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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. Okay, here we are,

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we are here, all right,
Chris, I'm so I am too,

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And we have a brand new segment
today. It's called Guess the Gibberish.

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It says, I'm going to bring
a strand I'm going to read a

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string of random words easy for me
to say, and you will see if

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Jeff can figure them out of what
the phrase is supposed to be, can

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give me an illustration? Yes,
So the illustration that she gave us is

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the word bay bay, and then
beach beach, and then arc Bay beach,

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arc baby chark, Babe baby baby
shark, baby Shay's that's okay,

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so baby beach. So here's what
we're going to do. We're going to

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actually put the words in. We're
gonna see We're gonna put the words on

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the bottom of the screen. So
if you're watching right, if you're watching,

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we're gonna put these words on the
bottom of the screen and then we're

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going to see if you can get
it. And if you're listening, then

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just listen with us. Okay,
And here it is Jeff. You can

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look and I can look with you. Yeah. So here it's ready talk

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ode oos hey talk ode tacoos hay
Taco Tuesday, Taco Tuesday. The okay,

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I got all right, Here we
go ode. Here's the next one.

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Yeah, yeah, ear puck picture, your ear puck picture, your

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ear puck picture. Oh I know
it. What is it? Your book

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picture? Your book picture? Yes, your book picture. Okay, all

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right, very good, all right, all right, here's the third one.

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Can can you keep Passigret? Canoe
keep passing? Gret? Can you

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keep a secret? No? Way? Good job? Yeah, there you

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go. That's really good one.
All right, here's the fourth one.

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Doodle a golds do a coup gold
serge? Who goals? Hurts? Who

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golds do it? Who? I
don't know? Okay, do a Google

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search, wow a, who goals? Okay, okay, here's the last

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one. He's owner whole, He's
owner whole. He's owner hole. I

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don't know he's owner whole. I
don't know he's owner a roll. Oh

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boy, that's a hard one.
I don't know. But he's okay.

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Well, we got a couple.
We've got a couple of those. One.

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Yeah, yeah, you know what. That game is fun if it

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makes sense, like Taco Tuesday makes
sense. You're a picture I got right,

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he's owner hole. Yeah yeah,
yeah, he's on a roll.

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He's owner roll, he's on the
rule whatever. Yeah, okay, well

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hey, interesting, yes, interesting. I don't know what it has to

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do with I mean literally anything.
Well, it's just gibberish. Maybe she's

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sending a message. No, maybe
that's her passive aggressive way to say.

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What you guys do is gibbers See
you can connect anything, Jeff here,

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let me let me preach this,
Okay, okay, good, okay.

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Sometimes when Jesus says things the disciples
didn't understand and it seemed like gibberish to

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them, they're, oh, wow, yeah, there's such a good Bible

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teacher. Yes, yes, and
that's why it's a privilege for me to

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join you on your show. You
may kiss the rain. Okay, Well

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we are in my mom's favorite chapter
in the Bible. Wow. John chapter

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fourteen, and Jesus is the way
to the Father is what this is all

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about. So John chapter fourteen,
verse one through fourteen through fourteen, Jesus

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says, don't let your hearts be
troubled. Trust in God, trust also

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in me. There's more than enough
room in my father's house. If this

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were not so, I would have
told you that let me see that again.

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If this were not so, would
I have told you that I'm going

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to prepare a place for you.
When everything is ready, I will come

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and get you so that you will
always be with me where I am.

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And you know the way to where
I'm going? No, we don't know,

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Lord, Thomas said, we have
no idea where you're going. So

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how can we know the way?
Jesus told him, I am the Way,

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the Truth, and the life.
No one can come to the Father

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except through me. If you had
really known me, would you would know

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who my father is? From now
on? You do know him and have

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seen him. Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and we will

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be satisfied. And Jesus replied,
have I been with you all this time,

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Philip, and yet you still don't
know who I am. Anyone who

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has seen me has seen the Father, So why are you asking me to

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show him to you? Don't you
believe that I am in the Father and

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the Father is in me. The
words I speak are not my own,

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but my Father, who lives in
me. Does his work through me.

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Just believe that I am in the
Father and the Father is in me,

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or at least believe because of the
work you've seen me. Do I tell

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you the truth, Anyone who believes
in me will do the same works I

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have done, and even greater works, because I'm going to be with the

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Father. You can ask for anything
in my name, will do it so

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that the son of man, so
that the son can glorify the Father.

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Yes, ask me for anything in
my name, and I will do it.

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There you go, yeah, and
uh, and again that it is

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uh. That's those less comments that
Jesus makes really can put a bunch of

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confusion in somebody's literal receptors. Right, ask me anything in my name,

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and I will do it. I
want a salami sandwich right now. You

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see what I'm saying. It's like
the genius in Jesus name. In Jesus

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name, it's it's what you think
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Well, I do think that I
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of being a pastor of people saying, hey, we could do anything.

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Yeah, right, I mean anything
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as long as God isn't against it, which I don't think he is.

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So why would God not want this
right? Because you know, God wants

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people to be healed. God wants
this to happen, or this happen,

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or this to happen, or good
or justice or whatever, and so this

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is going to happen. So sometimes
people think that praying in Jesus name means

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that if we say it in Jesus
name, Jesus name is the lucky word,

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right, And that's not what he
means. In that day oftentimes,

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you know, they didn't have email, they didn't have cell phones and telephones.

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So a leader, a king would
send his ambassadors out and they would

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go and speak in his name.
They would take the message, he'd write

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out a speech and they'd go into
the villages and they would declare the speech

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of the king speaking in his name. K he's here. You hear ye,

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so says the king. Right,
And so that ambassador wasn't saying his

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words. That ambassador was not saying
what he remembered. The king was thinking.

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He goes and he gives the words
the king said. So when you

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do it in the King's name,
and that's what So he if you can

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pray that prayer representing Jesus. Then
he says, of course I'll do it.

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So if you would pray the prayer
I would pray. That's what he's

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saying. If you would pray for
the thing I would pray for, of

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course I'm going to give it to
you. So it's not whatever you want,

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it's whatever I need to do.
There's a big gift between those two

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things, right, but people would
use it. There's a really great note

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here, John fourteen fourteen says,
for when Jesus says we can ask for

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anything, we must remember that our
asking must be in his name, that

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is, according to God's character and
will. God will not grant requests contrary

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to his nature or his will,
and we cannot use his name as a

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magic formula to fulfill our selfish desires
like salami sandwiches. Right, if we

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are sincerely following God and seeking to
do his will, then our requests will

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be will be in line with whatever
he wants. And that's really it.

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Right. So it's not just that
he's saying, I'll give you everything you

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asked for. I'll you know,
remember Napoleon Dynamite, vote for Pedro.

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He'll make all your wildest dreams come
true. Yes, right, that's kind

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of dreams comes through. Right.
It's so funny. That's what a lot

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of people think Jesus is is he's
the genie in Aladdin. Yes, right,

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And that's not how it works.
Instead, when you're praying in Jesus

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name, you're praying the way Jesus
would pray, and then of course you

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can expect him, expect him to
answer it. But anyways, all of

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a sudden, I got all these
Napoleon dynamite quote, all these always quote

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you come here dinner. Yeah,
sorry, it's very funny. Yeah,

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so so it is if you wanted
to, I see you drinking one percent?

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Is that because you think you're fat? Because you could totally be drinking

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whole milk if you wanted to.
Which is which is such a thinkers that

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they say, is it you's trying
to give her a compliment? Anyway,

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that's so dumb. So so it
is. It is a funny thing,

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you know, when we try to
pray God's will, because in other parts

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of the scripture, you know,
we you know, like in James it

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says, hey, man, you
pray and you don't get it because you

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ask with the wrong desires. Jesus
also talks about you know, not your

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will, but my will be done
on earth as it is in heaven,

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and so we should always surrender to
God's will. But the problem is sometimes

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we don't know God's will, and
sometimes God's will is I mean, like

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it seems so right to us,
you know, heal my mother in law,

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right, and sometimes Jesus does.
Peter was on the benefiting end of

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that, you know, and then
sometimes he doesn't, and people pass away,

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people die, and so you're just
like, jeez, what is God's

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will and what isn't God's will?
And sometimes we just pray for God's will,

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go will I don't know. Yeah, But all I'm saying is that

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the literal receptors in everybody's brain hears
ask me for anything in my name,

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and I will do it right,
ask me for anything, which means it

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seems to indicate that like, uh, you know, okay, you do

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the asking and whatever you can come
up with in my name, which is

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the extreme version of yeah. Yeah. So it's it's a it's a human

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centric view of that passage, and
Jesus never invites us to a human centric

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view of anything that's right. So, so the keywords, the keywords are

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not you ask me. The keywords
are in my name, as I would

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ask to ask for what I would
ask for, and I'll give it to

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you. That that's so. So
he never invites us to human centric worldview.

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So surely it means something other than
what I what I wanted to mean.

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What I wanted to mean is,
man, I want a Mercedes,

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and I want to win the lotto, and I want right. I don't

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want to want something like God.
Uh you know Hill, that lame guy

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on the side of the road,
right right, which you know, which

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I believe God can do, can
has done, he can and and you

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see Peter James and John H.
Paul literally laying hands up people, healing

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people. Right. So I do
believe that that is still a thing.

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I still believe that we can do
that. I don't know that I think

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that that's what this verse means,
right. I don't think that this verse

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just means that anything you want to
do like that that's through the power of

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the Holy Spirit is what's happening there. But in this way, I genuinely

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believe that he's saying, what are
the things Jesus would pray for. Well,

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we've heard Jesus pray several times.
Jesus has prayed that God would be

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glorified. Jesus prays that Jerusalem would
come to faith. He's praying for the

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whole world would come to faith.
Jesus is praying for He prays for them

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in just a little while. He
prays that they would love each other and

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that they would be on mission.
Right. So if we pray the way

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that Jesus prayed, we pray the
lord's prayer. Right, God, you're

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hollowed, keep me from temptation,
You provide my daily needs. Right,

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Those kinds of things we've heard Jesus
pray a lot. So if we pray

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like Jesus prayed for the things Jesus
prayed for, not unreasonable to ask him

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to expect him to answer our prayers. James, Jesus brother, when he

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writes about prayer, he says,
you have not because you ask not.

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And then sometimes the things you ask
for are just for your own lusts.

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Right. So you know, as
these guys matured, the ones who walked

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with Jesus every day, as they
matured, what they what they wind up

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giving us is again, pray in
line with his will. And so I

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find myselves a lot of times people
ask me to pray for a thing,

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and I don't know. I'm not
sure what I think God's will is on

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that, And so I'll just say, Lord, I don't even know what

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you want to do in this situation. I don't know what your will is,

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but I'm just praying that you would
be glorified in your decision. Here's

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what we want, and if that
aligns with your will, then God be

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glorified. If not, give us
peace knowing that your will is being done.

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Your Kingdom come. Your will be
done on earth as it is in

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heaven. You know, at the
beginning of this chapter, we haven't talked

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about this yet, ye, Tony
says at the very beginning, and he

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says, don't let your hearts be
troubled, trusting God and also trust in

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me. On tomorrow's podcast, I
want to capitalize on that word don't let

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your hearts be troubled, because he
mentions it at the very end of the

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chapter two. But he says,
if it were not so, would I

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have not You know what I've not
said that I'm going to prepare a place

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for you, And and in other
versions it says, there's in my father's

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house. There's many rooms, there's
many mansions. Right, And how could

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you hear that passage first of all
and be a part of our generation and

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not think of that song by Big
Tent Revival. Oh right, A big

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big house that was a room,
was it? Audio? Big big table

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with lots and lots of food,
big big yard, we can play football,

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A big big house. It's my
father's house. So you know,

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back then. It's interesting to know
in that culture that when a family expanded,

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they actually just added on rooms.
So they would have have a house

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that was made of you know,
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very very temporary, and then the
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or mud, and they would have
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where they are, it could have
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could have just been all cloth.
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house. Uh, you know,
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It was a permanent structure like that
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if the family expanded it instead of
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gonna send you away like Americans do, right, Americans. You know,

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what do we do. We raise
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what we do is we say,
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own home and go raise your own
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what they used to do in Old
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the way, I always see I
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in our area. In fact,
Deans are famous for this, and I

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always admire it. But I always
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really have to love your family to
live with them so long. Right.

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But what they do is instead of
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dollars each, they'd be a one
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the west wing and the east wing
right right, And they're like, okay,

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you live on the west wing,
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And then they get the benefit of
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But the drawback is they got to
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along. You got to get along, which is which is what Jesus just

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said. You know, here's the
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love each other. But that's that
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is that in that mindset, nobody
left it was just in fact, in

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a lot of ways, it was
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The bigger your family was, and
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wealth were. You know, they
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with many sons and you know,
with lots of cattle, and they would

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say, you know, God has
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sort of the that was sort of
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know the way And Thomas goes,
we have no idea where you're going.

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What are you talking about? And
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He's already talked about narrow is the
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Life. And then he makes a
bold statement, no one can come to

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the Father except through me. You
know, a lot of people would just

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want to say, oh, you
know what, I think all faiths lead

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to God. You know, it's
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what. And Jesus says, no, there's no way to the Father.

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So sometimes Christians will get accused of
being narrow minded, and Jesus was very

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narrow on this. There is no
other way. Jesus is the only way

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to the Father. And he says, and by the way, Philip says,

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show us the Father will be satisfied. Jesus says, have I been

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with you all this time, you
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you see me, you've seen the
Father. Right, that's a really big

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one. Jesus is declaring now his
deity. This is maybe the clearest place

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in the whole Bible where Jesus just
declares his deity to his disciples. I

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am God. I'm God in the
flesh. So remember remember just a few

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minutes ago when I told you I'm
the sacrificial lamb. Remember it's my sinless

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body that's going to be sacrificed for
you. It's my sinless blood that's going

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to pay the price for your sin. What I'm trying to say is you

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can't get to Heaven except through me. And if you've seen the Father seen

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me, you've seen the Father.
Right where one he's saying, I'm God

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in the flesh, and I'm the
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Yeah, And I've said this a
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I can't hear this verse without saying
this because if everybody thinks that Christians are

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narrow minded, because Jesus made a
quote unquote narrow minded claim, if you

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think about all the other world religions
in the whole world, Christianity's the only

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one that actually God is the one
that paid the price. Yeah, right,

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everybody. Every other world religion has
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And so the three statements are Christianity's
the only world religion where number one,

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everybody gets in heaven the same way. Number two, everybody can meet the

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requirements, and number three, everybody
is invited. And so in all the

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other world religions, those three things
are not true. So instead of being

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narrow minded, it's actually the broadest
invitation that exists in the world. Right,

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everybody is invited, everybody can meet
the requirements, and everybody gets in

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the exact same way. And if
you think about that, that levels the

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playing field for everybody, which means
it has nothing to do with how good

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you are or who you are or
the eliteness or anything, or the chosenness

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or whatever it is. It is
the same invitation. It is the same

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invitation of hope, and it is
offered to everybody, and it's offered at

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any time during their lifetime that they
can make a decision, regardless of past,

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regardless of where you're born in the
world, regardless of anything. So

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it is not narrow minded. It
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yep. And then Jesus finishes up
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favorite I love John fourteen six.
I love John fourteen twelve. I tell

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you the truth, anyone who believes
in me will do the same works I

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have done, and even greater works
because I'm going to be with the Father

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and I love that. Right,
He's going to send them on a mission

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just a few minutes. And it's
the same the idea, because I look

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at it and go, Jesus raised
people from the dead. How how are

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you going to do greater works than
raising somebody from the dead. And I

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have a friend and he's a global
worker, and he refers to this passage

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a lot, and he says,
hey, you remember, Jesus seemed to

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live in both the physical and the
spiritual all the time, right, Bible

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would say, the angels would come
and minister to him when he was off

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alone right in the mountains, praying
and things like that. After the after

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the temptation out in the desert,
angels came administered to him. So Jesus

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kind of lived in both the physical
and the spiritual. You and I.

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Because of sin in our life,
we are not living. We don't see

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the spiritual. But Jesus did.
He wasn't affected by sin. He lived

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in both. And so my friend
talks about the fact that Paul later on

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tells us that we are dead in
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walk in a brand new life.
Right, We're raised to life when our

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spirit comes alive in Christ. And
so literally, then this mission that he's

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going to send us on is to
go raise the dead. That's what we're

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doing. We're bringing them out of
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It's eternal life and death. And
so a lot of times heales say,

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before we go out to go preach
or share the gospel somewhere, he

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say, hey, let's go raise
the dead today. Right, And so

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there's a note here it says when
raising the dead is about as amazing as

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you can get. How could the
disciples do greater things than that? That

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even greater works would come because the
disciples, working in the power of the

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Holy Spirit, would carry the good
news of God's Kingdom out of Palestine and

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into the whole world. Jesus entire
ministry was in a space a little smaller

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than the entire state of New Jersey. Right, and then, which is

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which is often the thing that we
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christ followers have been raising the dead, spiritually dead all over the entire

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planet, go into everybody and every
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so you and I get focused on
the immediate. Oh wow, he healed

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a person, Oh wow he fed
some people. Well, Jesus is saying,

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listen, go out and raise the
spiritually dead, and you'll go everywhere.

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You'll go so much further than I
could go. You will reach so

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many more people than I could reach. And that's what he's saying in that

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passage. It's really a cool,
cool phrase. So that's really cool.

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Yeah, So that means at work
today, go raise the dead, at

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school today, go raise the dead, right, bring him out of death

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into life spiritually. That's a great
invitation. Yeah, so as long as

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you know what it means. Yeah, yes, otherwise you're thinking zombous,

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so so weird. Well, I
mean, you know, if you don't

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know the meaning behind that slogan,
I think I just did. I don't.

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So those people knew it, yes, yes, and now they know

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it. That's right. But if
you champion it without explaining, might not

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want to tell your boss. I
don't worry about I'm just raising the dead

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today, that's what That's what I'm
thinking. So hey, that's a great

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place to end. Great challenge,
and we'll see you next time on the

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Bible. Guys,