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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, Jeff, how

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are you. That's spent all day, all this week, most of the

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week. I've gone do do do
have you? Yeah, I'm just feeling

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are you talking about on the podcast? Yeah? Yeah, the whole podcast?

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Wow? Almost every time well is
an announcement? Yeah, exactly.

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So what's your big announcement. I'm
just glad to be here with Chris By

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today and serving you, and it's
my privilege to be sitting across the table

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from you. Oh, thank you, thank you, and uh I received

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that. Yes, h huh.
So today we're doing a segment called where

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are our Listeners From? Because every
once in a while it's fun to see

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where our listeners are from. There
you go. So this segment is us

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going ahead and listing some facts about
this particular place, and then our listeners

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have to see whether or not they
figure it out before we say the city

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yes, and this could be any
we're in the world, yes, or

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country yes. Okay, here's the
first one. Yep. This city is

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named after hidden underground wells. I
did not know that I did not know

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that either underground. Wells, wow, I did not know that. Okay,

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Number two, people in the city
consume more shellfish in one day then

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the entire United States does in a
year. Is that true? That is

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one of the craziest facts I've ever
heard? Is it true? Wait a

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minute, I feel like snoping that
one. Snop it snop. Yeah,

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yeah, do it, because I
gotta tell you that if that's true,

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that's an unbelievable stat Yeah. Okay, well, let's ask serious soon as

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we're done with this. Okay,
sure, okay. Uh. Number three,

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with its millions of lights, this
city is considered the brightest spot on

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earth. Okay, well, people
should get it by there. Yeah,

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really close. And then number four
it is going to be it's going to

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host the Super Bowl this weekend.
Oh I know where that's at. I

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know where's at too. Here it
is. It is Las Vegas, Nevada.

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So thank you guys for listening.
Thanks for listening from Las Vegas.

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Hey, Siri, does Las Vegas
consume more shellfish than all the rest of

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the United States. There's no way
that she has the answer to that from

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that, Yeah, were here.
Las Vegas's daily diet of sixty thousand pounds

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of shrimp is greater than the entire
United States. That is amazing. That's

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per day. That's than the rest
of the nation combined. Wow, that's

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amazing. So think about it.
Who knew that? If you're in the

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shrimp business, right, set it
up Las Vegas, that's my boat.

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Yeah, right, because that would
be that would be you. You have

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your eyes set on lasab Vegas,
you son of a gun. Okay,

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wow, sixty thousand pounds a day? Yeah, So how much shell fish?

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What? What percentage of that is? Like? What would what would

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the percentage be? So think about
think about the accumulation of all of the

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year. So three hundred and sixty
five days, let me do it.

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I might cant a lot. It
will be a lot. Just start catching

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your phone. It'd be a lot. Like you're using as a machine.

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Great. I don't know how I'm
supposed to answer that question. But is

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a lot tremendous? Yeah? Wow, I got it. Got It's a

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lot. It's so great. Oh
goodness, Okay, Well that was really

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something, Yes, it is.
It was something. Yes. So today

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we are reading a passage in Matthew
Mark and is it Luke, Yes,

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Matthew, Mark, and Luke all
telling the same story of this parable that

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Jesus tells of the evil farmers.
Yes, and man, there's nothing I

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like more than evil farmers stories.
So this is going to be super big

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exciting. That's because you sort of
were growing up on the I grew up

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on a homestead. Yeah, so
we had orchards and vineyards and we raised

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all of our own food and yeah, yeah, yeah, well we grew

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it. Yeah, and then we
heated the house with wood and we sold

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wood and got sides of meat and
beef, pork and like that. Raised

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it would mean like you slaughtered animals, right, is that? Did you

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guys do that? No, we
did. We didn't slaughter, well,

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chickens, we did. Yeah,
oh yeah, well then that's raised.

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Yep. One time my dad bought
a hundred chickens, one hundred chicks for

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lazing laying eggs, and then then
when they started growing up, we found

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out we had ninety nine roosters.
So yeah, it was a bad because

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we're all excited. Man, we're
gonna start a chicken or an egg operation,

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right, that's gonna be making money
selling eggs and turns out roosters don't

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lay eggs. We got ninety nine. Well they make a lot of noise,

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they sure do, So we butchered
all those. Yes, I'm sure,

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here we go, so Matthew Chapter
twenty one, verse thirty three.

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Starting off the parable of these evil
farmers, it says, now listen to

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another story. A certain landowner planeted
a vineyard, built a wall around it,

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dug a pit for pressing out the
grape juice, and built a lookout

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tower. Then he leased the vineyard
to tenant farmers and moved to another country.

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At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collected

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his share of the crop, but
the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one,

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killed one, and stoned another.
So the landowners sent a larger group

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of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.

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Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking surely they will respect my son.

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But when the tenant farmers saw his
son coming, they said to one

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another, here comes the heir to
this estate. Come on, let's kill

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him and get the estate for ourselves. So they grabbed him, dragged him

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out of the vineyard, and murdered
him. When the owner of the vineyard

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returns. Jesus asked, what do
you think he will do to those farmers.

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The religious leaders replied, he will
put the wicked men to a horrible

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death and least the vineyard to those
who will give him his share of the

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crop after each harvest. Then Jesus
asked them, didn't you ever read this

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in the scriptures? The stone that
the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.

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This is the Lord's doing, and
it is wonderful to see. I

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tell you, the Kingdom of God
will be taken away from you and given

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to a nation that will produce the
proper fruit. Anyone who stumbles over that

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stone will be broke into pieces,
and will crush anyone who falls on it.

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When the leading priests and pharisees heard
this parable, they realized he was

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telling the story against them. They
were the wicked farmers. They wanted to

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arrest him, but they were afraid
of the crowds who considered Jesus to be

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a prophet. Oh, Jesus went
right at it. So there's two stories,

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because yesterday is parable back to back. He's telling it like it is,

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Yeah, he is. He's calling
them out. At this point,

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yees in Mark chapter twelve tells the
same source as when Jesus began teaching them

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with stories. Oh, then Jesus
began teaching them with stories. A man

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planted a vineyard. He built a
wall around it, dug a pit for

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pressing out the grape juice, and
built a lookout tower. Then he leased

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the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved
to another country. At the time of

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the grape harvest, he sent one
of his servants to collect his share of

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the crop, but the farmers grabbed
the servant, beat him up, and

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send him back empty handed. The
owner then sent another servant, but they

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insulted him and beat him over the
head. The next servant he sent was

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killed. Others he sent were either
beaten or killed, until there was only

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one left, his son, whom
he loved dearly. The owner finally sent

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him, thinking, surely they will
expect my son. But the tenant farmers

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said to one another, here comes
the heir to this estate. Let's kill

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him and get the estate for ourselves. So they grabbed him and murdered him

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and threw his body out of the
vineyard. But do you suppose the owner

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of the vineyard will what do you
suppose the owner of the vineyard will do.

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Jesus asked, I tell you he
will come and kill those farmers and

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least the vineyard to others. Didn't
you ever read this in the scriptures?

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The stone that the builders rejected has
now become the cornerstone. This is the

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Lord's doing, and it's wonderful to
see. The religious leaders wanted to arrest

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Jesus because they realized he was telling
the story against them. They were the

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wicked farmers, but they were afraid
of the crowd, so they left him

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went away. So Jesus told in
that one, it's just told a little

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bit differently, isn't it, Yeah, a little bit. Then in Luke,

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chapter twenty, verse nine, it
says, now Jesus turned to the

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people again and told them this story. A man planted a vineyard, leased

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it to tenant farmers, and moved
to another country to live for several years.

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At the time of the great harvest, he sent one of his servants

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to collect his share of the crop, but the farmers attacked the servant,

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beat him up, and sent him
back empty handed. So the owner sent

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another servant, but they also insulted
him, beat him up, and sent

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him away empty handed. A third
man was sent, and they wounded him

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and chased him away. What will
I do, the owner asked himself.

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I know, I'll send my cherished
son. Surely they will respect him.

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But when the tenant farmers saw his
son, they said to each other,

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here comes the heir to this estate. Let's kill him and get the estate

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for ourselves. So they dragged him
out of the vineyard and murdered him.

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What do you suppose the owner of
the vineyard will do to them, Jesus

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asked, I'll tell you he'll come
and kill those farmers and least the vineyard

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to others. How terrible that such
a thing should ever happen, his listeners

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protested. Jesus looked at them and
said, then, what does this scripture

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mean? The stone that the builders
rejected has now become the cornerstone. Everyone

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who stumbles over the stone. Over
that stone will be broken to pieces.

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It'll crush anyone that falls on the
teachers of religious law and the leading priests

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won their rest Jesus immediately because they
realized he was telling the story against them.

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They were the wicked farmers, but
they were afraid of the people's reaction.

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Yeah. So so three stories.
Uh, each of them have slightly,

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you know, small different details,
and like, for instance, like

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the third servant in the Book of
Mark says he was he was killed,

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and then the Book of Luke says
that the third servant was wounded. Yeah,

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right, so and so yeah,
there's there's a there's a little bit

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of inconsistency on the wounds there.
Yeah, but it could be that the

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writers of the story just remembered it
that way. Yeah, or it's well,

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you typically if you if you're fatally
beat, you die from your wounds.

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Oh, so it could be that
way. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's true. There's a room fac
He didn't have to have died when

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they threw him out of the vineyard, right, he could have died after

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you thrown out of the vineyard from
his wounds. Yeah. Yeah, that's

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true. Yeah. So those aren't
mutually exclusive, it still works. Yeah,

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But the bigger picture is that they
they roughed up the servants of the

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right of the owner, roughed up
and killed, right, and then they

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killed the son for sure. So
and so uh and then I love how

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up until the point where Jesus quoted, uh the the I wonder what it

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was the Book of Psalms until Jesus
quoted the Book of Psalms. Uh,

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they were right there with him.
And and as a matter of fact,

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the other ones, uh what the
book of Luke says, how terrible a

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thing that that should have ever happened? His listener's protested, Yeah, right,

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and that's a terrible story, you
know what. It reminds me of

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when Nathan approached King David, remember, and he says, let me tell

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you a story about He goes,
this thing happened where the man went over

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and grabbed the sheep. It was
like a little family member. And then

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David stands up and says, how
wicked of a thing that person shall die

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who has done such a thing.
And he's like, that be you,

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you right? But he was right
there with him, and the story right

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before the moment when Nathan pointed his
finger right at where did Dathan and said,

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you know you are the man,
right, and he was with him.

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That's that's where these guys were.
They were right there with Jesus.

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So many of the stories that excuse
me that Jesus tells people come away and

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go what do you mean by that? Right? And this one they go,

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hey, wait a minute, wait
at I think he's talking about us,

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right, and they want to rescue
me, only to much more of

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a serious degree. Right, So
it wasn't it wasn't as as veiled this

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time. And that's what you're seeing
in these last couple of days. You

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know, he's come to Jerusalem,
he's on his way to the cross,

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and he's ratcheting up both his declarations
of who he is. Remember a few

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days ago we read where he says, if you see me, you've seen

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God. Right right, he's declaring
that he's God. He's declaring that he

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is the sacrifice. Here, he's
declaring that he is the cornerstone that the

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builders rejected, which was the Jews
recognize that the prophetic statement about the Messiah,

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right, yes, and so he's
declaring that. And then he at

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the same time now is not being
veiled with his comments about the the Pharisees

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and that stuff. He's going,
you know, God's going to judge you.

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You are rejecting the son of the
King. Now, now here we

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are two thousand years later, and
most of the nation that Jesus came to,

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yeah, doesn't believe that he's the
Messiah. Yeah, there are more

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Christian tourists in Israel each day than
there are actual Christians in Israel. Now.

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Yeah. Yeah. So when we
went to Israel, we actually went

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in the middle of Palestine. You
know, there's there's there's like a those

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people WO don't know, so Israel. The Jews have the outside, right,

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and then there's a there's a wall
that's kind of like a like a

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doughnut hole us right in the middle, only it's it's bigger than that.

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And there's a wall in the center
of Israel sort of that have the Palestinians

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that are inside of it, right
so along the Jordan River, and then

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it cuts out into the country and
then circles back to and around right up

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to the edges of Jerusalem that would
be the West Bank yep. Then there's

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all the rest from the north to
the south is Israel. And then you

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have the little strip of God which
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those the two Palestinian areas that they
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to describe it. Didn't know whether
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the two groups. Yeah, and
I didn't describe that very well. But

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anyway, But most Christian tourists if
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Bank or Palestine, they usually only
go there for like Bethlehem right right,

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so inside the wall is Bethlham,
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uh, but there's a lot of
cities in the middle of Israel that don't

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have that much, you know,
significance, and and if it does,

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people usually don't travel. Right.
But even in Bethlehem, there's far more

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Christian tourists than there are Christians and
Bethlee oh way more way more so.

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Anyway, my point is this is
that I remember being there in two thousand

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and nine and we went to the
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very center of the West Bank,
and it was a really small city called

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zabab De. And they said and
they said, why are we traveling so

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far into you know, Palestinian territory, And they said, we're going to

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a city that has the most Christians. And do you know what the percentage

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of the most Christians was one percent? Well, and they said, they

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said, yes, above Dae has
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going there. And I was like, one percent is the most They said

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yes, So we drove all it
Zabab day and what we did was we

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held a vacation Bible school type event
to about one hundred Muslim care and we

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told them that we're going to be
telling them about Jesus. Like we told

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them up front, Hey, if
you drop your kids off, we're telling

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about Jesus. And they all said
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to it. So we're like cool. So that's what we did. And

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do you remember what I was in
charge of outdoor games? Oh one hundred

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and twenty degrees. Everybody else was
indoors teaching lessons. And by the way,

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I kind of teach, right,
a little bit of teaching. But

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somehow I got stuck with outdoor games, right. And by the way,

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I had all these things like soccer
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outdoor game that anybody wanted to play
was something with water. So I was

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like, get this sponge and let's
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drips. Everybody in the raw like
giggling. They just wanted water. Anything

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involved water, Okay, everybody scored
each other anyway. The point is is

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that I went off on a tangent
to say that the people had rejected him.

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Yes, it's a nation that by
in law ards fulfills the prophecy of

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exactly if Psalm one eighteen. Yeah, the stones that the builders rejected has

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now become the cornerstone. And it
says that he's going to take he's going

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to kill the farmers, and he's
going to rent the vineyard to somewhere else

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that's going to be a lot more
fruitful, that's going to do a lot

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of the work and Christianity and the
message of Jesus has been spurred on by

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other places other than where Jesus came
to. Yeah. And so when Jesus

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is referring to himself as the rock
here, right, the stone that had

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to have really gotten Peter's attention probably
yeah, oh hey, wait a minute,

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right, And later on Peter is
the one who says that we are

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a holy nation of priests, right, yeah. So, and it's in

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this context that he says I'm the
rock, right, and I tell you

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In verse forty three of Matthew twenty
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the Kingdom of God will be taken
away from you and given to a nation

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that will produce the proper fruit.
Right, Well, what is that nation?

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He's saying, I'm going to give
it to the whole world, right,

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all the gentiles, everybody who is
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They will, even though they're from
every tribe and every people group in

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the world, every language group.
They will be a nation of holy priests

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for me on the whole planet,
and they will accomplish what you've refused to

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do for me. You know,
God's plan was always for Israel to be

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a witness and a testimony to the
world, and instead they isolated themselves,

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and then they built their own systems
that began to reject him. So when

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he talks about you know, the
king sends or the owner, the certain

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landowner sends his servants, and those
are the prophets. That's what Jesus already

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told themselves. You guys are the
ones who killed the prophets. He says

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that several times here, those are
the ones. Those servants that come in,

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they beat one, they killed another, right, And then he says,

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and then you're going to kill the
son, right, right, which

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is him? That's him, like
literally now in two days, right,

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they're going to kill him. So
this is really really close. And then

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because of that, the King's going
to I'm back and wipe you out.

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That's what he's going to do.
This owner is going to wipe you out,

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and then he's going to set up
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are going to be a new nation. And that nation isn't about just the

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land. It's about the people.
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That's why I was highlighting that that
we're a nation of holy priests Christians,

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right, right, And it's not
that we are a nation with priests,

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but rather every one of us is
a priest. Right, we all

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can go to God, Bookie,
Hebrew says, we can go boldly before

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the throne of grace. Every one
of us has access to the King,

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and every one of us has the
mission. Then he says, to bear

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the right kind of fruit. Right, we're produced the proper fruit, and

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the proper fruit is the fruit of
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And he that wins souls as wise. Yeah, that's right, right,

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either win of souls is wise.
Yeah. So I remember preaching one

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time and I said, I said, that's that verse you know in the

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King James is he that winneth,
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souls is wise, and so then
I stumbled and I said, so if

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you want to be wise, go
in a soul. Yeah yeah, which

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that's not what that means, but
it was good preaching. So yeah,

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I think that overall, Jesus is
approaching Jerusalem. He knows his time is

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near. He's not saying anything that
isn't true. He's getting bolder and bolder

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with his claims. He already knows
as we read a few weeks ago or

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a few days ago, that you
know, he had when he overturned the

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money tables, remember that. Yeah, he overturned the money changers and the

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tables, and the people were selling
doves and sacrifices for profit unjustly. He

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overturned those and then he had people
really truly rally behind him. They conspired

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against him, and Jesus knows it's
coming, and so he's like, hey,

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it's set in motion now, right, Yeah, there's no holding back.

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So I'm just going to come out
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with bolder and bolder, you know, truths that they don't like. He

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tells this story. I believe because
of he knew that they were going to

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react, because I think he's exposing
their plot to kill him. Right,

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There's going to be some people who
go, yeah, Jesus needs to die.

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That's going to happen tomorrow or the
next day whatever. But there's not

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in the podcast, but in the
in the course of days of days,

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we're in the last six days of
Jesus, right, because because he is,

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he is clearly at passover, that's
right. So there's going to be

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others who go, hey, wait
a minute, Jesus said that they were

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going to kill the son, and
he claimed to be the son, right,

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right, So I think what he's
doing is he's just kind of driving

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away. He's being clear. And
the fact that he knew that the priests

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would pitch a fit about this,
and the and the Pharisees and religious teachers

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we go, hey, wait a
minute, you're talking about us. Would

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then he's exposing the fact they're going
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Yep, absolutely, you know,
just just letting everybody know that every

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prophecy written about the coming of the
Messiah is coming true and is true.

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And so again it's for us two
thousand years later, we're able to look

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back and say, and yet another
prophecy fulfilled, how Jesus is you know,

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true to his word and he is
who he says he is. It's

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great. Well, I think that's
a good place to end ye and I

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think that we will see you next
time on the Bible. Guys,