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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, good morning, Jeff,

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Good morning Chris. I am just
want to welcome our listeners from around

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the world. I do too,
and around the world. I want to

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welcome our listeners as well. I
can't believe that people actually listen from other

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countries, isn't it amazing. I
don't know how. I don't know how

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you found us. It's like ten
of our of our listeners listen from outside

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the US. Wow. I just
saw that the other day. I thought

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of the quote from Back to the
Future they found me. I don't know

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how that they found me. Roun
Marty Ron, Yes, who found you

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Bolivians. So, but I don't
know how you found us. But thanks

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for finank you. So we're glad. Hey share us, share us with

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your friends. Yeah, that'd be
great. Ye. So today we're doing

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a segment, and the segment is
called where are our listeners from? Oh?

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I like this one, and so
what we're gonna do is just highlight

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in this case a city and I'll
give you a hint. It is a

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city in the United States. This
is inside the country. Yes, and

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it is going to be what four
comments about it? And let's see if

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you can guess what it is.
Okay, so you want to you want

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to take So Number one, the
world's biggest pirate invasion happens here every year.

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Wow, is that a reenactment?
I'm a say that almost gives it

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away. No, Chris, It
clearly says it's a pirate invasion. Don't

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say a pirate invasion reenactment? Right, right? So these poor people get

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invaded by pirates every year. Yeah, that's that's just why does anybody even

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live there? Every year? It's
the biggest pirate invasion. That's what the

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sentence says. It's the biggest pirate
invasion in the world, and it happens

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every year here. That's okay,
so many movies are running through my mind.

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I'm just gonna move on. It's
so funny, Okay. Number two

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the twist dance craze started here,
which, by the way, I didn't

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know that. Oh, everybody do
the It's Twist again like you did last

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summer. Okay, there you go. How about number three? R and

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B singer Ray Charles got his big
start here Georgia Georgia. I always thought

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it was Georgia, like Atlanta,
right, but this place is not in

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Georgia. No, people don't know
that. Well, I mean, come

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on, yeah, well so clearly
now you know it's not Georgia. By

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the way, I may have people
might have thought Georgia immediately, and that's

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what I'm saying. I just blew
or helped Jeff think about it that way.

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Yes, I'm a helper. Yeah, you're a big helper, all

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right. And then finally the last
one is the Cuban sandwich was invented here.

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By the way, I was in
Cuba four times, and I thought

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that I learned that the Cuban sandwich
was invented in Cuba. It was invented

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by Cubans, you think, so, you think it was invented by Cubans

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In the United I kept asking for
a Cuban sandwich in Havana, yeah,

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and they kept it was hard to
find a good Cuban sandwich. And then

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finally it's in the tourist areas.
So when I was in there getting it,

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he said, well, you know, only tourists buy these things because

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they're not really Cuban. That's what
he said. Really yeah, I didn't

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know that. So, but all
of the elements are Cuban elements, right,

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right, So you got the ham, You've got the the Swiss cheese,

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You've got that great roll, it's
going to be flattened out. You've

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got the the pulled pork on the
top of that with pickles and a little

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bit of mustard. Yeah, but
it's got like the whole grain type mustard.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's one of
my favorite sandwiches in the world.

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Yeah, that's great. Good,
it is a good Cuban But it was

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invented in Tampa. According to this
and Desiree knows Chris. Yeah, okay,

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well we didn't even do the drum
roll. You said it? Oh

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did I say? I said it? You know, here's a drum roll

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Tampa, Tampa. There you go, he said, which, by the

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way, thank you listeners of that's
right. My daughter lives in Tampa,

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so she's at least one of them. Listen. There you go. So

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that's a listener, thank you to
the listener in Tampa. That's like saying

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my mom likes me. So we
have one in Ohio and one in Tampa.

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That's not true that that's great.
I think actually I looked at the

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stat and I think it's like six
hundred people in Tampa. It's a lot

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of people. Yeah, so it's
a lot of people. Actually I'm kidding.

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I mean that I don't know either, but it's a lot. So

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thank you guys, and hey,
we'll be praying for you about that big

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pirate invasion. Yeah, that's so
funny. The Buccaneers. By the way,

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in kids, you're wondering that's in
Tampa Bay. Don't they have like

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a big festival like parade. Yes, my sister used to live in Tampa.

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The coolest logo, right, it's
a pirate logo. It's kind of

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cool for the NFL team. Okay, well, there you go. Well

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that was riveting. Another riveting segment. Yes, by the Bible, guys,

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Well, we are going to be
reading in John chapter seventeen, and

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it is worth reminding people, yes, that this is only found in the

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Book of John. In fact,
the last several chapters, John has recorded

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things that Jesus taught that really only
John recorded. Yes, so this whole

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study has been a comparison to the
Gospels, a harmony of the gospels.

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And when it's written in two different
places, we read both or three or

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possibly four. But we've been in
John for quite a while. Yeah,

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I think this is the seventh day
of us being only in John. Wow.

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But it's all been the same speech, right of course, one big

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long speech as they're walking from the
upper room down through the kid Run valley,

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which would also be gardening a semoni
area, up to the Mount of

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Olives, and then back to the
garden. So here we go. Hey,

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because our segment was a little quicker. Yes, can I start off

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by reading this right here? It's
kind of cool, that's super cool.

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So it lists the major events of
passions. So he's talking about the life

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application study Bible. Oh yeah,
it has this whole segment below the text

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of the Bible part has this whole
big chunk which which is really cool because

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it's full of all kinds of notes
and things. But this one has a

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big piece that lays out the calendar
of the passion week, the week of

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jesus death. It says Sunday through
Wednesday. Jesus spent each night in Bethany,

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just two miles east of Jerusalem,
on the opposite slope of the Mount

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of Olives. He probably stayed in
the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus.

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Jesus spent Thursday night praying in the
garden Becosemite. Friday and Saturday nights

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jesus body lay in the garden tomb. So it says Sunday the triumphal entry

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into Jerusalem. Monday, Jesus clears
the temple. Tuesday, Jesus' authority challenged.

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In the temple, he taught the
stories confronting the Jewish leaders. Greeks

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asked to see Jesus all of that
disclosure, and then Judas agrees to betray

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Jesus. That all happens on Tuesday, and again this is probably most likely

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type chart, isn't it sure?
And then it says Wednesday. The Bible

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does not say what Jesus did on
this day. He probably remained in Bethany

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with his disciples. Thursday is the
last supper. Jesus speaks to the disciples

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in the upper room. Jesus struggles
in guests sementy, and Jesus is betrayed

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and arrested Thursday night. And then
it says Friday, Jesus is tried by

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Jewish and Roman authorities and is denied
by Peter. Jesus is crucified, and

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then on Sunday morning the resurrection on
the third day. Yeah, so I

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would suggest that Wednesday he was still
teaching in the temple. Yeah, and

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the reason being we literally read two
different times it said each day each day,

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and then each night he would go
back to the garden, right or

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back to Bethany. So I think
each day is more than two days,

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is what I would say, right, Probably, right, So I think

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it's probably Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday he was preaching in the in the

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temples, stirring the pot and then
yeah. Yeah. Anyways, other than

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that, though, isn't it interesting? It is interesting, and so then

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has all the Bible references next to
it. And the thing that's the benefit

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of having a good study Bible,
man, you need a good study Bible.

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You can get one of these on
Amazon for like twenty bucks, right,

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right, They're not very expensive,
but a hardcover, and it just

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helps you because it gives you so
many extra insights to what I think we

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regularly have. Say, wow,
you guys really make the Bible easy to

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understand. There's so many good insights. And where do you think we get

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these things from. We get them
from the fact that We've owned study Bibles

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our whole life. We have some
good commentaries, we've had some good teaching

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around us, and we've just collected
all these things. Well, the benefit

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of a good study Bible is somebody
collected all these things, right right,

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a good editor put a bunch of
scenes together, and here's some really good

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insights. So you could do it
too. That's what I'm trying to say.

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All right, now, may I
read you? May I will allow

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that, you should say you may
proceed. Oh yeah, well, I

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always always been out to the Tony
Stark comment. I will when he's in

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doctor Strange's things and the he touches
this sacred relic or whatever it was supposed

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to be, and the doctor Strange
whips his arms with his cloak, Antny

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Stark goes, I will allow that. It's so funny. There you go,

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John seventeen. We're going to read
one through nineteen. Here it says,

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after saying these things for the last
six days, after saying all these

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things, Jesus looked up to heaven
and said, Father, the hour has

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come. Glorify your sons so he
can give glory back to you, for

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you have given him authority over everyone
He gives eternal life to each one you've

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given him, and this is the
way to have eternal life. To know

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you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, the one you sent

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to earth. I brought glory to
you here on earth by completing the work

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you gave me to do. Now, Father, bring me into the glory

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we shared before the world began.
I revealed you to the ones you gave

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me from this world. They were
always yours. You gave them to me,

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and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything I have

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is a gift from you, for
I have passed on to them the message

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you gave me. They accepted it
and they know that I I have come

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from you, and they believe you
sent me. My prayer is not for

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the world, but for those you
have given me, because they belong to

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you. All who are mine belong
to you, and you've given them to

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me, so they bring me glory. Now I am departing from the world,

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and they are staying in this world. But I am coming to you.

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Holy Father. You have given me
your name. Now protect them by

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the power of your name, so
that they will be united just as we

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are. During my time here I
protected them by the power of the name

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you gave me. I guarded them
so that not one was lost except the

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one headed for destruction, as the
scriptures foretold. Now I am coming to

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you. I told them many things
while I was with them in this world,

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so that they would be filled with
my joy. I've given them your

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word, and the world hates them
because they do not belong to the world,

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just as I do not belong to
the world. I'm not asking you

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to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the

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evil one. They do not belong
to this world anymore than I do.

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Make them holy by your truth.
Teach them your word, which is truth.

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Just as you sent me into the
world, I am sending them in

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the world, and I give myself
as a holy sacrifice for them so they

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can be made holy by your truth. How humbling is that m Jesus is

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praying for his well. I mean, I want to say twelve, but

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he says, you know one's headed
for destruction, right, So he's praying

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for all of them well, because
you remember, like later on they vote

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for Matthias, they had to vote
from all the ones that never left Jesus,

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So there's always more than just those
twelve Oh yeah, yeah, he

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represent all that you've given me,
give all the reference to all the disciples,

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yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's referring to Mary Martha. Yeah,

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he's referring Zebedee. He's referring to
all these guys, right, sous

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Cleopus's wife Mary, Yeah yeah,
Mary, Magdalene. All these people are

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part of that Collopus is one that
we don't talk about. It fun yeah

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yeah. So yeah, it's just
a humbling thing. And he prays for

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the church that it may be one
that they may be unified. He prays

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that that that the Father would keep
them safe in the world. And and

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and he says they don't belong in
the world any more than I do.

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That's a pretty awesome statement, right, I love that phrase. Yeah,

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I love it. Yeah, just
the the idea that we're you know,

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we're supposed to be. We're in
the world, but we're not supposed to

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be of the world. The fact
that we are made for heaven. And

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uh. And he says they belong
to me, which is great. So

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I cannot read this passage without thinking
of that new song song. You remember

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a new song? I do remember
that. I think I have all their

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records by the way, Oh do
you records or cassettes? All their recordings?

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Okay, but what do you have? What version? I think I

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have them all on my phone.
Oh, good for you. You've updated

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it. Yes, so you remember
that song. This one's with me?

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Yes, so so that I think
you can correct me if I miss a

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line or something. But it on
the record. People, get ready,

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there it is so you do know, you know more than me. But

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I think it says I was dreaming
about heaven, something about the pearly gates.

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Yeah, we were all there.
I was so scared in the presence

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of one so great I bowed my
head. He felt unworthy, and he

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said he turned around, and I
was going to walk away. And then

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he says, but then I heard
someone say, father, Oh, father,

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this one's with me. Yep right, this one's with me. He's

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part of the reason I died on
cavalry. And he says, Father,

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please let him in. I paid
the price for him. Father, Oh

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father, this one's with me.
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that idea. It's the idea that
like he felt unworthy in the presence of

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God. He turns around to leave, and then Jesus says the phrase this

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one's with me, and it's that
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that you have given these disciples to
me, they belonged to me. I've

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prayed for them, I'm I'm,
I've prayed for their protection and the name

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that you've given me. And they
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I do. And one day they'll
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to heaven, you better believe.
There is a version of that song that

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is sort of true. Right absolutely. I don't know which phrase Jesus said,

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but this one's with me is just
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Father, this one's with me,
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reasons I died on Calvary. Yes, I just I love that concept.

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It's really good. So that was
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just listened to that one because it
starts off with the old Motown song people

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get ready remember and there's a train
coming. Remember that. That that song

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and again the idea of being that
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album is about how Jesus punched the
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other way, and that's kind of
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love the fact that Jesus says they
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I do. I think a lot
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they feel like they're supposed to fit
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home. And Paul reminds his readers
later on. He tells him, Hey,

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uh, we just live in temporary
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These bodies are like that. He
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They're just temporary tents. A tent
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camping. Love it. I find
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in a tent a couple times a
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bush in uh in Kenya, different
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I hate it. If you ever
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to do, I would love to
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camping trip through Yellowstone and the Grand
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wolves aren't a stuff. But yeah, it's so that that's on there too,

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kind of so so yeah, but
you're thinking, you're thinking about the

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six thousand square foot log cabin with
all the fireplaces. This is what you're

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thinking about that they live in,
right, it's not only show part.

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Yeah sure, so anyways, the
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I love a tent. Tents are
fun, but they're only temporary, right,

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right, they're not. You can't
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in a tent, right. You
need to put down more steaks. So

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what happens for us is a lot
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We want to make this home.
And Paul keeps saying, your life

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would be way easier for you if
you just realize you're a traveler, right,

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you are a temporary resident, and
that this is not home. He's

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gone and he's prepared a place for
us, Jesus said just a couple of

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days ago in the podcast. Uh, he's he's gone, and there there's

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a celestial city. Do you remember
reading Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan's book from you

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know what five hundred and six hundred
years ago, the Pilgrim's Progress, and

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they were going to the Celestial city
the whole thing was was this this Christian

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He was a brand new convert,
and he's on this journey all the way

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to the celestial city. And there's
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he's not always confident in his direction. But and there's always this temptation to

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put down roots and stay, and
instead he's always heading to this celestial city.

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And if we could just understand that
we weren't made for this world,

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that's why it doesn't quite fit right
for us. There is more. And

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you have this sense in your heart, in your mind. Surely my life

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is supposed to mean something more.
Surely I was supposed to do something more.

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You're right, you weren't made for
this earth. You're frustrated because the

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career you chose is to pay your
bills. But that's not what you're made

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for. Perhaps right you want you're
made for the kingdom. You're made for

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something more. Absolutely, and I
love this phrase. They don't belong to

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this world anymore than I do,
so, he says, So make them

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truly holy by your truth, and
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You really want to start leaning into
what you were made for, lean

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into God's words which, Hey,
that's what our listeners are doing right now,

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right, is they're spending a little
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be unified. Right? Is that
the scripture in other places where it says

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he prays that the church would be
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That's very next phrase or very next
day? That's tomorrow? Oh, that's

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tomorrow. Okay, who's going to
pray for the future? Believers? You're

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really good at that. You're constantly
tipping our hand. Is what's coming?

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Hey, listen, you've read the
Bible of time or two, I've read

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the Bible time together. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, so yeah so.

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But I just I love the fact
that Jesus has he's showing genuine concern and

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he's praying for the success of his
mission. Of course, right, obviously

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it's for God's glory, right,
but at the same time, there's genuine

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concern. He's like, Heavenly Father, I just want you. I'm not

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praying because it even even says it
right here, he says, I'm not

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asking you to take them out of
this world, but keep them safe from

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the evil one and so there's genuine
concern for their well being because it just

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goes to show you that Jesus has
true love for imperfect people. So he

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chose, he chose these guys are
like they're tax collectors, and and they're

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zealous, and there are people that
are misguided, right and and and these

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people are just imperfect people and and
and people are who he, by the

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way, knows they're about to scatter. He knows they're about to Yeah,

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he's already said it. He knows
they're going to deny him, and their

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faith is is not as strong as
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They're gonna leave them alone. That's
why he says, you're gonna let

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me alone, he says, But
I'm not gonna be alone because I have

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the Father. He says, but
you're gonna leave me alone in just a

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minute. So so but he is
genuine concern, which which again I love

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this too because think about this.
So when when we read the Bible and

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it says God loves you, it's
like it's like this godly, heavenly,

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supernatural love. But yet Jesus has
spent three and a half years with them,

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and so there's there's you have to
believe that there is a you know,

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the Bible says that he experienced every
range of human emotion, right,

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so he's got this sort of like
brotherly, earthly affection that is very relatable

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to understand. So it isn't just
like I love you from Afar, it's

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I love you up close. I
know you, I see you, I'm

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relationally interacting with you. I know
what it's like to experience you on your

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worst days. So so for me
when he's when he has so much genuine

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concern, it's just a great comforting, humbling sort of thing to know that

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God loves us from Afar and loves
us because we're his creation, but he

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also loves us by name, and
he knows us and our imperfections, and

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yet he knows the depths of our
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That's really comforting, yep. And
then he ends it with I'm just as

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you sent me into the world,
I'm sending them into the world. Right,

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I'm on a mission. They're on
a mission because they're not made for

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this world anymore than I am.
So we're here on an invasion mission and

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I'm leaving. But they're staying and
now I'm sending them to go do what

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I did. And then he said, I'm going to pay this holy sacrifice

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so that they can be made holy
by your truth. Yeah and really powerful.

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Now tomorrow he's going to pray for
us, for you and me.

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Yeah, Jesus prayed for you before
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Yeah, it's extremely cool. Well, hey, that's our time and so

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hopefully we will see you tomorrow on
the Bible. Guys,