.

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Preach.

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We have one.

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Mediator and intercessor

the man Christ Jesus.

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That's right.

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The book of Hebrews is one of the

greatest answers to Catholic theology

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that you will find out there.

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If you will read the book of Hebrews,

memorize it, you'll find a lot of answers

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to what's wrong about a lot of the

Catholic theology when it comes to that.

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That's a great one.

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Yep.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, to say thank you for the

birth of Jesus is the greatest

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understatement that we could ever offer.

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We are so thankful for the incarnation,

thankful that in your grace and

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your mercy, you sent Jesus, thank

you, Jesus, that you were willing

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to condescend to come and to veil.

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The full glory and take on full

humanity to yourself and to live this

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life that we're even reading about

here in the pages of the gospels.

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Help us to, as we read the gospels

during this season, to learn more and

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more about who you are, to have new

insight and to appreciate more the life

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of Jesus, the life that you live for

us Jesus, so that we can one day live

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in eternity with you as we've put our

trust in you, as our Lord and Savior.

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So we pray all this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you folks.

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Bye.

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listening to another episode of

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said