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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. Hey, welcome to The

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Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this
is Jeff, and we're excited to be

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here. That's correct. And you
know, for those of you that are

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longtime listeners, you know how committed
we are yes to bringing only the finest

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news to our listeners. If you're
new with us today, this is a

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special day for you because you're going
to find out that we are committed to

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great news, particularly the news that
we find on the Babylon B. You

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know, maybe it's better if you
actually read it and look at the article

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for yourself. But for some reason, I don't know if this segment translates

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as well as I think it does. Maybe it does, but I love

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this segment because it is so sophisticatingly
funny. Well, the Babylon B is

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funny. So if you don't know, The Babylon B is a satire website

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and they do a lot of funny
things. But one of the things they

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do is they publish most of their
satire as actual news. They publish it

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with as articles. It's usually like
a bunch of sarcasm. Yes, right,

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there which a lot of something by
by legitimizing it. That's right,

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it's so good. So here's uh, here's a self help for the ladies,

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the lady listeners. Yes on our
show, which is about half of

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just just under half of all of
our listeners, our ladies, Yeah,

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just over half beating or males.
That's incredible, thank you. What a

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coincidence, Yes, which which makes
up a whole I figured that out all

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by myself. That's great. So
on the Babylon b there's an article.

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It says, confused by your husband's
cryptic texts, let the babylon Be interpret

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it interpret them for you. So
here's the article. Ladies, are you

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having a hard time knowing what your
husband's text really mean? Men are complicated

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creatures. So our relationship experts conducted
a study to translate men man texts into

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lady English. That's great. Here's
a complete guide to what your man is

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really saying when he sends you that
text. So when your husband sends you

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a thumbs up emoji, the translation
is cool. When he sends you a

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text that just is simply the letter. When he sends you the text is

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simply the letter K. The translation
would be okay, it's hilarious. When

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he sends you a text that is
lol, the translation is I mightily amused,

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but did not laugh. Right.
When he sends you a text,

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kids are fine, the actual translation
is I haven't seen the kids in an

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hour. I'm sure wherever they are
they're fine. There it is the word.

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When he sends you a text take
your time, translation is I don't

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want you coming home early and catching
me on the fifth hell diverse too,

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match, that's funny. And then
when he says do you know what isle

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granola is in, the translation is
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thirty minutes now, and I'm about
to light the store on fire. That

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is exactly right. When he sends
you a laughing emoji, the translation is

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I'm guessing this is the reaction i'd
have if I watched the video that you

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sent me. That's really funny.
That's so funny. When he texts the

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words got it, the translation is
I did not read your text and'll be

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calling in fifteen minutes to ask you
a bunch of questions you already answered in

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great detail. That's funny too.
When he sends you the text do we

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have any band aids? The translation
is I'm bleeding to death in the garage.

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And then when he texts you the
words you okay, question mark,

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the translation is I know that you're
not okay, but I'm approaching you cautiously

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as though you were a wounded bear. That's easy since those are likely the

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only phrase is your husband ever texts
you, You'll now have no problem understanding

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what he's saying. That's so so
uny, but we are really glad to

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bring that as a special service to
our listeners today. You know, I

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think the funniest part about this article
for me is the first, the first

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two of them, which is,
uh, you know, when he says

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okay, the translation isn't okay.
When he says thumbs up. It's cool,

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cool, because because you know,
we just are pretty uncomplicated creatures.

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We just say what we mean,
right, What do you mean by that?

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Well, what I meant by that
is exactly what I just ask me,

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And I meant nothing else. I've
told my wife so many times,

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I'm just not as sophisticated as you
think I am. Right, right,

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I didn't mean anything else. That
was just that's all I meant. Okay,

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well, hey, there we go. I can't think of anything else

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to add to that. I mean, that was just so complete, it

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was complete. Well, I would
just I would just also say oftentimes in

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conversation when when I say, like, for instance, I'll say I'll ask

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a question to my family sometimes and
I'll say, because I've got I've got

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the dominant estrogen, so there's three
estrogens to hormones, or you know what

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I mean. And anyway i'll ask
a question, I'll say something like,

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hey, you know, why did
you do that again? And instead of

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just saying, oh, that's why, that's why I did this, and

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then I'll be like, okay,
they would like attach all these things to

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my question, well what are you
thinking? Are you thinking? Are are

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you questioning? Why are you all
these attachments? And I'm like, well,

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actually, the only thing I met
was I just wanted to know why,

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yes, and I was I was
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other text or whatever. And it's
just so funny how I seem to do

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that my entire marriage, my entire
marriage, I just seemed to say.

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I just was asked I literally one
question, but the idea was there was

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probably fifteen meanings behind it, which
then means, did you ever think about

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this? Because it kind of happens
too right now, I'm the one guy

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in the house, and there's two
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my daughter and my wife, and
so sometimes I realized that they think I

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mean more than I mean, yes, which then on a case I'm trying

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to say, when when I actually
step out of the fog of my brain,

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it dawns on me they must mean
more than they're saying. Maybe I'm

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missing a whole bunch right then,
because because I don't mean more than I

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say usually, I don't have like
a secondary this cryptic language of implication.

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I don't imply anything. If I
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I'm hungry. That's it. That's
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not taking care of me. I'm
not saying anything. I'm not questioning your

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judgment or your ability or anything else. I'm just making a statement. Right

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But then it dawns I mean,
maybe I'm missing a bunch in the conversation

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that there's a whole other conversation going
on that I'm totally oblivious, and I'll

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tell exactly what you're missing. You're
missing the female chromosome. That's what you're

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missing. And that's the end of
the story. Great, you're not a

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woman. Well have fun after this
episode, right because doesn't listen every day,

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every day, every single day,
and usually I would say nine,

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it's in the morning, unless she
for some reason is running late for very

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odd reason, but usually when she's
getting ready. So right now I could

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almost predict with accuracy, certain with
certainty, that she is putting on her

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makeup. The phone is on the
bathroom, in the master bathroom, and

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she's yelling at it right now,
right now. Oh, you are so

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trouble christ especially what she's doing.
She's putting on her I makeup, and

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she's talking to herself, and she's
like, uh, okay, Chris,

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be quiet. He's in so much
trouble when he get much trouble when he

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gets in home. OK. Yeah, that's what she's saying. Good well,

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Liz, I just want you to
know he's not talking about you specifically,

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He's guessing what it must be like
for other men. That's because you

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are a wonder to behold and a
mystery to him. And I love you

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baby. There you go. So
remember yesterday. Anyways, let's we should

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get into this. So Jesus appears
to these disciples. They're out fishing.

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Yeah, seven seven of the eleven, that's right. Peter says, I'm

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going to go back fishing. And
by the way, his decision affected six

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others. You know a lot of
times when we decide we're going to walk

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away from the mission we're supposed to
be on, others will follow. Right,

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that's what happens here. But Jesus
doesn't go out and get mad,

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and said, Jesus goes fixed breakfast. Say hey, guys, cast your

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net on the other side. And
as soon as they do, when they

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start catching a bunch of fish,
John and Peter realize who this is,

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and Peter jumps in the water and
swims to Jesus. It's just such a

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wonderful thing. Jesus meets Peter where
he was, and Jesus already had breakfast

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for them even before he called him
out. Yeah, or at least by

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the time Peter made it the shore, breakfast is ready. And so I'm

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laughing. Yes, yeah, yesterday
we wasted like five minutes on that one.

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So in John twenty one, Verse
fifteen, It says after breakfasts,

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so we do know breakfast gets finished? Yes, Jesus asked Simon Peter,

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Simon, son of John, do
you love me more than these? Yes,

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Lord replied Peter replied, you know
I love you, Then feed my

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lambs, Jesus told him. Jesus
repeated the question, Simon's son of John,

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do you love me? Yes?
Lord, Peter said, you know

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I love you, Then take care
of my sheep. Jesus said a third

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time, he asked him sign son
of John, do you love me?

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Peter was hurt that Jesus asked a
question a third time. He said,

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Lord, you know everything. You
know that I love you, and Jesus

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said, then feed my sheep.
I tell you the truth. When you

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were young, you were able to
do as you liked. You distressed yourself,

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you went wherever you wanted to go. But when you are old,

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you will stretch out your hands and
others will dress you and take you where

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you don't want to go. Jesus
said this to let him know by what

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kind of death he would glorify God. Then Jesus told him follow me.

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Peter turned around and saw behind them
the disciple Jesus loved, the one who

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had leaned over to Jesus during supper
and asked, Lord, who will betray

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you? Peter asked Jesus, what
about him? Lord? Jesus replied,

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if I want him to remain alive
until I returned, what is that to

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you? As for you follow me? So the rumor spread among the community

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of believers that the disciple wouldn't die, But that isn't what Jesus said at

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all. He only said, if
I want him to remain alive until I

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return, what is that to you? This disciple is the one who testifies

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to these events and has recorded them
here, and we know that his account

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of these things is accurate. Jesus
also did many other things. If they

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were all written down, I suppose
the whole world could not contain the books

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that would be written. Yeah,
I love that. Yeah, well,

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that's such a grand phrase, right, I suppose the whole world cannot contain

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the books that would be written.
I don't suppose that that's a literal translation,

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is it? Like? Certainly,
Well, he says, I don't

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suppose. So he's acknowledging hyperbole there. Yeah I think so too. Yeah,

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I do which is why I asked. So. There's a note in

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the Life Application Study Bible about these
three questions that Jesus asks Peter, and

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I love the detail. It says
this. Jesus asked Peter three times if

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he loved him. The first time
Jesus said do you love He used the

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word the Greek word agape sacrificial love, and so when he said, do

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you love me? More than these? The second time, Jesus focused Peter

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on focused on Peter alone and used
the same Greek word. The third time,

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Jesus used the Greek word phi leo
significant, signifying affection, affinity,

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or brotherly love. He asked,
in effect, are you even my friend?

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Peter responded each time with the Greek
word phi leo. Jesus didn't settle

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for a quick, superficial answer.
He has a way of getting to the

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heart of the matter. Peter had
to face his true feelings and motives when

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Jesus confronted him. How would you
respond if Jesus asked you did you love

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me? Do you really love me? Are you even my friend? Isn't

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that we're super insightful, because you
know, again, we say this at

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weddings or at least I do is
that, you know, Unfortunately, when

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we use the word love, or
when we translated the word love, we

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just translated it flippantly. There's all
these Greek words that mean specific things.

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There's friendship love, there's romantic love, there's sacrificial love, and yet we

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just translate them all to the same
word love. And so here's what I

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always say at I've been known to
say this at weddings. I'll say,

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uh, so we we over use
the word love. I said. For

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instance, I said, you may
go to the reception and say, hey,

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I love these or irths, and
then you look at your spouse and

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say, oh, and I love
you too. I said, So your

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wife will have no choice but to
compare herself to in our dirth because what

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other choice have we given her?
Right because we're using these word love or

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using the same word for me like
cheese and crackers and olives. Right,

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But but yeah, that's the way
we use the word love. So love

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means a bunch of things for us. But in the Greek, you know,

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Jesus was very specific. So he
says, do you love me unconditionally?

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Do you really love me unconditionally?
And are you even my friend.

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That's that's wow. Yeah, I
love it because there you go. Love

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it. I love this passage because
you know, Peter denied Jesus three times,

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and so Heesus comes back and lets
Peter restate his love for him three

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times, right, And there's something
to that. I think it was incredibly

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emotional moment and for Jesus to challenge
him, Jesus doesn't let Peter off the

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hook on this one. Peter confronts
the fact that, hey, you denied

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me. Let's address that. And
sometimes I think we're tempted to sweep things

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under the rug. We're tempted to
just kind of ignore a thing, to

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not address it, and long term
that does damage to relationships when we just

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don't address a thing. Now,
the Bible does say that, you know,

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love covers a multitude of sins and
doesn't keep any record of wrong.

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There's so many things like that,
So sometimes it's not worth it. But

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other times, in this situation,
Peter had denied Jesus three times, struggles

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with the whole death and resurrection,
and even after having seen the resurrected Lord,

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he abandons his mission and goes back
fishing, and so clearly he had

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seen the resurrected Lord. He saw
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and then felt like I blew it
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going to be fixed. So the
only way to fix this relationship was to

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go back to where it broke.
And Jesus goes back to where it broke

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in this moment and says, do
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I sacrifice myself for you? Do
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are we even friends? And it
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goes, Lord, you know everything. It says it hurt that Jesus even

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asked that question the third time.
He said, you know everything. You

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know that I love you, And
I love the fact that Jesus gave him

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the opportunity to emphatically state his love
for Jesus. And then every time he

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said I love you, Jesus gave
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my sheep. That's what I want
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that you love me, you want
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let's get back on mission together.
I'm not done. I'm not done with

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you. You don't have to be
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work and feeding my sheep. And
then he tells him, Hey, you

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know, it's a weird way to
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you know. Uh, but he
lets him know when year old,

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they're going to take you and where
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die. Isn't it interesting how every
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So one was dragged behind a horse, right and then uh, and

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then you know, one's crucified upside
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know, uh, all these different
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Jesus looks beyond uh excuse me,
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says, what about him? Yeah, And Peter's like, or Jesus is

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like, hey, if I wanted
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me. I'm not talking about him, Peter, I'm talking about you.

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doesn't. He isn't martyred. He
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tried, they try to kill him, but he survived. I just think

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that's really really interesting. And and
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well. It says this was a
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indicates that Peter was crucified for his
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worthy of dying in the same way
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future held, Jesus told him to
follow him. We may be uncertain and

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fearful about our future, but if
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we can confidently follow Christ. That's
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there's there's a price that has to
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we're going to be persecuted when following
following him. You know, we'll be

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uh, you know, having to
give up our relationships, our most important

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relationships. Uh, not necessarily having
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sacrifice some relationships in our lives if
they're unhealthy, and there's a price to

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be paid. We have to show
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So it's not always easy to follow
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That's right. That's right. So
I remember one of my favorite phrases

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that I preach is no matter the
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a good point. So Jesus is
letting Peter know, hey, you're going

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to die for me, and for
some of us we would read it and

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go, oh, my goodness,
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But it's not. It's the other
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being a martyr in scripture, right, and the Bible talks about it in

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the Book of Revelation, the extraordinary
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for Christ. And by the way, all the apostles except for John,

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as you mentioned, were martyred.
So I just looked this up a moment

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ago. But Peter, these are
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right, There's only a couple of
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But Simon Peter, according to a
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or that Peter, was crucified upside
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crucified the way that Jesus was.
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So Nero had burned the city of
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So both Paul and Peter were executed
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each other. But he was crucified. Andrew, Peter's brother, was also

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crucified just like his brother. And
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So John's brother, he was put
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in the Book of Acts where they
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put him to death with the sword. So then you have John, who

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is the writer of the Book of
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John, he died natural death.
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him alive. And here's what Tertullian
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second century, and he wrote that
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they brought him into a colosseum and
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But when he emerged unharmed, the
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what Tertullian wrote about that moment when
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in oil, it isn't amazing.
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example out of John, and when
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Christians. It's like, that's exactly
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tells us that Uh Philip was was
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of uh uh. He led a
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they executed him. Bartholomew was in
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he was crucified. Thomas, according
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well. He was run through with
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suffered martyrd him. He was slain
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of a fighting long stemmed weapon.
James was preaching and he was stoned to

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death and then was buried beside the
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Judas the son of James, right, This isn't Judas is scary, but

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the other one. He was beaten
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thunder by these witches, and then
the king bare the body's apostles and did

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just make of marvelous saying. So
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and chopped to death during that time. That's a pretty bad way to go.

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Simon was martyred. He was crucified
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who was the guy who took Judas's
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what would be now modern day Georgia, up north of Armenia. In that

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area, he was stoned to death
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amazing how many of these disciples that
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when John or when Jesus tells Peter, so then let's get about the mission,

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and then says, you're going to
die for me someday, but between

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here and there, let's get on
this mission. Right. I believe that

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you love me. Now go feed
my sheep. He's restoring him and then

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letting him know, Hey, there's
a great glory in your future coming in

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your future, and it's not going
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this world you will have trouble,
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And they all were convinced that there
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the bodily resurrection of Jesus and they
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death, he'll defeat it. From
me too, right, And people don't

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die for something that they made up. That's correct. So you know,

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there's not a single person that's going
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down or throw me into oil or
you know, spear me to death or

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whatever it is, right, you
know, the shot me up, chop

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me up, stole me. Yeah, of course I'd be willing to,

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you know, subject myself to that. You know, they would, they

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would recant, they would recant at
the last minute. But but but these

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men aren't going to do that because
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the Lord, just like you said. You know, it's the same,

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it's the same proclamation. Uh funny
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But but they're the ones that spoke
before their ex sentence was carried out,

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and they said, hey, listen, we know that the God we

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serve is able to deliver us out
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furnace, and if he wants to, he's going to do that, essentially.

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But if he chooses and his wisdom
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be known to you, o King, we will never bow down and worship

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the false God in the image that
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unbelievable statement. And even though those
things aren't record for the disciples that you

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just mentioned, I have to believe
that there has to be those kinds of

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moments where you know, hey,
you're about to be killed. You know

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I'm the authority that has the power
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have anything else to say for yourself? I have to believe that there's going

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to be those kinds of statements,
because, after all, Peter stood in

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front of the Sanhedron after you know, after in the Book of Acts,

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after having seen the same council put
Jesus to death. Peter stands in front

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of them and says, hey,
hypocrites, you're the ones you've killed,

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all the martyrs, you've killed all
or the prophets, rather right, And

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he stands during the Book of Acts
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How is he able to do that? And he tells them we're going to

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obey God rather than men. Yes, And he says all of those things

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with his bony little finger pointed at
the council. And the reason why he's

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able to do that is because he
has the confidence of knowing that if God

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before us, who could be against
this? And He's not going to do

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that for a made up story of
somebody stealing the body and claiming that there's

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a false resurrection, And so take
this story as just encouragement. You might

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have felt like you've crossed the line
and you can never serve the Lord again,

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but God's not done with you yet. He's going to want to re

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establish that you really do love him, that you really are on his side,

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and he has a mission for you. There are still many people his

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sheep who have not yet been found, So go find more people, bring

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him to Jesus. Right, that's
great, all right, Well, hey,

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we'll see you next time on the
Bible. Gus