00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:19 Transform Conference Overview

00:31 Importance of Marriage and Family

01:48 Cultural Impact of Family Disintegration

02:58 Invitation to the Conference

03:14 Discussion on Luke 24

03:46 The Resurrection and Its Significance

05:24 The Road to Emmaus

07:23 Jesus Appears to the Disciples

12:09 Jesus and Thomas

15:59 Peter's Restoration

20:32 Final Reflections and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Happy transformed day.

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Transformed conference day.

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Yep.

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That's what I said.

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Yep.

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No, it's not.

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You said transformed him.

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Well, same difference.

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It could be misunderstood though.

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We want to be clear.

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That's what we're after.

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We're a, about the perspicuity

of our communication.

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That makes sense.

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And it is the transform conference date.

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That's that much is true.

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Yes, it is.

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We're excited about that.

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We are so excited about that.

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Kicking off this whole thing.

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I am kicking it off.

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What are you?

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Kicking it off with a football.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Nope.

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I am talking about, uh, the, the subject

is marriage and family and why they

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matter, but really I'm going to be

talking about why marriage matters,

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because I think when you get marriage

and the importance of marriage, you get

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the importance of family thrown in there.

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So we're gonna have some other

sessions during the week that are

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gonna be talking about, um, weekend.

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I should say.

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That are gonna be talking about family,

specifically, raising your kids.

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Why church matters on that?

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Some existential threats to the family,

things like that, but this opening message

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is really gonna be about, uh, the idea

that that Satan hates your marriage.

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Um, and because St.

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Nature marriage, you need

to understand two things.

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Number one, he's coming

after your marriage.

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And number two, you need to

strengthen the defenses of your

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marriage because of that reality.

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So, uh, we're gonna be walking

through three threats to your

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marriage that are pretty common

threats that I see over and over and

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over again in the counseling office.

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And then we're gonna be talking about

three areas to strengthen your marriage.

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Uh, to make sure that, that you will

be as strong as possible because when

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the enemy comes, you want to make

sure that your walls are thick and

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you are ready to withstand anything

that is going to bring against you.

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So having strong godly marriages

will yield strong and godly families.

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Now I understand there are.

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People that don't necessarily fit

the typical mold of husband and

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wife or a family that that is the

traditional new nuclear family.

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And yet.

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I think that the, the main backbone

as, as God's design is the traditional

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family and marriage is defined as, as

a man and woman, husband, and wife.

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And so that's where we're going

to be kicking things off on.

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Well tonight.

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And all you have to do is look

around at our culture to see the kind

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of Dibaj living that takes place.

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When men don't step up to take

on their role as husbands.

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And as fathers.

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Uh, the disintegration of the family.

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Directly results in the disintegration

of our local society, our community

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at large our nation as a whole.

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And of course, ultimately the

world suffers when men don't

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rise up to the challenge.

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Yeah.

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The family is so integral to all that we

experienced and enjoy that to not have.

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It is to have effectively

wished for the destruction of

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everything that we know and love.

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And I just look at this, look

at the abortion industry.

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When men don't lead, when families

aren't intact the weak and the

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vulnerable suffer, which is inevitably

always going to be women and children.

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If you want to throw in the

elderly in there too, I think

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that would also be appropriate.

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But without the family, You have the

weak and the vulnerable suffering

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and striving to just eat out a living

because men are not doing their jobs

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as the leaders of their families.

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So marriage and family

is enormously important.

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It is integral to the

functioning of society.

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You get rid of the family, you

might as well throughout the

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whole society, along with it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And yeah.

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And we want to fight against that.

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And that's why this conference

and why we're going to kick

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off with that subject tonight.

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Sorry, it's going to be good

conference, hoping good helping make it.

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If you're listening to our

voice and you're not signed

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up yet, we'd love to see you.

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There's not too late.

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Still time.

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And if you're listening to this and

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We will make it happen.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our text, Luke 24 and

John 20 and 21, Luke 24, John 20 and 21.

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We are finishing up the gospels today.

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This is the, uh, the last two

accounts of the resurrection.

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Uh, for us to focus in on and Luke

chapter 24, you have the, the empty

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tomb in verses one through 12.

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Um, You've got the section here

that, that, uh, that we've, we've

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seen that's, that's familiar that

the angels ask, why do you seek

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the living among the dead here?

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Uh, which is just a really.

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Uh, poetic way of saying,

Hey look, Jesus, isn't here.

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He's where he told you he would be.

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Um, The resurrection is in so many

ways, the linchpin of, of our faith.

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That's what Paul says

in first Corinthians 15.

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So reading these stories, it's

important for us not to just, just to

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read it and go, oh yeah, this is the

part where Jesus rises from the dead.

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But to really make sure that our faith

is anchored here, that our faith is.

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Connected to a savior who truly did walk

out of the grave and is resurrected.

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In fact, there are a lot of arguments

against Christianity in one of the

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main areas that people will target

is the reality of the resurrection.

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And so starting from the very beginning,

we've already seen this in the other

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gospel accounts where the Pharisees

are saying, well, it's a stolen body

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that, that perpetuated that, that.

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Took off like wildfire and

people said, well, the disciples

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stole the body from the tomb.

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Other suggested, well, they

went to the wrong tomb.

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So that's why the tomb was empty.

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Some others have even suggested Jesus

never actually died on the cross.

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He just fainted the spoon theory.

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Uh, talks about that and others have

said, no, this was a body double.

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Uh, somebody that looked

like Jesus who died.

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And so these are all arguments

that are raised against the

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reality of the empty tomb.

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And there are all responses that we

don't really have the time to get

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into all the responses to these.

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Uh, right now, but I think one of the

greatest ones is the transformation

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of the disciples, which we're going

to see starting tomorrow in the book

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of acts right off the bat with Peter.

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Uh, when you see such a radical

transformation in the lives of these

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disciples who ran from the cross.

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You have to ask yourself

what changed, what.

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Peter from denying Jesus three times

to being willing to stand up in front

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of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council

and say, Hey, you crucified him.

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God raised him.

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And he's both Lord and savior right now.

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So as one of the main evidences, but

the resurrection matters intensely

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is what we're driving out here.

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Uh, verses 13 through 35, then.

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The road to a mass, you

have two disciples that.

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Following the crucifixion and actually

unbeknownst to them following the

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resurrection, they still don't

know that Jesus has risen yet,

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but they're on their way to a mass

and they're not in a good place.

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They, Luke 24 21 had hoped

notice the past tense there.

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They had hoped that he was going to be the

Messiah and because of the crucifixion.

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They're walking away

thinking, man, we were wrong.

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Here's another failed Messiah.

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Just like some of the

intertestamental messiahs that

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rose up and we were wrong again.

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So here we go.

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Back to our existence and trying to

figure out how to pick up the pieces.

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Well then Jesus steps

in, in verses 25 to 27.

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And it's only described in three

verses there, but this must've been the

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greatest sermon ever preached because

Jesus goes back to the old Testament

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and shows how all of it pointed to

the reality of his suffering, his

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resurrection, the cross, all of it.

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And then eventually they get to, to the

house that they're going to Jesus there.

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Brix bread with them.

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And it's there during that meal

together, they're in that intimate

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time together that Jesus makes himself

known, reveals himself to them.

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And then they spread out and they go

tell the other disciples, just a really

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cool account, unique to Luke here

that we get with the road to a mass.

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This is why we think that all

of scripture eventually, and,

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and ultimately points to Christ.

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Uh, you can overdo this and

there's a way to make every jot and

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tittle speak about Christ and Cho

force things that are not there.

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But suffice it to say that the long

stroke, the long strokes of it, the

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broad strokes of scripture are eventually

going to find their fulfillment in Jesus.

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And of course, Jesus affirms as he says,

the law and the prophets, they pointed to

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me, I am the fulfillment of those things.

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Uh, everything, uh, that, that

even the law itself, Jesus would

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say in the gospel of Matthew.

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He says that the law is fulfilled.

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I am the fulfillment of those things.

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So everything eventually

finds his termination.

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It's tell us in Christ.

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And that's, what's exciting

about what these guys see.

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We're still carrying on

that tradition today.

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We say the same thing

that Jesus is saying.

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We're going to look at.

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Uh, the Moses and the prophets and

interpret to everyone how these

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scriptures eventually point to Jesus

Christ and how they're fulfilled in him.

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Uh, versus 36 through 49, then

you get the incredulous disciples.

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He appears to the group now

the whole group, and he shows

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them the marks on his body.

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He eats in front of them, which

is demonstrating the fact that

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he had a real physical body.

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I was listening to somebody recently

talk about, um, modern day Gnosticism

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and Gnosticism was, was this idea

that, that the physical was, was evil.

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That the spiritual was, was the

preferred and, and it's all about

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mysticism and experiences and everything.

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There's something here where Jesus is

doing something with his disciples.

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He does this twice.

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He does it here as they're incredulous.

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Not, not sure if they're

seeing a ghost or not.

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He eats in front of them.

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And then we're going to see in

John 21 later on in our texts,

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he's going to sit down and have

breakfast with the disciples there.

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He's showing them that man, his

resurrected body is a tangible, real

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body that is able to enjoy food.

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That points to the realities that

we're going to enjoy together.

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And the new earth eventually as we have

our own glorified bodies at that point.

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So, uh, Jesus here appears to

them, says, look, here's my body.

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You can touch me, watch

I'm eating this food here.

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Um, and then he commissions them.

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And in verse 27, he says, look

now, what do you need to do?

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You need to take the message

of repentance for forgiveness.

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To everyone to spread it out to all

of the nations he says, which would

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include us as the Gentiles there.

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And so that's the meeting there in

that upper room, as he appears to them.

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Uh, and then he has the Ascension

in verses 50 through 53.

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Does Luke and Luke will expand

on that in acts chapter one.

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And, and give us a little bit more there,

but this is where Jesus on the Mount of

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olives goes up and is caught up into the

air and goes to take a seat at the right

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hand of the father until the father.

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I should send them to

come back for his bribe.

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And then we finished the gospel of Luke.

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Yep.

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Well done.

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Or we're a bit, we're going

to finish the gospels today.

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Yeah, this is amazing.

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We kind of glanced over this at

the beginning of this podcast.

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You, but that's a really great, yeah,

you're continuing to be in your Bible now.

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You've seen the Bible

kind of weave together.

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Um, in an, in a very appropriate

way, there's multiple ways to do

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this and you can get more granular

in how, how much you interweave it.

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But I think what we just did these last,

what was 20, 25 days or so that we were

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in the gospels has been so helpful.

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I mean, just.

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On your own reflections, pastor

PJ, what were some of your,

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have you ever done this before?

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Read the gospels this way.

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Uh, in a, in a harmony this way.

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Not yet.

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In their entirety.

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Uh, There, you know, you use

harmonies when you're doing some

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sermon prep and things like that.

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How there's parallel accounts,

but not like this in the entirety.

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And so it was, yeah, it was super

beneficial to see, uh, the overlap and the

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parallels and the parallel accounts and

how you can pick up different things from

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things that otherwise we would have said,

oh, it's the same story and just moved on.

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Yeah.

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So congratulations to you.

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If you, if you're a bit, if you've

been with us this whole time, you've

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been reading with us every day.

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Well done.

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I keep it.

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I keep an eye on the, on the stats

for our podcast, just to kind of get

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a sense of who's tracking with us.

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So I know that there've been some

that had dropped off for I'm sure.

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Various good reasons,

whatever they might be.

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And hopefully they're still

reading, but you're here.

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You're doing it.

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We're proud of you.

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Good job.

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Let's jumped in that to you.

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Let's jump to John rather,

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You're Aboriginal.

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It's so good.

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I wanted another chapter here.

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It is.

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All right, John 20, the empty

tomb verses one through 10.

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Um, You've got again, this idea of

faith, but without full understanding

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here and that's to be expected, right?

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We read these things through the eyes

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Th they're trying to.

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Figure this stuff out real time.

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And, and so John and Peter, they.

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They show up there and they go in and

they believe, but it says in verse

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nine, they did not yet understand.

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And so they're, they're understanding.

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Enough to know something's happening,

something's going on, but they don't

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yet fully comprehend what's going on.

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They leave.

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And then this is that scene.

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This is Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

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And Mary Magdalene is

still there at the tomb.

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And she's distraught not

knowing what has happened.

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Still not understanding, like

I was just talking about.

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She sees the resurrected savior.

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She assumed that he must be the gardener.

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And she falls at his feet and

says, where have you taken him?

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And Jesus in this touching

moment just simply says her name.

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And she immediately immediately

understands who it is and she calls

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him, her, her teacher, her rabbi, it's

this touching moment between the Lord

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and one of his most devoted followers.

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Mary's the one who loved much

because she was forgiven much.

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And so here you see this amazing

interchange there between Jesus

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and Mary in verses 11 through 18.

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Verses 19 through 23, then.

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Uh, you've got Jesus with his disciples

in that upper room scene there and

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here he breathes on them to impart

to them the holy spirit, which calls

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to mind the initial act of creation.

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Genesis two, seven,

God breathed into Adam.

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The breath of life here.

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Jesus is symbolically breathing on

the disciples and he's imparting

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to them the holy spirit now.

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They received the holy spirit here,

but the full realization of that is not

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going to come until the day of Pentecost.

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We're going to see that later on when the,

in, in acts chapter two, where the, the

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spirit descends us as tongues of fire.

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And that's when, okay.

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Th that's when things are.

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For lack of a better term activated at

that point, but this is that ceiling.

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Of them with the gift of the holy

spirit here by Jesus in the upper room.

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Versus 24 through 29, then you've got one

of the disciples who struggled to, uh,

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to be on board because he wasn't there.

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When Jesus showed up in the

upper room, that's Thomas Thomas

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shows up, he says, wait a minute.

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I don't know if I'm on board with this.

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This is crazy.

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Uh, and it would have been crazy.

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And so I think Thomas

gets a bad rap, but I.

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I mean, Peter and John were kind of

there to They saw the empty tomb and

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they're like, we don't understand,

but we're going to run away.

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But Thomas wasn't with him.

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Right.

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He w he, why was he not there?

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Well, that's a good question.

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And that's where, that's where,

that's where I w sorry, Thomas.

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I know if you're watching or listening

from heaven, you're probably taking

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issue with me right now and that's okay.

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Um, I'm willing to hold my own.

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And I'm willing to be corrected,

but Thomas was nowhere to be found.

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They were, they were

supposed to be together.

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There has been down picking up

some McDonald's for the group.

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It may be, but I, I, I tend

to feel and given his re res.

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I don't know his resistance to the

testimony of all the guys that he's

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with guys that he has spent the last

three years with, they're saying,

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Thomas, this is what happened.

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Nope.

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Unless an.

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Unless I do this and he's adding

his own qualifiers, which.

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For all that I could charge

him against Jesus takes.

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Compassion upon him.

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And he meets him exactly where

he is, which I find so attractive

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that Jesus would do that.

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So incredibly kind of him to do that.

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But I, I would, man, if I were I'd

punched Thomas, if I were one of his

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friends, But dude, you're in wrong here.

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Yeah.

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Right in the face.

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Well, Jesus is gracious to him and

Thomas confesses, my Lord, my doubt,

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one of the greatest confessions, right?

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And then Jesus says in verse 29, and this

helps us understand verses 30 through

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31, the purpose of John as well, because

Jesus has have you believe because

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you've seen me blessed are those who

have not seen and yet believe, okay,

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so who have not seen in yet believe.

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And then John goes on to say,

look, that's why I wrote the book.

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I wrote the book verse 31.

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So that those of you who weren't there

to see it, you might believe that

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Jesus is the Christ, the son of God and

believing you might have life in his name.

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So there's a connection there between

verses 29 and verses 30 through 31,

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which is, I think why John wrote

that part there, even though it's

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not the conclusion of the book is

not the introduction to the book.

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It's kind of awkwardly almost at the

end of the book, but not quite there.

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I've always kind of wondered why I think

it's connected to Thomas' statement

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there and Jesus's response to Thomas.

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Verse 21 then, um, The

disciples are gathered.

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This is where I'm going

to take issue chapter 21.

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Chapter 21.

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Thanks.

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We can call it.

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Verse 21, just a big

verse, verse 21 chapter 22.

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Um, yeah, chapter 21.

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Thank you.

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Uh, this is where I take issue because

Jesus had called the disciples away

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from what now they returned to.

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Uh, after the resurrection

Peter declares, Hey, I'm going

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to, I'm going to go fishing.

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This is not while Jesus was in the tomb.

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This is not, this is after

he had seen Jesus alive.

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This is after all of these things.

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Peter, hasn't been back fishing that

we know of in the last three years.

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And now all of a sudden he's sitting

there going, okay, well, I guess I'm

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just going to go back fishing and

the rest of my, like, yeah, let's go.

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This, I think salsa suggest too

that when they called, when Jesus

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called them, that maybe they

didn't get rid of all their stuff.

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Right.

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Put him first, but they didn't

get rid of their supplies because

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they're able to recover them and

utilize them for their occupation.

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True.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And so it's, it's interesting

because Jesus calls them back

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away from that in a very similar

fashion to how he first called them.

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To, to be as followers to begin

with all the way back in Luke five.

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So in Luke five, they were out fishing.

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He said, Hey, why don't

you cast on the other side?

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And they're like, okay,

whatever, we'll try it, but okay.

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Fine.

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Well, this time Jesus comes back

and he does something very similar.

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He says to them, He says,

Hey, have you caught anything?

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And they, they say,

well, no, of course not.

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He says, well, why don't you let down

your nets again, they bring up this

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massive haul of fish and that's the

moment that Peter recognizes Jesus.

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And so Jesus does this thing

reveals himself sometimes.

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And Peter jumps in the

water and swim to shore.

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Meanwhile, the other guys are

in the boat that just kind of

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cruise back by Peter going, we'll

meet you back on shore, Peter.

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Um, and, and they've got

this massive haul of fish.

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And so I think the significance of this

event is it's bookending it's Jesus

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had called them initially away from

fishing to be as his fishers of men.

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And he's doing the same thing again here.

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Post-resurrection saying, Hey,

remember what your job is.

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Your job is not to go fish for

fish it's to go fish for men.

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And that's what you're going to do.

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Verses 15 through 19.

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Then Peter here I believe is, is restored.

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Um, As he had denied Jesus three times.

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I think that's why Jesus

asks him three times.

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If he loves him now.

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Ah, there.

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Aye.

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People go back and forth on this.

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Do do the different Greek

words here, meaning something.

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And I think they do.

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Um, Jesus says to Peter, do you a gappy?

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Me?

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That's the selfless fatherly love.

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That's the self-sacrificing love

that has the interest of the

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other person completely mine.

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Peter says, I owe you, which is

the brotherly love the mutual love.

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I feel that Ooh.

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Jesus.

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Again, Jesus says, Peter,

do you again, pay me?

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And Peter again says Loda.

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I for LA.

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Oh, you.

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And so finally Jesus asks

Peter, do you follow me?

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Do you really follow me?

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Do you even have this

brotherly love for me?

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And that's where, where Peter is grieved.

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He says, Lord, you know these things.

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And so in, in, after each of

these Jesus is charging Peter.

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With what he's about to do in the

book of acts, which is you need to,

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you need to take care of my sheep.

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Take care of my flock, feed my flock.

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And so Jesus is restoring Peter and

preparing him for the ministry ahead.

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Uh, and yet there's still

some evidence here that, that

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Peter needs some growth still.

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Peter's not fully baked yet.

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Uh, even though this is a N a restoration

point, there's still some work that

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Peter needs to do as evidenced by the

difference in the Greek words there.

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And I really appreciate

this, this tender scene.

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I can't.

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Uh, I can't articulate quite what it

means to me, but I just feel like.

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Jesus.

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Meets all of us failures,

exactly where we are.

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And, and the same at the same

number of rejections that

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Peter uttered against Christ.

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He now utters affirmations

about his love for Christ.

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Um, and I think all of us know what

that feels like intuitively all of

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us know what it feels like to, to say

no to Jesus when he really wanted to

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say yes, and yet her flesh is weak.

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As Jesus also identified.

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In the garden.

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He told him, Hey, pray, be on

guard because the temptation

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is going to be strong.

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The spirit is willing.

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I know that the inner person.

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Yearns for this righteousness

yearns to be faithful.

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And yet the outer person is weak and needs

to be brought into line with the inner.

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And that's where prayer comes in.

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But here, because of Peter's

failure, Jesus reaches down.

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Pulls him back on his feet as it were.

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And gives him three opportunities

to affirm were previously denied.

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I love this about Jesus.

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This draws me to him so much more than

it would if he were shaming, Peter

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to say, why aren't you better, buddy?

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Why don't you just figure this out?

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Why can't you just be more

like, you know, someone else.

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I love this, this beautiful scene.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, the, the bookends with, uh, Peter

attorney and seeing John who's kind of

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hanging in the background, listening.

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And while all this is going

on and pure looks at John and

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says, Hey, What about him?

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What's going to happen to that guy.

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And Jesus tells Peter, he

says, look my timidness, right?

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Right.

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What does it to you follow me?

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I love that.

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Right?

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What is it to you?

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Follow me and listen.

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Church.

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I think we would benefit

from that in so many ways.

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There are rabbit trails that, um,

Sensationalism there's there's stories

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out there that even the, the stories

of, of pastoral failure recently, if you

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want it to, you could run down all of

the different investigations and the X

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threads and everything else like that.

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Chasing all of that.

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I think there are times as Christians,

we need to heat Jesus' words here

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and say, what is that to you?

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You follow me.

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And make sure that you're following me.

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I'm not saying those things don't

matter, but I'm saying leave

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them to the Karen concern of

those directly involved with it.

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I think when we become spiritual

voyeurs, as it were and wants to

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stick our nose into to things that

really, we have no sway in or saying.

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It does damage to our own

relationship with Christ.

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It makes us gossip hunters.

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Instead of saying, man, I need to

be devoted to Jesus and trust God

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to handle those details through the

people that are involved in that.

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And so Jesus looks at him

and says, Hey, you know what?

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What does that to you?

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You follow me?

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I think that's such a good

challenge to us to remember that

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that's our basic need in life.

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That's what work, our

callers follow Jesus.

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I like the mind.

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Oh, goodness translation.

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That's a that's mine.

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Yeah, that's fine.

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Translation that's fair rods.

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Appropriation of the Greek there,

but I think it's helpful because

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somebody tells you, you can look at.

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Why is that person doing better than I am?

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Right.

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They're married and I'm not.

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I'm far more attractive than they

are, and I'm a much better person.

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Y right there, or, you know, Th the, the

comparisons that we played the lateral,

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like, well, his life is better than mine.

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You know, he, his, his wife is

more submissive or whatever it is

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that we, the games that we play

inside of our hearts and heads.

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Um, it's so important that you,

we see what Jesus is doing here.

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Jesus treats all of us individually.

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He doesn't do cookie cutter disciples.

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All of us start from different places

and we all have different end points.

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Ultimately we're all looking like

Jesus at the end, but how we get

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there is going to look vastly

differently depending on what God

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deemed necessary for each of our lives.

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So it was so important that you hear it.

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Here Jesus to Peter.

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Might've been this.

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Pray for each other care for one

another, but ultimately don't compare

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yourself against someone else's story.

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God's doing different things

to different people's lives.

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Be okay with that.

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Yep.

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Yeah, that's a good word.

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Let's pray.

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God.

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We want to be those that, uh,

that have that as our goal.

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We want to follow Christ.

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We don't want to get distracted.

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We don't want to get sidelined.

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We don't want to look back over our

shoulder at what we were doing before

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you called us away from it and say,

well, maybe I can just go back to that

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and, and not have to, to be on mission.

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Like God has called me to be on mission.

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I pray that you keep us against that, that

temptation, that you keep us focused on

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what we're here to do to exalt Christ,

to, uh, to engage the culture around

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us, with the gospel and to really seek,

to be as equipped as we possibly can

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with the good news, to be as sharp an

instrument in your hand, to go out and

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reach people for Christ and know Christ

to make him know that that's our desire.

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God, we want to do that.

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We want that to be who we are as a church.

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We want the stories.

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Of sharing the gospel and having

people to come to faith in Christ.

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We want those two, two.

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Uh, be abundant within our midst and

so help us God to have that mindset,

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that mentality to say, Hey, you

know what, follow me, come after me.

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Go out.

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And, uh, and, and fish for

men, don't fish for fish.

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Fish for men.

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And so God, we want to

be fruitful to that end.

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We proved that that would

be true of us as a church.

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It comes to proper church.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keeping your Bibles turn again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Book of acts folks.

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See you then.

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Bye.