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Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project podcast.

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I am your host, Jason.

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I usually have my co-host here, Dylan, with me, but this time I'm actually by myself.

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This isn't a common occurrence.

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There's actually going to be a lot more podcasts that are just me or just Dylan or both of

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us together.

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The main reason behind that is because, interestingly enough, our times have just been so hard to

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match up to where we can both do this together, sit down for an hour, and actually push through

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on these podcasts.

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I really want to start doing some bonus episodes with just me or bonus episodes with just him.

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That way we can fill the gaps between us being able to record together, kind of give you

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some more backstory to what we're going to be doing as well.

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I know this is like season two and we had a lot of plans and life has just been absolutely

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chaotic for both sides of us.

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I've been traveling and he has a kid on the way.

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There's a lot of things that are moving pieces that keep us busy.

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He literally gets off of work when I go on to work.

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There's a lot of backs and forths that we have an issue with in the long sense of being

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like, okay, well, we can't do it that way.

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We can't do this.

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We can't do that.

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How about this?

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How about that?

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There's been a lot of discussion.

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There's been a lot of backs and forths.

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What we can do, what we should do, how do we proceed?

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We definitely want to continue with the Gospel Truth Project and make it something to where

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people can tune in to listen to and hopefully get some information that they haven't learned

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before or get deeper understanding about who God is and how God can interact in their life

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and how they can show God love back and that kind of stuff.

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We want to help people grow and relationship wise with God, with Jesus.

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That's been our mission from the beginning and we've definitely changed some ideology

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in the sense of how we're going to layer and structure Gospel Truth Project.

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So first off, before I get into what I'm talking about today, I wanted to talk about all that,

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obviously.

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But the other thing is I wanted to mention that the big thing is that we're going to

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be pushing to become a nonprofit.

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Gospel Truth Project is going to be pushing to become a nonprofit so that anything that's

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donated to us we can use to actually donate 100% to different causes and different churches

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or different people who are struggling or suffering.

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We really want to create something that will actually be impactful, not just on a verbal

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side but actually something that does help people who are hurt.

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I know before we were thinking about like, oh well what if we just put a certain percentage

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over to donations so that way we can manage it a little bit better or easier or whatever.

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But then in the long run it came down to we should donate everything.

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Everything that we get from this because it's not our ministry, it's God's ministry and

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it's His Word, His life, His Gospel, His Truth.

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And we can't look at that and try to profit off of it.

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And I don't want to profit off of it.

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Honestly I really don't.

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I really want to create something that just makes it easy for people to learn more about

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Him without having any regards to us on the back end getting funds for this or that.

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I'd rather pay for it out of my pocket like the podcasting fee, the website fees, all

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that stuff.

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I'd rather cover that myself if I know that I am doing it for God and because He wants

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us to share more of the Gospel, etc.

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So any proceeds that we do get are going to go 100% to charities and we're going to put

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up charity this, charity that.

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We're doing it through this charity this time.

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We're doing it for this charity that time.

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I'll be working on getting the certifications or whatever is needed on the back end to make

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sure that we are an official nonprofit.

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So anyways that's just kind of updates.

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I know it took like what five minutes of your time.

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Those are just kind of updates and this episode is going to be a bonus episode.

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I think it's going to go on to iTunes first.

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So if you're there listening, thank you for being part of the iTunes group.

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Otherwise it's just going to be launched everywhere.

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It's just all know I wanted to create an episode where I discuss some of this stuff so everybody

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who does listen can have an update.

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And then once that's done, we can I can kind of go into some Bible stuff that's been kind

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weighing on me a little bit more recently, just kind of things that I've been reading

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and been discussing and been seeing on my tick tock feeds and you know, this stuff.

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So I'm really excited to keep moving forward.

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I'm really excited to well just be on here.

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Actually I do a lot of like streaming and a lot of other stuff on the side that I tend

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to talk a lot.

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And even though it's just by myself, we'll be fine.

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So yeah, anyways, I wanted to I got a verse this morning and it put me onto a whole not

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tangent, but like a whole rabbit trail basically of just some good stuff that I wanted to share

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with everybody and just discuss.

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And this is going to be a shorter episode, obviously, because I'm the only one here that's

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just for this time.

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We also I will say because I just remembered future episodes, we do have some guests planned.

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So there will be guests being added into the podcast.

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It will be me and Dylan and the guests or Dylan, the guest and I, I guess is the better

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more correct way to say it.

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So there's going to be guests.

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We want to start adding things.

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We're going to start doing a little bit more.

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Again, it's just going to come down to making sure our schedules line up a little bit better.

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And I think next month, if you don't know what month it is for me, it's April right

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now.

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But I think for next month, which is going to be May, it's going to be a lot more beneficial

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where we can actually work together a lot clearer with schedules a lot clearer schedules.

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So because next month I'll be getting off the same time he gets off.

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So it should work a lot better.

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And we should actually have some more episodes out where we're both talking and doing what

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we do.

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So anyways, kind of get into it.

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You know, I was I know that some people heard about Mari Mari.

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She's an amazing, I would say, prophet or I would say teacher or I would say speaker

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of who God is.

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And he's a great representative of Christ.

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And you know, I love listening to his sermons.

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I love listening to just how passionate he is about Jesus and just how loving and caring

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that man is.

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So it's it's cool to see that, you know, even after he was, I don't know if you know, but

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he was attacked.

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And even after he was attacked, he got up and immediately put his hand on the person

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that attacked him and just prayed for him.

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Like he was he just I'll pray for you like that was it.

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And it's so cool to just see someone who talks about God live that lifestyle where, you know,

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we are to be loving, we are to be like, hey, like, you're hurting.

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Let me pray for you kind of thing.

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Like, you know, in that kind of context where people are just like they they're going through

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things and a lot of people forget that the person you looking at the person you did look

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at or did see walked by or drove by or whatever their life is just as complex and complicated

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as your life.

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Our thoughts are just as complicated and complex as your thoughts.

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And this this makes it a lot more.

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I don't know if the word real is the best term, but it definitely adds a layer for you

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to process or even for me to process to be like, OK, so, you know, my perspective on

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a situation might not always be accurate in the sense of like what they're going through.

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Or if they say something, I'm like, oh, that was rude.

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You know, on their side, they might have not meant it to be that way at all.

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That's just what they thought was the right thing to say or something.

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I don't know.

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And that's something that that changes how you interact with people.

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Like my my goal is to be more caring, be more loving in the sense of what God defines as

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love and understand that people are hurting.

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People are trying to find things to fill voids in their life or trying to fill that desire

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to feel good or feel happy or feel peace.

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And everybody is doing something to, you know, feel better about their situation, about their

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circumstance, et cetera.

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And that's the kind of crazy thing.

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Like I realized over time, like at first, when I was a lot younger, I was like, oh,

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I have this, I'll be happier if I had this, I'll be happier if I had this, et cetera,

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et cetera.

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And it just kept coming back to where it's like, OK, so I thought that if I had this,

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I'd be happier.

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And I was I was happy for a bit.

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And then, you know, I felt that sad kind of like emptiness again.

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And then I was like, OK, so what can I do to fix that?

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Oh, well, I'll just buy this thing.

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This thing will make me feel better or feel good about it, too.

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And I just kept going from thing to thing, trying to find things that I could buy or

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have or do that would make me feel good.

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That would make me feel like, hey, I'm doing something with my life.

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Hey, I'm I'm doing the right thing.

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Or this thing will amplify my talents, like music wise and stuff like that or whatever.

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I was doing things to make life better from my perspective.

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And that was consistent.

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And everybody does that.

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And whether they think about others in that perspective or not is different per person.

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But this gets a point to where each individual person is just trying to live a life that

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benefits them in some way.

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And with that, this brought up a lot of things for me in an attention wise to like pay attention

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to.

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So like when people do something and I'm like, hmm, that was that didn't seem like a good

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thing to do.

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I can't just immediately look at that.

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And like if like for a friend of mine, let's say a friend of mine offends me or does something

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that I don't like and they know it and they do it anyway.

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I mean, I got to look at that and be like, hmm, I wonder, you know, they're a friend

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of mine.

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We get along.

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We work great together.

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Why did they do this?

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Or why did that happen?

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You know, or did they forget?

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Did they know where they trying to get me riled up or were they trying to get me mad?

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Or what was what's going on here?

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Because this isn't normal for this situation or this relationship to be that way.

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And it's better because now I kind of look at it where someone does something and I hear

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a friend of mine or family members like, can you believe they did this?

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So what's that?

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That's hmm.

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I wonder what's going on.

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And they're like, well, don't defend them.

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I'm like, no, no, I'm not defending them.

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There's just that's not normal.

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That doesn't sound right.

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Like, I wonder why they're doing that.

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Maybe they are just doing it because they want to be doing something bad or wrong or

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they got fed up or maybe I said something that I didn't realize offended them.

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So it just changes my mentality to, you know, pay attention to people around me that I'm

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not the center of the world.

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God is Jesus is his love is his light is.

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And when I look at other people, I got to realize that everybody tends to put themselves

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at the center of their own world.

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And when I change and shift that to where God is the center, all of a sudden, everybody

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around me is just their people living their life, trying to do the best they can with

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the resources they've got and the life that they were raised up in.

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And it's a whole different perspective.

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And I think overall, it's just it's really cool to see that.

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God's opened this up for me a lot as well, kind of like teaching me, I guess, is a great

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way to say it, to understand other people so that I can love them better or love them

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more.

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You know, and, you know, it's cool because I was on I think it was Instagram.

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I don't remember Reels and Tiktok and all those things kind of blend together a little

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bit sometimes.

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Or even the Facebook on Facebook, you can scroll through Reels too.

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But I was scrolling through and somebody, this artist, very, very, very talented artist

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was showing off their artwork.

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And I was looking at it, I was like, wow, that's really cool.

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But it was like super demonic looking and a lot of like pentagram stuff and really not

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so good stuff.

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But the thing about it was that I was looking at I was like, this person is so talented

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and they are using that talent.

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But if they used it for God, this talent would just go way beyond what they could imagine

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because they're glorifying the one who gave it to them.

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And I was like, wow, this talent is so cool.

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And I love that.

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And I think that that's really cool, be able to look at that, even though it was something

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completely demonic.

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And this artwork was just not really God like or anything like that.

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But I was able to look at that and just be like, wow, this person is talented, very,

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very talented.

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I would love it if they knew God and knew who gave them that talent and who helped them

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get that talent to where it's at and experience the love and peace that they could experience

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from God and grow that talent even more so and give that talent back to God in the sense

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of doing it for him.

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And that was something that was like a little bit different because before I would just

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like scroll by like years before.

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I'm talking like a long time ago.

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Like I remember when I would see that stuff and be like, you, you, you or scroll by or

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like, oh, gross or oh, man, that's horrible or whatever.

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huh, you know, this person, they just don't know.

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just the overwhelming just all around peace and love and comfort.

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But it's just cool to see that perspective.

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And I highly recommend anybody listening to this is like you look at the people around

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you differently in the sense of like, don't look at them by like the the evil that's in

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front of them, the stuff that that's happened because of that.

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But look at them like they're a person, a human being worth the same that you are.

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But they're struggling.

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They might be struggling with this or that or they have a complex life.

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They were raised in a really abusive home.

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people don't.

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We don't know if they had to go through whatever.

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Like there's so many things that can change your perspective on life by growing up and

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dealing with different things as you grow up.

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so many so many lists of things that can change.

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not of God or not godly or not OK, you there are people who are dealing with things, struggling

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and just trying to do the best that they think that they are doing.

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that gives them strength to move on to the next day, that gives them love that they probably

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or maybe didn't feel from friends or family as they grew up or where they're at now.

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And so at that point, it's like, well, what does that look like?

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teaching and preaching.

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Don't don't leave.

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You know, don't leave this world without knowing him kind of thing.

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And people were commenting back and forth.

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There's people saying, this is ridiculous.

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This isn't how God did it.

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Just don't know.

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You're a monger.

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I it's kind of brought up a point where.

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It's kind of brought up more ideas of like, well, OK, so let's let's look at this.

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What what are we called to do that know the truth?

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That know God, who know Jesus and know that he lived and he died and he rose again and

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then he's going to come back.

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Like how do how do we talk to people about this?

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And you know, this is real quick.

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This is a way different topic than what I originally was going to go to, but that's

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So like I'll we'll go this we'll go this route because I think that's this is good.

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But how do you how do me or people who know the truth, how do we discuss this with people?

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And you know, it's really easy to say, oh, you know, the best way to do it is just to

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stand in front of people and just say Jesus loves you.

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Jesus loves you.

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Jesus loves you.

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And that is the solution to everything is just saying Jesus loves you.

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But that's not enough because how how do what does what does that mean?

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Like what does that mean?

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Jesus loves you.

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Like why does that matter?

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Why did why should somebody walking on the street care?

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They don't have the Holy Spirit in them that helps them with their daily lives.

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They don't have that access because that's something that you get when you are saved.

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So what does that look like?

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What are we supposed to do about it?

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How do we share the word of God?

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And you know, sometimes it's easy as you know, talking to people and just being like, hey,

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I believe in God.

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I believe in Jesus and who he is.

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And yeah, and it's just like, OK, so what do I you know, what do we do?

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It's this is where sorry, I got distracted with the text message.

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But this is what our mission is.

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It's like, how do we talk to people?

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And it could be as simple as just saying, hey, I know Jesus.

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I don't know if you know Jesus.

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And if you ever have questions, I'm here because I know that a lot of people have questions,

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et cetera, et cetera.

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And you know, I had that conversation with somebody a long time ago, a long, long time

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ago where I was like, oh, OK, so.

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So it was like, OK, so what do I do with blank or blank, et cetera?

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Like I had a friend who was super, super hardcore atheist.

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He's younger dude, though he was very young.

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who God is.

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And they were most religions out there are do this to get saved or do this to be saved.

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And most people's perspective on Christianity or religion in general is going to be do this

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to get this.

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And that's most of like everything is do this to get this, et cetera.

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So yeah, so that's just something interesting.

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I this younger person I used to talk to, hardcore atheist, would always make fun of me.

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But we did hang out for most of it.

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We worked a lot together, et cetera.

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And you know, there was times where he would say, well, what do you think about this?

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Like just kind of like trying to get me in a gotcha like you should think for yourself

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kind of thing.

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And you know, it worked.

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It worked out because then I would respond and he was like, well, well, well, that why

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do you think that then?

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I think a lot of this comes back down to how how are we talking about God?

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Like I wasn't sitting there trying to argue with him.

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He's like, oh, I'm an atheist.

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I'm like, well, why are you an atheist?

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Like I wasn't trying to make fun of him or anything.

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I was like, OK, well, I'm a Christian.

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Like if you ever have questions about the Bible, who God is, like I know that I'm here.

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Like I'm always happy to talk about it.

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And you know, I wasn't trying to be pushy.

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I wasn't trying to be like, hey, crazy, crazy thing here, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

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But I think I think it was really helpful in the long run because he still to this day,

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years after not seeing him, like nine years after not seeing him, he still comes around

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and says something snarky every once in a while just to see what I would say.

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And sometimes he's like, interesting.

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I don't think about it like, you know, that kind of thing.

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So yeah, it's just kind of one of those things where it's like, all right, dang, that's crazy.

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Like cool that just a little thing of like, hey, this is this is who I am.

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If you ever have questions and it just sparks conversation even years after years of not

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knowing him or seeing him or knowing who he is, it's just like, wow, it's crazy.

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I kind of changed shifts here because originally I was going to talk about what does a relationship

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with Christ look like for us individually.

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But I think I don't I don't know.

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I think this is going to be more important to talk about.

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How do we how do we talk to people about God?

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How do we discuss this?

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Like, how do we even get talking about it?

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Because I remember seeing that tick tock and yeah, I just it's one of those things that's

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like, oh, man, I could just see.

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You know, this tick tock of this guy out there and they have signs like you're going to hell.

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Repent repenting is good.

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I'm not saying it's not, but like there's a place to where you don't fear monger.

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You know, you don't fear monger this kind of thing to be like, hey, you should do this

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because you're going to burn.

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People don't respond well to fear mongering.

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Jesus is.

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That's the most important part of the story is who Jesus is.

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Why is he important?

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Why is he different than other people?

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him and like, why was he different when all the other prophets died, but Jesus went to

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heaven alive?

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Like, why is that specific?

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And same with the Christian Bible, like the actual texts and stuff from, you know, way

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back in the day in first century and of Jesus life, et cetera.

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Like you have all these like that's e-school stuff like that.

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But you have a lot of context to Jesus, even outside sources of who Jesus was and saying

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like, oh, yeah, he was a man.

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He did stuff.

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You people persecuted him, killed him on the cross.

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Five hundred witnesses came back and said, oh, yeah, he's alive, which is weird.

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Five hundred plus witnesses roll like this guy.

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Jesus, they killed on the cross.

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He's he's still alive.

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What happened?

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So anyways, I want to talk a couple of verses real quick because I don't want to take up

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too much of your time.

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I know you kind of talking a little bit, just kind of stuff that I've seen and been dealing

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with.

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And so in the long run, what does what does the Bible talk about for what are we to do?

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Like what are we supposed to do?

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So Matthew, I wanted to bring up Matthew twenty eight, nineteen, if you don't know what that

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is, go there for make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the

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Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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It's the great commission.

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If you want to read the context, it's Matthew twenty eight, sixteen verses through twenty.

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So sixteen through twenty, that context actually describes Jesus commissioning the eleven remaining

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disciples on the Mount Mountain and Galilee, if you didn't know.

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And he had given them a message to meet him there.

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Now he he appears and commands them to make disciples from all the people of all the nations

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of the earth.

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He calls on them to baptize these disciples in the name of the Father, the Son and the

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Holy Spirit, which right there is one of the things that we talk about for the Trinity

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in that sense.

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has commanded them to do.

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it talking about going out and making disciples in Matthew's story of Jesus, these are his

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parting words to his eleven remaining disciples, verse eighteen through twenty, and are often

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called the Great Commission.

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Like I was I usually call it the Great Commission.

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Most people call it the Great Commission because Jesus is sending his hand chosen disciples

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out into the world to accomplish a specific mission, right, to make more disciples.

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This comes with like some noteworthy inclusions.

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But what is also crucial are things with Jesus, which Jesus does not say.

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So specifically, the disciples are to make more disciples of all nations, like all people,

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people from like every group and ethnicity on earth.

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And through Jesus, God's relationship with humanity has moved beyond Israel to include

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people from every corner of the world who comes to the father through the son, who is

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Jesus.

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Jesus's command here is to make disciples.

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Now a disciple is someone who becomes like his or her master by living in a servant relationship

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to him.

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They learn from and submit to that person's example.

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time had done and to answer Jesus's call.

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And is now what they will invite others to participate in from around the world.

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So discipleship to Jesus involves at least two things.

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Jesus mentions in this command, baptism and obedience.

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Those are important.

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So disciples are commanded to baptize new disciples in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy

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And then the choice to be publicly baptized is evidence that someone has believed in Jesus

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and made the commitment to follow him.

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The disciples were given the authority to baptize that person in the name of God, declaring

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that person's position in the eternal family of God.

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So one one thing, one thing that's really important as well.

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Is that with baptism, we'll get into the baptism part because a lot of people say, well, you

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can't if you're baptized in water, if you haven't been, then you're not saved.

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I don't there's baptism when it comes to under God, under Christ.

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I'll go into verses about it, but it's baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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We do the baptism in water to show others that we've making that commitment.

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So baptism of the Holy Spirit is the new standard to salvation.

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You aren't saved without the Holy Spirit and you only get the Holy Spirit once you accepted

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Christ.

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So you are baptized in the Holy Spirit that you are cleansed at that point because you

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have repented or ask forgiveness for the things that you're done, etc.

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So that's like an important part of it.

462
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,280
But anyways, talk about this verse.

463
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I'll get into that later, but we also did a whole episode on it.

464
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,800
I definitely recommend going back and listening to it if we did.

465
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:15,800
It's been so many episodes.

466
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,280
I always forget which ones we done.

467
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But anyways, in this verse, it's notable that Jesus does not command his disciples to, you

468
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,520
know, print Bibles or anything similar.

469
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,560
The written word of God is our ultimate reference for matters of faith.

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00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,040
You can read that in First Corinthians, four, six or Acts 17, 11.

471
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:40,560
It was intended for that purpose by God, which is in Second Timothy three, 16 to 17.

472
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:46,100
Yeah, it is not meant to be the only means or even the primary means by which new Christians

473
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:51,160
learn about the faith, which you can read in Acts eight, 32, 31.

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The primary work of the Great Commission is to make disciples, which means the cooperative

475
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,040
mentoring process we now do refer to as discipleship.

476
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:06,800
More on discipleship, you can go to Acts 18, 24 to 28 and then Hebrews 10, 25 and then

477
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,280
Hebrews 13, 7.

478
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:14,860
This all talks about that and what discipleship looks like, etc.

479
00:33:14,860 --> 00:33:19,480
This is just something important for this versus that this is what they were called

480
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to do and then continue on.

481
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And this was like why I was saying the Great Commission is important.

482
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:34,600
So that's something that I think is a good verse to talk about because it's really easy

483
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,600
to just look at it.

484
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Oh, just baptize, make disciples.

485
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:38,600
That's it.

486
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,620
But there's so much more to it when you start looking into what the words are, what they

487
00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:47,200
mean and how they're being referenced to other verses, etc.

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00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,320
So yeah, I think that that's something important.

489
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,440
So I wanted to also talk about Matthew 24.

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If you don't know the context here, Matthew 24 verse 14, which the context is verse one

491
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to 14.

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So that whole passage right there is all the context.

493
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:14,440
So the verse 14, though, this is why I'm focusing on this is this good news of the kingdom will

494
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be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations and then the end will come.

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Now I know a lot of people talk about this and saying like, hey, this is a prophecy for

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00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:32,040
end times, like if the good news of the kingdom can be proclaimed to all the world at once,

497
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then the end will come shortly.

498
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Like that's the whole thing is that it's coming after that.

499
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,960
Well, at the moment, we're kind of in a place to where we have Internet, we have access

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00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:46,520
to billions and billions of people to just share all this stuff, etc.

501
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:47,680
It's crazy.

502
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It's absolutely crazy.

503
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But it's really cool to see that we have that capability.

504
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,520
But anyways, the context numbering for verse one to 14, I want to touch on that first before

505
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,760
I get into more about this verse.

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It follows Jesus and the disciples out of the temple.

507
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And this comes after his devastating criticism of the scribes and the Pharisees in Chapter

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23.

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Christ predicts a moment where the temple will be destroyed without one stone left on

510
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,200
another.

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Later, his disciples asked for more information about these future events, obviously, and

512
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Jesus describes a season in which the world will be in turmoil, but then that alone will

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00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,680
not be proof that the end has come.

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His disciples will be persecuted, killed, hated for his name, and false prophets will

515
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,520
rise and some of them will fall away from the faith.

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We let us stray, I guess is the best way to put it.

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So that's kind of the context here.

518
00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:47,920
And so when you get to verse 14, which is the last bit of the context for this, this

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case, Jesus described difficult times to come for those who followed Jesus after he leaves

520
00:35:54,720 --> 00:36:00,200
the earth, which is John 16, five to seven.

521
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:06,040
He has pointed to an era of intense persecution, death, hatred for any association with Jesus

522
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,160
and his name.

523
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,160
And many who seem to be true believers will fall away in response to the teaching of false

524
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,160
prophets.

525
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:18,920
Their lawlessness will increase, many will grow coldly on unloving, etc.

526
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,680
You can read that more in Matthew.

527
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,680
Well, actually, in this section, read it in Matthew 24, three to 13.

528
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,400
You just read any the whole context of one to 14, you'll see what I'm talking about.

529
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:36,920
But still, none of this will stop the proclamation of the gospel in the kingdom, right?

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00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,680
The word gospel here means good news.

531
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So the good news, Jesus has been preaching about the kingdom of heaven is that it is

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coming and will soon be here.

533
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,640
And he himself is the king and he will reign forever.

534
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:56,840
You can see that in Matthew 417, Matthew 1343 and Matthew 2629.

535
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:02,760
So letters written by apostles such as John, Peter, Paul will give more specific details

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00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,600
about the astounding kingdom of God, which is awesome.

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And the message Jesus disciples preached to the world was what all who put their faith

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00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:15,680
in Jesus will receive the grace of God.

539
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,360
Acts 412 for that one.

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And God will take Jesus' death on the cross as payment for the sins for those who believe,

541
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:24,920
right?

542
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,800
So that's Romans 623, if you want to look that up too.

543
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:35,760
And then and we'll give them credit for the perfectly righteous life Jesus has lived,

544
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,080
which is 2 Corinthians 521.

545
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,800
If you want to see that specific backing.

546
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But in short, the good news is that all who accept Christ are welcome to the kingdom of

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00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,800
heaven through faith in the Son of God, which you can see in Ephesians 2, 8 through 9 puts

548
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,200
it out pretty plain and simply.

549
00:37:54,200 --> 00:38:01,520
But aside from Judas, the men to whom Jesus speaks, Matthew 24, 3, if you this whole context

550
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,520
did indeed remain faithful through process persecution.

551
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:12,180
They succeeded in launching the delivery of the gospel throughout the world as a testimony

552
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to all nations.

553
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They did not complete the work.

554
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However, Bible teachers tend to debate when and if the whole world has been reached with

555
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:27,120
the gospel of the kingdom, though all agree that this good news has reached the vast majority

556
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,120
of the earth.

557
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And like I said before, at this point, we're at this place to where we can reach practically

558
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:43,200
like majority of the world at this point with a message because we have technology.

559
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,960
The question, though, matters because Jesus prophesied that when the gospel had been proclaimed

560
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to all nations, the end would come, meaning that he would return as king and judge.

561
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:01,120
And this was his partial answer to his disciples about a sign that the end of the age was near.

562
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:06,640
And again, this is where, you know, for me, someone who studies eschatology, like based

563
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on the Bible and what the Bible says about the end times, this is just something where

564
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:17,260
you can see is everything's kind of falling into place.

565
00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:24,000
And it's really important that when you're getting to the point to where you start seeing

566
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,480
things from way back then like this, where it's like everybody will know, will be able

567
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:35,400
to get preached the gospel to the gospel be preached to everybody and all nations.

568
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:42,200
And it's really crazy to think that, you know, I can send a message.

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And you know, even if I decided to pay for the message or whatever, it can reach everywhere.

570
00:39:49,460 --> 00:39:52,500
Like all around the world, it can reach every all these different nations.

571
00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:58,200
Like it's insane to see that we have that kind of technology power kind of thing.

572
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,080
And with, you know, satellites going up for satellite internet, you'll be able to access

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00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,900
internet and be online anywhere in the world.

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And this makes it to where everybody around the world period could hear the gospel and

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00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,080
the good news.

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00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,480
And it's just crazy to think like we're so close to this being a reality.

577
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,480
Crazy cool.

578
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:27,440
But yeah, that's something that I wanted to talk about as well for that verse.

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Also you know, like I said before, Great Commission, there's a summary of the Great Commission.

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I will touch on it a little bit.

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00:40:34,540 --> 00:40:37,920
It's Mark 16 15.

582
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If you go to Mark 16 15, it says, if you don't know it, it says, then he said to him, go

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into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

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00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,400
Right?

585
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:56,040
So this verse, so this verse, it's the context is 14 to 20.

586
00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:02,080
It's is it's kind of covered in Matthew 28.

587
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:09,880
Like I was talking before, this part is also covered in that Luke 24 36 to 43, John 20

588
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:14,160
19 to 19, 19 to 29.

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00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,960
Sorry.

590
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,400
It's interesting because the disciples finally realized like Jesus will not overthrow the

591
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:25,800
Romans like they were hoping, but they will and they would not rule from the 12 thrones

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00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,080
or at least not yet in that sense.

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00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,360
You can see that Matthew 19 28.

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00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:35,680
But but they had to work spread the message that Jesus died for the sins of the world

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00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,760
and is had and risen and was risen and and is risen.

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00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,600
I guess is the best way to say it.

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00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,440
And in this mission, they will be able to perform miracles and do our dangers that would

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00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,440
normally kill them.

599
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,440
That kind of thing.

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00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,360
If you read the context, it's really it's really cool to see what they discussed there.

601
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:59,600
But yeah, this is just a summary of the Great Commission.

602
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:04,480
It's just saying the commission where it said go for make disciples of all the nations,

603
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480
etc.

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00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,000
So there's a lot of talk about this verse.

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00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,400
Actually, it's kind of interesting talking about like it was like a later footnote kind

606
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:21,040
of thing, but yeah, so the disciples here, they cannot fulfill the Great Commission under

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00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,600
their own power.

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00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,960
They needed permanent indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which they cannot have until Jesus

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00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,600
leaves, which was John 16 seven.

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00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,940
Soon at Pentecost in the house in Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit will come, which was acts

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00:42:35,940 --> 00:42:37,520
to one to four.

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00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,040
And then the disciples who had scattered when guards came to arrest Jesus.

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00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:48,280
You can see that Mark 1450 will welcome the chance to go to trial to testify about Jesus,

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00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,440
which is an acts for one to 31.

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00:42:51,440 --> 00:43:00,520
Brash, impulsive Peter, as he was, was the first preacher of the gospel, which was acts

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00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,760
to 14 to 41.

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And the gospel was spread through all the world.

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00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,600
So the word here proclaim that's important because going to all the world and proclaim

619
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,200
the gospel, preach the gospel.

620
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:20,160
The word there proclaim is actually from the Greek word carousel, which Jesus command is

621
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,640
akin to a herald shouting out what is needed to be heard.

622
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:31,040
All is from the Greek word root pass, which can mean each and every, or it can mean some

623
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,240
of all types, which is interesting because this puts it in perspective that could be

624
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:44,400
some of some of the like all types, so it could be read as all the nations and some

625
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:51,560
of the people are most of people, but all the nations creation is from the Greek Greek

626
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,560
root word to this.

627
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,480
I can't, I don't remember how to say it.

628
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,960
KTIS, I S if you want to translate, right.

629
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:06,020
And can mean anything created on created or it can mean a foundation or a founding of

630
00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:07,400
a new thing.

631
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,600
The disciples are called a preach to the truth to the people and places that will start the

632
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:12,880
church.

633
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:22,240
So really cool summary mark, but I think this is important because so what does what does

634
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:23,380
that mean?

635
00:44:23,380 --> 00:44:29,680
And I want to make this clear to is that we can't, you know, I don't know the best way

636
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:30,680
to put this.

637
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,320
Give me a couple of seconds here.

638
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:39,120
Okay, so I'm going to put it this way because I think it's important to know, you know,

639
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:44,520
I had a friend that was that believed in God and read his word.

640
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:50,120
But anytime anybody talked about God or made fun of God or, you know, any of the atheist

641
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,200
friends would just like yell blasphemies or whatever.

642
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,400
They're just like, yeah, whatever the Christian, whatever, you know, they would make fun of

643
00:44:58,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Christianity, etc.

644
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,920
He would just sit there and just say, yeah, yeah.

645
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,600
Like, he wouldn't say anything.

646
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,320
And they would be like, aren't you a Christian?

647
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,600
He was like, I believe I'll believe a lot of it.

648
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,240
And they just like laugh and move on and go do their own thing.

649
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:15,200
Let's go play video games, whatever.

650
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:20,680
And you know, he this friend came to me and was like, I don't know what to do.

651
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:27,280
Like, like when that happens more and more now, and I don't know how to deal with it.

652
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:32,920
And I wish Dylan was on this recording because I'm going to talk about the verse that he

653
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,720
loves so much.

654
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:38,360
And he actually has a tattoo of it because he loves it so much.

655
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,580
Romans 1 16 is a great verse to talk about.

656
00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:47,800
In this instance, if you don't know, the context is actually 16 and 17 for this verse, one

657
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,920
Romans 1 16 and 17.

658
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,820
It's just often used as as the key verses to summarize the book of Romans, basically,

659
00:45:55,820 --> 00:45:59,960
because Paul declares boldly why he is not ashamed of the gospel about Jesus and that

660
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,480
he preaches around the world.

661
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,040
And this message is not nothing less than the power of God for everyone who believes,

662
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,240
both Jews and Gentiles.

663
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:14,800
And it is about being declared righteous by God because of our faith in him.

664
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:15,800
Right.

665
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:21,840
And so with this verse, many, many Bible teachers described this famous verse like it's it's

666
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,260
a big 116.

667
00:46:23,260 --> 00:46:28,280
You can probably find 116 on a lot of albums and a lot of artists on a lot of tattoos.

668
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,100
You'll find this on like a lot of books.

669
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:35,440
You'll find it on a lot of like even restaurants out there have 116 on the bottom because it

670
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:40,280
is just like little bits of hints to things of this verse.

671
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,240
It's really it's really popular.

672
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:47,360
But together with the one which follows the central theme of the book of Romans, like

673
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,840
I said, it's kind of like a summary.

674
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,560
Paul in the previous verse expresses his eagerness to come and preach the gospel in the great

675
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:59,000
multicultural city of Rome is what's going on.

676
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:04,380
But Paul declares here boldly that he is not ashamed of the gospel.

677
00:47:04,380 --> 00:47:09,800
Perhaps his he sensed that some of the Christians in Rome were tempted to be ashamed about it.

678
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:15,000
There may have been very few Christians in Rome because given time.

679
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,320
Oh, the verse itself.

680
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,320
I'm so sorry.

681
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,800
I read it, but it says for I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God

682
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:28,080
for salvation to everyone who believes first to the Jew and also to the Greek.

683
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:33,180
The great truths about Christ seem new and absurd to many people in Rome.

684
00:47:33,180 --> 00:47:34,900
That was kind of what was going on.

685
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:37,160
And Christians were being persecuted.

686
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,200
It's one thing to believe in the gospel.

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00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:45,300
It's another thing to take the risk of preaching it to strangers, which is very true.

688
00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:48,760
So Paul will not have he Paul didn't want to have any of that.

689
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:49,760
He was like none of that.

690
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The gospel message is nothing less than the power from God for everyone who believes it

691
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,800
to be saved.

692
00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:03,160
Anyone, everyone who puts their faith in Christ and his death for their sin on the cross will

693
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:09,260
be justified, will be made right with God and welcomed into God's family.

694
00:48:09,260 --> 00:48:10,760
And that is all true.

695
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:17,880
When Paul had staked his life on it more than once, then what is there to be ashamed of?

696
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:24,140
Paul continues this that the salvation from God by faith in Christ is for the Jews first

697
00:48:24,140 --> 00:48:25,520
and also for the Greek.

698
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:31,920
In this context, Greek is similar to the meaning of Gentile as a reference to all the non-Jewish

699
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,440
people of the world.

700
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,000
So why for the Jews first is a good question.

701
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,040
In this instance, Paul will spend a lot of time on the concept in this letter.

702
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:48,240
Jesus said simply that salvation is from the Jews, which you can see in John 4 22.

703
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:53,480
Paul's letter will show that God prioritized the Jews first in revealing that all can be

704
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,720
saved by faith in Christ.

705
00:48:56,720 --> 00:49:02,120
Though they rejected that message as a nation, obviously at that point, many Jewish people

706
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:09,960
did indeed trust in Christ for their salvation, starting with Jesus, 12 Jewish disciples,

707
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,100
for example.

708
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:16,680
So this explains in part why Paul often began his work in a new city by preaching in the

709
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,960
Jewish synagogues before moving out to preach to the Gentiles, which Acts 13 5 you can see

710
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,420
example.

711
00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:28,480
It's true that Christ sent Paul to preach to all nations, but he also commissioned Paul

712
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:33,120
to preach about him to the children of Israel, which was in Acts 9 15, if you don't know

713
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:34,120
it.

714
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,240
So these are really important.

715
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:39,720
These are really important.

716
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:44,240
In the long run, this shows that we're supposed to be confident.

717
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:48,720
If we really believe this is the message, then we should be confident in sharing it

718
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:53,320
and give our life to God and talk about it.

719
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,840
And that's something that's really important.

720
00:49:55,840 --> 00:50:09,560
And in this instance, again, we have a situation where we see that it's very forward to say

721
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,680
that we are to be bold in that sense.

722
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,160
And we can see that the idea there was to preach to the people, the Jews who, if you

723
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:22,880
don't know, Jesus fulfilled the Jewish prophecies and was the salvation to what the Jews were

724
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,640
waiting for because of prophecies from the Torah, the old prophets like Isaiah, etc,

725
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:29,640
etc.

726
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:34,400
David did some and you go back and you're like, oh, wow, okay.

727
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:42,600
So Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of Savior as was written hundreds of years before Jesus

728
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,160
and fulfilled these prophecies.

729
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,800
And so he is the Messiah.

730
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,000
He is Christ, the Christ.

731
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,760
And so that was the whole thing with Jesus.

732
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,840
And if we believe that, then we can stand firm in that and be like, this is the good

733
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:57,840
message.

734
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:04,920
The good news is that Jesus came fulfilled the prophecies of the Messiah from the Jewish

735
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:12,200
nation from Jewish culture and fulfilled the prophecies is the Messiah as proclaimed.

736
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:21,000
He is God in the flesh, and then with that, he led the perfect life as a human, as a man,

737
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:28,160
and then died, rose again, and showed himself to over 500 plus people to show that he did

738
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:33,480
live like live again, and then was brought up to heaven.

739
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:40,000
And the whole thing was that we have faith in him, that his life on earth, we have faith

740
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:47,200
in him, and that he came to die and rose again, that he would cover that sin that we deal

741
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:54,280
with and that he would be paying for our sins, that his life was as payment so that now we

742
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:59,400
are our life is made right within Christ because of Christ in his life.

743
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,660
I guess that's the best way to put it.

744
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:07,880
So the good news, the good news overall is that he loves us so much that he died and

745
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:13,040
rose again, and obviously I can go straight to John 3 16 and 17 and read through there

746
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,520
because that's really easy to do.

747
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:20,360
And I love the those verses.

748
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:26,400
Obviously they're probably some of the most famous verses of all time.

749
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:34,920
I think let me see here and let me just check my notes for this because I will say this

750
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,240
I'll add on one more verse.

751
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:40,160
I'll do one more verse because I think this is important and then I'll close it out because

752
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,560
I know I've been talking for a while.

753
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:49,320
I think do I want to do two more verses?

754
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,280
Okay, let me do it this way.

755
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,300
I recommend reading Acts one.

756
00:52:55,300 --> 00:53:00,040
If you do Acts one in one versus eight, you can see where it talks about the power of

757
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:04,800
the Holy Spirit will come upon you and be witnesses and drew some and all Judea and

758
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,520
Samaria into the ends of the earth.

759
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,380
It's just kind of a summary of the whole book of Acts.

760
00:53:10,380 --> 00:53:16,800
If you read Acts one eight, the context is one through 11 right there.

761
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:23,200
Yeah, the Holy Spirit's work is to spread the message that salvation is found in Jesus

762
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,400
and Jesus alone.

763
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,440
As people accept Jesus, they join together in local groups, churches, which are part

764
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,640
of the universal church of all believers.

765
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:36,240
And then the Jesus work was done on earth because that was the whole point was him to

766
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:42,440
die and rise again and for our sins live a perfect blemish free life.

767
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:47,800
And the Holy Spirit was left for those who believe they get the gift of the Holy Spirit

768
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:53,200
to empower us, God's followers basically and continue God's plan for the world.

769
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:58,080
The Holy Spirit will come and did come on Pentecost, which was nine days later, which

770
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,680
was Acts two one to four.

771
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,280
So I'll just say that real quick.

772
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,440
I'm not going to go into it too much.

773
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:04,440
Read that.

774
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:05,660
You can see what it talks about the Holy Spirit.

775
00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:09,920
We did a whole episode on the Holy Spirit as well.

776
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,360
And John 14 six.

777
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:20,820
This is very, very important because a lot of people tend to be like Jesus is like he's

778
00:54:20,820 --> 00:54:24,100
not the only way or what if somebody never met Jesus?

779
00:54:24,100 --> 00:54:27,720
There are going to be people in heaven who never knew Jesus.

780
00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:33,440
And the reason why is because Jesus before Jesus was born, people put their faith and

781
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,880
trust in Yahweh, God, right?

782
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,360
God the father.

783
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:42,560
And so Jesus came and died for the sins of the past, the present and the future.

784
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:47,840
And so with that death and resurrection and that covering of those sins, we just have

785
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,380
to accept him, have faith in him and follow him.

786
00:54:51,380 --> 00:54:52,680
That's that's that's it.

787
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:53,680
Super easy.

788
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:58,080
Just like grace through faith in Christ alone.

789
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:03,440
John 14 six says, which context is one to 14.

790
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,960
If you don't know, it's at the Last Supper.

791
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:07,960
Read the whole thing.

792
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:08,960
It's interesting.

793
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:13,880
But in verse six, he said Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life.

794
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:17,000
And no one comes to the father except through me.

795
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Right.

796
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,720
Few verses are cited as often as the scripture.

797
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:27,560
Jesus is preparing his disciples with reassurance and at advance of his arrest and death, which

798
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,200
John 14 one to four.

799
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:36,560
These words also broadly encourage believers to maintain faith in the face of hardship.

800
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:41,440
Confidence comes to Christians in part from knowledge that Jesus is preparing to take

801
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,720
us to be with him.

802
00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:48,780
Travel home is usually much less stressful than the outbound trip, since we're so much

803
00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:51,080
more familiar with the destination.

804
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:56,600
Romans eight, 18 or Hebrews 12 to definitely recommend looking those up to in the prior

805
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,240
verse, John 14, five.

806
00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:01,160
Thomas asked a reasonable question.

807
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:05,360
If we don't know where we're going, how can you say we know the way there?

808
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:09,840
Christ answered to me and forces a doctrine of salvation by grace through faith, as well

809
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:17,960
as denying there are many paths to God prior to the label Christians Act 11, Acts 11 26

810
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:24,200
and Jesus was often referred to as the way acts 24 14 if you're curious.

811
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:32,240
So Christian was a term came together to describe followers of Christ Christ, Tians Christians,

812
00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:33,440
right?

813
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,800
But it was always referred to as the way.

814
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:41,020
So Jesus is the way and the truth in life.

815
00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:42,680
No one gets to him except through him.

816
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:48,800
And he was making a point here to deny any other thing of saying there are many paths

817
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,480
to God because there's not there's only one.

818
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:57,640
Thomas question in the previous verse assumes the normal pattern of human accomplishment.

819
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,720
We determine an end goal and we work accordingly.

820
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:03,440
But salvation cannot be accomplished by good works.

821
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:08,200
You can see this many times in the Bible, for example, Titus three, five, our sinful

822
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,960
natures make it impossible to behave in a way that reconciles us to God.

823
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,440
Romans three, 20.

824
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:18,040
Jesus did not tell disciples they knew the destination.

825
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,040
In fact, he said he would come and get them.

826
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,700
John 14, three.

827
00:57:23,700 --> 00:57:31,240
But they know the way there like the way in quotations there like because I did the quotations

828
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:32,880
with my fingers, but you guys can't see that.

829
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:33,880
So my bad.

830
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,920
The way in quotations there.

831
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:41,240
John 14, three to four, he explains that which is the previous verses.

832
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:46,680
This is this is true because that means of salvation is not a process.

833
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:47,680
It is a person.

834
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:53,440
It is through and only through the person of Christ.

835
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,320
We cannot strive to earn heaven.

836
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,320
We can only seek to follow Christ.

837
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,600
This is how we are meant to know God.

838
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,480
John 14, verses seven, the very next verse.

839
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:09,400
Paul, Paul memorably restates that salvation comes through a person in second Corinthians

840
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:17,000
for six rescue from sin comes through Jesus, not rituals or accomplishments or personal

841
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,560
virtue.

842
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:24,920
Disciples know how to arrive where Jesus is going to be going because they know him.

843
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,760
They know the way because the way is Jesus.

844
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:34,400
Eventually, men like Thomas will connect to this deck, like connect this declaration to

845
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:35,400
Jesus.

846
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:39,800
Other teachings, right, and fully realize the meaning of salvation by grace of faith.

847
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:49,760
John 316, John 1010, John 1125 to 26, John 1244 to 46 and Matthew 1615 to 17.

848
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,000
Definitely recommend reading all those.

849
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:57,080
Each component of the statement is given a definite article, both Greek and English refer

850
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:01,920
to the way and the truth and the life.

851
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:07,840
There is no possibility of translating this comment as Jesus being one way or truth or

852
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:09,220
just life.

853
00:59:09,220 --> 00:59:10,600
He doubles down on the idea.

854
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:18,440
In fact, by emphasizing that nobody comes to God except through Christ.

855
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,720
Really does anyone object to the idea that those who believe in Christ will be saved?

856
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:29,320
The offense many is a suggestion that only those who believe in Christ can find salvation.

857
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:34,540
Yet this that is a very clear teaching of scripture Acts 412 and first Timothy to five

858
00:59:34,540 --> 00:59:36,480
through six.

859
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:41,680
I think out of everything I ever dealt with and talk to people about it.

860
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:46,160
When I say there's only those who believe in Christ find salvation, they always well,

861
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,720
well, well, what about what about and then all of a sudden breaks loose.

862
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:51,080
People say, no, that's not accurate.

863
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:52,080
That's not true.

864
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:53,320
Jesus, what about that?

865
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,720
This is the this is just their way of doing it doesn't matter if it's their way or not.

866
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,080
It's not the God's way.

867
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,700
It's not Christ's way.

868
01:00:00,700 --> 01:00:06,720
This is and so for this this verse, this is the sixth of seven moment and John's gospel

869
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,120
where Jesus invokes the I am terminology.

870
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:15,160
This echoes God's self identification to Moses in Exodus 314.

871
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:21,640
The seventh and last I am statement will come later in the same discourse in John 15 one.

872
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,840
OK, so I know I'm running out of time.

873
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,680
I just want to share one verse and then I'm going to call it good.

874
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,760
I appreciate you being here if you're still here.

875
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:42,980
First Peter 315 is the last one I am sharing and reason being the first pretty of 315.

876
01:00:42,980 --> 01:00:46,040
But in your hearts, regard Christ as Lord is holy.

877
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:52,000
The Lord is holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asked you for a reason

878
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,960
for the hope that is in you.

879
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,800
If you read the context is eight to twenty two.

880
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:58,640
I'm not going to go into what the context is.

881
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,360
Go read it.

882
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:07,380
This verse and the previous verse, Peter instructs Christians not to fear those who cause them

883
01:01:07,380 --> 01:01:09,800
to suffer for the sake of Christ.

884
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:15,240
In this verse, he reveals how believers should choose to respond.

885
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:21,200
First, we set aside our hearts as the place where Christ is fully honored as the Lord.

886
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,240
Peter is writing to people who are already believers.

887
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:29,120
So his audience already understands Jesus to be the Lord of all.

888
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:35,600
Still he instructs Christians to focus intently on Christ's role as our master, living as

889
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:40,900
if they that were absolutely true in all cases, even in suffering.

890
01:01:40,900 --> 01:01:45,160
And Peter calls us to full submission to Christ.

891
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:46,760
Very important.

892
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:50,640
When we set apart Christ as Lord, it will change us and it does.

893
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:54,700
Peter says those who observe us will notice the difference.

894
01:01:54,700 --> 01:01:56,380
The difference is hope.

895
01:01:56,380 --> 01:02:01,320
Even in the midst of our suffering, our hopelessness should be apparent less like our hopefulness

896
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,000
are hopefulness should be apparent.

897
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:09,720
So Peter here instructs us to be ready to answer the question of our our life should

898
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:10,720
inspire.

899
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,520
How can you be so hopeful in such difficult circumstances?

900
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,680
This is a very common question I get all the time.

901
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,440
How can you be so positive?

902
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,600
And there was things like I'll give an example.

903
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:23,640
Sorry, time.

904
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:24,640
Really quick example.

905
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:27,960
A couple weeks ago, life hit me and my wife really hard.

906
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:33,120
There was just thing after thing, day after day after day of just bad, bad, bad, bad,

907
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:34,120
bad.

908
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:35,840
And through it, I was looking at it.

909
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:37,480
I'm like, this is really cool.

910
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,880
She's like, what are you talking about?

911
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:46,840
And I was like, like, you know, my car broke down and I put it in the shop and I got a

912
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:47,840
rental car.

913
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,880
And it was like the car that I've been thinking about buying.

914
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,960
And I was so excited to be able to drive it around for a couple of weeks because it was

915
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:54,960
going to take some time.

916
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:56,720
I was like, this is so cool.

917
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:58,080
She's like, it's not cool.

918
01:02:58,080 --> 01:02:59,920
Like we had like the cars in the shop.

919
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:03,080
I'm like, yeah, but the little things make it OK.

920
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:04,080
Like there's always hope.

921
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,320
There's always something good around the corner.

922
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,520
Like I got to drive this car and I'm so excited.

923
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:10,680
It was a Mustang, like a brand new Mustang.

924
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:12,120
And I was like, oh, this is so fun.

925
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:13,520
I'm so excited.

926
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:19,120
You know, and this other thing happened where my computer crashed and I was like.

927
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:20,680
And and I took it in.

928
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:21,680
I had to get it fixed.

929
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,080
And once I got it fixed, all my data was still there.

930
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:25,080
That's a blessing.

931
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:26,080
I'll take it.

932
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:27,080
I thought my data was gone.

933
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,640
You know, little things like that were thing after thing kept happening.

934
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:34,280
And it was just like, oh, my gosh, like if I let it get to me, I would have been like,

935
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:35,880
this is the worst week of my life.

936
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,000
I can't do it.

937
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:42,880
But in the long scheme of things, I just kept looking at it like God is good every day.

938
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:43,960
God is good.

939
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:49,400
And things kept little things that happened during those hardships made it so easy to

940
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,520
get through because I knew God was there with me.

941
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:55,200
And you know, he knew that I wanted to drive that car.

942
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:56,200
Sure.

943
01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:00,400
And if he it was funny because I pulled up and like, I need this kind of car.

944
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:05,200
I just said I need a Ford because the circumstances I had, I have a Ford and they're like, we

945
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,520
only have one Ford left and some Mustang.

946
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:08,520
Do you care?

947
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,760
I'm like, yeah, that's great.

948
01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:11,760
Perfect.

949
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:12,760
Thank you.

950
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:13,760
Little things like that.

951
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,440
It was like little blessings in the suffering.

952
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:21,480
And then I just knew God was just there and I appreciated every second.

953
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,160
And that was something that was really cool.

954
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:31,980
So this is kind of the same thing where, you know, we anticipate that question.

955
01:04:31,980 --> 01:04:34,760
So Peter anticipates people will become curious.

956
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,120
Like exactly.

957
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,840
People kept asking me during that week, like, aren't you upset?

958
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:40,840
No.

959
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:41,840
Are you mad?

960
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:42,840
No.

961
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:43,840
Are you are you?

962
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,480
Why are you okay with this?

963
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:53,200
But yeah, so much we want people because hopefulness and joy are like starkly different from the

964
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,160
normal human response of suffering.

965
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:56,160
Right.

966
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,400
So much so that people will be eager to understand it.

967
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:01,760
Like what will what will we say when they ask?

968
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:07,680
You know, like we maybe we have to be prepared to give our defense to make the case for faith

969
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:08,680
in Christ.

970
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:12,400
We need to reject the cultural pressure to keep our beliefs to ourselves.

971
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:17,840
Instead, believers should openly share the good news of redemption through faith in Christ.

972
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:24,000
The Greek word translated as make a difference or sorry, make a defense or give an answer

973
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:25,000
is apology.

974
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,000
Right.

975
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,440
So if you hear someone says, I study apologetics, that's the idea.

976
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:35,640
Apologetics came from this from the word that apology and is actually from the root word

977
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:38,320
apologia.

978
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,000
This is not related to the English word apology.

979
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,000
Like I'm sorry.

980
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:49,160
This is this one actually where that one kind of expresses regret and remorse.

981
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:55,200
Apologia and apology and refer to the term of like justification or an answer back or

982
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:56,200
reason.

983
01:05:56,200 --> 01:06:01,680
This is a sir, this is like I said, this is like the source of the terms apologetics or

984
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:06,640
apologists, etc., which refers to a rational defense of the Christian faith, which is something

985
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,240
I've been studying.

986
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:14,400
But finally, the end of all this, it matters how we make that case for Christ.

987
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:18,240
We must present it with gentleness and respect.

988
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:24,360
Christians are not called to condemn those who are curious about our hopefulness, nor

989
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:29,080
are we to be vindictive or vengeful or insulting to those who disagree.

990
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:33,760
Rather, we should explain our faith without harshness or dismissiveness.

991
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:41,200
And to just finalize that point, this is that's the whole idea is that every single person

992
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:45,200
has the right to not believe what you believe or believe in the truth.

993
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:50,560
They have a choice and I respect their choice to choose not to believe in it.

994
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,880
If I share it, they don't like it.

995
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:53,880
That's OK.

996
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:54,880
It's their choice.

997
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:56,280
It's their right.

998
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:00,920
You know, and that's something that I had to come to terms with as I grew up, because

999
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,880
when I was a lot younger, I was like, you don't understand.

1000
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:05,120
You got to go to heaven.

1001
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:06,760
Like this Jesus is awesome.

1002
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,320
And he is.

1003
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,160
Sure, I agree.

1004
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:13,320
But I was so aggressive with it.

1005
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:15,600
I was just telling people and they're like, no, I don't believe him.

1006
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:17,600
Why don't you believe him?

1007
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:18,960
Because it doesn't make sense to me.

1008
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,200
How does it not make sense to you?

1009
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,200
Tell me.

1010
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:22,200
I'll answer it.

1011
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:23,560
Like, you know, I was just aggressive.

1012
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:29,480
And now I'm just like, I understand that now I am calm about it.

1013
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,400
If someone's like, why are you so hopeful?

1014
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:32,880
Why are you why are you this way?

1015
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,760
Why is it you are different?

1016
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,240
And I'm like, because Jesus, God is good.

1017
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:38,800
And Jesus is the answer.

1018
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:43,640
And I learned that, you know, he loves me and he loves you.

1019
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:50,640
And have you heard like, have you ever read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the Bible?

1020
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,800
And they're like, no, or something.

1021
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,160
And I'm like, you should check it out.

1022
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,240
I don't wish somebody that's curious about the gospel.

1023
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,080
I don't recommend starting from Genesis.

1024
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,880
I recommend starting from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

1025
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:02,960
Read the gospels.

1026
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:08,240
Read the eyewitness testimony of Jesus Christ and his life, what he did.

1027
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:09,240
He died.

1028
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:10,360
He rose again.

1029
01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:15,440
And these are these are things that were written within like 100 years of Jesus.

1030
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:21,000
And these were people who met him and knew him and wrote these things out.

1031
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:26,320
And this is why it's really important to understand where it comes from and why we are to believe

1032
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:27,320
it.

1033
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,220
And this is why we can be confident in that.

1034
01:08:30,220 --> 01:08:34,600
So all in all, I just wanted to end this episode.

1035
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,440
I don't know if this is a special episode or not.

1036
01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:38,200
But anyways, I'm ending this episode.

1037
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:40,280
I do thank you if you do listen to the whole thing.

1038
01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:44,680
I am sorry for the long episode, but I do appreciate it.

1039
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:49,080
And I'm looking forward to doing more of these, especially when getting Dylan back in here

1040
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:56,080
and then him doing his his one one on his solo podcast episodes.

1041
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:02,680
But anyways, till the next time, I will see you in the next one.

1042
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:06,560
And hopefully with Dylan or otherwise, Dylan will see you in the next one.

1043
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:08,760
I hope everybody has a blast day.

1044
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:33,460
Bye.