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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Well, welcome everybody,

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thanks for tuning in to another episode
of The Bible Guys. He's Chris and

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I'm Jeff, and we have a
great episode for you today. We do

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we hope. We're going to do
the best we can. That's all we

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do. Jeff is just hope and
hope. We live in hope, and

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we try. We're try hard,
we try really really hard. Okay,

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well, hey, so today we
have an episode the what do you call

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a segment that we think is fun. We've done this I think one or

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two other times, so today it's
just called Guess the Gibberish. I wonder

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and post edit if they could put
the gibberish words on the screen for those

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watching, just to just for fun. Okay, well, we'll have to

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pass that on and and so we'll
know basically the people watching right now will

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know whether they heard me. That's
right. So this is Guess the Gibberish.

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And so what's gonna happen. We're
gonna put up some a string of

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random words gibberish. See if you
can figure them out. Now. I

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think that this is really an easy
one for you, because when we tried

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to figure out gibberish, we just
went and got your last message that you

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preached. And that's what I'm gonna
week. Yeah, was that week trying?

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Okay, half a point, okay, half a point, half a

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point. They stack up, right, they build up all right? Okay,

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No, this is not from the
message you preached. Here we go.

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Police do nod hutch, police do
not hutch, Please do not touch.

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Yes, Wow, I heard myself
saying, wow, okay, uh,

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this one's this one's the toughest one. Ike hot if rom mime hum

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uh. I'm not gonna remember all
those I can't repeat that said again.

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Ike hot if from mime hum uh? Say fast? Ike hot if from

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my hum uh. I don't even
have a clue. Ike hot if from

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my hum uh? I got it
from my mama. That did not sound

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like that at all. That was
a hard one. That was terrible.

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I rebuked that. I do not
receive that. Yes, this one is

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a little tough, yeap ben Joe
watshan bib yeah, Bin Joe watshin beIN

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Joe what wa shin watchin bin Joe
watching Bin Joe watchin bin Joe watching,

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Banjoe watching, Binge watching That Joe
was the problemay binge watching. Yeah,

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that was a hard one. Okay, why would they say, Joe,

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I don't know this one? Binjoe
watching? Yeah that's yeah, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, I don't love
this skit. I don't love it.

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It's not great. Day can day
kin one for Thudham again? Day can

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one for Thudham. They can one
for thud Him. They can daycon one

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Dacon, one tack and one.
They can one for thud Him taken one

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for the team. That was a
good one, was it? Yeah,

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gnome or missed her nice thigh?
No more, mister n I thought,

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mister yes, there you go.
Okay, that was a good one.

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Yeah, okay, well you got
two out of the five so that was

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a rough one. Yeah. Yeah, we should just move on. I

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think that was that was That was
not one of our better moments. Let's

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pretend that didn't exist. Hey,
I vote, I vote, we do

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not do those again. One of
the other things that our listeners will learn

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if they listen to us long enough, is if we can't win at a

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thing, we don't want to do
anything that's right. That's right, that's

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right. It has to be to
our advantage. You'd like to tilt the

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table our way. That's what we
like. Yeah, it's funny. Okay,

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I guess the gibberish. Well,
today is seven more verses and this

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is this is a kind of a
sad passage. It really is, yeah

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said yeah. But this one it's
about Judas and Matthew chapter twenty seven,

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where Judas takes his life right in
Matthew chapter twenty seven, verse three,

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which is the only passage that covers
this idea right today, Matthew's the only

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one. And it says, when
Jesus, who had betrayed or when Judas,

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I'm sorry. When Judas, who
had betrayed him, realized that Jesus

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had been condemned to die, he
was filled with remorse. So he took

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the thirty pieces of silver back to
the leading priest and the elders. I've

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Cindy, declared for I've betrayed an
innocent man. What do we care?

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They retorted, that's your problem.
Then Judas threw the silver coins down in

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the temple and went out to hang
himself. The leading priests picked up the

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coins. It wouldn't be right to
put this money in the temple treasury,

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they said, since it was payment
for murder. After some discussion, they

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finally decided to buy the Potter's field, and they made it into a cemetery

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for foreigners. That is why the
field is still called the Field of Blood.

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This fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah that
says they took the thirty pieces of

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silver, the price at which he
was valued by the people of Israel,

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and purchased the Potter's field as the
Lord directed, so very sad, ending

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to a very conflicted life there right, this guy who had rejected Jesus rejected

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everything that he'd seen. He witnessed
it at the same level that the others

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did, and he went, eh, I don't know how he's doing it,

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but I don't believe in it.
Did you ever wonder, like the

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Pharisees knew the scripture back and forth, Yes, yes, did they buy

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the Potter's field because of the prophecy? Or did they just buy the Potter's

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field? Like just not knowing the
obviously you're not thinking and then all of

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a sudden, you know, somebody
points out thirty years later when they're on

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their deathbed, you do realize what
you guys did is in the Bible,

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right. I would bet that they
were that they overlooked it, so they

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were obsessed with the law. But
you know, there are a lot of

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Christians, I know, I know
Christians that are obsessed with the Book of

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Romans but can't tell you anything about
the minor prophets right, right, because

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they just don't read the rest.
That they get obsessed about their peace,

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the thing that they want to harp
on the most, and they don't know

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any of the rest of the Bible. Yes, and it could be the

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thing it wasn't in the Torah,
that's right, It wasn't one of the

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first five books of Moses that you
know, they memorized the first five books,

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right, and then they were familiar
with the rest, and perhaps they

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just didn't realize it. Yeah,
yeah, but it's part God blinded them

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from it. Yeah. So remember
in Kung Fu Panda, probably when when

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they when the when the master Uguay
says that ty Long is going to and

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then he gets so nervous he sends
a messenger there. But it's because the

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messenger went that actually he escaped,
so he said, it's we often find

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our destiny on the path that we
choose to avoid it. That's what That's

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what Mesteray says, right, And
so that's that's sort of like this right

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now, right, self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah, sort of that way,

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right. So it's like, do
they do it because of the prophecy or

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or you know, in spite of
it or whatever, But yeah, I

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have a tendency to believe that maybe
you're right, like they didn't quite realize.

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But it is interesting how this prophecy
is so unbelievably specific. Thirty pieces

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of silver which was valued by the
people of Israel to purchase the Potter's field,

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and yet this is what they choose
to do with thirty pieces of silver.

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That's pretty strange. So, you
know, it talks about yesterday when

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we were discussing this trial. At
that point, it was all the leading

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priests, and it was the elders
of the people, and it was the

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tea teatures of religious law. Those
were the people. So sometimes it's possible

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for us to be really, really
really focused on one part of God's word

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and just leave the rest of it. And it's why we need really good

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balance right. It's why we need
to understand the whole word of God,

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and how the Old Testament connects to
the New Testament, how every book in

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the Bible points to Jesus, how
everything about God's word is important. Right,

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Jesus says this, that every part
of the Word of God is important

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for us. And so I think
that in this case they missed it because

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they were teachers of the law.
They knew the law verse five books.

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They just missed out on so much
more of the rest of the Bible.

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It was there plain for everybody to
see. They just didn't see it.

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And so, you know, they
did exactly what the Bible said that they

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would do. So let's just get
this out of the way. We believe

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that, unfortunately that Judas is not
in heaven. Yeah. The Book of

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Accident he went to his place.
Yeah, well, and it also says

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that Jesus referred to him the one
headed for destruction, the son of destruction.

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Yeah yeah, so so yeah,
I have to believe that that's true.

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And by the way, it wasn't
because he committed suicide that he went

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to hell. It was because he
rejected Jesus as the messiah, right,

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right, So, and and by
the way, not as it you know,

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it's I mean, listen, trust
me, I'm never going to be

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a person that you know, justifies
something as awful as taking your own life

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or even making light of it,
because every life matters. Yeah, yeah,

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because that is definitely something I would
never ever do. But the idea

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that a person would think that suicide
would keep you from heaven is, in

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my very strong belief, incorrect.
And the reason why is because the Bible

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doesn't say anything about that, and
that would actually go against every scripture we

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know about salvation. So the Bible
says, there's nothing you can do to

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get you to heaven. There's nothing
you can do to keep you from heaven,

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right if you trust Christ. And
so that belief system of taking your

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own life sending you to hell,
that belief system was invented. You can

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google this on your own, but
it was invented because let's just let's just

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say it this way. It was. It was a it was a motivated

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out of fear right for for like
involved persecution, and it involved motivating people

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not to take their own lives when
they buckled it to deny Christ. So

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that's that's how that was invented,
and it was not invented by the Bible,

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you know what I mean. It
doesn't come from the Bible. It

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was invented outside of that. And
also the only verse that people use to

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back up that belief is they tried
to quote the verse that says there is

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a sin that you can commit.
It's the unpardonable sin. Right, there's

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a sin that you can commit that
is not forgiven, and that's a whole

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other sermon altogether, but it's never
listed what that sin is. And if

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you match it up against all the
other scriptures about salvation, there's only two

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scholarly beliefs about that verse. Either. Number one, Jesus is referring to

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maybe possibly a sin that could only
be committed while he was there on the

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earth in person, that they rejected
the Messiah in person, and somehow that's

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a different sin than you and I
rejecting him today, which I don't believe

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is true. It's not a very
widely accepted view, but it is a

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view that's out there. And the
other view that's widely accepted is is rejecting

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the Holy Spirit. Right, so
you reject the Holy Spirit, you deny

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Christ, you don't choose to believe
him. That's the impertonaal sin. Yeah,

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rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit, and the work on Holy Spirit

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is to draw you to Christ convicted
of your sin, draw you to repentance,

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stry you to faith in Christ.
Exact, that's his job. So

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it's when you reject Christ that So
in this situation, he didn't go to

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hell because of his suicide. He
went to Hell because of the fact that

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he rejected Christ. Right, So
he felt bad about his behavior. That

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didn't bring him to a salvation moment
in placing his faith in Jesus Christ.

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Right, So it's possible to have
a little bit of guilt about what you've

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done, But if you don't place
your faith in Jesus Christ, then you're

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not safe now Acts one eighteen.
So sometimes there's a little bit of a

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again. You know how, sometimes
people like to try to say, oh,

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there's differences in the Bible, and
that disproves them. I think it's

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the opposite. I think that the
difference is as long as they're reconcilable,

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the differences prove the Bible because it's
different views of the same situation. That's

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right, If you and I saw
the same thing, the same event happened.

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We would describe it similarly, but
we probably see different things because we're

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standing at different angles or whatever.
We had other information available. So in

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Acts one eighteen it says that Judas
after he had betrayed Jesus, and it

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says in verse seventeen, Judas is
one of us and shared in the ministry

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with us. But then it said
that they bought a field with the money

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he received from his treachery, and
then falling head first there his body split

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open, spilling out his intestines.
Ew, yeah, I know that,

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doubt yeah, so it's it's worse. So because of that, then the

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news of his death spread to all
the people of Jerusalem, and they gave

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the place the airmank name Akldama,
which means feel the blood is where that

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came from. So the the reconciliation
of those two things would be, he

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hung himself, as it says here, and perhaps the branch broke or something.

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Right, if he hung himself out
over the edge of a cliff,

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the branch breaks, he falls,
right, And so historically that's what theologians

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would say, is that both events
happen, the hanging first, the split

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open second, which is really really
gross. Well, I mean and I

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mean, and so those of you
listened to this this morning morning, yeah,

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good morning. Right, Well,
it's not to it's not it's not

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a stretch. It's not a stretch
to you know, think about all the

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stories in the Old Testament, right, remember when Joseph was in the dungeon

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and he was giving the uh uh
you know, the prophecy to the butcher

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and the baker, remember, right, and he and he says to the

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or the cup holder, what was
it? It was the cup holder in

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the baker, right, And no, no, no, yes, it

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was the cup bear. It was
a cup bear and a baker, wasn't

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it. Anyway, it wasn't a
butcher. But but he said to the

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baker, h yeah, the birds
are gonna come and they're gonna eat of

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your flesh. And remember it was
just so gruesome, right, and it's

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like it's like, uh, you
know, remember Elisha calls two bears from

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the from the woods to mall forty
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a prophet of God. I mean, there's some there's some pretty rough thing

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rough things that happened to people.
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and I just don't don't see how
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for his body, for something horrific
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would expect that, actually I really
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are a few times when it is, and I think that's just another one

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of those evidences of the specificity of
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the other one would be I think
it's interesting that these priests have no guilt.

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Yeah, what do we care?
Right? So he comes and he

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says, you know what, Uh, I didn't mean to get him killed,

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and many meant to get him arrested. I was trying to ruin his

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reputation. I think is probably what
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is a scam and he's not the
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Very likely Judas was one of those
zealous right, because Jesus had a

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couple of zealous very like there was
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following Jesus that was not fulfilled,
whatever that was, And so all Judas

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saw Jesus As is some kind of
do gooder. He goes around somehow he's

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doing these really amazing things, and
people believe and he says all these things

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that most of it I don't even
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and the people sure do like him. But I'm done. I'm just I'm

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done. I'm going to ruin his
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Well, I think his intent was
getting canceled, not killed. Yeah.

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Well, I mean, and he
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the money's not going to come rolling
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things turn. The tide's turning,
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out of this guy. Yeah,
because I mean, you know, the

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Bible gives us insight about Judas,
and it says, remember when the woman

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broke the alabaster box, and he
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or that perfume could have been sold, and the money given to the

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poor, And then it says in
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that's not why he said it,
right. He gets about the poor,

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right, because he often stole money
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right, and so it gives us, you know, some insight about

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the fact that even during ministry,
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you know, it's probably fair to
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cow, right, like, Hey, I'm just gonna make a little on

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the side. This is kind of
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trick in the book. And right, you remember the old man, Sorry

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about the movie quotes today, but
you remember the old show from the seventies,

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Pete Dragon, Yes, remember that
we're money, money, money by

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the pound, right there. They
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town, right, he says you, he says something about you. I

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didn't want to go ball, but
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he says, but it's so becoming. So anyway, So so these

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guys lose the Pharisees, lose any
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the money back and put it back
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because that's inappropriate, right, right, it's inappropriate, oh, selling it

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because it was against the law,
the Jewish law, to use money,

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accept money for murder. Apparently it's
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their minds, but it is against
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So they knew that they gave it
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gave it to. They were selling
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to convict him, convict Jesus.
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back. I go, hey,
wait a minute. You know, he's

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a jerk, but he's not an
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They say, what was that to
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then he throws the money at him, and then they're standing there. They're

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picking up the coins, thirty pieces
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of silver was the price of a
slave. That's right, So it's not

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a significant amount of money, it's
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they pick it up and then they
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so pious in this moment, it
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in the treasury, right, right? Isn't it so goofy? And isn't

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it weird how even everyone's not to
make a movie theme reference In the Mafia

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type movies, there's still a code. There's a family code, you know,

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what I mean, these criminals,
they do all these bad things,

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but don't lie to the family or
whatever right. And it's kind of the

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same thing here that they've developed their
own sense of morality, their own sense

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of right and wrong. They're claiming
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or the teaching of all of the
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that this is where the danger would
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our listeners to spend time in the
Word themselves and not just believe us.

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Right is because much of the Pharisees
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not built on what God's words said. It was built on the words taught

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to them about God's Word. And
so the most important thing for you to

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do is to take God's word into
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Having some teachers is good. Right. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by

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the word of God. Book Roman
says, so hearing God's word being taught

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helps build our faith. But ultimately
you can only truly know what is true

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with your time in the Word,
the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Those

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two things first, and then having
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Otherwise, I think we run the
risk of the Pharisees, and that

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is we build in the teachers of
law, where we build these religious constructs

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that don't make any sense. It's
okay to murder, it's just wrong to

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put the murder money back into the
church treasury or the temple treasury. Right.

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They build these weird religious constructs that
make sense to them but are not

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you know, their contrary scripture,
the bigger one. I don't know if

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you heard, but in the top
ten God's top ten is don't kill.

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Yeah, I heard about that,
right, do you hear about that one?

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Yeah? So I'm not sure what
they're quoting about putting money back in

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the treasury, but it's not in
the top ten. Yeah, right.

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And so it's just one of those
things to spend time in God's word,

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know it yourself, let the Holy
Spirit teach you, and then supplement that

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with people like us that are helping
teach what the Bible has to say.

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No, that's great, Yeah,
that's awesome. Well that looks like about

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our time. And I just have
to throw this in there too. You

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mentioned the Godfather and he said,
you know, in the mafia, you

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know, and it's always family first, godfather too, and he says,

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I know it was euphraido remember that. Yeah, the brother there go,

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there you go. You don't betray
family and the godfather. That's right,

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all right. Well, hey,
that looks like it's our time and we

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will see you next time, hopefully
on the bibble guys,