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Welcome to a redemption hill podcast for more

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So we're in Luke chapter 9

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versus 1 through

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this morning. So go ahead and we will

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read the word of the Lord.

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And he called the 12 and gave them

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power and authority over all demons to cure

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diseases.

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And he sent them out to reclaim the

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kingdom of god and to heal

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And he said to them take nothing for

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your journey, no staff, no bag, nor bread,

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nor money, and do not have 2 tu

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and whatever house you enter stay there

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and from there depart. And whenever they go,

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do not... And they do not receive you

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when you leave,

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that town shake off the dust from your

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feet as a testimony against them, and they

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departed and went through the villages preaching the

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gospel and healing

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everywhere.

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Now, Here, the Tetra heard about all that

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was happening and he was perplexed

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because it was said by some that John

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had been raised from the dead,

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by some that Elijah had appeared and by

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others that are that 1 of the prophets

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of old had arise, Harriet said John I

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beheaded,

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but who is this about whom I'm hearing

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such things and he sought to see him.

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Verse 10 on the return, the apostles told

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him all that they had done.

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And he had took them and withdrew

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part to a town called Ba sad.

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When the crowds learned it, they followed him

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and were welcoming

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any welcome them and spoke to them about

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the kingdom of God, and cured those who

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had need of healing. Now, the day began

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to wear away and the 12 came and

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said to him, send the crowd away

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to go into the surrounding villages in the

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countryside to find a lodging and get provisions

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for we are here in a desolate... In

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a desolate place.

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But he said to them, you give them

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something to eat.

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And they said we have no more than

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5 loaves and 2 fishes unless

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we would go and buy food for all

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these people. For there about 5000 men, and

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he said to disciples, have them sit down

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in groups of about 50 each.

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And they did so, and he had them

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all sit down and taking the 5 loaves

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on the 2 fish. He looked up to

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heaven, and he set a blessing over them.

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Then he broke the lows and gave them

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to the disciples set before the crowd and

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the 8

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and were satisfied.

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And what was left over was picked up

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was about 12 baskets of broken pieces.

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Now it happened that is he was praying

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alone, the disciples were with him, and he

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asked them who do the crowds say that

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I am.

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And they answered him John the baptist, but

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at others say Elijah,

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And others that 1 of the prophets of

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old has risen, then he said to them,

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but who do you say that I am?

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And Peter answered

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the Christ of God.

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And he strictly charged and commanded them to

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tell this to no 1 saying the son

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of man must suffer many things

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and be rejected by the elders and the

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chief priests and scribes and be killed and

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on the third day raised.

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And he said to all, if anyone would

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come after me.

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Let him deny himself and take up his

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cross daily and follow me. Forever whoever would

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save his life will lose it, whoever loses

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his life for my sake will save it.

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For what does it profit a man if

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he gains the whole world and and forfeit

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fits or loses us himself.

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Forever is ashamed of me and of my

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words of him, will the son of man

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be ashamed when he comes in his glory

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and the glory of the father and of

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the holy angels. But I tell you truly,

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there are some standing here who will not

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taste death

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until they see the kingdom of God. This

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is the word of the Lord.

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Father ask that you drawn here to us

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through your word.

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Now, we hang on your promise that word

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doesn't return, void that you're always working that

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you're always moving that you're always speaking so

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come and speak to us.

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Give us open ears, let us hear, Lord

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today. H spirit come and shows the beauty

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of who jesus is and what he's done,

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may that become more real may at in

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our soul and unlock worship and gratitude, To

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mean that worship should be pleasing to you.

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We pray that in your name, God. Amen.

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So when I lived in

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Iowa in in Des moines for several years,

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I I made a bad decision 1 time.

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Like, I I probably made several bad decisions,

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but only share 1 for right now.

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I I agreed to train with a boxer

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named 7 Ramirez who went to our church.

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I I literally do not remember how this

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came to be. Like, I can't imagine that

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I would would've have asked him to hit

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me in the face or anything like that,

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but The scenario still happened. I found myself

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in a real boxing gym

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in a little bit of a sketchy side

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of town, standing in front of a man

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with possible pinned up anger issues.

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Who came from a boxing family, and he

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was gonna teach me a thing or 2

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about boxing.

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When I say serious boxing family, like all

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of the brothers in this family thought,

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and and 1 of his brothers was an

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actual professional boxer, like, not a Youtube boxer

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like now, like, he was... He fought for

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belts and and and Juan.

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And Stephen was no s. He

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likely stop competing because he had a family

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early.

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And so this was kind of his track

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record, and I was

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overweight with no workout regimen at all.

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So I was worried quite worried to to

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say I was fearful would have been an

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understatement. At the time, I I didn't know

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really what I was walking into? I didn't

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know did did he wanna teach me to

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box? Was he trying to help me get

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fit?

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Do you just wanna spend time

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with me? Or did he actually not like

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me at all and he wanted an Ali

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for beating the guitar out of me and

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not getting arrested for it. I

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I didn't know. But either way, I found

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myself in this boxing gym, and we had

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to start from square 1, like, a complete

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novice in this whole boxing arrangement. So what

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did it start with? Teaching me to to

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wrap my hands properly at least so I

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don't break my hands and teaching me how

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to stand and how to hit pads and

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how to do combinations and how to snap

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a jab and how to move your hips,

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and we had to start from a very

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early

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spot with all of this. And surely,

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slowly, but surely, we work past some of

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the just the the the basic things into

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hitting pads for about a minute at a

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time in rounds.

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If you've never tried that, like hitting a

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a pad over and over for a minute,

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wall out of shape,

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Like, I don't recommend it. It it's it's

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not fun. Who knew that moving in a

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circle trying to hit pads and combinations could

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make you wanna throw up so fast, but

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but it did.

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And then 1 day, it escalated even more.

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Stephen decided that we would spa.

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And I've I've learned how to wrap my

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hands. I've hit pads and almost throwing up,

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and now we're gonna try and hit each

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other in the face. Awesome.

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And I was terrified. He could have killed

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me and luckily, he he didn't... I'm grateful

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for that. My wife is grateful for that.

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My face, my nose is grateful.

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For that that he didn't take it

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out too hard on me, but quicken into

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spa, I found out AAA couple things just

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really, really fast.

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First, I do not like getting hit.

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It's not fun, like 0 out of 10,

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not recommended it at all.

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And the second thing that I learned really

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quick is I'm not good at not getting

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hit. Which is not a great combination.

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Right? If you if you're tracking, that's a

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problem getting hit stinks, and and when you're

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standing in front of a person who's boxed

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all their life, Like, I'm I'm getting hit

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a lot. And a big part of my

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problem, outside of the complete utter lack of

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skill or

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stamina, like, it's out of shape. A big

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part of my problem was what we'll call

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the defensive

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conundrum of boxing.

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Boxing, you're meant to keep your hands up

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and your head down so you don't get

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blasted in the face. Right? You're trying to

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not get knocked out. So you gotta keep

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your hands up at all

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times.

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So you don't get dusted in the head.

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But but if you keep your hands up

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all the time, what does that do? It

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leaves you wide open to get hit in

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the mid section.

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And as bad as getting hit in the

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faces. It's it's... Again, 0 out of 10,

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don't recommend it, getting hit in the stomach,

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when your gas being an out of air

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and trying not to throw up. It is

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is is it is pretty awful

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in its own. Right? It's back to the

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idea again of me not liking to get

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hit very much. So here was my problem.

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When I kick my my hands up, I

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I would just get belly blasted and immediately,

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then like, drop my hands and leave myself

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open to getting hit in the face. Right?

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I I couldn't just absorb the shot and

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keep moving. Apparently, that's what boxer do. They

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have stomach muscles. And you hit them in

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the stomach and they keep moving.

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But I'm not sure I have stomach muscles.

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I've never seen them.

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It's plausible and impossible that I have a

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genetic defect and they just don't exist.

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Anyway.

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I couldn't take a body shot back then

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I didn't have the core strength to do

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it. I probably still cancel. Don't try.

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But if you hit me in a stomach,

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I'm gonna drop my hands with the quick,

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like,

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and then I'm gonna get hit in the

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face, and it's gonna be over and not

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fun. So my my boxing career didn't last

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very long. III quit before

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too long and

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Though I wasn't a very good boxer or

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this kind of stomach to ahead, conundrum and

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paradigm is is 1 that you'll hear boxer

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talk about a lot or comment or coaches

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when they're training a box to say hey,

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go ahead and work the body over and

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over and over,

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and slowly, but steadily, it... It's gonna pay

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dividends for you if you do it. The

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the shots that you you hit someone in

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the stomach with. They're not really meant to

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knock them out. But the

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accumulation of them over time will open up

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something else bigger down the road. It'll set

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them up for for dropping their hands and

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having the the big shot to the to

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the head. Now this idea of a steady

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diet of 1 thing leading to something bigger.

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I bring that up because it's all like

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I think of. That's the imagery that was

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in my head all week when reading this

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text.

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Luke has been pepper in a specific idea

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over,

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in over and an over. In a way

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that you may or may not have paid

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much attention to. I've I've tried to kinda

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keep it ahead of us.

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Yet, he was kind of setting up for

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today what we'll call the the question, the

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the big shot.

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up that he's been an in all along

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is just simply who is Jesus

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to you or who do you say that

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he is?

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Build d to bear Jesus question. It's not

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well, who's Jesus to you, And and what

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kind of personality and persona and look would

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would you create for a savior that you'd

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wanna worship to like the creation gets to

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mold the creator? It's more of a personal

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in nature question?

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Who who do you think Jesus is?

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And what does that mean to you? How

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does that change your life? How does that

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affect your life? Who is he to you

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And what does that do?

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If we step back and look at Luke

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from a... What I call a 30000 foot

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view. If you zoom out a it a

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little bit, and you look not just into

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the to all the nuts and bolts, but

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you look back at the themes of what's

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going on, you're gonna see the opening of

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Luke was an announcement that Jesus was coming.

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And then Mary, the mother of Jesus

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before he was ever born,

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declared in a section called the the mag

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hot that Jesus was

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the Lord.

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God the savior in the flesh, the 1

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in whom blessing would come

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to the children of god in a broken

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world.

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But since that declaration of Mary over who

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Jesus was, the rest of the book shows

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us this ongoing

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wrestle with people to answer that same question.

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She declared who Jesus is, but we see

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this ongoing wrestler where other people are trying

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to figure out who he is, and they're

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they're struggling a little bit. The answers are

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many. They're all over the board.

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Notice maybe in in Nazareth right after Jesus

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earthly ministry kicked off earlier in the book.

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Jesus goes to his hometown. He begins to

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to minister. The question is who is this

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Jesus? They would answer it with...

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He's just

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not much of anything at all. He's just

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the son of Joseph. Like, we know where

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that kid grew up. We... We've seen him

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grow up. He... He's a nobody.

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That's all we see him as.

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So in Jesus because they answered it that

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way, begin to speak authoritative

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to them.

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If you remember they tried to throw them

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off of a cliff for it.

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Then we shift a little bit later, Jesus

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Heals a para man in front of a

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group of ph,

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and he also tells the man that his

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sins are forgiven in that that dialogue to

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which the ph he said

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to the question who is Jesus well Jesus

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just a bla.

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Because only God can forgive sins and we

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don't think that you are God, so they

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rejected him, then a little bit later. Jesus

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heals a widow son and the crowd who

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saw it it said that which Jesus was

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surely a great prophet.

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That's all that he was to them. He

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wasn't the god man.

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Use just a cool man doing good things.

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You may or may not actually speak for.

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Got it. Or you follow in the ins

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and outs and the struggle.

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A little after that, the ph declared that

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Jesus was a glut and a drunk.

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All you like to do is is love

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and hang out with sinful people What what

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they're doing to the of who is Jesus,

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is they're implying, Well Jesus is just a

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morally compromised person.

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That's all he is. And then in a

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dinner party, people struggle with Who Jesus is

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and they ask the question themselves, Who is

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this?

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Who can do the things that he's claiming

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to do and then Jesus calms the the

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storm on the boat with the disciples, and

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they asked the same question. Who is this?

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The commands the the wind and the the

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waves and they listen to him?

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And after that a demon declared that Jesus

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is the most high God.

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And he begs Jesus not to torment him

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and throw him into the abyss.

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Are you kinda seeing the pepper, the the

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body shots that the constant press of 1

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question of who is Jesus. Luke is pressing

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this over and over?

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Who's Jesus to you? What does that mean

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to your life? What does that mean to

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the rest of humanity and all of that

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sets up Jesus just flat out asking the

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question?

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Who am I?

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Follow this. In the text today, we shift

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from Luke showing us how other people

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wrestled with the question of who is Jesus

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to now Jesus going yeah yeah. Okay.

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But what about you?

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I get that everyone trying to wrestle and

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figure it out, but But I don't wanna

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talk about them anymore. I wanna talk about

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you right here right now, Who do you

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say that I am. No more kind of

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beating around

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the Bush who You. It's time to decide.

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What is your answer?

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Now let's be clear though I've used the

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analogy of body shots and and head shots.

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Jesus isn't trying to knock you out.

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But he is trying to make sure that

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you can process this and you don't ignore

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it.

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As we dig through the large text for

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today, maybe it's easiest to see that there's

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2 themes that gets bounced through a little

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bit. We'll call them the commission

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and the question.

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And versus 1 through 6 in the opening,

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and then we skip a little bit to

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10 through 17,

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it deals with the commission

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while the rest versus 7 through 9

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in 18 through 27 deal with that question

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of who is

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Jesus.

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We see at the opening of the text

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Jesus calls the 12

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disciples,

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and he gives them power and authority over

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the demons and the ability to cure

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diseases. And then he sends them out. This

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is important.

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To pro claim the kingdom of God and

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to heal. This is the the commissioning of

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the apostles. Prior to that, the disciples it

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just followed Jesus around.

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They listen to him preach. They saw him

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navigate people and situations. They saw him perform

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miracles and won works, but they're just witnesses.

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They're sitting in the stands. They're their fans,

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just kinda watching what Jesus does, the action

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from the sidelines, but now Jesus is involving

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them into the work as the sent ones.

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Jesus at this point is is going, hey,

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I'm appointing you to this ministry to to

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join me.

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And noticed that he doesn't just appoint them.

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He equip them.

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He's been training them. He's been teaching them.

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He's been disc decipher and showing them what

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to to to do.

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But now he gives them the power and

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authority to do it on their own. They're

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going to be the apostles, the sent ones

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to do the work of the church in

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the early stages

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of the church through the new testament.

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So we see that Jesus gives them power

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and authority,

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but it's for a purpose.

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So that they can pro preclude the kingdom

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of God.

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This means he didn't send them out to

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reclaim the overthrow rome, and he didn't send

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them out to to pro claim that they

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were gonna bring Israel back to a world

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power stage. You didn't send them out to

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pro claim a gospel of of a autonomy

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or into that individuality or prosperity.

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He sent them out to reclaim the kingdom

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of god this is what I want you

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to do claim the kingdom of God.

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Now the concept of the kingdom of God

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may feel a little bit distant or hard

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to to pin down, but Jesus said if

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I came, and cast out demons by the

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finger of God,

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well then you know the kingdom of God

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has come to you.

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Jesus saying 1 way that you'll know the

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kingdom of God is here

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is you're gonna see the king's power at

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work. And you go, oh, okay. I I

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see it. And he later said that the

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kingdom of God isn't visible in the way

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that you speck, meaning the kingdom of God,

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you're not gonna have somebody go, oh, there

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it is. Oh, or or over here it

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is because the kingdom of God is actually

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within the people of God.

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What Jesus is framing up is this combination.

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The kingdom of God

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is the power of God.

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That comes to bear in places and spaces

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and people

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who are under the reign of God, the

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sovereignty of God. You you follow that. The

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the kingdom of god is where the power

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of God is is is revealed through the

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people of God under the reign and sovereignty

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of God.

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That's why the the kingdom of god is

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not a geographic location. You can't like map

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out the The outskirts of it like you

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would Boone County, the kingdom of God is

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where you see the power

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of god working.

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Most specifically when people

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have got reigning and ruling over their lives.

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To preach the kingdom of God to anyone

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is to declare that god reign over things.

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It's to declare God reign overall, and you

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could live inside of his power under reign

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in his freedom as his children with an

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inheritance forever and in his love.

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You can accept that and live in light

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of that or you can reject it and

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live outside of it.

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Now in their day, if we think about

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this, the the cross has not happened yet,

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we we we need to understand we... We

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we're given, like, all the notes ahead of

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time, and and they're on the early side.

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So the the cross hasn't happened. So they

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would have preach maybe AAAA tad differently than

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we would about the kingdom of God. We

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now preach the kingdom of God.

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By by preaching that King Jesus died on

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the cross.

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To adopt sinner and redeem them and reconcile

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00:18:53,919 --> 00:18:55,354
them to god so that we can live

540
00:18:55,354 --> 00:18:58,066
in and walk in and participate in the

541
00:18:58,066 --> 00:19:00,082
kingdom of god if we believe

542
00:19:00,553 --> 00:19:02,617
in Jesus for the work of salvation for

543
00:19:02,617 --> 00:19:02,856
us,

544
00:19:03,570 --> 00:19:05,636
and then as Romans says we we confess

545
00:19:05,636 --> 00:19:07,145
him with our mouth and follow him with

546
00:19:07,145 --> 00:19:07,621
our life.

547
00:19:08,749 --> 00:19:09,945
If we do that, we get to walk

548
00:19:09,945 --> 00:19:12,019
in the kingdom of God, and that's the

549
00:19:12,019 --> 00:19:14,491
place where Jesus reign and rules over our

550
00:19:14,491 --> 00:19:16,246
lives and we're waiting for him to come

551
00:19:16,246 --> 00:19:17,522
finish what he started.

552
00:19:18,494 --> 00:19:20,488
So when Jesus commissions the 12 to go

553
00:19:20,488 --> 00:19:22,003
out and preach the kingdom of God.

554
00:19:23,678 --> 00:19:25,513
He tells them something interesting. He says, hey,

555
00:19:26,151 --> 00:19:27,826
take no staff or no money bag,

556
00:19:28,719 --> 00:19:29,357
No bread.

557
00:19:30,555 --> 00:19:31,992
Don't bring 2 2 next. What he's saying

558
00:19:31,992 --> 00:19:32,950
is don't over pack.

559
00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:35,185
But I don't over pac he means don't

560
00:19:35,185 --> 00:19:36,303
pack much at all. Just go.

561
00:19:38,631 --> 00:19:40,299
This is like the anti of when my

562
00:19:40,299 --> 00:19:41,331
family goes to Colorado.

563
00:19:42,364 --> 00:19:44,349
Right? Bike rack loaded to the to the

564
00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:46,652
gills. We have the the the the rooftop

565
00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:47,367
loaded to the gills.

566
00:19:47,938 --> 00:19:49,368
I can't hardly see out of the window

567
00:19:49,368 --> 00:19:50,639
because the back backseat loaded to the gills,

568
00:19:50,798 --> 00:19:52,069
like, he's saying don't do that.

569
00:19:53,499 --> 00:19:55,246
The reasons that he's saying this are are

570
00:19:55,246 --> 00:19:56,938
many, but I think a lot of them

571
00:19:58,123 --> 00:19:59,640
kind of boil down to the idea of

572
00:19:59,640 --> 00:19:59,959
dependence.

573
00:20:01,236 --> 00:20:03,550
Remember you're sending the 12 out and they

574
00:20:03,550 --> 00:20:05,406
have new power over demons

575
00:20:06,118 --> 00:20:07,177
into cure diseases

576
00:20:07,554 --> 00:20:09,070
and have mighty works happen.

577
00:20:10,824 --> 00:20:12,340
I don't I don't know about you. May

578
00:20:12,340 --> 00:20:14,413
may maybe maybe you have them more together

579
00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:15,631
than me, but

580
00:20:16,582 --> 00:20:18,098
For the 12, if you have this, like,

581
00:20:18,497 --> 00:20:19,215
newfound power,

582
00:20:19,933 --> 00:20:21,369
it'd be a little bit easy to start

583
00:20:21,369 --> 00:20:22,566
thinking that your pretty hot stuff.

584
00:20:23,220 --> 00:20:25,220
Did you see that miracle? Did you see

585
00:20:25,220 --> 00:20:27,220
that? Did you see what just... Did did

586
00:20:27,220 --> 00:20:28,899
you see that amazing thing? Did you see

587
00:20:28,899 --> 00:20:30,179
how the crowds were react It it would

588
00:20:30,179 --> 00:20:32,513
have been really easy for them? To get

589
00:20:32,513 --> 00:20:34,746
high on themselves. So Jesus tells them don't

590
00:20:34,746 --> 00:20:36,921
go out over prepared or what I'll call

591
00:20:37,059 --> 00:20:39,293
over insured so that you stay depending on

592
00:20:39,293 --> 00:20:39,452
me.

593
00:20:40,250 --> 00:20:41,366
I'm not trying to hurt you.

594
00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:43,779
But I'm gonna make sure that you don't

595
00:20:43,779 --> 00:20:45,539
boast yourself, and you're gonna need to connect

596
00:20:45,539 --> 00:20:46,980
to me in order to carry this out

597
00:20:46,980 --> 00:20:47,859
and move my faith.

598
00:20:49,059 --> 00:20:51,059
Further, many religious leaders the time, they were

599
00:20:51,059 --> 00:20:53,621
all basing what they did on on acquiring

600
00:20:53,621 --> 00:20:55,928
money and wealth and status and safety and

601
00:20:56,087 --> 00:20:57,121
Jesus says, you know what?

602
00:20:58,650 --> 00:21:00,570
I'm gonna have you take nothing to demonstrate

603
00:21:00,570 --> 00:21:01,850
what you're preaching is different.

604
00:21:02,809 --> 00:21:04,910
We're not seeking money. They didn't prioritize

605
00:21:05,705 --> 00:21:08,345
safety. They prioritize the message of the kingdom

606
00:21:08,345 --> 00:21:10,184
of God. This is what matters. God has

607
00:21:10,184 --> 00:21:11,225
come to do something.

608
00:21:11,945 --> 00:21:12,825
Among his people,

609
00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:17,048
Notice this Jesus also says and when you

610
00:21:17,048 --> 00:21:18,555
go when a person doesn't receive you.

611
00:21:19,745 --> 00:21:21,093
I mean, that I won't have anything to

612
00:21:21,093 --> 00:21:23,015
do with with your your message of the

613
00:21:23,015 --> 00:21:23,810
kingdom of god,

614
00:21:24,605 --> 00:21:26,514
says when you leave that town, shake off

615
00:21:26,514 --> 00:21:28,286
the dust from your feet as a testimony

616
00:21:28,582 --> 00:21:30,569
against them and just walk away.

617
00:21:33,055 --> 00:21:35,288
The point was there's an urgency to go

618
00:21:35,288 --> 00:21:35,607
preach.

619
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,755
But there's also an urgency to preach to

620
00:21:39,755 --> 00:21:40,632
those who will listen.

621
00:21:41,922 --> 00:21:43,592
Jesus is beginning to tell them, do not

622
00:21:43,592 --> 00:21:46,059
spend too much time, begging people to hear

623
00:21:46,059 --> 00:21:46,218
you.

624
00:21:47,491 --> 00:21:50,211
Begging people to believe worry that they won't

625
00:21:50,211 --> 00:21:53,790
accept you or your message or your ideas

626
00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:55,380
in front of them, preach to those who

627
00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:56,732
will hear and accept the truth.

628
00:21:57,545 --> 00:22:00,025
Now there's an interesting element here. He you

629
00:22:00,025 --> 00:22:02,184
can contend, and you can try and persuade,

630
00:22:02,664 --> 00:22:04,880
and you can give some some some discourse

631
00:22:04,999 --> 00:22:07,710
for for the desire to change people's mind

632
00:22:07,710 --> 00:22:09,942
about the kingdom of God, but Jesus saying

633
00:22:09,942 --> 00:22:11,775
don't beg them and don't linger too long

634
00:22:11,775 --> 00:22:12,652
if they're hard hearted.

635
00:22:14,976 --> 00:22:17,523
I find this powerful encouraging to my heart.

636
00:22:19,354 --> 00:22:21,184
I often believers have this sense. When when

637
00:22:21,184 --> 00:22:22,219
they said, okay. I'm gonna go do the

638
00:22:22,219 --> 00:22:23,748
thing. I'm gonna go gonna go share the

639
00:22:23,748 --> 00:22:25,503
gospel. I'm I'm gonna go share about Jesus,

640
00:22:25,902 --> 00:22:27,737
but they have the sense that when they're

641
00:22:27,737 --> 00:22:29,812
sharing the gospel that they're kind of begging

642
00:22:29,812 --> 00:22:32,616
and pleading and hoping, please please please where

643
00:22:32,616 --> 00:22:34,050
you accept what I'm saying to you.

644
00:22:35,006 --> 00:22:36,122
Please like our Jesus.

645
00:22:36,998 --> 00:22:37,237
Please

646
00:22:38,048 --> 00:22:40,272
allow our jesus into your life. Please listen

647
00:22:40,272 --> 00:22:41,940
to our gospel. Well, please come to our

648
00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:43,926
church. Please don't think that we're weird. Please.

649
00:22:44,164 --> 00:22:46,643
Come come come as if we're sowing like

650
00:22:46,643 --> 00:22:49,108
a crummy used car or or an extended

651
00:22:49,108 --> 00:22:50,858
warranty on a 20 dollar item.

652
00:22:53,499 --> 00:22:55,254
Pray that we see clearly that we're not

653
00:22:55,254 --> 00:22:56,450
selling a lame product.

654
00:22:57,327 --> 00:22:58,604
Right? Do you understand this is what Jesus

655
00:22:58,604 --> 00:23:00,677
just say, hey, go preach and share. But

656
00:23:00,677 --> 00:23:02,273
if they're not gonna accept, don't beg them

657
00:23:02,273 --> 00:23:02,831
to take it,

658
00:23:03,484 --> 00:23:05,242
We're declaring the good news of Jesus isn't

659
00:23:05,242 --> 00:23:06,042
in his kingdom,

660
00:23:06,761 --> 00:23:08,679
which is the single most constant good of

661
00:23:08,679 --> 00:23:11,237
all creation and everyone needs it. You don't

662
00:23:11,237 --> 00:23:12,595
have a bad product or a bad thing.

663
00:23:12,755 --> 00:23:15,158
You have to truth and the light, and

664
00:23:15,158 --> 00:23:17,227
that's what you're sharing. And some will accept

665
00:23:17,227 --> 00:23:17,386
it,

666
00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:19,692
and some will refuse it.

667
00:23:20,345 --> 00:23:22,424
If we cannot understand that someone will refuse

668
00:23:22,424 --> 00:23:23,224
it and move on,

669
00:23:24,424 --> 00:23:26,845
then we'll probably get disheartening and stop sharing

670
00:23:26,984 --> 00:23:28,748
altogether spend too much time with the same

671
00:23:28,748 --> 00:23:30,811
person never realizing there are other people who

672
00:23:30,811 --> 00:23:31,604
could hear.

673
00:23:32,398 --> 00:23:34,857
And, I'm encouraged by that. You have the

674
00:23:34,857 --> 00:23:35,095
truth.

675
00:23:35,983 --> 00:23:37,568
No matter what the world says to you.

676
00:23:37,806 --> 00:23:38,440
You have the truth.

677
00:23:39,153 --> 00:23:41,000
Then the text shifts to the question

678
00:23:41,768 --> 00:23:42,481
setup part.

679
00:23:43,846 --> 00:23:45,437
It looks at King Hair. He was the

680
00:23:45,437 --> 00:23:47,107
same guy. If you remember the text earlier

681
00:23:47,107 --> 00:23:48,857
in the book who be beheaded John the

682
00:23:48,857 --> 00:23:49,357
baptist.

683
00:23:50,703 --> 00:23:52,778
Here hears that the 12 are going out,

684
00:23:53,257 --> 00:23:55,411
and they're doing what Jesus did. So now

685
00:23:55,411 --> 00:23:57,586
it's not just 1 guy. It's more

686
00:23:57,898 --> 00:23:59,801
a whole lot more and the 12 claiming

687
00:23:59,801 --> 00:24:00,595
the good news,

688
00:24:01,705 --> 00:24:03,926
of the kingdom of God and that it's

689
00:24:03,926 --> 00:24:04,878
doing something.

690
00:24:06,242 --> 00:24:09,027
Which makes Harriet perplexed and he starts getting

691
00:24:09,027 --> 00:24:10,936
worried. He starts wondering how who is this

692
00:24:10,936 --> 00:24:11,095
guy.

693
00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:15,180
He can't actually be John the baptist. I

694
00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:16,700
had that guy's head cut off. It it...

695
00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,099
People are saying elijah that doesn't make sense.

696
00:24:19,339 --> 00:24:20,994
Is it is it a prophet of old

697
00:24:21,272 --> 00:24:23,176
Harriet sees the effects of the kingdom of

698
00:24:23,335 --> 00:24:25,160
God breaking onto the scene. Remember this is

699
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:25,716
king Here,

700
00:24:26,826 --> 00:24:28,826
and King Hair doesn't want anybody challenge him.

701
00:24:28,985 --> 00:24:30,098
So he's trying to figure out is this

702
00:24:30,178 --> 00:24:32,563
Jesus a threat to me. Even he's asking

703
00:24:32,563 --> 00:24:34,471
this question who is this, not because I

704
00:24:34,471 --> 00:24:35,608
wanna know and follow

705
00:24:36,714 --> 00:24:37,671
He wants to know if he's should try

706
00:24:37,671 --> 00:24:38,309
and take him out.

707
00:24:39,106 --> 00:24:40,781
That's why he says that he sought Jesus,

708
00:24:40,941 --> 00:24:42,615
not to hear the gospel. He he wants

709
00:24:42,615 --> 00:24:44,849
to know. Is is this another problem that

710
00:24:45,008 --> 00:24:45,885
I need to take care of?

711
00:24:47,727 --> 00:24:48,758
Even he was wrestling.

712
00:24:50,345 --> 00:24:53,122
After Jesus sends the 12 apostles out, they

713
00:24:53,122 --> 00:24:54,232
return for a debrief,

714
00:24:54,803 --> 00:24:56,632
Then this is a great lesson on disciples

715
00:24:56,632 --> 00:24:59,493
ship, I think. Right? He taught them, empowered

716
00:24:59,493 --> 00:25:01,322
them, sends them out, then they come back

717
00:25:01,322 --> 00:25:02,673
to tell their stories of how it went.

718
00:25:02,912 --> 00:25:05,316
This went really good. This was awful. I

719
00:25:05,316 --> 00:25:06,831
said the dumbest thing in the world. I

720
00:25:06,831 --> 00:25:08,028
didn't know what to do here. Like, they're

721
00:25:08,028 --> 00:25:09,384
they're coming back to debrief,

722
00:25:10,341 --> 00:25:12,335
but the problem is the crowds learn what

723
00:25:12,335 --> 00:25:13,611
they were doing and followed them.

724
00:25:14,660 --> 00:25:17,122
So Jesus began to speak through the crowds

725
00:25:17,122 --> 00:25:18,869
about the kingdom of God and heal any

726
00:25:18,869 --> 00:25:20,855
who had need of it until it got

727
00:25:20,855 --> 00:25:21,808
late on that night.

728
00:25:22,618 --> 00:25:24,606
And the 12 disciples said to Jesus, should

729
00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:26,436
we send the crowd away? I I kinda

730
00:25:26,436 --> 00:25:27,152
think that we should.

731
00:25:27,947 --> 00:25:28,663
It's getting late.

732
00:25:29,713 --> 00:25:31,228
Send them out to go get their own

733
00:25:31,228 --> 00:25:33,540
provisions to get their own food and and

734
00:25:33,540 --> 00:25:35,453
and get their own place to stay. I

735
00:25:35,453 --> 00:25:37,207
mean, we're a long ways off, Jesus. Like,

736
00:25:38,019 --> 00:25:39,452
it it's getting late. You you really need

737
00:25:39,452 --> 00:25:40,248
to send them away.

738
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:45,264
Twitch Jesus replies.

739
00:25:46,552 --> 00:25:47,745
You give them something to eat.

740
00:25:49,812 --> 00:25:51,800
Like, that's a fairly wild thing to hear

741
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,868
in the moment. There is a crowd of

742
00:25:53,868 --> 00:25:54,480
5000

743
00:25:54,679 --> 00:25:57,088
men not to mention women and kids conservatively.

744
00:25:57,464 --> 00:26:00,170
There's probably well over 15000 people. This is

745
00:26:00,170 --> 00:26:02,796
not like a little group. This is a

746
00:26:02,796 --> 00:26:05,678
massive crowd they have 5 loaves of bread

747
00:26:05,678 --> 00:26:07,032
and 2 fish and jesus goes,

748
00:26:07,909 --> 00:26:10,140
launch feed them. Like, what do he what

749
00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:12,146
do you mean feed? Like, How how am

750
00:26:12,226 --> 00:26:13,819
I so how am I supposed to do

751
00:26:13,819 --> 00:26:14,058
that?

752
00:26:15,492 --> 00:26:17,245
And Jesus took the small amount of food

753
00:26:17,245 --> 00:26:19,078
and he broke the bread and he blessed

754
00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:20,671
it and he split the crowds into groups

755
00:26:20,671 --> 00:26:22,834
of of 50 and he fed them all.

756
00:26:24,107 --> 00:26:25,380
And here this point because this is the

757
00:26:25,380 --> 00:26:26,732
part that I think has meant to jump

758
00:26:26,732 --> 00:26:27,289
off the page.

759
00:26:28,339 --> 00:26:30,594
To the point that they were all satisfied.

760
00:26:32,247 --> 00:26:33,922
Not just to where like, they could get

761
00:26:33,922 --> 00:26:34,422
home

762
00:26:34,959 --> 00:26:37,453
or they were okay where some were satisfied,

763
00:26:38,163 --> 00:26:40,699
what Jesus provided to those people? There was

764
00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:42,283
none who would go, like, I just I

765
00:26:42,283 --> 00:26:43,393
just don't really feel like I got what

766
00:26:43,472 --> 00:26:44,027
I needed here.

767
00:26:44,740 --> 00:26:47,620
They were all satisfied. And afterwards, there were

768
00:26:47,620 --> 00:26:50,808
12 baskets of leftovers picked up of extra.

769
00:26:52,162 --> 00:26:54,406
Again, you you need to process what Luke

770
00:26:54,406 --> 00:26:56,315
trying to show you. Yes, Cool miracle, but

771
00:26:56,315 --> 00:26:57,907
he's showing us other things as well. They

772
00:26:57,907 --> 00:27:01,422
had 5 things of bread. Like, probably pretty

773
00:27:01,422 --> 00:27:03,092
tiny. I might give me my daily bread.

774
00:27:03,251 --> 00:27:05,080
It's supposed to last 1 man, 1 meal

775
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,465
or 1 day, and a couple little fish.

776
00:27:08,833 --> 00:27:11,539
And after Jesus does this work. There's 12...

777
00:27:12,175 --> 00:27:13,847
That's 7 items. I'm I'm pretty good at

778
00:27:13,847 --> 00:27:15,916
math. That's 7 items, and now there's 12

779
00:27:15,916 --> 00:27:17,110
baskets left over.

780
00:27:21,419 --> 00:27:23,406
Crisis sufficient to satisfy all,

781
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:25,234
more than sufficient.

782
00:27:26,604 --> 00:27:28,521
Won't sit long in the miracle even though

783
00:27:28,521 --> 00:27:31,099
it is amazing, but I think it's another

784
00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:33,555
invitation for the disciples to believe though.

785
00:27:35,330 --> 00:27:37,090
Remember during the storm when they thought they

786
00:27:37,090 --> 00:27:39,330
were gonna die, they didn't allow themselves to

787
00:27:39,330 --> 00:27:40,930
consider Jesus at all that he was there.

788
00:27:42,542 --> 00:27:43,733
And now on the feeding of the crowd,

789
00:27:43,891 --> 00:27:46,351
they didn't consider Jesus once more. Again, that

790
00:27:46,431 --> 00:27:49,129
Jesus was with them. Again, and again, he's

791
00:27:49,129 --> 00:27:50,557
teaching them, do not forget your faith.

792
00:27:51,208 --> 00:27:52,958
Remember that question, where's your faith in this.

793
00:27:53,993 --> 00:27:56,380
Don't forget me even when things seem impossible.

794
00:27:57,812 --> 00:27:59,642
Remember in my kingdom, I have the power.

795
00:28:00,214 --> 00:28:02,288
So come to me. Believe in me consider

796
00:28:02,288 --> 00:28:05,319
me, even when things seem impossible to you.

797
00:28:05,638 --> 00:28:07,392
All things are possible for me. So come

798
00:28:07,392 --> 00:28:08,828
to me. I have what you need.

799
00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:11,736
And again, in light of the

800
00:28:12,831 --> 00:28:14,825
the truth, and I have what others need.

801
00:28:14,984 --> 00:28:15,702
Never forget it.

802
00:28:16,739 --> 00:28:17,798
I what satisfies,

803
00:28:18,175 --> 00:28:19,690
I am the world that never goes dry,

804
00:28:20,582 --> 00:28:22,256
He he's beginning to show, like, I have

805
00:28:22,256 --> 00:28:23,530
the power, but I need you to see

806
00:28:23,530 --> 00:28:24,965
me as more than just a miracle worker.

807
00:28:25,124 --> 00:28:26,102
I am your satisfaction.

808
00:28:29,525 --> 00:28:30,962
Friends that's what we're searching for.

809
00:28:34,475 --> 00:28:36,891
This gives a perfect transition

810
00:28:38,321 --> 00:28:39,996
To a little bit later, Jesus is off

811
00:28:39,996 --> 00:28:42,788
praying with the disciples. Remember, Luca showing us

812
00:28:42,788 --> 00:28:45,579
this consistent pattern of getting away to get

813
00:28:45,579 --> 00:28:46,536
close with the father.

814
00:28:49,818 --> 00:28:51,571
And Jesus sets it up? He asked them?

815
00:28:53,483 --> 00:28:54,838
Who do the crowds say that I am?

816
00:28:57,164 --> 00:28:59,898
This question is 1 of popular opinion. It's

817
00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:00,913
external.

818
00:29:01,871 --> 00:29:03,786
Who do others say that I am. What

819
00:29:03,786 --> 00:29:05,156
what is the what is the word on

820
00:29:05,156 --> 00:29:07,387
the streets? What what what what would Twitter

821
00:29:07,387 --> 00:29:08,763
be saying about me

822
00:29:11,212 --> 00:29:13,858
to which the disciples give an answer very

823
00:29:13,858 --> 00:29:15,932
similar to what Her does, will some think

824
00:29:15,932 --> 00:29:17,288
that you are a John the Baptist.

825
00:29:18,325 --> 00:29:20,877
Others elijah, others just another prophet,

826
00:29:23,683 --> 00:29:25,994
He's showing them or they're giving an answer

827
00:29:25,994 --> 00:29:28,784
that everyone's wrestling in in different ways. Some

828
00:29:28,784 --> 00:29:30,081
people think that you're just

829
00:29:30,712 --> 00:29:32,624
fiction and don't even exist, and some people

830
00:29:32,624 --> 00:29:35,174
have crazy ideas. Like, the the ideas are

831
00:29:35,174 --> 00:29:37,166
many over who you are, and then Jesus

832
00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:38,600
says, okay. Cool. Cool. Cool Cool.

833
00:29:40,450 --> 00:29:41,329
But what about you?

834
00:29:44,130 --> 00:29:47,269
Outside of others, outside of the popular opinion

835
00:29:47,329 --> 00:29:49,414
outside of all the noise. What about you?

836
00:29:49,574 --> 00:29:50,767
Who do you say that I am?

837
00:29:52,596 --> 00:29:54,187
All of a sudden, it's not external anymore.

838
00:29:54,346 --> 00:29:54,983
It's personal.

839
00:29:56,415 --> 00:29:56,470
All

840
00:29:57,228 --> 00:29:57,946
What about you?

841
00:29:59,543 --> 00:30:01,539
We worry so much about other people's lives

842
00:30:01,539 --> 00:30:03,694
and other people's faith and Jesus will not

843
00:30:03,694 --> 00:30:04,732
let us. What about you?

844
00:30:06,423 --> 00:30:07,961
Peter ended up answering

845
00:30:09,617 --> 00:30:10,655
the Christ of God.

846
00:30:12,331 --> 00:30:14,726
Now, Peter's answer, it it it may be

847
00:30:14,726 --> 00:30:16,018
harder for us to under stand,

848
00:30:17,135 --> 00:30:18,672
we're we're used to hearing

849
00:30:19,049 --> 00:30:21,681
the the the term or title Jesus or

850
00:30:21,681 --> 00:30:24,234
or Jesus Christ, or, we're we're used to

851
00:30:24,234 --> 00:30:25,924
maybe hearing some of those. So we We're

852
00:30:25,924 --> 00:30:27,785
gonna miss in here that Peter

853
00:30:28,164 --> 00:30:30,565
says the Christ and he's using a Greek

854
00:30:30,565 --> 00:30:32,805
word for a hebrew title of messiah.

855
00:30:34,179 --> 00:30:37,296
Which also means anointed 1. Peter is confessing

856
00:30:37,296 --> 00:30:39,054
out loud. He's saying more than you're the

857
00:30:39,134 --> 00:30:41,931
Jesus Christ. He he's saying you were the

858
00:30:41,931 --> 00:30:42,431
anointed

859
00:30:42,810 --> 00:30:43,310
1

860
00:30:43,624 --> 00:30:45,533
the messiah of all,

861
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,194
you've come to say to the people of

862
00:30:49,353 --> 00:30:49,592
God.

863
00:30:51,757 --> 00:30:53,192
You're the 1 that people have been waiting

864
00:30:53,192 --> 00:30:54,309
for since King David,

865
00:30:55,266 --> 00:30:57,659
the savior who had overthrow the enemies of

866
00:30:57,739 --> 00:30:59,972
Israel and all humanity namely sin.

867
00:31:01,424 --> 00:31:03,182
You were going to gather up from from

868
00:31:03,182 --> 00:31:05,659
the 4 corners of the Earth God's people

869
00:31:05,659 --> 00:31:07,976
and establish an usher in a perfect rain

870
00:31:07,976 --> 00:31:09,255
over the earth.

871
00:31:10,305 --> 00:31:13,009
While people... While Peter and the disciples didn't

872
00:31:13,009 --> 00:31:16,031
understand every detail perfectly, what they did see

873
00:31:16,031 --> 00:31:18,434
and pro and agree to hear. Is the

874
00:31:18,434 --> 00:31:20,671
biggest pictures that Jesus is the promised 1

875
00:31:20,671 --> 00:31:21,070
of God.

876
00:31:22,509 --> 00:31:25,145
The entire old testament is about you. You're

877
00:31:25,145 --> 00:31:27,072
the 1. You're the messiah,

878
00:31:27,549 --> 00:31:29,299
you are the scent 1. You're not just

879
00:31:29,299 --> 00:31:30,095
a prophet,

880
00:31:30,492 --> 00:31:32,083
You are the redeem.

881
00:31:32,974 --> 00:31:35,682
The long awaited savior, the hope of salvation,

882
00:31:35,842 --> 00:31:36,798
you are the deliver.

883
00:31:39,746 --> 00:31:42,215
Kent Hughes says this again, they've just been

884
00:31:42,215 --> 00:31:44,145
asked who do you say that I am?

885
00:31:45,741 --> 00:31:47,816
Ke Hughes says what we think about Jesus

886
00:31:47,816 --> 00:31:48,874
is everything.

887
00:31:50,622 --> 00:31:53,491
Acceptance or rejection of him makes all the

888
00:31:53,491 --> 00:31:55,823
difference. We must understand that he is

889
00:31:56,359 --> 00:31:56,757
messiah.

890
00:31:57,809 --> 00:32:00,047
God's son who came to us in human

891
00:32:00,047 --> 00:32:02,923
flesh and was crucified, buried and raised from

892
00:32:02,923 --> 00:32:05,560
the dead, thus paying the full penalty for

893
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,120
our sins.

894
00:32:06,613 --> 00:32:08,281
He now reign in heaven and 1 day

895
00:32:08,281 --> 00:32:10,506
will judge every human who's has ever lived.

896
00:32:12,412 --> 00:32:14,319
To be there with him, we must believe

897
00:32:14,319 --> 00:32:14,557
this,

898
00:32:15,208 --> 00:32:17,272
we must rest our lives on this.

899
00:32:19,655 --> 00:32:22,752
Now interestingly, Peter's confession of who Jesus was

900
00:32:22,752 --> 00:32:23,388
was correct.

901
00:32:25,472 --> 00:32:27,067
But do you notice what Jesus says to

902
00:32:27,067 --> 00:32:28,981
him right after? He he strictly tells him

903
00:32:28,981 --> 00:32:30,417
and in the words here, it's like, almost

904
00:32:30,417 --> 00:32:32,092
a rebuke. It's a, a heavy.

905
00:32:32,810 --> 00:32:33,767
Don't tell anyone yet.

906
00:32:35,217 --> 00:32:35,935
Keep it quiet.

907
00:32:37,769 --> 00:32:39,603
That that that seems a little bit confusing.

908
00:32:39,762 --> 00:32:40,799
Like, a I nailed it. I got it

909
00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:41,756
right. Don't tell nobody.

910
00:32:42,393 --> 00:32:42,633
What?

911
00:32:43,844 --> 00:32:45,359
He tells him why because the son of

912
00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:48,332
man must suffer many things and be rejected

913
00:32:48,709 --> 00:32:50,544
by the elders and the chief priests and

914
00:32:50,544 --> 00:32:52,538
the scribes in and here it is and

915
00:32:52,538 --> 00:32:53,016
be killed.

916
00:32:53,990 --> 00:32:55,830
But on the third day rise again, this

917
00:32:55,830 --> 00:32:57,830
had to be a a shock. Remember, I

918
00:32:57,990 --> 00:33:00,230
I just understood that you're the Messiah, the

919
00:33:00,230 --> 00:33:02,242
set 1 of God, the the the anointed

920
00:33:02,242 --> 00:33:03,839
1 to come and be the redeem, Now

921
00:33:03,839 --> 00:33:05,036
you're telling me you're gonna die.

922
00:33:07,511 --> 00:33:09,107
Again, the why why the secret.

923
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,039
Why the weight to proclaimed Jesus messiah.

924
00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:17,200
They'd already been telling people about the kingdom

925
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,480
of god being at hand.

926
00:33:19,850 --> 00:33:21,680
Why why couldn't they spell out that that

927
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:23,907
Jesus was the long awaited 1. And the

928
00:33:23,907 --> 00:33:24,964
reason for this

929
00:33:26,387 --> 00:33:28,764
is that many wouldn't have understood what it

930
00:33:28,764 --> 00:33:30,111
meant and they would have tried to make

931
00:33:30,111 --> 00:33:31,854
it mean what they wanted it to mean.

932
00:33:32,963 --> 00:33:35,054
All explain that. If they started to claim

933
00:33:35,214 --> 00:33:37,294
Jesus messiah, the long awaited 1,

934
00:33:38,255 --> 00:33:39,954
there would be many who'd go

935
00:33:40,255 --> 00:33:42,586
okay. Yes. Love it, and they begin to

936
00:33:42,586 --> 00:33:45,561
try and push a political agenda to to

937
00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:47,536
overthrow any cost and make Jesus win.

938
00:33:48,254 --> 00:33:51,857
Many un regenerate, unsafe people would push Jesus

939
00:33:51,857 --> 00:33:53,926
forward without ever looking to him for their

940
00:33:53,926 --> 00:33:54,086
sin.

941
00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:57,030
Were their adoption to the kingdom of God.

942
00:33:57,348 --> 00:33:58,780
I want you to be the 1 who

943
00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:00,627
fixes things. I don't know necessarily want you

944
00:34:00,627 --> 00:34:02,303
to be my savior. This is the worry.

945
00:34:03,181 --> 00:34:05,175
They just look at Jesus as a means

946
00:34:05,175 --> 00:34:06,851
to get what they wanted. So Jesus is

947
00:34:06,851 --> 00:34:09,995
letting them know. My reign has to come

948
00:34:10,292 --> 00:34:11,885
with rejection and suffering.

949
00:34:14,609 --> 00:34:16,705
My work isn't to come march in

950
00:34:18,998 --> 00:34:21,072
power earthly kingdoms like rome,

951
00:34:24,036 --> 00:34:26,130
I've come as the anointed 1 to die

952
00:34:27,224 --> 00:34:28,738
to pay for the sins of the lost,

953
00:34:30,026 --> 00:34:32,404
He's telling him, you can't say everything yet

954
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:34,148
because I can't have other people stop my

955
00:34:34,148 --> 00:34:34,306
death.

956
00:34:35,574 --> 00:34:39,161
Or through my per. I remember I've come

957
00:34:39,161 --> 00:34:39,638
to die.

958
00:34:40,353 --> 00:34:42,578
The messiah is the lamb of god, the

959
00:34:42,578 --> 00:34:43,769
lamb has to be slain.

960
00:34:44,659 --> 00:34:46,410
So you can't tell everyone yet. It's not

961
00:34:46,410 --> 00:34:46,967
time for that.

962
00:34:49,594 --> 00:34:52,698
If we read versus 18 through 27 1

963
00:34:52,698 --> 00:34:53,096
more time.

964
00:34:57,081 --> 00:34:58,271
We'll begin to try and figure out how

965
00:34:58,271 --> 00:34:59,619
to thread the needle a little bit.

966
00:35:01,539 --> 00:35:03,453
Now it happened that as they were praying

967
00:35:03,453 --> 00:35:05,128
alone, the disciples were with him, and he

968
00:35:05,128 --> 00:35:06,883
asked them who did the crowds say that

969
00:35:06,963 --> 00:35:07,362
I am,

970
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,313
and they answered John the baptist, but other

971
00:35:10,313 --> 00:35:11,030
say Elijah,

972
00:35:11,524 --> 00:35:12,879
And others the 1 of the prophets of

973
00:35:12,879 --> 00:35:14,951
old has arise. Then he said to them,

974
00:35:15,030 --> 00:35:16,305
but who do you say that I am

975
00:35:16,305 --> 00:35:18,377
and Peter answered the Christ of God.

976
00:35:19,987 --> 00:35:21,982
And he strictly charged them and commanded them

977
00:35:21,982 --> 00:35:23,578
to tell this to no 1 saying the

978
00:35:23,578 --> 00:35:25,413
son of man must suffer many things and

979
00:35:25,413 --> 00:35:27,741
be rejected by the elders and the chief

980
00:35:27,741 --> 00:35:29,414
priests and the scribes and be killed and

981
00:35:29,414 --> 00:35:30,848
on the third day raised period.

982
00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:35,628
The next verses go with those.

983
00:35:37,075 --> 00:35:38,507
And he said to all,

984
00:35:39,621 --> 00:35:41,689
if anyone would come after me, let him

985
00:35:41,689 --> 00:35:42,746
deny himself

986
00:35:43,692 --> 00:35:45,920
and take up his cross daily and follow

987
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,159
me,

988
00:35:47,114 --> 00:35:49,103
forever would save his life will lose it

989
00:35:49,103 --> 00:35:51,728
whoever loses life for my sake, we'll save

990
00:35:51,728 --> 00:35:51,887
it.

991
00:35:53,096 --> 00:35:54,449
For what is it profit man if he

992
00:35:54,449 --> 00:35:56,541
gains the whole world and loses or forfeit

993
00:35:56,837 --> 00:35:59,225
himself for whoever is ashamed of me and

994
00:35:59,225 --> 00:36:00,101
over my words,

995
00:36:00,752 --> 00:36:02,340
of of him, will the son of man

996
00:36:02,340 --> 00:36:04,166
be ashamed when he comes in glory and

997
00:36:04,166 --> 00:36:05,912
the glory of the father and the holy

998
00:36:05,912 --> 00:36:07,420
angels. But I tell you truly,

999
00:36:08,389 --> 00:36:10,222
there's some standing here who will not taste

1000
00:36:10,222 --> 00:36:11,976
death until they see the kingdom of god.

1001
00:36:13,650 --> 00:36:16,680
Often these verses are accumulated into you. Okay?

1002
00:36:17,094 --> 00:36:18,928
Section 18 through 22.

1003
00:36:19,247 --> 00:36:21,081
So the question, who do you said? I

1004
00:36:21,081 --> 00:36:22,597
am the cry. You got it right. Don't

1005
00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:25,548
tell anyone. Period, like, a month later maybe

1006
00:36:25,548 --> 00:36:27,870
he preach the other part. They think. The

1007
00:36:27,870 --> 00:36:30,172
the 23 through 27. As if they're a

1008
00:36:30,172 --> 00:36:31,918
different theme and they're not, they go together,

1009
00:36:32,711 --> 00:36:34,536
I'm going to die. That's who I am.

1010
00:36:37,585 --> 00:36:39,505
Following me means something for you and death

1011
00:36:39,505 --> 00:36:41,824
is included as well. This message can't be

1012
00:36:41,824 --> 00:36:42,385
taken apart.

1013
00:36:45,196 --> 00:36:47,665
Luke shows us the disciples know Jesus is

1014
00:36:47,665 --> 00:36:48,461
the messiah.

1015
00:36:50,134 --> 00:36:52,682
And immediately, he hooks the reality of the

1016
00:36:52,682 --> 00:36:53,001
messiah,

1017
00:36:53,574 --> 00:36:55,332
with the reality of death of laying down

1018
00:36:55,332 --> 00:36:57,330
his life of not self protecting.

1019
00:37:00,126 --> 00:37:02,796
With that foundation, we hear Jesus say, if

1020
00:37:02,851 --> 00:37:05,387
anyone would come after me, if anyone would

1021
00:37:05,387 --> 00:37:07,686
follow me. If anyone would know me. If

1022
00:37:07,686 --> 00:37:08,424
anyone would

1023
00:37:08,796 --> 00:37:10,879
would identify by with me as their savior.

1024
00:37:11,118 --> 00:37:12,712
If you have any lot with me?

1025
00:37:14,146 --> 00:37:15,739
Because we're moving past, who do you say

1026
00:37:15,739 --> 00:37:17,667
that I am in words, to a heart

1027
00:37:17,667 --> 00:37:19,342
that knows who he is and actually follows

1028
00:37:19,342 --> 00:37:21,278
him. If anyone would have any

1029
00:37:21,655 --> 00:37:23,809
identification with me that's real, let him deny

1030
00:37:23,809 --> 00:37:25,266
himself and take up at his cross

1031
00:37:25,723 --> 00:37:26,441
and follow me.

1032
00:37:28,929 --> 00:37:30,763
That is if you think he is the

1033
00:37:30,763 --> 00:37:31,082
messiah.

1034
00:37:33,235 --> 00:37:36,048
If you think Jesus is your personal savior

1035
00:37:36,107 --> 00:37:36,607
then

1036
00:37:38,118 --> 00:37:40,434
You can't just believe things about him. You

1037
00:37:40,434 --> 00:37:41,393
have to follow him.

1038
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:45,873
If we think okay. What does that mean?

1039
00:37:45,953 --> 00:37:47,385
Am I supposed to die on cross, nobody

1040
00:37:47,385 --> 00:37:48,181
he explains it.

1041
00:37:49,612 --> 00:37:51,521
If we live trying to save ourselves,

1042
00:37:53,443 --> 00:37:55,187
If we live trying to keep our own

1043
00:37:55,187 --> 00:37:57,010
life trying to protect ourselves trying to get

1044
00:37:57,010 --> 00:37:58,199
everything that we want,

1045
00:37:59,467 --> 00:38:01,472
live for only what feels good and what's

1046
00:38:01,472 --> 00:38:03,626
easy and the path of least resistance then

1047
00:38:03,626 --> 00:38:04,743
we'll actually lose our life.

1048
00:38:07,296 --> 00:38:08,827
This is what is called the paradox of

1049
00:38:08,827 --> 00:38:11,061
the kingdom of God, the of the upside

1050
00:38:11,061 --> 00:38:12,976
down nature of the kingdom of God. When

1051
00:38:12,976 --> 00:38:16,024
a person fights to protect and indulge and

1052
00:38:16,024 --> 00:38:17,862
get... Though they think that's the key to

1053
00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:19,859
where life comes from. It actually empty their

1054
00:38:19,859 --> 00:38:20,978
life of all meaning and joy.

1055
00:38:22,176 --> 00:38:24,027
And it leads not only to spiritual death,

1056
00:38:24,187 --> 00:38:25,942
but eternal consequences as well.

1057
00:38:27,856 --> 00:38:29,451
That's why Jesus says just 1 of the

1058
00:38:29,451 --> 00:38:32,722
most simple but profound versus what good is

1059
00:38:32,722 --> 00:38:32,881
it?

1060
00:38:34,815 --> 00:38:35,554
What good

1061
00:38:35,934 --> 00:38:38,014
he he's he's giving you a picture, say

1062
00:38:38,014 --> 00:38:38,734
you get it all,

1063
00:38:39,614 --> 00:38:41,534
all of it. Everything that you've ever wanted,

1064
00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:44,263
like, you day dream what what I could

1065
00:38:44,263 --> 00:38:45,618
have if I want the lunch... Say you

1066
00:38:45,618 --> 00:38:46,358
get everything.

1067
00:38:51,690 --> 00:38:52,886
Good is it if you lose your soul

1068
00:38:52,886 --> 00:38:53,284
to get it.

1069
00:38:57,268 --> 00:38:58,384
That's a terrible trade.

1070
00:39:02,931 --> 00:39:05,390
He's showing us what is so hard in

1071
00:39:05,390 --> 00:39:06,580
cultural christianity.

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Belief in Jesus in a biblical form leads

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to following him.

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Not to the cross physically, but it leads

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to following him in the way of the

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cross.

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And there are times when that's gonna hurt.

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It'll feel like death, but it's not. It's

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the way of the savior.

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It's the way that actually leads to life,

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true life and salvation.

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Here's the message to know Jesus rightly means

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we follow him wholeheartedly.

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How do we do that? We follow him

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by living in light of his gospel.

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Not in the ways of the world.

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We follow his words and his commands and

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his directive because he actually gave a lot

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of really clear ones. We dedicate our lives

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to him

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And even when it leads us into suffering

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or mock

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or

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ridicule or being left out.

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We follow anyway. This is what it looks

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like to live una ashamed of Jesus.

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To follow him with our lives, even in

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a public way.

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This is what it looks like to live

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una ashamed. Follow me

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in that way and I'll stand una ashamed

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of you before God.

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1 of the interesting things I saw so

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many things online

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about the opening ceremony of the Olympics. And

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you do you see the interesting thing that

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happened there.

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There was AAA

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drag show recreation of the last supper

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and I saw so many people, so mad.

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Ind nation. And and there's a there's a

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level that I think that can be appropriate

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to this. But but I had a couple

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conversations over the weekend, and

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I said, why are you so surprised?

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Jesus told us that we'd be laughed at?

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Ridiculed mocked.

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It's a part of it. And and there's

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a part of people when they're like,

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so offended how dare you? Is like, they

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they just don't believe this was true.

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What they're saying with their lives is that

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I don't really wanna pick up my cross.

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I want this to be easy. I wanna

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get what I want. I want a genie

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in a bottle to fix everything I want.

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And any anytime it's not like that. I'm

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out. I'm leaving.

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Jesus told us at times we are gonna

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be looked at this way.

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There's an in escape reality that Jesus is

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showing us and Luke highlighting.

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Who you think Jesus is will affect your

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life in the way you live.

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You cannot believe that he's savior and reject

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him.

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You cannot receive his blessings

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and reject his ways.

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He's inviting those are his out of a

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life of self protection.

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Out of a life of selfish ness, or,

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out of a life of self gratification that

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just leaves you more empty than before, and

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into the deep waters of fulfillment in him.

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Began back to the miracle of the 5000,

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and they were satisfied.

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My heart just kept thinking in light of

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the parable, the seed in the sore those

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who whoever years let them here.

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That belief lead to a life that's satisfied

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in King Jesus fully satisfied.

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Because he's the bread of life, the water

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that won't run dry, the savior your kingdom

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messiah. Will there be some unpleasant things? Sometimes

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yeah, But the the weird paradoxes, you'll still

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be fine satisfaction.

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In him.

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The question was presented to the disciples and

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is now laid before us, who do you

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think Jesus is, who is to you?

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And then Jesus just pressed it further, and

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what does that mean to your life?

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Are you ashamed of me? Do you follow

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me?

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You walk after me?

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The invitation is is really simple, come find

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redemption and freedom in king Jesus.

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Hedge no bets, burn your boats,

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follow him with everything

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and see that he's better, worthy full of

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grace and mercy

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following him won't always be easy. It's not

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always gonna be terrible either there.

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But you'll never look back and be, like,

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I was not worth it I wasted my

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life.

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Why? Because he's sufficient,

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and he is what satisfied over and over

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and over think of Jesus words, I'm the

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bread. On the water, on the well, on

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the way. On the light he's showing you

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over and over and over all the things

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that your heart seek, I've got it. Come,

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come find it.

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Today, we'll

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take comm like we normally do.

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Ben you guys can come back up first

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corinthians 11:23

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through 26 says for I received from the

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Lord.

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What I also delivered to you, the Lord

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Jesus from the night when he's betrayed took

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bread.

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And we had given things he broke. And

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he said this is my body, which is

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for you.

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Do this as remembrance of me in the

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same way also, he took the cup after

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supper saying this cup is the new covenant

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in my blood.

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Do this as often as you drink and

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remembrance it's of me for often as you

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eat this bread and drink the cup, you

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claim the Lord's death until he comes.

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Once again, just like every week we We

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come and we hear the lord. We hear

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the word,

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then we get to come to the table

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again and remember that is him and him

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alone that give us all that we have.

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Yes, we can be fully satisfied in him,

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but only because of what he's done.

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So, yeah, it can be hard understanding that

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the way of the cross sometimes walks you

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into difficulty.

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But you didn't have to earn it. You

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didn't have to do the the dying on

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the cross. You do the believing, and we

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come to the table again and again to

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remember it is him. And his kindness in

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his beauty. I pray as you come to

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the table that you would be satisfied.

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I I pray if you've answered the question

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of who is Jesus in a in a

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metaphor

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or knowledge based or he.

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Your heart would begin to understand it.

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That you would come to to him even

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simple prayers today.

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But I don't know if I feel satisfied,

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Can you help me.

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And see if he will meet you in

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the place that you are, thank him for

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the goodness that he is given you. That's

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the hope for today.

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Would you stand and pray with me?