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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, Chris, you got

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to make it both fun and practical. Oh well that's frend to Connor.

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And yeah, well he's calling us
friends first. We got to work on

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that one. Well, the practice
will come later, but for now,

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Yeah, yeah, here we go. So we're going to do a taboo.

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It's guess the word. So it's
it's the same rule as as taboo.

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I have a word that I'm trying
to get you to say, and

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I have a list of five words
I'm not allowed to say. So for

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those people watching and not listening,
we'll put the words up on the screen

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that Jeff is not allowed to say, but not the answer. And then

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for those for everybody listening, including
watching, you just try to guess the

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word before I do. Right,
let me see if I can do it

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in one sentence. Okay, that's
my challenge today. The largest land animal

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elephant. There you go. Were
you not allowed to say? I was

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not allowed to say trunk, ivory
mammal, trunk again and zoo. She

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wrote trunk twice, So don't you
dare say Trunk. Yeah, yeah,

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I tried not to. Actually,
it's all I can think of. When

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I saw Trunk twice, I'm just
thinking, said Dumbo is a yeah,

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yeah, large work too. Yeah
I did. Yeah, it's okay,

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thanks for correcting me. You still
got your point, you got. I

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just told you what I would have
is not a correction offering what I could

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have done. It would have been
better, you know what. No,

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I didn't do any of that.
Yes. Uh, you go to the

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theater to watch Swan Lake. What
is swan Lake? Is that a Broadway

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show? No, Swan Lake,
I don't even know it's one like this?

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That a musical? No? Is
that they wear tights? Oh,

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it's a ballet. There you go. Okay, that was a real one.

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Were you not dance? Point to
to bear? I b A R

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R E? What is that?
And girl? Oh I would have got

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it if you'd said that Cracker.
I don't know what is a song inside

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of? Well? Did you know
that swan Likes actually a movie too?

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Okay? And it's a subdivision down
the street and the sandwich shop right,

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okay, okay, that's where you
like the water ski Okay? Uh,

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your favorite kind of comic books are
spider Man okay, and he is a

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superhero. There you go, superhero. I wasn't an to say cat Cape,

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mask powers, secret identity or Batmanatman. So buddy, okay, uh

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okay. In the summer, yep, everyone goes out at night and looks

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up in the sky together star to
see what stars? No, no,

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no, it's an event. People
buy a bunch of them and uh and

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shoot them into the sky. Fireworks. There you go, fireworks. And

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then this is a hard one.
Oh wait, you didn't tell what you

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was allowed to say, Sparkler explosion
Fourth of July celebration or America. Oh

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so that's what hard one? Yeah? Yeah, America. Yeah yeah,

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I could have said no, like
I say that. Let me see.

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Oh oh oh, I got this
one. So when you went to uh

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Florida last year with your buddies,
right the guys, he had an electric

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one? Oh, a bike,
a bicycle, bicycle. There you go,

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pedals, wheels, handlebars, brakes
and exercise. I couldn't say wow,

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So good job you got them all
man. Thanks took a while on

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the ballet, but hey, we'll
forgive you. I don't know that zac

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Efron has ever done a ballet,
so how would you know whatever? Whatever?

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And by the way, he should
okay, by the way on that

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on that bicycle electric bicycle thing.
Yes, So it was like I call

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it the old man trip, you
know. So I'm in my fifties.

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Two guys I was with were in
their seventies, and this is who I

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went down and spent a week in
Florida for a wild time. You're a

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wild time man. They stayed up
past four thirty in the afternoon. And

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actually what end up happening was we
got these electric bikes and we went really

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far. We went from like Clearwater
all the way to Duneaton, right,

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and we went and got some ice
cream everything else. And on the way

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back, one of the batteries on
the electric bike dies. Right. Well,

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you know this seventy year old guy
that I'm with, right, he's

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a man's man, like, he's
super strong. He was like a boxer

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his whole life. I mean,
he's just a really strong guy. Right,

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And he goes, Chris, he
goes, how about this? He

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goes, you get on my bike
and I'll pedal this home. And you

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know, we're in one hundred and
twenty degree heat into Florida in the summer,

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right, And I'm like, I'm
like, you're gonna pedal home?

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And he say yeah, yeah,
yeah. So anyway, so I'm like,

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okay, Rick, all right,
I'll give it to you. So

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he gets on the pedal. We
literally pedal for half a block. We

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get to the intersection and I pull
up to him and I look at him

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and he he looks like he's ready
to pass out. He's breathing heavy,

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he looks like faint. And I
was like, dude, I said,

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just give me back the bike,
because you know, those things are hard

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to pay. They're heavy, They're
really really heavy. And I said,

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I just passed a restaurant. I
said, you guys, I said,

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ride home. I'm gonna go in
the restaurant have a bowl of soup.

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It was actually chowder, right,
I said, I said to get some

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Yeah, I'm gonna go get some
seafood chow. I have some chowder and

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some prunes. And I said come
back and get me with the car.

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And that was how we did it. So but yeah, it was totally

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an old guy's trip. It was
really fun though. Electric bikes are fun.

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Okay, So there you go.
That was that, Yes, and

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I got to tell you that was
a fun one for me, because guessing

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is not hard. Yes, Hey, everyone, if you're listening on one

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I'm worth following, and Jeff is
along with me, so you know you

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can follow him. I guess too, by proxy, but or just share

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it, you know, because people
need to be introduced to the Bible guy

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and his companion named Jeff. So
we are continuing this conversation that Jesus was

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telling all about his return. Yes, and so we've already done the first

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half and the second half of Matthew
chapter twenty four. We did the second

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the first half of Luke chapter I
mean of Mark chapter thirteen, and the

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first half of Luke chapter twenty one. So today we're gonna come back and

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we're going to pick up doing the
second half of Luke thirteen. Yeah,

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it'll be similar. Yesterday's probably very
similar. Yeah, yeah, we're going

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to point out the differences. That's
correct. So we're going to start Mark

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chapter thirteen, verse twenty four.
Jesus said at that time, after the

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anguish of those days, the sun
will be darkened, the moon will give

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no light, the stars will fall
from the sky, and the powers in

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the heavens will be shaken. Then
everyone will see the Sun of Man coming

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on the clouds with great power and
glory, and he will send out his

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angels to gather his chosen ones from
all over the world, from the farthest

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ends of the Earth and heaven.
Now learn a lesson from the fig tree.

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When its branches bud and its leaves
begin to sprout, you know that

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summer is near. In the same
way, when you see all these things

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taking place, you can know that
his return is very near, right at

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the door. I tell you the
truth. This generation will not pass from

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the scene. Before all these things
take place. Heaven and Earth will disappear,

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But my words will never disappear.
However, no one knows the day

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or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or

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the Son himself. Only the Father
knows. And since you don't know when

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that time will come, be on
guard, stay alert. The coming of

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the Son of Man will be illustrated
by the story of a man going on

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a long trip when he left home, he gave each of his slaves instructions

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about the work they were to do, and he told the gatekeeper to watch

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for his return. You too,
must keep careful, watch for you don't

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know when the master of the household
will return in the evening night, before

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dawn or at daybreak. Don't let
him find you sleeping when he arrives without

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warning. I say to you what
I say to everyone, watch for him.

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M Yeah, so this one,
it's all about vigilance, be watchful.

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Yes, I was going to say
that the wording is actually very very

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similar the story about the story of
the man going on a long trip that

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has a lot less detail, right, right, and then there's also more

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application, just like you said vigilance, because he says it very I mean,

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look what that's like three different times, even in the middle of it

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he says, you know, he's
in the middle of the story, and

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he says, you too, must
keep watch. So he's actually like telling

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a story and applying it as he's
telling it. Yeah, which is kind

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of cool. Yep, it's neat
to see how Jesus teaches, Yes,

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right, Jesus as a So everyone
smile, you and I we both because

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we speak a lot. Different Christians
have different opinions about how they want the

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Bible taught. Oh yeah, I
know Christians have opinions, which by the

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way, hey, by the way, listen, let's listen. I gotta

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throw this out. I got for
this and this is so quick. I

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was watching Big Bang Theory. It's
one of my favorite shows in all the

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world. And Sheldon caught his mom, you know, doing something, and

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he says, oh, you're such
a hypocrite, right, And she says,

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Sheldon, I'm so sorry, you
know. And he goes, well,

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and he has to find himself to
forgive her, and he says,

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this is the funny part. He
goes inside, I will continue to judge

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you and condemn you internally, but
on the outside, he says, I

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will continue to extend to you love
and acceptance. And then she says,

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well, thank you, Sheldon.
That is very Christian of you. And

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I laughed so hard. I was
like, oh, my goodness, it's

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so funny. It's really good.
So but on occasion, you know,

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and it's because there's different thoughts with
regard to preaching, and I was just

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looking at a program of preaching,
particularly with regard to teaching, and I

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was looking at the idea of how
do they teach preaching? Yeah, yeah,

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and you know, so there's the
idea that what you should do is

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you start with the verse, and
you start at the beginning of the passage.

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You read at the end of the
passage, you expose it's expository preaching.

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You expose the meanings of all those
words in order. Right, there's

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others that would be very applicational,
and others that would be very doctrinal,

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So applicational meaning like Jesus here he's
in the middle of teaching, and then

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he pauses, now, hey,
you should be alert too, and then

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he goes on and keeps teaching the
rest of the thing he's using an illustration.

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And then there's the highly doctrinal ones, the ones that are taking significant

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Biblical passages that are the foundational passages
for major doctrines. And then you build

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the whole rest of the idea.
Right, so those would be the three

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big ideas. What you find Jesus
doing is regularly doing all three and oftentimes

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blending them into just one message.
So he just recently we quoted at the

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very very beginning, we quoted Isaiah
thirteen to ten, Isaiah thirty four to

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four, Joel two ten. He's
using that as a foundational piece to say,

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hey, God's going to return.
Now he's using those three verses.

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He crammed three verses into one one
quote here, but he's using the scripture

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to say God's going to return and
it's going to be in this time when

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the sun's dark and the moon doesn't
give any light, starts to fall from

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heaven powers and heavens will be shaken. And he's talking about whoa, this

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is gonna be scary stuff. So
there's the there's the Bible thing he's quoting

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there. Then he he gives an
illustration look at the fig tree. And

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then he comes to the end because
now you should be watching three times you

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keep watching, keep watching, keep
watching. Right, So he does all

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three in the mess and it does
a parable Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

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I mean you know it's a metaphorical
story, right right, Yeah, And

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so yeah, I think about all
those different methods, right just in these

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few verses. Right. So,
so sometimes when we're teaching on a stage

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or even in a you know,
classroom or whatever. H heck, even

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even at a coffee shop, you
can you can use a visual aid,

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right, yeah, but to use
a visual aid to illustrate something is something

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very common, or a word picture
or a word picture to grab people's attention.

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And like, I remember one time
when we talked about the glory of

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God and we talked about how the
glory is uh uh you know, it's

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it's the it's the giving something weight. Yeah. Right. I put water

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up there and I dropped like a
rock versus a feather, right, and

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talked about how God's word needs to
carry weight in our lives and be a

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part of it, you know,
versus floating on the surface with no weight

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at all. Wow. And it
was it was really good. Yeah.

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And it's like we had the camera
up there, real close whatever, and

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I had this older man, I
mean older I'm talking about this guy looked

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like he had gone to church his
entire life. He might be like you

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know, early nineties, late eighties, and he comes out into the lobby

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and he goes, I got to
tell your son, he goes, that's

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the best illustration I've ever heard about
glory and worship in my entire life.

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Wow. Yeah, right, that
which carries a lot of weight. Right,

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Not to have a pun there,
but I was just thinking, Wow,

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what a statement. Well, think
about it. That's what Jesus did.

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Oftentimes he's like, look at that
fig tree. He's like, do

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you see how it's blooming. He's
like, in that same way, here's

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what that means. And in that
way, here's how you know what I'm

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trying to say. So it's just
interesting how, just like you said,

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all different teaching methods in one spot
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highlights for me is we may have
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but the reality is there's not a
right way. And sometimes people will

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come off saying this is the only
way. You should only preach from the

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beginning of a book of a Bible
to the end of a book of a

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Bible. You should only preach from
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of the chapter, whatever, that's
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the other side. Oh, you
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use too many verses. Here's what
you need. You need a couple verses

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and then you're a verse and then
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use some illustrations and those kinds of
things. And here Jesus is using three

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different passages right there. He uses
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he uses this story about this man
coming back, and application. He does

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them all. And so the main
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people from where they are to God. And the way you do that is

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by exposing what the word in the
text say. Right, So Jesus is

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giving them some indication about what that
is, and then he also then gives

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them application. So you're trying to
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That means that they have to be
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minds, which means you got to
capture their attention. Hey, it captures

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my attention. When he goes,
the sun will be dark and the moon

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will have given no light, the
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the powers I have and will be
shaken. That's what's going to be like

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when I come back. Right,
That gets my attention, right if you're

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looking at it. So he does
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illustration, this parable idea, He
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solid application, and those things altogether. What he's wanting you to do,

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he's trying to move you. He's
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He's not trying to inform you.
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Bible teaching falls down is when it's
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purely informative, right. Jesus always
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somewhere. He loves you just the
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today about this. God loves you
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loves you so much he won't just
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There's a journey he's taking you on. And so even in this passage

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I think better than anything else we've
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all of those things together. Yeah, and think about this too. So

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an example would be like, okay, so he used the Old Testament,

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and you know what he's doing there. Oftentimes what we do is we take

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certain parts of the scriptures and we'll
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and we'll be like, look at
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So Jesus what he's doing here is
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Testament versus you know, current times
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the dots. And then he does
this thing with the fic tree. You

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know what, I would liken that
to like insightful. Oh that's pretty insightful,

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right, I mean, I know
you're not teaching anything new about the

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victory, but you're saying in the
same way I should. Oh, okay,

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that's insightful. Helps me understand it. And then what he does is

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I thought about this just a minute
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new information. He says, let
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gonna come. Nobody knows, not
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even the angels. Right. So
what he's doing right there is he's telling

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somebody something brand new and they're learning
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oftentimes somebody measures a good sermon by
saying I have to learn something, right,

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And sometimes I'll get a sermon and
people are like, I didn't learn

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anything new. And then my next
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doing the thing that you already know? And then they say, uh no,

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And I'm like, within that sermon's
for you, go back and work

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on that, go back and work
on that. That's why I got to

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have me say it. Right,
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something is brand new and insightful where
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that's the best kind of message to
hear. Like you're like, man,

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I never thought about that, Or
that's so powerful, that is so insightful.

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You know, it was right there
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saw it before. When you learn
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the best. You know. That's
because the Word is so dynamic, right

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right, I mean, man,
in life, you've been a Christian for

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how many years? I've been forty
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Yeah, and I've read through the
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we have a conversation like this,
how many times have we had the Oh

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my gosh, I never thought of
that before, right, hey, I

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just saw that just now, just
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a dead book, it's a living
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he says, I tell you the
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So we already read that. And
then he said heaven and Earth will

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disappear, but my words will never
disappear. Yeah, Heaven and earth will

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disappear. What does that mean?
Yeah, yeah, well they will,

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right. So he tells us eventually
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and a new Earth. He's going
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right, right, So this is
all be destroyed someday, but God's word

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will never go away. At the
time, can you even imagine what they

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thought? Like, were they thinking
literal? Yeah? Yeah, right,

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yeah, well it is literal he
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I know it's literal, but I'm
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they're thinking, they're thinking what right? Yeah, it's it's pretty amazing.

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so applicable at the very end of
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that I'm not sure that Jesus did
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clear. Sometimes he would say something
and say, he who has ears to

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hear, let him hear, right. And he would also say that there

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are many people who aren't going to
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application. But whenever he did decide
to teach something that did have a crystal

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clear, you know, a crystal
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say, this is what that means. So I would just say this.

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One of the reasons why I,
you know, decided to even become a

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pastor and a communicator is because I
grew up going to church and it was

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so irrelevant. Now and lets say
that differently, it was irrelevant to me,

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right, So like like like I
didn't understanding to say, God's word

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is never irrelevant. Sometimes we don't
understand the relation. And it's the communicator's

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job to make you understand the relevance
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was just like, I don't understand
why we're doing this. I didn't learn

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a single thing, you know,
I don't have any knowledge. I was

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never encouraged to read the book myself. It was just read to me and

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and and they would say things and
I'm like, I don't even know why

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we even talked about that today,
right, And then one day I wandered

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into a church and it was the
church that changed my life. It's the

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church I ended up getting saved at
and you know, becoming a Christian at

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when when they gave a message and
I understood that it was useful, it

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was relevant, it was practical,
it was applicable, and honestly it was

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it was going to help me as
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I thought, Wow, there's more
to learn, and it's possible to

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teach something in a creative and fun
and engaging way, but more importantly,

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it has application. So for me, that's why I become a pastor.

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It's powerful man, and that's why
it's important to not just read the words,

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but to figure out how to apply
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it's not just about teaching facts,
it's about figuring out how to apply them

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right to It's the responsibility of the
preacher to take God's heavenly ideas and make

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them approachable by the listener. Right
that that's our role. And so I'm

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just intrigued by jesus teaching style.
And we would all learn a lot if

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we just pay attention to jesus preaching
style instead of only listening to professions.

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Tell us what's the appropriate way to
preach? Right? Hey, So I

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guess this last illustration that he closes
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Son of Man will be illustrated by
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long trip. I guess the long
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into heaven until he returned till he
returns. Right, So everybody, everybody

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at first worried that he's going to
come back. And you know what,

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does Matthew say that when we read
yesterday? He says, and then he

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decides, oh, maybe he's not
going to come back. He's not coming

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back for a while. So he
decides to what he cuts loose. Right,

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that guy cuts loose, decides to
do everything that's what's right in his

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own eyes. And then it says, and all of a sudden, boom

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baby, he comes back. The
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Greek, wasn't it? Well,
I thought it was an emperor's new groove.

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Oh yeah, I didn't see it
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must have been in the original Greek. There's a little note here in the

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Life Appication Bible says boom baby,
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All right, all right, I
get it, I get it all right.

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Chris's emphasis for sure yeah, no, that's great all right. Well,

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hey, that looks like our time
and we will see you next time,

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hopefully on the Bible. Guys,