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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, hey, there,

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welcome to the Bible guys. We're
so glad you joined us. Today.

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He's Chris and I'm Jeff, And
today we were talking about Jesus in

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the garden gassemine. Yeah. Yeah, we're getting there, aren't we.

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Yeah, it's the next several days. We're heading towards the cross. Yeah,

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and the most pivotal moment in all
of humanustry restriction. You said this

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right before we started recording, but
you said in the next couple episodes,

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by the end of this week,
I think, right, we're actually gonna

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get to the place to where no, no, no, no, how

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many episodes do we have left in
this series? A bunch? Oh we

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do. Okay, by the time
we get done with a series, we'll

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have read every verse in the Gospels. That's correct, that's cract which is

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really great. Yeah, it's just
another month or so for us to finish

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that up, and we'll have gone
through every verse in the Gospels, which

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is so cool. Yeah, super
cool. So today, before we get

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into the the study, we're looking
at maybe one of the most important segments

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we do. Oh yeah, of
course, which is dad jokes. It's

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daughter. It's a dad joke competition. So, uh, you know what,

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I'm gonna go first because I'm really
liking my dad jokes today. Go

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ahead. So if these flop,
it's in my delivery. It's not in

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equality. I just want to give
Desiree props on choosing my jokes today.

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Oh I think she gave you all
the good ones. Yeah, okay,

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here you go. Here's my first
one. Almost all garden gnomes have red

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hats. It's a little gnome fact
little gnome. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

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I think that's a funny one.
You like that one. That's a

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good one, like this one.
This is a good one. This is

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a good first one. Apparently exercising
helps with decision making. It's true.

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I went for a jog today and
I decided I'm never going again. That's

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a good one. Yeah, that's
really good. Yeah, Yeah, that's

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really good. My wife has a
magnet on our refrigerator. Yeah, and

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it says I didn't intend to go
for a run today, but those cops

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came out of nowhere. Oh that's
great, that's good. Here we go.

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I love my job. Lately,
colleagues have been writing names on the

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food in the office fridge. I'm
currently eating yogurt called Susan. How cute?

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Wow wow, Okay, that's okay. I think that was a funny

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one. All right, here we
go. I'd never want to be a

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vegetation. It's just a huge missed
steak. What uh huh supposed to be

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mistake? Only it's missed steak.
It says, I'd never want to be

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a vegetation. It's just a huge
missed steak. You think it meant vegetable?

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Why is it missed steake? Yeah, I don't know. I don't

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know. Well, remember I said
it. I thought that I don't understand

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that. I thought that you got
all the good ones. Hey, we

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should we should pull her on the
show and say, what were you thinking.

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Let's have a new segment right now. That's right, go on the

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back. That's right. That should
be a new segment. What was Desiree

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thinking this week? There you go? Would it hurt the makers of avocados

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to put a different toy inside?
I have like fifty wooden balls already.

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Oh jeez, you know the pit
inside? Oh my gosh, did you

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really? I can't believe I really
thought that that explained it? All right,

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here we go. Here's another one
of these great ones. My son

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likes to cause a scene by going
up to his loft and playing the bongos

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very loudly. It's a little dramatic, A little dramatic. Drumatic, yes,

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a little drum it's the loft.
It's the missed steak. It's what

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that is. You've got a rough
set there, buddy. Let me it's

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a great missed steak, that is. It was a sad and disappointing day

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when I discovered my universal remote control
did not, in fact control the universe,

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not even remotely. It's okay,
all right, well it was.

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It's clever. It's clever. It
was delivered poorly, but it was it

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was clever. Okay. What do
you call a one legged hippo? I

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don't know a hopo like that.
One. That's a good one. That's

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a good Okay, here's my last
one. A Genie granted me one wish,

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so I just said, I just
want to be happy. Now I'm

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living in a cottage with six dwarves
and working in a mine. A little

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bit of Disney humor there, and
I know the other six names. Yeah,

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what are they? Oh? Good? No, gracious, are you

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serious? We don't want to do
this, okay, okay, go ahead,

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all right. Uh I think we
can all get them, can't we?

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He claims he knows them, But
whatever, I think I can name

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most of them. Okay, do
you really want to do this? Grumpy

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doc? Of course? You named
grumpy first, Grumpy Doc, dopey happy

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of course, sneezy bashful and did
I say sneezy, Yes, you said

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sneezy. Uh, sleepy sleepy.
Yeah, we're gonna get it, all

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right, Here we go. Last
joke. I'm writing a book about reverse

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psychology. Don't buy it, okay, yeah, right, all right,

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So I don't get the vegetation one. That's the one. Yeah, we're

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gonna have to hold her accountable for
Yeah, everybody, I think it meant

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vegetable, okay, right, So
if a vegetable is a missed steak,

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that's funny, is it? Though? It's better than vegetation. Vegetable,

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it's just a huge mistake. Yes, even the word mistake doesn't belong in

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that sense. I'm sorry, I'm
trying to save it anyways. Yeah,

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that is it. Yeah, well, thank you for listening, and that's

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all we have today. Yes,
that's great. Okay, So I thought

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the funniest part of the entire segment
was you saying, let's get Dizzie out

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of here. That was really funny. That's right. I'm always I'm always

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in the mood for you know,
like you ever see like old horror movies

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or something Frankenstein and the peasants come
out with the forks and it pitchforks and

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torches. I'm like, I'd totally
love to have that character, right,

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just go yeah, just cause trouble, ma'am. What is that called?

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It's called a a raid? I
guess, yeah, yeah something. So

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anyways, Matthew exactly Matthew, Chapter
twenty six, verse thirty six is where

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we're at today. And so we
laugh a little bit today, but we

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take our faith very seriously, even
though we don't take ourselves too seriously.

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This is one those really serious,
big moments. Actually, yeah, and

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I think a lot of people will
resonate with some of what we talk about

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today. So Christ what says in
Matthew Chapter twenty six, verse thirty six.

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It says, then Jesus went with
them to the olive grove called Kysemine,

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and he said, sit here while
I go over there to pray.

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He took Peter and Zebede's two sons, James and John, and he became

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anguished and distressed. He told them, my soul is crushed with grief to

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the point of death. Stay here
and keep watch with me. He went

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on a little further and bowed with
his face to the ground, praying,

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my father, if it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken

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away from me. Yet I want
your will to be done, not mine.

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Then he returned to the disciples and
found them asleep, and he said

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to Peter, couldn't you watch with
me even one hour? Keep watch and

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pray so that you will not give
in to temptation, for the spirit is

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willing, but the body is weak. Then Jesus left them a second time

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and prayed, my Father, if
this cup cannot be taken away unless I

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drink it, your will be done. When he returned to them again,

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he found them sleep, for they
couldn't keep their eyes open. So he

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went to pray a third time,
saying the same things again. And then

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he came to disciples and said,
go ahead and sleep, have your rest.

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But look, the time has come. The son of Man is betrayed

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into the hands of sinners. Up, let's be going. Look my betrayer

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is here. In Mark chapter fourteen, verse thirty two, it says they

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went to the olive grove called Ysemone, and Jesus said, sit here while

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I go and pray. He took
Peter, James and John with him,

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and he became deeply troubled and distressed. He told them, my soul is

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crushed with grief to the point of
death. Stay here and keep watch with

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me. He went on a little
further and fell to the ground, and

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he prayed that if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting him might pass

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him by. Ah Bah, Father, he cried out, everything is possible

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for you. Please take this cup
of suffering away from me. Yet I

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want your will to be done,
not mine. And then he returned and

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found the disciples asleep, and he
said to Peter Simon, are you asleep?

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Couldn't you watch with me even one
hour? Keep watch and pray so

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that you will not give in to
temptation. For them, the spirit is

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willing, but the body is weak. When Jesus left them, again and

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prayed the same prayer as before.
When he returned to them again, he

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found them sleeping, for they couldn't
keep their eyes open, and they didn't

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know what to say. When he
returned to them the third time, he

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said, go ahead and sleep,
have your rest. But no, the

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time has come. The son of
Man is betrayed to the hands of sinners.

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Up, let's get going. Look
my betrayer is here. And then

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in Luke chapter twenty two, verse
thirty nine, it says, then,

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accompanied by the disciples, Jesus left
the upstairs room and went as usual to

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the Mount of Olives, and there
he told them, pray that you will

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not give into temptation. He walked
away about a stone's throw and knelt down

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and prayed, Father, if you're
willing, please take this cup of suffering

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away from me. Yet I want
your will to be done, not mine.

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Then an angel from heaven appeared and
strengthened him. He prayed more fervently,

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and he was in such agony of
spirit that his sweat fell to the

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ground like great drops of blood.
At last he stood up again and returned

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to the disciples, only to find
them a slip exhausted from grief. Why

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are you sleeping? He hasked them, get up and pray so that you

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will not give in to temptation.
So Luke's the only one that includes the

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Angel and the great sat great drops
of blood, which is appropriate for the

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doctor's right to record that. Yeah. So Luke was a doctor that that

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he talks a lot about the physical
things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And what's amazing about these three passages? Again? This series compares the gospel

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side by side, same thing,
right, So this is found in Mahew,

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Mark and Luke. Uh. What's
amazing about it is John gives more

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detail or insight into the story,
and yet it's less versus you mean,

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Luke. What did I say,
John? Yeah, I met Luke.

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I was steering at Luke and I
said John, Yeah, because actually I

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was thinking in my mind, Hey, John didn't record John didn't record it,

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right, And then he said John, yeah, ye, but Luke

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versus Uh? So yeah, we
mentioned before this was a serious moment.

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Is there a more agonizing moment?
I mean, besides obviously Jesus on the

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cross. I guess that would be
the only other agonizing moment that Trump's this

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one? Right? Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's

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oh goodness, gracious to sweat drops
of blood. I read a medical look

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at, a medical look at the
Crucifixion, and I remember there was a

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document published. Gosh, I mean, I was in Boba College when I

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read through it, and it was
a pretty lengthy document, and it had

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talked about how all the greatest doctors
in the world got together and pieced together

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and broke out in groups and just
talked about, you know what this condition

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was. Well, apparently blood can
go through your sweat glands. But it

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can only this condition is called something
hemo something. And then but it comes

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through your sweat glands, the stress
level has to be so unbelievably high that

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that's how rare it is. Wow, and so and so when he sweat

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great drops of blood, that is
actually a thing. Now, think about,

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you know, think about back then
when they recorded this, I'm not

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certain they really understood medically that that
was even a thing. Right, and

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yet now modern science, right in
medicine, we're able to actually happened,

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you know, how that happens,
which is kind of cool. That's almost

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like an evidence that the gospels real, right, the stories in the Gospel,

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right, they're recording a thing they
didn't understand that we currently understand,

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yes, right right, yeah,
you said it better than I did.

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And then but they just that's one
of those evidences that they just were writing

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what they saw, right, because
this is not something they would have looked

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up on their phone. Do you
wonder what's happening right now? Oh?

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I guess that's a thing, right
right? They had no because I mean,

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how many people think of all the
thousands of our listeners, I guarantee

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you not one of our listeners has
ever seen this happen, right right,

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right, And it's so unbelievably rare, yes, that a person can go

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to that level of suffering and still
be alive, that's right, right.

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So the fact that they recorded what
they saw, it's not like it was

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a thing they've ever seen before,
but they just recorded it as fact.

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And it's one of those little incidental
things that proves to me that they are

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writing what they actually saw, because
it didn't make any sense at all,

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right right, yeah. In fact, you might say that's a miracle,

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question mark, like like you know, from Jesus, you know, you

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expect all sorts of things. Ancient
readers who had no access to the internet

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would have went come on right,
really right, right, that's it would

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have just been one and more of
those. And by the way, that

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that could have happened, right for
the first thousand years when people were reading

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this, they could be like,
that's the part of the Bible, that's

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the heat, didn't sweat blood.
I've never seen that before, right.

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But anyway, as as the as
you think about as a side note,

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the medical look at the crucifixion.
These doctors had walked through everything that we're

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about to walk through what happened to
Jesus physically, and they say that Jesus

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was exceptionally strong strong. Yeah,
exceptionally physically strong, well obviously spiritual and

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everything else right mentally, But to
go through these things, carrying the cross,

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living, even through this thing where
and his blood vessels are literally bursting

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right underneath the surface of his skin, right and coming out in sweat,

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is just that that level of stress
normally would kill a man, right right,

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a heart attack or a stroke.
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no wonder why the angel then comes
and comforts him and strengthens him. Yeah,

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and uh, and so think think
about this as well. So we

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always think Jesus is God, so
obviously he could endure, you know,

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a death, He could endure anything, and he's not going to be afraid

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of such things. We could think
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that that's not a big deal for
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yet Jesus is one hundred percent man. So he's a hundred percent God,

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but he's an hundreercent man, and
so he you know, he experiences every

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range of human emotion, including fear
and everything else. And so he had

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the full experience of stressing so badly
knowing what's coming, and he's in total

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anguish. Yeah, so you want
to talk about anxiety, right, I

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guarantee and nobody on our podcast a
listeners group has ever experienced anxiety to the

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point of sweating great drops of blood. Right, So Jesus knows you,

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and he knows exactly what you're going
through. He's been there. Right.

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I read this and there's a note
it's astounding as I was like, Oh,

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I'm glad we're doing this one.
There's a note in the Life Application

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Study Bible for Matthew twenty six thirty
nine that's exactly the way that I was

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thinking about it. It says in
times of suffering, people sometimes wish they

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knew the future, or they wish
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Jesus knew what lea ahead of him, and he knew the reason.

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Even so, his struggle was still
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will ever have to face. What
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I want your will to be done? It takes firm trust in God's plans.

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It takes prayer and obedience each step
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feel like if I just knew what
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feel better. Jesus did and he
didn't. Right, right, Jesus felt

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better in the context of saying,
nevertheless, not my will be done,

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but yours be done. Jesus,
peace came and saying God, you're in

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control. It did not come in
knowing what was coming next. Right.

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A lot of us were kind of
a little bit control freaks, and we

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want to control the future. We
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And that didn't help Jesus. He
knew what was coming, and he

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still experienced extreme anguish. Now he
knew he was going to be separated from

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the father, right, that was
part of it. He knew that he

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was going to become sin for us. He was going to take on all

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the sin of humanity. These things
are things that he would have never have

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ever experienced in all of his experience
at all, ever, and so this

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was going to be extremely difficult.
It was a horror kind of an idea

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for him, but him knowing it
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so you know, I was thinking
of at this, have you ever known

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people that get in a car accident, Not to be overly graphic, but

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people that are in a car accident
that tense up, they know it's coming,

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and they tense up tend to have
greater injuries than the person who's drunk

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and doesn't even respond or doesn't even
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it's going to be, as opposed
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will, but your will be done
right. When we grip the steering wheel

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too tight, when we get all
tense, everything hits us harder than if

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we just would relax, let God, take care of it. Say whatever

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you're going to do, God,
I trust you in it. That kind

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of peace will bring a lot more, I think, resilience in our lives.

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And you know, God sends in
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sends an angel to minister to Jesus, and I think you know if you

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trust him, because it comes after
Jesus says that right, I want your

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will to be done, not mine
than an angel from heaven appeared to him

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and strengthen him. Right, So
this submits to God's will. And then

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God goes, hey, let me
let me make sure you're comforted here.

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So let's let's talk a little bit
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First of all, he asks those
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and they get to experience something intimate
with Jesus. But they were sleeping,

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well they sort of did, but
missed out on most of it, right,

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So they did a little bit.
They were in the vicinity. They

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were in the vicinity, yea.
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and they obviously experience him feeling anguish. And then when he comes back

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and wakes them up and says,
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least one hour. They they there's
no question they sense his anguish, they

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sense his desperation, but they're overwhelmedless
sleep, and so there's you know,

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there's this sort of a sad moment
for Peter, James and John because we

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can relate too. So the first
thought that I have is this, because

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I can relate in a lot of
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There are moments in our lives where
we, you know, like it

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or not good or bad. It's
not as if God's disappointed beyond the you

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know, point of forgiving us,
because obviously He forgave Peter James and John,

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you know, and gave them understanding
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saying go ahead and sleep right.
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we do disappoint God, He's not
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it's not only disappointing God and trying
to, you know, do something and

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failing, but also there's spiritual warfare
that's happening to a degree that they are

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apparently absolutely clueless about had they known
exactly what's going to happen, because you

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know, they're trying to piece together
all the prophecies even though that Jesus was

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pretty clear, they just didn't know
the time was at hand, even though

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he's been saying, here, you
know I'm about to be betrayed. You

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know that the time has calm.
Hey, let's look at the pass of

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our feast. This is my blood, this is my body, all these

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different things. It just if you
see me, you've seen the Father,

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Yes, I mean all these things
predicting his death is what I'm preferring to.

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And it just appears like they just
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upon them, and so they're sleeping. And I would think that if they

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knew and understood what was happening,
they'd be awake, right, I mean,

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that'd be a pretty big adrenaline rush
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And Jesus is seeing prayer as a
spiritual warfare thing, so he says,

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keep praying so that you'll not give
an a temptation. Right, So he

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sees this as a spiritual encounter that's
about to happen, and we need to

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be prayed up and ready. And
they're like, yeah, I'm really sleepy.

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So they're living only in the physical
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right, and Jesus sees it totally
different here. Yeah, So I just

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wrote a message last night and we're
entering into a series about angels and demons,

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and the thrust of the message is
in sort of an introductory idea that

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helps us all be aware that the
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physical realm that we live in.
That idea is either a great reminder for

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all Christians or it's a brand new
piece of information for those who really don't

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think about it, but it is. I think it's I think it's necessary

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for all of us to really truly
think about that because I believe that Peter,

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James and John they were on the
mountain for the Transfiguration, like they

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saw, they saw the spiritual realm. They understood that there are things that

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happen. They were with Jesus,
they saw miracles, and yet I think

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even they need to be reminded there
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And I think that when as Christians
we know it, we need to

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be reminded of that, probably every
day, that there's a spiritual battle.

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I agree, yeah, and that's
how we need to pray watch him pray.

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He says, that's right, that's
exactly right. So that looks like

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our time. Any any last thoughts, We're going to move on to next

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day. Good job, Chris,
thank you, Jeff, that's lots good

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job all right. Well here,
we'll see you next time on the Bible

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guys. Hm hm