00:00 Introduction and Women's Retreat

01:15 Hurricane Aftermath and Reflections

06:40 Theological Insights on Gospel Editing

13:27 Exploring Matthew 9: Desperate Faith and Miracles

15:18 Analyzing Biblical Accounts: Consistency and Contradictions

17:13 The Authority of Jesus: Life and Death

18:52 Miracles and Messianic Fulfillment

20:19 Demonic Possession and Spiritual Discernment

23:37 The Role of Modern Medicine and Faith

24:12 Lessons from the Centurion and Widow's Son

25:28 John the Baptist's Doubts and Jesus' Response

28:19 A Lesson in Gratitude and Hypocrisy

29:17 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, welcome to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Hi.

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It's a, uh, it's a lonely episode

for us men here as we are.

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Listening while our wives, a lot of them

at least are not with us this weekend.

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Well, mine is not leading until closer to

the afternoon, so ever for a little while.

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Or whatever.

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Fine.

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All right.

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Well, the rest of us, depending

on when you're listening to this.

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Yeah, it's a women's retreat weekend,

first ever compass Bible church,

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north, Texas women's retreat.

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Wow.

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Yeah, it's exciting.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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Kelly Atterbury from

California is coming out.

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I know that gal she's going to be

preaching on anxiety should be a

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great time, but our ladies are there.

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So be praying, uh, ladies who are going

on the retreat, pray for the retreat,

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pray that it will be a rich, good time

for you fellowship hearing from the word.

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Uh, growing in a confidence

and trust in God.

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Yeah.

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Uh, going to be a helpful topic

too, because then coming back on.

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Uh, Sunday, we're going to be

looking at a passage that has

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a lot to do with trusting gun.

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Uh, trust and got through difficult

times and difficult seasons as, as

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Jesus is going to say to them, Hey,

let not your hearts be troubled.

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Believe in God, believe also in me.

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So I think this is going to set it

up well to have an awesome weekend

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for our ladies focused a lot on.

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On trusting in God.

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She'll be great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, we'll miss him.

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We'll miss the ladies.

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We do.

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Yeah.

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This hurricane, um, wrecked.

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A lot there in Florida, again, as

it crashed through, we were watching

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coverage of it all day yesterday.

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I was watching it late last night.

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I was texting somebody that

we both know from our time in

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California, who lives out in Florida.

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Now whack Steph.

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Nope, not whack Def.

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One loop Melrose.

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Oh, no.

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I know he lives in, so yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he was there, his he's living

with family there over on the Western

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coast of Florida and they do evacuate.

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And so they, they moved

out and he was texting me.

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He said, man, it wasn't

too bad where we were.

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We only had about seven

to eight feet of flooding.

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Wasn't too bad.

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Oh, seven to eight feet of flooding.

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They're expecting 15 and 20

in places so I can understand.

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Right.

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I can understand the response,

although it's pretty narrow

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that to say that, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He said that they live on the 11th

floor of a someplace where they're at.

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And so he's not too worried

about their things, but.

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KCI back in first responders are

trying to clear the area still.

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All that.

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How do you clear the air from a flood?

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Well, yeah, I mean in just what you

do for that, you have to wait it out.

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Yeah.

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And then the water subside, I think

the waters subsided pretty quickly,

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as long as the rain doesn't persist,

but then it's a matter of you've got

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water damage in all these houses.

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Yeah.

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So a lot of it is

structurally unsound to it.

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I'd imagine that would create some issues.

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People got to come and cut out

the dry wall where the water

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water line is in the flood.

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And below you got to

cut out all the drywall.

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You are, you're going to replace

flooring a lot of times you're

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replacing appliances because those

are damaged now because they, they

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were damaged by the flood waters.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Any furniture that was left to

subjected it's it's horrible.

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I mean, it's catastrophic.

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That's why it is catastrophe.

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Um, and just the digging

out from that is, is crazy.

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So.

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But, um, I haven't heard of anybody.

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So far that that lost their

life as a result of, of Milton.

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I'm sure we will, but

nobody that I know of yet.

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So that's something to be

thankful for it at this point.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Th the roof of the

baseball stadium shredded.

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The Tropicana field, which

is where the race played.

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It was, they were going to stage.

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That is a shelter, mostly for

first responders to be able

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to, to be out and everything.

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And the roof just.

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Got shredded by the sales game.

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Um, I guess you're not prepared for

that kind of, I mean, it was a category

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four or five and it made landfall.

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I don't know.

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I think it was a three when it hit three.

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Yeah.

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It's pretty gnarly.

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And then what can withstand that kind

of wind and I mean, wind and rain.

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Yeah.

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Just more destructive than you realize.

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Yep.

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Just far more powerful than, I mean, I

was watching videos of some of the effects

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of the hurricane and I just thought, man.

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I didn't really appreciate this

until I, you know, we have their

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storms here are severe storms a week.

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They wake up, wake us up in the

middle of the night saying, take

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shelter or stay inside or whatever.

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And this is comparatively minor.

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And, and not as terrifying, gross,

threatening as some of the stuff

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that you see there, but man,

it's, it's it'll it'll rock you.

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Yeah.

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Well, and it can destroy pretty quickly.

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Yeah, well, this thing works.

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Spawning off.

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Tornado on both ends of it,

the front end and the backend.

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Just a total like apocalyptic experiences.

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It is for sure.

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For sure.

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So, yeah, we want to be mindful.

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And that's something that's hard, right?

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I mean, I sent you this real,

I don't know if you watched it

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cause you never responded to me.

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Um, you goes to me on the

real, um, I did see it.

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I said, I said the first 10 seconds

and I'm like, I don't have 10 washes.

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Right?

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Well, It was this charismatic pastor

who was binding all kinds of things.

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And yes, that's right.

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Trying to prevent the storm from happening

and rebuking it in the name of Jesus.

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And, and clearly it didn't have any

effect on it, but I saw a lot of people

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making a mess, encouraging us to pray.

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Um, And I think that's, that's

something that's hard for us to do is

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sometimes it's hard for us even to pray.

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For the things that are personal and

relatable to us, let alone, when we need

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to pray for, um, things that are happening

to other people that we don't know.

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And yet.

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And I think it is appropriate to

give some thought to give some time.

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If you're seeing the headlines, if you're

watching the news to stop and say, God, we

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do pray for the people impacted by that.

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Um, loss of life.

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We perfect comfort for people.

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We pray for recovery,

everything like that.

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I mean, think about the churches

that were impacted by all of this.

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Ah, the damaging effect

that that's going to have.

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Um, so yeah.

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It's it's good.

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It's, it's helpful for us to pray.

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And when, you know, somebody who's

been impacted by, it's easier to pray

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because you're praying for somebody,

you know, But when you don't know

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anybody, that's there, it's, it's

hard to wrap your mind around it.

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Yeah, I prayed specifically.

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I prayed that people would

leave, who needed to leave.

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I prayed for the churches that

were in the area believers to

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take advantage of the season.

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I mean, I started kind of getting

imaginative as I was praying for them

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thinking about what, what, what would,

what would I want them to pray for us?

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If we were in a similar situation.

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So I prayed accordingly to

what I thought was best.

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And I think that's always going

to be the case with our prayers.

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We never know fully, like

ultimately, Lord, we want you

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to do what you need to do, but.

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Uh, I just thought, okay,

what would our church want?

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What would our people

need to be prayed for?

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How would we need to think about that?

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So praying about the ability to see.

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Uh, this as a wake-up call to the

ultimate destruction that awaits us

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all to see that physical things are,

are going to be washed away or burned.

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And therefore we should have

our mind set in eternal things.

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I mean, praying for life and limb is good.

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Pray for their physical protection,

but even more so that they're there.

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They would be reminded.

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Over there, frailty.

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There's nothing more terrifying than,

than knowing that you're small and you

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could be crushed like a bug at any moment.

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Uh, we face a lot of things

like that on a regular basis.

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We're just never a cognizant

or aware of those things.

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And so a storm like this.

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With the magnitude and the power

that's behind it reminds us, man.

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We're.

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We're fickle.

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We're finite.

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And we can easily be washed away.

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We ought to thank God for the

opportunities that we do have.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Good word.

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Let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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Matthew nine and Luke seven.

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Matthew nine opens with a story

that should sound familiar.

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And though it's missing some of

the detail that we find other

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places, which you're, you're

preaching through Matthew right now.

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And, and true.

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Somebody made a comment and said,

Matthew tends to compress details.

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And I think we, we often think

of mark that way because mark

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is the shortest of all gospels.

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Um, 16 chapters or so, and

depending on the ending.

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You know everything else, but.

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Matthew seems to be brief.

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And some of it is a treat.

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Treatments as well.

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I mean, this is another instance

where he doesn't record.

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Climbing up on the rooftop and, and

lowering them down through the roof.

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But it seems to be that same situation

that we're reading about here in Matthew.

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Right.

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I think one of the, uh, one of the things

that is helpful to understand with every

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gospel is that they are all doing editing.

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Now that might make you uncomfortable.

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They're all editors,

all of them are editing.

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In fact, John is explicit

about his editing.

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He says, look, I've only selected these

things in order that you might believe.

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He says at the end of the.

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As gospel.

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If we were to take account of everything.

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You wouldn't have enough books

in the world to come to, to

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take all of what took place.

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And so every author.

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Um, his writing for a

specific reason and likely.

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Yeah, we, we, we should probably

understand that Matthew, mark and

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Luke are aware of each other's work.

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Um, there's disagreements and

there's a there's infighting in

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fighting, but there's there's

conversation about who came first.

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Many people will assume

that mark and priority.

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With Luke and Matthew coming later,

and then John coming, the latest.

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Uh, but, but each of them aware of

each other, unless if, if mark was

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first and then Luke and Matthew

working together with each other's

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work and also with Mark's work, putting

together the narrative that they're,

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they're doing now, now, if they're

aware of each other, then that's like,

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well, why are you guys doing this?

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You're all saying the same thing.

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Well, yes, but no, they're

saying similar things with

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different theological emphases.

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And Matthew is often really he's

called the Jewish gospel because

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he's really trying to make it evident

that Jesus, the Jewish Messiah is the

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one whom God has sent to be the son.

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He's the Messiah he's delivered.

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He's the son of David.

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He's the son of Abraham and he's also

the one who's going to die on the cross

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to take away the sins of the world.

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So.

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All of that is to be T to be put

in your mind, as you think through

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the, the editing, this taking

place, all of them are editing

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question is what they edit and why.

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And sometimes you're left

with the shoulder shrug.

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I know, I don't know why I left that out.

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But not part of his, his thrust.

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Or didn't see it as necessary

for the point that he's making.

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It's hard to sit to tell sometimes,

but just kind of be aware of they're

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all doing this to varying degrees.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, one thing that we do you want

to bring up that would probably

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be helpful right here is there are

some that would suggest there's

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a, another document called you.

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Um, that Matthew, mark and

Luke specifically consulted.

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In the production of their gospels,

which is why the Synoptics all

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have that all in common together.

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And that's.

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Okay, we're going to get

the weeds a little bit, but.

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Um, queue is necessary because they, when

you do textual criticism, You're putting

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pieces next to each other and saying,

okay, this guy has differences here.

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This guy differences here.

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And yet there's, there's unaccounted for

differences that seem to, they all seem

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to share a, an awareness of, um, uh, a

source that they all have aware awareness

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of, but it hasn't been mentioned.

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And hasn't been found as a gospel.

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Should we be terrified by this and think,

oh, there's a fifth gospel out there.

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And we don't know about it now.

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And the reason being, for example, Paul

wrote three letters to the Corinthians.

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We only have two of the letters

that he wrote to the Corinthians.

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Yeah.

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So even if there was a queue document

and I, and I'm lean towards there not

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having been a key document, but even if

there was a supposedly cute, let's say.

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You know, one of the disciples wrote

like, like say James decided he

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was going to write the events too

when he wrote it and maybe he got

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it out even before mark got it out.

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And they were reading James and going,

yeah, this is the, yeah, that's right.

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This is helpful.

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And we're remembering these things

and they're all writing it down.

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And yet James was not

preserved for whatever reason.

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God didn't want a part of the Canon.

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We don't have it.

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It's not there.

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I'm not suggesting

there's a gospel of James.

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I don't hear me say that like, oh,

Patrick PJ said there's a fifth gospel.

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We have the gospel has got, wanted us

to have, and we have the gospels that

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provide the full picture of Christ.

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And we have gospels that provide a unified

picture of Christ gospels that don't.

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Uh, contradict one another

gospels that don't say, Hey.

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One of them says Jesus died on the cross.

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And the other one says,

oh no, he didn't die.

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He just fainted.

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And he CA he was resurrected or

resuscitated rather than the tumor.

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I mean, we don't, we don't have

the, the, the situation we have

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gospels that agree with each other.

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And yeah, there are some things that

are difficult for us to resolve.

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But that they're not difficult for

us to resolve in the sense that it

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causes us to go, oh no, my faith

is, is shattered because I can't

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figure out if it's this or that.

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Right.

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Ultimately what God wanted us to

have is what we have, and we should

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be confident in those documents.

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And not expect to find any mysterious

document out of nowhere saying, oh,

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look, here's a missing book of the Bible.

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Right?

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Well, What we have is God's

word and we should feel a

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great sense of comfort in that.

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Yup.

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Yep.

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Uh, Nope.

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Here we, we talk about these.

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They have different emphases,

different things that we learned here.

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Matthew chapter nine, verse eight only.

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Matthew describes the response to

the crowd as having a fear to it.

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They were afraid when Jesus healed the

man and he got up and started walking.

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So that's an interesting.

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Uh, observation from, from Matthew there.

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Just the sense of, okay.

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There's something, there's something

terrifying about this it's yeah.

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On inspiring, but, uh, in

a very reverential fear

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induced kind of way as well.

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Call them Matthew, uh, from Matthew's

own pen in Matthew nine, nine through 13.

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So clearly Matthew

preferred Matthew to Levi.

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Otherwise I think he would have

said, Hey, this is the call of Levi

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and called it the gospel of Levi.

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There are people that suggest

that Levi and Matthew are not

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the same person there are.

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So you should be aware of that.

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Yup.

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Um, I, and the, and the reason

that I think I'm comfortable

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with saying Levi's Matthew.

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Um, they both have the same story.

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Yep.

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Um, there's no one that explicitly says

Matthew is Levi, even in Matthew's gospel.

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He's not saying I'm Matthew, the son of.

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I'm Levi slash Matthew.

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So that's why there's questions

about, well, is Levi Matthew truly?

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Do we know for sure?

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You know, uh, most people are going to

feel comfortable with this, but there's

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a possibility, there's a possibility.

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They may not be the same person,

but it's, I think it's small.

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And so I think that's really good to say.

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Okay.

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Find a lien on this.

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Matthew is leeway.

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Yeah, one.

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Uh, just applicational point here,

Matthew nine 13, when he says,

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go and learn what this means.

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I desire mercy and not sacrifice

for, I came not to call

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the righteous, but sinners.

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I think the reason he says he

specifically highlights mercy

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is showing mercy towards others.

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Reveals you understand the

mercy you've received yourself.

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And so when the Pharisees are refusing

to, to show the same mercy, that

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Jesus is willing to show to these

sinners, it's evidence that the fact

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that they don't know that they've

received mercy themselves, it's the

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parable of the tax collector in the

center, which we'll get to eventually.

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Um, But this is a situation

where Jesus is highlighting.

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Mercy is so important because it reveals

our own understanding of the mercy.

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We've received.

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Uh, verses 14 through 17.

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This is a question about fasting.

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We've dealt with this.

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Uh, multiple times so far.

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And here is the question arising

again, we're in the disciples of John,

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come to Jesus and say, Hey, why do

we, and the Pharisees fast, but your

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disciples don't and Jesus says, Hey,

there's going to come a time for that.

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The time is not yet.

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Uh, for that.

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And so that's a here,

Matthew rendition of that.

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Uh, Matthew nine 18 through 26.

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Um, this one, I just

titled desperate faith.

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A mark five is a parallel.

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Luke eight is a parallel.

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Um, Mark's account tells us the name

of the ruler who comes is a gyrus.

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And, uh, Luke, I believe records the

same thing that, that his name was gyrus.

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Matthew leaves his name out here.

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Uh, but gyrus comes in and tells

Jesus, Hey, my child is sick.

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And at the point of death, And,

uh, here, it says my, my daughter

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has just died, but commonly your

hand on her and she will live now.

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This is interesting.

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Because Jesus then then

leaves in on his way.

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There.

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A woman comes in and touches his cloak

and this woman had a discharge and the

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discharges is healed at that moment.

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And Jesus commends her faith and

says, woman, your faith has healed.

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You.

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Um, we're going to get more detail

on that and Luke's gospel again.

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Lucas goes further in depth and

in her, in, in the situation.

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But Luke's gospel also records that

it was at that moment that one of

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the servants from the household

came up and told Gerrish don't

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bother the teacher any longer.

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Your.

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Your daughter has died.

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And so Matthew records that gyrus comes

to Jesus and says, my daughter has died.

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Luke's gospel says Jesus

and gyrus were on the way.

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And that's when they found out that,

that, that the daughter has died

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and Jesus tells gyrus, don't worry.

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She's just, she's, it's going to be okay.

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She's sleeping.

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Right.

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And then the rest of the story, he

gets there, he shows up, he tells

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the crowds, Hey, you know, go away.

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She's asleep.

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She's not dead.

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They laugh at him because they think

what an idiot, of course she's dead.

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He goes in and private with just

the girl's parents and himself.

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And he.

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Resurrects the girl, he gives her

her life back and restores her

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and gives her back to her parents.

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That's a pretty, that seems like

a significant detail, right?

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Whether or not the child

was dead already or not.

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And so that's another one of those

situations where we say, okay, how do

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we, how do we reconcile these accounts?

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What do we do here?

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Do you have any thoughts on that?

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I have a few thoughts.

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Um, but probably none of them

are going to be Uber satisfying.

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Yeah.

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Uh, I don't have.

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So, so here's the, here's the thing

you have multiple layers to this text.

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So the first question.

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Uh, by already is going to ask, is,

is this actually the same account?

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And we have every reason to believe

that this is the same account.

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It.

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Th there's, it's hard to avoid it.

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Gyrus is listed in two

of the accounts here.

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He's unnamed, but it seems like it's

similar enough to say, okay, we have

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fair, a fair amount of confidence

that this is the same account.

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The second question we're

going to ask then is okay.

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Are there any, uh, are they

superficially contradictory or

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are they actually contradictory?

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And this is a more

challenging question to ask.

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Because it assumes that we have

knowledge of the, of the information.

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That we could measure against

what we're trying to say.

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I was okay.

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Do these three things harmonize.

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How do they harmonize?

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And is there something that would cause us

to say, well, this is impossible for this

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to be the case and that to be the case.

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So for instance, Uh, if, uh, if Jesus

said, okay, uh, the son is now going to

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be hot, but actually it was really cold.

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You can't, you can't

harmonize those two things.

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You can't have hot and cold at

the same time, in the same way

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at the, at the same moment.

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Uh, that would be an actual

contradiction where a superficial

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contradiction would be.

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Well, it was hot in the morning,

but it was cool in the night.

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There's a superficial contradiction.

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You can have those things.

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Uh, you can have those things, but not

at the same time and in the same way.

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So here, I'm going to say that

there's probably data outside of

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our understanding of this scenario.

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That would help us to make

better sense of what's happening.

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I mean, part of this too,

who's doing the talking.

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Is it gyrus or is it a servants?

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Uh, and one account you have

gyrus talking and another count

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you have the servant talking.

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So who's, who's doing the

talking here and when, right.

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Well, of course, if a service

talking, you can say, well, on gyrus

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is authority, this servant speaking.

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And so in a way it is gyrus.

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Okay.

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That's, that's a little easier

to work together, but some

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of the when's and how's.

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I'm a bit curious and I'm not entirely

sure how to put those pieces together.

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What would you say?

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Yeah.

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You know, The Matthew

again, compresses details.

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A lot of times it's, it's possible.

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The point, whether he's told later

on, Hey, your child has died or

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whether he's he's at the beginning

saying, Hey, my, my daughter has died.

481

The significance here.

482

And sometimes this is where we

can miss the forest for the trees.

483

What was the main point that was

trying to be communicated here?

484

Matthew is trying to say Jesus has

the authority over life and death.

485

And so whether or not this was the,

the was set at the very outset.

486

Hey, my child has died or later on.

487

Uh, after, you know, the, the healing

of this woman on the way to heal the

488

daughter, that's when he find out.

489

Th th the point is when Jesus shows up.

490

The little girl's dead.

491

Um, and I think there's

room for inspiration.

492

With some fuzziness in

regards to the details.

493

Um, in other words, there's there's

room for the text to be inspired.

494

The, the, the spirits who have

inspired the, the authors to

495

write the things that they wrote.

496

And yet the author's humanity coming

through in some of the fuzziness

497

of, of all the exact details.

498

And we talked about that a little bit

with timeframe, time reference, right?

499

Well, I think.

500

Here's a, here's a good rule of thumb.

501

Here is scripture is true

and all that it says, um, but

502

it's not precise and all that.

503

It says it's accurate.

504

Matthew's not lying.

505

He's not making up a

story out of thin air.

506

Neither is Luke.

507

They're just.

508

They're they're accurate.

509

Although not all of them are intending

to be as precise again, as the

510

Western mind is trained to think.

511

Um, and, and again, this is not even to

say that they're less than in any way.

512

I'm not trying to say that we're better

because we're more precise in the way

513

that we conceive of time and events.

514

I'm just saying this wasn't their point.

515

There they are accurate, although

not precise with everything.

516

Some things that are more precise.

517

Yep.

518

It's perfectly true.

519

No, one's going to read this

and say, you guys are lying.

520

You're collaborating.

521

There's some kind of funny

business happening here.

522

Know.

523

This, this is, this was.

524

This would have been

understood as being okay.

525

This is about perfectly tenable.

526

Yup.

527

Yeah.

528

Yeah, one thing to note here.

529

Uh, Lazarus gets the most credit

in the most celebration as far as

530

the miracle of from dead to life.

531

But this is the same thing.

532

Maybe it lacks some of

the drama of John 11.

533

But the miracle is the same

Jesus in parts of life, to the

534

dead and raises this girl to.

535

Great point.

536

Um, Moving on verses 27 through 31.

537

Uh, this one, I just

had a blind, no longer.

538

You've got these, these blind men

that have Jesus coming, they call

539

out by the way, Jesus son of David.

540

Remember again, Matthew's point

here, but this is unique because

541

this is a messianic attribution.

542

Here you have these two blind men who

can't see and yet they see more than

543

the Pharisees can see because they're

willing to call out Jesus son of David.

544

There's a messianic hope.

545

That they believe that in.

546

And this is probably in the idea of

all I, when John the Baptist sent

547

his disciples, Hey, are you the guy?

548

And Jesus says, go tell them

what you've seen and heard the

549

blind received their sight.

550

So here you have a couple of blind

men knowing the Messiah's coming.

551

One of the things Messiah is going

to do is restore sight to the blind.

552

They're calling out to

Jesus, Jesus, son of David.

553

And so when he enters the house, the

blind men come to him, Jesus says, do

554

you believe that I'm able to do this?

555

They say, yes, he touches their eyes.

556

He restores their sites.

557

And so this is another miracle.

558

This is part of him stepping

into the fulfillment of the old

559

Testament promises about the

coming Messiah, but it's also him.

560

Revealing what the new kingdom is going

to be like, what eternity is going to

561

be like as he's pulling back and undoing

little bits and pieces of the curse here.

562

As he's restoring sight to the

blind or in the next section.

563

Uh, versus 32 through 34.

564

There's a man who's been demon possessed

and he can't talk in the Pharisees.

565

I watched Jesus do this, and this is

what precipitates them, accusing him

566

of doing this by a demonic power.

567

And this is the whole, uh, you

know, The unpardonable sin of

568

blasphemy the spirit again.

569

Uh, on the scene here, but, but Jesus is,

is giving us glimpses of what the, what

570

the kingdom is going to be like as he's

undoing the, the effects of the fall here.

571

And then yeah, go ahead.

572

Would.

573

You see any problem with

someone saying, look, my kid.

574

I don't know if someone liked this.

575

They're mute or they're

having difficulty speaking.

576

My kids demon possessed.

577

Uh, well, yeah.

578

It's a serious question.

579

I'm not trying to make.

580

Okay.

581

Yeah.

582

It's funny when you say that automatically

it's assumed to be a laugh track, but.

583

Is there any, any room

for a parent to say.

584

My kid is my kid.

585

Actually struggling with a mental or

a physical disability or is there.

586

Uh, demon behind it again.

587

We kind of touched on this the last time.

588

When, when do we know it's a demon?

589

When do we not?

590

Uh, well, at what point do we pray

and ask God to cast out the demon,

591

versus what point do we see the doctor?

592

I mean, I think there are.

593

I think there are.

594

Other accompanying concurrent

evidences that something spiritually

595

oppressive might be taking place.

596

Okay.

597

That's helpful.

598

Um, just a, uh, a darkness, a resistance.

599

So if he's playing with

a Weegee board totally.

600

Okay, then I know clearly demonic.

601

No, but a resistance.

602

An anger, um, you know, fits of

rage, things like that, resistance

603

to anything spiritual, you.

604

Rejecting outright, any attempts to,

to pray for him or any attempts to,

605

to introduce the gospel Christianity

to him, if there's a general darkness

606

and there's coupled with some of

these other side effects, then yeah.

607

You may be dealing, dealing

with something spiritual there.

608

Um, it doesn't mean that if you take

them to a pastor or you begin praying

609

that all of a sudden, whatever physical

malady they have is going to go away.

610

Um, I think that the.

611

The process of taking them to, to

see a doctor is, is, is good too at

612

the same time, because if there's a.

613

If there is something that they can

tell and medicine is advanced today, far

614

more than it was then to be able to see,

okay, this is why this person is mute.

615

This is why this person is blind.

616

Um, that's helpful for us as well.

617

Uh, it's I think we can certainly

say with a hundred percent

618

confidence results of the fall.

619

Yes.

620

100%.

621

Can we say with 100% confidence,

this could be demonic oppression

622

or demonic possession?

623

I don't think, I don't think we

can get there with full confidence,

624

but I think there are other warning

signs to say, okay, wait a minute.

625

I'm concerned here because I

see these other things as well.

626

So if we see the other things,

then call the pastor, have

627

them come and pray for my kid.

628

Holy water oil.

629

Uh, what are we talking?

630

I don't have holy water with me.

631

There were some at the church.

632

Um, This past weekend.

633

Wine cans.

634

It was really weird.

635

Yeah.

636

Water.

637

I saw that.

638

Um, no, w I mean, w we're not going

to do an exorcism in that sense,

639

but if you called us and said, Hey,

will you come and pray for my kid?

640

Will you come lay hands on my kid and,

and pray for them and pray that God would,

641

would remove anything that might be there.

642

Would we do that?

643

Yeah, we would do that.

644

A hundred percent we would.

645

Um, because we're not sitting

here saying that all of a sudden.

646

For, you know, X number of years

there, there was demon possession,

647

but now we've evolved past that in our

society and it doesn't happen anymore.

648

So would we do that?

649

We ha we would do that for sure.

650

We would do that.

651

Um, but we're also not going to tell

you that that's a hundred percent.

652

Any change.

653

Scenarios and circumstances.

654

Yeah, it's, it's a tricky situation.

655

Hard.

656

See the doctor.

657

Yes.

658

Try what you can.

659

Within reason, but trust the Lord

and we're going to we'll pray.

660

We'll pray with you for you.

661

I mean, Uh, I don't know anyone in mind.

662

I'm not talking to anybody

in particular, but maybe I'm

663

talking to someone in the future.

664

Right.

665

Uh, we'll pray with you.

666

We'll pray for you and we'll do all that.

667

We can biblically speaking, but it's,

it's hard to know with certainty.

668

Yes.

669

This is certainly a demon

behind the blindness behind it.

670

The, you know, the mutinous

or whatever else is going on.

671

Yeah.

672

Yeah, we don't.

673

Yeah.

674

Yeah, I would agree.

675

Yeah.

676

Go see it.

677

Medical community is.

678

I think they, they get

a lot of, of ill will.

679

Um, people get really angry at doctors

because not everybody is always

680

healed when they go see a doctor.

681

And it's easy to get angry at the doctors.

682

Um, I, I, I think we need to be careful

about that and just realize that.

683

Uh, we're, we're not, yeah.

684

Doctors are, are a gift from God

and a lot of, a lot of scenarios.

685

It's helpful to go.

686

And, uh, and make sure that we're

not falling prey to the same.

687

Ideology, some of the Colts out there

that reject modern medicine completely.

688

And I know that's a long way away

on the pendulum swing there, but

689

yeah, I think doctors are good.

690

Uh, Luke seven Centurion servant,

Luke seven one through 10.

691

Uh, this man's servant high revalued.

692

This is also Matthew eight.

693

Uh, it talks about this as well.

694

Servant was highly valued.

695

It says there in the text.

696

So he's honored, respected,

precious to this man.

697

This is not just a, a

common relationship there.

698

There's something here.

699

Um, we've read about this before.

700

Remember the servant, the

Centurion says I tomb.

701

I'm a man under authority.

702

Say the word, my servant will be healed.

703

Um, The here is the situation

where the man sends representatives

704

rather than going himself to Jesus.

705

And so, but like you said, with

the previous situation here, It

706

could be one in the same that, that

the one sent from the man have the

707

same authority as the man himself.

708

And so that's why they're able

to communicate on his bath,

709

but the Centurion servant.

710

Uh, verses 11 through 17.

711

Again, another resurrection here.

712

I say not Lazarus, but, but significant.

713

There's a widow here

and she's lost her son.

714

This would have been devastating for

her because the son probably would have

715

been taking care of her financially.

716

Physically everything,

uh, providing for her.

717

And she loses her, her son.

718

And this is a problem for her.

719

So this is an act of compassion, not only

to the dead son, but also to the widow.

720

To bring him back to life

and restore him to his mom.

721

There.

722

And so that's, uh, uh, another

instance of Jesus' compassion,

723

his mercy there in his power.

724

In, uh, raising him from the

dead, the crowds, responding

725

in fear and amazement again.

726

Um, and then we were just talking about

this in the last chapter, but Luke seven,

727

18 through 35, here's John, the Baptist's

disciples coming saying, are you the guy?

728

And Jesus says, yes.

729

And he goes back and he says, you know,

here's why Isaiah 29, 18 and 35, 5,

730

3 6, I'm doing all of these things.

731

I'm fulfilling this.

732

And then Jesus turns in praises.

733

John, the Baptist says he's the

fulfillment of Malakai three, one.

734

Uh, it talks about how John the Baptist

is, is great here, but the, the one

735

that who's least in the future in

the kingdom to come will be greater

736

than John is, which is more about the

greatness of the kingdom than it is

737

about, uh, any shot at John there.

738

Um, and then he turns finally is his

attention on the Pharisees verses 29

739

through 35 and, and confronts their

hypocrisy and the moving target of

740

judgment on the religious leaders

who accused John of having a demon

741

because he had a set of breath

practices, but Jesus being a glutton.

742

Because he died with, with

tax collectors and sinners.

743

So, um, this interaction with

the disciples of John or come to

744

Jesus say, Hey, are you the guy?

745

Jesus uses John the Baptist

for a teaching moment.

746

Uh, in, in also answers the

question at the same time.

747

So John's doubting Jesus

ministry at this point.

748

There's something going on.

749

He's at least questioning.

750

I mean, John's in jail and I

think John just like Jesus'

751

closest followers thought.

752

Uh, okay.

753

You're going for the

throne, not the cross.

754

And I think John was confused.

755

Uh, doubting maybe.

756

Yeah, probably, but,

but confused at least.

757

As to what what's going on.

758

What a helpful thing for us to see that.

759

Maybe often every Christian

goes through seasons where

760

God violates our expectations.

761

I talk about this a lot because I

think it's so helpful and appropriate

762

for us as Christians to kind of

balance our souls with fortitude.

763

Um, expect God to violate

your expectations.

764

Uh, we were just talking

about healing and.

765

Um, I can foresee a Christian expecting

God to do ABC or D for them and

766

saying, well, God, you didn't do that.

767

And now like John, you might find yourself

in a situation where you're imprisoned

768

in some kind of suffering saying, are you

really the God that I thought you were.

769

And the answer is he may not be.

770

That's the answer here.

771

When Jesus sends a delegation

back to John, he says, Blessed are

772

those who are not offended by me.

773

I mean, essentially, dude.

774

You got me wrong, buddy.

775

I love you and you're not,

you're not getting in a prison.

776

I think that's part of his answer.

777

You're not getting into prison.

778

Does it?

779

This is what I'm doing is

different than what you expected.

780

Therefore.

781

Um, we got to prepare ourselves for

the expected and the unexpected,

782

but expected violations of what

God is doing in our lives by just

783

knowing his word really well.

784

Yeah.

785

We anesthetize not anesthetize.

786

We have.

787

Uh, we don't want to use it.

788

We vaccinate ourselves that way.

789

We prepare ourselves, inoculate,

inoculates, a better word.

790

That's the one I was looking for.

791

Yeah.

792

We inoculate ourselves against that

by knowing his word so well that we

793

could say, okay, is this, does this fit

within the realm of expectation for who

794

God is and what he does on our behalf?

795

And often you can say yes, I

see this, I see the suffering.

796

I see.

797

I see what he does in the, in the life

of the Christian and especially John,

798

who was someone that he was the 4runner.

799

What are the best and the

greatest, and yet he's doubting

800

don't be done in that case.

801

Yep.

802

The chapter ends then with

verses 36 through 50, which I

803

just had a lesson in gratitude.

804

Um, Jesus goes to eat at the

house of Simon who was a Pharisee.

805

And while he's there, the sinful woman,

a prostitute enters there's there's

806

questions about her identity a lot.

807

Think.

808

It's probably Mary May or ma.

809

Mary Magdalene words.

810

Um, Who shows up there.

811

It begins to weep over his feet, wiping

them with her hair, kissing them.

812

As she annoys them with

ointment, their Simon's incensed.

813

Uh, there's some, this is similar to

when Judas was like, Hey, later on

814

when Jesus is anointed for burial,

why didn't we sell it as well?

815

Simon's in sense, because the

moral quality of this woman.

816

But Jesus uses that an

opportunity to say, Hey, Simon.

817

She understands her sinfulness.

818

You don't understand your sinfulness

and her actions are a demonstration

819

of her gratitude because she

knows how much she's been loved.

820

Simon, you could learn a lesson from

her as you sit in judgment over her.

821

She's the one who loved much and her

sins are forgiven because of her faith.

822

So Jesus' lesson on gratitude and the

confrontation of prideful, uh, hypocrisy

823

there from the Pharisee in whose house

he was enjoying a meal at the time.

824

Well, let's pray.

825

And then we'll be done with this

a little bit longer episode.

826

It's just a normal episode at this point.

827

We no longer have

shortage trying or trying.

828

It's just a lot, man.

829

It's a lot.

830

We can be more concise.

831

They don't have the whole thing

nobody's called me and said, Hey.

832

Will you guys just turn it down.

833

I.

834

Okay.

835

Except for you.

836

You're the only one that

I've heard from him.

837

I'm sensitive to our.

838

Let's pray and then we'll be done.

839

Yeah, we do.

840

Thank you for your word and

that there is so much there.

841

Somebody's riches for us to,

to mine from the word of God.

842

And that is an encouragement to us.

843

W we'll never get to the place

where we say, okay, we're done.

844

What's the next book?

845

Um, even as we're talking about the

four gospels in, and maybe we're sitting

846

there going, man, I'd love to know.

847

Was there a fifth, was there another

one where their other accounts look,

848

we've got enough in the four and that's.

849

Uh, grace have you to give us

this into, allow us to know a

850

glimpse of you, so help us to

continually be students of your word.

851

And to study how to not

only know it, but do it.

852

And so we, we asked for

that, we pray for that.

853

We ask this in Jesus name.

854

Amen.

855

And then are y'all.

856

I'll keep, bring your Bibles tune

in tomorrow for another episode

857

of the daily Bible podcast.