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Okie dokie. Well we are, it's funny I'm a dad so I say things like okie dokie.

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It's the 13th Sunday of the year but we are in the 12th week of our series going

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through the book of Mark and after today guys there's only two Sundays left

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before Easter and Easter is kind of like a moving holiday it's all based on the

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lunar calendar and things like that and so it changes exactly where it's at each

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year but you know when when you are a pastor in a church you're always kind of

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like going oh when is Easter you know like man it's coming up quick so the same

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way that some people feel about the end of summer or when is Christmas coming

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you know like for Christmas break or something like it's like okay Easter

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where's it gonna land so it's only two more Sundays and we're gonna finish up

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this series on Easter Sunday so we hope that you plan to be here on that that

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day April 9th it's the same time as always as we celebrate the resurrection

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of Jesus and so today as we just have a few weeks left in the book of Mark let's

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go ahead and jump right into Mark chapter 14 and if you don't have a

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physical Bible of your own you're welcome to take one from the bookshelf

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out in the lobby or just download one from any of the digital app stores and

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we have a tradition of just giving the scriptures our full attention when we

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read them and so you can do that any number of ways one way you can remain

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seated if you'd like or if you'd like you can stand with me as we read the

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scriptures mark 14 starting in verse 12 it says this on the first day of the

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festival of unleavened bread when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb

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Jesus's disciples asked him where do you want us to go and make preparations for

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you to eat Passover so he sent two of his disciples telling them go into the

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city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you follow him say to the

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owner of the house he enters the teacher asks where is my guest room where I may

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eat the Passover with my disciples he will show you a large room upstairs

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furnished and ready make preparations for us there the disciples left went

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into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them so they prepared the

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Passover when evening came Jesus arrived with the 12 while they were

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reclining at the table eating he said truly I tell you one of you will betray

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me one who is eating with me they were saddened and one by one they said to him

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surely you don't mean me it is one of the 12 he replied one who dips bread

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into the bowl with me the son of man will go just as it is written about him

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well to the man who betrays the son of man it would be better for him if he had

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not been born while they were eating Jesus took bread and then he and when

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he'd given thanks he broke it gave it to his disciples saying take it this is my

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body then he took a cup and when he'd given thanks he gave it to them they all

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drink from him this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many he

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said to them let's pray God of every tribe every tongue every color every

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nation we thank you for the Bible for the scriptures thank you that they have

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persisted throughout the millennium we still have them to read and consider

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today whatever you have for each of us individually and us as a congregation

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to learn and pray that stick it would become a part of the framework of our

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faith we would become more like your son amen amen you know have a seat okey-dokey

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I so the first thing I want to point out is mark is doing what he always does

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right I I continually try to draw us back to this idea that that he's he's an

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author and he's giving us details you always have to ask like why is he giving

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these specific details and he's giving us a detail that connects us back to the

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bigger story what bigger story the story of the Israelite people right mark says

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on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread when it was customary

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to sacrifice the Passover lamb the disciples asked about the Passover meal

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now the Passover meal and this festival they both point all the way back to the

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Exodus all the way back to when God had Moses lead his people out of bondage we

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find that in the book of Exodus and God had it brought nine plagues against

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Israel's captors up to that point and the night of the tenth plague was the

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night of the first Passover meal the lamb was sacrificed as a symbol that his

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people would be saved from the angel of death that tenth plague and that they

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would be freed from their slavery anyone that marked the doorway of their house

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with the blood of the lamb would be saved and safe and then the bread that

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they would eat at that meal even still when when people that are Jewish

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practice a Seder meal practice the Passover they eat unleavened bread and

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the bread was unleavened to make a point it was meant to symbolize that they had

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to be ready to go they didn't have time to sit around and wait for dough to rise

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it's like all right we get it put in there cook it let's eat it because at

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any moment God would deliver them and they would be potentially on the run for

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me just every year since then Israelite people would eat a meal that would

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remind them of that first night still today this still happens and what we

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read today Jesus has been lining things up seeing how things were leading to

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this meal for a while so as mark is getting toward the end of the story here

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right he's only got a couple chapters left remember he's been thinking about

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this how am I gonna put this together as he's winding this story down he's

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actually ramping the imagery up and the connection to their history so when mark

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says on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread when it was customary

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to sacrifice the Passover lamb Jesus disciples asked him where do you want us

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to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover the reader the hearer

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should already be expecting that something significant is going to happen

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something that will give them a new layer understanding to the old story but

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now before we circle back around to that last meal let's look at what leads up to

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the meal because the second thing I want to point out is the way that the

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disciples had learned to trust in Jesus the kind of faith that they had developed

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what do I mean so Jesus says go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water

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will meet you follow him say the owner of the house he enters the teacher ask

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where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples it takes

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a lot of trust to follow these kinds of instructions if I told you go over to

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cool beans the owners and then ask if I can have coffee if I said go over to

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Brewster's the owner is Jeff ask if I can have a burger see if I just see if he

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has any wings he can bring over if I said go over to the bank at cows the

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owners are Jose and Sarah I was just talking to Sarah this morning when I was

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in there ask if I could have an omelet they know me I know them they know I'm

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good for it but if I told you go downtown Rock Island and you're gonna

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bump into a lady with a cane follow that lady where to where she lives and and if

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you do what you do that happens you go downtown happens to be a lady with a

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cane and she gets on the bus so you're like okay I'm gonna get on the bus and

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then she gets off the bus and so you get off the bus the same stop and then you

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follow her up to her house and just as she's putting the key in the door she

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turns around and she maces you right in your face these disciples were willing

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to follow Jesus in a way that felt foolish or even risky that might make

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them feel like oh is this really going to happen but they were willing to do

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this because of everything that Jesus had shown them why was this risky

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because we're talking about Rock Island and I'm talking about places that I go

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to all the time but Jerusalem at Passover would have been packed it's

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hard for us to comprehend think about like when the World Series happens to

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be in your favorite city or when the Olympics goes to a certain city or I'm

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trying to think of just the biggest possible thing just think about Mercado

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on fifth during the week and then think about Mercado on fifth on a Friday night

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like this is Passover at the Passover Josephus a Jewish historian said that at

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Passover that Jerusalem would swell to over 2 million inhabitants now Josephus

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is known and known exaggerator so we don't know if he's actually telling the

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truth but our best estimates are that during the Passover there was an extra

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100 to as many as 900 extra thousand people over a million people all

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together in Jerusalem so let's consider when Jesus says go in the city and a guy

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carrying a water jug will meet you just how many guys could there have been in

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the whole city of Jerusalem carrying a water jug only one I mean I I doubt it

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and this isn't even the first time that Jesus has done something like this in

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Mark 11 Jesus says this go into the village in front of you and immediately

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as you enter you will find a cult on which no one has ever sat how he knew

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that I don't know he's Jesus untie it and bring it to me if anyone says to you

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why are you taking this just say the Lord has need of it and I'll bring it

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back here immediately when he's done with it

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Jesus says go follow a guy with a water jug go take someone's donkey today these

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kinds of things would be called stealing and stalking I was thinking about today

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like going like fight club style and just handing everyone an envelope of

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something they had to do on the way out but Jesus had given his disciples a

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thousand reasons to believe that it would be okay that it would work so they

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were willing to look foolish or risk being foolish because they did they

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found things just as Jesus had told them how often do we find things just as

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Jesus had told us maybe not often enough and maybe it's because it's not that

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often that we just do exactly what Jesus said this last week and community table

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the focus was listening to the spirit and what we did was we asked everybody

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in the group if they had a challenge that they were dealing with so that they

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that we could all collectively listen to the Holy Spirit on their behalf and see

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what God might be saying to that person and so someone shared the challenge we

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all prayed we sat silently we prayed the Lord's Prayer and I gave the

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instruction listen we're not looking for paragraphs we're not looking for advice

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looking for Bible verses we're looking for a phrase that the Lord might be

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saying and after we prayed one person have it had a Bible verse and one

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person had a phrase that was an encouraging phrase and that person that

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shared their challenge before they left said they felt encouraged and like they

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had more peace they took the risk of sharing and we took the risk of

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listening and saying out loud what we felt the spirit might be saying to us

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and it was worth it because we found things just as the spirit had told us

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Jesus knew there'd be a cult for him to ride if Jesus knew there would be a guy

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with a water jug to follow if he knew there'd be a house with a guest room

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where they'd eat their meal all of this should lead them and lead us to believe

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Jesus knows things that we don't and it should lead us to believe whatever Jesus

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says next so when he says truly I tell you that one of you will betray me one

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who is eating with me there should be no surprise that he's right

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now if you're Judas and you're sitting at the table maybe you're surprised but

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here's the thing that isn't the most surprising thing that happens at that

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table that I don't think it's the thing that we're supposed to focus on I think

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it's what comes next because after he says that he knows who will betray him

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then he passes the bread in the cup he gives the symbol of his bread in his

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body to his betrayer when I was 18 I started working at this camp up in

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Michigan and I probably told this story at some point we've been doing this for

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nine and a half years so who knows it's a camp called Beach Point in Allegan

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Michigan a little tiny town up there in the mitten and I only found out about it

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because a friend of mine at Bible study named Patty Taylor had worked there

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previous years and I was at a Bible study on Monday night at the very

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beginning of summer and she said hey we're looking for more counselors for

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camp and then I said oh tell me about it she told me about it and I was like oh

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yeah and she said oh I could get you an interview on the phone right now and I

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had an interview with with Mark David Heiser David Heiser is one word so we

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just called him mr. D and mr. D had an interview with me on the phone that

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night at Olin's house here in well the over here in Moline with someone in

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Michigan and he said yeah yeah you sound great we'll hire you and so literally a

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few days later I just I went to my mom's house my mom and dad the next day said

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hey I got a job at a camp up in Michigan where what's that oh I have no idea but

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we're gonna go and so I ended up working there that summer with Patty and a bunch

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of others and then the next summer Patty wasn't there anymore and it's kind of a

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new mix of counselors every year there's a good mix of people that have been

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there but then there's new counselors and there's a new guy and a gal there

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and the impression was very much that the girl was had long-time Christian that

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the guy had just become a Christian and in a lot of ways it was kind of it felt

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like one of those he was dating a Christian girl and so he became a

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Christian because he was dating the Christian girl and they saw working at

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the same camp as a way for them to spend the summer together and he and I it's not

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like we didn't fight with each other we just butted heads a little bit and I

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think that the camp counselor knew that kept putting us together to do things

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and at one point he finally said you know what you know camp isn't for me like

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this is like three weeks in so camp isn't really for me I'm gonna I'm gonna

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go home and it was Saturday night and Patty had come to visit all the camp

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counselors for the weekend just to see how things were going and we were gonna

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go have like a movie night at someone's house I think it was summer's house on

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Saturday night and I drove with Patty because Patty was the reason I even knew

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about this camp in the first place and as we're driving she's like how's the

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summer going and I'm telling her all about this guy that I can't stand and and

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how I like I'm just like I literally the words came out of my mouth I can't wait

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till he's gone and she said you know Craig

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Jesus gave the bread and the wine to Judas too I was like Patty why you got

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to say things like that because those kinds of realizations they force you to

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ask how do I practice this how would I even participate in this how do I open

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my heart to people that don't feel like they are for me that I can already feel

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like I can tell that even though we're at the same table now that later tonight

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they're gonna be handing me over to my enemies well we we participate with this

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first by remembering that Jesus loves our enemies he says love your enemies

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pray for those who persecute you if someone slaps you on the cheek turn your

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other cheek to them also someone takes your outer garment offer them also your

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undergarment if someone makes you walk a mile offer to walk another mile with

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them if someone steals do not try to take it back Jesus loves our enemies real

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or imagined question is will be will we love our enemies the way that Jesus does

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Jesus gave Judas the bread and wine after he announced that he knew that he

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would be betrayed Judas still betrayed him Judas still handed him over so Jesus

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isn't saying that doing the right thing will make anyone else do the right thing

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listen I I know like I've I am your pastor one of them and I know the truth

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is that right now I've had conversations with people in this room about this

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subject and as much as some of you feel like this is directed at you it is

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directed at me right now because there's people in my life and I really don't

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want to forgive and that I really do not want to give them space because I just

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think they're gonna hurt because I have given them the bread and the wine plenty

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of times and while Judas still betrayed Jesus and while Judas still fell away we

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need to hear this that Judas isn't our example Jesus is Jesus is our example in

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the blueprint discipleship that we have here there's a reason that forgiveness

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is the last thing before we get to work because it's the most difficult thing

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and it's not until we do all of the other things we start pulling away the

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layers we start to abide in prayer we meditate on the scriptures we listen to

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the spirit we begin to practice our faith then we get to a place where we go

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well there's nothing left except to forgive we have been forgiven

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pardon me as I blow my nose

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so last thing I want to share is this the message of the Passover is still

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true for us today but it does take on a new meaning because of Jesus any house

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any heart that is marked by the blood of Jesus is saved just like the bread is

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unleavened because you got to be ready to go there is no time like today to

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receive the bread to receive the cup to maybe believe in Jesus in a way that you

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haven't yet you may feel like you have been the enemy of God Jesus gives

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himself to everyone at the table everyone at the table gets Jesus and it

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may seem foolish it really may seem foolish to follow a guy downtown and

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look for someone that has a cane and get on a bus and see if it leads you to

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getting to serve Jesus but you just might find that things are just the way

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he said they would be and I hope that today as I let the Holy Spirit work on

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me to believe in him in new ways and to learn to forgive in new ways that I will

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find things just the way he says they will be amen let's pray

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Oh Jesus you gave all of yourself very literally every bit of your body every

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drop of your blood you gave for us for the world to believe to believe that you

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are the Son of God and to believe that you show us how to the life that you

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reconcile us to God not pray that today that we would find you in the place that

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you say you want to live inside the door of our heart in our lives as our one and

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only forever I pray that even now that you would move our hearts about who to

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forgive and how to forgive appropriately and in a healthy way that she would help

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us to be foolish in the moments that we need so that as we come to your table we

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understand what it is that we're doing amen